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🎶 Song Distant Shadows ⚔️ Performed by Cirith Ungol 🌎 Country

(US) 💿 Recorded Fri 20 Oct 2023

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Dark Parade (Fri 20 Oct 2023) Album
Live at the Roxy (Fri 25 Apr 2025) CD, DVD/Blu-Ray/4K UHD, Live, and Video

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Lyrics

Passing through eternity to where we all begin
Tearing down the legacy, a tragedy of sin
Searching for the age-old truth beyond our mortal scars
The past, a distant shadow, and the future, just as far
Distant shadows hide the truth
Corruption and decay
Sing another melody, black
Another dying day
Mired in our Calvary, an emptiness of place
We shamble ever forward as we mock that cold embrace
Stark between the remnants of the living Hell we made
A destiny of darkness, and a past of deeper shade
Distant shadows hide the truth
Corruption and decay
Sing another melody, black
Another dying day
We hurtle toward a future that can never be remade
To hang our heads in mourning as we join the dark parade
Beginning of the ending as we shed our final tears
And tread the grim horizon of our never-ending fears
Distant shadows hide the truth
Corruption and decay
Sing another melody, black
Another dying day
Another dying day

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From the majestic eight-minute-long “Sailor On The Seas Of Fate,” which starts with a reflective arpeggio and builds into a pounding, near-tribal volley before segueing into a bleak, slow burn of retribution and agony, to the final three movements of the “Dark Parade” saga (comprised of “Dark Parade,” “Distant Shadows,” and “Down Below“), CIRITH UNGOL‘s latest album offers a metallic soundtrack of societal decay and environmental collapse that foreshadows nothing less than total extinction. (Metal Blade)

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ROB: THIS SONG AND THE ONE THAT FOLLOWS ARE TIED TOGETHER MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY. THEY ARE THE FINAL COUNTDOWN TO TIM’S LYRICAL MASTERPIECE OF THE “DARK PARADE” WHICH CONSISTS OF THE WHOLE SIDE OF THIS RECORD. TO ME THEY COMPRISE THE ULTRA-HEAVIEST PART OF THE ALBUM, AND THEY ARE DARK, PROPHETIC AND SOUND JUST PLAIN EVIL. TO THE DISMAY OF MOST OF THE BAND, AND TO THE EXULTATION OF MYSELF AND CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, I USED MY COWBELL ONCE AGAIN ON THE VERSES AND LAID DOWN A VERY WICKED BEAT. THIS SONG IS SO DARK YOU MAY NEED TO TURN ON THE HALL LIGHT TO REASSURE YOURSELF AS CHAOS DESCENDS! SOME STUNNING GUITAR EFFECTS AND SOLO BY JIMMY. I USED THE SLOW TEMPO AS A WEAPON ON THIS SONG, AND I FINALLY GOT TO GRIND ONE PURPOSEFULLY INTO THE DUST!

“Dark Parade” saga: