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Motionless

by Separatist

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morbud I usually don't get into grindcore/death metal sounding stuff, but bands like Crimson Moonlight and Antestor and other similar Unblack Metal have been moving into that realm and I have been impressed. So yeah that's why I like, you know, kept listening. I was really impressed with you guys before I even got halfway through the first song. Yeah your vocals, lyrics and guitar work is tight. I look forward to hearing more.
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IDE I remember the day I came across Separatist. Instantly, I bought and imported "Motionless Apocalypse" 3 copies to evangelize, because totally knocked out by their music. Progressive, technical, ominous, mysterious, brutal, but emotional and beautiful death metal.

With these two great masterpieces they rose again. This is the re-recording version of "Motionless Apocalypse." Totally different, still as exciting as the first day I listened to Separatist!
★★ Favorite track: Like Shattered Stars.
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medwards_the_metalhead This is an incredibly unique musical experience! Ingenious composition and technical mastery combined with a powerful vocal performance, what a fantastic album! Favorite track: In Dissonant Silence II : Decessus.
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1.
Prelude (free) 00:34
2.
The Reprieve (free) 06:12
As we lay here, motionless, Drenched in the foul tyranny of deception and blasphemy, The deceased, the unsealed The angel descends, transfixing the darkness of our blackened heavens, The absolution of mankind's misery, The despotic leviathan is cast into the darkness of the abyss The epoch of our deliverance, our reprieve, The martyrs resurrect, ascend from their final rest To reclaim their place at the side of the throne for 1000 years, Ruling over this rotting earth, this empty shell of a world, And we, the deceased, the wretched unsealed, that inhabit it Until that day, the macabre awakening, The leviathan bursts forth from his desolate tomb, And we, the wretched, are defiled With a jarring malice in his eyes And the martyrs blood in his voice, He wages war on heaven The abominable armies of the kings Of this volatile earth bay for annihilation, And in a deathly chorus they scream: 'heaven shall burn tonight…'
3.
Plagues (free) 05:19
Somewhere within the spaces between death and this chaotic sleep, Our riven sky is reduced to ash as the dissonant sun The faithful watch over as we writhe, Convulsing in mercurial rhythms, Mercurial rhythms Spurred onwards by this suffocating misery, Our flesh is ulcerated, lacerated, In a frail smothering nausea we lay, And in violent seizures the earth begins to decay at our blistered feet, The oncoming storm is a deathly prelude to an irreversible holocaust And as the blackened skies spew forth Their vile carnage we recoil in hateful destruction, Bludgeoned by shards of blood And ice from the wretched heavens, we become nothing, Are we destined to dwell eternally in this sickening darkness? Will there be no forgiveness? Will there be no final rest?
4.
A Gentle Reminder (free) 05:40
Whispering words of dissolution, As compassion fails, atrophying sanctity, We're losing faith, descending into suffocation, A relapse into infinite desolation, And so this hollow earth is defiled Now all that remains, this mnemonic oracle, A gentle reminder of our reverence lost, Of the carnage converging on our wretched earth, Foretelling the demise of salvation Calling our names in desperation, Transcending death, with admonitions of our ruin, Our disregard sees us falling silently towards the end, Fall Our deliberation drenched with spite for those who heeded that infernal warning, Leaving us to rot in the vile stench of our own misery…
5.
Anaclasis (free) 05:29
Tyranny, vengeance and blasphemy, The sickening marks of the unholy trinity, Cast down upon this despicable existence to defile the unsealed To wage war on the kingdom of heaven, Screaming with a hematic asperity for the blood of the saints on his decrepit hands, The infernal synthetic godhead sits on his vile throne, As the flames descend from the skies to scorch this desolate earth Blasphemous words seep forth like blood from his inimical lips, Breathing prophecies of deceit and insolent acclaim for the one true falsehood Birthing this depraved architecture of filth and heresy, To wage war on the kingdom of heaven with a hematic asperity, The anaclasis of reason, the spiralling apostasy of the unsealed populace, And we, the unsealed, are defiled Made abject by these infernal tyrants, Forcefed blasphemy and ethereal disgust The flames descend from the sky to scorch this desolate earth The odious mark is etched in our rotten flesh, Our damnation made true, carved into our wrists reads six-six-six, Our eyes shift in and out of focus, We are the unsealed, we are the ruined, we are the deceased…
6.
Untitled (free) 04:22
One by one, the seals are broken, Step by diligent step we draw ever closer to the climatic revelation, The motionless apocalypse Broadcasting to us the way to final liberation, With every volatile motion, the wretched horsemen, The nameless advocates of the terminal holocaust ride forth Pouring out their hateful designs, Our purity dies tonight The martyred souls of aeons past, The spirits of the slain, arise with a desperate plea for vengeance, The pain of their suffering at the hands of the earth Coursing through their veins and their frail voices The earth shakes beneath our cursed feet, Our final sunrise turns black, a thick darkness, Red like the blood of the martyrs, envelops the full moon The stars that once lit our blackened sky fall like tears, And with the devastating sound of the heavens above us shattering, receding, deafening, The eternal promise of mankinds salvation revealed in a discordant apex, For all of us who would receive, Redemption was revealed…
7.
