We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Static In The Presence Of Intrusive Consciousness

by Weltschmerz

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Lying in a pond of eutrophic lethargy Long gone seems the day of enlightenment I feel so lost, I feel so lovelorn The atmosphere of my mind darkened Spine sharpened into a spear, growing through my skull Shattering the multi-detailed memories of the past with no weight Succumbing to the grief Waves of joy evaporating and bleeding into space
2.
I rested on the stairway The railing was bent and crooked from the weight of my predecessor My opponent Filled with wrath without a cause conqueror Wear the crown of the morose Muscles tired from the terror of your diverted compassion I crawled, stretched my body to its full length You took my hand and held it Pulled me up onto yourself just to drive a knife into my heart and leave it there I loved how your mercyful tears showed me the emotion I had failed to find for so many years This is a gift that never stops giving Oh my lungs they are so lucky For the pressure Is the only thing they ever had to endure
3.
This is joy Endless joy
4.
Katharsis 01:46
- Instrumental -
5.
I have been separated from all lust and desire I can no longer tell if the air around me has gotten warmer or if I have gotten used to the coldness The unsteady and the unquiet salute as I walk past them a victor to their ranks They lay me facedown in a puddle to drown in of murder and hate No one is sure to stay for a last farewell to their prosperous peer I wish I was blind and deaf, just so I wouldn't have to witness the ugliness of the world Ever so echoing one question I have been separated from all lust and desire I can no longer tell if the air around me has gotten warmer I wish I was blind and deaf, just so I wouldn't have to witness the ugliness of the world Am I insane? The rules set by undisclosed desires, they multiply unbent, unbroken, untested by the challenge of time faster and faster grinding and eating away on idle hands It's us, me We are dying
6.
Hiraeth 09:12
Tall and bitter frowns Wrath and irritation rising to staggering heights Days on days on days New gold every hour, each time more impure than in the hour before Consuming, inhaling, devouring Sell your soul for this place so impure I see it all, I breathe the world The world breathes through me I lean in, I gaze into the abyss Darker and darker, it reaches out and tears me away from my safe lookout I scream, I fall I can breathe Soak up the sun, it's rays caress my battered mind They gently push aside The iron veil forged by ages of grief The blissful, forgiving solitude found in places next door Made up of roots so old Here lies time buried and entangled in dust and fallen leaves Every year another layer added Weighing down the ground with volumes of grief and sorrow cast off And shed like a skin But to no avail for the age old roots still impart this prayer of transformation Atlantis in my head and you like no other have seen the salt around my eyes But you showed me a path worth taking and I don't know of the stones that lie in our way but I know that I'd move each and everyone for you And may the rivers of terror roar and deafen us We'll still be standing on the shore burying our feet in the warm sand
7.
Willkür 02:00
Ich bin das Wahre Die unendliche Pein Vertrauter Rythmus Durch Sehnen, durch Fleisch und Bein Ich bin die Willkür Die Zweifel am Scheideweg Ohne Vernunft Ganz und gar bedauerlich Diese einzelnen Momente Voller unverfälschter Freude Vergangen in einem Augenblick Sie lassen mich verstehen, sie lassen mich verstehen Und alles andere ergraut Ich lebe nicht Ich existiere bloß Ich sehe nichts, Ich sehe nichts Nur Den Tod

about

First full-length album from the german/danish band Weltschmerz

The title of the first Weltschmerz album "Static in the presence of intrusive consciousness" refers to the astonishment, more often even horror about certain unwelcome thoughts suddenly emerging within ones mind. You might be driving and suddenly think about steering your car into the uncoming traffic, or you might be standing on a high ledge suddenly feeling an urge to jump. Even thoughts far more sinister might reveal themselves but only ever for a split second. This feeling is also referred to as "call of the void" and can be experienced by anyone in any given situation. Most often one immediatly expells those thoughts and worries about ones own mental health. Sometimes though, you might stop to reflect on those thoughts, even involuntarily. This mights happen so often, that the intrusive thoughts and ideas you so desperately try to free yourself from become a part of you, pervade your mind and fester within you until they are no longer mere thoughts but form a consciousness on their own. The more you try to expell it, the more you are forced to reflect upon it until you become completely static in the presence of intrusive consciousness.

credits

released July 12, 2017

Weltschmerz is:
Janos Gafert: Drums
Matthias Runge: Guitar
Anders Pedholt Toftgaard-Hansen: Guitar, Bass & Piano
Jens Schwartz Sørensen: Lyrics & Vocals

Mix and Master: Matthias Runge

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Weltschmerz Flensburg, Germany

Weltschmerz is a danish/german blackgaze band, formed in 2014 in the german town of Flensburg. Weltschmerz combines the velocity, the anger and the brutal force of black metal with the atmospheric sound of shoegaze and post-rock. The band published their first album "Static In The Presence Of Intrusive Consciousness" in July 2017 and is currently working on their second album. ... more

contact / help

Contact Weltschmerz

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Weltschmerz, you may also like: