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Antithetical

by Malevolence

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Slithering 02:53
Welcome… Welcome to the world antithesis Celestial beings messengers Supernatural by evil means Expelling demons commanding Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of sanctity Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of impurity Welcome to the world contradiction Depicted intermediate Originating ravening Declining spirit haunting seraph Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of sanctity Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of impurity Mediating between divine and human Occupying all the elements of nature Manifesting in such diverse phenomena Subordinating punishing angelic hierarchy Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of sanctity Slithering angels and demons Riding the Earth as the symbols of impurity Do not need the angelic mannish Do not need the demonic figures Do not follow the idols of chagrin Clash against all angelology Do not need the Jewish tradition Do not need the polytheistic cancer Do not follow the idols of chagrin Clash against all demonology Spirit of truth Spirit of wickedness Slithering slithering Creating filth
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No hope in following something Something we are not No hope in following the cult The cult of what we ever thought Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! To realize there is nothing Nothing worth, to stand for And everlasting, everything It's not, everlasting And everything, everything is Too much the same, overlapping Too much the same, it's not the same The same: Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! No hope in following something Something we are not No hope in following the cult The cult of what we ever thought Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! To realize there is nothing Nothing worth, to stand for And everlasting, everything It's not, everlasting And everything, everything is Too much the same, overlapping Too much the same, it's not the same The same: Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Will we ever stop? Stop to realize? Commanding voices still speak and always echo from within We are turning away from everything: Our own persistence Shredding the antagonism from the everlasting darkness There is nothing in here to admire or even to hold us down Will we ever stop? Stop to realize? Lowering words have been set upon the everlasting fire Reversing and resetting sacrifice elusive state of war There is no perfection in vanity or even in between We transpire our own desire to wash the cult away Will we ever stop? Stop to realize? After all, we all must learn how to breathe, to breathe yet again Triumph over the dissatisfaction of our own viral existence Eradicating the ignorance the statement of the old remorse Within the old remorse will we ever stop to realize To realize there is nothing Nothing worth to dramatize Everlasting! We are not! Everlasting! We are not! After all, we all must learn how to breathe, to breathe yet again Triumph over the dissatisfaction of our own viral existence Eradicating the ignorance the statement of the old remorse Within the old remorse will we ever stop to realize To realize there is nothing Nothing worth to dramatize Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! Everlasting! We are not! Everlasting! We are not!
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Barbarism and living terror Consolidate thy extreme power Preparations indoctrinating war Indoctrinate the extreme power Leader of desensitized circles Dictatorial butcher the flesh destroyer Traditional defects and propaganda Autocratic murder the flesh destroyer Extremist One Undisputed Master Pseudo Democratic Anti-Semitic Butcher Determination destructive force Consolidate thy extreme power Preparations deteriorating labor Indoctrinate the extreme power Self-denying demoralizing public servant Tyrannical butcher the flesh destroyer Vitiating campaign against the citizens Autocratic murder the flesh destroyer Extremist One Undisputed Master Pseudo Democratic Anti-Semitic Butcher Master abortion puritanical inflicted tyranny Destructive behaviour suffocation under his mastery Master abortion puritanical inflicted tyranny Destructive behaviour suffocation under his mastery Master abortion destructive behaviour Master abortion destructive behaviour Eliminating the last traces of the conservative alliance Clearing the way for the ultimate formulas of war Mobilizing persuading generals intensify the war The flesh grows higher in Adolph Christ upon Jesus Liar Superior commander Conservative alliance Valuable populations Insignificant formulas Devoured Devoured Unlimited Barbarism and living terror Consolidate thy extreme power Preparations indoctrinating war Indoctrinate the extreme power Leader of desensitized circles Dictatorial butcher the flesh destroyer Traditional defects and propaganda Autocratic murder the flesh destroyer Extremist One Undisputed Master Pseudo Democratic Anti-Semitic Butcher
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Antithetical 08:12
The Sun erects between the lies Lasting no longer then he dies Deliverance a fractal point Specific mind a logical view Anticipate the law beyond Do what you will not what they want Bleeding me Bleeding us Bleeding all Remarkable Antithetical love Antithetical hate Antithetical sun Antithetical rain Determinate Before our eyes Installation depressed Ineffectiveness Legitimate Ominous shadows Continuous sorrows Constantly rise Antithetical love Antithetical hate Antithetical sun Antithetical rain Where one looks OUR eyes go blind to see but LIES feeling empty our remains are boiling WE ARE Antithetical love Antithetical hate Antithetical sun Antithetical rain Where one looks OUR eyes go blind to see but LIES feeling empty our remains are boiling WE ARE Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical Where one looks a roaring demon the ANGELIC figure bound to FACE the face of what WE ARE Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical I am always watching what they say but they say nothing I have seen the face of death but she was in fact alive Easy to speak or make predictions once everything is real Sweet and salt let it be while it lasts on the wheel Alternative determination Trivialization of the social context increasingly meaningless Rhetoric of innovation that only uses the language of need Spectacular and catastrophic void left by the imagination: VULNERABILITY Things that have to be imagined to overcome the crisis of progress: UNAVAILABILITY Set based upon the movement opposed to nowhere: FORMALITY Crystallizing coalition defense against the unknown: RECIPROCITY Where one looks OUR eyes go blind to see but LIES feeling empty our remains are boiling WE ARE Where one looks OUR eyes go blind to see but LIES feeling empty our remains are boiling WE ARE Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical Where one looks a roaring DEMON the angelic FIGURE bound to face the face of what WE ARE Antithetical Antithetical Antithetical
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Totalitarian regimes equilibrium Liberal reform crystallizing opposition Demoralizing disabling opposing forces Psychotronic tyranny introducing persuasion In equilibrium balance A sphere is resting in the level surface In equilibrium diffidence A human is resting in the margin intensity Life without stable balance Life without neutral symmetry Extremism regularly dictates violence Killing matching for a sense of balance Inspiring sensible demanding conscience Brutalizing confrontation unstable dimension In equilibrium balance A sphere is resting in the level surface In equilibrium diffidence A human is resting in the margin intensity Life without stable balance Life without neutral symmetry The forces are such that a body returns to its original position The forces are such that a body remains in its original position The forces are such that a body continues on moving to a different position The forces are such that a body discontinues heartbreaking microscopic activity Life without a stable set of scales Life beneath equilibrium in extremity The forces are such that a body returns to its original position The forces are such that a body remains in its original position The forces are such that a body continues on moving to a different position The forces are such that a body discontinues heartbreaking microscopic activity Life without a stable set of scales Life beneath equilibrium in extremity Dangerous is the energy derived from the words O mundo tal como o conhecemos está repleto de injustiças O facto é inegável pois os seres nascem com dons muito desiguais Em ambientes que proporcionam oportunidades bastante parciais Nascemos inteligentes possuindo corpos saudáveis e apreciáveis Nascemos estúpidos possuindo corpos doentes e deformados Nascemos de pais afectuosos e virtuosos Nascemos de famílias pouco afectuosas, ignorantes e pobres Os frutos que o homem semear seja no campo da ação ou do pensamento Por ele serão colhidos em determinada altura e lugar Equilibrium Equilibrium Muitos animais apenas conseguem sobreviver matando outros animais Embora muitos dos organismos consigam ainda envelhecer para no final morrer Equilibrium Equilibrium Por mais ardentemente que eu ou toda a humanidade possamos desejar algo Por muito necessário que tal possa ser para a felicidade humana Não à fundamento para supor que esse algo exista Não à nenhuma lei da Natureza que garanta que a Humanidade deva ser feliz!
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about

