released July 1, 2012

As Thy Winter Ends

MMXII

I.Intro
II.Odium Nostrum(Nostalgia)*
III.Intermezzo
IV.Nemesis**
V.Intermezzo II
VI.Through Corridors Of Oppression(Shining Cover)***
VII.C'est la fin(Outro)

All songs were composed and created between September 2011 and March 2012
All songs were home-recorded March-April 2012.
All music by Le Marchand, 2011-2012

Le Marchand: Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming, engineering, recording, layout, cover & booklet

* Lyrics by H.P. Lovecraft, Nostalgia(January 1930)
** Lyrics by H.P. Lovecraft, Nemesis (November 1917)
***All lyrics and music by Niklas Kvarforth(Shining)2003


Odium Nostrum(Nostalgia)
As Thy Winter Ends(2012)
Silence The Earth

Nostalgia(January 1930)


Once every year, in autumn's wistful glow,
The birds fly out over an ocean waste,
Calling and chattering in a joyous haste
To reach some land their inner memories know.

Great terraced gardens where bright blossoms blow,
And lines of mangoes luscious to the taste,
And temple-groves with branches interlaced
Over cool paths - all these their vague dreams shew.

They search the sea for marks of their old shore,
For the tall city, white and towered,
But only empty waters stretch ahead,
So that at last they turn away once more.

Once every year, in autumn's wistful glow,
The birds fly out over an ocean waste,
Calling and chattering in a joyous haste
To reach some land their inner memories know.

Great terraced gardens where bright blossoms blow,
And lines of mangoes luscious to the taste,
And temple-groves with branches interlaced
Over cool paths - all these their vague dreams shew.

They search the sea for marks of their old shore,
For the tall city, white and towered,
Yet sunken deep where alien polyps throng,
The old towers miss their lost, remembered song.


Nemesis
As Thy Winter Ends(2012)
Silence The Earth

Nemesis(January 1930)


Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
I have lived o'er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.

And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.

I have whirled with the earth at the dawning,
When the sky was a vaporous flame;
I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

Without knowledge or lustre or name.


I had drifted o'er seas without ending,
Under sinister grey-clouded skies,
That the many-forked lightning is rending,
That resound with hysterical cries;
With the moans of invisible daemons, that out of the green waters rise.

I have plunged like a deer through the arches
Of the hoary primoridal grove,
Where the oaks feel the presence that marches,
And stalks on where no spirit dares rove,
And I flee from a thing that surrounds me, and leers through dead branches above.

I have stumbled by cave-ridden mountains
That rise barren and bleak from the plain,
I have drunk of the fog-foetid fountains
That ooze down to the marsh and the main;
And in hot cursed tarns I have seen things, I care not to gaze on again.

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
I have lived o'er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.

And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.




Through Corridors Of Oppression
Shining/Dolorian Split(2003)
Shining

Lyrics by Niklas Kvarforth(Shining)2003


Slowly,
Passing the oppressed,
Innocent,
Sons,
And daughters lost,
Trembling,
In the bottomless depths of darkness,
Successfully,
Failing,
In their search.

To search,
The light,
To search,
Salvation.

To search,
The light,
To search,
Salvation.