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The input, I get from my senses, gathered in darkness
Creating a lie in my brain, persisting as true, in hollow space
I fail to see, to realize, the world turns in my eyes
I cannot tell a hologram, when the hologram I Am
Nothing, all is nothing and empty inside
Dimensions and time is a lie
Nothing, every universe, empty inside
And you never lived, you just died
Cosmological hoax, intricately veiled, deceiving you into perceiving
Perceiving as real, the cage that you're in
The order of chaos, the slave and the king
Reality deduced to particles, unbound by time
Decode creation into numbers, to find the reason why
Why the world appears for my deceit
A movie of youth, played by the dead endlessly
Nothing, all is nothing and empty inside
Dimensions and time is a lie
Nothing, every universe empty inside
And you never lived, you just died
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Masters of Earth
04:24
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Take your human centered view of the world
And cast it aside
How many times did mass extinction occur?
How many species did die?
Should be able to see it, by now
We live on borrowed time
The chance is stronger (with) every day (that) passes by
We'll be erased from the book of life
Remember when we were the masters of Earth?
We ruled sea and land
But now, our ghosts will in this planet remain
Masters of Earth, buried in time
There are things out there
Spawning annihilation
That leave whole worlds, they say, completely destroyed
The chances are, the age of humans shall pass
A long lost memory of our lives
Our whole civilization, a palace made of sand
Use your imagination, what happens when the tide will come
No matter what you see, you hear, or you believe
Life thrives on land and sea
And then all dies, like you and me
Ghosts of a planet, ghosts of the Earth
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A phantom epiphany
04:42
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Many the nights, I have spent in debauchery
With sinners and brothers and friends
My time in Sodom, a virtue distilled
And I cannot explain it, until this day
We were so drunk, then we got high
Made love to whores, Gomorrah nights
When I got home and closed my eyes
Soon after, something transformed my mind
Epiphany, I stood enlightened
In the darkness of the mind
Where the ideas decipher
All the meanings of your life
What bliss is this?
This bright abyss
I'll deal with whatever tomorrow will bring
Alas, in the morning, it vanished like steam
A phantom epiphany, vague like a dream
Epiphany, I stood enlightened
In the darkness of the mind
Where the ideas decipher
All the meanings of your life
Lethe, drowned in oblivion
Lethe, this memory fades
Lethe, I can't recreate the state of my mind, that glorious day
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A corpse with a smile
04:54
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Serious, old, family man, disappointed with his love life
Found a younger woman to make love, behind the back of his wife
And when she came, bodies in flames
Pills for erection and sexual games
His mind was in pleasure and she felt the same
Forgot of his weak heart, that stopped when he came
When the family arrived on the scene
Wife and daughters shocked, but their men smiled at him
The sight of daddy naked, a smiling dead face
His daughters cried to the crow, at the funeral place
Well, everybody knows how my daddy has died
His stiff body is stuck with a permanent smile
A corpse with a smile, amusing death for a while
Remnants of a happy ending
A corpse with a smile and the guests will arrive
A face so happy, makes you wanna die
Open the casket lady, let them see
They’re already whispering anyway, let them wish, they also die like this
What is done is done, you know and you can always take something to learn
It is final, move along, remember his smile as he burns
Well, everybody knows how my daddy has died
His stiff body is stuck with a permanent smile
A corpse with a smile, amusing death for a while
Remnants of a happy ending
A corpse with a smile and the guests will arrive
A face so happy, makes you wanna die
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Mindinfestation
04:27
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All religions in the world, they think they got it right
The legend tells that in the past, with God they spoke, all right!
Even if they' re isolated, far across the globe
Someone will eventually, speak of Gods and make the others fall
Either God is a senseless beast, watch us suffer, while he feasts
Or the Gods that men speak of, are tales of dogma, written to control
Took some time, but now I know
You' re full of shit
Keep your prejudice and Gods
Could they be real?
Just look upon your self
Someone says, he spoke with God
Either crazy, or he lies
No one, ever spoke with God
At least while he was alive
Took some time, but now I know
You' re full of shit
Keep your prejudice and Gods
Could they be real?
Just look upon your self
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Hard start, with a fearful awakening
As a shock wave reached in our rooms
Panic rose in a moment, like lightning
What happened, at first, no one understood
We made it to the street and tried to look around
People were screaming: run for your lives
The mountain top, above the town, has collapsed
And pyroclastic flows wreck havoc for miles
But in this moment of doom, oh baby
Yeah I got carried away
Before the sunset, we saw yesterday, oh baby
He showed me you, in his most gentle rays
The air around me got heated and it got me back to reality
As someone shouted: keep running, it's catching on us and all behind us is dying
We ain't gonna make it, I know it
And there is one reason why I still run
Adrenaline flood, in my blood stream
But luck just run out, as we hear, the roar from behind
My heart wouldn't let me, to tell her the truth
The scene was unfolding our impending doom
This artist of fire destroys, then creates
Statues of living, depict of their death
But in this moment of doom, oh baby
Yeah I got carried away
Before the sunset, we saw yesterday, oh baby
He showed me you, in his most gentle rays
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Even the sun must die
04:49
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Man, what a strange creature you are
Nothing can fill up your heart
As if you had some void inside
Nothing can keep you satisfied
No respect for his own kind, no
No respect for life at all
Even sun must die
Will be gone from the sky
Live your life and enjoy the ride
Time runs fast and even the sun must die
Man, what a strange creature you are
The best and the worst, in one mind
The center of everything, everything lies
Where you step your feet, on the land
No respect for his own kind, no
No respect for life at all
Even sun must die
Will be gone from the sky
Live your life and enjoy the ride
Time runs fast and even the sun must die
Even sun must die
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Take the bitterness away
05:34
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Cast your shadow on a plane
Make it dance until light fades
See the way they fight in vain
Like our shadows we remain
Bound upon this earth we strain
Exchanging love and pain
Bitter feelings find their way
Inside our minds and hearts, they stain
Until we're full and let it out
In a vicious circle of pain
All this bitterness is building up inside
And changes who I Am
All this bitterness is building up and makes me sad
This is not who I Am
It may be harder than it seems
Should not keep chasing bitter dreams
For only shadows will be there for us, by the time we reach
All the bitterness gathering inside
Make it go away, you made it go away
All the bitterness gathering inside my head
Make it go away, you made it go away
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Kings of misery
05:57
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We mostly act based on belief
That humans are the epitome
Of universal evolution
But if you better think of it
We are no more than clever beasts
Opportunistic creatures preying on the weak
A mindless mass, a talking hiss
Shut the voice that disagrees
Even if it's logic calling
And we are all guilty of this
Behaved this way, for once at least
And that is why the change is coming infrequently
The slaves are rising
Moralizing the means they use to become royalty
Hail the kings of misery
The king is slain, long live the king
Will stop his people's suffering
Transferring it to someone else
Becoming the tyrant in his (predecessor' s) place
All hail the king we want to be
Hail the king of misery
This system is flawed, why can't you see?
Hail the kings of misery
All hails to the king
The small living tyrant within
Fooling us to selectively see
See their faults, though we know, if it was us in their place
In their home, in their throne, much worse we might be
The slaves are rising
Moralizing the means they use to become royalty
Hail the kings of misery
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After Dusk Athens, Greece
After Dusk is a heavy metal band from Athens, Greece founded in 1998. They have released 3 full length albums and played
concerts in venues and festivals. The band describes their music by a quote, written by the press, for one of their records:
“…pure heavy metal can exist…”
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Black metal from the fathomless depths of Hades. Eight horrific tales from antiquity written in the English and ancient Greek languages.
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