Dargaard meets other influences. If I had to choose my favorite Banishment track, it would be this one. Much more "synthy" sounding that my other tracks. Copious amounts of pizzicato violin here (and I'm not sorry for it).

Banishment - The Wanderer

Banishment - A Dying Breed

Very primitive and very short ditty I threw together years ago. Just a sketch, really. The VSTi stuff I was using wasn't top-of-the-line.

Banishment - The Siege

A very VERY old track. The first one I ever did for Banishment. Tremolo-picked guitars, church organs, plenty of reverb on my screams, and piano/strings at the end. Heavy Burzum influence.

LYRICS
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"I have all the characteristics of a human being---blood, flesh, skin, hair---but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why....I simply am not there."
--- American Psycho

Submerged
Oft his mind draped in haze
Throughout the sunlit days
In somber silence he'd sometimes wait
For a color that never came
Memories escaped his mind
As the years swiftly crept by
A faded joy swallowed by time
As he lived his sorrowed life
Conscious were the few
Of the only life he knew
A man who can't decide 
Why from sleep he'd daily rise
Here this man still lies
In a bed I call mine
An answer I cannot find:
Is tomorrow worth my time?

Banishment - Black & White

A short, spoken-word track I did a long time ago. The second Banishment song I ever wrote.

LYRICS
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Beyond the stars or the sunlit sky
Distant from the wretched earth
Riddance of this fleshly cage 
Occupies a fool’s stagnant thoughts

As this mass of flesh weighs my soul
I am released through thought from this undesired shell

I, who am doomed to suffer another day
Whose wisdom is useful to none
Whose lungs are daily infested with life’s air
Whose body is tormented by the blood that flows within

Come, Death
Oh, freedom from this routine of anguish
This dismal well they call a heart
I freely give

Until the cold grasp of life’s end releases me
I will wane from the day in reclusion 
Until time grants me the boon of death:
The gift of a final breath

Banishment - The Gift

Father of 2 (1 daughter, 1 son). Founder + vocalist + composer + lyricist + former guitarist for Impurity (death metal band hailing from Gainesville, FL). Founder and sole member of Banishment (my darkwave/ambient/neo-classical/neo-folk project).

Virabhadra

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