And I fell like lighting from the sky I was lost Ribbons in the void I looked up at the blackness around me and realized it was everything I had feared since I was a boy
"Day Star, Son Of Dawn”
Where is redemption?
I got on my knees that night to pray, and saw you in a vision. Your face shrouded, foreboding, brilliant and beautiful. The blackness seemed to pour in through my eyes as you walked towards me. You came close, and whispered my name,
Abbadon. Abbadon. Abbadon.
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Written and Directed by Crywolf and Roniit Cinematography by Roniit Edited by Roniit and Crywolf Coloring by Devin Schiro Additional Footage from Shelby Parks
And I fell like lighting from the sky I was lost Ribbons in the void I looked up at the blackness around me and realized it was everything I had feared since I was a boy
"Day Star, Son Of Dawn”
Where is redemption?
I got on my knees that night to pray, and saw you in a vision. Your face shrouded, foreboding, brilliant and beautiful. The blackness seemed to pour in through my eyes as you walked towards me. You came close, and whispered my name,
Abbadon. Abbadon. Abbadon.
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Written and Directed by Crywolf and Roniit Cinematography by Roniit Edited by Roniit and Crywolf Coloring by Devin Schiro Additional Footage from Shelby ParksCrywolf Unplugged Episode 9: tenebrescenceCrywolf2024-03-28 | Filmed live on location in Saxapawhaw, North Carolina with Emalyn and Trevor Kaiwa.
Videography by Ashton Eleazar & Alexander PhillipsI don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to be good… I want to be real.Crywolf2024-03-06 | The first single from my upcoming album is out now everywhere 🤍🕊️
Listen: stem.ffm.to/tenebrescenceCrywolf - tenebrescence (hushed) (w/ emalyn & Trevor Kaiwa)Crywolf2024-03-06 | New album out May 2024 🤍🕊️
Stop With the world around you still Breathe into me
Hold Your fingers pressed against your heartbeat
x
And everything that’s here is rising in tone and saturation It’s an aching, it’s a violence It’s a longing to erase the separation
x
Turn around and shout my name, I need to hear it Come and pour out of my eyes like a flood Pull me back to a time when I existed Drown me in those memories I want to feel it all I want to feel it all
x
Stop With the world around you still Breathe into me
Hold Your fingers pressed against your heartbeat
x
And everything that’s here is rising in tone and saturation It’s an aching, it’s a violence It’s a longing to erase the separation
x
I don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to be good… I want to be real.
I want to be real.
x
Looking up at me with hearts around your eyes Stretching arms to beckon me back to that bed This is more than just a memory It’s the quiet place where everything that’s warm and real inside of me still lives
Break your crown and throw it tumbling to the earth Burn the gates of heaven down if it’s real Soak me in my mothers blood Show me that your arms can hold me Dive into the dying light and find me hereCrywolf - tenebrescence (w/ emalyn) :: New album out this spring!Crywolf2024-03-06 | New album out May 2024 🤍🕊️
Stop With the world around you still Breathe into me
Hold Your fingers pressed against your heartbeat
x
And everything that’s here is rising in tone and saturation It’s an aching, it’s a violence It’s a longing to erase the separation
x
Turn around and shout my name, I need to hear it Come and pour out of my eyes like a flood Pull me back to a time when I existed Drown me in those memories I want to feel it all I want to feel it all
x
Stop With the world around you still Breathe into me
Hold Your fingers pressed against your heartbeat
x
And everything that’s here is rising in tone and saturation It’s an aching, it’s a violence It’s a longing to erase the separation
x
I don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to be good… I want to be real.
I want to be real.
x
Looking up at me with hearts around your eyes Stretching arms to beckon me back to that bed This is more than just a memory It’s the quiet place where everything that’s warm and real inside of me still lives
Break your crown and throw it tumbling to the earth Burn the gates of heaven down if it’s real Soak me in my mothers blood Show me that your arms can hold me Dive into the dying light and find me hereCrywolf - SpiralsCrywolf2024-01-26 | This started as a creative experiment I was documenting on Instagram, but everyone asked for an official release so here ya go 🤍
And I'm spinning 'round in circles I know you know I'm trapped inside my mind Tumbling through these dark folds You touch me, but never hold me
I just wanna feel like I am something more than just the one who makes you clean
Oh every night I dream you know me Every night I dream you know me Every night I dream you know me
Another spiral Please let me go I can't contain the violence in this home
And when you use me, Do you feel my soul? This heart that aches and longs for so much moreMy House Is Singing To Me Volume 1: SpiralsCrywolf2024-01-25 | Started this on my instagram story and decided to take it way too far as per usual. Please enjoy my washing machine’s existential angst.
