Elegeion - Plight of the Heretic (2022) [Black Gothic Doom Metal]

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Title track taken from their new album entitled "Plight of the Heretic", released on May 1 2022.
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Official Statement:
After 17 long years since the last album, Elegeion have re-surfaced from the depths to announce their third full length album "Plight of the Heretic".
Written over the course of a decade and recorded, mixed and mastered over 14 grueling months from November 2020 to January 2022, pausing at length through the many lock-downs throughout the pandemic, the pain, angst and despair of the times truly came through on the album.
It comprises five tracks totaling almost 50 minutes of the Gothic / black / doom metal that you have come to expect from Elegeion, with new members and new ideas added, whilst still firmly attached to the old formula using strings and beautiful female vocals.
"We're so proud of this achievement", says frontman and guitarist Anthony Kwan "especially after being in suspended animation for so long, I hope you will see that the Elegeion flame is still well and truly alive".
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released May 1, 2022

Lyrics:

The plight of mine is to destroy
Deluded lies you inculcate
You think your pathetic religion is love
When conditions attached are based on hate

You congregate your simple minds
Reinforce old myths of the unwise
No thought to question irrationality
Your book is nothing more than just a fallacy

You let yourself slide
Joining their paralyzed minds
Too lost to find
It’s where the blind leads the blind leads the blind

You buy what they sell
You don’t ask why, they won’t tell
Lies borne by men
To rule again and again and again

You force borrowed thoughts
See if my mind will contort
I’m at the end
Can’t take it over and over again

Rage brews inside
And i can no longer hide
The hate for your god
Your whole life is flawed
You’re a fraud, just a fraud

Lies, just lies
Your texts, i despise
Preach fear
Is all I hear
Hijack unknown
End’s always near
Your thoughts and prayers
Fall on deaf ears
Of a man made god
Chants go nowhere
You waste your time
You stall mankind
As you push your view
Of which lie’s true

The plight of the heretic
Is nothing more
Than a simple desire
To be left alone

Why can’t you see
That I want you all to leave me be
Let me wallow in my misery
That’s all you see, but to me, I am free

Why can’t you see
That I want you all to leave me be
Let me wallow in my misery
That’s all you see, but to me, I am free

Music by Kwan
Lyrics by Kwan & Kindabah

Elegeion is:
Kwan – Rhythm & Lead Guitars, Bass, Vocals on Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 5, Backing Vocals Track 4
Kindabah – Voice
Rune – Drums, Vocals on Tracks 1 & 4

Credits:
Guest Musicians:
Scott – Lead Guitars on all Tracks
Noureddine – Darbuka and Djembe on Tracks 1 and 2
Ceridwen - Cello on all Tracks

Recorded At Crosstown Studios and Echidna Studios, Melbourne, Australia from November 2020 – February 2021 by Jesse Oberin
Darbuka and Djembe recorded in the ancient Medina of Fes, Morocco in December 2011 by Kwan
Stomping recorded at Drumpower, Melbourne, early 2020 by Kwan
Additional Vocals Recorded By Kindabah In Melbourne, May - June 2021

Mixed By Jesse Oberin March - September 2021

Mastered January 2022 at Fascination Street Studios, Sweden by Jens Bogren

Photography by Alistair Fletcher, Mount Macedon, Victoria
Drawings by Yujin
Layout by Kwan and Sarah Williams

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