Exclamation Po!nt
by Armagh
darthwerder
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The Rancid Smell of Burning Hair
ozarktraveler
S.M.
paulpanzerschreck
Thomas Gardyan
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Manuel Duenki
reverend-doom
Nightswan
Departer
heavy.metal.parking.chair
DigitalProphet
Kevin
Tony J C
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1. |
Rough Edges
05:46
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Don't underestimate what's in the dark
Delusion of the eyes reflecting lighter spark
Wheezing contradictions
Mirror, bright obscurity
And dreadful conviction
Something's near
Mind assuming worst
Body's getting weak
Such a thorny place
Blood is getting thick
Steam occuring on the surface
Breathing seems no longer yours
First stab of pain and doubt
Second face, internal wars
Damaged knuckles aching
Pointless effort, waste
Glass particles sticking
It's already in this place
Part of jigsaw puzzle
Fell behind the bars
Silence screams your name
It's written in the stars
So afraid to even think
Feels like nothing's changed
I don't want to hate you
But you're making me deranged
Immunize, the hardest thing
Expect the unexpected
Forgot to take that from the past
And this should be rejected
Stirring up another stream
Replacing teeth with broken glass
Needles, nails and safety pins
Torn and sown, fixed too fast
Wandering and wondering
Changing point of view
I couldn't stay much longer
From here I see the fields of blue
Three thirty in the morning
It's dark and very cold
Edges cut the skin
Wrinkled and old
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2. |
Masters of Time
07:03
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Thrown in the whirl
Into detached form
Where the line begins
And the warriors spawn
Cast into this space
I was born again
They gave me new face
Still I kept my old bane
Stuck between the grinding gears
Daily life is cogs and wheels
Surface full of welds and seams
Impaled by rusty nails and pins
The world I was found in
Like all previous ones I've seen
Chaos and Law, the black and the green
With sword I must stand in between
Masters of Time
Rewinding tapes of memory
Degrading after decades
Initial pulse is fading away
Followed by the petrol cascade
Masters of Time
Have No Time to Die
Rambling through the maze of loss
Encountering strange mutations
Things I think I knew before
Was it the previous life I saw?
Pictures of the battlefields
Eternized on back of eyelids
Cannot rest during display
The years counted in thousands
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Aftermath
04:30
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Some were self assured
And afterwards had failed
Some were lost before
New coordinates unveiled
Divided by reality
Few years ago we've said
What supposed to be eternal
Needs to rest within the grave
You're no saint
You've lost the faith
Went deaf for others than yourself
Judging, blaming
Pulling rug
Something I don't want to understand
Broken promises, retreat
After all what has been done
Now it's easier talking shit
Than focus on your own
Aftermath
Where are you going with that?
People make mistakes
To overstay was mine
If someone makes you feel like a lesser man
Break away, redefine
There are always new surroundings
You're not condemned for noxious lines
After all, there's only one who'll stay
With you out there, in the cold, black night
To put it neatly and polite
There's no benefit of the doubt
For some of you I carry words
You no longer have my heart
Let me play my music
One to many you weren't there
And I just can't refuse it
Since when do you even care?
Aftermath
On pariah path and like it out here
To know is not to understand
Look around, 'coz death is near
No more self deceiving
Nearly stopped believing
We could change the world together
Something else was always better
There are still new things to learn
Numerous ways to choose
Restless souls in mortal coil
This time they won't lose!
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Between the Sides
03:43
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This one came out good
Figured, what the hell
There's a message in the stillness
If you're able to hear well
Peculiar way to operate
Turning into vermin
Death and love, life and hate
Enigmatic sermons
Various expressions
Vertical floating
Seeing yourself
Laughing and pointing
Ragdoll corpses
Familiar faces
Unplugged from sources
Reactance
Known from autopsy
Rigor mortis
Plain beyond the scale
Deriving from the essence
Shout out more distinctly
The way to remain present
One step at the time
If you stumble - no return!
On the basis of the rivarly
You can build or you can burn
You decide, don't be a fool
Or they'll step over you
Critical mass, what will I do
Well, you could do something too
World still keeps on turning
Flattens out and spinning round
Something stuck between the sides
Turn this record ups!de down
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The Portal
05:53
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Through the realm of the dead
And the ever young
Where in vortex of spirits
All voyage begun
New presence, anticipated
In search of the dawn
The passage will be created
By blood on the stone
Created by the faithless king
Across the land lay scattered
Its megalithic summoning
Grim purpose, unseen pattern
Spawning twisted, wicked forms
Creatures of ritual
Skins embedded with barbs and thorns
Carnage habitual
Spirits, dearests, ancestry swarms
Consistent flow
Separates the living ones
Children on skid row
Splitting up the sky
Spire scrapes the cloud
It's not the time to cry
You and I, I can't breathe sometimes
Infiltrates my mind
Draught of energy
Reaching for your hand
It feels like you're next to me
Upon the Portal
Splitting up the sky
Spire scrapes the clouds
Don't want to know why
You and I, we've tried
Penetrates my mind
Draught of energy
City has your eyes
Feels like you are here
Seconds, minutes, hours, days
Months, years, decades, centuries
Witnessing the birth and death
Conflict, truce, realities
Voices from the past
Whispers from beyond the gates
We need to go
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Rapid Str!de
04:19
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Not supposed to be
Not enough for you
Will we set ourselves free?
