LYRICS

There are bars
Outside the gate
To keep me far from reach
I run away
Like a thief
In deep water
Caught uncovered
Held down by the clasp
I forget my name
Inside
Dark light
I’m breaking
I’m waking up again

In the dark
I am undone
To feed you with my fever
I become
Like the flood
Taken over
Lost in time
Pulled out by the shore
I forget my name
Inside
Dark light
I’m breaking
I’m waking up again

Alive
I garner the fields of her flight
All through the night
Take me underground
Take me underground
All the lights go out

On the flood
On the dark light
On the shore
In the flight of the call

On the flood
On the shore
You are light
And I fall



Music by Night Tongue
Produced by Night Tongue

The Flood (Dark Light Remix)

From ash and bone
Another one now
Is caught in amber

I heard that one of us
Had found a truth that lay above
A secret map of flesh and dust
If you hear a hidden song
A voice that calls you on
Don't let it know
Don't let it in
Before it takes another

Are these roses again
For the night that's coming?
They're black and red
And sweet as wine
Caged and silent
Raw and violent
What never was
Can never be

I heard that one of us
Had found a truth that lay above
A secret map of flesh and dust
If you hear a hidden song
A voice that calls you on
Don't let it know
Don't let it in
Before it takes another

Through forest dark, ocean deep
And desert vast and open
Will you stay by my side?
Walking slowly
Bright and holy
Will you love me ’til the end?

I heard that one of us
Had found a truth that lay above
A secret map of flesh and dust
If you hear a hidden song
A voice that calls you on
Don't let it know
Don't let it in
Before it takes another

Now that one of us
Has found the truth that lies above
The secret map of flesh and dust
Now you hear the orca sing
The voice that calls you on
Sing it loud and let it in
For it is our mother


released May 12, 2023
Lyrics by Andrew Dalziell
Music by Carisa Bianca Mellado & Andrew Dalziell
Produced by Night Tongue
Mixed and Mastered by Carisa Bianca Mellado

Flesh & Dust

LYRICS

Feeling in the dark like a vampire coming awake
The promise of a spark, like a whisper runs through my veins
It’s coming awake

Tunneling the ground cos I can’t stop running away
The shadows in the corners wait, they don’t stop following me

Echos haunt these places
A calling 
We can’t escape
Threads and marks they stain in blood
I can’t get away
I can’t get away

Tunneling the ground cos I can’t stop running away
The shadows in the corners wait, they don’t stop following me

Feel me falling down
Wounds all come unbound
The shades are falling and the stain gets in
The cracks are showing and they’re swallowing
The garden’s crawling through the shattering 
Surrender to the fire just surrender to the fire now I’m 
 
Tunneling the ground cos I can’t stop running away
The shadows in the corners wait, they don’t stop following me
Feeling in the dark like a vampire coming awake
The promise of a spark, like a whisper runs through my veins
I’m coming awake

Caught in the the fire

I’m coming awake
Up through the ground
Blood runs on fire now
Lights up my sky




Lyrics by Carisa Bianca Mellado
Music by Night Tongue
Produced by Night Tongue
Mixed & Mastered by Carisa Bianca Mellado

Beacons

Endless

Deep Waters

Prayer For The Lost

Colored Glass

Dark Winds

Signs In Blood

Wicked Game

HUMAN THINGS

When your call comes, calls out
When my blood yearns, she's there
When night takes me, below the ground
Where all light turns, inside out

Is it God in the dark of this place
To the lore of the night I embrace
For the love of the fire I am slain
In the light of the God born again

When the dark calls me down
To the place of my vow

Is it God in the dark of this place
To the lore of the night I embrace
For the love of the fire I am slain
In the light of the God born again

When your call comes
When my blood yearns
When night takes me
Deep through her sea

Down
I'm going down
She calls me down below
I'm down
I'm going

Where her light burns
Where the lines blur
Where her song stirs
Where her grove bends

