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[MAN:] Fleeing fast before the sun sets
There are rumors whispered here
Of lupine stalkers with a taste for man
With a little luck I'll make it home by dawn
As long as I keep pace
This cursed land will be left behind
A chilling mist starts to rise with the moon
And what dwells in the dark stirs with violent haste
I take to foot when the engine fails
My condemnation realized
I hear the howls that herald my hunt
It signals they're closing in
[BEAR:] If you've lost your way
And the hounds are gaining ground
I'll come charging to save you
Keep running straight ahead
Don't ever look behind
I'm right beside you
I have claws that rend, teeth that crush
It's no coincidence to be stranded in this place
A black forest that hungers
The assault is nigh, they're circling around
Just stay behind me
My fury matches their guile
For I am Ursa, forged in the sky
As chaos erupts in the fray
My spilled blood drives me further
For I am berserker
[MAN:] The pack's corpses amass at his feet
They show no signs of relenting
My savior endures to the last
As I enter the bloodshed
He will not die alone
[BEAR:] If you've lost your way
And the hounds are gaining ground
I'll come charging to save you
Keep running straight ahead
Don't ever look behind
I'm right beside you
If you've lost your way
Don't ever look behind
I'm right beside you
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We sing elegies for Solaris
The eaters of the light have come
We sing elegies for Solaris
They arrived so swift
Sending fire across the sky
In machines more ancient than we could have ever known
Keepers of old secrets
The Marauders acted with haste
Pillaging our planet, our Earth, our home
Look to the light
The energy surrounds us
Our sun blackened by marauders
Warriors driven by a purpose
Defacers
Reaping through the cosmos
We sing elegies for Solaris
The eaters of the light have come
We sing elegies for Solaris
So many Gods left dead
Where history becomes dust
So many Gods left dead
Our chance to fight back
Is to undo our corporeal forms
Everything we are
Or have ever been
Could be lost in the dark
Do we take this chance?
Just take my hand and hold on tight
Here we go
Nothing will ever be the same
I can see all the particles that once composed your face
I believe that the flux we're in exists outside of space
The Marauders have the answer, but we can't give up now
I want to stay with you forever here
But virtue calls us home
Virtue calls us home
What's become of our hold
Our tether to the reality we knew
We've shed that past and subverted extinction
I'll show the others how
How to shed our material form
The Marauders are just the catalyst
Look to the light
The energy surrounds us
Our sun blackened by marauders
Now something else, we are ghosts
We sing elegies for Solaris
The eaters of the light have come
We sing elegies for Solaris
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Supercharger
05:11
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The ashes of a gasping, mortal race
Is now just dirt kicked up from my screeching tires
Be brave, if there's any truth to be known
You'll find it there
In the nothingness of death
Hit the gas and give it all you've got
Never slow down, never slow down
I'll be waiting for you at the end
A trail of slain demons in your wake
But I'm nothing now
I'm nothing now but dust
Teeth gnash and wings beat against a burnt sky
Creatures stalk the scent of my mortal flesh
This never ending chase takes its toll
The spirits claw at my back
But these phantasms disintegrate
With the ease of my afterburners
A strike back at the abyss
Is the only thing to keep the engines running
Just remember to keep your cool and remember where you came from
There's a fine line to walk
They'll never catch me
With 12 cylinders of supercharged acceleration
The only time is here and now
So make your way at breakneck speeds
Spires of decay
Reach toward clouds ablaze with fury
But I will tear them down one by one
Chained to my machine of retribution
Must I become a monster
To wage this war alone?
Is this sacrifice worthwhile
To keep my oath of vengeance alive?
