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The City

by Amun

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Antifascist Black Metal Network "Amun play a very experimental type of progressive black metal with tons of atmosphere that shifts all around - it's very hard to describe, but maybe something like "Ne Obliviscaris meets Borknagar with elements of Latin music" gets close. If this sounds too disjointed, think again: the album manages to flow in a way that its nearly 80 (!) minutes go by in an instant and leave you wanting for more." Full review: shorturl.at/dosB8
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C. Aldersop Something about the Latin, Philosophical influence mixed with the glitchy electronic elements in Amun's work gives me the illusion that there is a mad-tinkerer-automaton-god pulling the strings behind this album. Are Amun even human? Can anyone confirm they sleep and eat like the rest of us?... Favorite track: Deus Mechanica.
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1.
The City 09:01
There is a city in the shadow of the mountain Where footsteps turn to echoes in the sand Faces are a blur of colors, failing to take form Words return to senders’ lips in the form of scattered hands Children dance in terminal deceit before the ghost Who watches on with hopelessness as he is choked By smoke and ash that billow from the ever reddened ground Life and death in the shadow of the arches of a crown This city, it becomes you This skyline, it consumes you You will never be one of us The circle may never break The tongue perched on dry lips, to speak through staggered breath Hopeful eyes unsheath themselves to beg for life from death Leather skin surrounds the wounded beast that crawls His wings collapse in crumbled heaps, beneath the sun, silence falls The wall opens up like a gaping maw to consume the dying mass And from the maw steps forth a man in an ancient golden mask He looks down upon the failing limbs and organs of the lost And says “for all your life you’ve been searching for your god” “Here I am” The golden mask, the glory of enlightenment The spirit fades and transcends but I am always present The golden mask, the glory of enlightenment The spirit fades and transcends but I am always present I can help you shed your skin of sorrow I can mend the bones you broke wandering here I can carry you before the conquering sun I can hide you in a temple bare I can help you shed your skin of sorrow I can mend the bones you broke wandering here I can carry you before the conquering sun I can hide you in a temple bare
2.
The law and the punishment An eye for an eye The god and the sovereign sentence A lie for a lie The hopeless and the hiding A scar for a scar The mask and the right hand silence A god for a god I am the hunter of men The serpent breathing down my neck The urge is growing stronger I can feel the hunger Through hunger for blood I find god A heart for a heart Be stilled in your grave or your hiding A dark for a dark Night or day, the cycle never breaks A soul for a soul You’re just a boy, left all alone A world for a world I am the hunter of men The serpent breathing down my neck The urge is growing stronger I can feel the hunger Save your breath, there is no use trying to escape Save your words, they mean nothing to the state Save yourself, they won’t care what you’ve made Save your tears, they’re a waste of good suffering Every drop of blood you spill puts new flesh on my bones But I’ll warn you now, one day the blood you spill will be your own Save your breath, there is no use trying to escape Save your words, they mean nothing to the state Save yourself, they won’t care what you’ve made Save your tears, they’re a waste of good suffering I am the hunter of men The serpent breathing down my neck The urge is growing stronger I can feel the hunger I am the hunter of men The serpent breathing down my neck The urge is growing stronger I can feel the hunger
3.
I’ll sail into the void before I learn How to sing the songs of the primeval forest That echo with the voices of the ancients And leave the scent of fire on the breath This sun is hollow, but let’s just let it remain Let me wallow in my false destiny The moon hides my face from the dark Hides my mediocrity... My mediocrity... Dance with me, one last time The spheres are so beautiful tonight The forest is teeming with life It destroys me with a turn of a light Cut my soul from my body I deserve nothing but an empty shell I ought to be what I feel like I am A god, dying in hell This sun is hollow, but let’s just let it remain Let me wallow in my false destiny The moon hides my face from the dark Hides my mediocrity My mediocrity... My mediocrity... My mediocrity... My mediocrity...
4.
The moon will come through the black of night Shining gold and silver, all alight The pauper laid in his lonely grave No one to mourn his unsung name This wretched creature, who walks wearing rags Stands before me, his soul in his hands What care should I give to the practically dead? Presenting his wealth from the hole in his head Let the light shine forever Ties to the past we all must sever The rising moon, the cold of the truth Why should I care for anything but your value? Where’s your heart? Locked up tight The hand behind the fading eyes Strings of gold, silver puppet Dance for me, marionette This emaciated street-worn heathen Prostrating before me, displaying his weakness Tear your heart from your well worn chest And burn it as an offering to the holy In death Let the light shine forever Ties to the past we all must sever The rising moon, the cold of the truth Why should I care for anything but your value? What is a spirit without a material form? I have never felt a wound, you are an open sore Tell me again, why should I care for a dying god? Life in death, are you already so fucking lost? What is a spirit without a material form? I have never felt a wound, you are an open sore Tell me again, why should I care for a dying god? Life in death, are you already so fucking lost?