**edit: Everyone kept asking so we released it! Listen here: http://Crywolf.komi.io
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Lyrics:
And I'm spinning 'round in circles I know you know I'm trapped inside my mind Tumbling through these dark folds You touch me, but never hold me
I just wanna feel like I am something more than just the one who makes you clean
Oh every night I dream you know me Every night I dream you know me Every night I dream you know me
Another spiral Please let me go I can't contain the violence in this home
And when you use me, Do you feel my soul? This heart that aches and longs for so much moreCrywolf - videotape (hushed)Crywolf2023-12-08 | Track 05 of the compilation "not to be here, not to be anywhere"
While putting together this compilation, which is an exploration into my own feelings surrounding the Christmas season, the song Videotape by Radiohead kept coming to mind. It’s always been hard to put my finger on the emotions this song makes me feel. Bittersweet longing and nostalgia mixes with contentment, existential dread mixes with serenity. It mirrors the emotions the holiday season brings up for me. Christmas is something that many childhood memories are attached to. It has a way of summing up my life, like watching a montage of myself and those I’ve loved throughout the year. After sitting down on the piano to play it for the first time, I knew it was the perfect companion to this body of work.
When I’m at the pearly gates This will be on my videotape My videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath He’s reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days I have it all here in red, blue, green. Red, blue, green.
You are my center when I spin away Out of control on videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape
This is my way of saying goodbye Cause I can’t do it face to face I’m talking to you before
No matter what happens now You shouldn’t be afraid Because I know today has been The most perfect day I’ve ever seen
This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbyeCrywolf - 12.25.16 [untitled christmas song] (instrumental)Crywolf2023-12-08 | Track 04 of the compilation "not to be here, not to be anywhere"
Listen on other platforms: stem.ffm.to/crywolfCrywolf - you, at the end of daysCrywolf2023-12-08 | Track 03 of the compilation "not to be here, not to be anywhere"
Listen on other platforms: stem.ffm.to/crywolfCrywolf - videotapeCrywolf2023-12-08 | Track 02 of the compilation "not to be here, not to be anywhere"
While putting together this new collection, which is an exploration into my own feelings surrounding the Christmas season, the song Videotape by Radiohead kept coming to mind. It’s always been hard to put my finger on the emotions this song makes me feel. Bittersweet longing and nostalgia mixes with contentment, existential dread mixes with serenity. It mirrors the emotions the holiday season brings up for me. Christmas is something that many childhood memories are attached to. It has a way of summing up my life, like watching a montage of myself and those I’ve loved throughout the year. After sitting down on the piano to play it for the first time, I knew it was the perfect companion to this body of work.
When I’m at the pearly gates This will be on my videotape My videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath He’s reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days I have it all here in red, blue, green. Red, blue, green.
You are my center when I spin away Out of control on videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape On videotape
This is my way of saying goodbye Cause I can’t do it face to face I’m talking to you before
No matter what happens now You shouldn’t be afraid Because I know today has been The most perfect day I’ve ever seen
This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbye This is my way of saying goodbyeCrywolf - 12.25.16 [untitled christmas song] (acoustic version)Crywolf2023-12-01 | Am I the only one who secretly hates Christmas music? It’s always felt like a bit of a spit in the face of the somber emotional palette this season has in my mind.
A while back a friend of mine heard me talking about it and they challenged me to write my own Christmas song. I gave it a shot and what came out was, in my opinion, one of the most straightforward and candid songs I’ve ever written. It doesn’t involve complex themes or abstract lyricism. It is just an honest exploration of the gut-wrenching feeling you have when you realize you have lost the place that your soul felt at peace.