Don't waste time
In wonder of what could have been
When the horde of fiends is bearing down
A tide of hellish extinction
Don't ever doubt the indomitable will of man
They'll never catch me
With 12 cylinders of supercharged acceleration
The only time is here and now
So make your way at breakneck speeds
They'll never catch me
With 12 cylinders of supercharged acceleration
The only time is here and now
Never slow down, never slow down
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The Long Morrow
04:35
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Progress lingers just behind experimentation
Chasing advancement
Testing the boundaries of the human spirit
We must endeavor to stretch beyond our perceived borders
seeking other worlds
141 light years away
Our analysts have identified an Earth-like planet
Commander Stansfield, our most venerated
Will embark in suspended animation
Yet she stands there, a vision of forgotten dreams
A life so far away
Half a life-time passing between them
As she turns to grey
The commander cannot bear the thought
Of losing love to the dimension of time
Disengage the preservation capsule
40 years of isolation
At least they'll spend their twilight together
The commander, aging through space, meditating
On memories of her face
Mission success
Safe landing home
And there she is, untouched by age
straight from her own suspended animation
Suspended animation
Yet she stands there, a vision of forgotten dreams
A life so far away
Half a life-time passing between them
And now he's turned to grey
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5. |
Rock Biter
04:49
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In the calamity
No stone, no soul was left behind
Rock became dust, became darkness
We exiles herded toward hope
As the road fell apart at our heels
Racing forward, flying further
And still it's just over my shoulder
Racing forward, flying further
Afraid of Nothing
When the end comes
I'll hold on with strong hands
Until they break
If we're the last ones, my friends just hold on
I'm mountain against the storm
What a way to face despair
With nowhere left to run
My companions were ripped from my grasp
And torn asunder
The wait is killing me
After journeying so far
Our last hope is standing before me
Grasping for some sign of his purpose
When the end comes
I'll hold on with strong hands
Until they break
If we're the last ones, my friends just hold on
I'm mountain against the storm
They look like good, strong hands
I'll just sit and wait
Until there's Nothing left
I couldn't hold on
So, I too, will drift away
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Necrocodone
05:41
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Ancient Magus, wielding power of death
with the blood of sluts
Slips between planes of reality
slaughtering Heaven's mutts
Worshipping at the darkest altar of
The seven-tongued son of a bitch
The imprecations and pills
Compel us to make poor choices
It's when you've lost
All sense of dignity
He'll wrest control of your precious bits
To fuel his slampage
Blindly led into fires
Of macabre solutions
Pandering all that's been stepped on
And breaking their constitution
When the sun fails to rise
The horrors of cocaine-binge necromancy become real
Too fast for too long
The forsaken toll of bells rung umpteen times
Loathe him as he cleaves through a harlot wave
Behold, The Despoiler!
Absorbed in the their pitiful hate
He has come to pulverize and rape
Worshipping at the darkest altar of
The seven-tongued son of a bitch
The imprecations and pills
Compel us to make poor choices
It's when you've lost
All sense of dignity
He'll wrest control of your precious bits
To fuel his slampage
Beckon the Necrocodone
Opiates from the grave
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Principia
05:57
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It seems like an eternity
We've been sitting on this priceless contraband
The engines are primed--let's go!
We've been made
The United Fleet is on our tail
Drop out of orbit
And make for the Perseids
We'll lose them in the molecular clouds
Masked in a field of debris
The Artemis lets go of the fear of
Unconquered space
Activating the device is the last hope for finding
Unification
Humanity is asleep at the goddamn wheel
It's all we have left
Detecting a lock-on threat
Deploying counter-measures
We have to buy enough time
To identify and harness
The nature of the Graviton
It's now or never
Suddenly, I can feel space-time cradled around me
Oh, come on, can't you see the way out?
Well, what are you waiting for?
Even out here
I can feel Earth's gravity pulling us home
I can see beyond the stars
From this vantage point
I can see primordial nuclides
The cold realization of nothingness cuts through in terror
Is this the truest horror
Or just another veil to pierce?
The answer lies beyond black horizons
Terra firma
Our heart is the decoder
Oh, come on, can't you see the way out?
Well, what are you waiting for?
