MARBLE RUINS

What’s good? Been a minute since my last post. The grind never stops. Wanted to take a break from all that to continue sharing the backstory of the album with you. Marble Ruins is the next arc in the story of Erdinus, and shit is getting real now.

“Before Athelard could open his mouth to answer the Count, the stone floor crumbled beneath his feet, and plunged him further into the under-dark. Once he managed to regain his balance, he surveyed this new region within the Depths—an infernal plane of brimstone, rivers of flame and molten rock, canopied by an ashen sky. He might have thought it a nightmare, were it not for the oppressive heat and the acrid taste of the air.

Count Visalius reappeared beside him, a grave expression half hidden by the man’s white beard. “This,” he said, “is the true face of the Sûr-realm. Welcome to the kingdom of eternal torment, suffering—conveniently hidden ’neath the earth, ’neath the waves.”

Erdinus felt a sinking in his stomach; he could feel the truth behind the Count’s words. The enormity of them, and the implications of this umbral dimension… If not a dream, he thought, perhaps I’ve been felled in battle. Maybe these Depths are merely the afterworld.

Visalius remained at his side as he ventured out into the flame-lit dark of the hellish, primordial ruin. Neither a tumble nor a blade, nor all the distance between the void and the heavens, would keep Erdinus from his soul’s redemption.”

This track allowed me to collab with Celph Titled (Army of the Pharaohs, Demigodz) who I’ve always admired. If you haven’t listened yet, you can peep it below:

Peace,

-Sam