I recorded this new stripped down version of it with just me and a felt piano for you guys. If you are another person for whom the holiday season is one of reflection on loss, I hope it comforts you and shows you you are not alone 🤍
Did it get colder this year? Inside my room I see crystals of ice Suspended pieces covered in glass Snowbanks are falling on the sides of my bed The sides of my bed
But it doesn’t snow here in Los Angeles Abandoned roads, but they’re warm… I’m just losing it. Everyone’s gone back to sweet places they call their homes But I wander aimlessly Can’t shake this chill from my bones
Cause where could I go to feel home, when my home was you? Surrounded, but always alone In this snow I can’t move I feel that yearning to leave and belong somewhere new But where could I go? Darling, you took my whole world with you.What do you guys think of Take This Weight now that you’ve had time to sit with it?Crywolf2023-11-24 | ...Crywolf & The Kids - IntroCrywolf2023-11-17 | Track one from Crywolf & The Kids’ new three-part record, “Take This Weight”
~ Lyrics ~
No dying sun No great release I held my tongue And whispered to the trees
Take this weight from me, take this weight from me Take this weight from me, take this weight from me
Take this weight from me Take this weight from me From me
So sad your old fur was so soft All matted down and tied in knots I’d write a metaphor to make you like raindrops in the thunder The current pulls you under Safe inside the water
Take this weight from me Take this weight from me From me
YouTube: youtube.com/@Producedbythekids Tiktok: @producedbythekids Instagram: instagram.com/producedbythekids Twitter: twitter.com/prodbythekidsHow To Build A Great Live ShowCrywolf2023-05-02 | A lot of people were asking about what goes into building a live set like mine. I decided to make a little series where I show you the process of making it + the ins and outs of how the live rig works. I hope it's informative and gives you a cool glimpse behind the scenes!
Get tickets for the upcoming tour: http://www.runcrywolf.comINTO OBLIVIØN Visual SetCrywolf2023-04-28 | Currently putting the finishing touches on the brand new live visual set right now, which features footage from incredible creators like Alter., Everett Lee-sung, Roniit, Shelby Parks, and Montana Martz.
Come see it at any of the dates on the upcoming spring tour with AWAY 🤍
5/4 Denver 5/6 Atlanta 5/12 Chicago 5/13 Brooklyn 5/19 Seattle 5/20 Austin 5/25 Los Angeles
Get tickets here: http://www.runcrywolf.comINTO OBLIVIØN TOURCrywolf2023-02-23 | Have you been *dying* to watch a psychotic guy who kind of looks like he wants to kill you scream at you from a stage and then comfort you with a mother's embrace?
Well you're in luck, cause after a three year hiatus from playing live, I am going to be hitting the road again for a limited US run and bringing one of my all-time favorite producers, AWAY.
See you all in the void 🖤INTO OBLIVIØN SPRING TOUR - Tickets available now!Crywolf2023-02-23 | Have you been *dying* to watch a psychotic guy who kind of looks like he wants to kill you scream at you from a stage and then comfort you with a mother's embrace?
Well you're in luck, cause after a three year hiatus from playing live, I am going to be hitting the road again for a limited US run and bringing one of my all-time favorite producers, AWAY.
See you all in the void 🖤The Vastness Of The Creative MindCrywolf2023-02-12 | Your creative mind is so much more than just your conscious thoughts. If you are willing to do the work, you can discover encounter that vastness inside of you. #creativetheory #creativity #depthpsychology[i touched her face like the ark of the covenant, like someone expecting to be smitten by god]Crywolf2023-01-27 | ...[skototropism]Crywolf2023-01-20 | Track 03: [skototropism]
I was really happy to finally give this piece a place to live on the new album.
#spokenwordIt Happened Quiet by Aurora (Livestream Performance)Crywolf2023-01-19 | Love is wild.
Clip from the DDDNNNAAA livestream performance.