Here we stand, Alongside the dead risen from the depths, Alone amongst the masses, in silence screaming, Deafening, how have we fallen so far? What have we become? Transfixed, Apparitions lead me down into inevitable ruin, I come undone, As the hallowed pages turn, In cold remembrance I've fallen short of absolution, How have we fallen so far? Why did we refuse to be saved? What have we become? In these final dissonant moments, It becomes breathtakingly transparent, I'm never going home…
8.
Here we stand, the wretched unsealed, alongside the dead and dying, Resurrected from deep within death and hades, Stricken with the irreversible darkness of our final judgement, Those wretched pages have turned for the last time Without even a negligible shade of our pass to ascension, And now, in cold chaotic remembrance we are cast down into infinite ruin Into the flames of our failure, our inhuman misery With screams of desperation and despair, We descend beyond recognition, our blasphemous hearts decay, we fall, Further and further into the all consuming flames of our eternal damnation, Burning, rotting alongside the blood-soaked spirits of death, And in these final dissonant moments, it becomes clear, I'm never going home, how have we fallen so far? Why did we refuse to be saved? What have we become?
9.
The Earth Defiled (free) 05:27
'Mystery, babylon the great, Mother of prostitutes, and of the abominations of the earth.' Reads her blasphemous title carved into her silken flesh She, the wretched whore, who came to defile our chaotic earth, Draped in shimmering scarlet like the coagulated blood of her slain Her golden chalice overflows with filth and adultery, The empty faces of all the earth, defiled, as she lay, Drunk on the blood of the saints martyred at her calloused hands All the earth and its desolate kings pray in a violent resonance for her demise, They flock like moths to an unholy flickering of flame She, the wretched whore, who came to defile our chaotic earth, Draped in shimmering scarlet like the coagulated blood of her slain In a volatile symphony of destruction, Calling for vengeance, Screaming for her blood to flow like rivers Through our ulcerated landscapes…
10.
I Despise (free) 04:33
As i look into the decaying night sky, I watch as our once flourishing earth is showered violently With flames descending like bitter tears Poured forth from the heavens In slow motion drops of blood frozen like hailstones rip through our frail skin, One third of our now deceased planet is cast silently down into eternal fire, Poured forth from the heavens The flooding rivers and spiralling oceans turn to blood Like that of the saints martyred at our hands We are drowning, the ocean calls us inwards, All the while conspiring with our dissonant sun to drown us in within themselves, As day turns prematurely to darkness, We are consumed by the virulent night that surrounds us, suffocating, Smothering, the stars have fallen silent, The sun refuses to continue to shed its light, I despise the dissolution, the hatred that we have allowed to pull us under, Drowning us in the mercurial oceans of blood, These scarlet stains will not wash clean, Terminal reminders of what we have become…
11.
Like Shattered Stars (free) 04:37
As the blinding smoke smothers the sun, From the wretched core of the volatile flames appeared the locust swarm, Pouring out like a hateful ocean upon our frail flesh, They came not to kill, but to bind and torture us, The unsealed, the deceased With pain like that of scorpions, The infernal roar echoes in our ears, Long after we are deafened by the shattering resonance of this abysmal onslaught, We pray for death With such sordid desperation that our blistered skin weeps blood, Falling like rain from our irreparable flesh, But to no avail, suffocating in plagues of fire Smoke and sulfur poured out from the mouths Of those who brought famine and death, And once more the earth shatters in a violent seizure beneath our feet, Claiming the lives of 7000, the lucky ones, Released from this vile torment, And in a hallowed cadence of worship for the one most high, The heavens split in two, and with hurricane winds and splintering hail falling Like shattered stars from the skies, our final storm begins…
12.
The Harvest (free) 06:30
The angel descends on the earth, And in a harrowing surge the sealed ascend Into the dissonant sky, and we remain, the wretched unsealed, Decaying deep within this swirling ocean of human misery and disgust In our mortal despondency we are left to rot, In a continuous cycle of violence and suffering we dwell, Until the subsequent angel of heaven infiltrates the macabre empyrean, As a chthonian darkness pierces the horizon, The misanthropic genocide of our hateful race, We are cast into the bleak seas of damnation, Our tainted blood flows for miles in a mercurial deluge, Laying waste to a once picturesque landscape, An exquisite work of art that now lies in ruins, Corrupted by the defiled blood of the wretched unsealed, We are held responsible for all that we've done, The blood of mankinds ruin is on our hands…

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Special Thanks :
God, my family Peter, Sue, Emma and Laura Dishington, for tolerating me being noisy all those years, Mitch Osborne, Jed Red, Mick Rankine, Mitch Golding, Matt and Karen Sharples, Dave Haley, Tim Charles, Jason North, Greg Shaw, Reza, Ben Fogarty and anyone else who listened to us, bought our merch, saw us at a show, said hi or supported us in any way at all.

And a very special thanks to Matt Carter, James Brady, David Gilbert, Luke Ranson, Tom Hamilton, Zack Wiggins, Chris Tanner and Mark Cooper, who all played a huge part in making Separatist what it was. The time spent in a band with you was a blessing and I wouldn't be where I am or who I am today without it. Thankyou.

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released February 7, 2014

All instruments, vocals and programming by Sam Dishington.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Sam Dishington at Ohrwurm Recording.
Mastered by Jamie King at The Basement Recording NC.
Music and lyrics by Sam Dishington.
Artwork and design by Sam Dishington.

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