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A Spectral Oblivion

by FRAGARAK

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Verses from a void: The void of reminiscence engulfs this existence Into a past reeking with memories… A flood of thoughts, of memories futile - Bleeding regrets, yet draped in momentary rejoice Of deeds done in the hope of designing a distant future. The future - A harvest of delirious seeds Sowed in this frailty of being, Falling deep in the abyss of unknown perceptions. A being of presence - now exhumed in fathoms Of this reminiscent lapse; In rumination, perennial truths reveal. Haunting in the light of its transcendent void, Breeding knowledge from beyond this existence. From those years bygone in the dust of time, In seeking the mirage of hope For what the heart desires, Midst the bleak of this wilderness called life! Hope - I knew solely by her name, Aurora – my abode of being; Wherein wandered desires of eternal belongingness, Desires for a distant Utopia… I walk into the night of hopeless aeon; The Haunting of this tune, her symphony dawns. Fallen thoughts take me far beyond, From where the marrow of this vanity spawns. Contained in this marrow, Hiding in the bleak of its darkness, Mortality - is a sentinel…
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Like a reverie of fleeting hope, Her reality was severed In the cancer of Fate! When in symphonies of obsession, cognition fails! Like a deluge of Utopia, A Spectral Euphony contrives! Consumed till the end of time, The last notes eternal yet incomplete, Haunting forever from the dregs of seclusion. On the shores of uncertainty, Perception wanes like a tide subliminal. Of reasoning – our persistent scapegoat, Introspection carves its inference. An existence driven to the brink of a fine line Between the reach of perfection, and insanity… Like the ashes from a burning desire, Her chorus resounds! Fallen down to these throes of misery, Her memories and all the shadows of her thoughts… Deprived of a will to express, Lamenting over the silence of solitude, Into this boundless void I chose to confide! A chronic obsession to her symphony of doom! A void destined to replace Her, When the portal of fate glooms And leads to this gate of our sublime ends… When an Elysium restrained Forever falls into egress; Spewing faith, from the froth Of an abstract beguiled. Like the ashes from a burning desire, Her chorus would resound; To the mind painted in dolor, Unveiling an embodiment of indulgence A Spectral Euphony conjures! To the drought of her musing vortex, Like a deluge of Utopia, This Spectral Euphony contrives: An Abstract amidst the reach of the moon beguiled afar, Slight and subliminal to depths we perceive! The abstract and design Of a notion to its purposed end; There lies the answer Like a reason for the seed of mind! And then a maze of thoughts prevailed Bewildering with revelations; A mind strangled by introspection, Uncovered now in these reflections Bereaved are those veiled corners! When an Elysium restrained Forever falls into egress; Spewing faith, from the froth Of this abstract beguiled. Brooding through the path of time Lies clouds of distant hope above; While below a puddle of memories Reflecting the ghosts of a forlorn past. And a maze of thoughts prevailed Bewildering with revelations; When to this path I had strayed, Where realms of mind fall in rumination.
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Of a reality fallen into an abundance of woes And hopes rebuked by the throes of misery, The marrow of bleakness sets in And insanity haunts; When the eclipse of being dawns! Darkening the roots of this present, Blinding known visions of belief! In conscience of its unholy somber, Shadowed are the confines Of these shackles of existence! An existence bound to regress Of living and reason, In a soil of futility ingrained with the ashes Of a deceased presence. Leaving behind the elixir of her hopes, Exploring the shades of this dark I behold the light of an Elysium! An Elysium concealed afar And veiled in a thought, To alter and enchant this fallen reality. A reality preyed in the conscience Of this unholy somber, Bound to regress of living and reason. Bewitched by the lure of her tune, In ecstasy of its euphoria… Oh! Does the moon now flicker with its fantasies? A pleasant onset of lunacy, when this mind conjures in delusion… Sever! Awaken the Eclipse! Empowering from depths Beyond the reach of this Phaneron! The Eclipse of will – a shadow to deceive fate Towards an altered end! The fall into egress Beyond the nothingness of this subsistence. Scarred in the depths of a spectral thought, Where infinite voices haunt! Trespassing the realms of forbidden perceptions! The conscience enlightened in a somber beyond her bleak! Hymns from the legion of darkness Unveil in a spectral foretelling: Her tune of offering Is bound to estrange in a fated way; Which weakens sanity, In search of an Utopic end. For the summit of eternity; An act destined forever To be veiled and damned in vanity! Against the deepest wills of my desire, Silence must reign to deafen the tune of Aurora! Leaving behind vain memories, I stoop to purpose a better end. As her symphony is draped in death Of a reality sacrificed! Her tune of offering Is bound to estrange in a fated way; Which weakens sanity, In search of an Utopic end. A Phaneron falls, the eclipse dawns! Empowering in darkness, manifests an alter-life; Thriving in oblivion, beyond the reach Of this frail presence!