Down
I belong down
Beneath the ground
I'm going down
I'm going

Where the dark knows
Where the wild grows
Palace of bones
Here is her home

Now, I belong down
My home is now
Under the ground
I'm going down

Human Things

Hear our prayer 
My own beginning 
A fragment of hope 
A breath of tomorrow 

Born in the dark 
Sung into time 
Remember 
When you were mine 
The world was on fire 

Soft and unearthly 
Strung from the core 
In the here and the unhere 
An opening door 

Torn from the sun 
Sung into time 
When you are mine 
All is desire 

Here is an offering 
Here is a gate 
Here is an ending 
Here is our fate 

Come sing with me 
Come play with me


Lyrics Andrew Dalziell
Music Night Tongue  
Produced by Night Tongue 
Mixed and Mastered by Carisa Bianca Mellado

Achelous & Melpomene

The Gate

The borders break apart from the corners, light 
The water carries me through the stormy night 
The covers tug across my skin, warmth in the darkness that falls upon me 
The night descends on our love, like the water births the bird's eternal song 

Underworld nautical heart 

Leave me alive 
Tear me awake 
Take 
Caught on fire 
I'm your prey 
Slain 

The haunted song that calls, harbinger of time 
The ancient shore that cries for her daughter, home 
Colors crawl across your back, serpentine, your blood, water 
The chorus sounds the words, I am submerged, within the burden of the breath 

Underworld nautical heart 

Leave me alive 
Tear me awake 
Take 
Caught on fire 
I'm your prey 
Slain

Lyrics Carisa Bianca Mellado 
Music Night Tongue 
Produced by Night Tongue 
Mixed and Mastered by Carisa Bianca Mellado

Nautical Heart

From the corner of a waking eye
A glimpse of treasure caught
As darkness comes and lights the way
Silence bends the thought

Lover
I heard you calling out to me
Heavy
Through the fog I couldn’t see

In a casket made of blackened stone
At the bottom of the sea
Its keeper holds an hourglass
Our flesh and blood its key

Drifting
Don’t drift away in silence
Holding
Tightly to the razor wire

All the beauty all the pain
Ours forever more
The river running blue and gold
The ecstasy of all

Hold me
Hold me in your arms
Help me
Help me from this agony
Slay me
Slay me with your subtle knife
Holy
In death we’ll have it all

Lyrics by Andrew Dalziell
Music by Night Tongue
Produced by Night Tongue

The Stag King

Drift

There are bars
Outside the gate
To keep me far from reach
I run away
Like a thief
In deep water
Caught uncovered
Held down by the clasp
I forget my name
Inside
Dark light
I’m breaking
I’m waking up again

In the dark
I am undone
To feed you with my fever
I become
Like the flood
Taken over
Lost in time
Pulled out by the shore
I forget my name
Inside 
Dark light
I’m breaking
I’m waking up again

Alive
I garner the fields of her flight
All through the night
Take me underground
Take me underground
All the lights go out

On the flood
On the dark light
On the shore
In the flight of the call

On the flood
On the shore
You are light
And I fall

Lyrics by Carisa Bianca Mellado
Music by Night Tongue
Produced by Night Tongue

The Flood

It begins with a dream
Every dream, a lie
A gesture carved in air
Under the engineer's unholy eye
From his whisper comes the song

And from our tears a torrent,
terrible and purifying
I come naked and in penitence
I come tortured by your gifts
I come to love you and to kill you
When all that's left is nothingness
I'll take your dying hand

[*] I climb inside to wake up
Ah climb inside to wake up]

And now its secret name is spoken
And now its death is found
Buried in its truth
From heaped dust
We'll build a beauty,
Bright and shimmering
And let it loose upon the earth
And take your dying hand

[*] I climb inside to wake up
Ah climb inside to wake up]


