We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Cities and the Dead

by Tristys

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $4 USD  or more

     

1.
The evening falls Ashes grow cold in their braziers Emptiness descending We cannot understand the boundless extensions of our territories Do we believe those who we know are selling comforting lies? Or just give up the hope of understanding? For the empire that they claimed to build To be the sum of all earthly wondrous Is gangrenous corruption An empty formless ruin Do we believe those who we know are selling comforting lies? Or just give up the hope of understanding? But still the truth remains. What Venice do they protect? Wrapping us in invisible cities
2.
A precipice between two great mountains A city perched between the void A spiderweb of chains and bridges Now I tell you of Octavia Below is nothing onto forever The city hangs beneath foundation ropes As you cling onto the hempen thread Clouds drift past the chains and walks Suspended above the abyss Our lives are less uncertain Our lives bound by the chains that save us The net is passage and support Far below the chasm bed The city never rises up Do not tread into the open spaces Keep upon the wooden ties Our lives hang like their chandeliers Onward like their trailing vines Suspended above the abyss The net will only last so long Our lives bound by the chains that save us The net is passage and support Far below the chasm bed The city never rises up Do not tread into the open spaces Keep upon the wooden ties Our lives hang like their chandeliers Onward parasitic vines Suspended above the abyss Our lives are less uncertain Suspended above the abyss The net will only last so long
3.
There are two cities here The unjust and the just Crowned meat grinders above They recline and weave Pointless intrigues Parasitic vines We come from the shadows But we must not replace Mere temporal visions We know each other By ways of speaking Innocent and austere The unjust lie In perfumed pools We are threadbare The sycophants The mass arrests Does rich leather taste so good? A malignant seed Within the just: Utter certainty The seed ferments Hidden, in its time In resentment and bitterness It is the forms Of possible cities One following the other always It is the forms Of possible cities One following the other always
4.
5.
6.
We are reflected An identical city below. Skeletons, mummified in yellow light. They built this for us Showed us dancing Then soon put us to work Death does not save us From meaningless labour Ears pressed to a broken clock The hooded brothers Only can access The twin city beneath They arrange us nightly Grow their collection Greater than has ever lived They arrange us nightly Grow their collection Greater than has ever lived

about

The debut album from Cornish post-black metal project TRISTYS, Cities and the Dead reinterprets Italo Calvino's magic realist masterpiece Invisible Cities as a series of anti-capitalist black metal war-cries.

credits

released April 21, 2022

All tracks written and recorded by Oli Jeffery. If You Choose to Believe Me, Good contains a sample of Lakers by blckadult. Exposed to the Moon contains a sample of White Walls by Wound Dresser. Mummified in Yellow Light contains a sample of Pop Acapella by Medusa.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Tristys England, UK

Antifascist, anticapitalist post-black metal from Cornwall.

contact / help

Contact Tristys

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Tristys, you may also like: