My Brother, My Burden

from Holy Man by Læment

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Let us weep
For obligation,
We, the callous,
The cowardly.
But are we so bound
By tired tradition
That I must break my very spine
To bear us both?

My brother, my burden.

We sought salvation:
We found undoing.
In righteous indignation
We both fell
Down into a reeking mire
Of fruitless recrimination,
Cherished guilt, muddled rage;
Devoured and diseased.

Our hollow faith a quagmire, our callow creed a lie.
Pinned beneath the fire of a killing canon, hung by strangling blood ties.
We were as an ox gored on its own horn, our love gutted out by pride —
A hollow, heedless, hell-bound husk I was forced to cast aside.

All our best, besotted heresies — these lies, compounded over lifetimes.
O most beloved heretic — how can you be lost forever?

Still you claw at me,
How can you not see
The vessel we drank from
Is cracked now, and empty?
I am undone —
You fell by the wayside,
I am the favored son…

My brother, you bastard.

Can I ever let you go,
And escape the cold demands
Of class and kin, of soil and sin —
Can I loose the grip of your hand?

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from Holy Man, released April 10, 2020

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Laement Los Angeles, California

While Læment are undeniably an extreme metal band, their music resists easy pigeonholing. Traces of influence from Paradise Lost through Tom Petty appear in their diverse yet coherent debut, Holy Man. Thematically, the record deals with civilizational hubris, intimate loss, and broken fundamentalism, providing a timely examination of the fissured façade of the West. ... more

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