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Borknagar
Members | |
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Current | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (1995-present) |
Member(bands): Cronian, Molested | |
ICS Vortex | Bass (1997-2000, 2010-present), Vocals (1997-2000), Vocals (clean, choirs) (2010-present), Vocals (harsh) (2019-present) |
Member(bands): Arcturus, ICS Vortex, Lamented Souls, Artisan, God of Atheists, Dimmu Borgir, Ved Buens Ende (live), Penthouse Petz | |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (clean, choirs) (1999-present) |
Member(bands): Solefald, Old Words New, Silent, Age of Silence, White Void, Carpathian Forest, Ásmegin | |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums (2018-present) |
Member(bands): Maahlas, Trollfest, Viper Solfa, Cadaver (live), Sevenfield, Sphere, Profane Burial, Trail of Tears, Inbreed | |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (2019-present) |
Member(bands): Fracture, Viper Solfa, Source of Tide, Profane Burial, Mortiis (live), Byzantium, Engrave, Spider | |
Past | |
Infernus | Bass (1995-1996) |
Member(bands): Gorgoroth, Desekrator, Norwegian Evil, Orcustus | |
Grim | Drums (1995-1998) |
(R.I.P. 1999) Member(bands): Emptor, Örth, Arvas, Gorgoroth, Immortal (live), Hell Awaits | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards, Effects (1995-1998) |
Member(bands): Enslaved, Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik, Desekrator, Inoculate Injure, Phobia, Trinacria, BardSpec, Dream of an Opium Eater, Mysticum, Satyricon (live), Taake (live), Bloodflowers, Obnoxious, Vulcana | |
Garm | Vocals (1995-1997) |
Member(bands): Ulver, Head Control System, Æthenor, Arcturus | |
Kai K. Lie | Bass (1996-1998) |
Member(bands): The Batallion, Hunting League, St. Satan | |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (1997-2003, 2007-2018) |
Member(bands): ICS Vortex | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums (1999-2008), Bass (2004) |
Member(bands): Scariot, Veil of Secrets, Mork (live), Spiral Architect, Anesthesia, God of Atheists, H.E.A.L., Abyssic, Highland Glory, Ihsahn, Lunaris, Sarke, Thornbound, Sturmgeist (live), Testament (live), Arctic Thunder | |
Tyr | Bass (2000-2003, 2006-2010) |
Member(bands): Thornbound, Emperor (live), Koldbrann (live), Satyricon (live), Vintersorg (live), Morpheus Web | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) (2000-2019) |
Member(bands): Cronian, Fission, Otyg, Vintersorg, Masticator, Gravisphere, Waterclime, Cosmic Death, Havayoth, Vargatron | |
David Kinkade | Drums (2008-2011) |
Member(bands): Insatanity, Soulfly, Arsis (live), Malevolent Creation (live), Council of the Fallen, D.O.T.A.C., Kastasyde, Divine Empire, Monarch | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums (2012-2018) |
Member(bands): ICS Vortex, Leprous, Rendezvous Point, Solefald (live), God Seed, Hellhaven, Gaahls Wyrd, Oceans of Time, Ihsahn (live), In Vain (live) | |
Past (Live) | |
Nicholas Barker | Drums (1998-1999) |
Member(bands): Ancient, Brujeria, Liquid Graveyard, Twilight of the Gods, Noctis Imperium (live), Nuclear Assault (live), Monolith, Catalepsy, Borstal, Monstrance, United Forces, Atrocity, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Leaves’ Eyes, Lock Up, Obskkvlt, Old Man’s Child, Sadistic Intent, Testament, Anaal Nathrakh (live), Benediction (live), Cancer (live), Criminal (live), Exodus (live), Gorgoroth (live), Nightrage (live), Possessed (live), Voices (live), Anathema (live), Cerebral Fix (live), Driven by Suffering | |
Justin Greaves | Drums (1998-1999) |
Member(bands): Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Crippled Black Phoenix, Se Delan, Electric Wizard, Iron Monkey, Khang, Armour of God, Earthtone9, Hard to Swallow, Silver Ginger 5, The Varukers | |
Athera | Vocals (2013-2018) |
Member(bands): Susperia, Metadox, Ringnevond, Vanaheim, Seven Sins, Abyssic, Chrome Division, Sarke (live), JUJ |
# | Discography | Type | Year | |
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1 | Borknagar | Full-length | 1996 | Show album |
2 | The Olden Domain | Full-length | 1997 | Show album |
3 | The Archaic Course | Full-length | 1998 | Show album |
4 | Shattering the Barriers | Split | 2000 | Show album |
5 | Quintessence | Full-length | 2000 | Show album |
6 | Borknagar / Novembre | Split | 2001 | Show album |
7 | Empiricism | Full-length | 2001 | Show album |
8 | Epic | Full-length | 2004 | Show album |
9 | Origin | Full-length | 2006 | Show album |
10 | For the Elements (1996-2006) | Compilation | 2008 | Show album |
11 | Universal | Full-length | 2010 | Show album |
12 | Urd | Full-length | 2012 | Show album |
13 | Winter Thrice | Full-length | 2016 | Show album |
14 | Up North | Single | 2019 | Show album |
15 | True North | Full-length | 2019 | Show album |
Borknagar
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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August 3rd, 1996 | Malicious Records | M.R. 012 / MR 012 | CD | |
1996 | Malicious Records | MR012LP | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Picture disc |
1996 | Mystic Production | 046 | Cassette | |
May 1996 | Malicious Records | M.R. 012 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition |
1999 | Century Black | 7967-2 | CD | Reissue |
2004 | Displeased Records | D-00126 | CD | Reissue |
2004 | Displeased Records | D-00126 | 12" vinyl | Reissue |
October 15th, 2012 | Hammerheart Records | HHR2012-31 | 12" vinyl | Reissue, Remastered, Limited edition, Gatefold |
October 15th, 2012 | Hammerheart Records | Digital | Reissue, Remastered | |
November 2012 | Hammerheart Records | HHR2012-31 | CD | Reissue, Remastered |
March 15th, 2013 | Metalhit | Digital | ||
March 7th, 2019 | Darkness Shall Rise Productions | DSR 051 | Cassette | Reissue, Limited edition |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
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2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
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3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
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4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
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5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
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6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
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7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
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8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
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9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
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10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
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44:12 |
The Olden Domain
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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August 18th, 1997 | Century Media Records | 77175-2 | CD | |
1997 (Unofficial) | Angel’s of Hell Records | 426 | Cassette | |
1997 | Century Black | 7895-2 | CD | |
1997 | Century Media Records | 77175-1 P | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Picture disc |
1997 | Century Media Records | 7895-2 | CD | |
1997 | Metal Mind Productions | MASS 0449 | Cassette | |
October 1997 (Unofficial) | Moon Records | Cassette | ||
2002 | Displeased Records | D-00113 | 12" vinyl | Reissue |
2004 | Fono Ltd. | FO342CD | CD | Reissue |
2010 | Back on Black | BOBV206LP | 2 12" vinyls | Reissue, Limited edition Grey vinyl, Gatefold |
2011 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 846 | CD | |
April 21st, 2012 | Century Media Records | 7895-1 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition |
April 27th, 2015 | Punishment 18 Records | P18R 093 | CD | Reissue |
November 23rd, 2018 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC038 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 3 colors |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
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4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
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8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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The Archaic Course
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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October 26th, 1998 | Century Media Records | 77236-2 | CD | |
1998 | Metal Mind Productions | MASS 0574 | Cassette | |
August 1998 (Unofficial) | Moon Records | Cassette | ||
October 27th, 1998 | Century Media Records | 7936-2 | CD | |
1999 (Unofficial) | Angel’s of Hell Records | 223A | Cassette | |
2003 | Displeased Records | D-00123 | 12" vinyl | Reissue |
2004 | Fono Ltd. | FO343CD | CD | Reissue |
2010 | Back on Black | BOBV204LP | 12" vinyl | Reissue, Gatefold |
2011 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 847 | CD | |
November 3rd, 2019 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC052 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors |
March 27th, 2020 | Cosmic Key Creations | COS008 | CD | Limited edition, Reissue, Super Jewel Box |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
Members | |
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Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards, Effects |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
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37:46 |
Shattering the Barriers
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1. | Dark Tranquillity - Rundown | ||
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2. | Borknagar - Colossus | ||
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Side B | |||
3. | The Gathering - Shot to Pieces | ||
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4. | Angel Dust - Let Me Live | ||
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Quintessence
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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April 17th, 2000 | Century Media Records | 77289-2 | CD | |
April 17th, 2000 | Century Media Records | 77289-2 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
2000 | Century Media Records | 77289-1 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Coloured |
2000 | Century Media Records | 77289-1 P | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Picture disc |
2000 (Unofficial) | Metal Records | 1130 | Cassette | |
2000 (Unofficial) | Спюрк | M-286 | CD | |
May 2000 (Unofficial) | Moon Records | Cassette | ||
May 23rd, 2000 | Century Media Records | 7989-2 | CD | |
2002 | Fono Ltd. | FO171CD | CD | Reissue |
2010 | Back on Black | BOBV205LP | 12" vinyl | Reissue, Gatefold |
November 3rd, 2019 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC051 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors, Reissue |
2020 | Cosmic Key Creations | COS007 | CD | Limited edition, Reissue, Super Jewel Box |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
Members | |
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Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Borknagar / Novembre
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Band members | |
Borknagar | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (lead) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Novembre | |
Carmelo Orlando | Vocals, Guitars |
Giuseppe Orlando | Drums |
Demian Cristiani | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Massimiliano Pagliuso | Guitars (additional) (tracks 3-4) |
Fabio Sanges | Keyboards (tracks 3-4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Ola Johansen | Mastering (tracks 1-2) |
Børge Finstad | Producer (tracks 1-2), Mixing (tracks 1-2), Engineering (tracks 1-2) |
Giuseppe Orlando | Recording (tracks 3-4) |
Terje Refsnes | Mixing (tracks 3-4) |
Ulf Horbelt | Mastering (tracks 3-4) |
Daniele Conte | Engineering (drums) (tracks 3-4) |
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1. | Borknagar - The Genuine Pulse | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Borknagar - Inherit The Earth | 05:15 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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3. | Novembre - Distances | 05:59 | Show lyrics |
This dreary darkened sky In which I float benumbed Into my Enola-gay filled with ambitions failed And when it will collide with the towers of madness I’ll fall off to the ground Hope will flow out from my wounds Some unfit dog shall spell a tear of grief Far at East, by the silky way The mirage of a forgotten town rescues me In storms religions lost and empty sanctuaries I let my body being slowly buried along other fools To the silence we belong, And the silence in this wilderness throve The Via Crucis across the Dead Sea Then caught in Samarkand bazaar dream No, don’t search for me at North Where the nonsense of my frenzied notes lead As now I am the Czar In sleep I spread my veils As day is much too harsh to sail While dreams are bright and manifold |
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4. | Novembre - Come Pierrot | 06:30 | Show lyrics |
Dream the sweetest dreams Aqualunae dreams Come with me up the stairs of the rainbow at the horizon Made of drops of dawn Don’t worry, I’m just the guardian of your playground When the day has gone down But I’m closing down on me, closing down on me I’m wondering who’s my guide towards the horizon Will I ever know? ’Cause I ain’t allowed to have dreams except for one Please be my only one And it seemed so long and shining bright Stasera piovon gocce d’acqua di luna Ed io arroccato quassù come Pierrot... (tonight moonwater drops are falling as I’m sheltered up here just like Pierrot) Farewell oh my dear moon, goodbye You gave me shelter when dogs howled The time has come, my task is now done Keep shining forever! A sweet tune accompanies my last bits of life Lulling my passing away Dream the sweetest dreams Aqualunae dreams Take my hand and dream Aqualunae dreams |
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22:20 |
Empiricism
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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October 22nd, 2001 | Century Media Records | 77399-2 | CD | |
October 22nd, 2001 | Century Media Records | 77399-2 | CD | Digipak |
October 22nd, 2001 | Century Media Records | 77337-1 | 12" vinyl | |
2001 | Century Media Records | 8099-2 | CD | |
2001 (Unofficial) | Century Media Records | 77399-2 | CD | |
2001 (Unofficial) | Limited Edition | 77399-2 | CD | |
2001 | Metal Mind Productions | MASS 0874 | Cassette | |
2001 (Unofficial) | Mosh Records | Cassette | ||
January 22nd, 2002 | Century Media Records | 8099-2 | CD | |
2004 | Fono Ltd. | FO338CD | CD | |
2011 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 848 | CD | Reissue |
2018 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC039 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors, Reissue |
2020 | Cosmic Key Creations | COS006 | CD | Limited edition, Reissue, Super Jewel Box |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Epic
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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June 29th, 2004 | Century Media Records | CMR 8199-2 / 8199-2 | CD | Enhanced |
2004 | Century Media Records | 77499-1 | 12" vinyl | |
2004 | Century Media Records | 33499-2 | CD | Enhanced |
2004 | Fono Ltd. | FO385CD | CD | Slipcase |
2004 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 71 | CD | Enhanced, Slipcase |
2004 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 71 | CD | |
August 10th, 2004 | Century Media Records | 77499-2 | CD | Limited edition, Slipcase, Enhanced |
2018 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC040 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors |
March 27th, 2020 | Cosmic Key Creations | COS005 | CD | Limited edition, Reissue, Super Jewel Box |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Vintersorg | Songwriting (track 10), Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10) |
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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Origin
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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October 30th, 2006 | Century Media Records | 77599-2 | CD | |
October 30th, 2006 | Fono Ltd. | FO639CD | CD | |
2006 | Century Media Records | 8299-2 | CD | |
2006 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 273 | CD | |
