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A Trinity of Rage (EP)

by Hammerdrone

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Freed from flesh, I wear my spite as armour And within my fists rage is weaponized: Imbued with grief And sharpened on my pain I bear my lifetime’s fury into battle… Across the astral plain I have come for You! I see Your looming form upon the dim horizon Eyeless and repugnant, the Eminence of Evil. I shake with tension, I can almost taste revenge; My hands will still the beating of Your cold, black heart… I am rage made real! I am rage made corporeal! I AM RAGE MADE REAL.
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The dais from which you reign is seven levels high Seven mountains, black with soot, clutching at the blood-laden sky Seven hordes, seven horrors, seven times to face the night But the rage within my soul has seven times their might! Into the crimson lash I bend my will Into a storm of claws and fear But I am unbowed and My wrath grows Ever hotter and fiercer still. Then… Amidst the shrieking carnage of my progress On the last of seven levels Is unveiled the pinnacle of Your cruelty: My wife…my daughter… Against me are arrayed And their features are crippled with hate, The swords of bone they wield Rend me deep with every thrust, For all my rage is no defence Against the cutting edge of guilt: “Where was I? Where was I?” Gloating, you descend upon my broken form Malignancy roils before you like a cloud of poison: And in your shadow, they writhe again And in your shadow, they die again Accelerated plague to claim them once again And I lose them…and I lose them once again. Too late You realize Your mistake: What You thought would crush me Only re-ignites me And from my eyes I pour forth fire! Rising to my feet again! Rising to my feet again! I will finish what I’ve begun - I will finish what I’ve become.
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My faith, once clean, is long since jaded And I am become Your reckoning, For all these years I’ve raged and hated But now I stand before You. I marched for Your glory – You paid my wage in death. I’ve carved apart Your angels and hacked Your demons down: Your realm’s a burning ruin – mockery is now Your crown! I am Eversor And now You’ll die. Face me! Among the ashes of Your throne You are reduced – You are frail and quivering, For in Heaven as is on Earth And my power is now Gospel! I am unleashed from mortal form And I burn like a million fires. I consume even Your screams within my blazing, wrathful vengeance: Then – like charcoal on the wind – I dissolve my very essence: I was Eversor, and now I’ll die. So now, I rest So now, I cease So now, I rest: At last At peace.

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2 Revelation 15:10
And the angel spoke in a voice of thunder:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith!
Woe to you, O men of Rome, that sufferest the Serpent in the land of David; for thy sin hath become a plague of locusts that hideth the Sun.
Woe, for thy sin hath been given form and name, and that name is Eversor. And the host of the Lamb will be as wheat before the scythe of Death, for Eversor is the sin of thy flesh, and thy sin hath reached unto Heaven”.

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The final recording by Canada’s death metal juggernaut, Hammerdrone, “A Trinity of Rage” was in many respects the band's most ambitious undertaking.

Deliberately written as a concept release and painstakingly crafted over the course of four years, the EP is accompanied by an original short story, "Eversor" (exclusively available on Bandcamp as a bonus download), crafted by the band's frontman and lyricist. Eversor tells a tale of hatred, anger and vengeance drawn out over several decades and taking in both the physical and spiritual realm. As the written story of "Eversor" ends, the EP begins, such that the music and lyrics of the EP complete the narrative arc that the story introduces.

At once aggressively heavy and hauntingly melodic, "A Trinity of Rage" incorporates a variety of black and progressive metal influences to
present an EP that both pushes the boundaries and embraces the roots of their old-school, melodic death metal origins.

Mixed by the band's drummer, and then burnished to shine by the professional mastering skills of the legendary Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Be'lakor, Rotting Christ, etc) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden, the result is an epic and forceful musical expression of betrayal, broken faith and revenge.

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released December 10, 2021

CREDITS:
Curtis Beardy - Guitars
Graham Harris - Vocals
Teran Wyer - Bass
Rick Cardellini - Lead Guitars
Vinnie Cardellini - Drums

-Music by C. Beardy, R.Cardellini, V.Cardellini and T Wyer. Lyrics and "Eversor" short story by G. Harris.
-Drums tracked by Kirill Telichev at The Sound Priory, Calgary. All other instruments and vocals recorded by V. Cardellini at Goldfinch Studios, Calgary. Mixed by V. Cardellini.
-Mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (www.fascinationstreet.se), Sweden.
-Front cover art by G. Harris.
- Additional spoken vocals on Part II - Rage, Besieged by Odin, Sloan and Fiona.
- Samples from Freesound.org used with permission under Creative Commons Licenses creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Thanks to Nivatius (fire), Astounded (wind) and RTB45 (insect chorus).

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Across 12 years, Canadians Hammerdone honed a distinct sound, mixing intense aggression, dark atmosphere and elegant melodies to deliver a style of epic, catchy death metal. No clean singing, no symphonics.

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