The Morning Darkness

Dysthymia

Released by Hypnotic Dirge Records

August 21st, 2026

5 tracks

41:52

The Morning Darkness

Scheduled for release on August 20th, 2026.

We Can Never Go Back

0:00

8:12

I Live With What You Created

Dysthymia

It takes everything in me not to say I miss you You cling to all that walks away All familiarity You look onto Blurred vision, damp Appears opaque It feels so empty in here The home in you is not with you think it is As you find You are trembling in fear You attach yourself To everything To feel the pain Of distancing I don’t know where to fall onto I’m so sick of living the lie I live I’m here, lonely Unsure, deeply filled with pain In a sea of misery no one can change That was promised to me By way of the sheer fact that I am here, alive

10:23

We Can Never Go Back

Dysthymia

What battles are before me? Fatigue, a path I cannot see Heavy daily are the guilty thoughts and pity within me For as long as I know the terror of our reality It’s bittersweet to breathe No joy in anything when all is tainted by the lack of efforts towards change I see beauty outside, relief and freedom And yet feel only a storm in my body Shackled limbs only from mind Today is nothing of what I had wanted Pushed out and dejected Familiar enemy A persistent enemy that I try each day to fight back One I will battle everyday for the rest of eternity (Run away) I will run forever before becoming no more than a reflection Of the eyes on men Take it away I can’t take it anymore Shrink down to nothing Powerless and weakened Substanceless and hollow for them The silence of my voice rings out even now The fear that I’m invisible, inadequate, incapable Mother please hear me, I have no where to hide Father please hear me, I’m burning up inside

8:12

To Choose Life is to Choose Grief

Dysthymia

Empty is the world we created I feel nothing And with the death of a capacity to love anything There is also the death of my ability to see good in anything at all When it all falls Will you find relief When it all falls The terror to feel Brings man to terrible places Let me go They beg and yet feel never done questioning They beg and demand to be unknown

4:07

Until I Was Nothing

Dysthymia

Like a child you cling to everything Everything that walks away Everything familiar, you look onto Blurred soaked vision as it becomes opaque The home inside yourself is not what you thought As you find yourself curled up in fear at every change You attach yourself to everything And feel each inch of pain The pain of distancing No one deserves to die alone Well what did I find? Repetition of what I had forgot The reason for avoiding And for this I must be painfully accountable Always full of regret, sick of it For this man (x2) Looking for redemption in sacrifice And so I did for many years Until I became nothing Unrecognizable self, I am afraid Despising others, stuck, void of my humanity Needing to remember why I left I can’t breathe, I can’t sleep I can see now free from the delusion What happened precisely in those moments of grief towards a man, I seek to love another Same flaws, depressed, dependent, stuck, substance addicted , angry, bitter, lonely As well as his strengths

10:10

The Morning Darkness

Dysthymia

In the morning darkness Forget Take it all away I am punished for having loved And when it's proven that you’ll never love anything again You’re left with nothing but the bitterness towards everything, towards life itself I have no warmth left in me I have no understanding Distrust, disdain And when we go We don’t know The offering We don’t know But the truth is that I’m so far away From that spark That hope in your eyes that I don’t recognize anymore Looks unknown and contrived He knows the feel of being alive And the truth is that it makes me hate you It makes me hate you, just fucking leave You reflect my nothing when all I want is my life back And my pain is so fucking invisible Fucking invisible

9:00

Conceived in 2019 by members Grushenka Ødegård and Ray King, New England depressive black metal band Dysthymia crafts music steeped in despondency, isolation, and hopelessness. Following their raw self-titled full-length in 2021 and a split with Saeva in 2024, the band returns with their sophomore album "The Morning Darkness".

The album pulls you straight into a cold, heavy atmosphere that feels genuinely lived-in rather than theatrical. Layered and dynamic yet grounded in its atmosphere, Dysthymia excels at crafting tracks that breathe and build. Quiet, desolate moments give way to rising tension, driving the music forward with momentum that peaks in huge emotional crescendos. Dysthymia's greatest strength is its excellent sense of flow and dynamic songwriting, weaving mournful leads, sparse and distant piano, acoustic guitar, tortured screams, and ethreal clean vocals over a foundation of distant tremelo riffs and prominent basslines.

"This album was written and recorded slowly, over the course of several years, during late nights and early mornings. Through sadness and joy, suffering and relief, life and death, we have returned to share these songs with you. It is our hope that you enjoy them and find them useful in making your way through the days, where even the dawn does not bring light."