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Tides Of Fire

by With The End In Mind

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“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.” Wetiko! cursed devil, lurking within a gaping, ravenous maw scourge of those who came before. but Naming holds power, i cannot look away the poison that sickens the Earth- is within me tides of fire, set the cavernous soul alight! in searing resplendence, our shadows revealed I awoke to the sickly red dawn... the old world up in smoke, words turn to choking ash on my tongue. never again will i look away! a new path is shown, an ancient knowing is within me tides of fire, set the the cavernous soul alight! in searing resplendence, our shadows revealed like blossoms springing from ravaged hills- blessed by rain and ruin, fed by fertile ash, we will speak truth.
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The ash I sift through my fingers contains your image and mine, in all the lives we lived together. We are elk doing battle, we are lovers amidst wreckage, and we are faces in a tree. The ash that sifts through my fingers contains the image of me sifting ash through my fingers, and the image of its own birth in fire. These ashes were once the tree at the center of the world, the roots holding together the mountains and the branches upholding the sky, and one night, as we surrounded it in worship, the god who hung from this tree spoke and said: “My gallows is the source of your life, but someday what kills me will die. You will forget this tree, and you will worship one who dies on a false tree, on a dead effigy of a tree made from dead wood. And your numbers will be great, and your lives will be small. You will forget the names of animals, you will forget how to plant seeds, you will forget the strength in your own bodies. The sun will grow savage so that in winter bears will no longer sleep. Machines will enslave you, and the fire the machines bring into this world will negate all prophecies save those of fire. On the ash that was once the tree at the center of the world, I swear this as it drifts into a raging sky: I cried for you before they told me you died. In these ashes I will carry you through this world, and as I carry you into the fire,I will show no fear to the fire. May we laugh together at suffering. May we become more terrible than death as we walk into the fire. May we scream the death rites of this civilization. May we go into battle wielding ecstatic fire. May we make war on fear. May we walk into the fire with reverence for the fire. May truth come into this world to carry falsehood away on its raging red arms into the screaming black sky, and may the name of truth be fire.
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tear the veil away! these words are embers, borne on the wind that precedes the blaze given fuel, a fierce light grows come, bask in the glow and sing of returning, reclaiming a new path is shown we sing of returning, reclaiming and suffering shall never be a master the true uniter, it is a guide Listen! Listen! all beings cry out in multitudes of tongues as the vital links are severed and the dying gasp goes unheard- lost on the wind, that will never end, that will scour the Earth and sweep aside all illusion tear the veil away! when fear passes over and through, you will be all that remains a scarred and buried seed, hidden strength within rising, ever rising, greet the sun - it all begins again.....

about

Tides Of Fire - A charred elegy for a world careening off of the precipice. Seeds of song sifted from the ashes of smoldering landscapes, as vast swathes of the West Coast of North America burned. An exploration of internal and external purging; all the suffering, fear, and anxiety that the titanic forces of Nature exert over our lives, and the hidden light that is found within when it seems that all is lost. A journey of death, renewal and the resilience of the human Spirit.

Released on Vinyl and CD by Avantgarde Music - avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/tides-of-fire

Limited Edition Cassette release by Pacific Threnodies-
pacificthrenodies.bandcamp.com/album/tides-of-fire

"Listening to this offering is like stepping out of the night’s shadows into the firelight, glancing from face to face of other fierce eyes, human and animal, emerging from the trees. We crawl over rubble toward the welcoming light of other hearts, unsure of what will happen but feeling brave enough to reach for connection. With the End in Mind have stepped forth from their arcane discipline once again, sharing this space with us and offering a name of truth around which we gather. We are invited to face the apocalyptic fires that are not coming but have already arrived. What now?

The spirit resonating through Tides of Fire is one I have been searching for so often these days. When there is so much to fight for and much to grieve, I turn to such art for taking me to that innermost place where the deepest feelings can speak more clearly. This timely record’s urgent prophetic vision is a story of and for our times, traversing unreckoned pasts and unimagined futures. The desires left behind in what we’ve done to ourselves and to the earth call out to be heard again, and in such an unfeeling world, it is songs like these that open for us a path to reconnection. Woven with melancholic and pensive interludes between heady confrontations with raw emotion, Tides of Fire is an imagination gathered by those who’ve walked the land with intention and listened for the teachings it has to share. With the End in Mind have laid down something revelatory here."

- leuc.anthemum, Duwamish River April 2020

credits

released May 8, 2020

WTEIM:
Alex Freilich – Guitars, Vocals, Percussion
James Martinez – Guitars, Vocals
Michael Korchonnoff – Drum kit, Bodhran, Vocals
Dylan Bloom – Drum kit, Synthesizers
Tom Boyer – Bass

Guest contributions from:
Arnold Schroder – Words and vocals on “May the Name of Truth be Fire”
Caitlin Fate – Vocals
September Yew – Violin and Viola

Spoken word on “Set The Cavernous Soul Alight” taken from “The Answer” by Robinson Jeffers

All music performed, recorded, and mixed by With The End In Mind – MMXIX

Mastered by Sammy Fielding at Ancient Owl Audio

Photography by Carter Murdoch

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