Will we ever break through?
Your bubble will pop
And distracted lights
They'll merge into one
By the cover of night
Questioning what the world stands on
Afraid of being exposed
Controlling behavior
Of twenty thousand souls
Sustained release
Nobody has told
What's the point of this
Homesick and alone
N.K.N.K.
Then the second wave
Washes the synapses
Leaves no single trace
No data to be captured
Valiant, full of might
Pity, not a clue
Happens all the time
This is me and you
Don't want to forget
Memories are cooling
Talk to someone else
No longer dumb and drooling
Eerie and unfair
Can't put this into words
Maybe someone somewhere
Will need a few good chords...
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This !s New A
04:46
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So rare in time of need
And potential variety
Seemingly not of value
Discarded in entirety
Transmitter has caught
What is wrong and right
Intricate construction
No more sudden strikes
Was just about to leave
Pay a visit to the city
Few words came to my head
Quite strange and oddly pretty
Confusion's the one
Moments of ecstasy
Outline of a meaning
Second birth, curiosity
No defence reaction
An accident, twist of fate
Dormant satisfaction
Should we be afraid?
Shades are moving slowly
Stripes of unknown light
Crossing, passage, stairway
Higher levels of mind
Elevators, change of pressure
They're skipping secret floors
Long, thin figure down the hall
Never seen that one before
Fascinating, dangerous
Yet subtle and kind
Extremely addictive
Very hard to find
Cannot open now
Don't want to disturb
You know where you can find me
Whatever will occur
No need to name it now
Maybe this is new
No matter where we'll go
I owe you
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8. |
Enough for Now
03:34
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It's getting late my friends
Time to walk away
Another time, another place
Tomorrow is today
Changing of the guard
New ranger of the dawn
Will hold the shield
Upon your head
Our enemies
Will end up dead
Shadow walkers, if you're there
You better beware
Have you ever been
In a lucid nightmare?
We're gonna slit your throats
With your own swords
We don't fucking care
No more
Enough for now
In search of the unreachable
Night travellers, down to fight
No single stone left standing
Have mercy
Yeah, right
Barbarians of the bulwark
Join us in our quest
Hand by hand
Piece by piece
It's up to you
Remain or cease
At the borders of the worlds
In the zones of non-existence
Where the woman's distant voice
Calmly tears down the persistence
City's burning, mind is falling
Where denial is the fix
But baby, don't you worry
Rats are taught to do the tricks
With
Atom Smashing force
Pounding on the skins
Vandall of the Navis
Shredding hostile ears
CultCommander leading
Through the valley of the shadow
Ripping is my thing
Prepare for soulless fallow
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about
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ARMAGH’s highly anticipated third album, Exclamation Po!nt, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2012, ARMAGH are a heavy metal force based in Satanic City Warsaw and Necropolis Navis. Mixing classic heavy metal from the '70s and '80s with proto-black metal, ARMAGH are the creators of First Wave Only movement, which unites several Polish bands delivering old-school metal – among them, labelmates GALLOWER and SEXMAG but also Torpor, Wielki Mrok, and R.I.P. – with primal severity in their sound and message.
Truly, ARMAGH are a maniac maniac’s band, idiosyncratic mainlining such noble influences as Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, KISS, Manilla Road, early Slayer and Megadeth, W.A.S.P, Bathory, Dissection, Running Wild, KAT, and the NWOBHM in general into something authentically rustic and effortlessly unique. But it was their second album, Serpent Storm – originally self-released in 2022, but then released on vinyl the next year by DYING VICTIMS – where they had their breakout moment. A true record collector’s record, Serpent Storm displayed its power and personality at every turn, coming from an alien place – one where Battle Cry, Another Perfect Day, Haunting the Chapel, Chinatown, Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and Born Again all simultaneously play in perfect, hellish harmony – but evincing a wild and weird but never belabored alchemy that was simply peerless.
