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Equinox Vigil

by Inexorum

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D. S.
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D. S. I can't stop grinning. Favorite track: Secret Language.
ClassyMusicSnob
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ClassyMusicSnob Inexorum returns with a callback to early 00s melodeath. Back when we were all obsessed with Dark Tranquility, In Flames and the like. This is pure earworm music that's catchy and fun. EV really makes me miss 2 guitarists dueling each other and letting the music soar. In the day of one man bands, these guys prove a full band is superior, despite many of these current one man bands being absolutely amazing songwriters. 4.5/5 Favorite track: Secret Language.
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pinkytheent Creation Myth is the horses breaking through the gates and the rest of the album just tramples you into dust with an unrelenting cascade, a landslide, of glinting, shimmering, chiming, colorful melody. I loved almost every note and chord choice and arrangement, the d-beats and midpaced marching rhythms that had me trying to crabwalk in my chair, and the production. A natural force through golden fall leaves, pummeling rockslides, mighty mountain vistas, foggy valleys, and sparkling stars. Favorite track: Equinox Vigil.
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1.
We came from nowhere Formed in cataclysm Grasped in fragments At the limits of our vision Wreathed in metaphor Dredged from history Lacking common language To describe the mystery Beyond all mortal senses Through the forge of time Explored in vivid dreams Beyond the human mind Unending grandeur Expanding from the source Suspension in the void Propelled by unseen force More than we could bear But we bore it all the same To vast to comprehend Yet chained by many names Beyond all mortal senses Through the forge of time Explored in vivid dreams Beyond the human mind Far beyond the human mind Vying to claim dominion Contested, never given Too much time spent choosing sides Walling off in separate tribes Bent to a shape we can cling to The universal fear Our only time is now Our only life is here We came from nowhere The gulf between the stars Will we meet this moment? To hold the sky and make it ours
2.
As dawnlight crests the hills Dreaming valley adorned with gold A sense of waiting imminence Superposition of new and of old Where the stream carves the canyon Sigh of the wind, the only sound A subtle transition A change so deeply profound By time we are marked Renewed and reformed No return to remembered pasts The calm that follows the storm Across the divide Through haze of distant blaze At the turn of the season To the end of an age As the sun completes its transit The western sky aglow When everything has changed Will I find my way home? Stars wheel overhead First whispers of polar chill I close my eyes, breathe in the night And know that I will By time we are marked Renewed and reformed No return to remembered pasts The calm that follows the storm Across the divide Through haze of distant blaze At the turn of the season To the end of an age Beyond the boundary A dance of life and death And the watchers held their vigil And the winds held their breath To find their way home Oh I will find my way home Aloft again in velvet dreams Alone under the spinning sky Aware of every change In bursts of color passing by Beyond the boundary A dance of life and death And the watchers held their vigil Until their final breath Until their final breath
3.
Like winter winds on windowpanes I felt foundations tremble And darkness formed around me Where shadow shapes assemble The path is fraught with danger Crises to be managed I can’t undo what happened We just live among the damage In this drowning realm By such tragedies bereft Where scavengers divide To feed until there’s nothing left Gnawing pangs of regret Gaping wounds of grief Seductive pull of shame Doubt, the lurking thief Floating free above my body To view from safe remove It doesn’t dull the pain But once acknowledged, nothing left to prove I’ve leaned on fellow travelers And shared my strength in turn Beings of emotion Penitents with grief to burn And the world still spins A point of light in space Even on the darkest days I don’t want to leave this place And I will not collapse While I’m still drawing breath To name the pain and cast it out To scream until there’s nothing left
4.