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An oblivion far from this presence I despise! As her ominous tune, resounds the fate Of my besieged morrow; A vile euphony, her offering to deceive this mind. My hosted silence will now reign its might: Embrace this destiny – a spawn of surmise, Whose form I shall dictate! Behold this conjured reality, Reaping horrors of an end – the destination of our fate! Now burns the spectral fire, ravening for my hope! Her shrieking woes of death, Her parting reflections, in depths appalling. Heisted of her, aghast and daunted, An image of fear - The potent perception pervading fathoms, Is conceived in consuming, To reach the dawn of our end… Her ominous verse I’ll shun, Despised in this oblivion Where hosted is a silence surreal. Reigning in her gentle slaughter, it reveals: "Embraced in this destiny, In chasms of conception expelled from sanity; Behold a dying reality, Reaping horrors of the dark – those subliminal veils!" In design of an end to mutate destiny Embraces this oblivion, revealing a facade Whose tragic sights appall! Beneath the depths Draped in veils of a purposed end, Her remains I’ve locked and held in fire; To be in ashes forever! Forever, as she burns! The tune - her last signs of hope, decimates! This spectral fire seeks the reprisal For a deceived being of mind, Summoned from the fathoms… In chasms of rumination A conjuring belies, When the mind has fallen A prey to the fathoms of delirium! A story of thoughts untold Which leads to realms of sorrow, In these forlorn lands I shall wander. To redeem from her lure of hope, From the haunting hollows of delusion! Through the bygones of a belonging desire, Towards the passage of an eternal reverie, Redemption is enslaved; By these present chains of uncertainty Rooted deep into the fathoms of delirium.
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Divulging my way through its harrowing depth, A portal haunted with the ghosts of time; When the barrage of conscience gapes, Withering with revelations of this somber path. Immersed in the void of her bleak, I behold light from the subliminal – The sole beacon summons From an enchanted psyche. The mind smothered in a spectral oblivion! A phantasm of hopes Regress into dismal obscurity, Like a stillborn, lost in the abyss of our perpetual fate! Enchanted in this omniscient dark, Our fate I chose to erase from these souls of time! For that future I chose not to aspire: Under the breath of reality A forsaken future, failed forever. Under the breath of reality A future failed forever, Deprived of essence and its gift to transpire These seeds of hope, into the fruit of existence. Aurora, her symphony was a curse in disguise, Draped as an offering to poison my veins of sanity! Thence silence must reign with death, Before renders her tune complete To its last notes of euphony! The offering of her tune is a sentinel of delusion - Its euphony to conspire And lure the mind to ruins of desire! Ignites an ember of vengeance, The beacon of oblivion: Haunting in the light of this transcending void, She plays an offering, a symphony divine! To stray away this obsession, I ignite A fire to cleanse her ruinous existence! On the pyre of memories futile, Her being I had set ablaze! In embrace of her end I inflict, She shrieks in death, aghast with disbelief! A silence in the offing awaits… As her shrieks of death Deafen hearing forever, To shun the apparitions of her unsettling tune In congregation of this eternal silence… Yet in absence of her life and breath, Her tune resounds! Like her shadow in the bleak of thoughts, Haunting this transcendent void! Designed in this conjured specter of thoughts Conceives the reason of her slaughter - The sole beacon to salvage the self from this mire! This mire of an awakened oblivion! As behind every leap of mind is a faith of reason: Conceived in this spectral oblivion, I had ignited a tragic end to my beloved infirmity Scalding her to the end… In weakness to retain Her belongingness till eternity, Her scalded ruins of being How could I let go? For in her presence I had confided my hopes! Aurora and our hopes! Then visions of an oblivion beguiled; And realization loomed With awakening upon this trance. Engulfing the light of inevitable reality! As a mind escapes the agonies of truth, And beseeches to comforts of delusion Conjured by the specter! Haunting in the light of this transcending void: She plays an offering, a symphony divine! Yet in ruins of her death she appalls, Cause her symphony resounds! As the conscience of reality wanes, And a specter is conceived In the wake of this oblivion!
