Monuments of Exalted

by Infestum

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Marshall Lochbaum Vicious Dissection-style black metal with fascinating industrial and symphonic elements lurking in the mix. Favorite track: Obsidian Exile.

Waldo It has been four long years since Infestum released the"Renaissance" EP. "Monuments of Exalted" is a great surprise, and actually one of my favorite 2014 albums. What are you waiting for ? Get it now ! Favorite track: Ordo Infestum.

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1.	Void of Nebulae 05:49	lyrics

2.	Ordo Infestum 04:47	lyrics

3.	Iron Hammer upon the Skull of Slave 04:13	lyrics

4.	Temple of Mirrors 04:11	lyrics

5.	The Art of the Beast 02:10
6.	The Evil One (Venom cover) 03:44	info
7.	Zero Beyond 03:50	lyrics

8.	Obsidian Exile 04:02	lyrics

9.	Renaissance 04:12	lyrics

10.	Monuments of Exalted 05:07	lyrics

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‘Monuments of Exalted’ album was recorded and mixed at PsySonic sound studio (September 2013 – February 2014). Mixing and mastering by Wrathtodd. Produced by Infestum.

Cover artwork and photo sessions were done by Gerda Ditrih.
Piano in ‘Ordo Infestum’, ‘The Art of the Beast’ and ‘The Evil One (Venom cover)’ tracks were created by Mono Son.

‘Ordo Infestum’ lyrics contains some excerpts from of ‘Liber Novus’ book (‘The Incantations’ Chapter) also known as ‘The Red Book’, written by Carl Gustav Jung.

‘Monuments of Exalted’ lyrics contains excerpts from ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’ book written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Current line-up:

Ion The Saint (vocals)
Wrathtodd (guitars, synths)
Forneus (drums)
Werwolfe (bass)

Infestum would like to express the endless gratitude to everyone who helped and supported us while making this album. Your emotions and thoughts are imprinted in this album for eternity!

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released March 5, 2014

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Infestum Belarus

INFESTUM is the two-men project from Belarus, located in Munich (Germany) and Lviv (Ukraine). The project is exploring and mixing music and philosophy in different dimensions of Black Metal, Death Metal and Industrial since 2000 a.b.

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Track Name: Void of Nebulae: Among the human ghosts who never lived
eternity at last achieved
All universe had lost materiality
You fall into alternative reality

Eternity
Duality

All previous memories erased
There is nothing feels like form and weight
And like beginning and the end
At once you're rock and grain of sand

And what is fiction
You had been terrified
The cruel instintction
The Void of Nebulae

And what is real? What is fake?
And what to feel, to see, to take?
And no more reasons to regret
That you where alive and now you're dead

And what is fiction
You had been terrified
The cruel instintction
The Void of Nebulae

You're dead for all what lives in lies
Thinks their feels are real life
Thick balance on the edge of knife
The crucial moment has arrived

On the other side of your mind
Where is nothing to exist
Only shadows in mist
Do you call me your priest?
Want you find the way out?
Eyes opened wide
Deep in the night...
Void of Nebulae
Track Name: Ordo Infestum: I swear to kneel before no one
The root of slavery expelled
My God is Overman to come
All idols of foretime are felled

Decision...

Decision transforms into destiny
The destiny to choose the Path
Among the Stars

I swear to decimate the scum
To be the enemy of all
What rots in dungeons of the mind
Degenerated world would fall

Redemption...

Redemption transforms into renaissanse
The renaissance of God on Earth
The world to come

One word that was never spoken.
One light that was never lit up.
An unparalleled confusion.
And a road without end.

(Excerpt from “LIBER NOVUS”. C.G.Jung)

I swear to grasp the mysteries
The ways to rule my universe
And puissance of mind reveals
The dark reality's reverse

Ascension...

Ascension transforms into sorcery
The sorcery of intellect
Behold the God

I hail New Order
Dedication begins
I hail New Order
It is time to reveal the Self
I hail New Order

I swear to sacrifice myself
For passage to the Golden Age
Apparent omens I observe
And ready to escape this cage

Oblation...

Oblation transforms into Phoenix rise
The Phoenix is my Sign
My banner of rebirth

Amen, you are the lord of the beginning.
Amen, you are the star of the East.
Amen, you are the song that sounds far over the water.
Amen, you are the beginning and the end.

