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Sun Across The Fields

by Black Harvest

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J. Wukotich
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J. Wukotich An excellent EP. Tech-Death with a great deal of atmosphere and originality. Favorite track: The Herald King.
Dan Curhan
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Dan Curhan Combining some of the more uplifting, 'gazey' elements of Melting Sun by Lantlôs with a strong, solid foundation in dark, gritty blackened death metal, this is a stellar amalgam of joy and aggression, dissonance and melody. It pits riffy directness and technical precision against lengthy, progressive songwriting to make for long arcs with satisfying conclusions. This phenomenal record is truly a joy to behold!
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Ah, you must have been born deaf and remained so all this time and kept your face turned away from the horrors of the world Now you've come outside and all you hear is screams rising all around no wonder you're afraid After all, you were made for finer things not the clash of riots or the theft of inner peace So life has prepared you well for sitting safe behind walls using bodies of men as shields as whips when shields won't do Hide until the world is quiet hide as the lights go out the songs disappear Then such a brave figure you'll cut all righteous fury uniform silhouettes the mask of order hiding the heart of a mob This profusion of color must be a shock no wonder you're afraid But oh, to be out there in the tumult dust on the air, blood in our veins See how we dance in the dust and clay even when blood spills even with dogs among us Here is the sense of purpose that you lack even with the might of all these faceless drones gathered around the only power that you hold use it once and it's gone See how we dance not the twitch of puppet strings not a thirst for finer things not some need to be seen to control from many mouths one voice rises up Even in your high white hall even with doors locked and barred however you might rage wherever you might hide Hark, the herald king of shit cowering there behind his wall until the sun came through the gate burned it all down to ash I can see it rising
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Oracle 10:43
Come, Muses, and sing through me of the sunlit next world come, sages, show me the path to a calm harbor after pain Who asks, and from what depths? the owner, the architect, the innermost core of being or a blind fool in chains? tell us what you can see from a place above us all from a trap inside your mind  powerless to change flying ever outward no more free than a stone cast from the heights The more that I chase, the harder I grasp, the more I am empty ah, like a forest clearing open like a cup for the light I've heard the wound is the place where it enters bright on the barren earth too late for us Scour the flesh scrape the rot away leave what's left whether or not it can move on its own Was it power to call the wind, or just coincidence that you cried out aloud when the storm was rising up? Read some sign in the leaves the arrangement of scattered bones the cry of a witless bird  the position of its broken corpse tell me everything I was blind before I was blind to it all The scar pulls at my skin tearing, burning the omnipresent flaw a gaping void no more salt sharp on the air skin bare to the water not a thing we've built here deserves to last no monument for men like us I can see it shining overhead even with my eyes gone no matter what else you take Come knit this scattered prayer into a new order maybe this time, this door, this new branch in the road will lead you somewhere anywhere at all I fall behind, until I'm gone in a mist of white I don't belong among you and I can no longer see in the distance
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Abandon 08:11
Always healing, never healed overflowing, never filled I can remember sharp and clear right here is the place where we were torn apart Part of me is buried there a severed limb that nobody else can see a fire that burns but no one else can feel a scream you'll never hear a fear you'll never know And it was me who chose this bitter path beside you wherever it might go but it was you who climbed the mountain while I watched you're vanishing right now vanishing How can I survive? if only I had stayed in perfect silence if only I could find silence somewhere far away from the world I'll open my heart up let the gods come in take pure joy in a new life here as a marionette Sometimes I embrace it freedom of a sort frozen in a dance that's been decided from the start But oh, I said I would take part the last choice I ever had you're climbing up so high with such abandon The greatest fool in all the world is not the one who follows blind but the one who found truth and chose with open eyes to leave it all behind Part of me is buried there it's never coming back only empty air where can you have gone? Will you turn now, turn away and abandon everything and run? I was never ready it's not an answer but I know that it's the truth and yet I come The sun is at my back

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Black Harvest's most melodic and expansive songwriting to date, pulling influences from black metal, early melodic death metal, and prog rock. Written and assembled during April and May of 2020; some parts on "Abandon" were originally written during the Attrition recording session, newly reworked and recorded.
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Music and lyrics by Kishor; all parts performed/programmed, recorded, and mixed by Kishor at the Eyrie, Lowell, MA, April-June 2020; mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East

My thanks to family and friends for their support, critical listening, and feedback along the way; special thanks to my wife and son, to Heavy Meta and In Human Form, and to Matt for the gear

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released July 31, 2020

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Black Harvest Lowell, Massachusetts

Black Harvest formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2002, and recorded and self-released several demos before signing to independent New England label Oak Knoll Productions for the release of "White Light Came Down" and "Ingrate". Their music is an eclectic, melodic blend of death and black metal with progressive, dissonant, and technical flourishes. Main songwriter Kishor currently resides in Lowell, MA. ... more

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