Absu

Absu

Short Biography: In Dallas, Texas, in 1989 under the title "Dolmen" the band was born. Their demo "Return of the Ancients" fell into the hands of Gothic Records, and in 1992 they granted them the rites in releasing "The temples of Offal". In April, 1995, ABSU joined forces with "bloodstorm" for the European tour "Sex, cyber, & Rock n' Roll". In July of 1995, ABSU toured North America with "enslaved", again boosting their popularity.

ABSU

She Cries the Quiet Lake

[Cairn Warrior in Advocated Manner:]
Stones of power
Stillness of her spawn
Gems of symbols
Re-illuminating
Dawn
She cries the quiet lake

Weeping waters
Taciturnity
Found
She cries the quiet lake

Dripping ruptures
Immortality
Bound

Enduring: death is mine to keep
Timelessness: unborn in timely shape
Balancing: between stone and sky
Promulgate: lamentations

Continually: she wails and she whines
Nonetheless: linking stone to sky
Leveling: the tarns to the tides
Circulate: limpid-forming tears

[Tea's Diktat:]
"The darkness is starting and control is done:
The cosmic light is fading, as the shadow's won."

[Chorus - Cairn Warrior in Encouraged Mode:]
It's the lake of your liquid, glass heart
It's bringing your writ; it's bringing you tears
It's filling your thirst and never with fears
It's the tears of my liquid, glass heart

Prelusion to Cythraul

"Any who live alone, long only for mercy, the mercy of truth is among your
traits of bloodlust and vein. You have not, in all this time, returned to the
lowland of your ancestors. Your feet follow a hoof-beaten, dirt track down the
side of a small, grass-covered knoll. It is near the round hillfort that your
cavaliers call the dun. The ways of the arcane are more difficult hillfort
that words can tell. You are in complete isolation from this mortal exibition,
as others will be, in due time. Each day at dawn, you speak to yourself and
give your thoughts complete utterance. For there are none surviving now, to
whom you would freely speak with, so impart your heart's desire."

"You, the oppressor, will need to learn to chain your mind, to wait for the
proper time to speak. Nevertheless, you shall be executed from the creed,
under the sigil of the blade, then the number. In an instant, the feeble and
the foreigners lie North from here. In an instant, a magician, shadowlord, and
tyrant raised their powers above your head. You are separated from your kin,
by far distance, of Time and Tide. You will remember your comrades well, as
they replenish your memory with an immortal essence of everlastingness. And
though you will only see shades of what once was, you will hear their songs
and music forever."

"As golden lamplight escapes from the bleeding skies, winsome peat smoke
scents a chilled breeze that enfolds the imperious settlement, gathering
sounds, and lifts the brave into the night. You shall recall the winter
zephyr, as those were the winds that passed eternity."

The Emperor continued to breathe deep and harshly. His lungs sounded a death
rattle, as they were quickly filling with blood and various fluids, Before his
death and dissolution, the Emperor sluggishly uttered, "I have granted
intelligence towards the crown unto thee. If you teach him well....."

Here and now, we shall take you within The Third Storm Of Cythraul. It's only
just begun.....

Discography:

1991: "return of the ancients" and "the temples of offal"

1993: "Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L."

1995: "the sun of tipherath" and "...And Shineth unto the cold cometh..."

1997: "The third storm of Cythraul"

1998: new version of "Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L." and "In the eyes of Ioldanach"

2001: "Exibit V: Tara"