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Memoirs Of Unbecoming

by Vela Pulsar

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Levitations 09:18
Adrift And Ever Flowing, Nothing Mattered But Us And Our Aimless Journey A Gift Of Wanderings Daylight Echoed An Amber River As Birds Sang Of The Graceful Dance Of Unity An Ode To The Fire In Our Hearts Burning Over The Horizon Brave And Wild, It Was Our Bond It Was Home Your Aura Was Tender And Radiant Ethereal, Yet Warm It Filled My Lungs With Solace And Hope A Tranquil Glimmer Of Faith In The Eye Of Your Storm Gleaming Through The Fog Like A Lantern On The Path To Salvation It Was Both Dusk And Dawn When The Traffic Lights Went Out When The Walls Collapsed When Ashes Eclipsed The Sun And The Only Light Came From The Flickering Destruction Surrounding Us It Wasn’t Real It Was Never Real But Are You With Me Still?
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None Had Escaped These Oaken Corridors Their Looming Gaze A Shroud To The Bloodthirst Within, And The Breathless Sleep That Followed With Warmth In Your Embrace, Our Only Beacon Was The Courage Binding Our Hearts To Each Other And To The Earth. It Carried Us Through The Darkness Like Ships In The Receding Tide As We Built Our Salvation Every Branch Was Laid With The Tender Care Of Love And Serenity, A Womb To The Reverence Of Being, Repelling The Frozen Hell Befalling Us, Nulling The Piercing Screams Of Death Tracing Our Footsteps. Their Warmth A Faint Ray Of Hope That Light May Shine Once Again. And As They Hatch From The Nest Within, The Ravens Will Guide Me Home Where I Will Sleep Once More
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Deafening Silence Like A Noose Around My Neck Frigid Wind Like Daggers In My Lungs A Face Devoid Of Expression Frozen And Barren Inside Why Am I Alive? This World Has Betrayed Me Cast Me Out, Left Me To Wither In This Purgatory Not Much Different From The Life I Led Before Where Babes Were Culled For Their Defiance Trudging Towards Guileless Redemption A Luminous Path As My Guiding Light I Can Feel You Now An Aura That Feels Like Home Appear Before Me So I Can Be Free Are You The One I Have Been Looking For? Hold Me In Your Arms As We Sway Show Me A Love That Is Boundless Show Me A Life Worth Living In Please Don’t Leave Me Take My Hand As We Head Toward Our Undoing Hearts Pounding Before Returning To Stone Suffocating In The Chaos Of Memories I Wonder If You Still Admire Tragedies Bodies Return To The Earth It’s The Price We Pay For Salvation We Must Start Anew Bringing Forth Life And Order For That Is True Eternity

about

2019 - 2022

Due to both logistic and personal reasons, Vela Pulsar has reached its indefinite conclusion and will be no more. Whether it will ever be rekindled in the future remains uncertain. As it stands right now, this band and our sole album remains a significant timestamp for the three of us, that we will cherish and be proud of.

We wish to extend our most heartfelt gratitude to those who have listened, supported, shared and promoted our music, and those who will discover it in the future. Through your interest and enthusiasm, what we’ve created can continue to be passed on to those who will resonate with it. We would love nothing more.

CDs of ‘Memoirs Of Unbecoming’ will continue to be available at our Bandcamp, while supplies last.

We also encourage you to follow our individual exploits, the names and links of which can be found below:

Samantha Russell: Thirsting Altar
Ryan Mueller: A Flock Named Murder
Cam Mueller: A Flock Named Murder, Ixaxaar Nexia

End Transmission.

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From Head-Banger Reviews:

"The positive auras that permeate every minute of this 30-minute offering is so oddly infectious with themes the likes of which we could all use more of after the hardships we’ve been through with many of us still going through, but it’s all somehow with a fluctuating core of black metal that Vela Pulsar manages to deliver to us a performance that’s not only intense in areas, but downright mesmerizing in every other aspect as we see all three of these tracks bring forth something that we simply do not get often enough, and it’s with the talent behind it all in every department that only makes what Vela Pulsar has accomplished here all the more delicious."

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At over 30 minutes in length, "Memoirs Of Unbecoming" deals with themes of hope, loss, courage, and perseverance in the wake of uncertainty. Stripping away all that we are and seeing what's left, in the moments that shape us.

This manifested into a swirling and emotional hybrid of symphonic and post-black metal, for fans of Alcest, Uada, Altar Of Plagues, Caladan Brood, Sojourner, Aquilus and Agalloch.

credits

released December 8, 2020

Vela Pulsar is:

Ryan Mueller - Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Lyrics
Samantha Holmes - Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Orchestrations, Lyrics
Cam Mueller - Drums

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Guitars, Bass, Drums and Ryan's Vocals recorded by Collin Young at Genesis Sound Inc. in Toronto, ON.
Samantha's Vocals recorded by Sacha Müller at Dead Aunt Thelma's Studio in Portland, OR.
Additional engineering by Roland Rodas at Cavern Of Echoes Studios in Toronto, ON.
Mixing & Mastering by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios in Kingston, ON.
Album art by Marie Cherniy Art.

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Vela Pulsar Toronto, Ontario

Vela Pulsar is an internationally-based Symphonic/Post-Black Metal band with members from Toronto, Ontario and Portland, Oregon.

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