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Obscure Visions of Dark

by Nex Carnis

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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

credits

released May 23, 2018

Album line-up

Asto Vidatu: Vocals
Incruent: Guitars
Jirka Zajic: Drums
Sam: Bass (Session)

Guest musicians

Disguster: guitar solo on track 1
Sam: guitar solo on track 3
Rafael Barros: guitar solo on track 5
Jacek Hiro: guitar solo on track 6

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Nex Carnis Iran

Nex Carnis was founded in 2012, with the aim of creating dark and twisted death metal in old school vein. Nex Carnis has tried to create its unique sound which can stand out in today's crowded extreme metal scene.

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