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Aveilut

by Scarcity

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Ray The Revelator
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Ray The Revelator A microtonal exploration of loss in which the technique is self-evident and the emotion is palpable. Most excellent. Favorite track: II.
Gender Nihilist
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Gender Nihilist This album hit me in all the right places in a time of deep grief, both in those aligning with the grief and in those aligning with the healing.

But even aside from personal impact, this is an absolute masterpiece and blows me away. I just keep returning to it and returning to it, easily a top contender for album of the year in 2022. Favorite track: IV.
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citysavage What would it sound like if Penderecki composed a black metal requiem? Maybe something like Aveilut. Fascinating album. Emotionally resonant, utterly compelling. Favorite track: II.
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1.
I 07:44
They are never truly gone Those who have shed their forms Their shadows linger on Presence in absence Their promised resolved The world cannot rush in to fill their void
2.
II 10:42
Matter to flesh, matter to flesh Annexed, possessed, and taken away An hour convulsed, quickened by life Echoing in the cold clockwork of starlight Time is a flow, time is a flow Eddies and whorls swirling free Transient canyons in eternity’s frozen sea Guiding you forth into tomorrow Fated to range the fluid terrain O sightless guide, you grope the horizon Seeking some lodestar in vain Until you vanish beneath the crystal waves And the dredge of your weight gives the sea its shape Be without fear When your lungs fail to draw air Be without grief When they bear down, those years Laden with agonies From which you are spared Dissolve, divest the pain Give birth to a new day
3.
III 05:14
Where quiet penitents Meditate on impermanence And ethereal hands Guide mighty blades From point to point On the immanent plan Cut down by the billions Fates clipped from the firmament The cosmic scryer squints And narrows her augury The future a slum Your enclave the present Transience turns on all its old friends The heavens precipitate They do not forefend
4.
IV 08:01
They are never truly gone Those who have shed their forms Their shadows linger on Presence in absence Their promised resolved The world cannot rush in to fill their void We, the shattered, we shall endure In the vales of silence and ash Bodiless, immortal, pure We are invincible, perpetual in the past
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V 13:15
Into the moment your animus drained Into the instant your energies poured The transformation takes hold Consummating the bargain the body made And so you will learn to let go Wracked with ecstasy on your final day Surrendering your every thieved mote Every speck the womb snagged from space Endless potentials collapse As your arc finds its true form Your entirety archived in motion Your borrowed shape never truly gone Sempiternal, perfected Forever, your shadow lingers on

about

There’s a real sense of loss on Brooklyn experimental black metalists Scarcity’s debut album Aveilut, an inescapable presence of the realities of death.

Multi-instrumentalist Brendon Randall-Myers (conductor of the Glenn Branca Ensemble since Branca’s passing) wrote “Aveilut” while processing the sudden deaths of two people close to him, tracked it while caught in Beijing’s first lockdown of 2020, and finished it while surrounded by the overwhelming plague visuals of New York’s early COVID peak. Back in Brooklyn, vocalist Doug Moore (of Pyrrhon, Weeping Sores, Glorious Depravity, and Seputus) soon found himself in the midst of an equally bleak lockdown experience — living next to a funeral home when New York City was America’s COVID epicenter. From conception through development, tangible death surrounded Aveilut.

The result of such a profound closeness with death is the grief-stricken Aveilut, which takes its name from the Hebrew word for mourning. 72-note octaves, alternate tunings, psychoacoustic phenomena andmacro-phrases embody the hugeness of loss, the inexplicable space of death’s void that Randall-Myers faced both on a personal and existential scale. Together with Moore’s gripping vocal delivery and stark lyrics, the album takes the form of a hyperobject, an entity with such vastness and reach that it’s difficult for the human mind to comprehend.

Consisting of one 45-minute composition, the music is black metal roughly in the vein of Jute Gyte, Krallice, Mare Cognitum, and Ehnahre – with hefty doses of post-Branca microtonal guitar abuse, and a cinematic scope that draws on Randall-Myers’ work with orchestras. Aveilut’s mathematical abstraction and lyrical focus on the greatness of the void breed raw emotion, attempting to represent a catastrophe, the vastness and inevitability of things outside our control; as well as a direct expression of grief, a kind of requiem. Though born of Randall-Myers and Moore’s intense intimacy with absence, Aveilut is an attempt to present a harrowing universal representation of death’s true form.

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released July 15, 2022

Scarcity is an experimental black metal project from composer/guitarist Brendon Randall-Myers and vocalist Doug Moore.

Engineered by Colin Marston.

Cover photo by creature five fingered. Cover layout by Alex Eckman-Lawn.

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Experimental black metal from NYC; meditations on loss and endurance.

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