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The Faceless Men - Prologue
We failed to rise and reach out for life
We drowned and became a shapeless mass
Unbound ghosts to melt in a freezing crucible where all becomes none…
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The Faceless Men
05:44
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The Faceless Men
All ambition to fail and we find comfort in a deadly routine
As our faces start to fade our dreams and hopes hang on the scaffold
Some nights in my bed I hear words, a whisper from my childhood self
A past long since gone, have I lost the will?
I blend with the faceless men
Greet me for the first time again for tomorrow you won’t remember me
In an aimless life I walk
Amongst hundreds on a traceless trail
A man with no face, I am no one
And so we all march, each step as an echo to the song that was heard a thousand times
I blend with the faceless men, greet me or him, there’s no difference for we are the ones you won’t remember
In an aimless life we walk
We are hundreds on a traceless trail
In sickness and in health
Until death do us all apart
Grooms and brides in one shade of grey
One ring to bind us all
We are no one
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Grief Under Light
04:20
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Grief Under Light
If there’s a ray at the end
If there’s a road made of sparkles and gleams
Then where’s the joy and the solace?
Then why are my feet and my eyes burning more and more?
Near the arrival
Failures unveil the grief under light
Weak, well insensitive
To all of my seeing
To all of my feeling
The beauty, the comfort
So bright to me, so blurry for me
A tons of lies I kept faith in
Reveal themselves all around
Marching toward their realm I struggle
Missing my sweet penumbra
Near the arrival
Failures unveil the grief under light
Outmind and outcast
From the preserving shadows
The light occults the real evil!
Unearth the depths of despair
From this fake heaven
And the vicious flames
To hide as the healers of my pain
Near the arrival
Failures unveil the grief under light
Outmind and outcast
From the preserving shadows
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Nowhere Safe
04:11
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Nowhere Safe
The rays of the sun did shine on my cradle
But it was always darkness I needed
I was born in the brightest light
And kept all shadows inside me
I am my own destruction
From the pain I inflict to myself there is nowhere safe
And I crave for a shelter but every wall I build is a mere ruin
And I built many towers and castles
Stones piled on unstable ground
I always knew that I would fail
I just needed to show you how
I am my own destruction
From the pain I inflict to myself there is nowhere safe
And I crave for a shelter but every wall I build is a mere ruin
Insanity has found its place in my head
I only build to destroy
For how long shall this game be played?
Don’t you get I don’t want to be saved?
From the pain I inflict to myself
You cannot protect me
Even your warmest embrace won’t mend theses scars
I am my own destruction
From the pain I inflict to myself there is nowhere safe
I am done, no more need for a shelter…
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Heal
05:37
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Heal
Many moons have passed, I thought I was safe but your kindness has come to take the last pieces of me. I thought I killed you after so many nights. Nights I spent in freezing cold nightmares.
I escaped your eyes to bury my pain but you stay in my mind like a scar in my soul. With each word you speak I take a step backward into the darkness I built for too long.
Tell me how far should I go to forget your face? To forget your name? Help me forget! Tell me what is to be done? Shall I kill you for real to erase your ghost? Don’t stay near me, please let me heal…
Once more the sun rises as I roam in new lands. I search in the distance a place to be deaf to your words.
But your faintest whispers still resound in my head, an echo that never fades like the marching drums of a love to profound to die. It will never die…
Tell me how far should I go to forget your face? To forget your name? Help me forget! Tell me what is to be done? Shall I kill you for real to erase your ghost? Don’t stay near me, will you let me heal?
You make me suffer from a pain that won’t fade, if you still love me, let me go…
And you shall see me sailing towards lands of light, to the brightest haven and you will know that the peace I’ll find there, I’ll owe it to you. Please, forgive me if we cannot travel there together.
I wish we had not failed this dream… I wish we had not failed…
Tell me how far should I go to forget your face? To forget your name? Help me forget! Tell me what is to be done? Shall I kill you for real to erase your ghost? Don’t stay near me, please let me heal…
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Don't Let Me Wake
03:41
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Don’t Let Me Wake
You create your perfect world
Shining sun
Caressing breeze
To escape reality
Just a moment to ease the pain
Again and again
The more you dream
The more you need it
Don’t let me wake from my perfect slumber!
