Tales From Hydhradh, by Ætheria Conscientia

Tales From Hydhradh

by Ætheria Conscientia

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Thoth’s Girl It wasn’t a minute into the first track when I realized this was greatness. One of the quickest purchases I’ve made 🖤 I’m absolutely thrilled with this ! And the same for their 2021 release !! Damn !!! Keep it coming 😮 06/18/2022

Jordan Vauvert Vous vous êtes assis à la table de Maladie et son black metal jazzy, et dans un élan de gourmandise, vous en voulez encore plus ? Ne cherchez pas plus loin et arrêtez-vous chez Ætheria Conscientia et son black metal avant-gardiste. Le saxophone n'y sert pas qu'à une fin ornementale : au contraire, de nombreux passages mélodiques s'articulent autour de cet instrument. Le groupe se permet de belles extravagances, surtout sur la deuxième moitié de l'album. Je n'en dis pas plus : allez écouter ça ! Favorite track: Cleansing The Siraxas - The Exalted Ones.

bmurator Atmospheric Progressive Black Metal from France. This is stunning! The poetry & dialogue between the saxophone & the other instruments is very special indeed! It works beautifully! Highly recommended!!

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1.	Mystic Temples Of Hydhradh 10:56	lyrics	buy track
Thousands of altars In a forest of temples High towers looming All around me The spatial city Of spirituality Haunting Astramovia Shrouded in darkness A spatial sanctuary Reigning in the void Alienated leaders Waging an endless war After ageless aeons An era of stagnation Knowledge is forgotten Replaced by belief Looking for a meaning Humans lost their wits Desperate for guidance Creating legions of messiahs Fanatic followers sent on senseless crusades Drag your carcasses To the altar Spill your blood For the conscientia Sick and tired of your foolishness There’s no use in tearing reason Out of your petty, benighted minds The war of the thousand prophets In the multitude of souls Discordant voices chanting To the stars Misunderstanding the object Of their very faith Shadows of past greatness Masses teeming With hosts of martyrs Blinded by faith Praying for salvation Those stars you worship Died a million years ago
2.	Sacrifice Of The Connected Ones 12:36	lyrics	buy track
A Connected One Amongst others How many more Will come? Chained to a pole Offered to cosmic winds The very fabric of my being Slowly torn apart And there they are Watching me closely Waiting for something To Happen They told me I could be the one Receiver Of the truth I belonged to The sacred halls To stay among my own The connected ones I was taken by the zekhram Into the depths of Hydhradh Swallowed by the fetid maze Where I will stay And speak out the truth For the listeners Until the flow of prophecies Runs dry Curled up on the floor, in a cold cell, I wait My body in a trance, my mind in the stars A dream state, wake up calls, a resonance inside my head But the zealots they know, hunt you down, always find you If you’ve been contacted Sent to the temple they gave me a room Lured in with gold and lust A sweeter kind of dream, free from fear The awakening was another story Chained and cut pain shrouding me The Zekhrams prepared me Find out if I tell the truth Am I blessed or cursed ? Like a witch, drowning or dying My judges want to know Can I tell the words of Ætheria ? My brain wrapped in technetium Burning liquid numbing my consciousness Messenger from our God My slow death for their prophecies Soon, another brother to stub for me
3.	Cleansing The Siraxas - The Exalted Ones 08:44	lyrics	buy track
Our mighty specie Has been contaminated Milleniums ago Artificial parasitic life Illusion of symbiosis Running in our veins The masquerade has lasted way too long A duality within my soul I feel the urge to purge myself Get rid of those parasites Exterminate the siraxas Pompous ceremonies, holy demonstrations of perfection A bag of meat, exalted and scarred, golden diadems Bleeding open wounds, silver linings along his limbs Exposed to everyone’s eyes, a spectacle to impregnate minds Sliced, a sacred knife gashing through veins and flesh Holy ecstasy, bringing closer to Ætheria Bloodletting, amorphous heap of gross pulp Removing the mechanicals horrors that plague his body Tumors grown and destroyed again and again The metallic smell of blood fills the temple Severed limbs rotting on the floor The Exalted Ones, screaming with pain from the depths of the city On the gore covered altars I smear the pillars of the temples with the blood from my hands Hand prints old and dried And some still trickling down Reaching up to the stars From a blood red sea.
4.	Along The Uncertain Paths Of The Maphoros 11:49	lyrics	buy track
To The Apex Crag We are gathering Massive crowd cheering Assisting to the departure To fly away and discover new planets The conscience is guiding us To colonize new worlds To convert new minds Enlighten the universe Champions of Ætheria Leaving Hydhradh to unknown regions Challenging the obscure cosmos Our necessary sacrifice For the Great Expansion Will be remembered For eons to come We are the Maphoros Connect the dots in the sky New roads paved with faith Across the cosmos And beyond the limit Maphoros irnis benedisyr Ser Zekhram es Hydhradh Maphoros irnis infinisyr Fro cosmo nay endes Maphoros ! Departing ! Chosen among the people Blessed by the Zekhram We face the great unknown We are the Maphoros The engines are roaring Set for the great crossing For the last time I gaze towards Hydhradh the great Sublime metastasis Blossoming in the void Let us fly away To witness the new sun My sails are unfurled Shine bright all the way For them fools forsaken By the Conscientia

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Ætheria Conscientia – Tales From Hydhradh is a transcript of the first transmissions received from the spatial city of Hydhradh, an artificial world which has become the spiritual center of the galaxy Astramovia. Temples built over temples in anarchy, prophets rise and fall over the endless reign of The Ætheria, an enigmatic entity who has a strange influence over the inhabitants.

Hear the many tales of Hydhradh, the prophecies torn from the minds of the connected ones, the purifying rites of the Siraxas, and the unknown destiny of the Maphoros, heralds of the whispers of the Ætheria.

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- Can This Even Be Called Music: "If you like your black metal with a good saxophone as a main instrument and wild Lovecraftian sci-fi, then look no further than French band Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa."

- It Djents: "Take some time off to listen to and celebrate the electrifying, dark, brooding, and wonderfully woven tunes of this French black metal outfit that might make you re-evaluate the importance of saxophone in extreme metal. "

- No Clean Singing: "A window into
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- Into A Cold Abyss: "This album seamlessly blurs the lines between classic black metal, jazz and progressive metal. With well crafted story telling and enough turns to keep you interested"

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released February 28, 2018

Tristan - Guitars, vocals
Simon - Saxophone, vocals, percussions
P.A. - Guitars, effects
Alexis - Bass
Paul - Drums

Lyrics by Simon and Tristan.
Music and arrangements by Ætheria Conscientia.
Recording, mixing and mastering by Spearhead Sounds.
Artwork by Amaury Pottier.
Logo by Luka Noos.

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Ætheria Conscientia Nantes, France

Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa was formed in september 2016 with the desire to play space black metal, merging with progressive influences, making them navigate in uncharted new territories, somewhere between black metal, jazz and prog.
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