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The screen of sanity yet collapses When resounds the tune - Her serenade chasing the mind, Like a shadow of her departed being. To guard these gaping flaws of my conscience Clouded in distress of her loss, I reflect on my hideous act And behold her ruins in the cellar! Where she lies still, Draped in death I had inflicted! When the rendering of her tune ceases, Lost in the silence again… Reflecting the morrow of our fates Now despised forever, to appease whims Of a mind bewildered. As her existence I have shunned, No more shall her belongingness thrive To comfort my fears of bereavement. Yet the germ of remembrance dwells Like a leech on existence, Shrouding my deprived being In the murk of thoughts. Lost in the grieving memories of our hopes, Now forever chastised! To escape the ends of fate Beneath this masquerade to reconcile! Embraced in the specter of thoughts, The wake of this oblivion Is an antithesis To this powerless reality. Empowering with the will of a delusional mind, In this chastising masquerade I had adorned! Denying to sail through those uncertain depths, Holding on her lone bark of hope; As time flows endlessly to reach its brink - To this offing of fate, Where our gradual ends await; Beyond the horizon Of this futile span of being! In horrors of this unknown end, To preserve the fleeting mind From the lure of her momentary comfort, I chose to evade the design of our destiny! As the mind in oblivion lost its trail Between reality and a reverie, When beliefs spawned from a nihilist void Behind the veils of this chastising masquerade... Breached are the realms of sanity, When the mask of this conjured belief Searches for its face amongst forsaken perceptions. This mask, an embodiment For the darker shades of thought! Aurora is lost! And a muffled voice of conscience Murmurs with regrets beneath its veil; When remembrance, Like the light from an eclipsed moon Shines from the past, To strew shadows of the self on this path of time. Like a wayfarer on the journey of subsistence, I watch these infinite passing penumbra of thoughts! When visions from the further appall! In horrors of this unknown end, To preserve the fleeting mind From the lure of her momentary comfort, I chose to evade the design of our destiny. As the ghosts of our dreams flutter in the distant, With wings to transcend These eternal clouds of despair. In a sky fallen under the breath of life, Where those clouds forever gloom With the mourn of her loss.
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This stench of gloom Leads through the harrows of time… Rooted in a miasma of blues, Reeked in the course of subsistence Through a futile realm, to a terminus Where this journey shall cease. Bound between this juncture Of being, and of ends! Enduring the flow of time is the elixir Of escape, from the surfeit of existence. In a life which dwells Off the faint tinge of content, Dripping from dregs of purpose; A scant purpose for holding on To the mundane of being, In its transient significance. When the morbid walls of constraint Rise like a contagion, To seize our realms of desire And shroud them forever beneath the oblivion; Where they lie forsaken Forever into the further, Craving for a breath to beseech Unto the salvation, of ends ethereal! Enduring the flow of time Is the elixir of escape, Further onto the offing of a redemption… Through waves of despair, I drink from the Chalice of Life; Relishing this poison for the mind In embrace of death and its liberation, I relinquish the gates of my realm! Onward to the exile of after-life, Towards the reach of our Elysium As the end approaches! Steeped in the blood of fates slaughtered, The end – to cease my servitude of being. Where smothered by a mind dissociated, Reveries haunt and reality corners The self, to another traceless destination In the abyss of life’s powerless realms… From there I had often sought For her signs, the serenade! Her offering to our symphony of dreams; Now with this end, an exile from this being, Grasping onto the last morsels of breath, I hear it resounds! Exploring the finites of existence Through countless thoughts, Bound between this juncture Of being, and of ends! Rendering now further till the end, The lure of her last notes Like a pleasant beckon for my departure, On to the grounds afar; Where draped in the wounds Of my maddening whims, She forever waits upon… With the dawn of end’s hour Time gazes past to see, The germ of life withers; As I transcend the vanity of my existence! Further from these sheltered realms To dimensions beyond death! Where sublimes eternity, To reap those seeds of hope Which a fallen life had failed to sow… Then approaches the end To redeem the self from this being; The end - an ethereal beckoning From beyond of death, This brink, like the grasp of escape From this engulfing mire of reality! Now resounds the specter, As her serenade completes To its last notes of euphony! And this marrow of life Bereaves its last strands… An end ethereal, to transcend till her. A unison in the further!
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For these expressions Of my life, of her being, Shall fade buried in the lapse of time; Like another damned tale Left forsaken, in the lairs of lunacy… My hour ends as all thoughts subside, And life succumbs to the fall; Immersed in the darkness of death, Like drifting into a spectral oblivion…