November 30th, 2018 | Cosmic Key Creations | CKC041 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors |
Unknown | Century Media Records | Digital |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
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5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
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For the Elements (1996-2006)
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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July 22nd, 2008 | Century Media Records | 9978012 | CD | Remastered |
2008 | Century Media Records | 8501-2 | CD | Remastered |
September 19th, 2008 | Century Media Records | Digital | Remastered |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums (tracks 1-6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards (tracks 1-5) |
Infernus | Bass (track 1) |
Garm | Vocals (tracks 1-3) |
Kai K. Lie | Bass (tracks 2-6) |
ICS Vortex | Bass (tracks 7-8), Keyboards (track 6), Vocals (tracks 4-8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums (tracks 7-15), Bass (tracks 12-13) |
Tyr | Bass (tracks 7-11, 14-15) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art |
Brett Hansen | Mastering |
Christopher Dick | Liner notes |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Dauden | 05:45 | |
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2. | The Eye of Oden | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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3. | The Dawn of the End | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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4. | Oceans Rise | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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5. | Universal | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:21 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:54 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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8. | Colossus | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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9. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever I all with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fortility Burn as the flame, as strong as a came Twine the existence, sense of serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs production of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail thus existence I sail Through the elements of four The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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10. | Gods of My World | 04:24 | Show lyrics |
The gods are great, I am the greatest Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the father’s of all significance The reckless burden of existence I ace the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend course Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Through time and existence By visions divine |
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11. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminant sample of hastins ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Conqual nexus of neural perception Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angels of thrice, fusion twice Past, present and future Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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12. | Future Reminiscence | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Coronate the path of the Gods. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the catalysm". silent as calling. Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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13. | Origin | 04:57 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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14. | White | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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15. | The Human Nature | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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Universal
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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February 22nd, 2010 | Indie Recordings | INDIE014CD | CD | |
February 22nd, 2010 | Indie Recordings | INDIE014CDL | CD + DVD | Limited edition, Digipak |
February 22nd, 2010 | Indie Recordings | INDIE014CD | CD + DVD | |
February 22nd, 2010 | Indie Recordings | INDIE014BOX | 2CD | Limited edition, Boxed set, Enhanced |
February 22nd, 2010 | Indie Recordings | INDIE014LP | 2 vinyls | |
2010 | Soyuz Music | INDIE014CD | CD | |
June 1st, 2012 | Indie Recordings | Digital | ||
May 2020 | Fono Ltd. | FO1564CD | CD |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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Urd
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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March 26th, 2012 | Century Media Records | 9981702 | CD | |
March 26th, 2012 | Century Media Records | 9981708 | CD | Digipak |
March 26th, 2012 | Century Media Records | 9981701 | 12" vinyl | 3 colour vinyl |
March 26th, 2012 | Century Media Records | 9981701 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Green vinyl |
March 26th, 2012 | Scarecrow Records | SR0777 | CD | Mexican |
2012 | Century Media Records | 8870-2 | CD | Digipak |
2012 | Icarus Music | ICARUS 882 | CD | |
April 4th, 2012 | Century Media Records | 9981701 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, Gold vinyl |
April 24th, 2012 | Mazzar Records | MZR CD 536 | CD | |
July 13th, 2012 | Century Media Records | Digital | Deluxe edition | |
July 14th, 2014 | Evil Horn Records | HORN001 | Cassette | Limited edition |
March 20th, 2020 | Cosmic Key Creations | 12" vinyl | Limited edition, 2 colors |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 7), Lyrics (tracks 2, 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Winter Thrice
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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January 22nd, 2016 | Century Media Records | 88875175232 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
January 22nd, 2016 | Century Media Records | 88875175221 | 2 12" vinyls | Gatefold |
January 22nd, 2016 | Century Media Records | Digital | ||
2016 | Heavy Metal Rock | CD | ||
January 21st, 2016 | Century Media Records | 88875175212 | CD | |
January 21st, 2016 | Century Media Records | 88875175232 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
February 2016 | Mazzar Records | MZR CD 747 | CD |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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9. | Dominant Winds | 07:18 | Show lyrics |
The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge’s crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We’re strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We’ll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we’re standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator |
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56:57 |
Up North
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Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (lead), Songwriting, Lyrics |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars |
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1. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you i´ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North no end no end for an end to meet no end no end for an end to meet |
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06:29 |
True North
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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September 27th, 2019 | Century Media Records | 19075977752 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
September 27th, 2019 | Century Media Records | Digital | ||
September 27th, 2019 | Century Media Records | 19075977761 | 2 12" vinyls | |
September 27th, 2019 | Century Media Records | 2 12" vinyls | Gatefold, Coloured |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 9) |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums, Percussion |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (lead) |
Guest/Session | |
John Ryan | Violin (tracks 1, 5, 9), Cello (tracks 1, 5, 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Jens Bogren | Mixing (tracks 1-9), Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (cover art) |
Marcelo Vasco | Layout, Design |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography (additional), Mixing (tracks 10, 11), Mastering (tracks 10, 11), Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 2), Lyrics (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 9), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3-9) |
John Ryan | Recording (violin, cello) |
Marius Strand | Recording (drums), Engineering (drums) |
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1. | Thunderous | 08:34 | Show lyrics |
Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth’s rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky |
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2. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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3. | The Fire That Burns | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep |
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4. | Lights | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer’s in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago |
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5. | Wild Father’s Heart | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There’s a time a time for all No man’s in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father’s heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father’s Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above |
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6. | Mount Rapture | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Mankind’s constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind’s infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We’ve reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind’s disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born |
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7. | Into the White | 05:57 | Show lyrics |
They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there’s nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white |
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8. | Tidal | 09:32 | Show lyrics |
The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore |
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9. | Voices | 05:07 | Show lyrics |
There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, they find me, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, never leave me, no matter where I go. There are chains now in the field, there are chains now in the field. There’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, they always find me in the air. There are voices, there are voices, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, won’t leave me, no matter where I go. And there are chains now in the field, yes there are chains now in the field. So there’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, yes they find me, no matter where I go. I will lay there in the field with the voices in the air, when I finally draw my last breath I will lay there in the field. When I finally stop to breathe, when I finally stop to breathe. All the voices, all the voices will only linger in the field. |
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10. | Wild Father’s Heart (demo) | 06:25 | instrumental |
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11. | Up North (demo) | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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01:12:14 |
Borknagar
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Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
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1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
Borknagar
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Garm | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Infernus | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Songwriting (tracks 2, 10) |
Vargnatt Inc. | Mastering |
Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin | Engineer, Co-Producer |
Johan Brun | Cover Photo |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Vintervredets sjelesagn | 06:44 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Tanker mot tind (Kvelding) | 03:29 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Svartskogs gilde | 05:52 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Ved steingard | 02:14 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | Krigsstev | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Dauden | 05:49 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Grimskalle trell | 05:38 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Nord naagauk | 03:07 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Fandens allheim | 06:19 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Tanker mot tind (Gryning) | 02:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
44:12 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
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8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
|||
2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
|||
Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
|||
Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Ege of Ogen | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Monterwag | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om rengregeaareralting elemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Axeneion of an Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
5. | A Eale of Pagan Eongoe | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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6. | Eo Mantang Roge | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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7. | Eumlang Domam | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
8. | The Dawn of the Eng | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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Side B | |||
3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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24:18 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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2. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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Side B | |||
3. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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20:15 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
|||
2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
|||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
|||
6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
|||
2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
|||
Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
|||
6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
|||
44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
|||
2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
|||
3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
|||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
|||
6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
|||
7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
|||
44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
|||
2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
|||
3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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Side B | |||
5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
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8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Olden Domain
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Fiery G. Maelstrom | Vocals |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Oliver Recker | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering |
Eroc | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Eye of Oden | 06:01 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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2. | The Winterway | 07:52 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Straight in the eyes of Winter Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains which darken the day Shadows, spiritual dust of my fathers The heart and soul of my way A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause Grim token of the path within The Winterway Leads us through the coldest night The Winterway To be walked by all men of might Behold the ice on the big seas The summits and the naked trees Ashore the bay through the rough Winterway |