5.
You are wet and uncontrolled animals with no sense of resolve Beasts acting on instinct, holding onto absent souls You are so easy to kill and so very quick to decompose You are just slaves to your world, I have seen your kind before Mortality passing me by It’s far too late for me to die Mortality passing me by If only you could see the world with my eyes Your weak limbs move to commune like flailing serpents In that useless, horrid ritual in which you hunt for purpose You seek to spawn the future of your pitiful, dying race When you jettison the body that will only take up space Mortality passing me by It’s far too late for me to die Mortality passing me by If only you could see the world with my eyes You’ll die without me But you’ll still die with me Tell me why it matters That you keep existing You’ll die without me But you’ll still die with me Tell me why it matters That you keep existing Reality is out of phase, drowning in the sand Imperfections in the simulacrum of a dying man Deconstruct your sorrow in the symbiotic Christ You are just another one in a never ending line
6.
You all seem so far away Through the clouds and the wind, all meaning fades The life down below finds a way, I suppose But I’m just too far away I watched as you walked to the gate Collapsed in a heap, what a shame That they let you in, where the sinners sin Cause I’ll watch you till the end of your days I can see the light on the horizon Everything is swallowed by the sun I can see the light on the horizon Everything is swallowed by time The birds turn to shadows in the sun A feather falls, only one To touch the mortal earth, and sing a little dirge But here I am, a shadow in the sun I can see the light on the horizon Everything is swallowed by the sun I can see the light on the horizon Everything is swallowed by time Tear away the sky to view the heavens A tale of dying sons and dying suns Tear away the sky to see forever Nothing will exist when we are gone Tear away the sky to view the heavens A tale of dying sons and dying suns Tear away the sky to see forever Nothing will exist when we are gone
7.
Envuelto en belleza, las extremidades estire Alrededor de él herido animal Labios, mojado con mentiras, hablan más allá de las palabras de dios Respiracion, intenso, ritmico Un solo sonido, escapando Del fauces de la araña Flotando perfecto en la oreja del muerto Exhalacion del vida Perfume, ebriedad Despacio, lágrimas incontenible Las manos de las Moiras quiten la velo Revelando todo El pagano en los manos de oro, delante del sol Iluminación sin significado Un templo del pecado soberano Belleza cruda Deja quitarme la dolor Un solo toque, y todo desaparecerá No te preocupes mas, tengo tus respuestas Aquí, aquí Toma mi mano y ámame Olvídate del dios sobre mi Toma mi mano y ámame Tu puedes hacer cualquier cosa que yo diga Baila como una marioneta en mis ojos. Ruega por mi Mantenga su cabeza por encima de la luz Mírame a los ojos Rimel negro gotea en un charco de sangre Una red de mentiras No hay nada que temer Te lo prometo mi amor Deja quitarme la dolor Un solo toque, y todo desaparecerá No te preocupes mas, tengo tus respuestas Aquí, aquí Toma mi mano y ámame Olvídate del dios, sobre mi Toma mi mano y ámame Tu harás cualquier cosa que yo diga
8.
Inevitability Everything ends The waves of time will crash upon the shores And wash away what we have made Let it be Let it just remain Let it stay the same Nothing matters in reality’s wake Ananke, reach out and touch me Carry me into the endless shadow of the water Undying, eternal Forever, forever, forever… Let it fall to ruins Let it fall away It all decays in the end Life is just the slow path to oblivion Dereliction, desolation cometh Escape is a useless prolonging Acceptance is the breath of life Believe in naught but death From whence emerged life? To there, so shall it return Washed away in a flood of blackness Never to know purpose Ananke, reach out and touch me Carry me into the endless shadow of the water Undying, eternal Forever, forever, forever… Let it fall to ruins Let it fall away It all decays in the end Life is just the slow path to oblivion Undying, eternal sorrow Let me lie in a pool of despair Do not cry out to him He never heard you before and he won’t start now Undying, eternal sorrow Let me lie in a pool of despair Do not cry out to him He never heard you before and he won’t start now Let it fall to ruins Let it fall away It all decays in the end Life is just the slow path to oblivion
9.
Ta bestia nas przyniosła Nic tylko marnotrawstwo i ból A teraz przestępstwo tak haniebne Nie wiem, jak to nazwać Ręce sięgające nieba Módlcie się do boga w zapomnieniu Ziemia spadła z niebios Cienie otaczające wszystko Straszny widok, czarny jak noc Dusza tego upadłego Straszne, nawet spójrz na to Czemu miałoby mi zależeć Pustka rozciąga się do przodu Boskość jest nieobecna Czy nic nie zostało Cienie dławią ziemię Pogański! Zdrajca! Kłamca Poluj na zabójcę Boga na krańce ziemi Pogański! Zdrajca! Kłamca Poluj na zabójcę Boga na krańce ziemi Pogański! Zdrajca! Kłamca Poluj na zabójcę Boga na krańce ziemi Pogański! Zdrajca! Kłamca Poluj na zabójcę Boga na krańce ziemi
