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Opprobrium

by Lykhaeon

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bmurator Swiss Black Metal. The myths of Hades and Persephone & the Greek realm of the dead - I'm in!!! Fantastic songs throughout able to communicate a deep sense of dread & foreboding. Not sure how I missed it for so long but I am here now. Highly recommended!!!
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mourner In addition to the great concept of this album the music is simply fantastic. While there's always an almost archaic and wild darkness creeping up on you the songs are slowly burning their way into your subconscious with their immense and hard hitting emotionality. You need to sit still and listen to Lykhaeon. So, please, take your time for this. You will be rewarded richly. Favorite track: The Whorish Arrogance of Immortals.
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1.
Opprobrium 04:35
(Hades): Oh beautiful daughter of the fragrant earth, seed of the lord beyond the sun, father of light! (Zeus): Silence!
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(Zeus): Silence! (Hades): How I crave thy flesh and the fruit of thine supple breast! Oh brother, father of light! Doth thou not grant me this indulgence? Naught have I asked of thee, lest I bear the burden of feeble men. All must repent before me and yet I dwell in silence! (Zeus): What foolish, craven whims of thine base desire doth thou dare bring before me once again (doth thou dare)? Silence! The whorish desire of immortal blood forever staineth our celestial rule. Thou hath thine lot and deserveth naught but what is bestowed upon thee by my hand! (Hades): Thine hands! Thine hands! What cruelty! Father of light, ruler of the skies! Covered in the sins of thine own flesh, are naught to dissuade me from my desire. Silence! The whorish desire of immortal blood forever staineth our celestial rule! As thou ruleth above, I merely agree to rule below and shall be granted what is rightfully mine. This, thine seed is all I crave, a wife to rule alongside me, the rightful heir to the throne in darkness. (Zeus): Thine desire is evident, thine intention laid bare before me. It is thus that I shall bequeath upon thee what is rightfully yours! Should you obtain what you seek, I shall not intervene.
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(Chorus): Born of the light and the earth, pure succulent flesh, white limbs of desire, unsuspecting and gay! Beware the temptation that groweth from the earth below thine feet. For he is coming and his hunger is ravenous, his cunning great and his desire unshackled. Dare not wander alone... (Chorus): As the unsuspecting maiden reaches for a narcissus, the Lord below appears on a gilded chariot drawn by four horses. Each helpless to his rabid command, each beholden to his sinister desire. (Hades): Silence! Oh beautiful daughter of the earth! Fragrant seed of the lord beyond the sun! Behold my might and my desire, abducting the seed! All shall I bestow unto thee and naught shall be denied! (Chorus): Herself, helpless to his rabid command. Herself, beholden to his sinister desire. (Hades): My hands are the shrines of desolation, my breath reeks of ancient foul flesh. Souls devoured by my ruinous splendor, none shall be dissuaded! My hands are the shrines of desolation, my breath reeks of ancient foul flesh. Souls devoured by my ruinous splendor, abducting the Seed!
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(Chorus): Yet before a word can be uttered, the seed is snatched and dragged to the kingdom below. (Hades): My hands, once the harbingers of pestilence, now caress thy moist purity! My breath, once reeking of decaying limbs, now masked by thine perfume! Behold mine kingdom that is now ours to rule! Our flesh bound by matrimony and blessed by thine father’s light, now basked by thine perfume. Behold mine kingdom that is now ours to rule! (Persephone): Wicked one! Feeble one! Drenched are thine hands in corruption that hath consumed thine feckless mind! The arrogance of immortals hath bestowed upon them an unruly indulgence for which I must suffer now?
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(Hades): The wings of destiny, scorched by my hands, shall not alter the way of our flesh! I summon thee as my bride, seed of the father of light beyond the sky! Oh beautiful daughter of the earth! But one seed is all I ask, let it touch thine lips and release my wound into thee. . . The wings of destiny, scorched by my hands, the wings of destiny shall not alter the way of our flesh! (Persephone): Wicked one! Feeble one! Naught hath thou granted me that I desire! Yet what is my lot but to dwell in damnation’s darkness? The taste of thine fruit as vermin gather to feast upon carrion flesh. Spill thine wounds into me and allow me the taste of thine fruit. ((Chorus) As the fruit touches her lips, once so pure and radiant, now befallen by a terrible affliction, banished to dwell in damnation’s darkness...)
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(Chorus): The whorish arrogance of immortals feeds the corruption of their flesh. For they know naught but desire and the pursuit of all indulgence, like the decrepit child sucking at its mother’s teat. The whorish arrogance feeds their flesh. Their ravenous hunger cannot be stilled, their earthly desire shall not be quenched. The foul lord of thunder! He knows no righteousness, he knows no justice! He knows no love but for his fiendish desire for the lusts that possess men! The foul lord of the skies! For thou art not worthy of her love! To dwell as a vermin queen ruling maggots in an unholy rot. . . He knows no righteousness, he knows no justice! He knows no love but for his fiendish desire for the lusts that possess men! (Lest she be stricken by grief, there shall be no light, no mercy and no blooming of the earth in any spring, until the seed is returned to her rightful seat.) There is but one who commands his mercy and wields it with wisdom.
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On “Opprobrium”, Lykhaeon presents a stirring interpretation of a classic tale from Greek mythology, providing a musical and lyrical underpinning that allow this compelling story of desire, deception and the arrogance of immortals to sear through the listeners speakers and grasp them with an urgency rarely seen when delving into the selected source material. The musical scope of Opprobrium exceeds what is commonly exercised in modern extreme music to include unorthodox acoustic instrumentation and choir vocalisations that, albeit grand in presentation, are wholly necessary to appropriately convey the unfolding narrative. 


“Chorus: Born of the light and the earth, pure succulent flesh, white limbs of desire, unsuspecting and gay, beware the temptation that groweth from the earth below thine feet
For he is coming and his hunger is ravenous, his cunning great and his desire unshackled.”

When the lust of immortals becomes insatiable, it is frequently the realm of mortals that serves as the spring from which all desire can be quenched and any thirst satiated. Such is the fate of Persephone, who is - according to some tellings - the victim of a cruel ploy, a conspiracy incarnate, whereby her flesh is beset by the desire of the deity Hades. In his arrogance, appearing before her on a gilded chariot, treachery allows Hades to abduct the seed.


“Hades: My hands are the shrines of desolation, my breath reeks of ancient foul flesh, souls devoured by my ruinous splendor, abducting the seed!”


Lyrically, the tale of Persephone’s abduction by Hades and her eventual liberation, partially hindered by Hades’ final temptation, is composed in the form of a play, where the Chorus serves as an expository narrator alongside the characters of Hades, Zeus and Persephone. Each of the seven tracks on the album encompasses a short act, or rather a significant sequence of events driving the plot. 


“Chorus: The whorish arrogance of immortals feeds the corruption of their flesh;
For they know naught but desire and the pursuit of all indulgence.”

Lykhaeon was exhumed from its vermin infested crypt in 2013 and is affiliated with the Helvetic Underground Committee. This is the first - and thus far only - release that sounds how Lykhaeon should sound.

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released July 21, 2021

Kerberos - Throat and Doom
Meister T. - Tomb and Summoning
Session drums performed by: J

Recorded in late 2019/early 2020 in the Crypt
Mixed by Kerberos & Meister T
Mastered by VK
Artwork by Elijah Tamu
Photography and visual sorcery by the noble Dungeoncinth

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Lykhaeon Zurich, Switzerland

"To dwell as a vermin queen ruling maggots in an unholy rot..."

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