“Antithetical” is the 3rd full-length album effort from the Portuguese sonic purveyors of extreme metal progression, Malevolence.

The album features the lineup that recorded "Martyrialized", including core members Carlos Cariano (Vox & Guitars), Aires Pereira (Bass), Fred Noel (Guitars), Paulo Pereira (Keyboards) alongside session Drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Soilwork, The Devin Townsend Project, Satyricon…).

The main theme of "Antithetical" illustrates a razor-sharp concept inspired from Ancient Greek Etymology (1580s, from Gk. Antithetikos) that reflects the diametrical opposition to a number of propositions consisting in the revelation of divergent thought. Pertaining to "Antithetical", the Anti (against) + Thesis (position), as a figure of speech (mainly used by the authors of the Baroque period; style of the epoch known as the art of conflict) acknowledge opposition towards the relative thesis expressed.

Music and lyrics are far beyond the average practice and 'Antithetical' is a very unnatural progressive slab of extreme sonic amalgamation creating parallelisms to simplify extremes whilst apprehending both the positive and the negative perspectives of existence, in order to erect with the synthesis that transcends both. As hope is antithetical to despair, the contrasts established within the album serve in effect to give tension to the broad-spectrum body of work consisting of seven songs.

The album reached critical acclaim worldwide even getting the best reviews ever with several 10/10 scores obtained on some worldwide heavyweight magazines.

Decibel Magazine (USA)
“Antithetical proves to be an inventive, multifaceted aural epic - A surprisingly powerful and welcome return!"

Bravewords (CA)
“Coming at ya from Portugal, Malevolence are on their third full-length, and it shows with the skill, maturity, and confidence all over the place here… it’s got brains and a desire to reach outside the box.”

Metal-Rules (CA)
“Malevolence sound like a band determined and on a mission to destroy. Each instrument is deployed with machine-like discipline to execute its role in the fracas, with the end result sounding tremendously powerful.”

Metal-Temple (GR)
“Malevolence is certainly a primo representation of the extreme metal genre. MASTERPIECE.”

credits

released September 13, 2021

Carlos Cariano: Vox & Guitars
Paulo Pereira: Keyboards & Programming
Fred Noel: Guitars
Aires Pereira: Bass
Dirk Verbeuren: Drums

Produced by Carlos Cariano
Recorded by Paulo Pereira at 20m2sea Studio, Leiria, Portugal
Drums recorded by Dirk Verbeuren at Die Crawling Studio, California, USA
Drumming patterns and arrangements by Carlos Cariano & Dirk Verbeuren
Vocals recorded by V. Santura at Woodshed Studio, Landshut, Germany
Mixed & Mastered by V. Santura at Woodshed Studio, Landshut, Germany
Artwork conception, Illustration, and Sleeve design by Carlos Cariano
Individual band photos manipulation by Carlos Cariano
Individual band photos by Paulo Madeira
All music and lyrics by Carlos Cariano
Arrangements by Malevolence

Originally released for digital distribution and streaming on the 22nd of November 2013, across the globe via Carbon Medien (USA).

For the very first time Released in Vinyl formats on the 13th of September 2021, through Firecum Records (PT).

First-ever pressings in Vinyl formats:

White Limited Edition, Numbered: 090 Copies.
Red Limited Edition, Numbered: 090 Copies.
White/Red Limited Edition, Numbered: 020 Copies.

The files available through Bandcamp contain the original mix from 03/23/2012.

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