Now, two years later, ARMAGH stir up their cauldron once again with their third album, Exclamation Po!nt. This record features a wholly reconstructed lineup, with founding frontman/guitarist Galin Soulreaper now joined by fellow guitarist Vikk Vandall, bassist Tom CultCommander, and drummer Al Atom Smasher. As such, it’s a far more collaborative effort than the largely Soulripper-written Serpent Storm, with each new member adding their own fiery flair to an altogether less-immediate but much-more-mysterious album: Tom CultCommander’s spacey & hypnotic bass work (a Hawkwind influence is detectable across the record, as is a faint whiff of Rush), Vandall’s impulsive & spring-loaded leads, and the jazzy, Bill Ward-esque drumming of Atom Smasher. Less is indeed MORE here!
Just as wild and weird as its mighty predecessor but perhaps eating subtler, sweeter fruits, the deliberately demonstrative Exclamation Po!nt dives deeply into moodier and mustier waters, sounding impossibly older than even Serpent Storm. It’s all unmistakably ARMAGH, but if LP#3 proves anything (and loudly), it’s that these Polish maniacs are operating at the height of their powers – and, again, as a full band this time. No dynamic is too severe, no construct too off-kilter, no speed shunned: with greater emphasis on harmony vocals and Soulreaper’s lonely-warlock tones guiding the listener into a misty, mystical wonder-world, Exclamation Po!nt weaves a plaintive-yet-powerful spell that traverses the whole spectrum of human experience. And perhaps it’s there that ARMAGH in general and Exclamation Po!nt in particular excels – that it’s undeniably human in construction and execution, but its journey (and destination) is otherworldly to the splendorous extreme. Or, cutting out the fancy words, what we have here is heartfelt, handmade heavy metal: no modern, no trends, no way!
No longer the “sleeper hit of the year,” ARMAGH are prepared to punctuate “best of 2024” conversations already with Exclamation Po!nt!
Formed in 2012, ARMAGH are a heavy metal force based in Satanic City Warsaw and Necropolis Navis. Mixing classic heavy metal from the '70s and '80s with proto-black metal, ARMAGH are the creators of First Wave Only movement, which unites several Polish bands delivering old-school metal – among them, labelmates GALLOWER and SEXMAG but also Torpor, Wielki Mrok, and R.I.P. – with primal severity in their sound and message.
Truly, ARMAGH are a maniac maniac’s band, idiosyncratic mainlining such noble influences as Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, KISS, Manilla Road, early Slayer and Megadeth, W.A.S.P, Bathory, Dissection, Running Wild, KAT, and the NWOBHM in general into something authentically rustic and effortlessly unique. But it was their second album, Serpent Storm – originally self-released in 2022, but then released on vinyl the next year by DYING VICTIMS – where they had their breakout moment. A true record collector’s record, Serpent Storm displayed its power and personality at every turn, coming from an alien place – one where Battle Cry, Another Perfect Day, Haunting the Chapel, Chinatown, Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and Born Again all simultaneously play in perfect, hellish harmony – but evincing a wild and weird but never belabored alchemy that was simply peerless.
Now, two years later, ARMAGH stir up their cauldron once again with their third album, Exclamation Po!nt. This record features a wholly reconstructed lineup, with founding frontman/guitarist Galin Soulreaper now joined by fellow guitarist Vikk Vandall, bassist Tom CultCommander, and drummer Al Atom Smasher. As such, it’s a far more collaborative effort than the largely Soulripper-written Serpent Storm, with each new member adding their own fiery flair to an altogether less-immediate but much-more-mysterious album: Tom CultCommander’s spacey & hypnotic bass work (a Hawkwind influence is detectable across the record, as is a faint whiff of Rush), Vandall’s impulsive & spring-loaded leads, and the jazzy, Bill Ward-esque drumming of Atom Smasher. Less is indeed MORE here!
Just as wild and weird as its mighty predecessor but perhaps eating subtler, sweeter fruits, the deliberately demonstrative Exclamation Po!nt dives deeply into moodier and mustier waters, sounding impossibly older than even Serpent Storm. It’s all unmistakably ARMAGH, but if LP#3 proves anything (and loudly), it’s that these Polish maniacs are operating at the height of their powers – and, again, as a full band this time. No dynamic is too severe, no construct too off-kilter, no speed shunned: with greater emphasis on harmony vocals and Soulreaper’s lonely-warlock tones guiding the listener into a misty, mystical wonder-world, Exclamation Po!nt weaves a plaintive-yet-powerful spell that traverses the whole spectrum of human experience. And perhaps it’s there that ARMAGH in general and Exclamation Po!nt in particular excels – that it’s undeniably human in construction and execution, but its journey (and destination) is otherworldly to the splendorous extreme. Or, cutting out the fancy words, what we have here is heartfelt, handmade heavy metal: no modern, no trends, no way!
No longer the “sleeper hit of the year,” ARMAGH are prepared to punctuate “best of 2024” conversations already with Exclamation Po!nt!
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