Even out here
I can feel Earth's gravity pulling us home
Masked in a field of debris
The Artemis lets go of the fear of
Unconquered space
Activating the device is the last hope for finding
Unification
Humanity is asleep at the goddamn wheel
It's all we have left
We've lost all comms and we're running out of time
There's nothing left but to give them hell
Head straight at the fore
They'll never expect the assault
Hope for the best 'cause this is our last chance
I can feel Earth's gravity pulling us home
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The Great Devourer
04:48
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Beneath the surface
Is a vastness that lies in wait
A relentless Chronos
I've come for your head
The Thief of Memory
Interred beyond my grasp
Still, I'm coming for you
If you look outside of known selves
When there's nothing left to make sense
The Great Devourer
He reaps across the void
It's all coming undone
It's a passive war
That's waged on all we can remember
Even our records will turn to dust
But I will take it all back
Chronos, I'm coming for you
Beneath the surface
Is a vastness that lies in wait
A relentless Chronos
I've come for your head
The Thief of Memory
Interred beyond my grasp
Still, I'm coming for you
Even if we tread softly
There's just no guarantees we won't wake the slumbering wyrm
Despite the odds my pursuit is unending
Clawing to find some advantage
Some weakness between the scales of protective aegis
There's just no convincing me
That all it consumes is unraveled and lost
These images fade away
All my strength is waning
As I ascend the final steps
Everything I've conquered
Has led me here
As my strength is waning
And the old man stands before me
He smiles and it becomes clear
This was always my end
I cannot remember my end
This was always
Always my end
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Our greed had gone too far
So by some act of fate
With a banshee's groan
The tower collapsed and sweet death spilled forth
The slow rush of inevitable disaster
A crawling mass
Consuming and suffocating
Trees uprooted
Our strongest towers toppled
Overwhelming in a tidal wave of childhood dreams
Everything I had to give is now
Lost in the flood
The enchantment of being entombed
By a sweet embrace
Is too hard to resist
Caught up in rapture
None can turn away
Then it's upon you
Now a writhing mass of syrup and the dying
A piece of cake, you'd say
Such a thing could be outrun
It keeps holding on
It keeps holding on
It keeps ahold
It's everything we are
It has my legs
But it will never have
The love I share with you
It's otherworldly
Some alien presence
Has chosen its time
To feast
Everything I had to give is now
Lost in the flood
The enchantment of being entombed
By a sweet embrace
Is too hard to resist
It feeds on all our fears and passions
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11. |
The Lioness of Brittany
13:53
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Forced into betrayal of God and country
By a despot clad in vengeance
A self-made enemy
A noble man
Beheaded at dawn
By a King's swift justice
The widow abandons wealth
To take up the axe and anchor
"Cutthroats and warriors! Men of the sea!
Paint the ships as the dark of night.
The Black Fleet sails!"
"You've taken my heart; I'll take your Kingdom as pay"
Culling the herd of aristocrats
The cowards who condemned true love
Their corpses float endlessly
Their heads mounted to the masts
"Leave some alive," she said, "to carry a message home.
Tell your masters of this execution
At the hands of the Lioness of Brittany!"
If you see the red sails on the horizon
The Lioness has come for your head
13 years of revenge
A campaign promised by death
And for all the blood and pride
What was gained?
This rage will never subside
Carried forever by the sea winds
The will of a blackened soul
Destroyed by devotion
Lost in storming seas
Drowning grief with so much scorn
Which way is up?
Which way is home?
She's never looking back
Forever lost at sea
13 years of revenge
A campaign promised by death
And for all the blood and pride
What was gained?
This rage will never subside
Carried forever by the sea winds
The will of a blackened soul
Destroyed by devotion
Which way is up?
Which way is home?
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Outnumber the Living Albany, New York
Albany-based metallers Outnumber the Living have delivered upbeat melodic death metal and high-energy performances to New York's capital region and beyond since 2014. Fans of thrash, metalcore, and melodeath will find spicy ear candy here.
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