The Charred Gavel

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Musical exploration of the burnings of witches and heretics in the Dark Ages of Europe inspired by the witch hunting manual the Malleus Maleficarum.

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“The Charred Gavel”

I see the burning flesh
Cover my tracks while
Raise my head high
Cloak me in this guise
To live is to defile
‘Cause I see the burning flesh

We cast you out as a truly impenitent relapsed heratic of the Holy Father
(There she roamed!)
You succumbed obstinately to the black maladies we ensure moribund terror this day
May it content you to know you’ve been cast out, confessed through the honorable courage of your own brother
(There she roamed!)
Amidst changing faces humanity will forevermore choose itself as its greatest prey

I spy the envious
Hunt thee enemy eyes
No reason to hide
‘Cause purity is my life
No reason to hide
‘Cause purity burns me high

Nervous uncertainty borders hilarity
Unanswered impatience fosters insanity
Pleasurable sublimity, wretched tranquility
Dreadful fantasy, pent-up reality
Painful ecstasy, damned faculty
Concrete frivolty, echoing cruelty

Once one slew in the name of liberty
Henceforth perish in the name of piety

Waiting for prime opportune
Black gavel to swing down on me
Stupefied by crimson heat
Clouds speaking, melting I’m still whole

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released June 26, 2018
Lyrics/music/production by Rahne Pistor

PERSONNEL:
Rahne Pistor - Vocals, Bass, Wurlitzer Organ, Drums, Programming
Carlo Dean - Guitar
*Recorded by the original Sixth Chamber lineup in 2002

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THE SIXTH CHAMBER is a library in hell where the world’s darkest secrets are kept in neatly arranged volumes on shelves. The musical mysterians have accumulated a long and storied recording legacy of gothic, doom, metal, experimental, blues, psychedelic, fantasy/horror and poetic influences evident in their rock ’n’ roll explorations of the mythic, mystic and phantasmic. ... more

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