How nice it is to rest for a while and a while longer
until drowning in apathy
Nothing’s left to fight for
The beauty dies in its own venom
And there’s nothing left to dream about
A need for pain to feel alive
A need for rain to hide some light
You’ll shine brighter when you’ll break the dark
Don’t let me wake from my perfect slumber!
How nice it is to rest for a while and a while longer
until drowning in apathy
Help me out of my new reality, the strength I have painted on ruined walls has made me weak!
Now I’m lost and build my dreams on worn out dreams, each new lasting a little less and I’m weakening still
Don’t let me wake from my perfect slumber!
How nice it is to rest for a while and a while longer
until drowning in apathy
Until the dream becomes real
Reality is reversed
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Temple Of The Void
04:38
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The Temple of the Void
I escaped the darkness hoping to enlight my soul. I sacrificed all that I built only to find an endless void.
A phoenix not yet reborn, the ghost of a bird that longed to be free only to find a cage without bars.
Not even flying but floating and roaming, aimless being not ready to cry.
And I wander in the empty halls of a shapeless monument and as my past seems to blur, my future becomes more uncertain. And I fear nothing is left of me, I’m but one more spirit in this temple of the Void.
Nothing left to feel, all passion turned to ash, tasteless pieces of life gathered to become a mountain of failures.
Nothing worth living for, nothing worth dying for, should I regret the pain? Maybe I will! Did I heal in vain? Who will kill me to make me live again?
Free me from the temple of the Void!
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For The Restless Souls
05:36
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For The Restless Souls
Behold this horizon
As endless as your pain
Calling you and shivering
To be faced, to be crossed
Is there one last home to be found?
Maybe one last door to be opened?
And you’ll finally become one with light
Will finally become one with aeons
Demons of the past were buried alive
In a coffin made of regrets
One will, one flame, one goal
To erase their escaping shadows and ghosts
Trying to reach you
As the afterlife is waiting for you
As its beacon is piercing the fog of your thoughts
And binds you with a light breakthrough
You will fly!
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The Final Rest
08:58
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The Final Rest
Once more I wake up
In the dead of the night
Nightmares that I have known for too long
I long for an escape
Far from these lands
Were words have lost all their meaning
The colour of skies
The smell of the grass
In this place for me is far too well known
Where will I find a place to rest?
What more can I give to redeem my past?
Failures I bear in my soul like a cross of guilt
Shall I give all that I’m left?
Embrace the fate of he who was born too late
So come claim my life and grant me my final rest
I am done with these failures (I’m done with these failures)
Now help me ease the pain
Erase my too many mistakes, let me start anew
From birth til death, from death til birth
I shall now begin my journey home
For death is a home
For all those who’re lost
Redemption to find in nothingness
From north to south
From east to west
No land for me is far enough
I stride forward
From a cold stony shore to a colder ocean
I wade then swim
Then let myself into the deep
Undoubted path
The end will make my wrongs alright
So come!
Come claim my life and grant me my final rest
I am done with these failures (I’m done with these failures)
Now help me ease the pain
Rise!
Freezing waters, hold me in your embrace
I commit myself to the deep
To your arms…
And as I sink
I become the darkness
I choose the sea to be my grave
My eyes are closing
I become nothingness
Let’s dive into the waters to die
Far from these lands I die!
Come claim!
Come claim my life and grant me my final rest
I am done with these failures (I’m done with these failures)
Now help me ease the pain
Rise!
Freezing waters, hold me in your embrace
I commit myself to the deep
To your arms so cold
At last
I have found a piece of serenity
From numb to feelingless
From life to death
Into nothingness
I have found my peace
Waters in my lungs
Help me find my peace…
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Path of Desolation Lausanne, Switzerland
Long is the path to desolation and enlightnement. And lo! How much distance was covered by Swiss metallers PATH OF
DESOLATION since their 2014 EP. Sharp riffs, melancholic melodies
and powerful vocals are the trademark behind these
gems of melodic death metal, evoking at times Dark Tranquility, In Flames or Insomnium.
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