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肖 Shaw

by Rustylake

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I imprison myself in a dream full of you It feels like an intangible mirror I cannot reach In it we both appear alternatively Something like tears is taking form Your gaze tears me apart again and paints my soul blue, the blue of a lake The blood, mottled with dark shadows… Overwhelmed by past memories, I recall those beautiful words Are they so lovely in nature? My minds roaming in the darkness of a summer night, hypnotized, I soar up high in solitude Lonely speeches of winds bother me no more Separated by unseen walls, I see you cry… again Then you undress yourself and invite the moonlights in naked I hate myself I hate myself I hate myself I hate myself I still remember what you told me that day when our memories by the sea were still alive “Shaw, we can see them from here”
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It’s when I shrank back that I saw the silhouette again Our eyes met, all frail and flawed, luminous in pale green Quietly I seek refuge in shadows, leaving my labyrinthine dreams in endless cycles I am the one to kill your grief and the exact reflection of you On moonlit, rainy days, I seem to have seen you again On moonlit, rainy days, I seem to have seen you again On moonlit, rainy days, I seem to have seen you again On moonlit, rainy days, I seem to have seen you again
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The injured flowers, yet still the most graceful, finally withered along with your pent-up desires What a long farewell, mad as always It rained quietly A narrative poem of insignificance You took no umbrella but your white dress didn’t seem to care In a dream of turquoise colour, you were wearing a smile strange and faint I stood there in fear, hoping for salvation “So, can we go back?” Our fresh happiness perished even before your mind got twisted, or it was strangled by what I am now Remorse seized me over and over But I spoke nothing and destroyed them all, and buried you in the lake of mirror Seal the blood-stained petals forever in June, so she would come out a flower, her beauty to be witnessed in July If my consciousness slumbers in blood red, I will not see myself in pain If time is no longer to be perceived, perhaps I can make it go backwards So if I’d never existed, things might take on a different look when you, if you will, bring them up again
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Silence and your silent desires reflect your wretchedness Your fantasticality has reduced you to being a rain lover Below the bright clouds hides the world unable to reach the sun It must be the same from your perspective I’ve tried to reason this out for you or myself Sweet puffs of breeze coming up from a lake far away If I kill my past self with my broke soul, for you it cannot be a release See the corners of my eyes sparkling with predictive lights That’s to my secret relief, of course I am a selfish man after all Moonlights shone into the infinitude of the heavens They pierce through clouds carrying her good fortune, all through my heart The moon would reproach herself and to present her grief she chose to die, so she shattered before those contemplating eyes I’ve seen all that were scattered and still In the nights that I thought are cruel, flowers I planted should be stroking their leaves underneath My love for you comes from your radiant solitude Materialized butterflies made of rain, flickering shadows Rain is falling down seen from the crumbling room This will be the last year, Luo.
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The memories in those gloomy autumn days finally ceased to be as you receded I must’ve seen you again under the leaves A stillness filled the air As to the day when you hid in the crowd, It was another story about your secret plans Then you vanished and left nothing behind All that I could recall about the dead leaves collapsed into a blank I managed to catch them but they still faded away Come back All that concerns you I will go seek and search But for those you will carry into your grave they are beyond my reach Freezing December rain falls, to my dismay, down upon a flower you put in the autumn soil Memories are lapsing but chased, and will end up fading to nothing I seem to have seen you again Should I be terrified of your murders of me If there ever comes a day when I cannot reach you anymore, please at least allow me, now a clown, to join you in the eternal rest
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Marry me

about

The austere wind swinging across the lake of silent nocturnal tales, while the reflection of the mills frozen solemnly ashore blurred by the spoken words from the young girl whose fragile body was loosely chained by the memories of rust. Post black metal with a particular gloomy aesthetic of a grayish dream bred by the Eastern soil, Rustylake is another fresh born from the vigorous youngsters belonging to new wave of Chinese black metal.

Based in Xi'An, Rustylake is a post/atmospheric black metal formed by T.Z. (Guitar/Vocal) and L.S.(Bass/Drum programming) in September 2018. The name was inspired by the namesake of classic Cube Escape Series, while one could also argue how brilliantly the atmosphere they evoke through the music matched with the often bleak and sometimes gothic feeling from the game. However, Rustylake's music is much more than that: highly influenced by some of the leading acts in this genre today like those Japanese post black/hardcore legends 明日の叙景/Asunojokei and Heaven in her Arms, as well as Alcest and Deafheaven aesthetically speaking: with all those influences, Rustylake managed to add their own unique touch of mystifying loneliness using some fresh and mesmerizing post-metal guitar work with a cathartic surge of flooding melodies, intertwining with fierce howls and poetic monologues.

Their debut full length titled 《肖 Shaw》is centered around the short fiction written by T.Z. This is a concept album that based upon the perspective of the main male protagonist Shaw while narrating a story of love and other derivative emotions between him and a young female called 落/Luo. Pest Productions is glad to release this album in physical formats in early 2021.

Buy physical version (6-panel digipak) at official site of Pest Productions: website.pest666.com

credits

released November 13, 2020

Guitar/Vocal/Lyrics - T.Z
Bass/Drum Programming/Synth - L.S
Mixed by - Asthen
Mastered by - Nekkomix [ nekkomix.net ]
Artwork - ginseng
Layout - Deng
Lyric Translation - Shousei
Samples - White Noise Meditation (Nowhere to be Found),
[ whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com ]
T.Z (Nowhere to be Found),
Before Sunrise (Memories of Luo),
BurghRecords (Timeless Body and Foam/Lake of Mirror)

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