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Sun Dethroned

by Moonshade

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Arrogant Bastard
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Arrogant Bastard Originality is a rare commodity, though not always required to craft a great album. Case in point, Moonshade.
While not redefining the modern melodeath genre with Sun Dethroned, they have honed it to a fine edge I'm more than pleased to wield. Favorite track: The Flames That Forged Us.
Jake Britton
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Jake Britton saw the album cover and knew this was something good. listened to one track and within one listen I was on board to support this band!
Karyl
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Karyl 8.5/10
This album hit me completely by surprise. As if Be'lakor had decided to play modern Melodeath.
Karyl's BC Award:
#3 ALBUM OF THE YEAR (2018) Favorite track: The Flames That Forged Us.
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exarias This is an absolutely awesome album all the way through! Also reminds me of Be'lakor without being a copy of them. And that's meant as a huge compliment! Favorite track: A Dreamless Slumber.
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1.
A maniacal misconstruction Aria of bleak despair Darkened ode to corruption Colossal sorrow stripped bare Tales of blissful hatred Love and madness intertwined Sounding off the seventh trumpet Purging all we once enshrined The dusk will sing Songs of lament Heralds of plague For dreams undreamt A barren earth His hidden plea Sickened desire Insane in sanity The by-product of pain Drowning in most blessed darkness Blasphemous purity The god of nothingness She, mere slave of his neglect Personified regret Embodiment of all that he longed to forget A flame that weakens, still Frailty that betrays the will Her spirit restless with a task to fulfill Hers is the key The constant plea For one long lost In sane insanity Her dying flame endures Alone in a sea of darkness Faintly burning from within (him) The god of nothingness Oh, specter of pain I wonder, can you hear? The sound of all meaning Wither and disappear The Creator is absent We are alone, I fear Yet, soon, all our anguish Shall wither and disappear Amidst lament Fate has decreed Their desire A tainted creed Apart and incomplete, In impure self-deceit Revealing our existence As vain and obsolete
2.
A most erotic séance Of darkness embedded Abandoned two lost souls in The path they were headed Bleeding accursed notes Corrupted litanies Relenting, repenting The time they’ve not seized A plethora of hearts so were torn From the bosom of grief, two souls were reborn And damned be the keys that she plays Through these hallowed days Bodies lie down between lives Consumed by lust, their eternal demise What lies beyond the gates of fear? Of Heaven and Hell I know not, my darling dear Thus we hail such blasphemy In the path of tragedy Bodies that love between lives Consumed by lust, their eternal demise What lies beyond the gates of fear? Of heaven and hell I know not, my darling dear Thus I chose to burn in your arms As you turned all these doubts into opaque glass shards Sin with me, Whisper to me all we can be Contemplating salvation Bathing in fractals of us The foundation of redemption Forging both our hearts from dust Cimmerian temptation at hand None have ever witnessed a beauty so grand A mixture of my deepest desires The rebirth of a forgotten fire As king and queen Or pawns in a greater scheme
3.
Lenore 05:35
A gallery of my greatest fears, in sheer disdain For a moribund heart and all that remains Erase the sun A pale orchid withers away Tainted by deepest regret Departure marked by decay Carving bleak melodies on my chest A symphony of suffering Adrift in the sands of time Summoning ghosts that haunt moments Of days scarred and unrefined Erase the sun So I can see Which star will shine in this soulless night When sanity lies at its limit Craving for a chance at redemption Accursed by a broken spirit I ache to find liberation I ache for the loss of her splendor An existence beyond sublime Yearning for a dire breath Her memory banned from my mind I’ll be the one On my bended knees Beneath the moon, devoid of light How does it feel to be alive? Beyond all will to survive This is the day I die Erase the sun So I can see Which star will shine in this soulless night I’ll be the one On my bended knees Beneath the moon, devoid of light
4.
Her descent into oblivion Gracefully walking down those steps Into the groves of the unknown That flourish on the darkest depths Left burning scars in innocence Goddess Lenore, my cruel will of fate Heed these silent cries For the reaper is at the gates This day, you have ceased to know pain And left behind all hopes and fears Beyond all sorrow, knowing peace Deafened to my selfish tears Cast me down beyond all light Where shadows bow in reverence Cast upon the veil of darkness A restless heart falls ever silent Undisturbed by pleas of mercy Ending a parasitic torment What pain can vanquish shades of death? The still-water chalice of fate? When misery turns to despair Our very nature we mutilate Crucified In denial For our crimes A life denied Lenore, my cruel will of fate Alone, your servant cries As the reaper closes the gates
5.
With ashes in my mouth, I grieve The stigmata of loss, it reaves A soul lacking traits of humanity Such hecatomb without resemblance Awakens a thirst for vengeance For the anathema that befell me Engulf the world In unforgiving flames I dream of rivers of blood in a never-ending fire This cataclysmic wrath will shatter the earth under thee Unearthing our nature as slaves of desire A cross to bear in all its unholy profanity Stripped of the fabled veil of wonder That blinds the face of all mankind Finding solace in my insanity Of love and loss I knew enough As all bliss hastily turned to dust All meaning lost through life’s opacity All this hatred Living within I dream of rivers of blood in a never-ending fire This cataclysmic wrath will shatter the earth under thee Unearthing our nature as slaves of desire A cross to bear in all its unholy profanity A curse upon thee Corrupt child of Man For this is the day We will come to end All this hatred Living within Will trigger the coming Of wages of sin A new world so begins Apocalypse dawns from the depths of despair For an accursed race, condemned to decadence A beast awakened, in darkness I dwell Bleeding through the gashes in my innocence Ephemerality flooded by suffering Cleansed in an odious instance
6.
A chimaera tears this world asunder In a parasitic feast of neurotic alchemy This tireless beast, with undying hunger Self-proclaimed prosperity’s arch enemy Wails of suffering, so obsolete Further bless a garden of shallow graves Silent serpents fall at damnation’s feet Bereft to torture, by faux-kings enslaved Abandoned in the twilight of dementia Dreams amount to nothing as the coffins descend A million tears might fall, but neither one nor all Will save us from when all light comes to an end Loneliness Pulls me under Leaving a World torn asunder For these ashes reek of the forgotten The air itself reeks of the long forgotten As the sands of time devour their memory The stones of Babel tower above the fallen For black roses are the dowry of misery Torrents of blood, they seep through the gashes Torn by the silence of these desperate screams Turning both peasant and king to ashes And mirror all my empty, darkened dreams For we are nothing but flesh and bone Oh misery, fruit of a Sun Dethroned
7.
Eventide 05:32
I, tainted fiend Withered, cradled by these woes Hereby reap my sorrows Writhing as I decompose I, enslaved by the profane, Bow to demons of guilt Shackling this soul to shame So it seems her absence was my bane The blade that lacks a hilt Ashes against the grain In the eye of the storm birthed from the abyss Ten thousand hymns are heard, hailing depravity Embracing the last drops of indigo bliss Amidst such shapelessness, drowning in lunacy Here I am Gouging out my eyes Rotting as the daylight dies Exorcized of lies Crucified, I agonize Crowned king of disdain As the castle we built Washed away with the rain And thus, these tattered remains Of adoration unfit Fell into death’s dark domains Lacking the restraint To save half of what I am Adrift in the pain of temptation The taint of deception It condemns me to damnation Gouging out my eyes Rotting as the daylight dies Exorcized of lies Crucified, I agonize Peace lies in defeat Hope is now obsolete A heart’s dire beat Eternally incomplete Shattered is all deceit I submit to my defeat Shedding two lonely tears One for each of us, my dear For the end draws near And soon both of us will disappear
8.
As I depart from this mortal coil The fragments of my existence Are laid to rest in barren soil As the sun fades in the distance I am nothing The pouring rains Have washed away the cross And all bloodstains Accursed phantoms of loss Amidst demise These blackened skies Silence the embers Blinding his weary eyes Maddened with tales Of a fool’s paradise For it was fire And all the lies it told That through desire Bound him to days of old Heavens will shatter In the twilight of the end Stars will collide, everything dies Darkness descends The sun erased Devoid of reason to rise A moment traced Throughout benighted skies All that prevails Is sheer impurity The rotting wound, that all consumes In obscurity Consumed by anguish Drowning in regret Abandoned to languish Of salvation bereft This bleak horizon Of morrow absent Sorrow that rises Above the firmament The heavens shatter In the twilight of the end The stars collide, everything dies Darkness descends The sun erased Devoid of reason to rise A moment traced Throughout benighted skies All that prevails Is sheer impurity The rotting wound, that all consumes In obscurity The tomb he carved as a monument to mourning Is ill-adorned by ten thousand forms of suffering The sterile seeds of such calamity Mundanity of one possessed What never was can only be Merely wishful thinking, at best To sleep, perchance to dream In oblivion’s bleak infinity So it seems, nothing can be redeemed Thus I am laid to rest for eternity To sleep, the chance to dream Was declared as yet another fantasy So it seems, nothing can be redeemed Thus I am laid to rest for eternity

