Sunspot - Of The Wand & The Moon

"Sunspot" from the album
"The Lone Descent".
Released September 2011 on Heidrunar Myrkrunar/Tesco Distribution.
Produced, written & performed by Kim Larsen
at Soundscape Studio, Copenhagen.
Engineered by Louise Nipper.
Mastered by Flemming Hansson Jr. at Sweep Mastering.
Add. drums by John Murphy
Backing vocals by Louise Nipper
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Lyrics :
SUNSPOT
THERE´S A SUNSPOT IN MY EYE
THERE´S A GUILD OF THIEVES THAT WEIGHS ME DOWN
THERE´S A DARKNESS WITHIN OUR REACH
AND ROOTS THAT REACH BENEATH
AND IN THIS DARKNESS SHALL WE CRAWL?
OVERWHELMED BY THE VOID
CONJURING DARKNESS BLACK LIKE COAL
LET THE FIRE HATCH OUT LET THE PAIN UNFOLD
OUR LIFE PASSES LIKE IDLE CHATTER
LIFE EBBS OUT LIKE CHILDREN STUTTER
THERE´S A SUNSPOT IN MY SOUL
A MILLSTONE ROUND MY HEART AND A JUDAS KISS
THERE´S A DARKNESS COMING IN
A GOLDEN TROTH FOR YOUR EMPTINESS
AND WE STRAY THROUGH INFINITE NOTHING
HAUNTED BY OUR DEADWEIGHT DREAMS
CONJURING DARKNESS BLACK LIKE COAL
LET THE FEVER HATCH OUT LET THE MOTH UNFOLD
OUR LOVE PASSES LIKE IDLE CHATTER
LIFE EBBS OUT LIKE CHILDREN STUTTER
WHERE THERE´S A WILL THERE´S A WAY
BUT THERE´S NO WILL AND THE PATH LED ASTRAY

[@Gwyllm01]

Still loving this track after 10 years.

[@StefanNaydenov]

Same...

[@petersfds]

what my life would be if i hadnt found neofolk , i dont want to imagine , horrible .

[@1980Raffael]

6 years ago! Now you are on Folk i bet.

[@jorgeantonio6774]

[@SkyliCyrus]

Neofolk is the bees knees!

[@glanguish9390]

​@@SkyliCyrus93

[@m_alcoves]

This song with this video edition was truly genius!

[@Joostvantiel]

This song reaches me on multiple levels

[@Krano229]

Purity and perfection. I am moved, truly.

[@h3llokimmi3]

DanceTheSpears I love your comment

[@elfonero1492]

I feel a lot of melancholy with these songs 🌹🥀

[@PCLviolator]

Kim Larsen did it again. I believe, that it is his best album. True milestone we have here, benchmark for other neofolk bands.

[@Sighbot]

The beginning reminds me of something Neurosis would do, and it erupts into one of the most enlightening song I’ve ever heard. Definitely one of the greatest records I’ve ever heard.

[@Austyyy_]

Neurosis and Of The Wand And Moon. Two artists that strive to deliver pure misanthropic, dark and melancholy music. Both favorites of mine.

[@cocob1958]

Neurosis one of my favorite band too

[@Kelly_Cook]

Kinda reminds me of Current 93.

[@nicksmart5469]

It’s just beautiful like the video that accompanies it, but it d love to know more.about both

[@CyrusRogan]

Thanks, Im now using this song for a live art performance project in college.

[@harissmavroleon3037]

Oh my fucking god!! This is the best song Ive heard in my life...! "But theres no will and the path led astray" This is magic.

[@bumschak12]

Also my favourite Verse :)

[@nihtgenga5712]

The video is from a documentary called The Holy Ghost People.

[@OneDrunkWizard]

Thank you

[@Harthugaut]

Thank you, good sir! Diving right into that KZbin rabbit hole.

[@horsebadorties4054]

This song, combined with that masterpiece of a video, means the world to me.

[@cactus138]

One of the first songs I've learned on guitar, still amazes me everytime Thank you, great video

[@pedroskrotho]

What a fantastic song!

[@19eightyforeisnow]

This is the absolute perfect video for this ....amazing work to who made it and of course to Kim Larson...

[@gavhinds8190]

Absolute class.....brilliant song...

[@migonher6666]

I love this song!!

[@OneDrunkWizard]

This video pairs well with this music. Truly ambient and haunting.

[@doctorhilarious7782]

Incredible!

[@terrormachine78]

"Our life passes by like idle chatter", from the grave stone of Karl Maria Wiligut

[@slambodianjones]

UNSER LEBEN GEHT DAHIN WIE EIN GESCHWÄTZ

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

Famous egomaniac moron and occult faker, just like the rest of the Nazi scum

[@NobodyCaresALot]

@@uncleobscurenobody8861 nazi? What are you talking about?

