Phlegethon - Female Sabbath

Phlegethon was/is a Finnish Death Metal band, found in 1988, in Joensuu. Influenced heavily by great Death and Thrash metal bands of the time, such as Slayer and Pestilence they developed their sound to Death/Thrash metal. The band released it's first demo "Visio dei Beatifica" in 1989 with three of the original founding members Teemu Hannonen, Juha Tykkyläinen and Lasse Pyykkö ( also known from bands like Sarnath, Vacant Coffin and Hooded Menace etc. ). In their next demo "Neutral Forest" of 1990, Jussi Nyblom had joined the band, first in bass. The demos was widely valued amongst the Death metal underground, and so did the band get signed to Witchhunt records, through which they released their first EP "Fresco Lungs" in 1991. The band broke up in 1992. They still got together for a while in 1995 to record a promo tape, which after they broke up again. Phlegethon was later ressurected in 2006 by Lasse ,Saku ( two founder members ) and Juha. Since then, they have released two demos: "Totems Within" in 2006 and "Lava Poetry" 2007. Xtreem music has also made a "dream-come-true-collection" re-release package featuring Visio dei Beatifica, Neutral Forest, Totems Within and Lava Poetry demos. The collection waas entitled "Visions from the Forest Side" This is the opening track of their second demo "Neutral Forest" of 1990. Lyrics: Music: Pyykkö Lyrics: Tykkyläinen Blemished by haziness I wont feel the era Theyll imbue my drastic Face with a curtain Moment of stupor My sheen in its tendon The dance of the dryad I cant mar the legion Behind the emblem The seer in his temple My eyes, dire crystals Encircled by the elbow Illusion the only Progress in the sorrow Nefarious tradition The macrocosm follows Fill the arduous mask The noble dreams shall dry Equipped with a fabulous heart Is this a dome of mine I shall now deny My graveness so deranged Ineffaceable is the grief That follows my race Dried incense A method of entrance Hunt for depth Seeing halls of trance Bring your scene To the astral swan With my peace I must keep the mark LEAD: THE ERA Under - fertile water I hold A figure my subtle seat above The ground a transparent blue wind The words they segregate for him For his face My thought creates A shore with wisdom That soon will repeat My third salute He sees in me For the thunder he sings His story I believe LEAD: OF After the obsessing My hyphen turned to failure I mustnt meet a pressing Need to gaze the rainbow With thousands of shadows Ill have to line his echo Implored by the pyres His desolation throttles LEAD: THESIS Until new seasons They magnify his graph Saying: Two forests, Both of them from the past. Massive persecution Fossils fuse by a brook His breath and solution Theyll take his faith with no look Now the serpent has gone The pyramid can be seen Clamant symbols for the one That manifolds my heath Natural memories Spreading twins of the ion Lament from my soughing knees The only version of desire Save my oath They will hold my tears His black goat Will visualize and sear My profile Satan blames the sky He will sleep I must realize