more from
Church Road Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species

by Epiphanic Truth

supported by
Sasha
Sasha thumbnail
Sasha This album is everything I want from an extreme metal release. Ferocious riffs/blasts with some of the best extreme vocals I've heard in ages contrasted against beautiful atmospheric passages and some exceptional crescendos. This has easily secured it's position in my Top 10 for the year list and may well yet secure top spot.

Incredible, incredible album - cannot recommend it highly enough. Favorite track: Our Vile Roots Flourish Beyond Light.
Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas thumbnail
Sam Thomas My # 1 album of 2021. This is a wonderful piece of work that repays the time you invest in it. Raging death metal and hardcore segues in and out alongside doomy, noirish jazz, tribal drumming, apocalyptic noisescapes, and startlingly melodic guitar flourishes. Intense, layered, emotive, politically engaged contemporary metal on a great label. What more could you ask for? It's high concept, demanding stuff, for sure... But it provides all kinds of different listeners with ways into the dark. Favorite track: Our Vile Roots Flourish Beyond Light.
lordgirth
lordgirth thumbnail
lordgirth It's hard to pick a favorite track as subtracting any part would destroy what is undoubtedly a sonic masterpiece for the ages.

This is less a collection of songs and more of a dark opera that tears through the soft flesh of humanity, displaying the ugliness inside for all to see. At the same time, it reminds us of the lingering beauty that resides in all of us if only we could reclaim it amidst all of our greed and tribalism. If you are a fan of extreme metal of any kind, you must listen. Favorite track: An Inescapable Verdict.
Gaia
Gaia thumbnail
Gaia Just an incredible album. Easy a contender for the best record this year. Favorite track: Our Vile Roots Flourish Beyond Light.
more...
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £7.99 GBP

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    6 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      £16.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £9.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Tricolour LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
Truly there is no one reason Our feeble mortal condition - Miserable when considered closely - Denies humanity any share of guilt, Grants instinct immunity from judgement. Sharing a capacity for creativity or destruction - To plant a seed or salt the earth. Neurological, psychological demons, Shaped by external conditions. “I discovered that all the unhappiness of men Arises from one single fact - that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber”. We could not stay quietly in our chambers, Whether by nurture or our nature. Countless individuals cast salt upon the soil Seeking to negate innumerable seeds. It is not simply the fear of death, But the hideous truth of the beast. Genomes not so distant to our progenitors Reptilian ancestry compelling a dearth of empathy. Charlatans, Parasites, provocateurs, gangsters, Oligarchs, terrorists, kleptocrats, despots. Those who would dare to grasp at salt May tempt in us dire schadenfreude, Oft exposed through religious fervor. But choose not to placate with delusions - Our instincts precede the understanding, The truth of the beast.
2.
Narcissus, Son Of Cephissus & Liriope.
 Whose pride & insouciance bore the ire of Adrestia.
 Echo, whose mellifluous voice so revered by Venus,
 Was cursed for her deceit of Hera.

 Vainglorious and malicious. Incapable of error, embellishing truth. Convinced of their own innate charm and grace. Exploring a gap beyond reality. 

 Haunting him as a shadow, feeding a hungering heart. 
Distracted in the heat of the chase.
 Coerced by the will of Adrestia - veering off-path, led to water,
 Oblivious to the presence of Echo.
 Gazing at the surface, spied a callow visage
 Seduced by his own reflection.
 Adrift within delusion, addressing his very image
. Narcissus spoke to the cursed Echo.
 No vision of growth or change Purely seeking stimuli, a narcissistic supply. Draining those weaker, impeding subordinates A sadistic rationale dictating conduct. 

Who Is Here? 
 Come! 
 Why shun me? 
Let us embrace! 
 Away! 

“I would rather to die than you have me.”
 Aghast, reaching down to the water,
 Facing the surface. 
Echo witness to Narcissus’ peril
 Hypnotised by his own countenance, 
Destined to wither. 
Heartbreak befell the rejected. 
Grief afflicted & slaughtered the body,
 Only voice remains.
 The illusion of ardor now faded 
In death her body disintegrated, 
Leaving only a flower.
 Zealots of the myth of becoming, 
A credence of inherent worth.
 Justifying inertia to prosper
 Condemning by conscious quiescence.
 Fervent pride exceeding all merit
 Intolerant self-indulgence.
 Entranced by our own ambition
 Assuring the species’ extinction.
3.
Along pathways, by streams of humanity 
Debris amassing in the flow, 
Tangled roots immersed in earth & water
 Limbs stretching, yearning towards the sky.

 Light, obscured by cumuliform cloudscapes, 
An axiom concealed within our genes.
 
 A fox to spot the snares, with guile to evade plots unseen. 
A lion to overwhelm the wolves, circling with mutinous intent.

 Courage to bear the burden of command, Devious pursuit of triumph,
 Where allegiance is mere fiction. 
Accusata, Scusata - the end justifies the means. 


Fools invoke only reverence in others 
A power that wanes with familiarity,
 Fear dictating most of human interaction
 Sustained by sincere will to punish

 Clinging to power’s threshold 
 Orchestrated life of concealment.
 An instinctual, ruthless timing
 No promises truly kept. 
Ungrateful fickle liars & deceivers, Cursed by greed until the grave. Hyper-normalisation
 Epistemological conquest
 Subtle, malignant corporatism 
Society mutated for their purpose.
 Memetic mass-manipulation
 To muddy the dullest of waters. Traumatised, isolated, automated, 
Conditioned by propaganda.
 In the realm of appearances 
Belief usurps truth.
 Existence is perpetual warfare
 Each action, a spin of the wheel.

 The mastery of fortune & virtue
 With luck beyond jurisdiction,
 Nurturing courage & prudence
 Seeking chances to gamble. 
Strength is found in vision & prospect 
Ambition alone yields not glory,
 Clasping at the horn of plenty
 As Lions fall Wolves shall rise
 To feast on the carcass. 
Wresting the cornucopia,
 As Lions fall Wolves shall rise. 

A Dark Triad brands humanity,
 Nourished & emboldened by sadism, 
Since long before achieving consciousness. 
Not so far removed from those
 That roamed the Pleistocene,
 Scant drive beyond survival
 Or else to languish in malady. The collective nadir of humanity -
 Tyrants, warping the world at a whim,
 A choir to the rhyme of history
 Bitter psalms to a sordid species.

about

'​Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species​' is a multi-faceted, psychedelic odyssey combining elements of Death/Black/Doom Metal with Jazz, Chamber music, EDM and ambient/noise music. ​Epiphanic Truth​ have produced a veracious opus to commiserate a species refusing responsibility and routinely persuaded into enabling the worst of humanity. Solidly rooted within the most extreme metal styles yet with a vision beyond the typical satanic individualism, offering an awareness of the impact of international Oligarchy.

The album is a conceptual Triptych, hinged together by the dark triad of personality disorders - psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism. Each point converging over the political future of civilizations enthralled by Social Media. An efficient, consistent barrage of misinformation creating a Hyper-normalised environment that nurtures an ever greater detachment from reality. As it becomes harder to discern what is and isn't true, as all manner of extremes draw in more proponents, the 'strong' will continue to crush the 'weak'.

credits

released May 21, 2021

Artwork by Christine Violet
Drums performed & recorded by Wilfred Ho
Mixed/Mastered by Lewis Johns at The Ranch Production House

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Epiphanic Truth UK

Art collective established in the UK, collaborating internationally. Sincere & sardonic seers of the subconscious.

contact / help

Contact Epiphanic Truth

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Epiphanic Truth recommends:

If you like Epiphanic Truth, you may also like: