Asunder may refer to:
Asunder was a Canadian indie rock band formed in Hamilton, consisting of singer, songwriter and guitarist Marcus Wadell, songwriter and bassist TJ Angelopoulos and drummer Geoff Royson.
The band released its material on Shelf Life Music. The band toured extensively in Canada, the UK, and Japan to support its first successful Canadian indie EP "Slower than Fast". The band's single "Nevergreen" appeared on independent music charts in Canada, later charting in the UK, and Japan in 1994.
Asunder was a funeral doom/death metal band that formed in 1998 in Oakland, California. Their drummer/vocalist, Dino Sommese, has also been a member of Ghoul, and Dystopia, as well as being a session musician for Wolves in the Throne Room. Guitarist John Gossard was also the guitarist and vocalist of Bay Area black metal band Weakling, as well as another band entitled The Gault. Salvador Raya played bass for the band Laudanum and currently works as a recording engineer at Earhammer Studios in Oakland.
In 2010, the band announced that it had split in November 2009. In the wake of the band's demise, John Gossard has formed a new funeral doom band, Dispirit. The fate of the band's final work, a collaboration with Corrupted, is unknown, although a live version recorded by a radio station has surfaced on the Internet.
to give thanks and praise to the bough that breaks
under the weight of age and passing days
to the song of the swan when one's time has come
like passing clouds in the sky all must someday die
to falling leaves in autumn's shades the promise of
youth that fades under the winter's waning sun
the wind and snow of a life now done
like the tides retreating from tranquil shores
cold lips that draw breath no more
to the shifting sands of time lost
measured by star and frost
to scattered blossoms of spring this glory in which
we sing: o ephemeral passing life consumed in the
funeral pyres consumed in our burning desires
even these flames must expire
abiding ash and splintered bone
sodden earth and weathered stone
right of finality devouring infinity
works will come undone so as what we become
unknowing certainty of that which sets us free
to the end of days to give thanks and praise