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.​.​.​and a Dirge Becomes an Anthem

by Crust

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Your kingdom of pleasure corrupts your mind, And flesh becomes dark like rotten mess of fallen leaves. Her skin pleaded for refreshment, but it withered with her hopes for salvation. Truth is like a fresh stream that feeds the lands suffered from draught. And winds come, and they bring vultures, and they sip the stream dry, enslaving the future with grief. Defeat feeds the flames of anger, beholding the horizon blackened from deaths. Diamond tears leave your eyes. We want to know lies Unable to accept the truth that our lives are threads in the canvas of time. We want to know lies when the last hope dies. And a weak soul departs from your earthy flesh. And a toothless mouth of grave swallows it. Approaching grave, Hear the steps of death. Approaching grave, The reaper takes its scythe, a sharp and merciless blade.
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Blessed are the sick and blessed are the ugly As they know their place and strive for nothing. In the world ruled by prejudice the right of life was abolished. Throats of those who spoke their mind are slit. Carry the torch through the darkest cave, in the land of doom, where evil breeds. In the darkness of coffin rests a body so cold. Who was the lord of his spirit can rule it no more. Mournful dirge spreads bitterness and modest tears. Winds howl the song of death. Gracefully a faceless digger of graves turns over the last spade of soil and blows out a dying flame of life. Deadly stench chokes the living ones.
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Dust to dust thunder rumbles Conspiracy of black nights Composes orders with whisper of smokes In a wide circle of enraged little ones (youngsters) Against useless days Sabbaths of fallen leaves dance in circles Among the spears of trees that look upwards In the triumphal sunset of mind they cause fears Defeating the will to life with no steel in hands Those who’ve lost the petrified truth Won’t forget the laws of interrupted existence In black swamps of oblivion they’ll float Сlad in flesh like in iron chains
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Bloody fogs of retaliation Bring forth disdain The hammer of demolition Destroys repent Black messengers of evil Blow apocalyptic pipes Canvas of life is torn apart Convert your fears into strengths As old gods can no longer rule the lands Ancient wisdom is treated as ignorance Divinity of magic fades away and dies There was a door But I found no will to enter As I was afraid of changes Life of a hermit with freedom in his cage Loneliness in a fragile shell Senseless mediocre depravity Reveals the nakedness of vulgar bigotry Songless birds suffocate in tremendous efforts to sing Blind folks suffocate in tremendous efforts to see
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I feel stillness and the whisper of souls They restlessly ramble Damp fresh graves like open wounds Wait for their new owners I feel the numb skin of the dead I am the dead Broken bones slowly rot And souls roam like vagabonds A dead horse is rising It’s carrying the reaper His black gown is falling down Covering cold pale faces Black hoof marks of evil Lead to the fathomless abyss Red eyes are watching Lips of those who keep silent
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about

Being melodic in a good meaning of word, this music has some drops of evil in its sound which is raw, obscure and true. The album is recorded live without drum triggering and anything else that could tarnish the natural sound of instruments. This album is pretty much old school and jam-packed with memorable musical patterns. It’s a great treat for fans of eclectic heavy music.

"This is an album that gives me that really bleak sound that I love out of like black metal, like atmospheric and depressive stuff but it’s not black metal. So it’s really nice to have that sound and that feeling, but coming from different music, because it simultaneously familiar but a little different. Great, great stuff. There is also some black metal in there to go with the doom, and the death, and the sludge. They have really put a lot of different genres in here all at the same time but instead of sounding like an incoherent mess, like they don’t know what they are doing or they can’t decide, they really blended everything together perfectly. So, if you are a fan of literally anyone of those genres, there’s probably something in there for you. And if you are a fan of all of those genres, then there’s definitely something in there for you, the whole record." Blayne Smith @ Banger TV
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German vanbauseneick.de review by Matze van Bauseneick:
"Der Bandname gibt schon grob die Richtung vor, doch die ist gar nicht so eindeutig, wie man danach glauben mag: Crust beschränken sich nicht darauf, klischeehaft nur ein Genre zu bedienen, sondern bedienen sich bei sehr vielen, die so gut zusammenpassen, dass dabei mit „… And A Dirge Becomes An Anthem“ ein ausgesprochen grandioses Album entsteht. Black Metal mag man heraushören, Sludge, Doom, Death Metal. Manchmal flirrt die Gitarre wie beim epischen Post-Black-Metal, die Stimme grunzschreit wie im Death Metal, das Tempo ist so gebremst wie im Doom und die Riffs sind so wuchtig wie beim Sludge. So muss das, weil so jedes dieser Genres eine Aufwertung bekommt, und weil Crust einfach genau wissen, was sie für ihre Melange brauchen und worauf sie verzichten können.

In ihr stürmisches Gebrüll betten Crust eben auch zurückgenommene Akustikgitarrenpassagen ein; „Beneath The Cold Clay“ belegt in nur 1:22 Minuten Spielzeit die Variabilität der Band, die danach nämlich den Sturm wieder losbrechen lässt. So machen Crust also aus dem Klagelied eine Hymne. Und das nur zu dritt: Roman Romanov sitzt am Schlagzeug, Vlad Tatarsky spielt Gitarre und Artur Filenko sind Bass, Akustikgitarre und Gesang zu verdanken. Auch dieses Album klingt also weit fetter, als es diese Besetzung vermuten lässt. Es ist zudem für diese Spielarten der Heaviness enorm abwechslungsreich und scheut auch nicht, Melodien zuzulassen. Das Gemisch ist einfach unschlagbar gut. Und schmeißt den Hörer mit dem beinahe ambientartigen „Space Sabbath“ entspannt zurück in den Alltag.

Nach diversen EPs und dem Debüt „The Promised End“ ist dies das zweite Album von Crust, inzwischen liegt mit „Shallow Grave“ auch noch eine neuere Live-EP vor. Einzig der Bandname ist schwierig, denn den gibt es bereits mehrfach. Nur vermutlich nicht in Nowgorod."
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credits

released August 14, 2020

Vlad Tatarsky – guitars
Artur Filenko – bass, voice and acoustic guitar
Roman Romanov – drums

Recorded in mmmesss

Mix and Mastering by Anton Vo (mmmesss)

Artworks by Deni Aktemirov (instagram.com/deni_aktemirov)

CD\Recording label: mmmesss.bandcamp.com

bandcamp\digital (except spotify) label: noname666.bandcamp.com
cat# 757

spotify label: rumfproductions.bandcamp.com

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Crust Russia

We don’t really care much about stylistic boundaries, and we’ve been playing and experimenting within a number of Metal genres for some years. The music we create is a varied blend of styles but can be broadly defined as Blackened Doom Sludge.

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