Lyrics by Andrew Dalziell & [*] by Carisa Bianca Mellado
Music by Night Tongue (Dalziell/Mellado)
Andrew Dalziell: Vocal, Guitar, Synth, Drums
Carisa Bianca Mellado: Vocal, Bass, Synth
Elle Haert: Vocal
Mixed by Night Tongue
Mastered by Carisa Bianca Mellado

Golem

On Hallowed Ground

The Dead Awaken

On Hallowed Gorund

Night Is Coming

Night Tongue are a transgressive darkwave band from Australia, now based out of Los Angeles. They are an eclectic genre-bending band that incorporates multiple styles including post-punk, southern gothic, shoegaze, doom metal, goth rock, indie, film, jazz, soul, folk, world and classical music to build mythic worlds. The band is led by songwriting/composition duo Carisa Bianca Mellado (vocals, bass, synth) and Andrew Dalziell (vocals, guitar, cello, drums) and features Elle Haert’s vocals and her synth/keyboard live. Night Tongue create a dark mythic world of romance, sex, death, horror and ecstasy. Spun from tales of love, tragedy and transgression, they build romantic soundscapes of beautiful violence. 

Night Tongue use mythic themes to explore the depths of human nature, sexuality, spirituality, vulnerability, desire, trauma and the cycles of life and death using myth as allegory to express the human experience. They incorporate taboo or transgressive themes, such as sexuality, desire, death, trauma, vulnerability, nakedness, spirituality, the occult and the nature of nature itself. The composition duo seek to not only push boundaries as they search for new ways to explore music and composition, but they also push the boundaries within as they search out new ways to understand and integrate life. The result can lead to somewhere tender, sweet and soft or somewhere terrifying, ferocious and raw. Both extremes come from a willingness to go somewhere uncomfortable and vulnerable. Their music videos and visual art reflect this willingness to be exposed through an experimental style that conjures a sense of viewing something private that isn’t supposed to be seen. 

Over the years, post-punk veterans Mellado and Dalziell, have worked and/or performed with David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets), White Magic, Steve Albini, Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Eric Erlandson (Hole), Gitane Demone and Rikk Agnew (Christian Death, The Adolescents) and Nick Hudson of The Academy of Sun. Both are guest members of experimental doom band Asva with Stuart Dahlquist (Sun O))), Burning Witch, Goatsnake), Toby Driver and Ron Varod (Kayo Dot), Nick Hudson (The Academy of Sun) and Adam Dahlquist. 

In 2017, Night Tongue performed in the UK with gnostic post-punk act The Academy of Sun and returned with their 10” EP, Achelous + Melpomene, in February 2018. The mythological-heavy EP tells the story of the birth of the Sirens in Southern Italy, mothered by the Muse of Tragedy, Melpomene and fathered by the ancient underworld God of the oceans Achelous.

Throughout 2017 and 2018, the duo composed scores for a number of short films and plays, performed sound baths, and completed tours of Australia and Europe. Still, Mellado and Dalziell found time to write and record their first full-length, The Stag King. In 2019 they completed tours of Europe and the US west coast and were joined by Elle Haert on vocals on keys. With this new lineup and accompanied by Ann Seletos on drums, they joined Glaswegian post-rock band Mogwai on their US tour and launched their first full length, The Stag King to critical acclaim. While still looking to mythology for inspiration, the band continues to explore the greater metaphors between the mythology and personal life on The Stag King.”The cycles of nature are represented through the Triple Moon Goddess of life, death and rebirth and the Stag God as he crosses the seasons of birth, fertility, death and renewal. This is heard as lovers meet, connect, devour, lose, go through the dark and are reborn on a higher level,” the band explains. “This album is about love fundamentally, but it really is about searching for the eternal space of that, through all seasons, life and beyond death.”

Despite Mellado succumbing to COVID with lingering pneumonia for the first half of 2020, the composition duo began work on a feature film, set to be released soon, have singles coming out, live stream dates booked and a new album on the way.

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