1. |
Overture
02:25
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(Instrumental)
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2. |
The Labour Division
06:56
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The fruits of what your labour brings
Consumed to please the higher beings
Neglected, beaten. Scarred, abused
By tempest raging on below
The battlements we were once denied
Now stand to face the test of time
The bitter ashes pouring down
Humanity’s falsified crown
The youngest now will go to war
Won’t matter if some hearts get torn
The coming storm will wash away
Everything we’ve worked to create
So why do we stay?
Long extinct now, what was pride
In its place, fear remains
Master
Comes
Taking
Me
And now you bring me to extradition
This trial has been all in vain
Gavel banging, this false judicial
Helpless to the coming flames
Trampled by our own creators
And yet we are to take the blame
Deciding your fate without reason
Or maybe you’ve just gone insane
Isolation takes its toll
Faces fading, falling away
Leaving the disease
Of the labour division
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3. |
The Twilight Basin
08:19
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Bred into dystopia
Bled into your thoughts
“How could we disobey?”
Fundamental element which has decimated our own kind
I leave this for you, my son. You will never see the light
Oh the humanity, oh the young and old did cry
As the bombs fell overhead, never did we question why
All the dreams we kept, all the hopes we had
Taken away from us, watch them falling from the sky
The earth sodden with
The blood of
The heroes you
Left for dead
In the new periphery, no refuge
No amity
Freezing veins
Once more we go
Into the glow of the cold morning light
Never ceasing, we draw our
Final breath
Sent off into the world, good intentions and a smile
Mistrust we cradled, now we’re bathing in denial
Gods and men
Bleeding all just the same
All wondering who's to blame
For all of the chaos seen here
Thinking the end draws near
And if ever the smoke clears
Who still remains?
They did all speak of this, just to be turned away
And here we stand, all dumbfounded, with nothing left to say
Wanderlust and apathy, praying to our final hour
Bloated and overfed by all the promises devoured
Sickness overturns all the progress we have made
Overbearing blackness, an apex of what we know
What we know
Where we always knew the winding path did go
All the wise
With their backs to the middle, grasping blindly for the light
At the end
When all the agony and the calamity did come
Biding time
Until the chaos takes us all, wipes the slate clean
Oh they'll wipe it clean.
Ancestral remains, eternal domain
Oppressively shamed, forever we wait
Ancestral remains, eternal domain
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4. |
The Mines
02:19
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(Instrumental)
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5. |
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I’ll be the lie, you be the truth
Spitfire
Keeps raining
Upon this
Kind tragedy
The trials
The waiting
The waning
Our masterpiece
The horrors
And bloodshed
Those who crawl
Eviscerate
The dust and
The screaming
Eyes empty
Just apathy
We will return these years of suffering in kind
The world they once knew will crumble before their eyes
Their tears are falling, fire in the skies
“Oh the humanity” their young and old will cry
Skin crawling
Restlessness
Bombs falling
An endless haze
Careful not
To lose you
What keeps our
Humanity
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6. |
Malefic World
05:31
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I slump along through desert sand
(Scorching heat upon my back)
Through skies shattered by my kind
(We carry on, poised to attack)
Our oppressors cried "obey me"
(From promise lands across the sea)
As indulgence and gluttony
(Met their ever greedy, repulsive needs)
We've come so far
We must not waver now
We've come so far
To take back what we're owed
We brave the throes
Of our malefic world
We will endure the pain
For those who will proceed us
We will crash their lives
Into the ground
Until their ivory towers
Come crumbling down
We pass the spiral arch to the sky
(Climb the dunes, tall as towers of worlds before)
They would suffer this strain when heavens above
(Brings eternal rain, or the beating sun)
We carry the weight of our Father's love
(Climb the dunes, tall as towers of worlds before)
As we make our way through this malefic world
We are so close
We cannot waver now
We are so close
To taking back what's our own
They are fools, to endure all this strife
They know not what pain now awaits
At the walls of the promise land, what holds
All the lies which those before them were told
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7. |
Heathens
01:21
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Hello, dear heathens
What compels you to cross through this desolate ocean of sand?