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3. | Om hundrede aar er alting glemt | 04:12 | instrumental |
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4. | A Tale of Pagan Tongue | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal cold Witness yourself here, alone yet bold The night is born, the christlings thorn The sun seems dead and somehow forlorn And the moon lurks above The beasts they howl her song Told to be unchained at the day of doom Their random laws, taught by the Gods Are to be redeemed when He sets sail There will forever be this ancient tounge Primal wisdom from natures own longue Count the shores of the utter coast And fear peace forever most When time is ripe to revive the past Let us see who stands triumphant The echoes of cosmic strife Borne to the one-eyed man By the ravens of reminiscence |
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5. | To Mount and Rove | 04:56 | Show lyrics |
I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will quiver in frost A circeling saga, not forever lost I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Declaring war beneath the sky The hate I carried, boiling within! I mounted all the hills my eyes could count And roved wherever the sun escaped sight I drifted from the deepest tarn Till I saw my saw my name in aruinic sign Graven soo deep in the crystal bark Of a lodge I sojourned years ago Crying war beneath the sky! |
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6. | Grimland Domain | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The shade of essential ingenuity Acknowledge the darkness, link of dawn The branches hung low Softly covered by snow Even the strongest will Recoil beneath their silent chill See the plains so eternally white Bright, in spite of even the night To be where the eagles fly With a haughty hunters eye Feel the kiss of the silver draped frost Your age-old toil, haunted and lost High up there, where His ravens once flew The lightning strikes - even deep in the snow "You have to wake, wipe the ice from your eyes" |
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7. | Ascension of Our Fathers | 03:54 | instrumental |
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8. | The Dawn of the End | 05:06 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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44:33 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards, Effects |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
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37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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Side B | |||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
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37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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4. | Fields of Long Gone Presence (Outro) | 02:18 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
5. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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6. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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7. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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8. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
|||
3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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Side B | |||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
|||
6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
|||
7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence (Outro) | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
|||
2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
|||
3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
|||
Side B | |||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
|||
6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
|||
7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
|||
8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
|||
2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
|||
3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
|||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
|||
6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
|||
7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
|||
8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
|||
2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
|||
3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
|||
Side B | |||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
|||
6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
|||
7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
|||
8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
|||
2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
|||
3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
|||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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Side B | |||
5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
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4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
The Archaic Course
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ivar Bjørnson | Effects, Keyboards |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Keyboards, Effects (track 6) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums |
Kai K. Lie | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
M. Røn | Photography |
Waldemar Sorychta | Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Matthias Klinkmann | Engineering, Producer |
Carsten Drescher | Layout, Artwork |
Axel Hermann | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Oceans Rise | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear When the oceans rise and thunder calls The shape of substance in furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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2. | Universal | 05:35 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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3. | The Witching Hour | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way |
|||
4. | The Black Token | 05:19 | Show lyrics |
Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core |
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5. | Nocturnal Vision | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It’s force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | Winter Millennium | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound I came from a distance in time From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence |
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8. | Fields of Long Gone Presence | 02:18 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
37:46 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
|||
7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | The Ruins of Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
|||
7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
|||
9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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Side B | |||
6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Quintessence
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
I.C.S. Vortex | Vocals, Bass, Songwriting (track 4) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-3, 6-10), Lyrics (1-3, 6, 7, 10) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Lyrics (track 4, 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Logo (redesign) |
Sebastian Ludvigsen | Photography (band) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter Tägtgren | Mixing, Engineering |
Tom Kvålsvoll | Mastering |
Lars Szöke | Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Rivalry of Phantoms | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner’s kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It’s the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean’s son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind i my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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2. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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3. | Ruins of the Future | 04:55 | Show lyrics |
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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4. | Colossus | 04:27 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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5. | Inner Landscape | 02:51 | Show lyrics |
Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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6. | Invincible | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the existence and the fall I was raised by the dawn of existence Breathing the fire of every sun I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existence I turned grey in the storm shadows Showing the cause of extinction The substance of invicible motion is invincible as the substance in motion We rise again as you fall I have seen life extinct to bloom |
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7. | Icon Dreams | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time shades of light |
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8. | Genesis Torn | 05:16 | Show lyrics |
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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9. | Embers | 01:26 | instrumental |
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10. | Revolt | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the reviavl of revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Here upon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterdays tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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43:28 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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Side B | |||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
|||
4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
|||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
|||
8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
|||
9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
|||
10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
|||
2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
|||
3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
|||
4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
|||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
|||
7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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Side B | |||
7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
|||
4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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Side B | |||
6. | I nherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
|||
8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
|||
9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
|||
10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
|||
3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
|||
4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
|||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
|||
7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
|||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
|||
8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
|||
9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
|||
10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
|||
3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
|||
4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
|||
5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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Side B | |||
6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
|||
7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Empiricism
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Percussion |
Tyr | Bass (six-string, fretless) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Layout, Design, Photography |
Alf Børjesson (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering, Producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Ola Johansen | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Fall with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine the existence, sense the serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs, prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is I Eternising the soul-soaked estate Solvable as fractioned fragments The genuine pulse- the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse- entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse- dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail, thus existence I sail Trough the elements of four The zephyr, the sullen breathe Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Aglow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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2. | Gods of My World | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
"The Gods are great. I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the fathers of all significance The reckless burden of existence Face the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend courses Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Aflame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam the rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul’ connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Trough time and existence By visions divine |
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3. | The Black Canvas | 05:18 | Show lyrics |
The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature’s sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grasp it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Along with his newborn dexterity Came death to his fear - a corollary Of the fact that the stars never sensed his presence The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Even Narcissus would drown in the sky If his eyes ever rose from the mirror ponds This radiant image, a stellar high Eternally feeding the question: "why" To which every nightsky’s a vast response A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack |
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4. | Matter & Motion | 02:30 | Show lyrics |
Always moving Searching for patterns Digging for angles Clutching at straws, climbing in air Opening doors, closing windows Swirling Expanding in our world And outside |
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5. | Soul Sphere | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the woods of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations’ adherent Perpetual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The quest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom |
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6. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminent sample of hasting ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Coequal nexus of native perspective Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angles of thrice, fusion twice Fast, present and fierce Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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7. | The Stellar Dome | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energized by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat character of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Drifting, swiftly through dimensions Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Decipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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8. | Four Element Synchronicity | 05:50 | Show lyrics |
Glomeration of the four’s constructivness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the wind, in Nature´s argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent’s droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate, Synchronized they operate Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water´s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Nature’s own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology, Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers, As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellect delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth’s production While fire is fed by air’s viability Which compose water’s construction, The flux that strengthen earth’s ability Still though, provoked by a fifth force, A dark companion, Vacum, Devastator But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet´s unity as prophane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolved into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day’s crescendo dusk adorn, A process ending in the crescent´s droop |