(Excerpt from “LIBER NOVUS”. C.G.Jung)

I hail New Order
Dedication begins
I hail New Order
It is time to reveal the Self
Track Name: Iron Hammer upon the Skull of Slave: I stand before the crowds of slaves
Poor bastards thinking they are free
I hear the clank of their faith
To fabled god of selfish dreams

Fake believers
The truth I deliver
Leading the blind
To the end of mankind

I sermonize the Word of Truth
But they are waiting for the tricks
The only food for scant belief
Like testimony for the weak

Fake believers
The truth I deliver
Leading the blind
To the end of mankind

This Spire goes through the worlds
The Tree of ten Sephirot
Here I crucify myself
My mind transmits to outer space

They need a wizard not a priest
Who turns the water into wine
And loosing blood in fight with Beast
But in three days returns to life

I rise upon the throne of flesh
Channeling to another dimension
My faith transforming to Will
The final stage of procreation
The God

I have the miracle they worth
Hard Iron Hammer of the truth
Wide opened eyes becoming curse
With lash of fears I am leading forth
Track Name: Temple of Mirrors: In Temple Of Mirrors I see The God
All World is reflected perception of mine
I draw this illusion by paints of my blood
The Will to Create is my vital lifeline

Soaring the skies, diving the water
Enveloped in flames I felt down to Earth
To enter the Gates

In Temple of Mirrors I see the flesh
It borders my Mind in dimensions of Time
Without my thoughts it is only a trash
Existence turns it into source of Light

In Temple of Mirrors I see the Beast
My Mind is a vessel with poison of hate
It crawls in my being like a shadow in mist
The hand of destruction that is my fate

In Temple of Mirrors I see no one
My World will exist while I am alive
Between Here and Nowhere I'm standing alone
All Universe falls from edge of my knife

Soaring the skies, diving the water
Enveloped in flames I felt down to Earth
To enter the Gates
Track Name: Zero Beyond: lay basic principle is pain
And mental suffering of Word
Avoid is get into insane
Or go with stream of inner world

To die is only way of life
Prepare to leave your body soon
Your future is a carrion rive
Pass through the labyrinths of doom

You are living in a realm of Pest
The only fate to feed my mind.
Without goal, without rest
And only fortune is to die

You need the haven to escape
The glamour selfish lullaby
Your ideology was raped
So what? Tomorrow You will die!

I am not your savior
I deny your lies
Zero Beyond

Zero Beyond
I am not your savior
I am the King of disguise

Your soul is sentenced to erase
Defined as virus of mankind
Annihilating Death’s embrace
For putrid flesh and shallow mind

The only guilt is you are brute
Eternal life for You is fiction
All this for You forbidden fruit
Your life is prays to crucifixion!

Redemption fails
There is no mercy for the blind
Baptized by nails
Your Heaven is recycling plant
Track Name: Obsidian Exile: I face the eternity
Standing at the end.
I see the reality
With the eyes of blind.

Not someone anymore,
Not any one at last,
Not on the pass,
But The Pass by myself.

Not gazing the stars
But Shining among.
Everything in me
And I am in everything

I dissapear in light,
Two infinities till dawn,
Nothing endless exists,
Nothing mortal resides.

Absorbing the substance,
Creating dimensions,
Evolving misanthropy,
Setback of ambitions.

Here and now I'm alone,
But time doesn't exist,
Natural born Messiah,
I invocate my priests.

Stars on skies are burning
Stars under my skin I see
Mind and Flesh Reunion
Summoning the Father of God in Me.

Here and now I'm alone,
But time doesn't exist,
Natural born Messiah,
I invocate my..

Stars on skies are burning
Stars under my skin I see
Mind and Flesh Reunion
Summoning the Father of God In...

Stars on skies are burning
Stars under my skin I see
Mind and Flesh Reunion
Summoning the Father of God
Track Name: Renaissance: Total reunion of thoughts
I see invasion of clear mind
Awaken ghosts of renaissance
the key of wisdom lies behind

All natural beauty shines again
The scripts have risen from the dust
And celebration of Insane
Is gone away to tecnopast

I declorate New Age of Man
The renaissance of God in flesh
Altar of Pride Will rise again
embodiment of plebeian crash

All mystics of the human mind
Reborn from chaos of the faith
doctrines of rotten church denied
The only law is might and grace

The walls of Babylon rebuilt
And towers grow to reach the skies
Renewal by supernal wilt
After millenium of lies

I declorate New Age of Man
The renaissance of God in flesh
Altar of Pride Will rise again
embodiment of plebeian crash

Awake!

Perceived Divinity of being
Which holds the power to create
Revolted mind will spread the wings
To be the masters is Our fate
Track Name: Monuments of Exalted: Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation;
and I look downward because exalted I am.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
I love him who lives to know, and who wants to know so that the overman may live some day. And thus he wants to go under.
I love him who loves his virtue, for virtue is the will to go under and an arrow of longing.
I love him who casts golden words before his deeds and always does even more than he promises: for he wants to go under.

Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation;
and I look downward because exalted I am.

I love him who justifies future and redeems past generations: for he wants to perish of the present.
I love him whose soul is deep, even in being wounded, and who can perish of a small experience: thus he goes gladly over the bridge.
I love him who has a free spirit and a free heart: thus his head is only the entrails of his heart, but his heart drives him to go under.
I love all those who are as heavy drops, falling one by one out of the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.

Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation;
and I look downward because exalted I am.

Behold, I am a herald of the lightning
and a heavy drop from the cloud;
but this lightning is called overman.

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