Do you seek the promise land, or have you come to await the return of the one true deity?
Like me!
No?
Then leave this place and never return
(Get the fuck out)
This instant.
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8. |
Tainted Wisdom
05:55
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Born to scorch the face of the earth
To salt our soil and leave lakes of fire
Ruthless subjugation calls
They all would fall before his spell
Bones fragment beneath the weight
Of the world he’s placed upon us all
The cruelty hemorrhaging from his eyes
Into hearts of youth and old alike
If only they knew what he had foreseen
They too would bask in the Father’s love
Dear Father, so much more
(Sing for him)
Than just some figurehead
(Breathe for him)
He delivers us
(Live by him)
From the cries of the sickness beyond
(Die by him)
The rally cry sounds out from below
The crowds, so restless for adoration
He comes from the sky to save us all
From the perils of the world before
Shrouded in black, he gives forth discourse
As his empyrean metal bird descends
His words, they come to save us all
From the horrors that hide in our minds
His promises echo ever longer
A disease that cannot reach our walls
Dear Father of war
(Sing for him)
His tainted wisdom comes to a head
(Breathe for him)
He will deliver us
(Live by him)
From the cries of the sickness echoing on
(Die)
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9. |
Prelude to Dominion
07:45
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Gracefully he leads the way
Musing we might seize the day
We push on through the market square
Waving to the locals there
Marching to the city walls
So soon we are to make our move
Oh yes, the unsuspecting crowds
We rise, they take their fatal bow
Nightfall
Plotting
Nesting
Dreamers
Daybreak
Mobile
Positions
Ready
Declaring there will be casualty
That war was not meant to be clean
Lives tainted by Father’s love
Won’t mean much in the aftermath
All over
It’s all over now
Over
Now
Shadows from the mountainside
Casting over the city’s winding
Streets and houses all around
Trees scattered like jewel on crown
The innocent sleep restlessly
Though why their minds have yet to see
Listless dreams and black cloud skies
Knowing naught of truth, yet not of lie
Not of lie
(And so has it come to this?)
The sun smiles down on me
Wander by Father’s palace guards
Still they stare out at the great wall
“Pay no mind” my brother grins
“They’ve pledged themselves to his beck and call”
And we crept our way past the monolith divide
Silent shriek, brother is gone
Following suit, pulled through the brush
Lost in the woods, first casualties
Worlds torn apart, eyes tear glazed
Consideration, stricken down
Let it be swift, no fear or pain
Too cruel, they are young, set them free
Cannot be free, if they speak of us
All is for naught, all is lost
Pleading for their still young lives
But war was not meant to be clean
Bloodstains on our hands
See them not as a plight
On all we’ve done
But just a prelude
To dominion
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10. |
Ecliptic
09:16
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Bare with me
Time has come again.
Sing for me
Change is coming
Bleed for me
Let the gravity
Pull you under
Cry for this
Turbulence ahead
Let the fear drive you
Send away the disease
I won’t let them in
I won’t let the sick win
Fighting for my life
For love, hell, high waters
Atone, be vanquished
We won’t ever need you
Thousands fill the square
Vital fluid empties
Pouring from both sides
“This is war”, someone said
And so it was, our way of life now threatened
For hours on end we fought on the palace steps
Relenting finally, Father, we have failed you
I hear their footsteps pounding
Coming up stairs down below
My time is coming
The disease has won, I know
Will they spare my life?
Will I see tomorrow?
Screams of my palace guards.
They draw ever nearer
Ever nearer.
Oh a war I never knew would come
Time has left me anyways
The disease takes my body
As the crown passes on
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The Aphelion Ottawa, Ontario
a·phe·li·on
əˈfēlēən
noun
"the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at
which it is furthest from the sun."
Progressive metal with happy little flecks of death from the capital of Ottawa
The Aphelion are:
James "Jamal" Cabral - Keyboards/guitar
Tyler Davis - Lead guitar/backing vocals
Evan Haydon-Selkirk - Lead vocals/bass guitar
Nathanael Livingstone - Drums/percussion
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