Catacomb Bloom

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Beneath the city where the grave roots feed
(都の地下で墓の根が養分を啜る)
A crimson orchid opens without rain
(雨なき場所で深紅の蘭が花開く)

I followed moths through the ossuary stairs
(蛾の群れを追い納骨堂の階段を下った)
Past teeth arranged in rows of ivory script
(象牙の文字のごとく並べられた歯の列を越えて)
The walls exhaled a sweet corrosive breath
(壁は甘くすべてを蝕む吐息を漏らした)
And every petal leaned toward living heat
(花弁はすべて生者の熱へ身を傾けた)
A gardener blind beneath a hood of bark
(樹皮の頭巾の奥に盲いた庭師がいた)
Pressed seeds into the sockets of the kings
(庭師は王たちの眼窩へ種を埋め込んだ)
She said no tomb can keep a season still
(いかなる墓も季節を閉じ込めてはおけないと彼女は告げた)
When hunger learns the language of the roots
(飢えが根の言葉を覚える時には)

土の底で脈打つ花よ
(O flower that pulses beneath the earth)
忘却を喰らい尽くせ
(Devour oblivion whole)

Catacomb Bloom, climb through the marrow
(墓窟に咲く花よ 骨髄を伝い這い上がれ)
Flood every chamber with venomous color
(あらゆる墓室を毒孕む色彩で満たせ)
Catacomb Bloom, crown the underground
(墓窟に咲く花よ 地底の王冠となれ)
Make the buried kingdom shudder aloud
(葬られた王国を轟然と震わせよ)
No mercy descends and no pardon will grow
(慈悲は降りず赦しも芽吹かない)
The garden advances wherever we go
(我らの行く先で庭園は進軍を続ける)
Catacomb Bloom, open your mouth
(墓窟に咲く花よ その口を開け)
Turn the empire of bone inside out
(骨の帝国を裏返せ)

At midnight roots entered the banquet hall
(真夜中に根は宴の間へ這い込んだ)
They split the tables and strangled the wine
(卓を裂き葡萄酒の息の根を止めた)
The nobles fled with soil in their lungs
(貴族たちは肺に土を詰まらせて逃げ惑った)
While black leaves braided the statues’ eyes
(その間にも黒き葉は彫像の目を編み塞いだ)
I wore a wreath cut from funeral weeds
(私は葬送の草を刈って編んだ花冠を戴いた)
Its thorns kept time with the drums in my blood
(その棘は血の中で鳴る太鼓と時を刻んだ)
The dead did not rise as servants or ghosts
(死者は従僕としても亡霊としても立ち上がったのではない)
They rose as fragrance, fever, and flood
(彼らは芳香となり熱病となり奔流となって立ち上がった)

眠りではない これは変容
(This is not slumber. This is transfiguration)
朽ちた世界を苗床にせよ
(Make the decaying world your seedbed)

Catacomb Bloom, climb through the marrow
(墓窟に咲く花よ 骨髄を伝い這い上がれ)
Flood every chamber with venomous color
(あらゆる墓室を毒孕む色彩で満たせ)
Catacomb Bloom, crown the underground
(墓窟に咲く花よ 地底の王冠となれ)
Make the buried kingdom shudder aloud
(葬られた王国を轟然と震わせよ)
No mercy descends and no pardon will grow
(慈悲は降りず赦しも芽吹かない)
The garden advances wherever we go
(我らの行く先で庭園は進軍を続ける)
Catacomb Bloom, open your mouth
(墓窟に咲く花よ その口を開け)
Turn the empire of bone inside out
(骨の帝国を裏返せ)

Let every coffin become a cradle
(すべての棺を揺り籠とせよ)
Let every crypt spill vines through the floor
(すべての墓室から床を裂いて蔓を溢れさせよ)
When the last root coils around the throne
(最後の根が玉座に巻きつく時)
We will plant our breath in the deepest stone
(我らは最も深き石の内に息吹を植える)
Not resurrection and not return
(これは復活ではない 帰還でもない)
A new species forms where the old world burned
(古き世界が焼け落ちた場所で新たな種が形を得る)

Catacomb Bloom, surge through the marrow
(墓窟に咲く花よ 骨髄を奔れ)
Stain every tower with venomous color
(すべての塔を毒孕む色彩で染めよ)
Catacomb Bloom, swallow the crown
(墓窟に咲く花よ 王冠を呑み込め)
Drag every law to the roots below
(あらゆる法を地下の根へ引きずり下ろせ)
No mercy descends and no pardon will grow
(慈悲は降りず赦しも芽吹かない)
The garden advances wherever we go
(我らの行く先で庭園は進軍を続ける)
Catacomb Bloom, open your mouth
(墓窟に咲く花よ その口を開け)
Turn the empire of bone inside out
(骨の帝国を裏返せ)

At dawn the city inhales through a flower
(夜明けに都は一輪の花を通して息を吸う)
And green veins travel beneath our feet
(そして緑の脈が我らの足下を走ってゆく)

Prompt

Create a dark symphonic melodic metal anthem titled Catacomb Bloom, driven by relentless double time motion near 205 BPM. Open with dry bone clicks and low strings before the full band tears forward. Verses should feel fast and feral, using tight palm muted riffs, clipped vocals, and sparse orchestral hits. Let each pre chorus climb with rising toms, dissonant strings, and whispered Japanese lines, then make the chorus erupt into a huge hook that begins with the title. Use wide twin guitars, layered female lead, restrained choirs, and a dark melody that stays singable on first listen. Keep the double bass fierce and articulate, with sharp snare attack. After the second chorus, drop into a half time ritual led by floor toms and low brass, then launch a guitar and synth duel over accelerating drums. Return with a larger final chorus, upper harmony, and the opening motif. Mix cold, vivid, punchy, and spacious, with clear mids, controlled reverb, and poisonous life spreading through stone.