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Dead Spiritualist Silent

from VANITAS by SERPENT EATER

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about

true story.
of a pretty brave man who was the only one who tried to find proof that there is an afterlife.

he kind of failed.

failing is art.



And here is a
review of "NO CLEAN SINGING" who premiered the song:

“Dead Spiritualist Silent” doesn’t exhaust the range of experiences you’ll find on Vanitas, but it is emblematic of Serpent Eater‘s song-writing prowess, the lethal precision of their execution, and the dark-hearted, emotionally crushing power of their music.
This song itself creates a range of brutalizing sensations, launched by a fusillade of battering snare drums and vicious, roiling riffing — cold and dismal in its lower tones and fiery and deranged in its higher ones. The band lace the song with queasy, dissonant arpeggios and crashing chords, while the drumming moves among differing rhythms, slowing to a methodical snap and boom, locking into head-moving back-beats, and accelerating into double-bass pummeling.
Although the dynamism of the song is a hallmark, its intensity is nevertheless unrelenting. The scalding vocal shrieks and a sprinkling of horrid guttural roars, as well as the layering together of those expulsions to create added terror, only magnify the intensity.
An amalgam of raging violence and bitter, crushing hopelessness, right down to the bleak riffing and clanging bass notes at the end, “Dead Spiritualist Silent” is an eye-opening and spine-shaking introduction to an equally powerful and carefully crafted album.

lyrics

In an apartment in Detroit 1921
On a cold evening on February the 6th
Thomas Lynn Bradford started to seal his room
His hands weren't shaking
Guided by the confidence
that this is not the end.
That he would just step throgh a gate.
His one-way-ticket to a place named summerland.
The plan was completed at the meeting the night before.
Ruth and him decided to open the door.
And she said she'd be there.
Opening her mind to receive his call.
To find proof that there is an afterlife
and that the dead can communicate with the living.

He blew out the pilot light
and started the gas.

„Detroit, February seventh
More than forty-eight hours have passed.
Ruth Doran didn't hear anything!

Dead Spiritualist Silent“

credits

from VANITAS, released January 17, 2020
all music by serpent eater
artwork and lyrics by gunnar “nekroboy” ronge
recorded and mixed by andy at goblin sound studio, köln.
mastered at monoposto, düsseldorf

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