Absolutus - Pugnare in Iis quae obtinere non possis (2015)
Absolutus is an avantegarde black metal band from Belgium. They've already released two albums and one EP. All of them have Latin litles, whereas the lyrics are in English - as far as I could listen.
Album - Ostendit quam nihil sumus
He/ she/ it demonstrates that we are nothing - The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca used the phrase in his letter 101 to Lucilius. There he wrote: "Every day, every hour demonstrates us that we are nothing."
EP - Nihil mali non inest
There is nothing bad not in it. - A sentence from Cicero, taken from a letter he wrote to Atticus (VIII,4)
Album - Pugnare in iis quae obtinere non possis
To fight against this you can't obtain - A phrase from Quintilian (VI,14). All album tracks have Latin titles as well:
- Abyssus Abyssum Invocat - The abyss invoces the abyss
- Sunt Verba et Voces Praetereaque Nihil - There are words and voices and nothing more
- Credo Quia Absurdum - I believe because it's absurd
- Ego Sum Qui Sum- I am who I am
- Damnat Quod Non Intelligunt - He damns what they don't understand
- Pugnare in iis Quae Obtinere Non Possis - see above
- Decepimur Specie Recti - We are decieved by the appearance of the right
- Virgo Dei Genitrix - the virgin mother of God
- Numen - Divine power/ presence