Memories of a Phantom - Decaying in the Day (Official Audio) | Gothic Metal

"Decaying in the Day" by Memories of a Phantom. An audio-only descent into symphonic gothic metal, blending aggressive black metal shrieks with soaring, mournful operatic vocals and frantic keyboard arrangements. 📜 Lyrics A gilded cage of blinding light, a prison made of glass! I watch the fleeting shadows of my true existence pass. The poetry of midnight is forbidden to my tongue, A tragedy of sorrow, left unspoken and unsung. I wear this human masquerade, a suffocating dress, While starving for the velvet of the forest's dark caress! Bound by gossamer threads to a world I despise! Hiding the abyssal dark behind these weeping eyes. I choke upon their purity, I suffocate in grace... There is no sanctuary in this god-forsaken place! I cannot be what I am in this unforgiving light! An exile from the sacred womb of my beloved night. Tethered to a mortal shell, helpless and undone, I wither like a dying rose beneath their cruel sun. I am a beautiful nightmare they are too blind to see... This radiant, hollow world was never meant for me! My spirit is a sepulchre, a monument to grief! Where every frantic, stolen breath provides me no relief. I crave the taste of winter, the embrace of the abyss, But I am cursed to languish in a realm devoid of this. My wings are bound in iron, my fangs are filed away, A helpless, tragic prisoner, decaying in the day! Bound by gossamer threads to a world I despise! Hiding the abyssal dark behind these weeping eyes. I choke upon their purity, I suffocate in grace... There is no sanctuary in this god-forsaken place! There is no escape... no forest deep enough. To hide the monstrous sorrow that my soul is woven of! I am a captive of the dawn! Waiting for a twilight that will never be drawn! I cannot be what I am in this unforgiving light! An exile from the sacred womb of my beloved night. Tethered to a mortal shell, helpless and undone, I wither like a dying rose beneath their cruel sun. Never meant for me... I am fading! For fans of: Nightwish, Cradle of Filth, Tristania, Sirenia, Dimmu Borgir, Epica, and Atmospheric Black Metal. #GothicMetal #SymphonicMetal #MemoriesOfAPhantom #FemaleFrontedMetal #BlackMetalShrieks #DarkMetal #MetalWithLyrics #ExtremeMetal