Withering Beauty (Single)

by Ad Nihilum

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Sælzer Bub Beautiful Song. Varied singing. Nice growling and impressive clean vocals. And the subtle choir in the background is heavenly.
Withering Beauty is a wonderful piece of blackened doom.
Melodic and atmospheric. I'm very excited for the whole album.

Thanks to @Ivan Bachmann for putting this in my feed. Favorite track: Withering Beauty (Single).

bmurator Swiss Epic & Melancholic Black / Doom Metal. I am loving this! The instrumentals & the vocals (both clean & non) work very well together & build up the dark & gloomy atmosphere. Looking forward to the full release in February next year! Highly recommended!!!

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"Withering Beauty" is the single anticipating AD NIHILUM debut LP "An Escape For The Guilty", to be out in February 2024.
Preorders open Dec 1st, 2023, Vinyl/CD/Digital!

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A commentary from AD NIHILUM's David Mottier:
Withering Beauty is the first song I wrote for Ad Nihilum. It has the doom/black and very melodic atmosphere that characterizes the album. As the whole album, the song handles the worry about the decaying beauty of nature caused by humans, exploiting it while ignoring it. It also emphasize on the contemplation of the Beauty left in this world, wishing for a world without human's mark on it.
"May the bird's voices echo again in the valley of a world devoid of us."
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lyrics

Lyrics:
Listen to the songs of the birds.
Behold the art made by the clouds dancing in the sky.
Feel the caress of the wind.
Let yourself be carried by the beauty of the untouched world.
Majestic and beautiful is the Earth
Yet her wrath towers upon our greed
That led us to take for granted
More than what we even needed.
So much has been destroyed, yet we are so new
Children already too old to retrieve what we’ve lost
Do you remember the colours of the autumn leaves?
The smell of the grass in the morning rain?
How small do we feel in the shadows of the mountains?
How powerless we stand next to the sea
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Relentless noises to mute the bird’s voices
We yell our songs
In a deafening disharmony.
Squares have replaced the beauty of chaos.
Lines have covered wavy paths.
Nature is no longer part of our life,
We’re no longer part of nature.
It has become a foreigner to us.
We set a border between us and the world.

Majestic and beautiful is the Earth
Yet her wrath towers upon our greed
So much has been destroyed, yet we are so new
Children already too old to retrieve what we’ve lost
May the beauty of chaos find back its place upon its throne
May the birds sing again
May their voices echo in a world devoid of us

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released November 10, 2023
David Mottier: composition, lyrics, instrumentation
Rayan Tengblad: vocals

Mixing, mastering and sound design by Yoann Maillard at MAY Sound

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