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9. | Liberated | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
From every human complexity And nature’s twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the notion to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural, starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it enshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we’re blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation’s the king of our dreams To know: what’s our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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10. | The View of Everlast | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Great and pounding in its ways Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever it’s rage carries on Disintegrating to create, upon fate Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, your children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding, Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding, Imploding Poised in all chaos’ directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast |
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49:57 |
Epic
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Vintersorg | Songwriting (track 10), Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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Side B | |||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
|||
10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
|||
11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
|||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
|||
11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
|||
6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
|||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
|||
8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
|||
10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
|||
11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
|||
10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
|||
11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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13. | The Making of Epic (video) | 13:09 | |
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01:10:49 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
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Side B | |||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
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6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
|||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
|||
8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
|||
9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
|||
10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
|||
11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Epic
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Guitars (track 10), Guitars (lead) (track 11) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (tracks 1-9, 11, 12), Guitars (additional) (track 10) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums, Bass (five strings, fretless), Guitars (lead) (track 5) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography (band) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 3, 6, 10), Songwriting (track 10) |
Jonas Nilsson | Artwork (3D objects) |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 12), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 8, 11, 12) |
Børge Finstad | Co-Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9) |
Morten Lund | Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Future Reminiscence | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Cosmology, a linear or circular cast? Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the cataclysm". Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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2. | Traveller | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures’ quincunx. Which hemisphere is mine to hold? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. The iridescence of the solar glimpse. Through the eyes of Himm and Hippo. Just another sole strike of the sun. A stone in the hand or the thought of it? Traveller of the x-scape, through endomorphism of time. Hybrid existence - through spirituality endures the reality. Traveller of the x-scape, through the gravisphere of wisdom. Hyper potency - the predominant endurance through infinity. Thoughts of a thinker. Infinity of numbers. Numbered thoughts. Thoughts of infinity. "Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" (Pythagoras). Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Everlasting metamorphosis of perceptual principles. |
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3. | Origin | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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4. | Sealed Chambers of Electricity | 04:12 | Show lyrics |
From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-changing mazes. Numerically understanding east to west only to snap in a single contraction. Failing to grasp what all should know best as a perfect circle of interaction. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, pushing through filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on intricacy. A matter of movements in a cul-de-sac, a set of sealed chambers, no compromising. Collecting raw data, defeat or attack, remembering, storing and schematising. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, forcing trough filters to see if it cleanses anything leaning on vivacity. The mind’s electricity clearing the vanity, grasping the world through keyholes of sanity, anything leaning on vivacity. Numbness in speech not in visualisation, forms, intricacy’s silent coronation. An electrical chamber of vast capacity storing the pieces gathered by senses, opening filters so that nothing cleanses all that is leaning on complexity. |
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5. | The Weight of Wind | 03:58 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. |
|||
6. | Resonance | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strokes in the bodily universe. Soon fade into a monotonous symphony. Like solar flares that reach our plexus. Through the cloud chamber’s web. So we learnt to forget about essentiality. And deny the primal frequency. But its spirit still exists in me. As my existence is its gree. Like fertility found its mother in fallow. We found our ethics in each other. Organic development was to follow. And intelligence defeated pother. Earthquake: Its stentorian chord. The core’s hollow choir. Fields tremble where Alps aboard. The resonance, that even deletes fire. |
|||
7. | Relate (Dialogue) | 04:28 | Show lyrics |
A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. We brought this upon ourselves - the connection breach. We cut the rope, we shut the power down. The line does not reach out any more. Diagonal traded for horizontal - there is no up and down. Gathered, trapped, closed into a linear thought. Kepler, Copernicus & Galilei suffocating in the vacuum of the microcosms. The inside can wait as long as we’re preoccupied with shining the facade. Somehow we lost the ancient connection. All perspective eaten by newborn abilities. Entangled no more? - Simplicity the order of absent relations. Complexity a distant relative or a strange rumour. Reflective surfaces mirroring skin, cores diminish slowly and silently. Nourishment torn away, light dimmed to the unrecognizable. Show us your universe and we’ll give you our world - we do not recognize it anyway! |
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8. | Cyclus | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Reinstate the lurid, lunar existence. The renaissance of primal founders. Stamina, the retrace of revival. Synergy of entire universal courses. Energy of the stellar host. Cyclus - frames the core of the causes. Circle - the way of the forces. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. The honour the divine cast. Gods, I am here to prevail. End the subsequent existence. The resound of thousand tales. Hear the call, stirring the fall. Gods, I am here to be and become. Combine the rotating sequence. Trig the fall of the presence. Here the call, stirring the fall. |
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9. | Circled | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Take heed to the wind and its soft fingertips and fire’s red thoughts and smouldering lips. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. Sense - will you show me the way to the matter of radiant living, of having to shatter the fundamentals of intoxicant thinking? Opposing the stream , never stirring or blinking, but firmly preserving Sisyphus’ work. The boulder rolls heavily - is it in vain? Deducing the truth again and again. The wind speeds up as the earth turns hard. The mountain swells up but reaps pure disregard from mythology, history and all in between. So let the water drink you as Ophelia did - beloved daughter and cherished sister. Or worship the earth that Pompeii once hid, differing not between vagrant and minister. |
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10. | The Inner Ocean Hypothesis | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionary ladder crawled ashore. In water transformed during thousand generations. Then made its debut on the primary action floor. Still its ensemble accumulates our presence. The expression of oceans lurk inside. The building block, water, is our essence. We’re like a moving, perpendicular, biological tide. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. And limestone-white structures hold our marrow. As in marine animals that swim free. (But we’re) separated, through tiny variations along time’s arrow. Unknown to the fetus in the Amniotic Sea. The quintuple man, the five senses division. Add two for the number of world’s oceans. And two hidden gene threads may fulfil that vision. Intuition and instinct create the seven faceted motion. Particles that once streamed astray. Now form the basis in our DNA. Salt spices blood, sweat and tears. As the bodily recipe’s most essential grain. Due to the wave creator, Heart, pulsation rears. As rivers through what anatomy calls veins. |
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11. | Quintessence | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. Midst of the parallax, I mirror the illuminations. Fall, rise and further evolution. Midst of the parallax, the maze of illustrations. Fall, rise and fatal conclusion. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. The principles of the essential four. Strengthen and bond, the core. Tangles the math of a circular cast. The erosion of earth, air, water and fire. Omnifarious - earth. Omnipresence - air. Omnipotence - water. Omnivorous - fire. Ominous for the omniscient. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I sear. Everything I’ll see, everything I’ll be. Raised by earth, womb of all origin. Nothing to seed, nothing to breed. Exhaled by air, puzzle of gaseous spinning. Everything I’ll breathe, everything I’ll feed. |
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12. | The Wonder | 04:16 | Show lyrics |
Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. Dark is the astray, as the olden domain. Illumine the wonder new. Spiritual moraine, a phantom brew. The wonder - of the solar/lunar peak. Through the glimpse of the moments. Query presence of celestial wisdom. Mirrors summoning fires igniting. Fires inducing the day and light. I see the winter all summer through. Moments inducing the way and sight. The path I have chosen is the spring of you. A wonder ignites, ahead, towards infinity. Welcome! |
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57:40 |
Origin
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
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5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
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35:54 |
Origin
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
35:54 |
Origin
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
35:54 |
Origin
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
35:54 |
Origin
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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Side B | |||
6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
35:54 |
Origin
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars (acoustic) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Vocals (backing), Vocals (lead) (track 5) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass (fretless) |
Sareeta | Violin |
Thomas Nilsson | Cello |
Steinar Ofsdal | Flute, Recorder |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Co-producer |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 5), Lyrics (track 5), Arrangements (strings, flute, violin) |
Øystein G. Brun | Mixing, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6-9), Lyrics (track 1-3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 6, 8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art, Photography, Lyrics (track 7) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Earth Imagery | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Amongst the elements, I surrender on eternity’s behalf The soil on which I walk, the air in which I talk The drop I swallowed, the fire I followed - is the circling direction of time, the vague line of existence The earth defines my synergy, the mountain refines my energy The fire clouds my distant view, the flame erupts my fiery due To Mother Earth The ocean mirrors my purpose, the rain affirms my goals The air shrouds my presence, the wind reveals my existence |
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2. | Grains | 03:42 | Show lyrics |
The grains of my solid roots Go deep into the youth of existence They mirror the path of my forefathers Through the winter way alone To mount and rove- to evolve As the sun, the very one Enlightened the road I found Along the grains of ages The roots of my being Project all that you are seeing... |
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3. | Oceans Rise | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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4. | Signs | 01:17 | instrumental |
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5. | White | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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6. | Cynosure | 02:55 | Show lyrics |
Stellar flames create formations, Lucent constellations and invitations to the expeditious mind Novas that see our destination From their hibernation, a vocation that is enshrined I’m navigating along the star path The night sky is my compass, my cynosure After days with waves of wrath I’m finally reaching the shores Under this burning Atlas A region filled with flaring birthmarks Over ageing landmarks and the hallmarks of Nature’s grand form Yonder, still in our respiration And mother to rotation, gravitation that endlessly performs |
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7. | The Human Nature | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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8. | Acclimation | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Symbiosis is my guiding force Like the wind against the window I adapt my course One moment a firm wall of traditions The next an exploding substance of variations When the weather changes, so do I To contrasts I am a slave As the ocean alters, so do I A thousand faces for every wave Acclimation: in the shape of a human Adaptation: governed by blood and sun |
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9. | The Spirit of Nature | 03:00 | instrumental |
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35:54 |
For the Elements (1996-2006)
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums (tracks 1-6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards (tracks 1-5) |
Infernus | Bass (track 1) |
Garm | Vocals (tracks 1-3) |
