Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
U.S. Progressive/Melodic Death Metal duo, Iapetus, unveil the second single "The Mother Void" taken from their new album "The Mother Void" coming 16 October via Willowtip Records on CD/Limited Longbox CD/Gatefold 2xLP/Digital.
Joining core members Matthew Cerami and Jordan Navarro on the album is featured vocalist Fabienne Erni of Eluveitie, along with several notable guest musicians, including drummer Brody Taylor Smith (Invent Animate), guitarist Benji Baret (Ne Obliviscaris), and vocalist Frank Harper (Caelestra).
Order via Willowtip ► bit.ly/themothervoid-willowtip
Order via Bandcamp ► bit.ly/themothervoid-bandcamp
CREDITS:
Featured Vocals: Fabienne Erni
Guest Vocals: Ethan Navarro
Drums: Brody Taylor Smith
Additional Synths + SFX: Mark Lazeski
Recorded By: Fascination Street Studios
Mixed By: Jens Bogren
Mastered By: Tony Lindgren
Fabienne Recorded By: Valentin Voluta
Drums Recorded By: John Douglass
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Lyrics:
Black hole gives birth to mewling stars;
still-born silence, the sepulchral womb;
Palmer's grasp in the sucking dark and
staccato heartbeats against the
cold death skin-to-skin.
Sing now, sweet child,
as stuttering panic chokes
the graveyard space;
a lullaby echoes
from the fading source;
umbilical siren—exile scars the heart.
We crawl;
We claw from the mother void.
Weep now, sweet child,
beg for a smile in the stars;
rooting reflex wasted
on withered moons;
in tongues of ash, the eulogy—
for all you are and had hoped to be.
We crawl;
We claw from the mother void.
Mirrored mind, the feral black,
swaddled in the death of time—
what are you now?
Loveless orphan refuse;
soul the color of
congenital despair.
Suffer the stillness—the sudden death;
solitude strangles the path;
frantic ice-nail excisions
tear into wounds that bloom
deeper than flesh;
can you learn to live with abandonment?
What will you be—with infinity at your feet?
Aphelion cradle, the burden to bear;
What will you do—to spite the abyss?
Synodic reveries, the seductions of sleep.
Blighted cherub—the broken stone;
sentenced by the scriber of neglect;
now the tools clenched
in shaking fists, the inward blade;
can you carve the coldness away?
What will you feel—with infinity at your feet?
Aphelion cradle, the burden to bear;
What will you make—to spite the abyss?
Synodic reveries, the seductions of sleep.
We cling to mother and beg for embrace;
we scream for mother and hope to return;
but nothing amounts to nothing,
the future a flowerless grave,
so dream to dull the pain,
and know that mother is gone.
Mother is gone.
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Follow Iapetus:
Facebook: facebook.com/Iapetus.Metal
Instagram: instagram.com/iapetusofficial
X: https://x.com/Iapetusofficial
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4ofNP2fRtAwFL7MINCr6oD
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/iapetusofficial
Follow Willowtip Records:
willowtip.com
facebook.com/willowtip
willowtip.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/willowtiprecords
twitter.com/willowtip
bit.ly/willowtipspotify
#willowtiprecords #iapetus #progressivemetal
U.S. Progressive/Melodic Death Metal duo, Iapetus, unveil the second single "The Mother Void" taken from their new album "The Mother Void" coming 16 October via Willowtip Records on CD/Limited Longbox CD/Gatefold 2xLP/Digital.
Joining core members Matthew Cerami and Jordan Navarro on the album is featured vocalist Fabienne Erni of Eluveitie, along with several notable guest musicians, including drummer Brody Taylor Smith (Invent Animate), guitarist Benji Baret (Ne Obliviscaris), and vocalist Frank Harper (Caelestra).
Order via Willowtip ► bit.ly/themothervoid-willowtip
Order via Bandcamp ► bit.ly/themothervoid-bandcamp
CREDITS:
Featured Vocals: Fabienne Erni
Guest Vocals: Ethan Navarro
Drums: Brody Taylor Smith
Additional Synths + SFX: Mark Lazeski
Recorded By: Fascination Street Studios
Mixed By: Jens Bogren
Mastered By: Tony Lindgren
Fabienne Recorded By: Valentin Voluta
Drums Recorded By: John Douglass
--------------------
Lyrics:
Black hole gives birth to mewling stars;
still-born silence, the sepulchral womb;
Palmer's grasp in the sucking dark and
staccato heartbeats against the
cold death skin-to-skin.
Sing now, sweet child,
as stuttering panic chokes
the graveyard space;
a lullaby echoes
from the fading source;
umbilical siren—exile scars the heart.
We crawl;
We claw from the mother void.
Weep now, sweet child,
beg for a smile in the stars;
rooting reflex wasted
on withered moons;
in tongues of ash, the eulogy—
for all you are and had hoped to be.
We crawl;
We claw from the mother void.
Mirrored mind, the feral black,
swaddled in the death of time—
what are you now?
Loveless orphan refuse;
soul the color of
congenital despair.
Suffer the stillness—the sudden death;
solitude strangles the path;
frantic ice-nail excisions
tear into wounds that bloom
deeper than flesh;
can you learn to live with abandonment?
What will you be—with infinity at your feet?
Aphelion cradle, the burden to bear;
What will you do—to spite the abyss?
Synodic reveries, the seductions of sleep.
Blighted cherub—the broken stone;
sentenced by the scriber of neglect;
now the tools clenched
in shaking fists, the inward blade;
can you carve the coldness away?
What will you feel—with infinity at your feet?
Aphelion cradle, the burden to bear;
What will you make—to spite the abyss?
Synodic reveries, the seductions of sleep.
We cling to mother and beg for embrace;
we scream for mother and hope to return;
but nothing amounts to nothing,
the future a flowerless grave,
so dream to dull the pain,
and know that mother is gone.
Mother is gone.
____________
Follow Iapetus:
Facebook: facebook.com/Iapetus.Metal
Instagram: instagram.com/iapetusofficial
X: https://x.com/Iapetusofficial
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4ofNP2fRtAwFL7MINCr6oD
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/iapetusofficial
Follow Willowtip Records:
willowtip.com
facebook.com/willowtip
willowtip.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/willowtiprecords
twitter.com/willowtip
bit.ly/willowtipspotify
#willowtiprecords #iapetus #progressivemetal
