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Ascension

by Nox Novacula

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Ana.chrin
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Ana.chrin I recently ran across Nox Novacula. I can't stop listening to this band or this album. The vocals give me chills. Favorite Tracks: Pray for Sleep, Drug (Bitter Pill), Ascension, Last Will and Testament. Favorite track: Pray for Sleep.
Will Mohwaas
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Will Mohwaas Already my favorite gothic rock band, but this album offered even more variance in the aisle gravestones as I walked through Night Razor Cemetery. Beautiful, chilling, potent, grinding music with vocals that are at once as demanding and chill as Death's finger pointing at your demise. I love Nox Novacula and Ascension.
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acidica The first time I ever saw Nox in person I was immediately enveloped in their tantalizing sound. Losing myself in such a way I could have never imagined, beautiful vocals and teeming with lyrics that pull at you in every direct. Being able to listen to Nox and fully digesting the mystic blend of bass and guitar, with the backbone of steady rhythm and percussion is unforgettable. Favorite track: Victim.
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1.
PRAY FOR SLEEP Retreat You take your pills and pray for sleep You thought you were strong Now you’re all alone So far from home Another sleepless night You lay across the city sky She takes your hand And tells you lies It’s different this time Submit These fools are champing at the bit You watched how they fall You’re just the same You lost control Another sleepless night You lay across her lap and cry She’ll touch your hair and tell you lies It will be different this time Will you repent for what you’ve done One by one How they fall Now they leave you in the dirt Another sleepless night You lay across her lap and cry She’ll touch your hair and tell you lies You swear it’s the last time
2.
DRUG (BITTER PILL) It’s a bitter pill I’ll swallow it whole Like a memory pressed against my flesh When I feel you wrapped around my throat This story’s over told You’re begging for control I have a right to give it all I have a right to make you crawl Make you crawl You take my breath but I want more I want it all You take my breath but I want more I want it all All your bitter pills I’ll swallow you whole Like a memory pressed against my flesh When I feel you wrap around my throat There’s strength in letting go My strength is yours to hold Can you handle taking all Can you reap what you sow Can you take what you crave Can you take what you crave You take my breath but I want more I want it all I want it all You take my breath but I want more I want it all I want it all You keep begging for control Keep begging for control Keep begging for control
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Ascension 04:41
ASCENSION This obsession With our destruction Why must they tear us down This fascination My humiliation While we’re watching each other drown Then In your arms I found a respite from this storm We’re running through shadows We can rest when we’re old We can keep on running away forever They’re not gonna stop our ascension We just keep on running away forever Nobody can stop us I was tired of screaming alone Emancipation From isolation It’s something sacred, it’s home Then in your arms I found a safety I can hold We’ll never surrender We’ll break before we fold We’ll just keep on running away forever They’re not gonna stop our ascension We just keep on running away forever Nobody can stop us Please baby take my hand We’ll leave this place Leave this way of live We can survive on our anger We can survive off each other We can escape our tomorrow If we keep running from today We’ll just keep on running away forever They’re not gonna stop our ascension We just keep on running away forever Until nothing else matters
4.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Under the ground She waits for you A blanket made of leaves Insects called to feed He left her there Nothing much to find Fingernails and hair She said go on I know you can be strong You can She wrote her last goodbyes she knew It was the end In a quiet house Hope fades to gray A young girls hopes and dreams Now boxes put away Yet still he calls For a will he couldn’t break With plastic wrap and silver tape She said go on I know you can be strong You can She wrote her last goodbyes She knew it was the end Waiting for the call Keep my casket closed Please Dad She wrote her last goodbyes She knew it was the end Frightened of the phone She’s never coming home
5.
AGAINST THE WALL In solitude we wallow Deep in despair with heads bowed down in shame With nothing left to borrow We can’t go on We can’t go on Like this Like this They’ve got us up against the wall What we get is what we get We got their boots upon our neck What we get is what we get We got their boots upon our neck Got their boots upon our neck We got these boots upon our neck We take the scraps they leave us We thank the heels that dig into our backs We beg their gods to save us We can’t go on We can’t go on Like this Like this They’ve got us up against the wall What we get is what we get We got their boots upon our neck What we get is what we get We got their boots upon our neck Got their boots upon our neck We got these boots upon our neck
6.
FACE THE STENCH They called to him From across the veil I brought him back But not for long In basement rooms And bathroom stalls From in the walls They called for surrender That’s strange He said That the walls were crawling A tiny voice came choking out While all the lights were flashing A broken heart stops beating While your ghosts were calling In the silent room On burn marked sheets Laid on the bed And played with death He sank back down With shallow breath Break down the door And face the stench That’s strange He said When the walls starting crawling I lost my the ground beneath my feet While all your chaos consumed me A restless heart that beats no more Still your ghost keeps calling How do I go on without you How do I go on Do I go on Without you
7.
Victim 03:35
VICTIM Getting tired of this disguise Wading through your self-entitled lies Mother never told you no, she begged you not to go She’s praying for your poor and broken soul Its not misfortune, not your affliction You think they’ll crucify you No one even cares, and no one ever will You’re running out of time Your path it ain’t divine No I’m not your victim I’m not gonna be a victim Disorder Disrupt the order Disorder Disrupt the order Just another angry soul Leave you with all the broken boys who’ll never know No one owes you shit If you think you can take it think again you’ll never win You’re not a martyr Not a subverter You think they’ll crucify you No one knows your name No one ever will You’re running out of time Your path it ain’t divine You’re the one who’ll be a victim A victim of your weakness Spineless and selfish Enjoy your isolation Your self important nonsense I pity your existence Meet resistance with a fist I’m not your victim I’m not gonna be a victim Disorder Disrupt the order Disorder Disrupt the order
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SHATTERED WORLD In this shattered land Nothing moves any more You remember once Bodies washed up on shore In this shattered land Time has long passed you by And the colors have all faded They bleed out from the sky You look up that sky You’re asking it why Get down on your knees and you beg With your head in your hands You say take this life Please take my life On this shattered world All remnants of life have long turned to dust And it hangs in the stagnant air You’re forever lost On this shattered world On this shattered world The ruin of man is your curse And time is your cage You’re asking him why He won’t let you die Get down on your knees and you beg You pray for the end Take this life Please take my life

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For European 12" orders, save yourself some euros, and order from: manicdepressionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/md135-nox-novacula-ascension

For European CD orders: www.batcaveproductions.pl/store/nox-novacula-ascension-cd/

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released May 28, 2021

Produced by Matt Bayles and Nox Novacula
Recorded by Matt Bayles at Studio Litho
Mixed by Matt Bayles at Red Room
Mastered at Audioseige by Brad Boatright
Cover Photography by Manuela Insixiengmay
Art Direction & Layout by Dan Fried
Neon by Marisa Manso

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Nox Novacula Seattle, Washington

Emanating from the pallid, meager cemetery known as Seattle, Washington, Nox Novacula assumed the form of flesh in 2017 in an attempt to spread their hymns of gothic rock n' roll to the unassuming masses. Nox Novacula breathes a breath of cold, dead air over the corpse of the modern goth and death rock scene. ... more

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