Kai K. Lie | Bass (tracks 2-6) |
ICS Vortex | Bass (tracks 7-8), Keyboards (track 6), Vocals (tracks 4-8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums (tracks 7-15), Bass (tracks 12-13) |
Tyr | Bass (tracks 7-11, 14-15) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art |
Brett Hansen | Mastering |
Christopher Dick | Liner notes |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Dauden | 05:45 | |
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2. | The Eye of Oden | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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3. | The Dawn of the End | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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4. | Oceans Rise | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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5. | Universal | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:21 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:54 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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8. | Colossus | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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9. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever I all with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fortility Burn as the flame, as strong as a came Twine the existence, sense of serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs production of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail thus existence I sail Through the elements of four The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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10. | Gods of My World | 04:24 | Show lyrics |
The gods are great, I am the greatest Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the father’s of all significance The reckless burden of existence I ace the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend course Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Through time and existence By visions divine |
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11. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminant sample of hastins ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Conqual nexus of neural perception Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angels of thrice, fusion twice Past, present and future Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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12. | Future Reminiscence | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Coronate the path of the Gods. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the catalysm". silent as calling. Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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13. | Origin | 04:57 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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14. | White | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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15. | The Human Nature | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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01:16:02 |
For the Elements (1996-2006)
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Kai K. Lie | Bass (tracks 2-6) |
ICS Vortex | Bass (tracks 7-8), Keyboards (track 6), Vocals (tracks 4-8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums (tracks 7-15), Bass (tracks 12-13) |
Tyr | Bass (tracks 7-11, 14-15) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Guitars |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums (tracks 1-6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards (tracks 1-5) |
Infernus | Bass (track 1) |
Garm | Vocals (tracks 1-3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art |
Brett Hansen | Mastering |
Christopher Dick | Liner notes |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Dauden | 05:45 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | The Eye of Oden | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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3. | The Dawn of the End | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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4. | Oceans Rise | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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5. | Universal | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:21 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:54 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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8. | Colossus | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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9. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever I all with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fortility Burn as the flame, as strong as a came Twine the existence, sense of serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs production of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail thus existence I sail Through the elements of four The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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10. | Gods of My World | 04:24 | Show lyrics |
The gods are great, I am the greatest Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the father’s of all significance The reckless burden of existence I ace the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend course Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Through time and existence By visions divine |
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11. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminant sample of hastins ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Conqual nexus of neural perception Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angels of thrice, fusion twice Past, present and future Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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12. | Future Reminiscence | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Coronate the path of the Gods. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the catalysm". silent as calling. Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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13. | Origin | 04:57 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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14. | White | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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15. | The Human Nature | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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01:16:02 |
For the Elements (1996-2006)
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Kai K. Lie | Bass (tracks 2-6) |
ICS Vortex | Bass (tracks 7-8), Keyboards (track 6), Vocals (tracks 4-8) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Drums (tracks 7-15), Bass (tracks 12-13) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Guitars |
Tyr | Bass (tracks 7-11, 14-15) |
Grim (R.I.P. 1999) | Drums (tracks 1-6) |
Ivar Bjørnson | Keyboards (tracks 1-5) |
Infernus | Bass (track 1) |
Garm | Vocals (tracks 1-3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Asgeir Mickelson | Cover art |
Brett Hansen | Mastering |
Christopher Dick | Liner notes |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Dauden | 05:45 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | The Eye of Oden | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin’ havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it beats the pulse of ancient times The countless rythem, the rattling stones My weapon cleanse the filth of all bones Tender are the havens wich remain on the open plains The shadow crawls upon the resort of the remnaints Even toward the hills lie shattered shields The winter it hunts all their hearts in fear And the river drifts with the resolution of thunder Infernal are the storms in wich our shelter stand Their strongest grip of fear, and our shelter tear Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below He beholds a kingdom of grace, savage yet fair |
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3. | The Dawn of the End | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin’ soon Strike the flowers’ last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills Fragments, beheaded formations The cosmic rivers curse Denial of all recreation Wind, Water, Earth, Fire - Invincible! Autumn-twice, Winter-thrice River and Rock A new kingdom rise I close my eyes |
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4. | Oceans Rise | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era |
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5. | Universal | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course |
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6. | Ad Noctum | 04:21 | Show lyrics |
Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it’s line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I’ve been down below And I’ve been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it’s cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight |
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7. | The Presence Is Ominous | 04:54 | Show lyrics |
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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8. | Colossus | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from it’s threshold The cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall- tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four- the nature’s core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox, render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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9. | The Genuine Pulse | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever I all with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fortility Burn as the flame, as strong as a came Twine the existence, sense of serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs production of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable Never to fail thus existence I sail Through the elements of four The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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10. | Gods of My World | 04:24 | Show lyrics |
The gods are great, I am the greatest Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the father’s of all significance The reckless burden of existence I ace the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend course Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you’ll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you’ll be the sight of mine Through time and existence By visions divine |
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11. | Inherit the Earth | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminant sample of hastins ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Conqual nexus of neural perception Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angels of thrice, fusion twice Past, present and future Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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12. | Future Reminiscence | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity. Through the secret moments I flew. As one among the very few. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronate the path of the Gods, the Elder. Coronate the path of the Gods. Beware, stare towards the horizon new. Sear, tear the sensation of distant propinquity I am a remnant of the forever origin. I am the soul of every phantom fallen. I am rising as I am falling, silent as calling. "The precise prelude of the catalysm". silent as calling. Apocalyptic visions of the future fall. The aberrant taste of the conceiving past. As a slave of the next moment of presence. The ones among the very few. Restitution - summons the sight. Emancipation - circles in presence. Renunciation - for a new era to enlighten. |
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13. | Origin | 04:57 | Show lyrics |
In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow’s rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature’s stratum began to erode. As our fire burnt soil’s face. We suddenly changed our mind’s nutrition. To outshine the forces, became our probe. Beauty we turned into perdition (to prove that). - "man is greater than a microbe". We’re the voice of thunder and image of lightning. It rove inside us since day one. In past times we tamed the frightening. A heritage leaping, from father to Son. But the Son became imperial. As soon as he mastered gravity. World’s resources were immaterial. For his ennobled colony. His urges with chaos reconciled. Throughout land’s and ocean’s enormous spectrum. The alliance continues until he defeats the fossilized. History, sealed in a petrified museum. But, we can’t transform our origin. Atoms stay atoms forever. The senses of Nature will always win. In this earthly endeavour. From quantum theory to rustic haven. The laws of origin control birth. From feeble fool to strong maven. Everyone inherit the earth. |
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14. | White | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming a shining empire Of electrical impulses Never to leave the premises Never to be caught Only sensed |
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15. | The Human Nature | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
As a slave to differential rotation, you cannot escape before eons have passed As a servant to progression’s motivation, you won’t leave until the future is the past As a product of what we call inventions, we cannot run before we can walk As a victim of a myriad of intentions, we must learn to think before we talk Swept in the circles of endless repetition Trapped in orbit around microscopic riddles The answer’s echo eliminates the question Our unnatural nature keeps rotating between two cradles |
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01:16:02 |
Universal
Members | |
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Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 (CD) | |||
1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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Disc 2 (DVD) | |||
1. | Making of Universal | ||
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Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 (CD) | |||
1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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46:54 | |||
Disc 2 (DVD) | |||
1. | Making of Universal | ||
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Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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9. | Coalition of the Elements | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
My everlasting rivers The breach of symmetry Empowers the bloodline The nature and I Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce disharmony Defeats harmony The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The rock, the sleeping bastion Cleaves the ice Dissolves the snow Divides the rain The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence The story of chapters sealed Monuments never seen Of coalition and conflict The river and the rock The sand, the rock, the ruin Piles where the winds roar Frames existence in certainty The nature and thy Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce harmony Defeats disharmony The river and the rock The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence |
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10. | Loci | 02:03 | instrumental |
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54:39 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
1. | Making of Universal Part I | 08:29 | |
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2. | Making of Universal Part II | 07:53 | |
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3. | Making of Universal Part III | 07:22 | |
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4. | Making of Universal Part IIII | 09:11 | |
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32:55 |
Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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Side B | |||
4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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35:06 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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2. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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Side B | |||
