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Tezcatlipoca

from Monolith Of Time by Orthostat

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    Monolith of Time is our first album, a very heavy record, ranging from slow and doomish parts to blastbeats, guitars like a jackhammer puncturing your brain, and gloomy background vocals. Drums and bass are very clear and independent, enhancing the heaviness even more. The music has a somber mood all along the album, a mood in the vein of Incantation, Dead Congregation, Krypts, by the other hand, it also features lots of odd time signatures and elaborated arrangements.

    The lyrics speak about themes related to ancient civilisations, their culture and their wars.

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    Monolith of Time é o nosso primeiro full album, um disco denso, instrumental na cara, vocais sombrios - quase soprados - nos moldes do Incantation, Krypts, Dead Congregation, etc. O som vai desde partes lentas e doentias até blastbeats, com guitarras nervosas como furadeiras elétricas no seu crânio, e sombrios vocais de fundo. Bateria e baixo elevando o nível do peso na medida. A música tem um humor sombrio ao longo de todo o álbum, um clima na veia old school. Por outro lado, o disco também também possui alguns compassos complexos e arranjos elaborados.

    O som é acompanhado por temáticas em torno de civilizações antigas, seus costumes e suas guerras.

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Tezcatlipoca (tɛzˌkætliˈpoʊkə) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May.

One of the four sons of Ometeotl, he is associated with a wide range of concepts, including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife.

His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as "Smoking Mirror" and alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica which were used for shamanic rituals and prophecy.

lyrics

Oh, almighty smoking mirror black
We are all your eternal slaves
The one whom we live by, worship thee
We stoop down all the nights and days

Born, fire, wind, night
Lord, dire, fiend, deny!

Solo: DAVID

Oh, Lord of the near and nigh
Enemy of both sides, night and wind
Possessor of the sky and earth, will shine
Thou shall rule as our king

Solo: RUDOLPH

AMBIENT: Music ADAPTED FROM Synaulia, "Music Of Ancient Rome, vol. 1"

Oh, ruler of the storms at north
Deliver us to your sorcery
Thou art the living death unborn
Hast haunted all Our forfended enemies

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from Monolith Of Time, released January 4, 2019
Song and Lyrics by David Lago

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