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Come Forth To Me

by AKURION(Official Bandcamp)

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Decimate the legions Foes of today Kinsmen of the past Destined for spiritual blindness Triumphant in Destitute glory Trumpets blaze a porous path Stricken warriors of wooden promises Become the separated Of limb and mind Beyond space and time Leave them scars It’s who you are Leave them scars A corrosive star Leave them scars Imperial in denial Leave them scars Royal blood trial Leave them scars Formidable while fasting Leave them scars The Great Not To Be Named Who stands the pass? Make yourself known All bolster and bravado On the surface deadlier than atonement Leave them scars Worn as a headdress Innocence bears witness to Savagery among the enemies Dignity and shame Skillfully battle over your conscience Respect, loyalty Family earned by your very existence Victory, dominance Capably attained through your persistence Magnum Innominandum Magnum Innominandum Magnum Innominandum Initiate, few know hesitation And the impulse to live by duty and choice Necrotic skin hardened by the flames of conviction Take them all down by the head Damned through clean dismemberment Celebrations that defecate on the hordes of dead Leave them scars Impregnable citadel walls Leave them scars Of sky-high bones Leave them scars Mountain peaks pale in height Leave them scars Façade towers the sun Leave them scars Statues of tainted worship Leave them scars Crumbles in truth A festive dance of Percussive persuasions Decries the dismantling Of eternal winter rule…
2.
In the land of the craven Supremely lacking valor Afraid to verbalize Secure and safe in the coward’s den A face of a lion But deer of heart Stoic by nature Recreant at birth…birth Recreant at birth Scurry x2 Coward x2 Scurry x2 Coward x4 Sure as the rain and the coming storm Petals from a rose eventually wither to black Subsist in sorrow Others must be the ones to pay In your maniacal carnival This show goes down by your standards alone Pathetic, weak of mind Missin’ too much to list Behind the curtain, nervous Unbelievably empowered…a bit Empowered Sure as the tides rise and the moon eclipses Petals from a rose eventually wither to black Wither to black Animal gone wrong Animal long gone Inept misfit Social cripple Pitiless Damn inglorious Sick as fuck Gunning anywhere Speak not their names Nor their family line Bury them deep in the confines of history Scurry x2 Coward x2 Scurry x2 Coward x2 Sure as absolute judgment besets you Petals from a rose eventually wither to black Be assured that your end day becomes you Petals from a rose always wither to black To black Wither to black
3.
The curious village holds many a secret The poor know no better They await the horror The outsiders say that it’s the only way Huddle in the warmth of their ruins The goat boy is born of filth Summoning ancient beings (Yog-Sothoth) Bastard child spits liar’s venom His growth’s nothing short of abnormal (Yog-Sothoth) Cloven hooves impede quickness The abomination cries utter sickness (Yog-Sothoth) Ghoulish traditions are sinister rites The lurker lies in wait to escape Refrain from resisting This abhorrent monstrosity Allow them no disturbance Invite their meaningful chanting Succumb to their invoking Give yourself without prejudice Yet ye see them Yet ye see them not (x4) As silent as the grave The old ones are un-dimensioned The fetid ancient things Their hands are at your throat Yet ye see them Yet ye see them not (x4) Thievery under a night’s shade The book that none shall read They are aware of this evil Degenerate inhuman The canine disturbs the master plan Uncloaking otherworldly creatures The menace no longer breathes our air Nor stinks a trace Nor claims disgrace Wiped of its polluted treachery …And so we three from Arkham make the trek to the isolated and damned village in and amongst the rolling hills and rumbling mountains. We come to spare its people from the invisible, nameless enormity (Yog-Sothoth) As grotesque and dreadful this abnormality is, we must bond together in order to send it back to the beyond where it belongs. Otherwise we have failed these doomed souls. The alter rises like a king’s crown Atop the summit’s reach We swore to defeat the ghastly fiend Our sermons, it shall never breach Yet ye see them Yet ye see them not (x4) Venerable hymns commence Dins that can make your ears bleed The lifeless whippoorwills No longer calls out to the dead Dense foliage wilts abruptly As it passes back to its netherworld It can never exist again Can never exist again Can never exist again
4.
They circle the monument, the last standing reminder Heads are hung low, somehow motionless and undone Etching effigies of smoking odes out of cinder Why the strange gathering of the righteous and unjust? In the garden of souvenirs Where the dead lie like blankets One after another in succession Row after row Delicately lined side by side Blending perfectly As though they were abusive little homes In a silent subdivision A dreary town Any town Anywhere Come into my garden of souvenirs Where my friends are deader than dirt And dirtier than the dead Where the tombstones Give shade to the quiet ones And the trees above them Cry out to the sun Give them life through memories As the buried weave their tales The whispers on the horizon Suggests a breath of stale air Deeply… Once… An offer to steal its effervescence And embrace its stench of misery A stillness that only thaw knows As uplifting as skepticism And downtrodden as certainty Any year young To solemnly inhabit This grave dwelling Below the roots Feeds insects our flesh Cuisine of our Gods So, welcome to my garden of souvenirs Come one, come all In the common spirit of things We all convene In remembrance of the gardens we’re always forgotten in In remembrance of the gardens we’re always forgotten in Come into my garden of souvenirs Where my friends are deader than dirt And dirtier than the dead Where the tombstones Give shade to the quiet ones And the trees above them Cry out to the sun Give them life through sanctity Casting doubt within the shadows Much larger than the deprived crypt Crushing weight of mother earth Punishes rotten boxes of despair Deep in your stony lair Deep in your stony lair
