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Willows

by As Oceans

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Poesy Rider
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Poesy Rider Même si cet EP est plutôt bon, il faut bien dire qu'il ne vaut pas les deux albums précédents...Peut-être que le groupe devrait être coaché par Aimé Jacquet...Allez les gars, on se sort les doigts ! Favorite track: Artaosis Pt II: Deliverance.
Can This Even Be Called Music?
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Can This Even Be Called Music? Willows is one of the best and most interesting progressive metalcore releases in recent memory.
canthisevenbecalledmusic.com/osr-november-21st-2015/ Favorite track: Artaosis Pt I: The Black Bird.
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H4rd_455_M3 Okay, so as always; As Oceans has delivered! Willows though, is so much differen than their freshman and sophmore albums. Soooo much more in your face uncleans, soul filling cleans, and amazing instrumentals and interludes throughout. Just can't get enough.
Kadin Wisniewski
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Kadin Wisniewski As Oceans really branches out into some new territory with "Willows." The new sounds they're experimenting with work really well - the vocal performance on this EP is particularly amazing. Favorite track: The Phantom Hunter.
Euclid
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Euclid Every release from As Oceans is a breath of fresh air to me. Their lyrics always tackle abstract and philosophical topics, which is becoming more popular with the rise of Djent, but these guys display a truly deep understanding of eastern philosophy and world music. Favorite track: The Phantom Hunter.
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Overture 02:25
Overture Lyrics by: Logan Lawson So brings a tale of dead hearts and broken bonds An exchange of words that brought severance Soaring on the echoes of thunder And a throats dry river bed.. But what is cast into fire Is reborn as light warming the hands of our brothers and sisters Above..and Below… Forgive me.. I know it’s been awhile And you’re only a spirit fleeting But let me just sing to you Like I did when you felt afraid and I swear that’s all I want You can walk as far as you need. Forever these Oceans will roar Shaking the mountains Erasing the darkness awake in my soul.
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Artaosis Part I: The Black Bird Lyrics by: Logan Lawson and Kate Smith {Beloved Maiden:} Countless moons have come and gone Since you left the shores in the distance With the apathy of war tainting your soul. Since you've left I've been watching the oceans veins pulse, Standing on forsaken stone pleading the sky for return, But the clouds never give mercy, only rain. One day brought a Raven Talons clutching a page Your lies signed in ink, the scrawling betrays. No noble fight you’ve fought for freedom No noble search you’ve taken for peace. But innocent blood and a traitor’s nest. You left here to war, to starve the monster But you fed yourself to her instead. I felt my blood turn to water, Poisoned by your treason. The raven whispers, soothing, pleading “Fly with me - follow the fog,” Then turns to black mist and disappears into the wood. Into the wilderness, I follow the trace of the black bird’s ghost. Sorrow turns to hate. I follow the face of revenge. The purity of the blackness breathes into me the life you stole. The purity of blackness… The life you stole.. For darkness knows my worth. Rage will never lie. I run deeper into the forest Burning the thought of forgiveness with the bloodiest light.
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The Phantom Hunter: Lyrics by: Logan Lawson and Kate Smith {Journal entry by Artaosis:} Day 389 Screams fall silent As another innocence is taken. Fulfilling a pride I once abhorred. My heart the beating drum Set to winter’s rhythm. I have fallen for every evil, and still I am hungry. An eye for an eye, neck for a neck. A row of seven heads, children of my enemy. I cut out the heart of purity and wore it as a jewel. A season’s change since valor has fallen with this blade and virtue seized by violence. Looking down on my crimson hands and a trough full of innocence, I've tightened the tourniquet, ready for the amputation of my salvation Every kill brings a prophecy, The raven, my seer, so familiar, visits me at my site of slaughter. In his claws is a scroll Dropped in blood. A letter penned to my ruined Eden. Not conquered by my own devices! Redemption, bring me back beyond the indigo shores! Unmoved but broken Charge forward into stillness.
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The Thunder of Steel Clouds Lyrics by: Logan Lawson and Kate Smith The Shade performed by Michael Rumple of Lorelei {Artaosis:} Carried to land on leviathan water Onward through a haze of thorns and storm Crawling through the marsh’s heart of darkness Led by the ghost of my North Star. I see her weaving through the reeds. Glazed eyes, a puppet to an invisible sorcerer. Entranced by the glimmer of fatality. My shouts dissipate in the air An angel in the claws of my own hell {The Shade} Oracle of aberration Surrounded by willows Finding shade beneath the lotus. cedar tail wrapped around a maiden of ivory Omnipresent touch eradicates the pain From her widowed heart A vice bigger than its seed Undead and battle worn. The humid air Thick with a putrid stench Onyx eyes Transfixed on its father and his prey. {Artaosis:} Nemesis, Lead me to your nest Where you have entrapped My vision and my opium What’s done can't be undone My hands gloved in blood Even if redemption lost With the voice of the bear I call for yours. Through Rock and Fire The waltz of the final fight Crashing like steel clouds A thunder heard in other worlds.
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Fragile Fingers: Lyrics by: Pat Tarpey {Artaosis:} I've seen everything fall around me I brush my fragile finger against the sky Scratch the sands of time Your hate, now my own Dance now with the flames We've sown the seeds to start anew
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Artaosis Part II: Deliverance Lyrics by: Logan Lawson and Kate Smith {Artaosis:) My demon conquers me with fate. My legs are filled with my own arrows The shadow carves into me a spell "Cursed to truth within the Oaks Watching the sunset bring the night Hand in hand With your mercy, betrothed and beguiled.” The wolf howls my serenade. My pleas deaden to dry brown leaves. Wordless yet still Compelled by how Her footsteps speak. Within this sacred surrounding Dances a scattered light towards rebirth.

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From the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina’s As Oceans delivers their most ambitious, crushing and emotional auditory assault to date with their new EP, entitled Willows. Cryptically recounted through the visceral snarls of vocalist Logan Lawson, the story behind Willows takes shape as a tale of desperation and blood. Intended to depict the tragic tale of Artaosis and The Maiden of Ivory, the earthy and raw soundscapes are built upon the thunderous drumming of Ben Dunlop and the merciless string beat-down of Joey Diehl, Pat Tarpey and Kit Brown. The instruments paint a portrait of an ancient, battle-worn realm as the listener steps behind eyes of The Muse, The Hero and The Villian within the record. With roars that take no prisoners and a tone dialed in to uproot Redwoods, As Oceans draws the line and steps to it. The organic and revivifying approach of Willows comes to set As Oceans apart as the anti-hero in the transparent world of modern metal.

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released March 3, 2015

Recorded at Robert F. Gilley Studios/War Height Audio
Mixed and Mastered by War Height Audio

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The North Carolina metal group As Oceans has been described as crushing and furious with a unique take on heavy music. Earth-moving guitar riffs paired with vicious vocals and pounding drums, As Oceans grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. As Oceans’ music hauntingly fits with what is alluded through their name; a force of vast power and infinite mystery. ... more

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