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The Labour Division

by The Aphelion

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1.
Overture 02:25
(Instrumental)
2.
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
3.
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
4.
The Mines 02:19
(Instrumental)
5.
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
6.
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
7.
Heathens 01:21
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.
8.
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)
9.
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
10.
Ecliptic 09:16
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's debut record, an hour long concept record about class struggle in a post apocalyptic world.

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released August 17, 2018

Music by James Cabral and Evan Haydon-Selkirk
Lyrics by Evan Haydon-Selkirk

The Aphelion are:
James Cabral - Keyboard/guitar
Tyler Davis - Guitar/backing vocals
Evan Haydon-Selkirk - Lead vocals/bass
Nathanael Livingstone - Drums

Recorded at Wolf Lake Studios
Mixed by Evan Haydon-Selkirk
Mastered by Mike Bond
Strings programmed by Troy Jung
Artwork by Alex Dowd

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The Aphelion Ottawa, Ontario

a·phe·li·on
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"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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