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(Part 1: Visions)
Darkened dreams, blurred realities
Phlegmatic mind reflections
Inner paradox, shades of life
Ruins of existence, axis of time
Livid streams
Inhaling the knowledge
Wallowing maze of
Burning spirits
[Horrid… rites of life]
Endless quest
Eternal desires
Tides of despair
Lifeless dreams
Creeping memories
Deceptive emotions
Painless delusions
Hatred and fear
Endless vortex
Of false agonies
(Part 2: Labyrinth)
Mortal forms
Bound to limits
Trapped inside
Claws of time
Hidden darkness
Call of void
Minds buried
Under hopes
Exalted sorrows, whispering pains
Lost ways, morbid decay
Rotting conscience, massgraves of minds
Bleeding... vision of life
Ascending Agony, suffocating fright
Morbid... feast on lies
Demented Psychosis, silent cries
Mystic... call of demise
Magnetic dissonance, parasiting thorns
Covert... passage to cosmic tombs
Channeling through mortal pains
A trip into realms of dread
Obscure voices from beyond
Call of wisdom, realm of dark
Immortal reign, timeless domains
Above human, above death
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A piercing cold
Wind of dust
Howling black
Haunting disarray
Blank noise
Dark inversion
Ponderous
Cold aversion
Specters rise from hidden depths
Evoking realms of unknown
[Dormant force awakened
The energies unbound]
Silent shadows of obscure
Gather in mirrors of vengeance
Ancient dwellers of netherworlds
Defrozen hives of abhorrence
Echoes of infinite void
Bleary quiescence
Obscuration...
Dulcet flares of obliteration
Pulverizing rays
From nocturnal domain
Blackness transcends
Inception in gloom
Dusk upon mankind
Lurid reign of unlight
Chaos and dark prevail
Dawn of eclipse
Blazing perdition
Loss of light
Impending funeral
Of human empire
Storms of hate
Whirl of death
Ravaging massacre
Cleansing the earth
Reign of dark
Fall of life
Purifying rain over
Desolated kingdom
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Suppressed within the walls of consciousness
Futile attempts to escape defects
Passive, silent, shadowlike
Insanity... grows in the mind
Into the vast
Seas of madness
Craving terrors
Halls of pain
Inside pristine
Depths of mind
Unhiding keys
To subconscious gates
Obscure vortex
In the eye of mind
Forsaken realms
Downward in time
Into horizon
Of bleeding truths
Internal traces
Of psychic wounds
Psychotic hurricane
Of inner senses
Complex visions
Indwelling paradox
Manic transcendence of mind
Maze of racing thoughts
Exuberant chaotic presence
Overactive sensory reception
Hypersensitive neuron firing
Rapid cycling bipolar disorder
Manic episodes beyond control
Lost in nowhere
No way back
To the mind
A dying brain
Expired life
Fearless demise
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(Part I: Entrance)
(Part II: Transmigration)
Motionless rise into cosmos
Clearing mind, floating upwards
Non-local experiment, formless transition
Quest for universal secrets
Metaphysical realities, astral realms
In path of no return
Undefined dimensions of dark
Where exists no meaning
Etheric perception of sight
Weightless essence of being
Drifting in flow of energies
Silence of the bizarre
Unveiling mirrors of life
Inside the realm unknown
Portals of purity
Wandering Astray, endless space
Behind burning mass of the sun
Blazing horizons, coldest wells
Towards blackness of the beyond
Trapped in vacuum
Immense tidal force
Re-awakened
Light years away
Transmigration
In realms beyond
Intense transparency
In the depths of eerie
Formless embodiment
Unveiled dimensions
Higher form of consciousness
Independent of evolving universe
Atemporal being
Crypts of wisdom
Autonomous existence
In the ethereal
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A grey background
In streams of awareness
Developed mirage
Conceived in pits of time
Human, pretender of reality
An ever-rotting carrion
Fallen into depths
Humanity, nature's look upon itself
A life-wise scream
Delicate, disastrous
Royal and gruesome
Inside the maze of false reflections
Immortal battle of truths
In chambers of delusion
A lustful shadow of living
Behind the doors of perception
Falling back and forth in time
Within the dark tunnels
Inside being and nothingness
Blackened mirrors
Melting essence of being
A shredding dread
Premature decay
Corrosion, fiendish logic of life
The Science, dissecting ferocity of being
Speech, outcome of misery
Illusion, the lethal cure
Laws, highest of disorders
Aftermath, The septic anodyne
Evolution, a fathomless hole
Absorbing sorrows of unreason
In the realms of contempt
Barfing numbers
Throwing up time
Two ways, one end
Even In farthest horizon
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Quotes from reviews:
"Bolstered by churning riff-work and plenty of tight, straightforward patterns that carry that syncopated style of riff-work along throughout the tight and energetic paces filled with rumbling rhythms pounding out the simplistic riffing as well as more of a plodding mid-tempo series of work carried out by the choppy chugging riff-work throughout here, the album as a whole tends to offer a great variety and dynamic that works itself into a series of aggressive-minded efforts that are quite enjoyable." 88/100
Don's Metal Reviews
donsmetalreviews.blogspot.com/2016/11/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark.html
"... outside of the modern/dissonant/”new old school” dichotomy, Nex Carnis differ from most in how they’ve seamlessly mended the disturbing otherworldliness of the style with a viciously direct attack. Like Mexicans The Chasm, Nex Carnis feature the narrative approach to composition where long streams of riffing build up and advanced over one another with less repetition and more constant progression. There’s fewer “doom” sections here compared to other underground death metal. Instead they rely on carefully altering riffs (often at frenzied tempos) to go from dense harmonies to more spacious, open-ended sections, switching emphasis from crunching staccato hammering to boiling streams of burrowing tone."