10.
Black Chapel 09:16
The melting sky drips into a flailing form Desecrating lights, falling below the swarm The ocean foam returns unto the dying world Eyes cut apart being held by broken arms Rituals and shadows, sorrow flees the heart A chapel on the edge of dissipating art This city it becomes you, the despair, it carries on Let it be the same, the same as it always was Take off the mask, let the light shine through the surface You should leave if you want to save yourself now The dream of a dying man, eternal in its wake The last hopes, remove the soul, destroy everything Birds landing upon a strung up ashen place Falling from the sky onto a pauper’s blackened plate Tearing bloody serpents from the newly broken rock The surrounding tribes of judah, all but dead and gone Set fire to the animals, let them act as the lost Never return the blackness to the dying God Take off the mask, let the light shine through the surface You should leave if you want to save yourself now This cathedral of shadow A vastness before me A dying god begging me For a forgiveness he shall not receive The void, forever The void, eternal The crushing weight of all this sorrow The endlessness of no tomorrow Your throne is falling from the sky Your god is built on fucking lies The hopelessness collapses here Take off that mask, remove the fear This just another death Emptiness Emptiness Emptiness Crushed under the weight of God’s Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow You are just another Emptiness Emptiness Emptiness Crushed under the weight of God’s Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow You are just another dying god The void, forever The void, eternal The crushing weight of all this sorrow The endlessness of no tomorrow This cathedral of shadow A vastness before me A dying god’s robes lie empty I must maintain illusions, gently
11.
A Death 12:57
Staring out at a loving populace Watching as the earth decays into mist The cheers, meaning well, turn to mockery and pain And always the laughter remains I need to keep up illusions Keep the walls together once again Apathy and desolation, burning away My dreams are cold and grey Watching from the other side Waiting for the death of light At night, the only time that I find peace Let me be, just let me leave They love me, can’t you see? The devil in the arms of christ The only thing left now Is to remove the blackened sky It never washes off It never goes away It always stays the same Let the cycle never break Let it never change Let the cycle never break The laughter still remains Let the cycle never break Watching from the other side Waiting for the death of light At night, the only time that I find peace Let me be, just let me leave They love me, can’t you see? The devil in the arms of christ The only thing left now Is to remove the blackened sky The death of light The depths of blackest night Remove the grey eyesight The firing line decaying faster Than the rest of my failing corpse I am just another one This is just another form Another name for blackness is light One in the same Let the cycle never break One in the same Let it just remain And always the laughter And always the laughter And always the laughter He died in my place Life and death in the shadow of the mountain Life and death in the shadow of the mountain Life and death in the shadow of the mountain Life and death in the shadow of the mountain Let it stay the same, let it never change Let the cycle never break Let it stay the same, let it never change Let the cycle never break This city it becomes you This skyline it consumes you You will never be one of us Let the circle never break You are just another one You are just another one You are just another one They will not remember you You are just another one You are just another one You are just another one They will not remember you The king of the dead The kingdom of the dying The ghost of resistance Death and oblivion I can help you shed your skin of sorrow I can mend the bones you broke wandering here I can carry you before the conquering sun I can kill you with me there They fall asleep To the sound of empty vessels Crying out for warmth In a world in which it has died They fall asleep To the sound of empty vessels Crying out for warmth In a world in which it has died

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Amun's debut full length album, The City is a vast, experimental, spiritually deafening black metal epic.

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released August 13, 2021

Amun are:

Joseph Snodgrass- Bass guitar, vocals, upright bass, mandolin, saz, ukulele, electric guitar
Aidan Robinson- Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Johnathon Nunn- Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
CJ Yacoub- Drums, percussion, vocals
Simon James- Synth, keyboard, electronics, pipe

All songs written and performed by Amun.

Trumpet on Falling In Lust performed by Nathan Blake.

Recorded by Joseph Snodgrass and Simon James at Rat Trap's Basement Studios.
Mixed and mastered by Simon James.

Art and design by Joseph Snodgrass.

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