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Unconditional

by WOLKN

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The sea breeze takes on a familiar bite. The rich green hue of the growing season drains from the landscape. Orange and brown creeps over the earth, as the sunset of the seasons sets the landscape aflame. As the glow recedes, one’s thoughts grow cold with the fading light.
The frost of winter beckons. The year’s darker half gathers, ominously on the horizon. The entropic universal millstone continues its unconditional grind.

A little treat for All Hallows Eve, on the eve of Samhain and Galan Gaeaf, I’m pleased to make this offering of a new track - “Unconditional”.

I’ve been hard at work in my hyperbolic time chamber seeking signals from the vaults of the WOLKN overmind, and Scylla Sound has been tirelessly mixing and mastering the results – hammering out fiery sonic creations with the mighty heat of a dwarven forge.

Please enjoy this track as a preview of something longer coming in 2024.

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Respice Finem

This snare of life with love as bait
No option but to bear the weight
and lure another to this fate

The huntsman death with sickle blade
Who’s eyeless sight we must evade
By offering others in our place

The soul is corrupted
The blood it cries out
The body is dancing
Shadow of deepest black

The sword becomes worthless
Blunted on bone
The final debt that none could buy
With Sceptre, Crown or Throne
Take the hand of Death

The scaffold of the extant race
Nurturing the fledgling brain
Terrible unbroken chain

Adorned with feathers of display
Turning, bathed in golden rays
Rituals, offerings and prayers
Rain down on the face of love, unheard

Unconditional
Unconditional
Unconditional
The seed is scattered on the winds of fate

Pale wilted blooms
Atop
Sombre shrouded urn
This earth
Doth fragile flesh intern

Our most sublime virtues
Our lowest caustic hate
Standing as equals
(Memento Mori)
Sustaining life
To satisfy base
Mammalian instincts
(Memento Mori)

Respice Finem

Granite against granite grinds
Joyless hateless forces find
The soul but grist, its pain but rind
(Memento Mori)
The body slave of jealous time
The mirthless grin, The empty eyes
The destiny of all to die
(Memento Mori)

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released October 31, 2023
Written, performed, and recorded, by REL
Mixed and Mastered by Scylla Sound.
Cover photo by N.M.L.
(Cover photo depicts unidentified figure atop cliffs at sunset, taken near Porth y Gwîn – Ynys Môn)

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WOLKN is one person, on an island in North Wales, making heavy music.

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