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Still the Wretched Linger

by Beldam

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1.
Needles 05:51
Why do they live? Should they be dead? Perhaps I should slice them From feet up to head Wander in dusk’s sullen darkness Pale light, dead night Carry on in spite of weakness Starving for my children Wander in polluted starkness Pale light, dead night Carry on in spite my distress Wander in my unhappiness Pale white, dead plight Carry on in spite of faintness Dying for my children Wander as I bleed from frailness Pale white, dead plight Carry on in spite my madness Would it be better were they dead? Dead Wheels spin my thread Deep in my thoughts imagine them dead Needles prick my skin Deep in my thoughts constraint growing thin Stark, my face Stark my face Like insects into my skin Needles like insects into my skin Piercing like insects into my skin Needles, insects, into my skin, piercing into my, skin, needles into my skin, needles right through me As I drag homeward from whence I’ve sewn Something dark, restless, turns me to stone As I gaze downward upon their life Watch as they cower before my knife
2.
Ruined past all reason, soaked in blood so frozen Cold my touch, cold my love, beaten, I’m so frozen Covered by the evening in black bruises so frozen Cold my touch, cold my love, broken, I’m so frozen All of this anguish, leaves me hopelessly Cold Morbid complacence, draping in frigid Blood Tattered my clothing, hanging so loose on Cold veins Raking my fingers, coating the walls with My blood To accept hatred, leaves me embracing My cold veins Languishing lonely, violet and blackened Blood like ice Fragile and bitter, splintering frost in My cold veins Wed to a dark beast, and his mere stare makes My blood like ice Oh, it’s so confusing While he’s abusing Take out my blood Embalm me with ice Take out my soul These bruises suffice To make me feel So cold He’ll steal my will So cold To make me feel So cold His love is real So cold
3.
My life My life Is such an empty way Without love I’m such an empty girl Without love It’s such an empty path Without love In such an empty world Without love My heart Is such a soulless urn Full of woe I’m such a soulless girl Full of woe It’s such a soulless path Full of woe In such a soulless world Full of woe My pain Is such an endless way Without love I’m such an endless girl Without love It’s such an endless path Without love In such an endless world Without love Success my beacon urges me forward But then, black cancer consumes me inward As calm corruption beckons me skyward I die a failure my body rots earthward
4.
My child, has passed too early From disease, creeping within her body This bloated shell, is my lifeless fledging Its frozen stare pierces my being Laid upon the bed where she breathed life As I came to her silently at night Tears upon her grave covered with moss Nothing can comfort such loss A blackness has come to take me A blackness on my thoughts and on my flesh A blackness waiting for you all All for naught, for we are all soon lost to time My sleeping angel A spoiled corpse I am alone I am abandoned Return black angels, bring her to me, return, black angels, bring her, return, return, return, black angels return, bring her to me, return, black angels, bring her, return her to me, return, return, black angels return
5.
Salamander 06:32
Crawling Black mud clings to my face Sticking along my limbs Bile flows in the bog Stinking from their dark lust Black mud below me Black mud within me Crawling (gurgling, stretch) My legs grip the earth Fingers digging through the grit As tongues taste my flesh Black mud My eyes stare in fog Pupils scanning through the mist As lips kiss my flesh Black mud I’ve become earth, water, amphibious… (low, stretch) Crawling (gurgling, stretch) Body in the muck Pureness torn and bled in grime As teeth bite my flesh Black mud Maiden far from home Beauty taken from my heart As blood coats my flesh Black mud Taken, broken, forsaken, they… (stretch) Forced me, faced me, into sin (x12 increase in force until end, stretch last) Hunt them down Burn their homes Kill their kin Tongue their bones
6.
Cherished void, empty Shedding blood, empty Clench my eyes, empty Mourn my worth, empty My being’s craving life but I’m not woman When I behold all of their pride I am not whole woman All my days my desire to become woman But a frame sick, barren, deplete shall never be woman Drained, empty material, hollow Drained, barely ethereal, hollow Drained, grimly malarial, hollow Drained, fluid funereal, hollow Withered, withered, withered Withered All through life plead for life, seeking life, empty Waited so long, languished so long, worthless so long, empty Reek with death, flow with death, ache with death, empty Life so meager, hope so meager, love so meager, empty Bleeding life Blood into bones
7.
Staring through my window Contemplating decline In this empty prison As I beg for release Translucent turns my flesh Draped in threads and jewelry Though my flower’s wilted And I’m without my pride Sadness reigns Won’t you take me away from here Taking out a rope so taught Haggard blue Melting rouge Can’t you take me away from here Pulling tight, taught Running red Fading light As I go far away from here Hanging limp, my tears run soft In yellow pools Beware of my plummeting soul As much as they tried, I lost all control The…rope…tight…I have failed me… As much as they plead I took out a rope a placed it right over my throat Digging, deep in my flesh, further and soon I shall go Gold jewels and dresses Clear tears like gems

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Recorded 7/11/15 in Charlottesville, VA. All songs by Beldam. Current lineup: Randall Guidry-vocals, Grahm Reynolds-guitars, Addison Dodds-bass, Cullen Wade-drummer.

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released June 17, 2016

Still the Wretched Linger credits: Grahm Reynolds-guitars, Addison Dodds-bass, Cullen Wade-drummer, Stan-former vocalist no longer with band.
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Beldam have, with this album, shown that they are serious about their craft and should be in the conversation when it comes to top bands in the doom/sludge genre. ~~ SkullNBones

Architects of the type of punishing sludge that dungeon dwellers beat their victims too whilst flies buzz around the stench rotting flesh, such utterly contemptuous filth it makes the walls wretch~~Sludgelord

..And so we have 'Still the Wretched Linger' which has confirmed my assumption that Beldam can gatecrash the higher echelons of the sludgy, doom death genre.~~The Shrieks from Below

There are many great metal albums which would serve as the perfect soundtrack for a horror movie. Beldam’s album “Still The Wretched Linger” is the horror movie itself. ~~Glacially Musical

Still the Wretched Linger is a solid start wth slow, heavy punches landing with a pleasing thud.
~~Zero Tolerance

Beldam delivers it with the force of an army slowly trudging their way to pillage your fragile little town. Fuzzy guitar riffs that drill their way through your ear drums formulating a formidable presence inside your mind that can't be shook.
~~The Grim Pacific North

Their new seven-song release delivers a dark-toned, grunge metal sound that slowly seeps into your brain and takes over your mind with epic songs~~JP's Music Blog

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Vancouver, WA based Sludge/Doom titans. Currently signed with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. "Pasung"available now on Bandcamp for digital download or CD.

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