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Digital version of Moonshade's debut album, "Sun Dethroned" (Art Gates Records, 2018)

"Sun Dethroned is a conceptual work that deals with a two-sided personification of the human condition, in the form of two romantically involved main characters that simbolize the abstract concepts of “good” and “evil”: Lenore and God of Nothingness, the latter represented in the album cover. Throughout this piece a story is told of which the most important events are the death of Lenore (“good”), that lead God of Nothingness (“evil”) towards a spiralling descent into wrath and madness, eventually consuming all reality, including himself, finally abandoning his pitiful existence in a sea of regrets where, in essence, he mourns his lost love and mourns the innocence of his madness. In short, Sun Dethroned functions as a parabola that highlights the need for balance while firmly stating the cost of its absence."

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released October 26, 2018

Lyrics and Lead Vocals by Ricardo Pereira
Guitars and Backing Vocals by Pedro Quelhas & Daniel Laureano
Bass Guitar by Nuno Barbosa
Keyboard Arrangements by Nuno Barbosa & Pedro Quelhas
Drums and Percussion by Sandro Rodrigues

Recorded and Edited by Afonso Aguiar (Titanforged Productions) & Pedro Quelhas
Mixed and Mastered by Afonso Aguiar
Cover Artwork and Photography by Daniel Laureano
Design and Layouts by Joël Martins (Titanforged Productions)

Special thanks to FBAUP University and Ricardo Junior for allowing us the usage of their respective photography studios.

Music and Lyrics composed and interpreted by Moonshade

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