Black Tide

Heavy space metal, slow half-time lurch with bursts of double-kick drive, down-tuned distorted guitars in vast layered riffs, grinding bass, huge toms and cymbal crashes, eerie analog synth drones and distant choir-like pads; verses stripped to a tense low riff, choruses opening into towering sustained chords, a dissonant lead break before a final crushing refrain; forceful gritty lead vocal, wide dense guitars, dark cinematic production with clear punch and long cavernous tails #aimusic #new #music #metal #spacemetal #darkmetal #altmetal I watched the last blue planet turn A coal beneath a lid of ash The names we carved in stone went dim The dust erased them in a flash You asked what waits beyond the veil I felt it breathe against the hull Darkness, take the shape of everything Fold the vast and swallow every flame I am small beneath your endless weight Still I face the mouth that has no name Cold iron groans in orbit’s grip The window fills with ink-black seas A thousand dead suns drift apart Like embers drowned beneath the deep No prayer can reach the silent edge No hand can hold the falling sky Darkness, take the shape of everything Fold the vast and swallow every flame I am small beneath your endless weight Still I face the mouth that has no name Not sleep, not death, not empty space But something vast that knows my face It draws me close; I do not bend The dark may close, but I won’t end Darkness, take the shape of everything Fold the vast and swallow every flame I am small beneath your endless weight Still I face the mouth that has no name Darkness, crown the silence overhead Let the final orbit break and fall I will stand where every signal ends One last breath against it all The black tide climbs The stars go out I remain