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Passing the Igneous Maw

by Argonavis

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Dave Aftandilian
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Dave Aftandilian Subterranean blackened doom rituals of ending/beginning. Now I have excavated the blackest depths of my soul, and wallowing here in rot and decay, anointed by filthy deliquescent ichors, I am my self transformed. Each day is riven agony, laboring painfully step by leaden step toward the night. With sweat and blood and bones I build a ladder spiraling downward, upward, inward, outward, endlessly.
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Chris Krupa Contemplative, geological, telluric, and darker than the darkest black
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Meatbreak This is excellent. A proper narrative that starts off unassuming then devastates.

The second half builds up to the first, and the final 15-20 minutes are immense.

It's more doom than black...and the end is something else entirely. Favorite track: Katharmos: Towards the Isle of the Dead.
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Katabasis—the shroud of day and dusk, Where the fortress surrenders in the wolf-willow’s musk. A weapon of cruelty was swiftly appeased, In the kingdom of cruelty, scorched flesh and disease. The earth shakes, and fall The sorrowful faces of mountain walls From that black cloud of misery, That yet, bore the scent of victory… Katharmos—yields wounded skies It runs, the flood of crimson blood And draws me close to feast my eyes. The imperilment was cruelty’s intent, And Wolf-Willow boughed in a nocturnal lament. It tipped weighty totality, it disturbed the quintessential Entropic balance between vitality and demise To release the mountain’s destructive potential. Stone and ice, carve and cleave! The red rift widens, upheave, upheave! When the stones, enslaved, agonize! These empty hands, once bound, now forge They scrape and carve the Wapta Gorge. Scraping and carving the Wapta gorge …Within the gorge, timpanist resound…. These empty hands once bound. Resounding timpani, Cleave! As red rifts widen, Upheave, Upheave! When the stones, enslaved agonize. Raise thy standards, Hail might! Cleave the stones and cut the night Scraping and carving the Wapta Gorge. I have ascended ensanguined, crowned Victorious, crowned and triumphant. Majesty, the Maw! Majesty and awe! Wapta!
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For who can claim to know the antichrist? I say that he is Dionysian. When the road divided before me Paths I foresaw, overgrown, And there I yield To a truth revealed, In branded flesh by a burning light. Disorder, torment and chaos reign. So sickly the false annexation Defy a forceful abdication To evermore obey the order of decay. The conquest is impotent to an elegance and imminence… A mockery, the annexation Trapped in corruption and ruined nation. Refuse the aimless wandering of rapture Convoluted elations you seek Diminish upon their capture. Down, held within the blazing prison From the red rifts to wine, from fire to blood In bonds of hedonism. For who can know the Antichrist? I say that he is Dionysian.
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From within my heart, the one whose heart was motionless Enter Amentia, the subterranean mystery And be restored, eternally. The conquest is impotent to the elegance and imminence… A mockery, an annexation Bound to corruption in the ruined nation. The slaves of uncritical rapture march Onward to the cold scorched gates. And are hounded by insatiable desire, Lowered in cages by ropes and chains To the eternal river of fire. How long until we meet ourselves, From across this gorge of dissonance When one aspect of existence is the second’s antithesis. So perceive of me as flame, with contemptuous desires. And so ensnared in an impotent crusading garrotte, I am flame and fire. Our value is determined From exclusive physical utility, derived. And scraped and carved internally, I, somehow, paradoxically survive And so in being fire I may, naturally Devour them alive.
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Rerek is the serpent fiend the worm shall not die, nor his visceral fires be quenched. Enter the mouth and emerge from the tail Acquiesce to the cycle, profoundly entrenched. From throes and trials prevail, Serpent, what wisdom you may bring forth, Hideous is the journey to attain it… Dualistic death and Mystes Enter the serpent’s mouth to seek reality, abhorrent Steadfast to retribution Unto the blazing torrent. Unto the Pyriphlegethon The hierarchal structure of actualization Is funerary in nature. And the ascension is contingent upon Horrors, trials and labours. And so—hissing and spitting beast—as long as you shall gnaw your tail, the cycle remains open… Hail to loathsome death which comes in whispers. It binds and drowns in depths of blazing rivers. The twelve hours of Amentia—ameliorate, Katabasis fall not upon me Wandering, Seeking retribution upon the blazing banks In the eternal… The torrential river of fire! Twelve hours of the night, when the heavens fell punitively fell upon me. It bled that morning, and the stars fell from their lofty thrones Abdicated from the sphere transforming. Hail to loathsome death which comes in whispers. It binds and drowns in depths of blazing rivers.
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released February 1, 2018

All writing, vocals, instrumentation, album artwork, and logo design by Argonavis. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Argonavis.

Promotional Photography by Pagan Fires Photography

We would also like to extend our gratitude toward Corphix
Productions and C. Burke for their contributions.

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Passing the Igneous Maw is the debut full-length from black doom duet Argonavis. Thematically, the piece traces the descent and reemergence inherent to spiritual and psychological development. In reverence towards the force of entropic demise, it follows an allegorical journey from the Katabasis, the depths of the Serpent’s Rarek's mouth, to the Katharmos, the triumphant ascension. ... more

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