Name: The Unforgettable
Duration: P00H06M56S
Description: The Unforgettable was inspired by some of the true-life horrors of the Chernobyl disaster, including a piece of highly radioactive wreckage known as The Elephant's Foot. The song takes the listener on a journey through the exclusion zone of Pripyat and into a psychedelic nightmare. Sara Abrams (Daughter Chaos, ex-Armageddon) provides guest vocals and growls.

The Unforgettable

by Sumptus Ignis

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The Unforgettable was inspired by some of the true-life horrors of the Chernobyl disaster, including a piece of highly radioactive wreckage known as The Elephant's Foot. The song takes the listener on a journey through the exclusion zone of Pripyat and into a psychedelic nightmare. Sara Abrams (Daughter Chaos, ex-Armageddon) provides guest vocals and growls.

lyrics

Third day awake in the exclusion zone
Filming the elk and feral dogs
That roam the desolate streets

The other stalkers keep their distance
Watchful for patrols
Untrusting of foreigners with cameras
But one boldly came to me
Her eyes gleaming radium in dusk
She said to follow

"There's a sight you won't believe
The colors like a dream"
As she led me through the broken corridors
Crushing cold shakes my core
Deep into the catacombs
To deliver me to the unforgettable

A wave, a web
A curve of darkness distant
A dread primordial shape
I'm drawn in as the hues appear
Sparkling phosphor in my viewfinder
I'm helpless as a moth to halogen

The Geiger sings to me
The folly of Prometheus made stone
Frozen fire kindled in concrete
The behemoth never sleeps

Hypnotized
Gazing through the glass
A long exposure
My heart's shuddering
At the sound of sudden laughter
And falling clothes
She helped me out of my coat

Come closer (closer closer closer)
You can almost hear it inside
Like a voice
Pulsing behind your eyes

The Geiger sings to me
The folly of Prometheus made stone
Frozen fire kindled in concrete
The behemoth never sleeps

"Can't you feel the energy
The ecstasy, a fever-dream?"
She took me onto the corium like an altar
Searing skin, lust unquenchable
A manic ravening
My vomit clatters to the ground
Curtains of blood dim my eyes
As we merge with the unforgettable

credits

released August 4, 2023
Music by Sumptus Ignis, lyrics by Bryn Schurman. Guest vocals from Sara Abrams. Produced by Richard Perdomo.

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Sumptus Ignis Key Largo, Florida

Progressive metal five-piece Sumptus Ignis (Sum-tus Ig-nis) began in 2016 as a side project for Identity Collapse members Bryn Schurman and Joshua Wojtaszek, Silura's Richard Perdomo and Joshua Thomas Williams joined in 2021 on bass and lead guitars respectively, along with John Scott adding clean vocals and slide guitar to the mix.
Look for their next release The Kindred Dark mid-2022. ... more