Cloth: Hopelessness and nostalgia.

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Cloth is a musical collective by members from Stronghold, Dalit and Aspiration. Black/avantgarde metal with a strong philosophical and allegorical backbone behind it all. The band is from Kristiansand and was founded eight years ago. In 2012 they released a demo, and two years later a self-titled EP. Line-up: Stein Vorhaug with bass, Cato Gulaker with drums and Jon Ivar Larsen with guitars.

Finally Cloth are back and releases their first music video from their new EP Axis Mundi.Hopelessness and nostalgia is the backbone of this art piece. The track Ghost Town,

Lyrics:

This cold and barren place

dead soil where nothing grows

where sand and rock they flourish

and moth and rust destroy

our abandoned palace

with its crumbling walls and rotten beams

lingering ghosts of good intentions

That haunts its empty rooms

 

ours were the future

a fiery cascade of colors

a leap of faith and promise

that failed to outrun its shadows

 

at the end of the noose

we tiptoe to postpone

the inevitable kiss

from the palest of lips

 

no one is left to mourn our loved ones

no tombstone raised to honor the dead

left is but the aching void of nothingness

betraying the loss of what we would become

 

no effort can salvage the broken

no cure can revive the dead

no deed can redeem us

from the sins of old

yet the strength to confront what we have become

stems from acknowledging the pain within

while staring at the desert sun

and face the unknown

 

Ghost town!

your streets once carried the sound of laughter

of children playing, of festivals and parades

your markets flourished with precious goods

and temples enjoyed the presence of the gods

 

now at the end of the noose

we tiptoe to postpone

embrace the inevitable kiss

from the palest of lips

 

Ghost town!

The dreams and hopes you spawned were dead

Unable to carry the life that you gave

Their restless spirits haunting your streets

Grieving their fate and cursing the light

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