The Black Hymnal / 黒い賛美歌

The Black Hymnal is a collection of Gothic love songs. They are funereal, impressionistic snapshots of a forbidden relationship and all the themes that come with it – passion, deception, heartache, grief and loss. These songs were written over the course of seven years.

You can buy the paperback here: http://a.co/eqGuGzo

I won a songwriting contest in 2015 with the song "Angels Have Further to Fall". American musician Adam Lee Orr recorded an interpretation of the lyrics as a prize. You can read them here.

There are 34 songs total.

Devil You’ll Never Know
Azazel
Born From a Kiss
Shrine
Magi
The Prism
Seriphos
Obliquitese
Bone Redemptor
Enemies Closer
My Sin is Wrath
Belial
Premonitions
Angels Have Further to Fall
Dante and Beatrice
Rites of Lethe
Lesbos
Majnun
Reacquaintance
The Fruit of Human Heads
Possessed Song
You’ll Never Find Me (Until You Find Yourself)
Faces That Shone Like The Sun
Gestalt
L’Enfant Terrible
Wormwood
Invincible
Throne Of…
Dream Journal
Time Capsule
One Picture
Sandalphon
Theme of Alessa
Like Clarity