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Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination And Lunacy

by W.A.I.L.

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Initiation 02:59
2.
Wisdom 10:18
Discovering the forbidden fruit First seed of wisdom Decades behind curtains don't bind you to shut your eyes Except for those who are just slaves Cutting my throat to make me able to breathe These wounds will grow harvest The surface looks usually deceitfully calm but oh lord! how the devils dance beneath it ...and that's where I found my altar (for growth) The bigger the storm the greater the survivor Ten feet high waves and I still stand tall And what I found was oceanwide Must climb these mountains... Must walk these regions... Must face these waves... ...for they will bring me to shore
3.
Agony 09:41
Sky divided in half and showed both its sides Nature decayed only to be risen stronger than ever Ground trembled and changed form Sea raged murderous hunger Storm killed thousands This all happened in me and turned into wisdom The wine of Jesus Christ lasted twelve years and it didn't even get me drunk What vanity don't you think? For one, the wine of Satan got me drunk in few years and you know how they say when drunk, people tell you the truth
4.
Illumination 10:54
Suddenly I'm awake - What is this place? Am I dead or dreaming? A cold wall meets my hand Cave full of craniums No lantern to be found so I stumble deeper Cave echoes as I probe - Is this the place they told me about? - The place they say one must pass? Answer hovers back with a morbid stench - Do you see what it reads there on the corpses? - Reincarnation - The same is going to happen to you I take the final steps encouraged by a sip from the well of lunacy for that is surely needed One final look back and I see the corpses but now with one more added - A new light or is it a light at all? - Walking in the darkness has finally yielded crop, it echoes back - Destruction is obligatory in the eyes of change but the creation depends on yourself These were its final words I remember This lair old as our time revealed to me many things Some I didn't even want to hear And what have I learned you ask Well, this is carved on the cave's wall now: Dwelling in agony or ecstasy doesn't bring you wisdom Understand the polarities and rise above them This is where the illumination lies
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Lunacy 13:15
No soil will prosper without the final step which requires madness Break into the twilight (in your mind) and embrace the uncharted Pursuing insanity for increment Freedom comes at a price of war and that's when darkness is to be unleashed For a man that is forever keeping his inner beasts inside is going to be finally eaten by them Elements dissolve into each other The circle is complete Metamorphosis WAIL WAIL WAIL And a new ouroboros emerges A new level of consciousness but still worlds to discover Like when the sun has set a new dawn night already lurks in the shadows of the morning waiting for its return And I have heard you can drown between them Breaking the chains Stepping into unseen territories Lunacy, barter with the unknown... ...who holds the keys of the Cosmos?

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The exceptional name accompanies exceptional music and therefore W.A.I.L. gives a mouth to something that absorbs conventions of black, death, doom & heavy metal – but the entity speaks with only one unique voice and that voice does speak indeed, because the wine of Satan has got them drunk.

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released October 1, 2009

A.E. - Guitars, chants, clean vocals, shouts, harsh vocals
P.R. - Main vocals
J.I. - Bass, additional solos
S.F. - Drums, keys, bongos, djembe, tambourine, triangle, maracas

All vocals on "Agony" by A.E.
Violins by Katariina Moisio.

Mixed and mastered by Juhana Itäkylä.

Cover illustrations by Demoniarch. Band photos by Matias Ulfves.

LP 2009, self-released
CD 2011, AAP

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