3. | Coalition of the Elements | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
My everlasting rivers The breach of symmetry Empowers the bloodline The nature and I Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce disharmony Defeats harmony The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The rock, the sleeping bastion Cleaves the ice Dissolves the snow Divides the rain The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence The story of chapters sealed Monuments never seen Of coalition and conflict The river and the rock The sand, the rock, the ruin Piles where the winds roar Frames existence in certainty The nature and thy Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce harmony Defeats disharmony The river and the rock The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence |
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4. | Loci | 02:03 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
19:33 |
Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
|||
4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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46:54 |
Universal
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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46:54 |
Universal
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Vintersorg | Vocals |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
Erik Tiwaz | Bass |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Grand piano, Hammond organ, Vocals (backing), Drums (track 6), Vocals (lead) (track 6) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Guest/Session | |
ICS Vortex | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Peter In de Betou | Mastering |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mantus | Cover art |
Øystein G. Brun | Producer, Engineering |
Lars Jensen | Engineering |
Erik Tiwaz | Engineering |
Vintersorg | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Engineering |
Børge Finstad | Mixing, Engineering |
Alexander Benjaminsen | Photography |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Havoc | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of the sham,kneels in shame Havoc... As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of fate The storm descends,retribution distends The mankind of earth,praise the new pagan path As the blood in my veins Comes around to claim As the roots of my trails Come around to tame The dignity of Nature Nature is about to sustain The evolver of existence The moment of care and fear The revolution of evolution Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans A breeze, a storm - havoc Storm of the millennium, havoc the moment Rivers unfold, abruptly in deep oceans |
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2. | Reason | 06:55 | Show lyrics |
Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait Yet again, the savage remains This empty work of art still gains a crowd The blind eagerly discuss the liveliness of its colours and the deaf insist it’s accompanied by quiet chants The painter, a highly praised but anonymous deity, lurks in the periphery of the exhibition amused by the fuzz he is causing, despite his many flaws The canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all reasons seems replaced By the false notion of a lucid portrait |
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3. | The Stir of Seasons | 04:01 | Show lyrics |
Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons |
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4. | For a Thousand Years to Come | 06:46 | Show lyrics |
A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in reminiscence and mystery Manifested by the dome of history Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways all paths lead to the final steep fall Through the brim of the sun Along the ring of the verge For a thousand years to come Comes the autumn,winter,and spring For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death For a thousand years... For a thousand years to come Comes birth,life, and death Nature strives towards a new dawn Mankind oppresses, resigns and falls Into perverted conceitedness Millions of nights Millions of days existence endure through sharpen margins Thousands of years Thousands of ways All paths lead to the final steep fall |
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5. | Abrasion Tide | 07:14 | Show lyrics |
We’re ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind,time, and oceans To wear down soil’s rind A tide that changes primary plains Even principles positions A flood that runs untimely through the elements and our veins Shifting our focus and our definitions New perspective from a vaster reflection Thoughts flow like water from a hillock That’s repeatedly rinsed ,achieving friction Releasing knowledge of the rock An archaic course across the outer core Seasons transform while remodeling the Solum Above the altering scenery stars soar Watching the drama like diffuse phantoms The land is disintegrated by a power that was ice bound At the same time fertilized As our forefather’s feet touched a ground That nature constantly has revised |
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6. | Fleshflower | 03:28 | Show lyrics |
White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it’s seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Soft red glow Ever so slow Never Near The flaw |
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7. | Worldwide | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable ,invincible , an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Fire oppose water Water oppose fire Earth oppose air Air oppose earth The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - mankind’s resistance The way of the world The route of existence Worldwide - nature’s persistence Fire oppose water Water oppose fire The master and the apprentice Forgotten moments in history Mankind wanders ,mountains stand still The master and the slave A congregation that never deceives Mankind dies,havoc never stills Diversity tamed by devolution With delusion comes confusion Where the crossroad never crosses The path circles for all eternity |
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8. | My Domain | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The creation of the Nature... There is a time A time when the past returns A place where winds stir Through branches and leaves The dawn of a brighter sun A disharmonic enclosure There comes a time A time when the sun implodes A place where the current stills Under the branches and leaves The moment that ends The night of eternity descends The last sunset of my domain... |
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9. | Coalition of the Elements | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
My everlasting rivers The breach of symmetry Empowers the bloodline The nature and I Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce disharmony Defeats harmony The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The rock, the sleeping bastion Cleaves the ice Dissolves the snow Divides the rain The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence The story of chapters sealed Monuments never seen Of coalition and conflict The river and the rock The sand, the rock, the ruin Piles where the winds roar Frames existence in certainty The nature and thy Echoes the quake of the entities The fierce harmony Defeats disharmony The river and the rock The river, the course unfolds Drains the rain, snow and ice The summit, the gravity The steep line of existence |
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10. | Loci | 02:03 | instrumental |
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54:39 |
Urd
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 7), Lyrics (tracks 2, 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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10. | Age of Creation | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
Through the window of inquisitiveness, a total view Travels the ray of nature’s benevolence From the nest of fragments, wholeness once flew To set out a striking confluence Where eye meet the biosphere’s ability Chaos and order shaded by equilibrium In coherence with progression’s liberty To form an intrinsic dictum The practice of the mountain A symbolic father and volcanic fountain Refined by time and knowledge A tower for future generations Illuminating the age of creation As we build a world with mind, Hand and heritage Until we mount the philosophical throne Bowing to the lords of this ecotone Where a chaotic substance condenses into solid rock An old servant in the play of havoc Painting land over craters grounding A creator now numb by man’s eager pounding The prominent pillars ,The pyramidal peaks Map impressions in the chamber of exploration And keep them safe from a sun to bleach Sculpting inner elevation The practice of the mountain A symbolic father and volcanic fountain Refined by time and knowledge A tower for future generations Illuminating the age of creation. |
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11. | My Friend of Misery (Metallica cover) | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
You just stood there screaming, fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can rattles the most, the sound of your own voice must soothe you Hearing only what you want to hear and knowing only what you’ve heard You, you’re smothered in tragedy and you’re out to save the world Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery You still stood there screaming, no one caring about these words you tell My friend, before your voice is gone, one man’s fun is another’s hell These times are sent to try men’s souls but something’s wrong with all you see You, you’ll take it on all yourself, remember, misery loves company Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery, my friend of misery Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery You just stood there screaming ouh My friend of misery Yeah, yeah, yeah! |
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01:05:39 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 7), Lyrics (tracks 2, 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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10. | Age of Creation | 06:20 | |
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59:21 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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10. | Age of Creation | 06:19 | |
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59:20 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
|||
8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 7), Lyrics (tracks 2, 7) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
|||
8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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10. | My Friend of Misery (Metallica cover) | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
You just stood there screaming, fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can rattles the most, the sound of your own voice must soothe you Hearing only what you want to hear and knowing only what you’ve heard You, you’re smothered in tragedy and you’re out to save the world Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery You still stood there screaming, no one caring about these words you tell My friend, before your voice is gone, one man’s fun is another’s hell These times are sent to try men’s souls but something’s wrong with all you see You, you’ll take it on all yourself, remember, misery loves company Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery, my friend of misery Misery! You insist that the weight of the world Should be on your shoulders Misery! There’s much more to life than what you see My friend of misery You just stood there screaming ouh My friend of misery Yeah, yeah, yeah! |
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59:20 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
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3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
|||
8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Urd
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs) |
David Kinkade | Drums, Percussion |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Lyrics (tracks 2, 7), Songwriting (track 7) |
Mattias Marklund | Engineering (grim vocals) |
Lars A. Nedland | Songwriting (track 3), Lyrics (track 3) |
Børge Finstad | Engineering |
Asgeir Mickelson | Photography |
Örjan Fredriksson | Photography |
Vintersorg | Lyrics (tracks 1, 10) |
Christophe "Volvox" Szpajdel | Logo |
Øystein G. Brun | Songwriting (tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Mantus | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Epochalypse | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I’ve seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifact the deep and the shallow Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall I taste the salt, the seasoning of time and smell the smoke of lightning’s clime Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves A sudden cloudburst mounts the sky lashing the shores of hope I feel the arctic cold as the elemental hazard unfolds... Years turn to decades, centuries to an era A worldwide crisis opening its caldera Chains of extinction in disruption’s primordial hall I hear the roaring legion of ocean waves, trumpeting the downfall |
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2. | Roots | 05:55 | Show lyrics |
The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn Where the roots weave into the branches where dimensions blend into infinity Where the seeds recoil and return where the potency explodes to burn There is a path running free quintessential chemistry Where the rivers recoil and return fallen stars explode and burn The branches reach into eternity beyond the verge of stellar time The evolving tree, the revolving spree anchored in me means floating free No time, no space can ever be my hive, my home I belong beyond the stellar dome Blinding leaves of the universe |
|||
3. | The Beauty of Dead Cities | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforgiving faceless warder Powerful green forces gray away steel constructions lead life astray The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Nature regains its natural place cities absorb their needed space The duality of the natural order |
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4. | The Earthling | 06:51 | Show lyrics |
Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Throughout winters, throughout summers Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Elders, hear the mountains calling behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling See the downfall, in midst of the havoc throughout ages, throughout generations Nature, the venomous path of man the existential gravity, the blinder of light Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun instinctively oppose, the harvester of light Dwelling the night towards further sight I am the earthling, bearer of the past I am the earthling, dwelling the presence I am the earthling, exploring the future vast I am the weaver of the Sun I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun |
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5. | The Plains of Memories | 04:27 | instrumental |
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6. | Mount Regency | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion Through the forests, wandering Through the valleys, hasting Upon the mountain shoulder, bleeding The summit, the release of mind The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celestial notion The rough side of the mountain climb the bastion of existence Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode Behold the northern plains Behold the wintry mountains Hail this mountain, cherish these paths the vast outskirts, the verge of existence Where the winds sweep, corrode and explode The momentum of horizon the call of Mount Regency |
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7. | Frostrite | 04:50 | Show lyrics |
Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives Blue shades on white announcing the rite taking place here tonight Fading to black then explode in attack hits the blazing northern lights Spellbound I fight the chaos, the colors painted in flight And I watch and I sink in the snow but in spite of this call from the other side I rise My mind at ease war harvest peace Blood, fire death cannot freeze My father’s gods grant wisdom and odds this is their gift through the bond A spearhead, a zeal I know what is real to no one, nowhere I kneel Frozen landscape touch me heal me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives |
