1. An occult black… Read Full Bio ↴Nightbringer is the name of more than one artist.
1. An occult black metal band formed in 1999 by Nox Corvus and Alcameth in Colorado (and joined by their third member, Ophis, a year later),
In 2000/2001, Nightbringer partook in a Horde of Darkenwood compilation CD with two songs and then recorded another two songs in 2002, “The Void” and “Mors Philosophorum”. These later two tracks were eventually used for the Nightbringer / Temple of Not “Rex Ex Ordine Throni” Split CD released on FMP in 2005, with the addition of two new songs recorded between 2003 and 2004 entitled, “The Dark and the Silence” and Nightbringer's “Vir Sapiens Dominabitur Astris”. Nightbringer's music on the Nightbringer / Temple of Not “Rex Ex Ordine Throni” Split CD has been described as "dark, scathing occult black metal of a higher caliber." Temple of Not is a project of Nightbringer's members and appears on the release with two lengthier tracks of amorphic black ambient. The Nightbringer / Temple of Not “Rex Ex Ordine Throni” split album was also released on gatefold double LP vinyl by Forever Plagued Records, U.S.A.
Nightbringer recorded their debut full-length "Death and the Black Work" late 2008. Nightbringer describe “Death and the Black Work” as a “major undertaking” and a “more complete vision of what we began with ‘Rex ex Ordine Throni'; descent into the corrosive waters of Lethe, falling into the two-fold death.”
The second full-length album titled "Apocalypse Sun" was released May 2010 featuring ten tracks which are comparatively shorter than on previous works.
2. Nightbringer is also a hardcore punk band from Ann Arbor, MI.
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Featuring ex-members of Ruination, Earthmover, and Life Set Struggle. Nightbringer seamlessly blend 70's metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Detroit Garage rock such as the MC5 with newer hardcore bands such as Cursed, Burning Love and The Holy Mountain.
Things which are Naught
Nightbringer Lyrics
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By Neither, Neither, myself unseen, God within and God beyond me
Reflected in these mirrors darkly, God above me, God below me
By Neti, Neti, a faceless face, God within and God beyond me
You abysmal rift in the fabric of being
Ungraspable shadow, devour me
As I open my eyelids for your gnashing teeth
"For his art did express a quintessence even from nothingness
From dull privations and lean emptiness
He ruin'd me and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not"
Coil about me and breathe my new name
Self above me, Self below me
Plow earth into abyss and reap its bitter grain
Absence within me, Presence beyond me
And your naked splendor has carved open the pathway
Into wonders of the howling night and the twist of the moon
Where the dead awakens to the call of serpentine cherubim to fall ever deeper and deeper into their tombs
Restructure the dried out bones of the world and fill its dried out veins with your word
A promise of everything I will come to be, the Nothing within me and the All beyond me!
The lyrics to Nightbringer's song Things Which Are Naught express a deep and profound connection to the divine, as well as a willingness to embrace darkness and nothingness in order to access a deeper understanding of existence. The singer appears to be calling out to God in various forms, both above and below them, and within and beyond them. They acknowledge the power of the abyss and seek to be consumed by its ungraspable shadow, in order to be reborn as something new.
The final stanza of the song references the idea of death and rebirth, and expresses a willingness to accept the darkness in order to access higher levels of understanding. The singer speaks of the wonders of the howling night and the promise of everything they will come to be, both the nothing within them and the all beyond them.
Overall, the lyrics to Things Which Are Naught speak to the human desire to understand the divine and to embrace the full spectrum of existence, both light and dark.
Line by Line Meaning
In Death's holy silence I call you, God above me, God below me
I invoke you, God, in the sanctity of death's stillness, acknowledging you as both above and below me
By Neither, Neither, myself unseen, God within and God beyond me
By declaring myself as nonexistent, I explore the understated nature of God within and beyond me
Reflected in these mirrors darkly, God above me, God below me
I see unclear reflections of you, God, as both above and below me in these dim mirrors
By Neti, Neti, a faceless face, God within and God beyond me
By negating my own existence, I come upon the paradoxical concept of a faceless God, present within and beyond me
You abysmal rift in the fabric of being
You are an unfathomable tear in the fabric of existence
Ungraspable shadow, devour me
As an elusive shadow, consume me
As I open my eyelids for your gnashing teeth
I welcome your destructive teeth as I open my eyes to your power
And fill the hollows with blackest dreams
As you fill the voids within me, my mind is consumed by the darkest dreams
"For his art did express a quintessence even from nothingness / From dull privations and lean emptiness / He ruin'd me and I am re-begot / Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not"
Through his art, the artist created something out of nothingness, lack, and emptiness, ultimately destroying me and then recreating me as a being of absence, darkness, and death - things that don't truly exist
Coil about me and breathe my new name / Self above me, Self below me
Wrap around and bestow upon me my new identity, with the Self above and below me
Plow earth into abyss and reap its bitter grain / Absence within me, Presence beyond me
Dig deep into the earth and harvest what bitterness remains / As absence exists in me, your overwhelming presence exists beyond me
And your naked splendor has carved open the pathway
Your raw, uncensored magnificence has opened the way
Into wonders of the howling night and the twist of the moon
Toward the marvels of the wailing night and the twisted moon
Where the dead awakens to the call of serpentine cherubim to fall ever deeper and deeper into their tombs
Where the deceased answer the serpent-like cherubim's summons, falling ever deeper into their burial places
Restructure the dried out bones of the world and fill its dried out veins with your word
Rebuild the desiccated bones of the world and invigorate its withered veins with your message
A promise of everything I will come to be, the Nothing within me and the All beyond me!
You pledge everything I'll become, including the void within me and the totality beyond me!
Writer(s): William Kavanaugh, Carl Nordblom
Contributed by Alyssa N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Blood Lust
In Death's holy silence I call you
God above me, God below me
By Neither, Neither, myself unseen
God within and God beyond me
Reflected in these mirrors darkly
God above me, God below me
By Neti, Neti, a faceless face
God within and God beyond me
You abysmal rift in the fabric of being
Ungraspable shadow, devour me
As I open my eyelids for your gnashing teeth
And fill the hollows with blackest dreams
"For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness;
He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not"
[John Donne - Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day]
Coil about me and breathe my new name
Self above me, Self below me
Plow earth into abyss and reap its bitter grain
Absence within me, Presence beyond me
And your naked splendor has carved open the pathway
Into wonders of the howling night and the twist of the moon
Where the dead awakens to the call of serpentine cherubim
To fall ever deeper and deeper into their tombs
Restructure the dried out bones of the world
And fill its dried out veins with your word
A promise of everything I will come to be
The Nothing within me and the All beyond me!
86leewis
It makes me think of vampires. I don't know v the lyrics. Observation based purer off of the music