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From the Bowels of the Earth

by HALLUCINATE

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    Two 2023 releases from our esteemed roster
    Act of Impalement' Infernal Ordinance

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    Act of Impalement's Perdition Cult and Hallucinate's debut

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ENTER THE GATES TO THE UNIVERSE OBSCURE WHERE EXIST HAS NO END MILLION LIGHTS ARE DYING THERE DISMAL CHAOS RISE BLACKNESS PHLEGM INFEST YOUR MIND ALL BEING DISSOLVED GENOCIDE THE FATAL MASS OF INFINITY SPEAKS PHYSICAL LAWS NO LONGER APPLY IN THE REALM OF TOTAL SOLITUDE THE MULTIVERSUM EATER RISE RISE MILLION DYING SUNS ABOVE THE SKY A NEW LEVEL OF DARKNESS GROW THIS IS THE CONQUEST OF ALL LIFE THAT EXISTS TIME AND SPACE CRACKED EVERY STRUCTURE FADES TO BLACK THE MERCILESS VOID CRAWLS DEPTHS OF THE DESPAIR
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Dripping down from blackened gills violet spores escape into the fog at night drop into the moistened forest soil and grow a web deep beneath from the bowels of the earth a voice is heard: 'human host is what i need eat my flesh and i shall make you see make you see!' INSANITY GAVE ME COMFORT I WAS BATHED IN MY LIES INSANITY MADE ME CONSCIOUS BARELY SURVIVED behind the eye of the beholder the eternal adversary lies in wait you'll be afraid of the forms we create as they slowly start to crystallyze dripping down from blackened gills blaack if insanity gives you comfort bathe in your lies SOLO i am older than the universe i am giving you the last of our seed the last of our seed
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Steam Steam Steam rising from the gorge I've been around the years of ache I've seen the ones that sleep awake inside the ancient crust of earth The elder race hath cast its curse What lies beyond the abyss? What's driving the core? Bioluminescent oddities A whale's calcified bones Thriving in the absence of light Cloaked in blackness Fruiting bodies on a corpse Deep Deep Deep Geyser Down on the ocean floor I've been around the years of ache I've seen the ones that sleep awake Inside the ancient crust of earth the elder race hath cast its curse Discolored each of the extremities Bodies washing ashore City covered in a cloud of mold spores Fruiting bodies on a corpse
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Paracletus 06:34
divided and joined again been hiding hiding well TO PROTECT A GREAT POWER TO SPARK A FLAME AND TO DEVOUR TO FIND COMFORT IN DEATH confounded yet found again in disparity TO MISTREAT AND TO REJECT DESIGN YOUR LAWS WITHOUT RESPECT TO UTTER A THREAT STARING AT THE CROSSROAD PACKED WITH SHAME AND VILIFIED VILIFIED! [catharsis] AREN'T WE ALL BURYING THESE BURDENS INSIDE confined here confined again DIVIDED AND JOINED AGAIN To FORGIVE AND TO FORGET TO REPEAT AND TO REGRET DISEMPOWER REFLEX TO PROTECT A GREAT POWER TO SPARK A FLAME TO DEVOUR AND MAY YOU FIND COMFORT IN DEATH
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Tachycardia 03:51
This wretched body burning here running on frequency in this reality TACHYCARDIA 2X Your pounding heart begins to fail dilated veins ripping the arteries TACHYCARDIA 2X Serving justice from the brainstem Violation of homeostasis Permanent alteration of the primal code TACHYCARDIA 2X Lead Persecutor TACHYCARDIA
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AION 04:27
THE RISING BIRTH OF NATURE FROM THE UNAPPARENT DEEP THE NIGHT BRINGS IN THE SILENCE SO LISTEN DON'T FALL ASLEEP Hidden in plain sight is a world beyond belief seek your subtle nature and the key ye shall recieve SIX AND EIGHT ARE SEPARATE BY SEVEN THE CYCLES INTERSECT AN AION LIES AHEAD SIX AND EIGHT ARE SEPARATE BY SEVEN THE CYCLES INTERSECT AN AION LIES AHEAD you come unto this world of immeasureable deceit bereft of strength and lacking comprehension and they plow the fields of lies preparing their demise misguided and diseased they are devoured SIX AND EIGHT SEPARATE BY SEVEN THE CYCLES INTERSECT THE AION LIES AHEAD SIX AND EIGH ARE SEPARATE BY SEVEN GUIDED BY THE SNAKE THE AION LIES AHEAD {Guest vocal by Robert Andersson:} whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like smoke above the herdsmans fire who through the night kept watch over his flock
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Crimson Rain 04:29
a sound like horns from far away and then the sky appears to break its pouring blood to wash away the consequence of our mistake we pour fucking concrete in the rivers annihilate all the trees pour fucking concrete in the rivers annihilate all the trees crimson rain crimson rain no im not sorry for the crimes we did we pour fucking concrete into eden annihilate all the beings pour fucking concrete in the river annihilation decree and tho the water may look same the life force has faded away earthrot's infected your brain and it's eating away i slaughter my conscience everyday i sharpen my knives and my axe i slaughter my conscience everyday i sharpen my knives and my axe dont feel much anyway these days and who the fucks left to care been around the best days of this place no fucks left to give so eat my d*ck but i don't care about evil all i do is justified i don't care about evil all i do is just and fine throw in the next pill before reality sets again...
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Cold in the Dark No Light illuminates my mind i stare into darkness i detach myself from life itself i start my metamorphosis i let my flesh rot my blood no longer needed my body becomes stiff and cold my mind is in control decay takes it's course i defy death i am in control spirit must be severed from my flesh AS I ENTER THE AFTER-DEATH-STATE ALL I BATHED IN A DARK BLUE LIGHT WRATHFUL DEITIES APPEAR AROUND ME THEY REFLECT FROM MY DYING MIND FROM MY DYING MIND READY FOR ETERNITY IN VOID

