PAVORs uncompromisingly high demand of quality in all concerns resulted in the delay of a first official release. Finally, during winter 1992/93, 28 minutes of "bemauling dark virtuosic underground music, insane blackness and brutality on a towering technical level" were recorded and released some months later as an untitled tape EP, which was sold out soon and is no longer available today.
Shortly after the release of "A Pale Debilitating Autumn", guitarist Holger Seebens had to leave the band because of him not being able to follow suit with the other musicians' strong technical development. PAVOR decided to continue as a four-piece.
During the years 1995 and 1996, PAVOR promoted the globally praised album with a huge amount of interviews and gigs and started preparing for the next album.
Organizational problems resulting from the jobs of some members, as well as a general state of being bored with the lameness and unoriginality of the scene led to a partial withdrawal from public relations work and the public in general during the following years; only being interrupted by Germany's biggest metal magazine RockHard featuring PAVOR with an interview and the track "Perplexer: Perdition Projectile" on its annual "best unsigned acts" compilation "Unerhört!" in February 2000, and by PAVOR winning the underground-contest held by Heavy Oder Was?!-magazine in June 2000, playing on the opening gig of the renowned BANG YOUR HEAD-festival in Balingen, Germany as a result.
However, PAVOR did not rest but took the time to work hard on the new songs and maximize the perfection of their material to an unsurpassable amount.
Now in the year 2003, PAVOR have finished the recordings of their inconceivably virtuoso and violent second album! Produced by Rainer Landfermann and Armin Rave, "FURIOSO" is an offensive exhibition of superiority - a perfect optimum of nonstop aggressive grimness and superlative virtuosic finesse!!
"FURIOSO" contains eight masterly compositions with a total length of 52 minutes, featuring
...deep and insanely brutal, slime-dripping fucked-up ugly vocals full of character & personality
...intelligent, profound and intriguingly baleful lyrics
...extravagant, thrilling, furiously virtuoso guitar riffs and leads
...the fastest and most original basswork ever recorded on a metal album
...ingeniously intricate high-speed power-drumming.
Among the eight songs is a re-recorded version of the PAVOR classic "Crucified Hopes", which was composed in 1989.
The lyrics of the track "Dilettante's Dilemma" hint at an axiom that is - as mentioned in the CD booklet - actually encoded in the music of the song, highlighting the general close link between music and lyrics on the album and inviting the recipient to "decode" and find out what the dilemma really is...
In fact this is just one single example of the immense amount of detail both in the music and the lyrics of the whole album, so insert the CD, take your time and prepare to be perplexed!!
Pavor
Pavor Lyrics
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Fear... demoralized
God... sends holy messengers
Cry... darken your life
Lost in the sphere, within no soul remains
Falling... in your sleep they lurk to haunt you
Your dreams increase their wrath to get you
Reality and sense of life will soon be gone
Haunted by the creatures that were told to save your soul
Embodiment of evil's what you see
Trapped inside your world, pain no one will ever know
In the holy end your blood will flow
They are told to be merciful and so sweet
But now you must see, they incarnate to steal your sanity
You're inferior and helpless
They will subjugate your needs
Immortalized,
These nightmares of your death appear all night
And smash your beliefs with agony
And now... it might satisfy to dream eternally
The opening line of Pavor's eponymous song sets the tone for a grim and unfulfilled existence. The singer's pain and misery are too great to be satisfied by life itself. The verse that follows suggests the singer's feelings of hopelessness are compounded by fear and a sense of being demoralized. The idea that God sends holy messengers, which one would assume are intended to bring comfort and salvation, instead causes the singer to cry and further darkens their life. The phrase "lost in the sphere, within no soul remains" could be interpreted a couple of ways. It might suggest the singer, though alive, feels empty and soulless, or it could be a reference to the spiritual realm, with the singer feeling cut off from it.
The second verse delves deeper into the subject of nightmares that haunt the singer. The imagery is graphic and the words "bleeding" and "colliding" add to the sense of physical and emotional turmoil. The dreams seem to have a life of their own, increasing in intensity as they try to "get" the singer. The line "reality and sense of life will soon be gone" suggests that the singer is losing touch with reality and that the dreams are taking on a greater significance.
The third verse deals with a sinister quality that is becoming apparent in the holy messengers. They were once regarded as merciful and sweet, but now they are incarnate to steal the singer's sanity. The line "you're inferior and helpless, they will subjugate your needs" confirms the singer's sense of vulnerability and a lack of control. The fourth and final verse ends with the idea that eternal dreaming might provide some satisfaction. It's a bleak conclusion to a song that is clearly dealing with dark and troubling themes.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh life can't satisfy my pain and misery
Fear and demoralization cannot be satisfied by the comfort of life
Fear... demoralized
Fear has become overwhelming and has robbed the person of their motivation
God... sends holy messengers
God sends messengers to deliver His message of salvation
Cry... darken your life
Crying adds darkness to one's life
Lost in the sphere, within no soul remains
Feeling lost and alone with no spiritual presence
Falling... in your sleep they lurk to haunt you
Nightmares that haunt the person while they are sleeping
Bleeding... colliding with your soul and sanity
Emotional pain runs deep and threaten one's mental health
Your dreams increase their wrath to get you
Nightmares intensify to cause harm and disruption to one's peace of mind
Reality and sense of life will soon be gone
The nightmares make it difficult to discern reality from fiction
Haunted by the creatures that were told to save your soul
Entities that were supposed to bring salvation are now tormenting the person
Embodiment of evil's what you see
Evil is all the person sees and experiences
Trapped inside your world, pain no one will ever know
Feeling isolated and unable to express the depth of their pain to anyone else
In the holy end your blood will flow
Their life will end in a violent and painful manner
They are told to be merciful and so sweet
The messengers were expected to bring compassion and kindness
But now you must see, they incarnate to steal your sanity
The messengers have become a source of danger and are causing mental harm
You're inferior and helpless
A feeling of being weak and powerless
They will subjugate your needs
The messengers will not take into account the person's needs or desires
Immortalized,
The nightmares have become a permanent fixture in their mind
These nightmares of your death appear all night
Dreams of death and destruction happen continuously throughout the night
And smash your beliefs with agony
The dreams shatter the person's beliefs and cause emotional pain
And now... it might satisfy to dream eternally
Death may be a relief and provide a way out of the constant torment
Contributed by Nathaniel A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@cmd_f5
Pavor is and will always be a top band. I listen to Furioso and the debut all the time. Cool to hear this demo.
@vesuviacorpseflower4828
Discovering so many great obscure German death metal bands lately!! Pavor should have been signed to Nuclear Blast Germany back in the day!! Oh well, we can enjoy it now at least...(one of the best 90s German DM demos that I've heard).
@FunerealObsession
I love A Pale Debilitating Autumn and Furioso but htis is the first time I've heard this demo.
@luissantiago7555
excelente
@josephbaker4390
This is fantastic!
@josedias1387
Very good 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@carlosoropeza8008
Ahora debo escucharme los albumes.
@Stret173
immense execution of a wayward vision
@vitaliy6195
обслушаться!
@Stret173
ого, ващет очень даже