Colored Sands
by Gorguts
adammcjohnson
adammcjohnson
One of the best albums ever written, and the second best Gorguts album. Can’t believe that it’s ten years old this year. This is one of the albums that really started me down the extreme music pipeline.
Favorite track: Colored Sands.
onorato73
onorato73
10/10 this album is perfect. One of the most unique death metal albums I have heard in my life. When this came out in 2013 I had never heard anything like it ever before. I can tell that mastermind Luc Lemay had been really researching hard what to do on this album. I think a lot of Deathspell Omega in terms of atmosphere. Plenty of dissonance on this work.
Amanda Kauffman
Amanda Kauffman
If I were to make a list of the top ten death metal albums ever made, this would be pretty close to #1. A timeless masterpiece that has only improved with age.
Favorite track: Colored Sands.
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1. |
Le Toit Du Monde
06:33
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Earth met sky
In a place yet unchanged by time
Silence through heights can be heard
As peace roams high
Fortress of mist and peaks
Nature gave to man contemplation
Leading to divine inspiration
Mystic land
Sowed a seed of wisdom in man
Leading one's mind to embrace
A truthful life
Fortress of mist and peaks
Nature gave to man contemplation
Leading to divine inspiration
Tall
Beyond clouds, they stand
Ridges
Where the world began
Throughout summits reside
Reclusive, hate less minds
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An Ocean of Wisdom
07:20
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Being left soul-abandoned, facing south
As a new born one
Seeds of compassion, shall be found
The oracle's trance told mystical signs
Incarnation's quest
Leading towards the rising sun
To the lake of visions
For answers, they will seek
Staring peacefully
Omens through the waters
Amongst majestic peaks
Letters, clearly seen
Ah - Ka - Ma
Auspicious journey
Foreshadowed signs revealed
Guiding prophetically
Omens, to be answered
A young child, they will meet
Chosen, shall he be?
To the lake of visions
For they answers, they will seek
Staring peacefully
Omens to be answered
A young child, they will meet
Chosen, shall he be?
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Forgotten Arrows
05:41
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Hate-filled mind
Wounds left unhealed
Through time
Hate-filled life
Scars left from words
Through time
Thrown, far, high
Lost arrows, one forgets
Heart gone blind
Drowned oneself in regrets
Strained...
The string of pain
Bowed in causality
Sadness remains
Peace...
Won't be obtained
As veils of ignorance, hatred retains
Storm of arrows through karma
Seeking light through samsara
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Colored Sands
07:55
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Onward to reach the wheel of time
A path of solitude
Embraced humbly
Hands, face and knees against the ground
Prostrations for existence to come
Winds of perpetuity
Through sails of vacuity
Shores of enlightenment
Are wished and found
Sand Mandala
of the enlightened mind
Sand Mandala
Pure wisdom, one, shall find
Kalachakra
Disclosing mystic hands
Kalachakra
Splendors of colored sands
Soon of this work art shall be
In the hands of ephemerality
Dismantled, will be
The wheel of time
Quiet intensity
The sands are poured at sea
Waves of enlightenment
Are blessed and found
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The Battle of Chamdo
04:42
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Enemies of Compassion
07:03
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Clouds made of fear
Roved by the sky as the enemies
Chased the sun away from the their land
Blackened, got, the snow,
As the footsteps by enemies
Chased peace away
From their land
Hope and light,
Snow lion brings
Through wisdom
Hate and lies,
Dragon infuses into freedom
The lands of snow
being invaded by enemies
Shrines and beauties dressed up in ruins
One can't believe
Any words said by enemies
Cultural invasion begins
Suspicious walls
Prison of glass
Freedom is now stuck
Behind the bars of past
Curse.... uprising curse
Enemies of compassion
Despotic thirst
Waves of hate... undertowed
Tragic fate,,,,, sinking
Waves of hated... undertowed
Mourning braves... drowning
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Ember's Voice
06:48
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Burn
Strings tied to their lives now burn
Burn
Ropes tied around their hands shall burn
Stuck in time
Help being blind
Desperation rises
Starve for light
Fed with lies
Passion for life imprisoned
Tears
Ashes from tears, on hope's face, runs
Lost
Flame in peace's heart was long time lost
Ember's voice
Wisdom's choice
Freedom, one aspires
Glimpse of hope
Gone as smoke
Freedom reached through fire
Walls raised by oppression,
Yet invisible
Down, they can't be torn
Flames lit by repression
Burning silence, one cannot ignore
Blazing cries, hatred resents
Pain leads to soul's deliverance
Drifting from hands of contempt
Fire led to soul's resilience
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Absconders
09:08
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Walls of tears
Confined our lives and dignity
Hushed in fear
The peaceful days are gone
As memories
Invasion kept us prisoners
Nails of scorn
Were driven through those masks
That made us strangers
Their anger kept us prisoners
Doors of stone
Concealing truth for years
Silently
Days of fear
Are carving path for us to take
Mournful years
Could never wilt our hopes
In freedom's sake
Escaping from this misery
Darkness shall unfurl its wings
And gives us all the answers
Each footstep made with bravery
Dreadful chains
Are breaking from our feet
Fee, we'll be.
In time,
One's fate finds peaceful grounds
In sight,
One's eyes triggers and shoots
In pain,
One's fates finds crimson grounds
In vain,
One's eyes captured the truth
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Reduced to Silence
07:41
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Time could never heal our pain
Quietly loud
Our sadness resounds
Hope could never heal our soul
Tragically lost
Our voices
Were turned to silence
Prayers could never save ourselves
Strangers, we are
To our land.....now, a prison
Peace wished to our enemies
Their eyes being shut
Our voices
Were turned to silence
Non-violent way
to misery, had led
All of what we are
Is now hanging by a thread
All we did was pray
No freedom left to speak
Captive as their prey
confined within our peaks
How shall we be remembered
through the course of history?
As strengthless beings......?
Who chose submission
As their way to be.........
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about
GORGUTS, one of death metals most revered and influential bands, has returned! From their beginnings as one of the most-acclaimed bands in the genre’s first wave, through their growth into a unique and wildly-progressive entity, the Montreal-based quartet has cast a long shadow of influence over extreme metal that reverberates to this day. On their brand-new full-length ’Colored Sands’, their first new album in almost twelve years, the band (helmed by founder Luc Lemay) builds off the groundwork laid by its earth-shattering, genre-milestone ‘Obscura’ (’98). New tracks like “Forgotten Arrows” and “Absconders” showcase Lemay’s distinct playing and approach to composition, and prove that ‘Colored Sands’ is death metal of the highest order.
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Few extreme bands have the pedigree of GORGUTS. From their early days as part of death metal's first wave, through their transformation into one of most progressive and influential bands in extreme metal, GORGUTS has been impervious to trends, and a vehicle to expand and redefine the language of extreme metal. ... more
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Sep 2013
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