Constellations overhead As dreams, so far away Edge of night is shining bright Enough to light my way Far away from sorrow Far away from home Across obscure horizons Where secret paths are known To gaze upon the ancient dance of light Cast through deep infinities To rest at last in quiet dignity Here among the sighing trees They told me there was nothing left to see Nothing left to learn The sleeping sky reveals the lie Where a billion stars serenely burn In dark sky sanctuary One last refuge from the world Under the shield of stars Great mysteries unfurled Beyond the self Beyond all mundane needs Adrift upon the stellar sea On starwinds borne To fall at last on me The open sky, where I yearn to be Far away from sorrow Far away from home Across obscure horizons Where secret paths are known To dream across the endless gulf To contemplate the vast To comprehend the grandeur, where awe awaits To be revealed at last Enrapt as the stars fall Overhead as dreams, so far away
5.
It wears on you Like heat from sunburned skies A star you cannot see A memory lost Voices from another room Nearer my death to thee Unmarked passages Whispers in the dark Along the hidden path To guide as we embark We speak the secret language Sharp consonants of sorrow And in ourselves, we find The strength to face tomorrow Enduring monolith A beacon as the fog begins to lift Through the fire Tempered by the heat In memory submerged Yet not alone Turned by purpose A new form shall emerge We march on Through perdition Forged in fire By every cruel condition We speak the secret language Sharp consonants of sorrow And in ourselves, we find The strength to face tomorrow We speak the secret language Lanterns in the dark A hidden path revealed Converging bonds Carried as a mighty shield And the strength of trust Becomes the sword you wield In the hour of need No map to guide you To dare mighty things With those who stand beside you
6.
Absence frames forbidden words We cannot bear to talk about A dance upon a razor’s edge To keep the fire from burning out In frozen time When I was yours and you were mine A last embrace An echo deep inside my mind I felt your fear As you stared into the dark Tried to hold you here All the while, slowly torn apart I found you once inside a dream Where the veil of death is thin Upon oneiric shores we walked under the stars One tale untold, yet another shall begin Until I lost sight of you Vanishing, as all dreams do Shocked into the waking world Cruelty of the real Where everything has changed Yet some scars never heal Across the spectral sea In remembrance, you call to me Oh, I hear you call to me The chapter ends With hollow hearts Sacred memory lingers Cast upon the wind Like ashes through my fingers
7.
When the silence settles deep And the veil of night descends How will you remember me? How will I make amends? It’s a final gesture It’s a room without a view It’s a dream you can’t recall And it’s staring back at you Crossing years On the roads that led us here Harvesting Mercy when the wounds appear To still the heart Courage over fear To recognize the pull The gravity that holds us here Love as transgression A book of sins One last confession Where fate presumes This fire consumes On the last day At the fading of the light Will you lay your burdens down? Or carry them into the night? It’s a kind of madness It’s a lock without a key It’s a point of no return It finds us all It waits for you, it waits for me
8.
Forged in seething fire Deep below the earth To flow toward the sea Infinite rebirth From the molten core In pyroclastic flow To shape the land anew Shattered from below Through hidden gates of stone I felt the ancient heat Beneath the ground I walked Yearning to be free In and of the world How glorious to be Every dreaming hope Revealed at last to me Held in breathless awe By every starry night How fortunate to see Such impossible sights As the moments flow Ever on and on Beyond the far horizon Forever gone Never to return Yet deep inside my heart The flame forever burns Along the shore Where the sea receives the sky A vast expanse of blue Awakened by the tides Fed in rushing tribute By rivers wide and deep Tears from distant hills From every jagged peak Scarred by glacial force Under deep weight of years To rise above the clouds To wait for stars to reappear In and of the world How glorious to be Every dreaming hope Revealed at last to me Held in breathless awe By every starry night How fortunate to see Such impossible sights How fortunate to see Such impossible sights In this ancient place By dappled rays beguiled Listen close to hear The secrets of the wild Empires rise and fall The primal force of nature Endures beyond them all Through all trial and strife I will carry this moment Until the end of my life

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released June 17, 2022

Recorded August 2020 – September 2021 at Castle Killstorm and Meow Sounds
Music and lyrics written by Carl Skildum, BMI
Engineered and produced by Inexorum
Mixed by Matthew Kirkwold
Assisted by Ian Combs
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Cover painting by Brooks Wilson
Logo and title by Joshua Decker
Portrait photo by Kelly O’Donnell / Starseed Studios

Guitars, vocals, keys, programming: Carl Skildum
Bass, clean vocals: Matthew Kirkwold

Guitar solo on “Secret Language”: Tanner Anderson
Synth solo on “On The Last Day”: d.notive

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