Lullabies in Ruin
Progressive black metal with atmospheric depth and dynamic structure. Tempo shifts between 90–160 BPM with cold tremolo-picked riffs, dissonant chords, and occasional slow crushing sections. Guitars are sharp, layered, and reverb-heavy. Fuzzy, heavily distorted cello acts as a haunting lead, doubling tremolo lines and adding scraping melodies. Cold vintage Moog synths and pulsing basslines create a retro-futuristic undercurrent. Drums are varied with blast beats, d-beats, tom-driven patterns, and sudden tempo shifts. Vocals are distant black metal screams layered with a fragile, eerie child-like voice singing simple, haunting melodies, slightly detuned and echoing, like a ghostly lullaby. Both are recorded through a broken cassette/dictaphone microphone with hiss, distortion, and dropouts. Atmospheric breaks with noise, feedback, and heavy reverb. Production is degraded, tape-saturated, cold, and lo-fi. Mood: bleak, war-torn, haunting, desolate.
Lullabies in Ruin
Progressive black metal with atmospheric depth and dynamic structure. Tempo shifts between 90–160 BPM with cold tremolo-picked riffs, dissonant chords, and occasional slow crushing sections. Guitars are sharp, layered, and reverb-heavy. Fuzzy, heavily distorted cello acts as a haunting lead, doubling tremolo lines and adding scraping melodies. Cold vintage Moog synths and pulsing basslines create a retro-futuristic undercurrent. Drums are varied with blast beats, d-beats, tom-driven patterns, and sudden tempo shifts. Vocals are distant black metal screams layered with a fragile, eerie child-like voice singing simple, haunting melodies, slightly detuned and echoing, like a ghostly lullaby. Both are recorded through a broken cassette/dictaphone microphone with hiss, distortion, and dropouts. Atmospheric breaks with noise, feedback, and heavy reverb. Production is degraded, tape-saturated, cold, and lo-fi. Mood: bleak, war-torn, haunting, desolate.
Lyrics
Intro (distant, hollow)
No sirens now…
Only silence learning how to scream
Verse 1
Concrete skies collapse in dust
Names erased, reduced to rust
Windows open into flame
Every street forgets its name
Children counting falling light
Learning numbers shaped like night
Every step a shattered ground
Every voice a buried sound
Pre-Chorus
Hold your breath — the air is ash
Time is breaking, seconds crash
Chorus
We are still here — still undone
Living shadows of the sun
Every heartbeat fights to stay
While the world just turns away
We are still here — breathing smoke
Every promise turned to choke
If this ends, what will remain?
Only silence shaped like pain
Verse 2
Hospitals without a door
Hands that can’t hold on anymore
Every prayer dissolves in noise
Every loss without a choice
Maps are redrawn in the fire
Lines that cut and never tire
History repeats its teeth
Grinding down what’s left beneath
Pre-Chorus
Close your eyes — it doesn’t stop
Even dreams begin to rot
Chorus
We are still here — still undone
Living shadows of the sun
Every heartbeat fights to stay
While the world just turns away
Breakdown (slow, crushing)
NO
HOME
NO
NAME
NO
END
ONLY
FLAME
Bridge (quiet, distant)
If we survive…
Who will we be?
If we forget…
Was it ever real?
Final Chorus
We were still here — now we fade
Every memory unmade
All the voices lost in air
No one left to say we were there
We were still here — now we’re gone
Echoes trying to hold on
If the silence learns our name
It will only speak in pain
Outro (wind, fading)
…still breathing…