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Their Joyful Descent

by Continuous Revelations

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    "Dark, effect-driven drone, spastic chippiness, synth weirdness, all encapsulated into a cohesive 30-minute story. Continuous Revelations steps away from tradition and the expected to give us this journey, one we are too happy to be on!"



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held under, entwined 05:40
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we do not dissipate 05:33
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to retreat alone into foreign sands 02:29
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4.
separation of parts, or, a failed forgetting 01:14
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relentless longings called them back 01:22
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reconciliation by necessity 04:58
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sacrificial pact ritual 02:26
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8.
their joyful descent 05:56
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about

To me, the narrative these songs form is a ghost story gone to hell.

It starts with the murder of two lovers by drowning; they probably had it coming. They don't seem like nice people.

I envisioned a massive ship sabotaged and lost to the waves, with the lovers aware of who had orchestrated their deaths as they met their ends.
Their bodies drown but their spirits refuse to dissipate into the next stage of their respective journeys and they wander disoriented into unknown lands. They try to come to terms with their situations, but alas, they turn on one another and then go their separate ways, losing themselves to madness and despair.

The ghosts find they can only properly interact with one another, cursed as they are, and so are grudgingly drawn back to each other. They reconcile and commit themselves to a ritual wherein they sacrifice one another's souls to hell for the payment of taking their murderer with them, trading their tormented wanderings for the satisfaction of vengeance. As they descend to hell dragging their killer with them, they experience an elated joy.

Ridiculous and silly, I know.

As a listener you get to create your own narrative to go with these sounds I have conjured up. That is a wonderful thing and my interpretation is not as important as you may think, but I thought you might be entertained by reading it.

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released January 30, 2022

Effect driven synths, in layers of improvisation, creating a rather odd narrative about people that aren't all that nice. Everything by Continuous Revelations.

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