#music #coverDreaming Of Me (Binaural Audio)Crywolf2023-01-18 | #binaural #emdr #ambisonic #mentalhealthThe Hunger In Your Haunt (Unplugged)Crywolf2023-01-16 | Guitar? Check. Glockenspiel? Check. Ferry in the middle of nowhere? Check. #music #songwriting #acousticHalloween, 1987 (Livestream Performance)Crywolf2023-01-13 | In a world full of light, we can live in the dark.
Clip from the Smoke And Water livestream performance.
#music #songwritersorry mom sorry dadCrywolf2023-01-12 | thank u 4 pain
Background song is Exuvium by Crywolf.Why Is Creativity So Mysterious?Crywolf2022-12-20 | Some of you know this, but during the pandemic I finally took this company Daw Nation up on their request to make a Masterclass revolving around the creative system I use to write albums.
It ended up essentially being the system I would give someone if I were training them to take over Crywolf after I die. Close to 35 hours of instruction, on the creative system itself, writing techniques, and production techniques.
They are doing a 40% off Xmas sale + you get access to the Exuvium expansion pack that we are filming next year sometime + the song-a-day challenge I’m going to be leading everyone through.
Just wanted to give you guys a heads up in case you had been eyeing it for a while!
www.dawnation.net/crywolfINTO OBLIVIØN, Episode 04: Inuma-MapuCrywolf2022-12-16 | ...INTO OBLIVIØN, EPISODE 4 // OUT FRIDAYCrywolf2022-12-15 | The fourth and final episode of the INTO OBLIVIØN documentary comes out Friday. This one was especially emotional for me, because I open up about a lot of things I’ve never talked about publicly before. It was very worth it.
We’re going to be doing a watch party + Q&A on Discord at 3PM EST where we’ll watch through the whole thing and then you can ask me whatever you want.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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LYRICS:
Your heart is torturing me A thousand miles an hour again And all that stays with me Is the fear inside my gut
You’re the fear inside my gut
You’ve been my reason to breathe The gravity that pulls me in I can’t escape the weight Of your ultraviolent heart
Of your ultraviolent heart
I’ve been splintering apart Breaking open from the start Gates of heaven are closing
What did you do in my head? Weren’t you laying in my bed, Telling me I was chosen?
Now I don’t even know you and that’s the best part of it All I know You’re the only thing that I see in color
This heart is torturing me The only pain I understand I can’t escape the weight Of your ultraviolent heart
It’s a poison in my gut
I’ve been splintering apart Breaking open from the start Gates of heaven are closing
What did you do in my head? Weren’t you laying in my bed, Telling me I was chosen?
Now I don’t even know you and that’s the best part of it All I know You’re the only thing that I see in color
This heart is torturing me The only pain I understand I can’t escape the weight Of your ultraviolent heart
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
Written and produced by Justin Taylor PhillipsCrywolf - [annihilation at 30,000 frames per second] (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
Pass overhead I’ve forgotten what’s it like To feel weightlessness, my strings untied
My arms are long Strong enough for flight But can they push away this heavy silence?
ø ø
But maybe if you're tongue-tied I could walk you through it all Find you in the lowlight Fight your battles through this war
Broken on my doorstep You were falling through the seams Breaking every finger Thinking it would make you clean
ø ø
And I know In the far light In the lightning There are pieces of myself You’re setting off You’re setting off
I’m frail And I’m poured out But I told you There are parts you’ll never see And they’re aligning in the stars
[the stars, the stars, the stars, the stars]
ø ø
Pass over my head With your wings extended wide I can taste the way you terrify me
Grow towards the sun Leave me far behind Till you extend into this pale horizon
ø ø
But maybe if I’m tongue tied you could walk me through it all Find me in the low light, let your body break my walls I’ll be on your doorstep sorting through my empty dreams Breaking every finger praying that it makes me clean
ø ø
And I know In the far light In the lightning There are pieces of myself You’re setting off You’re setting off
I’m frail And I’m poured out But I told you There are parts you’ll never see They’re all aligning in the stars
[the stars, the stars, the stars, the stars]
ø ø
Maybe if you take time, we could still escape this place Our pearly gates are burning and yet somehow fire feels so safe If I told you jump now, would you let it all erase? Join me in the far light, blooming in a fiery blaze
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Written by Justin Taylor Phillips and Alex Phillips Produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips Mastered by Austin Seltzer[i touched her face like the ark of the covenant, like someone expecting to be smitten by god]Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
Last night I woke up and saw you again Suspended, as you so often are, three feet above me, staring down and… simmering Fingers wet and glistening, your eyes static and void
You part your lips and all at once I’m filled with a vast sense of space and incredible saturation Bestial pangs paired with syrupy weightlessness My body floating up slowly towards your beckoning fingers
I thought we promised to be honest with each other… when were you going to tell me you’d become the reaper?