5.
Lady doom of eternal night She comes to greet me My family, painfully obsolete They come to patronize me Good little bees a buzzin’ wholesome Fixing my golden honey combed hair Such a queen like affair Phantoms blow a breeze enough to freeze Lift scorching fevers above the crimson sheets Confront a grim grin to a smile Extremely far from near and near a mile Heavy set eyes Nothing to epitomize Spine as stiff as stone Bedsores to the bone Cancerous fucking breed From my pores I bleed From my pores I bleed Bedsores to the bone Paper thin devoid of any glow Bedsores to the bone I fear the dark I fear the dark Longing for the grand departure A well planned great escape Sunken into pillows, fluffed just right Ninety pounds into the grave Sulking around by the hour And the hour into days And the days into eternity Won’t you sit by my bed one last time? My death mask is imprinted like a foreign tattoo unknown to me until now It’s permanent and encouraged; the pain dissipates from my fleshy shell Come forth to me The skeptical parade of the lost Marches to the beat of them dyin’ hearts Slows to a crawl like a southern drawl The distant passage awaits my arrival Just outside the halls by my room Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Quietly whispering my name from the corridor…Mabel Glimpse at the nauseating collection of do-gooders and bed wetters The costumed caravan bears masks of resentment It holds a place of council A place of worship, a place to rest Yet I find no need to follow No need to follow
6.
Come forth bearing disease A lifetime’s worth given surreptitiously Clandestine disguise only hides so much Cover your eyes and preach it as such Walk with me through fire and soil Render the pure to burn and spoil Amass torment with signature bliss Bountiful comprehensions are hardly amiss Hammered the message home Pound it into clay Scoff at the decadent amounts of decay Well then, sing the blues my son The aural spectrums are beckoning Help garner thoughts of deception Fool’s contempt for those who are in the know Regrettably, although you stand in defiance Calm, collected and strokin’ the ego Behind that cast iron façade Lies a weakened, lonely boy An infant toy So far gone and longing to return To a distant level of maturity A heightened sense only just begins to spurn Amass torment with signature bliss Bountiful comprehensions are hardly amiss Hammered the message home Pound it into clay Scoff at the decadent amounts of decay Well then, sing the blues my son The aural spectrums are beckoning Help garner thoughts of deception Fool’s contempt for those who are in the know Wallow in magnificent pity x4 Sorrow’s serendipity Swallow your serenity Hollow becomes humanity Wallow in magnificent, deficient pity Morose existence is an anesthetic Benumbs the sluggishly dead spirit Inertia beholds a time long past Confuse coping being bored and lethargic Torpid trials declare no winners Only tales of bleeding sinners
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Suffer, it’s what you’ve been taught Deliver punishment beyond recognition Oppression, suffocation, the fear intonates Forever, the bloodletting reign commences Slow roast of an era The terror of mankind It’s simple and effective And runs smooth like butter Spread it upon a toasted culture Swallowed whole, bones and all Eons of swine evisceration Rapes, genocides and party favors Year of the long pig Year of the long pig Year of the long pig Year of the long pig The other, other white meat Human knuckles and feet Any color and creed and sizes and shapes Any color and creed and sizes and shapes Corrupted, demoralized, front the fires of deceit Liquidate the senses, annihilation is complete Crush the feeble bodies, picked clean from their teeth Cast aside, you might welcome this lonely defeat Rotisserie earth blackened by the stench of God Year of the long pig Year of the long pig Year of the long pig Year of the long pig The other, other white meat Human knuckles and feet If you ain’t eating ‘em, then you’re just killing ‘em If you ain’t eating ‘em, then you’re just fuckin’ ‘em Taste it, anticipate the fall of man Indifference, willful exhibitions Race made pyre, crispy swine of mine The flames smoldering in perpetual fire
8.
Degrees of uncertainty Litter your being Like rubbish left in the sun Never dull in the head of creators To drum up the strength to move on To march one step out of line To stagger and collide Overcome Kingdom overcome Kingdom overcome We live outside Outside the box We live outside Outside the show We’ve mentally grown Reaped the seeds we’ve sown Easy come, easy go Never more, never less Follow a new day dawn Shine brightly upon The beautifully drawn Into obscurity Into our past There comes a day A significant day Color blurs become reality Corruptibility enhances Systematically entrenches The gift, the script, the life’s tales The paths less travelled We overcome Kingdom overcome Kingdom overcome “You know, I once had this vision. It was so vivid, like none of it was fiction. You ever felt that?” “Go on.” “It was as if I was an overseer standing on top of the world. No wings, no levitation, no falsehoods, no expectations. Just me. So, you ever experience that?” “No, it seems rather idealistic.” “You’re damn right it does. I was never accountable, always hiding behind the next offering, the next show. But no more! No more! I am in control! I am in control!” You’re lost You can’t find your way Well, once you find your way Navigate through A lifetime of rights And plenty of wrongs Focus on the night Gravitate towards The phantoms that distress you Confront them head on Smother their beliefs Stifle any sounds Acknowledge them completely The narrow way that you’ve chosen Brings you back around Redeemed through perdition A need to control The star hasn’t faded In the blackest of holes Out of what once was And what was always told Kingdom overcome

