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The Directress

by BlackQueen

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1.
Aeons ago touched by the sky While rivers flowed and songbird revered Mineral of stone a secret concealed Above and below charges for a host to recieive Preternatural call conduit of bone a hall of worship Crushing of root and bark to dust Sip from the bowl return to the womb Circle drawn open the gates Messengers drawn down the moon Lonesome hills basking in fear Dawning beast skins Shift! Feast on blood of beet the grasses lift you high Hemispheres unlocked the mysteries of the mind Understanding the will as a tool A weapon to brandish deceiving the herd Casting a shadow reflecting the altar Gaze at the symbol repeating the word Stepping through the veil of light into the dark
2.
Silentium 04:12
Ascending the cobblestone stairs, spiraling spirit lay hidden undead, gaurding unspeakable secrets too fatal to hear, see or say signing your promise in blood, bound to silentium! Dwellings looming in blackness, sew your lips shut with my spell Dark dismal houses of blasphemy, no passage from this hell Corridors winding in peril, insanity Alters awaiting our queen, rule o'er the land with fear. Drink from the crimson chalice, virgin blood Shadows coming to life with the dead, fulfill the will of the witch! Her name must not be spoken, defiler of the pact The gates will now be open, the fear you'll feel your heart will turn dead black.. Tear you limb from limb, in your blood my poison swims Bleed, forever burn, your ashes in my urn Slashing out your tongue, drink your blood, your life is done Bleed, forever burn, your ashes in my urn
3.
I heard whispers that echoed across subconscious landscapes birds with an obsidian countenance reported you poisoned serenity through your toxic treason snakes incapable of clear judgement we'll behead you. Off! Cup of wine keeping the evil from entry cup of rice feeding the spirits my sentries tongue of pig nailed to the altar in silence bone of snake bathe the unworthy in violence you curse is flying back at you! Eyes see that your spilling secrets that shouldn't be spoken lies spitting your venom too many promises broken i know your name, extinguish your flame. Out! Break my leg and i'll put you in a coffin Careful what you say i'm listening to everything weaponizing words you'll stab yourself eventually think before you curse assume responsibility coiled up in the grass now i know your game All talk but your action's limited hissing spitting right on the grave No remorse for those you would assassinate with your venom you will be laid in a coffin constructed by your rhetoric with your words rusty fucking nails now you've nailed the lid on your coffin now you're suffocating yourself.
4.
the 3rd Key 04:04
Underneath the soles of your shoes Weeping in the dark, unbridled fear emerges Gripping, hollow, ripping,shallow, hanging over chasms, slipping She has a secret, old as time, know her name, know her crime Undefinable, her face is black Hell awaits behind that door, you are going to meet death now! Your throat is slit, pretty eyes cut out Your heart hangs on her bedroom wall bleeding, rotting in the dark
5.
Seething from her pores came the dripping rain hot with autumn winds that blew over the fence that winds down the hill Trodden path forgotten, swallowed secret garden Taste the bittersweet pollen Behind you chimes a sound, no one Her voice is the breeze that chills me to the bone Her touch is the snow that buries me alone. Mother of the dark wraps a freezing cape welcomes fear of the unknown a murder harkens taking to the air Whispers of the rotten, leaves and bark begotten Hear the howl your heart is racing, will you see the dawn? Nevermore. Her touch breaks the will to pieces, fearful lost Her eyes stab the soul, forever daggers phosphorous. I have wandered from the path, walls of black are closing in kissed goodnight by lips of pale questioning my sanity i shiver in the shadows, blind. Trodden path forgotten, swallowed secret garden Hear the howl your heart is racing, will you see the dawn? Nevermore. Her voice is the breeze that chills me to the bone Her touch is the snow that buries me alone.
6.
Wails far away echo the sound of souls devoured born from the cold barrow, kissed by her shroud Perplexing mix of fear and ecstacy, longing for her womb drawn by lights of dull and sullen sorcery, down into the tomb Soul symphonies hollow, froze stillborn thirst for her breast hallowed, undeath adorned Piercing thru the wind hearing the mother's call, hungry for the soul feeding on the light of those who can't move on, her secret song unfolds. Eyes blind, limbs tied, she came inside, i can feel her eyes, draining. Torn, suffering the wispmother's scorn lips pouting with poison 'So, you want to know pain?!' tears falling like icy rain..... 'Don't hide from me!' Then came a call, wrenching the heart draining the soul, tearing out.... Lost in abyss, wreathed in mist decaying rags become my armor the song and I are one.
7.
With Great Horned Owl's eyes and the Raven's disguise beneath the light, into your dreams she takes flight Head of the snake, flickering tongues, in candlelight mistress of magick and might. Into the cairn, all come aware, somnambulistic spell sighs from her mouth give birth to hell. She has come aware, initiated heed her will elemental sorceress come forth. Raging wind bending tree, metal splitting wood and bone earth smothering penetration, fire turning flesh to ashes the blind shall run thru fear whilst the hunt draws near. Moonlight sows hair and claw, predation becomes the jurisprudence taking tongues so words can't fly, none escape the horned owls eyes Talons from the sky silencing your lie forevermore. From cavern to grotto to the plateau at dusk a wind singing gently, on wings of pitch ride her lusts for power. a song whispered to the ground below, opening ancient channels through which her will flows. Her wings kissed the mountains, her claws embrace the deep. From fathoms deception rising, electroluminous eyes from nimbus the raptors diving, the noctambulist arrives. Spiraling zephyrs told her once of clandestine device calling familiars to her will an incantation thrice a thousand miles a second, overseeing eyes drawing all together, initiated wisdom materialize.

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The Directress is a journey through the mind of the Noctambulistic Witch, one whose soul can leave her sleeping body and travel on a subconscious level creating untraceable subterfuge.

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released August 1, 2015

Guitar, Vocals, Synths, Samples - Pete Jay
Synths, Keys, Samples - Brandon Fitzsimons
Bass - Ursula Stuart
Drums - Alex Bytnar

Guest vocals by Paul Pavlovich (Assuck), Uta Plotkin (Witch Mountain), Robert Hanna (Countdown to Armageddon) , Vox Vespertinus, Joy Von Spain (Eye of Nix), Katrina Ellison (Samara), and Wrest (Leviathan).

Recorded and mixed by Billy Anderson at Cloud City Sound, The Airport Grocery, and Everything Hz.
With assistance by Kati Werner and Rohan Sforcina.
Additional Engineering by Brandon Fitzsimons
Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering

Cover art by Isaac Stuart.

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BlackQueen Seattle, Washington

blackQueen is a musical representation of the the powers of nature being channeled through a human host, and of the fear born from its misunderstood creative and destructive elements.

Originally starting in San Francisco in 1998, the band has re-emerged in a new form after a hiatus in its new home of the great northwest. blackQueen plays 'Witch Metal' exclusively,
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