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In Somber Dreams

by Mother of Graves

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Dylan
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Dylan crushing melodies and heavy ass vocals. love the doomy atmosphere they build. Feels like you're hopelessly floating in the vacuum of space awaiting your inevitable demise. excited to see what comes out in the future and will continue to melt my eardrums to this for some time. Favorite track: Deliverance.
Sleeping Villager
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Sleeping Villager Emotive, harrowing, and tantalizingly listenable, as all good melodic death/doom should be. There's a real November's Doom-by-way-of-Paradise-Lost vibe at play, and that combo is simply undeniable.

This is a wonderful first effort, and bodes well for future projects under the Mother of Graves moniker. Favorite track: In Somber Dreams.
Dante Ruivo
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Dante Ruivo melodic death doom metal of the highest order. this is an impressive debut EP and I want more from this band! Favorite track: The Urn.
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1.
In the distance she calls to me I crawl towards her dying hymns Through valleys of vast decay and rotted, hanging limbs I reach for the grey heavens aloft Sinking further into the recess of my grave A lost capsule of time to be The relic of a forgotten world to remain Cold wind sweeps the lifeless horizon Mourning tears soak the ashen soil Spirits weep under the pale moon Banish the burden forevermore In somber dreams I meet my destiny Transcending the oaken lore Waiting beyond the frozen mist Hovering atop my resting corpse Moss entombs my weary eyes Though I lie still and awake A silent serenity of recollection A barren lucidity driven before the stake In my faint vision the open door is clear and my weightless body drifts Into the unknown...
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My surroundings fading to black Though my sight is blinded still By the searing twilight above The haunting stare of the cold sun Bellowed cries speak my name From the distant void in death I dread They entrance my tiresome limbs A spiraling soul in a world bereft Fathering ruin guide me forth Through fields of grief and thorn Through the rivers that flow thick With the blood of our failures and scorn In the streams that carry our lost souls afloat Through the tranquility of everlasting woe Bury me in the sands of her waning arms As nameless I wash upon the vacant shore
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The Urn 05:51
The host of a thousand sorrows This path before me I know not These limbs no longer my own Their whispers haunt my every thought In stasis, my cold body entrapped Lost in a world I hath forgot I hearken to the calling black Knowing there’s no turning back In a sunken state of tribulation I mourn the weeping dead and caress the urn of our misfortunes Clawing through the endless trench Toll the bell of absolution Of my suffering nevermore The solitude that which I seek Awaits me beyond the glowing door The host of a thousand sorrows This path before me I know not These limbs no longer my own Their whispers haunt my every thought Like dust in the carrying winds.. My traces here to vanish clean By the final hymn; forsaken
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Deliverance 04:32
A burning candle to the night sky Your shadow coalesced with my own Beneath the glow of the distant moon I lay my faltered head upon the old stone A phantasm of memory Bestill my stricken heart’s lament Follow my aching vessel forth As I trudge along through the waiting arch As the breath of this familiar dusk Reaps my soul from these mortal ties On the other side may we meet again I open my sullen eyes in a waking oblivion In the void beyond I’ve long adored and sought Buried deep in forgotten chasms My deliverance in eternal sleep The grand harmony of silence Of tears I shall no longer weep

about

Mother of Graves are Melodic Death/Doom necromancers from Indianapolis, IN. Fans of early Katatonia, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Tiamat will make lifelong blood-pacts with the band’s spellbinding debut EP, "In Somber Dreams."

Named after a mythological Latvian protector of cemeteries (Kapu māte), Mother of Graves blend their despondent atmosphere with old school aesthetics. Crushing and evocative, their first demo songs caught the ear of Wise Blood Records.

You can also add iconic Swedeath musician and engineer Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Bloodbath) to the band’s ever-growing supporters. Swanö mastered "In Somber Dreams" and was immediately entranced by their Peaceville Records ambience.

Enter Mother of Graves' somber dreamscapes and meet the new guardians of Melodic Death/Doom.

"Mother of Graves is a direct response to the “Peaceville 3,” nascent stage Katatonia, and recent bats out of the belfry, Cloak and Khemmis. This blend of ancient and contemporary creates a unique crossroads sound, where the deathly and the depressive form otherworldly ententes. It only seems appropriate that the Mother Of Graves name was derived from the Latvian protector of cemeteries (Kapu māte).

Decibel Magazine:
"The band’s new EP — out January via newly formed Wise Blood Records — indeed is the stuff of melodic (the dark and evil kind) legend. In Somber Dreams pulls in close Katatonia’s Sounds of Decay EP, the weight of loss from My Dying Bride’s Like Gods of the Sun, and the angst of October Tide’s Rain Without End.

"But Mother Of Graves aren’t just on the blue side. They have a diehard death metal foundation, all ivy-covered tombstones and the scent of funereal petrichor. The track Decibel is streaming, “The Urn,” is all parts of the above, riven (and emanating) from the back of the mausoleum vault. That In Somber Dreams was mastered by Swedish sage Dan Swanö (Katatonia, Opeth) means more to the process — of prolonging despondent death — than is evident here."

The Obelisk:
"This has been a really awful year for a lot of things and a really good year for death-doom... “The Urn” [is] a pretty efficient mood-capture when it comes to the general state of restless melancholia that has complemented the enduring, teeth-grind of anxiety [in 2020]."

Mother of Graves is:
Brandon Howe - Vocals
Chris Morrison - Guitars
Ben Sandman - Guitars
TJ Hunt - Bass
Don Curtis - Drums

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released January 8, 2021

All music by Chris Morrison and Ben Sandman
All lyrics by Brandon Howe
Produced, recorded, and mixed by Ben Sandman
Mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound
Album cover artwork, design, and layout by Magnus LeGrand

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Mother of Graves Indianapolis, Indiana

“Where the Shadows Adorn” out 10/14/2022 on Wise Blood Records.

DEBUT EP:
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These Melodic Death/Doom necromancers conjure old school gloom from their haunting grounds in Indianapolis, IN. Fans of early Katatonia, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Cloak and Khemmis will make life-long blood-pacts with Mother of Graves’ bleak atmosphere and pitch-black Gothicism.
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