about

Ambitious Indian band FRAGARAK from New Delhi have come up with an album of epic proportions. Featuring Louis Rando of IMPIETY on drums, they've fabricated elaborate songs that are both atmospheric and suspenseful. Their first album was groundbreaking in its vision, but with 'A Spectral Oblivion' they've truly proved their worth. This is a statement of sorts that bands from this part of the world too can come up with music that's original. Though steeped in classic death metal, they've done well to expand upon that style and add their own aura of mysticism and intrigue. Albums like these probably won't ever be replicated, but there's enough material here to last a while.

The record comprises significant musical collaborations with Louis Rando (ex-Nervecell, Impiety, The Furor) for drums on the entire album, Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony) for a guest guitar solo appearance and Pavithra Chari (Shadow & Light) for Indian Classical guest vocals.

- "It requires several moving parts, pristine musicianship, stunning imagination, and impeccable taste to produce something like A Spectral Oblivion."- METAL ADDICTS (US)

- "Fragarak pushed the envelope of tech-death, exposing a tender and intelligent side to a brittle subgenre." - METAL INJECTION (US) 9/10

- "Fragarak proves that music can be beautiful, brutal, and technical all within the thread of extreme metal." - MOSHPITNATION-MI (US) 4.5/5

- METAL HAMMER (UK) 7/10

- "one mammoth release" - ROLLING STONE (India)

- "a fascinating trip" - NO CLEAN SINGING (US)

- "Get in here to have your face melted!" - TOILET OV HELL (US)

- "A beautiful album" - METAL EYES (Italy) 8.7/10

- "never once thought I’d heard a death metal record so intrinsic and so other-worldly such as “A Spectral Oblivion”" - HEAD-BANGER REVIEWS (US)

- "The band seems to reach the peak of any composition and musical expression" - RTMB MUSIC (Spain) 9.5/10


ROLLING STONE PREMIERE -
rollingstoneindia.com/premiere-fragarak-new-single-rumination-ii-reflections/

METAL INJECTION PREMIERE -
www.metalinjection.net/av/song-premiere/exclusive-premiere-fragarak-this-chastising-masquerade

NO CLEAN SINGING PREMIERE -
www.nocleansinging.com/2017/08/14/an-ncs-premiere-fragarak-the-phaneron-eclipsed/

TOILET OV HELL PREMIERE -
www.toiletovhell.com/track-premiere-fragaraks-fathoms-of-delirium/

OFFICIAL VIDEO -
youtu.be/AltzGQDNDDY

credits

released October 30, 2017

All music by Fragarak
All Lyrics by Supratim Sen

Fragarak is:
Supratim Sen: Vocals
Kartikeya Sinha: Bass, Clean Vocals
Arpit Pradhan: Guitars, Clean Vocals
Ruben Franklin: Guitars

Drums recorded by Louis Rando from November to December 2016 in Perth, Western Australia
Lead guitars in ‘Fathoms of Delirium’ by Vishal J. Singh of Amogh Symphony
Alap in Ālūcinārī IV – The Fall' by Pavithra Chari of Shadow and Light
Alap in Ālūcinārī II and III by Disha
Additional vocals in ‘In Rumination II – Reflections’ and ‘Specter – An Oblivion Awakens’ – by Akshay Fotedar
All Choir Arrangements by Ruben Franklin

Recorded at 300 BPM and Fragarak’s studio from October to December 2016 in Delhi and Kerala, India 2016
Produced by Rahul Mehalwal and Fragarak
Mixed and Mastered by Nikolas Quemtri at NRQ Studios, Ukraine

Artwork by Dixon (Intuitive Designs)

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Extreme Metal with unique expressions of a brooding atmosphere, progressively laced with transcendent passages and somber melodies.

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