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

@@NobodyCaresALot Karl Maria Wiligut was an Ariosophist occultist and inventor of fake Germanic mysticism employed by Heinrich Himmler's Ahnenerbe organization, a beneficiary and parasite of the Nazi Party

[@joepetto9488]

@@uncleobscurenobody8861 Definitely not mad right? The Ahenerbe was actually proven correct no more than two months ago with the recent Study from Osada and even more recenty again when they tested the Tarim mummies.

[@ГэлСтремительный]

If your party doesn’t look like this, don’t even bother to invite me

[@lullabi3234]

I was fine digging the ambience of the shrieking and fluttering drum... ...but then it erupted into this Super smooth deliciously despondent jam like nothing in NeoFolk (outside of Rome and some Ulver) 💘💘💘

[@gewonejongen3956]

Thanks for the historic footage! Thats what happens if you believe in stead of know.

[@letthewinderaseme]

thankfully there are distro like tesco and cold meat industry that put out music like this

[@gerritbaumer256]

DIJ, OTWATM and ROME...real music. Brilliant

[@bollywoodoverhollywood8139]

What a gorgeous chorus 💕

[@lukaswycaza]

Obrigada por existir

[@tripedrive4130]

bom demais

[@MatheusSilva777]

No doubts, a perfect clip for the song.

[@miguelzapatista]

Qué buena música hace esta banda! No los conocía. Magnífico descubrimiento!

[@sonjaschulze8758]

Beautiful song

[@janklaus2594]

amazing song and video.....simply and deep in the same movement.....cheers

[@DerDrache707071]

Awesome.

[@TheVitorroyal]

Great song! Love it!!!!

[@angelbastidamorante7981]

Love this band.!!

[@kirliancamerad]

This is heartbreaking beautiful. I'm very happy and looking forward to see :OTWATM: at the Runes & Men Fest in Dresden.

[@007CalebB]

CUTE SNAKEY! MELODIC SONG!

[@Hard88Liner]

@Nemoribus I think that both things at the same time ;) are images from a ceremony of one of those 60's evangelic cults from Texas-Arizona where they allowed the snakes to bite them and later they recovered with the power of the faith, without requiring medical assistance. Anyway, the music and the images are so powerful and emotive.

[@Oetzi19]

This song is so powerful. Very impressive if you realize, that it's only guitar, synths, vocals and drums.

[@fayfledermaus8443]

Beautiful

[@iShoora]

Mesmerising

[@thuggeetennessee7981]

I have the DVD of this video clip, Truly mesmerising...... um, good song!

[@LeFuturS]

Great song and clip, but it's sad that there's no credits for the film. I doubt these images have been created for OTWATM.

[@giop1595]

There´s a sunspot in my eye There´s a guild of thieves that weighs me down There´s a darkness within our reach And roots that reach beneath And in this darkness shall we crawl? Overwhelmed by the void Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fire hatch out let the pain unfold Our life passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter There´s a sunspot in my soul A millstone round my neck and a judas kiss There´s a darkness coming in A golden troth for your emptiness And we stray through infinite nothing Haunted by our dead weight dreams Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fever hatch out let the moth unfold Our love passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter Where there´s a will there´s a way But there´s no will and the path led astray

[@Clownconspirator]

Such a great music video

[@justinyuvilla8944]

You are great OTWATM, I'm a fan! Hope more of your songs sound closer to the lucifer album days with tracks like "megin runar."

[@SuBKuLtuRiSt]

Epic masterpiece!

[@andersgo123]

Wonderful album!

[@fabiolavasquezs.2324]

i love this !!!!

[@gewonejongen3956]

Kim , nomen I do not wants omen, brilliant!

[@MsAnna2206]

Good work!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@e38my]

You are best! True emotions! Эта версия инструментала просто чума🤙

[@wiligutverygut]

nothing to not like here. beautiful

[@laurenttimot3977]

merci

[@GeoGhB1]

AWESOMEEEEEE :)))))

[@IronTuskDesign]

wow!! holy shit, i'm all about death metal/metal hardcore but i really like of the wand & the moon and this video is haunting....just awesome great taste in videography and an amazing track!!!

[@lucky600000]

fOrEvEr MaStErPiEcE

[@renierlombard5758]

Can anyone tell me what that final dialogue at the end of the song is?

[@endloskurz]

There's a sunspot in my soul a Millstone round my heart and a judas kiss great record...great clip

[@qinayallaki5927]

Somos humanos vulnerables a todo,no podemos escapar

[@eartlavia]

could someone explain to me what's the footage about?

