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Eyes Cut Open

by Hums In The Dark

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1.
In solitude and darkness he is taken. The light flickers upon a shadow in front of him. It does not speak, it does not bend, and slowly moves closer. Just before a glove covers his mouth he lets out a scream of fear, growing ever distant in the night, but the trees stand guard and keeps it from finding a saviour. The footsteps of the devil are almost all that is heard, and a light scraping of his prey follow into the void. Scraping, steps, dirt, and dust.
2.
A vision of clarity Comes with the division of view Nothing but the projected thoughts When the blind arise and alter this life And in the caves of our minds our demons awaken An open throat scream at our indifferent world Torn from flesh, a timeless decay Unto the stream of inexistence Shredded spirit fading away Are you open to the world around you Is reality clearer when nothing stands in the way To whom it concerns the pain is endless But to those blinded in security this is only passing
3.
Drawn awake by a loss of breath Feeding the glow dancing on the tapestry In his mind a feeling stirs Something seeping, something strange An acid stench of ash rising from the bottom floor Bright notes appear, vibrating in the light In the depths of his home his mistakes are held high In here there is peace and clarity Brought down from his fear and desperate hopes This death comes expected and without loss Nothing will be saved for me, all shall be lost And with reawoken purpose he stares at the abyss
4.
Violation at every level keeps the soul at a loss. With every opening door there is growing and waning trust. Violation at every level keeps the soul at a loss. And when the shadows may fold around you the void seems all you can trust. With a fading whimper all but knowing escapes you. And the window in your cell seems to bring the stars closer. With every opening door it may end, and there there is nothing but the ever growing trust.
5.
Concede 01:11
6.
In the midst of the station, shadows of clouds Sharp, directional lights flow down the track The fog thickens, her vision now focused Wether or not she may still live, she lets go Gone are the dreams she kept too tightly A scattering echo on the station walls Steps of desperation by the fence The air stops moving, a wall of coldness breaks through their path In the instant the driver can see, this time ends A lifetime lost in the shadows held dear She chose not to choose and she holds no fear As her splattering brain covers the window All that was her is taken away Do you reach for her now, when the world has moved on In a monstruos pace like the train, without a care Our place corrodes and our choices put aside Ours will allways dissappear, so will our ideals in time The broken bones of those fighting out of fear
7.
The human race is in the midst of many great steps in its evolution. The way we act among ourselves is changing drastically. Some cling desperately to the old, some move on forward, and some move around in the in-between area, disconnected from the flock. We are corroding our stereotypes, we are changing our society, as we always have. It's a journey beyond any other that we will truly experience but sadly we will always be forced to only see a glimps of it all, a frame of reality as it passes us by into the neverending existance.
8.
Under the weight of our world even hell must collapse, and with shouting and screaming not one demon lasts. The running steps of madmen aflame as their reason relapses unto crumbling minds. And there you find hope, among the desperate few men. You gather the air and let go a muffled scream. With feet on the soil, scraping and hurting. Your soul seems revived and crawling for mercy. You struggle and pull every limb, every muscle. But the rope still holds, you do nothing but shuffle. And then the world is torn apart.
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10.
Summer 07:33
Aflame as it tells of my wrongdoing Without the life which I have chosen Dragging me down judging, repeating words What may escape my broken lips could never comfort them now So many others would have lived another life or more Another life for me, another taken, nothing gained Dragging me down Visions and memories I have forsaken Without reason And nothing is what remains So many others would have lived another life or more Judge me, take me down Without reason What is taken is with fear The inner monologue will not silence And it screams at me...
11.
We're far enough, unsheathe your blade. Ripples and waves as the man is let free. It all ends with a sigh. And then time took it all back.

about

Eyes Cut Open is a concept album with the theme of psychological terror. During the entire album the story Bereft plays out, telling of a kidnapping that does not end well. Each of the four main tracks then tell their own story in the same theme, stories of people put through deeply demanding, but also fundementally perspective-altering, situations.

Originally just meant as yet another of many albums released fairly often for the sake of practice this one took over a year to make, mostly because of scheduling issues with the recording of vocals and at the end complications going under the name of cancer. The added production time however made the mix change a lot (for the better) and allowed for the addidtion of some bonus content.

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released January 17, 2015

Writing, Recording, Playing (drums and percussion, guitars, bass, clean vocals and dark backup growl), Mixing, Mastering, and original cover image - Oskar Kristensson
oskarkristensson.weebly.com

Writing help on Eyes Cut Open and Summer - Alexander Johnsen

Guitar on ambient for all Bereft tracks - Adrian van den Broëck
www.facebook.com/BismuthProject?pnref=about.overview

Some ambient field recordings including water on Bereft Part 4 - Jacob Romano

General advice and help with writing and mixing/mastering as well as emotional support and a really nice piano sound - Victor Engström
soundcloud.com/cortexorchestrator

Good friendship and fancy pants - Vile Hartman

Bright (lead) growl vocals (and some clean backup), writing help with lyrics, and all graphical bonus content (including final polish of cover image) - Anton Ehn
ehn.artstation.com
19aehn94@gmail.com

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Hums In The Dark is an Experimental/Progressive project with Metal and Rock at its core.

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