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Cut The Rivers Vein

by Mur

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1.
Gaze into the light of doubt! Enbrinded Enstoned Engraveled A lone Men on the breaks Salt on their skin Women on the side With salt in their eyes Dreams Burned Bright!
2.
O'palesce 04:27
Grace Bleached with an anger made cold Crawling dawn Emboldened by broken law Aged! Furnace rages Apparition Stubborn womb Cleaved Hammer and chain Cut the vein! Rope Crushing Orbed Wind A bruised heaven!
3.
Born under caul Amniotic nightfall Fossilized grain The river explains Don't grieve them x 3 Blood on sheepskin A kerosene dream A sign of a copper disease Silken grey Cut the wind's vein Don't grieve them x 3 Hundred weight sin Red clay Atlantean Form Bow, like the night Disburdened wind Hands bruised, eyes downcast Thickening infinite night Have you seen the flowers? The color of pain? Disquietude Of colors twelve Cerulean pity Harrow and heart Granite Chord Unleash The vessel For threading light Crystal weapon Semen weeping
4.
Cold Hand Soft-spoken wind Sun dogs Brilliant doubt Gold Cloud Morning fog No self-evident truth Of the sun on your back Swift shadow of the ghost eye Thickening mirrored blaze One Curse One King Fire Consumed Stolen Womb
5.
The dawn is tired and broken Exhaled and enslaved Smoke it stings like silver A dead nettle drone A story of stone Your eyes open softly And mine close as wounds In silence, in voice Lust and lead rejoice Dominate, Delight! An alabaster tomb Carrion perfume The wind is wild The horses are quiet Golden Honey On raptured wings Pensive I have no name!
6.
Sulfurous soil Brass visage Wept Bound throat Phosphorous faith Hissing Foam thick Breach and Bitter Jealous shadow Swarm of faith Dungeness ancient From first cosmic bosom Laborious joy! Thick summer stars!

about

The vision has been an absurdist wind.

Heavily influenced by Romantic-era ideas, existentialism, and the apocryphal, hellfire of William Blake’s word.

Conquest and transformation. Plotting particle and light into wisdom and thought.

Is there real knowledge in flowing water? Can intent organize the stars into action?

! GAZE INTO THE LIGHT OF DOUBT !

REVIEWS:

"Though it also bears significant folk influences, Cut the Rivers Vein's black metal element is temperamental, sometimes soaring but often burrowing into extremely doomy territory, shifting its atmosphere like changing seasons."

- Invisible Oranges

"It touches on similar spaces covered by Sumac and Yob - less because of clear or deliberate attempts to copy but more from attempting to mine the same emotional space with the same musical tools. That’s more than fine by me; sidling up comfortably against two of the best American groups going, producing music that is raw and heartfelt where the heaviness comes like a hammer to your (raw) heart rather than shifting minor thirds and operatic vocals, is always a plus in my book. I cried at my desk to this record the first time through. What bigger cosign is there?"

- Consequence

"A post-everything esoteric opus that runs the gamut from Inter Arma-style dissonance to deconstructed folk music. The record is deeply tied to the Romantic Era’s naturalism, touching on themes of nature and its despoilment, but on Cut the Rivers Vein, Sather also seeks to decouple nature from hierarchical structures. While not a record for the impatient, Cut the Rivers Vein is meditative yet immediate, a record to sit with."

- TOILET OV HELL

"At times the music becomes nightmarishly hallucinatory even as the force of its stomping cadences threatens to split concrete. At other times it pours out wrenching emotional ruin or cold-eyed fury with unadulterated honesty, or even seems to stretch out its hands in feelings of intense yearning. But just around the turn of the bend (see, e.g., the somber folk songs that open “Lowered Cloud” and “A Powerful, Uneasy Feeling”) you might imagine yourself alone in the wilderness, huddled in the cold with just your own lonely thoughts around a crackling campfire that doesn’t provide enough warmth. Or you might encounter progressively inclined instrumental interplays when you least expect it. The music can definitely jar and disturb when Sather puts its mind to it, but there’s so much creative skill in the songwriting that all the ingredients work together damned well, and the execution is extremely impressive."

- NO CLEAN SINGING

"So much darkness, all that darkness, there must be some remedy for that constriction of the throat that is life on earth right now. And while the newest effort from Minnesota one-man project Mur might not heal the world, it will in fact go a long way to open up your wounds, soothe them, and then stab them with a rusty knife. A beauteous melding of slow-paced doom, nasty black metal and that slight tinge of Americana. Oh and a wonderful quote (intentional?) from one of Loss' great songs. Fantastic."

- Machine Music (IL)

"Everything bursts as grisly growls become a major factor, and the playing pummels hard, giving way to a sprawling dream with the drums leaving bones as dust. Thick growls blister as sunburnt guitars race for the skies, and everything intensifies as the heat increases. Guitars blaze, the tempo flows, and the final minutes submit to the warmth, giving off some of the most exhilarating parts of this entire record.
The vocals carve as the playing hulks along, ripping and mauling, paving the way for black metal-style devastation. The drums erupt as the menace floods, splattering and splurging into doom tar pits. Everything trudges as burly energy becomes more abundant, the leads just strangle, and the final moments bask in the carnage it caused, Sather calling, “Laborious joy! Thick summer stars!”.

- MEAT MEAD METAL

"Tracks like “O’palesce” and “Breach & Bitter” stand out as the most powerful examples of the alchemic mixtures of sound that Mur has summoned. Cut The Rivers Vein is a damn good album and is a great example of not letting genres be defined and just letting the music flow and speak for itself. There are relentless black metal riffs and blasts, there are droning and sludgy doom metal moments and there are also melodic and calming folky breathers as well and that is what makes this album stand out above the rest and it is only January."

9.5/10 - Metal Purgatory Media

"All of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them. The production sounds very dark and heavy while also done in a very melodic style. This is another great sounding recording and if you are a fan of black, sludge, and funeral doom metal with some elements of folk music."

8/10 - OccultBlackMetalZine

"With a vibrant and cathartic vision, the song themes consist of a theatrically performed "godlike" monologue as thunderous growls."

9/10 - Femforgacs Metal Zine (HU)

"The songs are atmospheric and immersive, drawing the listener into a dark, avant-garde world of idiosyncratic extreme metal. The blackened soundscapes that the artist behind the band creates are rich and well-realised. The combination of brute heaviness and textured depth is balanced well, resulting in a collection of tracks that feel like a rewarding journey into the artist’s world."

- Wonderbox Metal

"It starts off with a folksy acoustic part reminiscent of someone like Agalloch, but soon progresses to sludgy doom, blackened doom, doomened black, funereal sludge-doom, psychedelic doom, blackened psychedelia, and so on — spiraling and rotating among each of these for a while, eventually returning to simple melancholic folk for much of penultimate track “A Powerful, Uneasy Feeling.”

"And ultimately the final twelve minutes (“Breach & Bitter”) provide some of the album’s bleakest, heaviest, slowest, doomiest, blackest, fastest, most chaotic, and all around most impressively epic moments."

- Valley Of Steel

credits

released January 27, 2022

All instrumentation recorded live by C.S. - MMXXI -

! NO SAMPLES NO MASTERS !

Layout and Art Direction by C.S.

Cover artwork by Erik Newberg (Merle Pines - www.instagram.com/merle.pines/?hl=en)

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