A question about "Epistel" from "For Funerals To Come".

[Aaron A.]

Could someone please tell me what is being said in "Epistel," the final track on the "For Funerals To Come" EP?

I'm really curious as to what is being said, if anything, in those... inhumane growls, or whatever they are.

Thanks! (And sorry if this topic is one you will ravage viciously.)

 

[Nichrome]

I don't think there are any words spoken really, it's just random screams I think.

 

[Aaron A.]

I don't think there are any words spoken really, it's just random screams I think.

I don't think so, either. I was just wondering, heh.

 

[Jinn]

I think there may be actual words, however in the liner notes of FFTC, it says Epistel's music and lyrics were made 'by a forthcoming doom'

So by that, the lyrics remain a mystery.

 

[MountainDweller]

Seems to be in reverse to me...

 

[MountainDweller]

The words are definitely reversed, but there's so much background noise that it's hard to decipher, and I'm not even sure it's in English from what I can hear.

Here you go:
Epistel Lyrics Reversed

 

[Mantraschism]

Fuck, that's a freaky track.

 

[Aaron A.]

Fuck, that's a freaky track.

I was listening to it at 3:00 AM this morning. It was scary.

 

[RutgeR]

I read this in a interview some times ago..:
(B = Blakkheim ofcourse)

"CoC: The last track on _For Funerals to Come..._, "Epistel", sounds
like a bunch of noise... at times sounding like it's in reverse.
What exactly is this? It is a shock after coming from such a
mournful instrumental as "For Funerals to Come...". (Yes, I've
tried to digitize it and play it backwards... heh).

B: A shock yes! It's nothing but a shock of reversed noise! Well
actually it's the end of the world... Listen to it backwards and
figure it out...

http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ChroniclesOfChaos/coc027.txt

 

[MountainDweller]

B: A shock yes! It's nothing but a shock of reversed noise! Well
actually it's the end of the world... Listen to it backwards and
figure it out...

I can't make it out. If "I'm going mad" and something about a "Ghettomasta's dream" is about the end of the world...then ok. Perhaps they hate hip-hop that much.

It still doesn't sound like English to me... or it's just that indecipherable.

 

[Anaazarel]

I can't figure it out either, and it's definitely not English.