The Wood

from Relictum by The Ringing Emptiness

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$0.75 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

They cut it down, and where the pitch-black aisles
Of forest night had hid eternal things,
They scaled the sky with towers and marble piles
To make a city for their revellings.

White and amazing to the lands around
That wondrous wealth of domes and turrets rose;
Crystal and ivory, sublimely crowned
With pinnacles that bore unmelting snows.

And through its halls the pipe and sistrum rang,
While wine and riot brought their scarlet stains;
Never a voice of elder marvels sang,
Nor any eye called up the hills and plains.

Thus down the years, till on one purple night
A drunken minstrel in his careless verse
Spoke the vile words that should not see the light,
And stirred the shadows of an ancient curse.

Forests may fall, but not the dusk they shield;
So on the spot where that proud city stood,
The shuddering dawn no single stone revealed,
But fled the blackness of a primal wood.

1929

credits

from Relictum, released January 27, 2020

license

about

The Ringing Emptiness Russia

The Ringing Emptiness is a russian experimental band founded in 2015. Since then the band has released some LPs. The sound of the band has a great variety of aspects — from cinematic and meditative ambient landscapes to disturbing psychedelic noise and post-metal. ... more

contact / help

Contact The Ringing Emptiness

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like The Ringing Emptiness, you may also like:

hard bop (or how i started hating myself)
by april the cruelest

Barcelona's april the cruelest creates post-genre collages that examine internal self-hatred in response to systemic oppression. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 12, 2022
go to album
Leviathan
by Stephen Roddy

Written in response to the climate crisis, “Leviathan” is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 16, 2023
go to album
SAD GODS presents "Singing for Survival - a Compilation for Project Onward"
by Various Artists

A stellar compilation featuring shoegaze and indie favorites like Drowse, Midwife, and Mount Eerie benefitting Project Onward in Chicago. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2023
go to album
Fractured Whole
by Cruel Diagonals

Every sound here is made using Megan Mitchell's voice, even though the music often sounds more like Earth’s vibrations than a human singing. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 28, 2023
go to album
Noisery Rhymes
by Enor D

Hong Kong's Enor D reinterprets nursery rhymes as noise pieces with elements of musique concrete on this playful new album. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 5, 2022
go to album
#46 - Hibernation
by The Owl

With each song named after a remote city, “Hibernation” is haunting darkambient that surrounds & engulfs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 11, 2021
go to album
COSMIC SESSIONS
by autotectonic

Ontario act Autotectonic offers up 10 stunning experimental tracks, fusing drone, power electronics & noise into a gripping whole. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2020
go to album