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released April 10, 2020

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"...That's an incredible amount of talent and the end result is ambitious .."
- Metal Injection
metalinjection.net/av/tech-death-tuesday/canadian-supergroup-akurion-unleash-year-of-the-long-pig-alongside-an-interview-with-the-band

" There are undoubtedly frequent sonic hints that could be compared to the line-up’s collective output elsewhere, yet this is an album and a project that feels more like a multi-decade love letter to all of death metal, particularly focused on forward-thinking experimentation."
- NO CLEAN SINGING
www.nocleansinging.com/2020/03/12/an-ncs-premiere-akurion-bedsores-to-the-bone/

"The song [Leave Them Scars] is a nine-minute ride through devastating progressive death metal passages with enough twists and turns to keep listeners constantly engaged.
- Exclaim!
exclaim.ca/music/article/akurion_find_light_from_darkness_on_leave_them_scars

"A wonderfully twisted offering, Come Forth To Me is the sort of death metal record that makes the skin crawl and the body convulse in honor of the sheer brutality that the group conjure up seemingly at will. Few acts delve into the sheer level of potency that comes natural to Akurion."
- Two Guys Metal Reviews
www.twoguysmetalreviews.com/2020/01/akurion-come-forth-to-me.html

I see “Come Forth To Me” as nothing short of a masterpiece that will provide you with more than you need to survive our current state of epidemic hysteria. Pure passion shines through on this grim death metal recording as these truly masterful musicians come together and pour whatever the have into this record, years in the making, and it shows."
- Death Comes Lifting
www.deathcomeslifting.com/akurion-come-forth-to-me-2020-album-review-redefining-darkness

"In spite of the great variety of ideas that follow one another throughout the album, cohesion is achieved, this album does not sound like a piece or by rambling ideas, this is because the band has interpretive quality as well as quality in the execution, all this gives them identity and that halo of originality that many bands currently pursue and very few achieve." 10/10
- RTMB Music
rtmbmusic.com/reviews/4534/akurion-come-forth-to-me

"The result of these years of persistence, toil, and sadly tragic events is now here. The culmination of this challenging process is an album steeped in creative technicality, and overflowing with range of both stylistic and mood shifts that span the entire length of the record. It serves as a haunting tribute to those whose memory it honors, and testament to the creative vision that each member brought to the table. "
- Heaviest of Art
www.heaviestofart.com/post/exploring-an-agonizing-account-of-grief-an-interview-with-mike-disalvo-akurion

"The new album “Come Forth to Me” is an incredible tour-de-force through the most extreme faces of the genre that will leave the listener utterly bewildered and take no prisoners. Showcasing fabulous musicianship and experimentation as well as plain, uncontained savagery, the group leaves no room for the faint-hearted and delivers one of the most intimidating metal releases to have seen the light of day in 2020."
- Metal Observer
www.metal-observer.com/3.o/review/akurion-come-forth-to-me/

