And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope

'And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope' is the first full-length track released from the album 'Portal of I' by Australian progressive metal act Ne Obliviscaris. It was released for free at approximately 12:00 PM EDT on the band's Facebook and Bandcamp profiles. Ne Obliviscaris have seen their song “And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope” included in a teaching curriculum at the Sydney Conservatorium Of Music, one of Australia’s most prestigious classical conservatories. The track will undergo a compositional analysis by Professor Matthew Hindson, Chair Of Composition at the conservatorium.Hindson is a world-renowned classical composer whose works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras throughout the world. His recent ballet music, for example, has been presented by such companies as the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the National Ballet Of Japan.Hindson commented on the event, saying: “I will be presenting ‘And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope’ to the composition students at the conservatorium next semester as an exemplar in structure, mixing timbres, meters, modes, how to approach virtuosity, sound and noise, extended performance and techniques. The students will need to study two technical aspects of what Ne Obliviscaris have done in their music, and then use these techniques in their own classical music compositions.” The professor continues: “It is my pleasure to introduce such high quality music making to our students, alongside other music by composers including Beethoven, Gershwin, Steve Reich and Peter Sculthorpe. Musicians deserve to hear the music of Ne Obliviscaris, and the music of many other metal bands, in order to appreciate the compositional complexity that lies within it, no matter what their musical tastes.

Kings of our emptiness, the flagellants align Their mouths fill with questions, blessed they are by God's tokens Ware to walk the painted, the painted path Walking the painted path through our plague fields Ware to walk the painted path Through the Plague fields Kings of this carousel, disfigured upon white horses With Goya's claws and Dore's wings Down golden locks to red crosses Crowned children screaming from funeral shrouds To rapid eye movement, heart-strings undone Our beautiful filth dances and plague flowers Why our wall to reason fall,only human Kings of our emptiness, the flagellants align Their mouths fill with ashes and death's tongue The dappled dying Flowering cold grey tombs With crumbling walls, I feel Our truth is laid bare And plague colours A masterpiece of pain The portrait of what we are