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The Murnau Nocturnes

by Vinterdracul

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1.
Lost Films 01:19
Instrumental
2.
Blood contract Sign your name in crimson gore We are all the same here Either the master or the thrall On the soundstage The actors wage spiritual war Between the life they know And the one they would kill for The damned Big studio Hollywood vampires Every starlet And every leading man Would gladly betray the heavens To get a role in the court of the damned Sink your teeth in To a script that can make you a star Yes we know that you came from nowhere It's in your blood that you were destined to go this far Bring up the Klieg lights Bring me my director's chair This is the action you were born to portray You can feel it in your blood
3.
The Deal 01:57
So happy to meet you Sign on the dotted line I've heard so much about you Sign on the dotted line I'm happy to greet you Here in California I'd like to eat you Sign on the dotted line We can't do this without you Sign on the dotted line There's something special about you Sign on the dotted line So long I've been seeking you Seems like an immortal length of time So glad to finally meet you Sign on the dotted line I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you I'd like to eat you
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Instrumental
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Let's get lost Let's get real Between you and me Only one of us gets a meal I've been watching you And I don't know what to say Some might call it theatre I just call it stalking the prey No one will remember us So it doesn't matter what we do After the flicker of light burns out We're just acetate rotting in a vault Rotting in a vault We are lost We are unmade It is as though we never existed
6.
Four Devils 02:50
This will be my greatest triumph This will bring me acclaim and fortune This is what it must be like To be dead All I've ever wanted Was to feel the joy of the crowd All I've ever wanted Was to make my maker proud So get out This is my investment This is my sacrifice When you make a deal with the devil Be sure to know the rate of return While the near term dividends may blind you The longer positions are designed to make your body burn Your body burn Your body burn Your body burn Your body burn Your body burn Your body burn Your body burn
7.
Prana 02:54
Nothing will prepare you for nothing It is like a kiss from lips that don't exist In the blood there is a lineage To a time when time did not exist What we call immortality Is only the desire never to forget It has nothing to do with dying and loss We are already dead here, we've just not been enlightened yet
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Instrumental
9.
Metronome 03:54
I left the metronome running So you knew I'd been here recently I left my heart on the table I hope that you can pardon the mess I left the film in the canister The images like unexploded ordinance I left this life as I left it Nothing can convince me ever to come back
10.
There is another film Set on the very same stage And the story it tells Speaks to the coming of an age Of splendor Of evocation Of silent truths In spoken words Of light And darkness And pain And death Of loss Of forgetting A fleeting glimpse And then it's gone Mortality Is just the process Of being present And then forgotten
11.
Instrumental

about

"The music puts us in the presence of the supernatural, and may disturb your slumbers." — No Clean Singing

A fictional version of F.W. Murnau, director of the silent vampire film Nosferatu, comes to Hollywood in 1928 to sign a big contract with a major movie studio. It is a deal made with the devil.

He soon finds himself haunted by the ghost of his one-time star Max Schreck who warns him that the deal he has made will result in Murnau losing everything — his films, his business, his reputation, and his life.

With the arrival of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, the increasingly tormented Murnau sees his star eclipsed and his artform — silent pictures — cast aside in favor of the new talking films.

Murnau descends into madness and his films and career are destroyed. A saving grace is the lesser known release of a superior twin to Lugosi's film produced in Spanish and featuring nods to Murnau's legacy. But too little, too late. In the end, the devil returns and comes to claim his final prize — stealing Murnau's skull from his grave.

"Exhilarating, dramatic and frankly genius metal." — Devil's Horns

"This unusual style, the strange process that Vinterdracul follow and their experimental efforts certainly won’t go unnoticed." — Games, Brrraaains, & A Head-Banging Life

"A very great sounding mixture of black metal and gothic rock." — A Different Shade of Black Metal

"The raspy cries of a soulless narrator whose deathless existence sounds like a state of eternal misery." — Valley of Steel

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released February 4, 2022

All songs written, performed, recorded, and produced by Weirding Batweilder and Jean Farraige. Copyright 2022 Weirding, BMI.

Artwork: Weirding

This album was released on Canticle Throe. For more, see: www.canticlethroe.com

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Vinterdracul Baltimore, Maryland

Representing the ongoing vampiric explorations of the multi-instrumentalist duo of Weirding Batweilder and Jean Farraige, this is a project that creates an unnatural monstrosity of blackened gothic sound replete with noise, pummeling beats, and a hoarse whiplash vocal delivery served up pre-dawn in the shadow of a hill of gravestones following the last showing of a midnight horror classic. ... more

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