Obsidian Tongue - The Stone Heart [Official Video]

Official video for the title track from “The Stone Heart EP“ to be released 2/2/2024 Featuring guest vocals by Tanner Anderson (Obsequiae, Majesties) Mixed by Dave Kaminsky at Studio Wormwood, Asheville NC Mastered by Ryan Williams at Augmented Audio Video by Chariot of Black Moth Band logo by Moonroot Artworks ———————————————————————— LYRICS: The heart of our - reality - is a great cave An underground - chapel to which - the gods have fled Where ghost and stone - pulsate as one - under the din Of a soulless realm - whose numina have fled as well Leaving only - God of reason - to rule mankind Lo Another storm deflected begrudgingly suspended our protective web out from the stone heart and through the axis Mundi In weakness The only offering they have left Who has failed whom in this world? And why was I born in it? Cross the starlit dunes Ignominious voyager Rescind the laws of the past To obey the call Your fury will light the path In the stars above And he who shackles your kind will watch powerless As you dissolve your chains and plunge into the dark Great chthonic pool will break your fall For true courage shapes nature and the gods await Humid echoes circling me aching eyes ache deeper still archways of the feretory one by one their shadows fill Titulary vapors close in A ring of sullen mirrored eyes Some show guilt and some stay frozen As their gaze begins to rise DI ORANT UT LIBERI IGNOSCANT And above me sprawls a spectral scrolling vision An eclipse and earth sleeping through its occision Failed gods forging a facade And though all souls escaped Their pity and disgrace Suspend the dream…