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8. | The Winter Eclipse | 08:45 | Show lyrics |
A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity The winter seasons, the pain of sorrow The fallacy of chaos, the emptiness of hollow The cogency of reason, the reversion of future The maze of evolution, the ways of elucidation Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Resounds through the halls of silence rebounds under the dome of origin Ruinous and regenerative the hive of an oscillating existence Of time, space and diversity the bias of cosmic regency manifested by the vast complexity through the winter eclipse This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the everlasting continuance A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast |
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9. | In a Deeper World | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in the sand ...in a deeper world Deify the universal coherence |
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53:01 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Guest/Session | |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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9. | Dominant Winds | 07:18 | Show lyrics |
The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge’s crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We’re strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We’ll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we’re standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator |
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56:57 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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2. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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3. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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4. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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5. | Dominant Winds | 07:18 | Show lyrics |
The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge’s crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We’re strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We’ll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we’re standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator |
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32:19 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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49:39 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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49:39 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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49:39 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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9. | Dominant Winds | 07:18 | Show lyrics |
The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge’s crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We’re strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We’ll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we’re standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator |
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56:57 |
Winter Thrice
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Baard Kolstad | Drums |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 6) |
Jens F. Ryland | Guitars (lead) |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (clean, choirs) |
Lars A. Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Songwriting (track 4), Lyrics (track 4) |
Vintersorg | Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 7-9) |
Guest/Session | |
Pål "Athera" Mathiesen | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Simen Daniel Børven | Bass |
Kristoffer "Fiery G." Rygg | Vocals (lead) (track 2), Vocals (additional) (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Marcelo Vasco | Cover art, Layout, Design |
Jens Bogren | Mixing, Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (original nature photos) |
Øystein Garnes Brun | Producer |
Simen Daniel Børven | Arrangements (bass), Recording (bass) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Rhymes of the Mountain | 06:43 | Show lyrics |
The mountains chime a vast, relentless rhyme. The majesty, the regency prevails the everlasting rivalry. Crowned by the haze of history, a ferocious tore, a regaining core. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. Echoes through the halls of lore, Crowned by the haze of history. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain, the rhymes of the mountain. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Vast and wondrous, cast of the glorious, harmony, diversity, adversary. Ordained by the weight of gravity, echoes through the halls of lore. The monumental fortress of primal grace shimmers beyond the horizon astray. The cycle of all, the rise and fall, exuberance in waste, depravity. Excellence in barren nobility, the lore of monumental regency. The rhymes of the mountain! |
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2. | Winter Thrice | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
The sound of the groaning frost. Enforce the waves of blinding winters. Days of reaping and nights of aghast. Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign. Under the wintry sign. The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, a blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign of crisp eternal winter. Nature, eternal winter. I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. Nature! I have wandered the skies, throughout the starry neck of nowhere. I have swarmed the horizon, throughout the eternal fields of everywhere. Time and time again. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Nature, the cast of the future. Upon the ground of rumbling ruins. History shattered, moments withering. Raving forces of the inevitable. The reigning union of the nature. The regaining cast of the future. From shore to shore, from star to star. The deep bloodlines of the earth as seen from afar. Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Winter thrice! Horizons that hosts no scenery. Starless, unending skies. Wakes the beastly void. Starless, unending skies. The dance of stardust stills. Drapes the mountain, winter thrice. |
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3. | Cold Runs the River | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. A life nerve in a barren era, raised by the heat of the sun. I drink its potion from well and caldera. Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. Groundwater recharge, blood pumping heart. Circulatory systems refined. Streams of wonder, where my torrent starts. Time and motion aligned. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. As the watercourse that rinses all stones, unify my path with the river site. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. The surface is numb, blood slows down. Frozen landscape, human deterioration. Cold runs the river, warm runs my blood. The old signs quiver and my mind-mountain releases a flood. As the river of time and nature’s crown. Face season’s last breath and the final exploration. Ice draped rocks, flesh cover bones. The cabals of eternity burn in the night. |
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4. | Panorama | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures. Development plans, architectural design. Nature in it’s purest form. Intuition feeds the progression. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Vines and trees, new species on cultivated grounds. Planned sequences and astonishing leaps. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything grows, everything dies. Everything regenerates. Blueprints come in three letter systems. Inside repeats the outside repeats the inside. The distance between what we see and how we see it. A perpetual cycle of adjustments. Read me, decipher every word. Then multiply the dormant issues. Just tear me down, then build me up again. Accentuate, proliferate, recreate. Echoes of what was, resound in what is. Between organic structures and inside them. |
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5. | When Chaos Calls | 07:02 | Show lyrics |
Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise, and connects to the rapidly rising tide. A ramming fluid out of firm ice. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. Shores retreat in disarray. Melting glaciers lead the demise. A wall of waves and an abyss of water. Drench the land, coastal erosion. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. We’re buried by persistent snowfall. It levels out topography. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. No more hindrance for the storm to call. Out to destruction and catastrophe. Periodic freezing unsettles, building a kingdom of frost. Chaos dressed in a calm fettle, set to efface and to exhaust. Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter. It stirs our inner ocean. When chaos calls, a drowning of the skyline. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. When chaos calls, a rift in earth’s core. A world ruled by horizontal waterfalls. They flood out of pandemonium’s... They flood out of pandemonium’s shrine. |
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6. | Erodent | 06:56 | Show lyrics |
The trails of existence thrust into the future. A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. The ground we walk, the ground we fought. Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound. Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency. The endless maze, the blinding haze. Shimmering stars uphold the course. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Eras that passed in degenerative haste. Grind the roots, withering ground. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. The ground we walked, the ground we fought. A past that holds the dawn of man. A march that crumbles stones to sand. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The vast exploration, the last ravage. The prodigies of ruination. Erodent, a past that holds the dawn of man. Erodent, a march that crumbles stones to sand. The trails of existence, entwined through history. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. Waves that rave the coastal line. Rain that reaps the breeding soil. Wind that pierces the heart of man. The fire that burns all creatures around. |
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7. | Noctilucent | 03:54 | Show lyrics |
Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. Noctilucent! Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice. Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point. Eerie and shining clouds on darkening skies. As dust and vapor conjoin. |
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8. | Terminus | 07:09 | Show lyrics |
The boundary is my stronghold, I push the glacier towards the edge. Stepping across the horizon’s threshold with an unexplored domain to wedge. I catch the sun and tame the flares, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. I climb the hills, I climb the hills. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, I catch the sun and tame the flares. Terminus, as thunder strikes for a hundred years. The culmination and the foundation, first man to the end of the world. The gateway and the manifestation of the borders I expand in a storm swirled. Beyond the branches, deep in the sources. I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses, while sea and land clash under stellar dust. I climb the hills, they are my stairs, to the starry sky and to the ardent spheres. Terminus, beyond the branches and deep in the sources. Terminus, I have my home, I have my trust. The elemental outline of the universal courses. First man to the end of the world. While sea and land clash under stellar dust. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Primeness! Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. Raised to seek, grown to see the flames of creation and prosperity. At the end of the path I build my fortress, with pillars of dreams and nature’s primeness. |
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9. | Dominant Winds | 07:18 | Show lyrics |
The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind Its rule and strength lead the rise and fall Insects drift along the sweeping regime At mountainous locations massive rainfall Still, birds follow their inner scheme From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator The hills erode, a change of landmarks And ancient trees are skinned Of (leaves) branches and the outer bark By an ever blowing wind From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds Pressure is high but the sun angle is low Dominant winds scalp the ridge’s crest Cooling and condensation grows It hauls from the north and heads from east to west We’re strapped in this blusterous maze Still unaware of its daily toil We’ll get a glimpse of its power and pace As we’re standing on degraded soil From the polar cyclone A timeless and transparent grindstone And by the trade winds of the equator The air flow builds a subtropical gyrator |
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56:57 |
True North
Members | |
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Band members | |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 9) |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums, Percussion |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (lead) |
Guest/Session | |
John Ryan | Violin (tracks 1, 5, 9), Cello (tracks 1, 5, 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Jens Bogren | Mixing (tracks 1-9), Mastering |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (cover art) |
Marcelo Vasco | Layout, Design |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography (additional), Mixing (tracks 10, 11), Mastering (tracks 10, 11), Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8) |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 2), Lyrics (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 9), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3-9) |
John Ryan | Recording (violin, cello) |
Marius Strand | Recording (drums), Engineering (drums) |
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1. | Thunderous | 08:34 | Show lyrics |
Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth’s rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky |
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2. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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3. | The Fire That Burns | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep |
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4. | Lights | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer’s in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago |
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5. | Wild Father’s Heart | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There’s a time a time for all No man’s in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father’s heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father’s Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above |
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6. | Mount Rapture | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Mankind’s constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind’s infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We’ve reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind’s disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born |
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7. | Into the White | 05:57 | Show lyrics |
They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there’s nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white |
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8. | Tidal | 09:32 | Show lyrics |
The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore |
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9. | Voices | 05:07 | Show lyrics |
