Metal Blade Records | Pøltergeist - Ethereal Nightmare (Official Video) @metalbladerecords | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
ORDER: poltergeistovdoom.bandcamp.com/album/nachtmusik
STREAMING: hypeddit.com/poltergeist/etherealnightmare
“I consider us first and foremost a Post-Punk band, but heavy metal will always play an important role,” says front person Kalen Baker, citing the likes of In Solitude, Unto Others and Tribulation as bands who’ve explored the hinterlands between the two worlds. “When I got really into Goth Rock, one thing I noticed was that it was just as cold and bleak as black metal but in a different way”.
Having a longstanding love for the mystical metallic strains of Angel Witch, Cauldron and Blue Öyster Cult, Baker found himself moved by both Vancouver contemporary post-punk act Spectres and the epochal British melancholia of The Chameleons’ ‘Script From The Bridge’, not to mention gothic and post-punk legends like Sisters Of Mercy and The Sound, and paradigms of the ethereal like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. Bolstered by the lyrical influence of spiritual progenitors like Moorcock, Lovecraft, Poe and the David Lynch of Twin Peaks, the sound of Pøltergeist was born; a gritty but magickal realm where crepuscular intensity is joined in psychic battle by metallic fortitude.
Video Created by Jamie Ward
SEASONS QUICKLY DYING
PLUNGED INTO ETERNAL WINTER
BLOOD IS FALLING TO THE SNOW
LIFE FORCE SLOWLY FADES AWAY
FILL THE CHALICE, BLOOD RED WINE
DRINKING FROM THE PLENTY CUP
SELFISHLY I LEAVE YOU THERE
ON THE ALTAR LYING THERE
TURN AWAY, FROM THE PAST
FOLLOW ME TO DISTANT LANDS
THE LIGHT I S WEARING THIN
CARD OF DEATH HAS MARKED YOUR FATE YOU'RE AN EXILE OF THIS REALM
IT'S TIME TO ESCAPE
FAR AWAY, SO FAR FROM HOME
FATE HAS BEEN FOREVER SEALED
DEATH IS ON THE DOORSTEP
ETHEREAL NIGHTMARE
WALKING THROUGH THE FLOWERS THE FLOWERS IN THE FOG
THE WORLD IS SLOWLY DYING
CRYSTAL BALL IS TURNING BLACK
SCORES OF DEATH MARCH EVER ON
TAKE THIS SWORD TO PROTECT YOU
THE TASTE OF BLOOD WILL KEEP YOU STRONG
TURN AWAY, FROM THE PAST
FOLLOW ME TO DISTANT LANDS
THE LIGHT IS WEARING THIN
CARD OF DEATH HAS MARKED YOUR FATE
YOU'RE AN EXILE OF THIS REALM
IT'S TIME TO ESCAPE
ORDER: poltergeistovdoom.bandcamp.com/album/nachtmusik
STREAMING: hypeddit.com/poltergeist/etherealnightmare
“I consider us first and foremost a Post-Punk band, but heavy metal will always play an important role,” says front person Kalen Baker, citing the likes of In Solitude, Unto Others and Tribulation as bands who’ve explored the hinterlands between the two worlds. “When I got really into Goth Rock, one thing I noticed was that it was just as cold and bleak as black metal but in a different way”.
Having a longstanding love for the mystical metallic strains of Angel Witch, Cauldron and Blue Öyster Cult, Baker found himself moved by both Vancouver contemporary post-punk act Spectres and the epochal British melancholia of The Chameleons’ ‘Script From The Bridge’, not to mention gothic and post-punk legends like Sisters Of Mercy and The Sound, and paradigms of the ethereal like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. Bolstered by the lyrical influence of spiritual progenitors like Moorcock, Lovecraft, Poe and the David Lynch of Twin Peaks, the sound of Pøltergeist was born; a gritty but magickal realm where crepuscular intensity is joined in psychic battle by metallic fortitude.
Video Created by Jamie Ward
SEASONS QUICKLY DYING
PLUNGED INTO ETERNAL WINTER
BLOOD IS FALLING TO THE SNOW
LIFE FORCE SLOWLY FADES AWAY
FILL THE CHALICE, BLOOD RED WINE
DRINKING FROM THE PLENTY CUP
SELFISHLY I LEAVE YOU THERE
ON THE ALTAR LYING THERE
TURN AWAY, FROM THE PAST
FOLLOW ME TO DISTANT LANDS
THE LIGHT I S WEARING THIN
CARD OF DEATH HAS MARKED YOUR FATE YOU'RE AN EXILE OF THIS REALM
IT'S TIME TO ESCAPE
FAR AWAY, SO FAR FROM HOME
FATE HAS BEEN FOREVER SEALED
DEATH IS ON THE DOORSTEP
ETHEREAL NIGHTMARE
WALKING THROUGH THE FLOWERS THE FLOWERS IN THE FOG
THE WORLD IS SLOWLY DYING
CRYSTAL BALL IS TURNING BLACK
SCORES OF DEATH MARCH EVER ON
TAKE THIS SWORD TO PROTECT YOU
THE TASTE OF BLOOD WILL KEEP YOU STRONG
TURN AWAY, FROM THE PAST
FOLLOW ME TO DISTANT LANDS
THE LIGHT IS WEARING THIN
CARD OF DEATH HAS MARKED YOUR FATE
YOU'RE AN EXILE OF THIS REALM
IT'S TIME TO ESCAPE