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CALIGARI RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Germany's HALLUCINATE, From the Bowels of the Earth, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Formed in 2021 and featuring members of Graveyard Ghoul and Karloff, HALLUCINATE quickly set to work to work on their first public recording, the two-song Demo '22. Even at this early stage, HALLUCINATE's sound was already exhibiting a unique flair: despite working within the realms of death metal, something strange was brewing there. Not for nothing were the band monikered as such; flourishes of heavy, dark psychedelia and prog swirled about in their murky cauldron.

Now that cauldron is set to boil over with HALLUCINATE's full-length debut, From the Bowels of the Earth. As vocalist / lead guitarist Persecutor explains, "From the Bowels of the Earth sprung forth from a very tough psilocybin experience right before the onset of the pandemic. It almost broke me mentally; I wasn't prepared for it at all. I started writing the songs in an attempt to put myself back together, trying to integrate that experience. It was a very dark and intimidating display of ancient powerful archetypes haunting me with synchronistic, apocryphal, and soul-crushing revelations - not the funky-shmunky colorful hippie shit most people associate with this stuff. So a psych-stricken, kinda-prog death metal record felt most natural to tell the story, where each song represents a stage of the trip with its physiological, psychic and spiritual implications."

Indeed, just a cursory glance at the album's attendant song titles - and in particular, the triumvirate of "Blackened Gills," "Black Smokers," and "Mahavishnu's Dream" - will tell you this is NOT going to be a Normal Death Metal Record. Yet, just the same, HALLUCINATE's idiosyncratic muse is one that's thoroughly integrated into their aesthetic - as rough-hewn as true death metal should be, but subtly (and sometimes not-so-subtly) stirred with an alchemist's touch - rather than retrofitting mawkish elements in a shallow show of "weirdness." It all starts with strong songwriting, is pushed forward with loose & locked-in execution, and then is embellished with tasteful touches of said psychedelia and prog, either in the solar-flaring leads or in dramatic-yet-smooth breaks. Further, From the Bowels of the Earth sees HALLUCINATE moving at many speeds, instilling many sensations along the way - foremost among them, comfort in dissonance and nature mysticism by way of suspended release - but always with the rumbling crush of classic '90s death metal. Nods could be made to Sweden's Seance and Desultory in the past or Chapel of Disease and Gold Spire in the present, but perhaps no better recommendation could come than with a guest vocal appearance by Sweven's Robert Andersson (of course, also ex-Morbus Chron).

"Psychedelic experience" can take on many different meanings for many different people, but those who can trace a through-line from Dismember to Skullflower are wholeheartedly encouraged to enter HALLUCINATE's From the Bowels of the Earth.

Vinyl - 300 Copies (incl bonus track "Dying Consciously")
CD - 300 Copies
Cassette - 200 Copies (incl bonus track "Dying Consciously")

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released August 4, 2023

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