There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, they find me, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, never leave me, no matter where I go. There are chains now in the field, there are chains now in the field. There’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, they always find me in the air. There are voices, there are voices, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, won’t leave me, no matter where I go. And there are chains now in the field, yes there are chains now in the field. So there’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, yes they find me, no matter where I go. I will lay there in the field with the voices in the air, when I finally draw my last breath I will lay there in the field. When I finally stop to breathe, when I finally stop to breathe. All the voices, all the voices will only linger in the field. |
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10. | Wild Father’s Heart (demo) | 06:25 | instrumental |
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11. | Up North (demo) | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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01:12:14 |
True North
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums, Percussion |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (lead) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 9) |
Guest/Session | |
John Ryan | Violin (tracks 1, 5, 9), Cello (tracks 1, 5, 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 2), Lyrics (track 2) |
Jens Bogren | Mixing (tracks 1-9), Mastering |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 9), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (cover art) |
Marcelo Vasco | Layout, Design |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography (additional), Mixing (tracks 10, 11), Mastering (tracks 10, 11), Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8) |
John Ryan | Recording (violin, cello) |
Marius Strand | Recording (drums), Engineering (drums) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Thunderous | 08:34 | Show lyrics |
Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth’s rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky |
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2. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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3. | The Fire That Burns | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep |
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4. | Lights | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer’s in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago |
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5. | Wild Father’s Heart | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There’s a time a time for all No man’s in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father’s heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father’s Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above |
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6. | Mount Rapture | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Mankind’s constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind’s infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We’ve reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind’s disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born |
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7. | Into the White | 05:57 | Show lyrics |
They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there’s nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white |
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8. | Tidal | 09:32 | Show lyrics |
The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore |
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9. | Voices | 05:07 | Show lyrics |
There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, they find me, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, never leave me, no matter where I go. There are chains now in the field, there are chains now in the field. There’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, they always find me in the air. There are voices, there are voices, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, won’t leave me, no matter where I go. And there are chains now in the field, yes there are chains now in the field. So there’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, yes they find me, no matter where I go. I will lay there in the field with the voices in the air, when I finally draw my last breath I will lay there in the field. When I finally stop to breathe, when I finally stop to breathe. All the voices, all the voices will only linger in the field. |
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59:11 |
True North
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums, Percussion |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (lead) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 9) |
Guest/Session | |
John Ryan | Violin (tracks 1, 5, 9), Cello (tracks 1, 5, 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Jens Bogren | Mixing (tracks 1-9), Mastering |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 2), Lyrics (track 2) |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (cover art) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 9), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography (additional), Mixing (tracks 10, 11), Mastering (tracks 10, 11), Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8) |
Marcelo Vasco | Layout, Design |
John Ryan | Recording (violin, cello) |
Marius Strand | Recording (drums), Engineering (drums) |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Thunderous | 08:34 | Show lyrics |
Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth’s rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky |
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2. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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Side B | |||
3. | The Fire That Burns | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep |
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4. | Lights | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer’s in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago |
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5. | Wild Father’s Heart | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There’s a time a time for all No man’s in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father’s heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father’s Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above |
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32:27 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Mount Rapture | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Mankind’s constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind’s infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We’ve reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind’s disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born |
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2. | Into the White | 05:57 | Show lyrics |
They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there’s nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white |
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Side B | |||
3. | Tidal | 09:32 | Show lyrics |
The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore |
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4. | Voices | 05:07 | Show lyrics |
There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, they find me, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, never leave me, no matter where I go. There are chains now in the field, there are chains now in the field. There’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, they always find me in the air. There are voices, there are voices, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, won’t leave me, no matter where I go. And there are chains now in the field, yes there are chains now in the field. So there’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, yes they find me, no matter where I go. I will lay there in the field with the voices in the air, when I finally draw my last breath I will lay there in the field. When I finally stop to breathe, when I finally stop to breathe. All the voices, all the voices will only linger in the field. |
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26:44 |
True North
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow | Drums, Percussion |
Jostein Thomassen | Guitars (lead) |
Øystein G. Brun | Guitars |
ICS Vortex | Bass, Vocals (harsh, clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Keyboards, Vocals (clean, choirs), Vocals (lead) (track 9) |
Guest/Session | |
John Ryan | Violin (tracks 1, 5, 9), Cello (tracks 1, 5, 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Jens Bogren | Mixing (tracks 1-9), Mastering |
ICS Vortex | Songwriting (track 2), Lyrics (track 2) |
Lars "Lazare" Nedland | Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 9), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3-9) |
Thor Erik Dullum | Photography (cover art) |
Øystein G. Brun | Photography (additional), Mixing (tracks 10, 11), Mastering (tracks 10, 11), Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8) |
Marcelo Vasco | Layout, Design |
John Ryan | Recording (violin, cello) |
Marius Strand | Recording (drums), Engineering (drums) |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Thunderous | 08:34 | Show lyrics |
Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth’s rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold and hard Throughout the dark season Roots grow deep in order to keep Clinging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Summers reveal, winters conceal The thunderous sky oversees it all Up high and far away, where the air is clear Vast horizon call The mighty force of winter Shapes a merciless scenery Throughout the dark seasons Roots grow deep in order to keep Clanging to the gusty plains The wind hushes the earth to sleep. The ebb and flow of growth and regression Seasons build, seasons tear down The northern hammer Keeps beating, beating Hear the echoes rumble Across the thunderous sky |
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2. | Up North | 06:29 | Show lyrics |
There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where the stormy sky will sing for me The place i wanna be Up north Fall my favorite season Death and rain and rain and rain Falling leaves and fallen stars As fallen men go back to start Death as life we hail Alone but not alone we sail Death give life and lead the way All energy remain Then Winter its you and me The winter is home to the dead alone With you I’ll sleep with ease Take a moment to reflect and be Who you are and you are just another icebergs tip at sea You will melt eventually And the ocean will rise and the sun crystallize you for the aftermath to see The spark of true eternity Clean as a new start set me free In your wisdom i`m lost what do i know of frost But i trust you know lost is lost Winter she is unforgiving as faith And then Spring you will shake Speed the circle and brake And create and create and create And the circle is now complete No end for an end to meet Nothing is obsolete Up North No end no end for an end to meet No end no end for an end to meet |
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Side B | |||
3. | The Fire That Burns | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very fuel That drives us on The independent nature of man A creator and destroyer Deeply rooted, widely spread The will to strive, the need to push The fire that burns and devours The relentless determination, The adventures of the mind And the conquest of the flesh Rise to the summit in perpetual motion The will to thrive, the will to leap Above the highest peak The will to swim Beneath the lowest deep |
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4. | Lights | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer’s in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation Freedom exists on a greater scale Beyond the dome above In the morning light In the morning light The air vibrates With awareness So now that you see me A servant in the snow And now that you hear me I broke free long ago I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold And my light shone through forever And the sky would never hold I took the world and broke it up To force it down I picked the pieces up And wore them like a crown My heroes They all died so long ago My heroes All died so long ago |
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5. | Wild Father’s Heart | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above There’s a time a time for all No man’s in memory Eyes are glowing Life and possibility Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above Reason and reverence Lot of flowing him and knows who follows Wild father’s heart Driven by natures excellence Wild father’s Wild father’s heart There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above There is a time a time for all To rise above To rise above |
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32:27 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Mount Rapture | 06:08 | Show lyrics |
Mankind’s constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently force themselves Into stagnant waters of old As progression descends, Serving us evolution on a plate Mankind’s infancy is over Our vision is finally clear We’ve reached the summit, The zenith of our mountain And the clouds of delusion Are finally beneath us Mount rapture crumbles Fashioned worlds corrode, Stale ignorance implodes Reality shines through The bewilderment of old Man derives from the great old blue From mankind’s disavowal Grew confusion, grew delusion In a haze From human curiosity and logic, Reason and clarity are born |
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2. | Into the White | 05:57 | Show lyrics |
They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point of focus Breaks the monochromy Life in a flash of red Pushing the white death Aside for just a little longer Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Heat is white and they can not find their way Back into reason, into their lives (Into the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) Hear them calling you... (Floating in the white) When there’s nothing left to save But an empty shell You sink into the white You sink into the white (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness (....white) Into the nothingness So the winter finally brought them home Into the white Into the white Into the white Into the white |
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Side B | |||
3. | Tidal | 09:32 | Show lyrics |
The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standing on the shoulders Of our fathers, of our mothers, And their world of lore The olden seas bellow, Raging as they beat the shore Lifting me with a threat into calmer waters, Leading me towards my haven, towards the sands Our ancient retreat underneath the stars We have sailed the seas before We reached them through the rivers, Through the icy waters of the moors And age-old peaks above In our chase through the steep ravines We have sought to see, we have strained to be free We have charged towards smooth waters, Towards new horizons and our land of old Under the stellar dome I have seen these lights before The moon, the stars, Our place within the lore |
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4. | Voices | 05:07 | Show lyrics |
There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, they find me, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, never leave me, no matter where I go. There are chains now in the field, there are chains now in the field. There’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, they always find me in the air. There are voices, there are voices, no matter where I go. There are voices in my head, there are voices in my head. They won’t leave me, won’t leave me, no matter where I go. And there are chains now in the field, yes there are chains now in the field. So there’s no freedom, no freedom, there’s no freedom in the field. There are voices in the air, there are voices in the air. They always find me, yes they find me, no matter where I go. I will lay there in the field with the voices in the air, when I finally draw my last breath I will lay there in the field. When I finally stop to breathe, when I finally stop to breathe. All the voices, all the voices will only linger in the field. |
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