The albums form chapters of the "Conquer or Serve" series, which is expected to have at least three parts in total.
Prolific Australian solo Black Metal project Drowning the Light has just released two albums, or rather one album split into two chapters: "Conquer or Serve I: From Primordial Waters of Chaos" and "Conquer or Serve II: The Natural Law Is Tooth & Claw". Both albums are streaming in full over at the Dark Adversary Productions channel, the project's very own label:
The project's mastermind, Azgorh, offered comments on the themes of the new records, as well as alluding to a potential third chapter:
The first part of this five part ouroboros cycle is "From Primordial Waters of Chaos". Through timeless coagulation, an abandoned sleeping cosmos awakens to a new dawn, standing at the precipice between order and chaos, with the power of Will and the black flame of creation. These waters are from that which has surpassed the laws of nature as we know them, they are that which creates worlds, what came before the dawn.
This full length album explores the depths of the abyss, holding the keys to turn the locks of life, death and godhood... And to be the creating entity beyond the tides. It is raw, atmospheric, melancholic and majestic Black Metal. Yet to create, one must first understand one's own consciousness as an isolate being. And to do that you must be bound in flesh, grounded to the earth, and experience everything that is you and everything that is outside of yourself, through the lens of a sovereign entity in nature.
Then you will be able to truly become those primordial waters.
Although your black flame exists in the fifth dimension and beyond, observing the observable universe, your flesh must adhere to the natural laws...
[...]
The second part of this five part cycle is "The Natural Law is Tooth & Claw". Nature is cruel and unforgiving, it does not care for your feelings, desires, hopes or insecurities. It has an uncompromising harmony and whether humanity exists or doesn't means nothing to the old gods.
This album is feral-hearted, raw, melancholic and majestic Black Metal, with acoustic passages and each season is reflected not only as a season of nature, but a season of mankind's existence within it.
This album is the death of cowering weak fragility. The wolf tearing apart the innocent rabbit or the lamb, which is the cosmos reflected through an act of microcosmic bloodshed, thus this album is that wolf. A reflection of the spirit of this natural world, bound by an ouroboros forever devouring... Are you the head or the tail? Will you survive or fall? There is also beauty reflected in this album, that lulls and lures you, but do not be fooled. The natural world is a world of war, and the natural law is tooth and claw...
And although most choose to be blind to this, the world of mankind and its empires and all its "kindness" and "humanity" is thinly veiled and still exists under that primal natural law, where the naked sword is still kingmaker or king breaker. Do not believe otherwise. And no matter how it is disguised by the powers that loom over you, the sword is now held to your mind, the final and most important land for them to conquer. Regardless, this caitiff species is now in ruin, we are in our winter, and every empire must fall.
Thus the cycle continues in part 3.
More info here: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/
Last edited by Imperator on 11th January, 2025 @ 18:00 UTC
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