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Penance

by Of Spire & Throne

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tr_🇺🇦 Any band that can make a song work with triple vocals of angry drunk, cookie monster and squealing pig deserves some slack. Listen to the last bit of Reliquary for a poignant introduction to this outlandish sludge monster. Favorite track: Reliquary.
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Darknight This is so good that its unbelievable to explain why. Penance is a badass album! It oozes heaviness with tons of sludginess mixed with dark atmospheric tones. Of Spire & Throne have created a stunning record. Favorite track: Their Shadow Cast.
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eilidhpyre If you never got a chance to hear these guys live, you need some awesome speakers and listen to this loud to get the full experience. Heaviness that creates a thick, gloomy atmosphere full of dread. One of my very favourite local bands. Favorite track: Reliquary.
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Giz Sorcerer at the moment. The atmosphere and variation, the feel, is just superb. Favorite track: Sorceror.
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1.
From Dust 07:23
2.
Reliquary 13:04
reveal to the guiding hand as it falls to expose the will to the words that speak through years the veneer of time these failures upheld while eyes are rent from dream by altared vision after and after image riven from dust given forth to sight an offering returned return to youth return to failure in waste in vain see now see now in waste in vain a lifetime of vision is blindness deceiving the image with shadow upon shadow see now exposed see now revealed beyond time and light the hand is bound unto the heart beyond the eye beyond the dream the hand will reach to guide or fall to grasp the lie of light the will inert the eyes lost words fall silent tongues held in wait futile demand failure upheld see now see now all I've ever known secede to me so that I may taste these fruits of all I've made hold me down to choke upon the body of these rotten labours resisting fallen wraiths in hostile whisper a missive to grace, a revelation to a burdened soul see now that dark and light have always been as one lies told to choices made belief as I lie still blind me and I'll wander
3.
following in guilt the frailty of the ward shield it from deception as it fades from me regret will form my armour for the dearth to come these years worn down pursuit of self a search to find the centre at expense of the other and there after all these years a lone figure standing a duty of protection to a shared burden we the carriers of time brought together a sacrifice for the ordeal of elegance reckoning reckoning reckoning reckoning leave this flesh stricken by longing cleave the whole as the spirit withers roles exchanged time will know this loss worthlessness a legacy of grief tethered to a mask of strength resentment this foul memory trapped in word and thought never to reach you caught in the expulsion of this bitter wash deception of the self for expense of the other hold me up as I bring you down failure is my constant as time withers all and now I see the age your words become my own regret my ward I shall protect I shall preserve these years I've known will haunt me this shame will live
4.
Sorceror 07:57
what will remain will return time conceals in the looking discard what's temporal for the view is chosen the past and future cast
5.
In The Wake 13:38
now end it all in the presence of that simple image in the presence of constant dread the presence of loss years hoarded and overwrought with the need to last caught between the wounding past and a loathsome future weary in their presence after all this time laid waste imposing upon ease inducing loss a requiem to honour the memories no longer recalled such value in decay a need to withdraw explore the unmediated a lone voice to years lost another dream swept aside for the merely repeating surrounded by the means to fail again a lone voice these years lost these vows to which I have been bound weary of the grip I've held wrought with vision no longer sought my heart first opened to boundaries expanse all was lost in instant for now I wield fear and risk I've known the steps I take this barren surround
6.
Dissident 07:30
fingers bound centred then severed hands alone holding the dreams of old never to be as the mural never to be like the wounds unknown hoarded years revealed to the wistful eye stifled heart exposed to the waiting pain in wait in wait in wait in wait look down these hands conjoined their simple comfort staid look down these hands they tell of lives to be look down these hands held to one and other look down these hands I’ve always known look down trapped unliving straining against a lifetime striving to leave behind fingers bound these broken hands are mine alone never to be mine alone

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released December 8, 2018

Recorded by Stu Gordon at Chamber Studio and Wall of Sound Studios, November 2016 to July 2017.

Mixed by Andrew Oswald at Secret Bathroom, November 2017 to April 2018.

Mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio, April to May 2018.

Artwork by Sarah Green.

Design and layout by Alan J. Tait.

Ali Lauder - guitar, vocals
Donna Stewart - drums, synthesiser, piano
Joe Turner - bass, double bass, electronics

additional vocals on Reliquary by Matt Davies
From Dust based on original music written by Matt Davies
sample on From Dust taken from a recording by Bruce Cowie

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Of Spire & Throne Edinburgh, UK

Of Spire & Throne have been chipping the same few down-tuned fragments of riff off the doom coal-face at the end of the same dank and airless tunnel since 2009. They have no plans to resurface.

Ali Lauder
Donna Stewart
Joe Turner
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