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Piano by Jeff FeldmanCrywolf - EXUVIUM [beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear]Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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LYRICS:
A thousand lines throughout your body I’ll eat you bit by bit From the inside
My finest prize My hara-kiri Exuvium Exuvium Exuvium
ø ø
No exquisite pleasure feels like The amaranthine gaze in your eyes Spasmodic womb and trembling child Lay waste to everything with your light
ø ø
What is your soul made of?
Beauty
And what is beauty?
Terror
ø ø
Exuvium… Exuvium… Exuvium… Exuvium…
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips Mastered by Austin SeltzerCrywolf - THE LAZARUS OF WESTLAKE (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
No survivor And nothing survived I touch the souls of dead men Here from my forgotten life
Wrap me tight in these swaddling clothes The newly born savior King and lord of the void
ø ø
And the red sea is parting now I’m trying to save this but I don’t know how Tongues of angels suspended in time A forgotten voice deep inside
ø ø
And though we’re touching skin to skin Laying in threads of gold You softly whisper in my ear “Darling you’re still alone.”
Butterflies of white and grey Rustling up silent storms
“Darling you’re still alone.” “Darling you’re still alone.” “Darling you’re still alone.”
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor PhillipsCrywolf - [the veil, eternal] (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
I saw you last night, you know.
In the backyard, staring up into the trees
Who were you talking to? Was it her again? Was she crying?
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Featuring Charity VanceCrywolf - DREAMING OF ME // IN COLORS OF WHITE (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
I’m falling against your grace Folding inside your love You never reveal your face Cold in a silent blood
ø
In my dreams I’m swallowing your eyes and mouth Your sibilance like strings untied
This isn’t feeling right, it never was
I don’t even need this I hope you can see it I’m dying to leave this world behind
You peel with a purpose You love who deserves it Been holding the kill switch to my mind All along
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Strings by Michelle Packman Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips Mastered by Austin SeltzerCrywolf - [i see the birth and death of the universe swimming around in your eyes] (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
I feel myself unraveling Suspended and strange
Listen. No matter what you see here, no matter what erupts from my depths, no matter what ruin comes of us, promise me… Promise me when you sleep, when you dream of me… it will be in colors of white.
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Featuring Charity VanceCrywolf - [skototropism] (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
➰
LYRICS:
And I fell like lightning from the sky I was lost Ribbons in the void I looked up at the blackness around me and realized it was everything I had feared since I was a boy. Day star, son of dawn
Where is redemption?
I got on my knees that night to pray and saw you in a vision Your face shrouded, foreboding, brilliant and beautiful The blackness seemed to pour in through my eyes as you walked towards me You came close, and whispered my name
Abbadon Abbadon Abbadon
➰Crywolf - ABBADON [love lets you know you are safe, but violence lets you know you are pure]Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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LYRICS:
Burn the saints inside you Leave their bones behind you Turn all your warnings inside out Spit them like soil from your mouth
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Burn the saints inside you Leave their bones behind you Burn in rage, oh lion! Storm the gates of Zion!
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Burn the saints inside you Leave their bones behind you Burn in rage, oh lion Storm the gates of Zion
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips Mastered by Austin SeltzerCrywolf - AMARANTHINE [better an apocalypse] (Lyric Video)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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LYRICS:
Deep in the ground, I am breathing Tendons extending to the molten core of the earth like roots Your amaranthine gaze falls upon me Time and space freeze and spontaneously bloom
The finest light could never reveal the softness with which you hold me Better a symphony Better an apocalypse
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And he floats above the earth, a spectre Soil to dust and roots to ash Destroy, divine destroyer! Destroy, oh destroy!
