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Secure the Shadow​.​.​.

by Dionysian Directive

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1.
Dream Grammar Green 01:58
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Dream of life
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Sidereal Times 04:07
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Repent the act Act again Rewind the clock Clockwork friend Revoke a word Words can't die Restore a god Godless child Recant the truth Truth resides And hide the lies Lying by You have come I am here You've no rage I've no fear Bloody hand That's your own You in flesh Me in bone Bloody hand That's our own You in flesh Me in bone Repent the act Act again Rewind the clock Clockwork friend Revoke a word Words can't die Restore a god Godless child Recant the truth Truth resides And hide the lies Lying by You have come I am here You've no rage I've no fear Bloody hand That's your own You in flesh Me in bone Bloody hand That's our own You in flesh Me in bone
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A Call to Curse 01:21
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Ex malo malum Ex malo malum
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Prestidigitation 11:07
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No faith can move a mountain No healers raise the dead No fisher walks on water They're fucking with your head No trumpet brought the walls down No horse to heavens flew No feeding of the masses No glory to the few No virgin births this season Nor have there ever been No god is here to guide you Just fraudsters in between No holy rocks nor sculptures Can save the theroid soul No empty rites nor scriptures Can make those lacking whole No signs are truly blesséd No manna rained nor shall No sacred name is worth its spit No heaven and no hell No burning bush nor chariot No fire from the skies No blood within the rivers No miracle, just lies No faith can move a mountain No healers raise the dead No fisher walks on water They're fucking with your head
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Factory 06:13
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You think this world must owe you one but It's plain to see it's a factory You think this world'll save your soul but It's plain to see it's a factory Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine You play the boss or play the slave but It's all the same in this factory You act the prude or act the slut but It's all the same in this factory Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine You lick out cunts or suck on balls but It matters not in this factory You fawn on those that strut their shit but It matters not in this factory Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine You dream, you pray the world away but You can't escape this factory You try to fly, you try to flee but You can't escape this factory Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Now you're just a cog, just a little cog, in the world's machine Well greased machine
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The Screw 05:04
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"And man awoke and saw himself." Wake up!
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Compass 03:33
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Gather force in range Yet hold, it's slipping Compass: no bearing Vision: no sight Gather force in range Yet hold, it's slipping Compass: no bearing Vision: no sight And all these paths all wind on back around the circling void You're right where you were before No compass can bind you here No compass can find you here The mercury spins you see Lost Lost Butcher the butcher Butcher the butcher Gather force in range Yet hold, it's slipping Compass: no bearing Vision: no sight Gather force in range Yet hold, it's slipping Compass: no bearing Vision: no sight And all these paths all wind on back around the circling void You're right where you were before And all these paths all wind on back around the circling void You're right where you were before What the fuck am I doing here?
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Cinis Amoris 03:16
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In states of atrophy Purpose nulls the reason Here beyond all meaning Husks of life: breaking All is transient All is transient Permanently Transient Murder's on caustic clouds Blame is in other cause Yet another's turmoil Sphynx riddled scorn Husks of life: breaking Broken All is transient All is transient Permanently Transient Blood in glass words the forms Sun of ages burns and leaves Seasons breathe passing breaths Darken darts and seed Broken victims: fading Faded All is transient All is transient Permanently Transient Passage: not bought nor won Passage: not bought Passage: not won Passage: not bought nor won All is transient All is transient Permanently Transient Passage: not bought nor won Passage: not bought Passage: not won Passage: not bought nor won
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Dead Dogs of War 02:13
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Winter Ash 03:06
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I am Death Son of Night and Darkness Twin Brother of Sleep Sift winter ash Cast springtime chaff Stack vials high Feel pyre's heat Reap, reap, reap, reap Ere you Sow, sow, sow, sow Your seed Ἀθάνατος Θάνατος Ἀθάνατος Θάνατος Summer falls to autumn Pleasure turns to pain Sleep against grief Wake, waking, weep Hold lover's corpse Dwell in hope's guise Hear prophet's words Write to left lies Pray to no god Pilfer no past Chew on the chaff Choke and be spent Taste bitter dust Your vial's licked Spit at the last "O Son of Night! O Son of Night!" Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Deathless Death Summer falls to autumn Pleasure turns to pain Old and young are destined To feed the flames again Ἀθάνατος Θάνατος
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Scar Father 03:23
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I fathered scars beneath my skin I licked the wounds deep within I bided time when time was lost I bartered life; paid the cost I sensed the death of every ghost And died myself as host And raped the missive to its broken bone Felt the sinews in tone The world chokes all on bloody pap And all are dying on its lap The world chokes all on bloody pap And all are dying on its lap The world chokes all on bloody pap And all are dying So father scars beneath your skin And lick the wounds deep within Just bide your time when time is lost Just barter life; pay the cost Now sense the death of every ghost And die yourself as host And rape the missive to its broken bone Feel the sinews in tone
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Dream Grammar Grey 02:00
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When you dream of life When you dream of life When you seek to be alive Tongues of life are dreamt and burn In scars, in signs, in stars of the mind The inner eye is near the end The inner eye is in the end When you see and then know When you see you then know Life'll cease, bare and barren Life'll cease, bare and barren Life'll cease, bare and barren Life'll cease, bare and barren Life will cease

about

Dionysian Directive’s debut album – Secure the Shadow – is an alchemical representation of the journey of life as a passing of the seasons. On this journey, the listener assumes the role of The Protagonist, an embodiment of the questioning soul.

From the opening of Spring and the birth of a new dream grammar, The Protagonist cannot avoid sidereal influence becoming sidereal possession. With the realisation that prayer never served a purpose, shall refuge be found in invoked murderous insanity? The Protagonist knows that in thought, word and deed, the end must always be the same as the means. Hence the need to curse and curse again.

Summer is upon The Protagonist. The lies wielded by the enslavers of humanity are now obvious under the clear midday sun. The rational leads The Protagonist back to the mundane and the knowledge that this world is a machine, a factory. It will continue as it is until the final awakening, when humanity can at last be no more.

The leaves are falling. How can The Protagonist find true direction in life now? It is already growing late. The poles are shifting; mercury spins. Everything cycles around the central void before being subsumed by it. The harbinger of death is passion’s flame; so let the dogs prepare a requiem and have the children don their funereal garbs.

Winter. Ash settles from the great combustion. The Protagonist has come to know that the only force that will never die is Death alone. Prepare the postmortem of the ghosts of a life spent, wasted. This dream grammar – from green to grey – is at an end. The Protagonist too must take a final curtain bow and face inevitable dissolution.

And yet, despite all this, the great cycle of the seasons continues. Another protagonist is damned into being and takes the place of the deceased on the well-trodden path.

A fresh victim for an ancient system.

Trace the signs in blood and know your pain, Protagonists.

credits

released January 13, 2024

The Shadow was momentarily secured by:

Erich: Music, additional vox on Sidereal Times

The Kakangelist: Vox, ambient music.

Mixed & Mastered by The Kakangelist & Erich somewhere in the Grand Void.

All words by The Kakangelist save the quotation in The Screw taken from Petter Wessel Zapffe's seminal anti-natalist essay The Last Messiah.

Art by The Kakangelist.

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Dionysian Directive arises from the shattered totality of discarded decadence. Join The Kakangelist and Erich the Wanderer as they step forth to test the mercury.

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