Toilet ov Hell
www.toiletovhell.com/catacomb-ventures-cold-cadavers/
"There is some serious dedication to subject matter on this Iranian band's part when it comes to lyrical content, and it’s not really all that usual that a Death Metal band shows that sort of consideration. Sure, string me up and what-have-you but it's true, a lot of Death Metal bands stick to the typical tropes and certainly begin to feel stale after a while when it comes to substance - this album doesn't. A lot of thought was put into making tracks non-typical, Guitar riffs, though sometimes a bit of a chug-fest are interlaced with complicated solo work, which even sometimes play with dissonance, and even clean sections that, somehow, come off dark and brooding."
Dire Notes
www.wearedirenotes.com/2015/08/review-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of.html
"In summary, Obscure Visions of Dark is a very solid Death Metal album that goes a little beyond the traditional boundaries of that specific type of metal, giving the listener not only another excellent option in the world of extreme music but also a unique opportunity to know more about the Heavy Metal scene in Iran." 7/10
The Headbanging Moose
theheadbangingmoose.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/album-review-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark-2015/
"With the crunchy and high speed riffs, low and angry gutturals, and merciless drumming, I can feel the anger and passion going into making this music." 9/10
Asia Metalhead
asiametalhead.com/2017/02/album-review-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark/
"All tracks have dense and explosive miasmas, and bring high doses of brutality on specific moments. I liked how these guys injected some particular musical arrangements"
Zombie Ritual Zine
zombieritualzine.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/album-review-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark/
"Obscure Visions Of Dark is a strong debut, filled with intensity and a solid production. Too many of the newer OSDM bands simply mimic the 1990s Swedish scene, but the blackened elements help set Nex Carnis apart." 7/10
Metal Altar
www.metalaltar.com/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark/
"Because it's their music—a mutated compound of turn-of-the-millennium Morbid Angel and death metal that sounds old-school only because it's reminiscent of the days when DM still reeked of fresh decau and not moldy ideas—yes, their music (not their location) that's earned Nex Carnis a spot in the world's premier metal magazine."
Decibel Magazine
store.decibelmagazine.com/products/september-2015-131
"Ce qu'il y a de bien aussi avec Nex Carnis, c'est qu'il ne clone pas tel ou tel groupe ou scène comme le font beaucoup de combos actuels. Au lieu de cela, il a la bonne idée de réunir plusieurs influences pour en faire non pas quelque chose d'original mais au moins de très réussi. Les morceaux, de cinq-six minutes en moyenne, fourmillent de riffs et de changements de rythme, sans paraître imbuvables. Au contraire, tout coule de source, tout s'enchaîne à merveille de façon naturelle, sans trop en faire." 9/10
Thrashocore Webzine
www.thrashocore.com/chroniques/chronique/6488-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark-2015-chronique.html
"A l’image du superbe artwork créé par un certain Joe "Ravager" Romero, le death metal de Nex Carnis est sombre, tordu et diablement créatif. Il n’y a pas de grosses influences qui sautent véritablement aux oreilles, du moins pas immédiatement, mais au contraire un savant mélange de références prestigieuses issues du passé, mêlées d’une dynamique définie par la façon qu’a Incruent de lier, par un riffing simple mais catchy, les parties de batterie complexes et variées de Jirka." 17/20
Spirit of Metal Webzine
www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Nex_Carnis-nom_album-Obscure_Visions_of_Dark-l-fr.html
"Das brutale Hochgeschwindigkeitsgeschoss „Obscure Visions Of Dark” bietet alles andere als unbedachtes und sinnloses Geknüppel, vielmehr leidenschaftliche, schwere Riffsalven und etliche, hintereinander weggezockte Geschwindigkeits- und Strukturwechsel, um tödlicher Langeweile erst gar keine Chance zu geben, sich irgendwo auf dem Album zu manifestieren. Diese bedrohliche Aura ist die Begleitmusik zur Exhumierung des pure-fuckin’ Death Metal." 81/100