The seasons shift with the angle of your glance Laws of nature rendered frozen in your path
From where have you come?
You ruin us with dearth and famine Yet you cradle us like a child More than anything else that lives and breathes and calls our name
Patron saint of the void Oh terror! Oh exuvium! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips Mastered by Austin SeltzerCrywolf - exuvium [OBLIVIØN Pt. II] (Full Album Stream)Crywolf2022-11-21 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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I have something to show you.
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips
Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips
A world that exists behind our minds, seeping through the cracks in our faces.
Vast, filled with beautiful malevolence, seething with gravity.
It pricked me one day, a thorn in my foot. Something subtle, yet spreading through my frame, cell by cell, splicing into my RNA, making my belly swell with its potent malice.
Two years later it emerged from my womb, opened its mouth, and screamed with a voice like thunder.
Poor, angry little god.
Welcome to the hell that saved me The demon that died for my sins The frenzy of the ancients Divine, fractalized madness
Welcome to EXUVIUM.
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LYRICS:
I see the birth and death of the universe swimming around in your eyes
Datura yellow gazing through my mind
Datura yellow gazing through my mind
Datura yellow gazing through my mind
Datura yellow gazing through my mind
Datura yellow gazing through my mind
A p-p-purring with it’s poison should I let it lay or p-p-pluck and pull it down a willing throat
To lead me to the place where I have shattered
Ooooo
A question that I find is harmless
But at night it seeps in through my eyes
Arresting and caressing every fold and strand I leave to loose
I feel it pull and I unravel
Oooo
Slither through my soil
Oooo
Bring me to a boil
Oooo
Feel my atoms rising
Oooo
Terminal velocity
I see the birth and death of the universe swimming around in her eyes
Eternal monoliths of storms past
You have my attention.
Haunt me in all of your ways.
I see her fingers bending backwards twist and turn and tie themselves together
Beckoning behind her back with fingers dripping rainbow puddles singing to me “come and drink of many waters”
Oh God I am dissolving disapperating folding flying feeling every color swarming
slipping past my skin like snakes they hear me waiting
Skin abuzz with weight under their gravitation
I see her fingers bending backwards twist and turn and tie themselves together
Beckoning behind her back with fingers dripping rainbow puddles singing to me “come and drink of many waters”
Sings “I’ll look into the wind I’ll look into the flame I’ll dig into the earth and swallow it again
I’ll find you in the safe and quiet place inside your mind and expose all the beauty in your terror”
The void is awaking
Creating, degrading
Eternal, unfading
The siren is waiting
The void is awaking
Creating, degrading
Eternal, unfading
The siren is waiting
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Written and produced by Justin Phillips
Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Phillips
Original Art by Dustin Hollywood
Visualizer by Spenser WilliamsINTO OBLIVIØN, Episode 03: CherufeCrywolf2022-10-14 | "No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
This new documentary, surrounding the creation of the OBLIVIØN double album, chronicles my decent into depths I was previously unaware of. It’s my guidebook to the underworld. My love letter to the vast galaxies that exist beneath the iceberg surface of our conscious minds. A dive into parts of the ocean so deep that light never penetrates them. A world inhabited by the beasts we thought we banished from our minds.
This isn’t a happy story. This is a story of grief, of loss, of fire and fury. It’s the story of a boy who knew nothing, and something outside of him that pulled him into a shadowy place beyond good and evil to show him his darkness, his malice, his vastness, and ultimately, his real self.
This is the story of OBLIVIØN.Crywolf - SMOKE AND WATER [the chthonic mother] (OFFICIAL VISUAL)Crywolf2022-09-23 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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it was dark // but it was the dark I tried to show you // to bless you // to anoint you // when i shot it down your throat and blew it into your nostrils and drove it into your skin and screamed it in your ear with a madness //
the spectrum of your vision opened up // to see me crouched over you // for the very // first // time //
infernal beast at the upper range of ultraviolet // 666 etched on my forehead // my wings spread wide // stretching around your house // enveloping it like a dyson sphere from hell // brilliant shades of purple rarely seen // teeth upon teeth upon teeth // claws and heaps of richness and depth and death and depth and death // piled in layers and tight binding // burning // screaming like a banshee
all at once, you knew me.
