Cavern Deep - 'The Pulse' (feat. Susie McMullan)

Bursting out with longing
My chest is split wide open
Pulled apart to cross the great divide
My veins are roads of silver
Pathogenic promise
Dying heartbeats taint the other side

Moving just like clockwork
Adapting to the rythm
Bodiless I leave the world behind
Into starless space
Liquid and infectious
Lethal and untouchable the mind

Νέο συγκρότημα οι Cavern Deep. Πρόκειται για doom metal τρίο που δημιουργήθηκε προ τετραετίας στην Σουηδία, μας συστήνεται κάπως έτσι: «Slow and heavy, from the far north» κι αποκαλεί την μουσική του ως «Conceptual Subterranian Doom Metal».

«Gloomy, conceptual music for doomy people» μας λένε χαρακτηριστικά.

Το (ομώνυμο) ντεμπούτο τους κυκλοφόρησε πρόπερσι. Ο διάδοχός του φέρει τον τίτλο "Part II - Breach" και "βγήκε" προ μηνός. Αποτελείται από έξι τραγούδια, τα οποία οι Cavern Deep μας τα παρουσιάζουν (ένα προς ένα):

1. Breach

The archaeologist is no more. Engulfed. As the ungodly withering sentinel feasts on his flesh and mind, something is opening. Picked up by a violent current, the bare essence of the man is plunged through the strange spaces in between worlds. It is reshaped. Traveling in its primal form with the monstrous being as a conduit. Its heart is blank. Mind is void.

2. Primordial Basin

She is watching patiently. The engineer. The last of its kind. The theft of this essence from the otherworldy refuge was the final attempt. Embedded in the being below her is the code. Her design. Her revenge. Deep down in the basin, the putrid water stirs as the being breaks free from its membranous nursery. The engineer watches in silent triumph from afar as the being destroys everything in its path in blind newborn rage. Wading through the festering amniotic fluid it is pulled by an inner voice to the east.

3. A World Bereaved

No more memories of its earlier existence than glitching, flickering images. Like waking up from distant clouded nightmares. Skin is thin, sore, still growing as it lumbers through desolate landscapes. No signs of life to be seen. The ground is torn by sickly pulsating spirals, shooting up in the thick clouds above. Passing former displays of architectural grandeur; now caved in like hollow skulls. A sense of purpose is shaping inside as it finds its paths through the wasteland.

4. Skeletal Wastes

Before it, an ancient war ground. It is vast and dreadful to behold. The last big battle of a dying civilization. The last gasping breath. The being makes its way through labyrinths of giant dead abominations and remnants of war machines since long put to sleep. Picking up pace. Slowly burning from inside with an ever-growing sense of meaning. It is the final solution. The retaliation of many. The faint glow in its veins extends to a cord. The hovering placenta is feeding it in a steady rhythm, preparing the being for its passing.

5. Sea of Rust

The Sea. Dead. Acidic. This is ground zero. It knows all. It was here above the greatest of cities they broke through. Drawn by the greed of kings and queens and their ever-growing thirst for the primal energy beyond their realm. It was they who forced the few remaining to take refuge in a distant cold world, destined to wither away in subterranean darkness. Everything is lost. Sunken. All but rust. The engineer gives up a sigh as she from afar witness the being floating above the red watery mass towards the pulsating rift at the horizon. It is starting to shed.

6. The pulse

This is it. The release. The soothing of the inner ache. The organic matter is peeled off layer by layer as the being passes the rift. The glowing orb withers away and sinks into the sea. The pulsating passage lays bare. It is liquid. Lethal. Bodiless. It is ready. They are doomed.

Band: Cavern Deep
Country of origin: Sweden
Location: Umeå, Västerbotten
Formed in: 2019
Genre: Doom Metal
Lyrical themes: Subterranean fiction
Years active: 2019-present

Lyric video: "The Pulse"
Album: "Part II - Breach"
Type: Full length
Release date: July 14th, 2023
Label: Bonebag Records
Format: CD, Vinyl, Digital

Band members:
Kenny Oswald Duvfenberg - Guitars, Vocals
Max Malmer - Bass, Vocals
Dennis Sjödin - Drums, Backup Vocals, Keys