"Their debut full length together is a masterful offering, hinting at all sorts of twists in the myth. A wonderfully twisted offering, Come Forth To Me is the sort of death metal record that makes the skin crawl and the body convulse in honor of the sheer brutality that the group conjure up seemingly at will. Few acts delve into the sheer level of potency that comes natural to Akurion."
- Permafrost Today
permafrost.today/2020/02/03/akurion-hinting-all-sorts-of-twists-in-the-myth/

"...we are served top-notch technical and progressive death metal for almost an hour. Lovely to hear DiSalvo roar again like it did on Cryptopsy's 'Whisper Supremacy' and 'And Then You'll Beg'. In the nine-and-a-half-minute opening song 'Leave Them Scars' he also gets help from Lord Worm (ex-Cryptopsy), Luc Lemay (Gorguts) and JM Leblanc (Vengeful)."
- Arrow Lords Of Metal
arrowlordsofmetal.nl/akurion-come-forth-to-me/

"...this is an album that is unrivaled, and an album of noteworthiness."
- Metal Temple 9/10
www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/a_2/akurion-come-forth

“...Leave Them Scars” being 9:29 of pure progressive death metal, the band reaching high here,, it’s an enjoyable track that races past fast enough, as does considerably more concise second cut “Petals From A Rose Eventually Wither To Black”, the band grinding through technical death metal with lots of breathing room...
bravewords.com/reviews/akurion-come-forth-to-me


"...AKURION have bought the death metal world an incredible debut album. It’s full of powerful atmospheric riffs and raw gritty vocals. This is a well-orchestrated album, a must listen for the fans."
rockoutstandout.com/2020/04/08/album-review-akurion-come-forth-to-me/


"Akurion. Country of origin: Canada; Location: Montréal, Quebec; Status: Active; Formed in: 2012. Genre: Technical Death Metal"
www.metal-archives.com/bands/Akurion/3540439871



Montreal Death Metal act, AKURION, is comprised of Mike DiSalvo (Vocals), Rob Milley (Guitars), Oli Pinard (Bass) and Tommy McKinnon (Drums)....the member's names speak for themselves. Back in 2012, fresh off the last Neuraxis tour, Rob had approached Mike to see if he would be interested in working on some ideas that he had for several new songs. The chemistry was immediate and plans were laid out for lyrical content and general structures and arrangements of the riffs. A year was spent working through the tunes and when the time became paramount to propel the project forward, Tommy and Oli were asked to be involved as they embodied the perfect elements to add to the band.

Four like-minded, well established musicians from the Montreal Underground Metal Scene forged a likely bond through one great equalizer; the love of crafting tunes and developing crushing musical flashes in time. The projects dark overtones, textures and sinister melodies are a major driving force and many layers await the patient listener.


About the Album:
The eight song debut album, Come Forth To Me was engineered and recorded live by Alex Hebert, including overdubs and a majority of guest vocals, at Mastermind Studios in Montreal from April - December 2017 and was mixed and mastered by Jeanne Comateuse at Magma Art & Sound in Germany in March of 2018. Gracing the band with their immense talent, the likes of Lord Worm, Luc Lemay, Jean-Marie Leblanc, Sylvia Hinz, Austin Taylor, Genevieve DiSalvo and Jeanne Comateuse all contributed vocally or musically to the project.

** the band was originally teasing this material back in 2015.. Due to Mike's wife's terminal illness, Genevieve DiSalvo, who sadly left our world in 2018 and Oli's schedule once he joined Cattle Decapitation, the band was put on indefininate hiatus until it felt right and everyone was in a good place to move this band forward.

The time has come. Listen for yourself...

Mike DiSalvo - Vocals (Coma Cluster Void, ex-Cryptopsy)
Rob Milley - Guitars (Neuraxis, Necrotic Mutation)
Oli Pinard - Bass (Cryptopsy, Cattle Decapitation, Neuraxis, Vengeful)
Tommy McKinnon - Drums (Conflux, ex-Neuraxis & ex-Augury)

Reamped, mixed and mastered by Jeanne Comateuse at Magma Art&Sound magma-sound.com


Cover art by Martin Lacroix
Logo and additional Art by Filip Ivanovic
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OFFICIAL BANDCAMP. The story behind Akurion is a rather simple one. It’s a tale of four like minded, well established musicians from the Montreal underground metal scene that have forged a likely bond through the one great equalizer; the love of crafting tunes out of thin air while developing crushing musical flashes in time. ... more

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