Heart of the corpse-whale
by narwhale
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Intro
00:46
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Glaucus
08:24
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After seven weeks of sailing
our hopes began to fade out.
Famine was fastly spreading
and barrels were drying.
A starving bird dived in nothingness
and nothing he brought out.
Motionless, the sea was calm,
lifeless, no trace of life.
The heat was far beyond all bearing
every breath of wind, dying out.
Fortune wasn’t coming
a desert growing before our eyes.
The crew began to fret
they wanted to spit their fire out.
Roaring, howling, sharping knives
their eyes were skinned by light.
The sea was clear to see beneath
the water seemed so transparent
that everything became so evident.
A presence was,
personified through the glass
his deep blue eyes,
from the profound of the sea
and a human form,
so similar to a fish.
Glaucus
Heavy are
the locks of his hair
wet are the curls of his beard
pale skin
like the shroud of the dead
he was lying down on his bed.
A fish tail bent back to the waist
the arms strong
of battling the waves
the breast covered
in seaweed and moss
strange herald of a certain loss.
Dark prophecy
of the obscure art
of a chosen one.
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3. |
Galerna
06:17
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Salt winds of a sudden gale
were shattering our tattered sails.
While foamy crests before our eyes
shook our boat from side to side.
Frightening abscence of the sun
all of a sudden, it all begun.
Before our eyes, the angry sea
anxious to feed a hungry fish.
Salwater filled my lungs
bitter roughness in the tongue.
Like open graves, the mouths of sea
were swallowing our desperate pleas.
Briny streams flooded the deck
useless amulet around the neck.
A lonely albatross in the sky
was telling us we were going to die.
Turbid waters, blackened sky
furious winds, sudden night.
Awful weather, heavy rain
was almost driving us insane.
otal eclipse of the sun
a soaked bible in my hands
our world was vanishing away
while darkness ate the light of day
It was the time
when the morning star
reigns the night.
The crew moved silently, quietly
as they didn't want to wake up
the beast below our feet.
Her sails shined the whiteness
of the nightdress of a bride.
Her paleness, her innocence
stalked and ravened,
swallowed by the gloom.
Black clouds gathered around the mast
obscure messengers of the blast.
Pregnant of its fatal load
the ocean swelled about to explode.
Frightening abscence of the sun
all of a sudden, it all begun.
Before our eyes, the ocean roared,
somebody cried: ‘Man overboard!’
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4. |
Watery Graves
07:36
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The sun set fire to the horizon
the crew drowned to their watery graves.
The gloom flooded our ship to the bottom
in its cold and fatal embrace.
Down, it all went down.
Those blood red waters of a red sun
drowned out the wooden laments.
Black clouds gathered, the red sky was
the cortege of our internment.
Down, it all went down
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5. |
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Silence, fog, cold water
darkness was profound.
Under my feet I felt the presence
of something that lurked below.
Deadly winter darkness
among the ruins of the wreck.
Like a huge shroud,
the all mighty ocean
wrapped me in its cold embrace.
Phosphorescent beam underwater,
balck sea suddenly swelled.
Like a child
of the prince of darkness,
damned son of this pregnant waves.
Ivory tusks of the devil’s crown,
frightening jaws of the unknown.
It tore up my clothes
at the entrance,
I knew my eyes wouldn’t gaze
another dawn
Black tongue,
crimson walls in the inside
dead fish smell, scent of death.
A hot viscous placenta
it buried me into her flesh.
Deeper and deeeper in that black hole
its heartbeats rumbled in my soul.
Omnipresent evil ghost’s drum
dark rhythm of that ravenous ghoul.
Into the dark night of the soul,
slave to the drum,
rave dance of the ghoul.
Dark spirits prowled around my head
from deep in the realm of the dead.
Gates of the unkown,
heart of the dawn.
Wolf furs, black flesh cave
dark hoods, black mass rave.
Priestess, head of the goat
dark entrails of the toad.
Nakeness, ivy wreaths
pan flute, primal herd.
Raw meat, blood and wine
strange pictures, obscure signs.
Gates of the unkown,
heart of the dawn.
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6. |
Primeval Rites
04:15
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Wolf furs, black flesh cave
dark hoods, black mass rave.
Priestess, head of the goat
dark entrails of the toad.
Nakeness, ivy wreaths
pan flute, primal herd.
Raw meat, blood and wine
strange pictures, obscure signs.
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Sargasso Sea
05:05
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Wrapped by a seaweed blanket
anchored to the floor
awakened in the ocean core.
Kelp blades led my hand
far from any dry land
away from any shore.
Ah, into the dense forest
pale hands led me to the core.
Ah, waving those grey green waters
a subtle song of an ancient lore.
Onto a coral layer
the silver and the gold
splenderous treausures never sold.
An old clock marked the time
a foreboding bell chimed
frightening the souls.
Ah, passed the old stone perron
the lost garden of the tideless sea.
Ah, forgotten rusted cauldron
witness to the darkest poetry.
A tombstone inscription,
a gravestone epitaph.
Eerie transcription
in a marble cenotaph.
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Path of the Whales
05:45
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After seven weeks of sailing
our boat sank down
our world
irredeemably drowned out.
Dreary pace
speechless,
embracing the sorrow
the lonesome road.
Doomed to sail
the ocean forever
treading the path of exile
no rest, nor place to retire.
Beneath the waves
my useless endeavor
the load I’m hauling alone
my throat unable to moan.
Path of the whales,
lone pilgrimage.
Lonesome journey
to the centre of the soul,
disntant shrine, heavy load.
Dreary, speechless
across the lonely road,
the seven seas, all alone.
Path of the whales,
lone pilgrimage.
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about
The Heart of the Corpse-Whale was recorded by:
Diego Aparicio - Rhythm & Lead Guitars
Víctor Puente - Drums
Javier Fernández - All vocals, Bass, Guitars,Hammond & mellotron.
between July and August, 2018.
Engineered and mixed by Sergio Rodríguez & Sergio Díaz Montes
at Tutu Studios, Avilés.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm, Sweden.
Produced by Narwhale.
Artwork by Manticore.
All songs written and arranged by J. Fernández.
Diego Aparicio - Rhythm & Lead Guitars
Víctor Puente - Drums
Javier Fernández - All vocals, Bass, Guitars,Hammond & mellotron.
between July and August, 2018.
Engineered and mixed by Sergio Rodríguez & Sergio Díaz Montes
at Tutu Studios, Avilés.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm, Sweden.
Produced by Narwhale.
Artwork by Manticore.
All songs written and arranged by J. Fernández.
credits
released October 1, 2019
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narwhale Asturias, Spain
Born by the end of the summer of 2016, Narwhale is a tender and cruel, delicate and monstrous four member journey that set sail from Avilés submarine canyon.
discography
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May 2022 -
Oct 2019 -
Apr 2017
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