Tottentanz Magazine
www.totentanz-magazin.de/index.php/musik/4475-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark
"NEX CARNIS na své prvotině předkládají materiál plný našlapaného, vzrušujícího a energického death metalu zahaleného lehkým závojem temnoty a duchem starých časů. Evokace raných devadesátek je hmatatelná, nemá však nic společného s mladými retro spolky bezmyšlenkovitě hoblujících okopírované riffy a postupy svých nedostižných idolů. Skladatelský rukopis páně Incruenta je sympaticky nápaditý, umně pracuje s atmosférou, a nedává posluchači šanci k nudě." 8/10
Fobia Zine
www.fobiazine.net/article/9371/nex-carnis--obscure-visions-of-dark-/
"Obscure Visions of Darkodiše mrakom a posebno ga karakterišu izuzetno duboki vokali , jednostavni ritmovi koji na trenutke pojedine deonic pretvaraju u masni doom metal. Takođe jako interesantan je i progresivan black metal pristup kada su pojedine gitarske deonice u pitanju. No, ovo je na kraju krajeva dobri stari death metal inspirisan američkom DM školom." 7.5/10
Headbang Vlog
headbang-vlog.blogspot.com/2016/10/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark.html
"Pengemasan Musikal yang makin memberikan angin segar bagi Perjalanan Karir band menjadi Mantap sangat terasakan sekali karisma-nya di " Obscure Visions Of Dark ". the Atmosphere has the Essential feel of Random Bruising in it, and that has only recently been fading from the Essence of Death Metal once becomes ordered and loses the Illogical flow that skips around Mutilating verses and Cramming Incompatible things together by force, it Ceases to be Death Metal." 8.5/10
Lost in Chaos Magazine
www.review.lostinchaos.com/2016/03/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark-cd.html
"Obscure Visions of Dark has both the cooleness of the current sound combined with unique variations to make them stand out of a ghastly crowd. With song titles ripped from the 90’s and artwork that could fit perfectly on a tape, Obscure Visions of Dark not only stands as model for current death but also makes the whole thing fun as hell to listen to."
Tape Wyrm
tapewyrmmetal.com/archives/2615
"Tan brutal como oscuro, tan complejo como atmosférico, este primer full lenght es una combinación de lo más místico del Death Metal de la vieja escuela en la vena de Morbid Angel, el Finnish Death Metal. Ellos tres desandan con maldad y dureza los tenebrosos caminos de un Death Metal oscuro y penetrante, en donde los riffs escupen bilis de odio, tiñiendo todo de negro."
Puro Ruido
puroruido.blogspot.com/2016/02/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark.html
"Como decía previamente, este disco es demoledor de principio a fin. Sus temas logran esa preciada alquimia destructora, que otorga brutalidad entremezclada con atmosferas cargadas de maleficios. Asimismo la velocidad es acompañada del tecnicismo necesario por parte de sus músicos para que este álbum destaque."
Grinder Magazine
www.grindermagazine.cl/2015/11/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark/
"La propuesta de esta banda radica en mostrarnos un Death Metal brutal y tradicional, esto es, mucha técnica y velocidad de ejecución combinado con los riffs graves y muteados de la época ochentera."
The Metal Post
www.themetalpost.net/2015/06/resena-nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of.html
"Imaginaos a los primeros Morbid Angel, pero con buen sónido de batería ( cosa que nunca tuvieron) un poco de los Deicide de los primeros tiempos, y bastante de malevolant creation, es para orientaros un poco. Un primer tema, con continuos cambios en la base rítmica, me sorprenden muchísimo en los cambios de ritmo, es ahí dónde tienen un punto de originalidad bastante alto, suena épicos, thrashsers por momentos." 7.5/10
El Comenta Mireda
elcomentamierda.blogspot.com/2015/07/nex-carnis-obscure-visions-of-dark.html
"Album di debutto dal titolo “Obscure Vision of the Dark” per gli Iraniani Nex Carnis forgiato con un death metal old school di estrema intensità e dai suoni potenti e nitidi. Il lavoro, proposto con sei brani, appare avere tutte le carte in regola sin dal primo ascolto: riff taglienti, ritmiche proposte con precisione chirurgica, growl di impatto e numerose variazioni dai tratti viciniori a gruppi che ricordano Cannibal Corpse e Vader." 7.8/10
Metal Wave
www.metalwave.it/recensione.php?id=6597