yet you look at me like its the most normal thing in the world and i find that beautiful in a certain way and it warms me in a certain way but your eyes are a little too blank for comfort in a certain way and
no human is supposed to look at such a creature without at least a little terror in their eyes
I breathe you in like smoke and water in a crowded room Dark liquor and bad vibrations, baby All I need is you
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Pull me Black hole You know you’ve always wanted to be the darkness I’m not
Hurt me I’m close to the edge and I’ve been holding my breath for so long
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I breathe you in like smoke and water in a crowded room Dark liquor and bad vibrations, baby All I need is you
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Hit me Thick rain, a rolling boiling deluge Like everything that I want
Fear me I’m set to destroy and you’re fit to be the prey that I hunt
Sink down into this holy soil Keep spiraling into my void Drip on me with your bloody smile A communion of the sickest kind
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I breathe you in like smoke and water in a crowded room Dark liquor and bad vibrations, baby All I need is you
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Written and produced by Justin Phillips
Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Phillips
Original Art by Dustin Hollywood
Visualizer by Spenser WilliamsINTO OBLIVIØN, Episode 02: WangulénCrywolf2022-09-16 | "No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
This new documentary, surrounding the creation of the OBLIVIØN double album, chronicles my decent into depths I was previously unaware of. It’s my guidebook to the underworld. My love letter to the vast galaxies that exist beneath the iceberg surface of our conscious minds. A dive into parts of the ocean so deep that light never penetrates them. A world inhabited by the beasts we thought we banished from our minds.
This isn’t a happy story. This is a story of grief, of loss, of fire and fury. It’s the story of a boy who knew nothing, and something outside of him that pulled him into a shadowy place beyond good and evil to show him his darkness, his malice, his vastness, and ultimately, his real self.
This is the story of OBLIVIØN.
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Videography: Johnny Adams, Charity Vance, Roniit Alkayam Editing: Wayne Harvey Art Direction: Johnny AdamsCrywolf - DDDNNNAAA [the most fun a boy can have without ripping his skin off] (OFFICIAL VISUAL)Crywolf2022-09-02 | Get Limited Edition OBLIVIØN Double Vinyls: runcrywolf.com/collections/exuvium-vinyl
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This song is my “invocation of the muse”. My tribute to the terrible, bloody, beautiful experience of being an artist, of dissecting yourself, screaming and suffering, for the enjoyment of others. Of showing the masses your darkest pain and hoping it somehow makes the whole fucking mess inside of you finally mean something.
This is controlled psychosis. You’re seeing my viscera. Does it give you a thrill? Does it make you uncomfortable? Do you still love me, filthy and bleeding?
I wanna show you something Rainfall in my head I’m lost again I’m lost again I’m lost again
Thunder and souls and sobbing She’s getting in my DNA I swear you lost me I swear you lost me I swear you’ve lost it
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Under my skin you’re unwrapping all that I am, I swear I wanted to keep I wanted to stay Deep in your head forever
I wanna show you something Melting through my brain Every time you’re around you’re assaulting me I swear you lost I swear you lost me Floating away forever oh
I wanna show you something Rainfall in my brain I’m lost again I’m lost again I’m lost again Again
Thunder and souls and sobbing She’s getting faster DNA
I swear you lost me I swear you lost me I swear you lost me
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I wanna show you something Rainfall in my brain I’m lost again I’m lost again I’m lost again
Thunder and souls and sobbing She’s getting in my DNA I swear you lost me I swear you lost me I swear you’ve lost it
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Ego nihilitas non quaesivit Scinditur mihi apertis Ardebatur omnia Apocalypsis animae (x4)
(To touch her is to become a child, to love her is to be buried)
Ab meum oris effund, O Anime Apocalypsis! Ab meum oris effund, O Deluvium Ruina! (X8)
I wanna show you something (Floating away forever, oh) Thunder and souls and sobbing (I’m lost again, I’m lost again, I’m lost again)
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Written and produced by Justin Taylor Phillips
Mixed by Austin Seltzer and Justin Taylor Phillips