[@mrDvornik87]

This footage is from the 1967 ethnographic documentary, "Holy Ghost People," by Steve Adair. The footage was shot back in the 1950's at an Appalachian Snake Handling Church service.

[@eartlavia]

@@mrDvornik87 thank you dude

[@christophmahler]

Fine song.

[@oswing]

Brilliant...

[@adamantiuscloudcat1799]

It makes me cry

[@FrederikoCMR]

Crazy people! Epic song n' video!

[@mentalholocaust]

Sounds amazing.

[@thegreatpan13]

Our life passes like idle chatter. Karl Maria Willigut

[@mikeami68]

@LeFuturS Very likely that the video is not a "movie", but rather a home made video, of a church service. A sect of Pentecostal practiced "snake handling" (those are rattle snakes in the video) and also drank strychnine believing that their faith would protect them. When the obvious would happen, they believed that the persons "faith of spirit" wavered. by the way, my favorite of their new album is the christmas song "We are Dust (No yule this year my love)"

[@ust_seviye]

Dude,this man must be brother The White Buffalo :D

[@StumpfsCurse]

Awesome :)

[@Thrillseeker666]

Great, waiting for the vinyl!

[@candisherry1737]

perfekt

[@Perchumovic]

this song never fails at making me sad as fuck..

[@Hard88Liner]

Interesting, thanks for the info ! ;)

[@argania100]

i like it

[@sophievandyke1123]

does anyone know the tabs for the banjo riff at the end?

[@KosmiskRevolution]

hvorfor kendte jeg ikke til dette band før nu???

[@grimsleeper5945]

He sings about coal but this song is a gem.

[@joepetto9488]

Pure gem

[@StillOnMars]

does someone understand what the guy at the ending was saying?

[@embee5375]

This is freaky. I like

[@keltondeoliveira]

great soundtrack for those moments alone when you are daydreaming of what brings you solace and bitterness. You should check the song Dissociable by Oliver Henry.

[@cwmyr]

One of my favourites, masterpiece! Whats the guy saying at the end?

[@melindaphoenix7380]

what was with the beginning , it was soo creepy !!!

[@Ganbarizer]

Yeah that first 59 seconds is pure creepiness. I have to skip it whenever I listen to this and apparently, there's a few OTWM songs that start out like that. Caught me off guard when I heard it in their song, Lucifer.

[@sonxofxeris]

Jedesmal fühle ich mich high wenn ich sehe diesen Video....vergiften sie sich mit den schlangen um zu beten ? XD

[@kosemekars]

great video. what's the film?

[@eyear]

nice

[@KRAPYBARA84]

Fuck. This hits deep

[@crs_nrg]

❤😢😅😊💫🌟🌞

[@vulVkhan]

that rattlesnake kisssssss

[@prinzeugenik9715]

Sure? Is it from "Gotos = Kalanda"? After all, Willigut was really some kind of a very strange weirdo...

[@h3llokimmi3]

Please do an album with King Dude, please! We love you Kim!

[@SkyliCyrus]

Does anyone know what this video is from?

[@mrDvornik87]

This footage is from the 1967 ethnographic documentary, "Holy Ghost People," by Steve Adair. The footage was shot back in the 1950's at an Appalachian Snake Handling Church service

[@TundraDoom]

Jesus, the strongest drug

[@M0SSl]

@Nemoribus maybe hipnose or somekind of spirit work, maybe exsorcism

[@chigaorro9799]

somebody explain the video. What is it?

[@chigaorro9799]

thanks, dude =)

[@mariocosta7966]

Evangelic trance

[@DarkVBA]

Особенно мне нравится один из последних кадров, где у девушки вдруг вздёргиваются руки.

[@dittbub]

What are the clips from?

[@comradefreedom8275]

The Holy Ghost People. It's a documentary about a Pentecostal service.

[@eatscocks]

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[@MegaTheo66]

Please save these poor snakes!😢❤

[@TeyAura]

I swear I heard in the whispers of the beginning a voice saying god, "Dios", lucifer and help

[@Erevoss1980]

what kind of church is that? anyone knows?

[@diggervonzipper7755]

Snake handlers are a subset of Pentecostalism. They base their faith in the Acts 1 experience with the presence of the Holy Ghost evidenced by hyperglossolalia. This is typically referred to as an “in filling”. In this ecstatic state, believers are promised by Mark 16:17-18 to be impervious to poison. Many also drink water laced with arsenic as proof of their faith.

[@Erevoss1980]

@@diggervonzipper7755 οk thanks mate