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One Atop The Chelonian Summit

by Angel Grave

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1.
Jicotea 02:36
2.
Dusk on the smoldering sphere Orphans tread under starless skies A village of straw grazed by gusty tides One small flick of the foot from free-fall Arid mountains loom The composted corpse of the old world An aural luminescence hums from the summit A celestial cloak for the frigid Single-file they march to demise Slumbering old soul swallows them whole The bold and the brave slaves of mores of their ancestral enclave The sea god’s retribution at the center stage A tail-trick of lady fate binds you not The maw of the mountain is built for one The beacon you seek is for the hands of the world Let your shortfalls be the staircase to the crypt Of the sun
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A fate-forged four-tet palavers on the ashes of the sunset A fifth prong pilfered its way to vengeful jaws And the bones spoke Ills of our fathers scorched into our flesh The Chelonian Summit a baptismal pyre Of hills and crests A shortcut overhead Hack the marrow and dead, meddlesome ligaments Dawdle not, we must ascend The bones spoke once again Scars awoken, the Sea God lashes out in pain The fourth one meets its bitter end A centuries-old storm mumbles at the peak A tectonic tremor opens the floodgates
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The skeletal, slumbering summit swarms with circadian droves A hive of famished souls The peak boasts unripened fruits A dove’s call or a herring’s muse? All that’s fed is myth The wilted winds whisper death in familiar tones Seeds sleep in the bones The Sea God’s shell, an elusive lock A yawn bolts across the mountaintop A masquerading plague Cancerous limbs clutch the mud Dragging us all into the abyss Cleanse us of the sick Let their bones be the keys to our bliss Gold and blood shall not inherit this world Fools, you gilded few Self-crowned Gods drained the waters old Alone you’ll share the fate of drifting dead in the sea A ship built on blood shall sink as shall You, teeth clamped to your greed Join hands and grasp my shell To the flood of prosperity
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Caguama 02:14

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"One Atop The Chelonian Summit" tells the tale of a charred world awakening from a violent coma. The budding life-forms are fragile and pained, barely procuring basic resources. Their society on the brink of disintegration, their only hope is to summit the corpse of an ancient, godlike turtle. Within it they must overcome the flaws of their ancestors to atone for the cataclysm brought upon the world.

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released May 6, 2017

Troy Atkinson - Guitars
Travis Kalbe - Guitars, percussion on "Caguama"
Jake Deiotte - Electric and double bass, keys, vocals, percussion on "Caguama"
Noah Atkinson - Percussion, vocals on "Sanguine, Soothsaying Stones"

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jake Deiotte
Artwork by Noah Atkinson
Photography by Evi Lovin

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