1. |
Heritage
01:23
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2. |
Grandeval's Machine
04:13
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Screeching to a halt of all progress,
There’s a force to be reckoned with.
In our mind’s eye, there’s chaos,
Blind to thee, anyway.
Like a plague upon the masses,
Cyber power’s taken hold
Of those who were free,
for they are the ones
who will be trapped.
All submit to the machines
Skies turn to black
Scourge upon humanity
Grandeval’s force
All consumed by the machines
Future is gone
Decimate reality
What have we become
Subservient, wired life
Bound to flesh, now one
Existence, mechanized
Light has left this Earth.
I can’t see the dawn.
Is this our rebirth?
No, we will be gone…
Self-consuming lies,
The future we denied,
Secured our own demise,
Awe as the Machines rise.
To our limbs they bind,
Take over every mind,
No one hears your awful cries.
[Solo - DeReyna]
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3. |
Emergence
04:20
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Roaming across a world where order is lost
We struggle as one, confined by fear
Entwined within us, flesh and metal
Inflicting pain as civilization falls
Nullified our way of life
We want to change our fate, and make a better life.
Where is a place that can foster us?
We’re ready to change all
Using what knowledge we have
We have built a vessel to escape
From a life of torture
[Solo - Gallop]
Lost among eternity, still taking flight
Standing for something now,
moving beyond their, sight
From their sight
We’ve departed, hurling from the earth
Gazing upon our land’s devastation
Uncertain of our path through the unknown
But with eyes forward we cling to our hope.
Nullified
Our way of life
We want to change our fate,
And make a better life,
Seeking a new home for something more.
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4. |
Serenity of Darkness
04:39
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5. |
Home for Eternity
03:58
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Escaped from a world of utter chaos
Been traveling long,
through reaches unknown
We see it shining,
Constellation of light
Woven throughout the system of
Worlds before us
Radiating,
Planets unseen bear intelligent life
Absolute harmony
Our new life seems much closer,
Closer…
Can we now
Abandon our ways
be welcome to stay?
Eyes upon us, we enter
The landscape teems with technology
We look on as they approach,
and these beings can see we’ve
lost our hope
Don’t be afraid
Home for Eternity
[Solo - Gallop/Shifflet/DeReyna]
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6. |
Venthos Prime
04:41
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Time, spent building trust
with those who gave us refuge
Connecting all,
a purpose within our grasp
Life could be
so free of our past struggle
If we can embrace
this life of compassion
A humble force we’ve met,
so we will find… absolution.
Now to be,
brought into a new legacy
Given safe harbor,
we were able to rise up
How long
Have we struggled for?
Now we’ve come upon
A way for living on.
Incitement of a new age,
Living a harmonious life.
Hope, on a new world
Now part of Venthos Prime
How Long
Have we struggled for
Now we’ve come upon
A way for living on
Incitement of a new age
Growing in harmonious life
Hope, on a new world
Now part of Venthos Prime
[Solo - Gallop/Shifflet]
How Long
Have we struggled for
Now we’ve come upon
A way for living on
Incitement of a new age
Embracing a harmonious life
Hope, on a new world
Now part of Venthos Prime
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7. |
Ghost of Humanity
04:58
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In our masses, compliance now surpassed.
Those that remember grow restless fast.
In this refuge, fragmented we will not last
Our future in mind, peace and harmony left to pass
Split in two,
humankind falls to memory
They’ve had enough conformity,
resort back to
The old way will return,
power surfacing on this world afar.
Ghost of Humanity
Far gone, return, we won’t give in
To their ways, or betray all of the planets that we have joined.
Cut ties, what for?
Venthos to take, ourselves we forsake
On we look, horrified as they throw away
this gift, just as it was with the earth before,
Destitute, leaving it, oh so callously,
Uncaring, why do this again
Far gone, return, we won’t give in
To their ways, or betray all of the planets
that we have joined
Cut ties, what for?
Venthos to take, ourselves we forsake
Now you jeopardize years of our efforts
And poison their trust.
[Solo - Shifflet]
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8. |
In the Maw of Reality
05:25
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Distanced from those around us
Do we know that they are not to fear
Why are we living so isolated
With connection still near?
There are those who share in our pain
What’s left of us, crumbling away
There is one way to find them
Compassion, shown to all.
A defection, betrayal of trust.
These ghosts became foes of sanctuary
Jeopardizing prospects of future life,
that we have struggled for.
Avoid the impending fray
Where are all the voices and the peace we’ve waited for?
We are victims of eternal ways
Decide, that this time we face
the Maw of Reality.
The last hope for our communication
Lies within the will to face ourselves.
Pain in store
We have a voice.
What are you waiting for?
Trying to thrive within
A nexus of worlds,
Ahead of us is a choice.
Will we unify or stay corrupted?
Circle of vicious voices
Have consumed, our optimism
Divided, we cannot stand
Connect so it’s proven to all
There are those who share in our pain
What’s left of us, crumbling away
There is one way to find them
Compassion, shown to all.
Avoid the impending fray
Where are all the voices and the peace we’ve waited for?
We are victims of eternal ways
Decide, that this time we face
the Maw of Reality.
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9. |
Unification Epoch
05:08
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The day has arrived when we have cast aside all reason.
Sequestered within our own minds, ignore all outer perspective
Thought we were beyond the days of mob mentality
Now those lost voices, generate, invent, devise our one common foe
True community lost as the plague infiltrates
The very one that consumed us before
All of those others, let their greed consume them and lead us to doom
Let loose the machines, upon those who protected us
Just in time, we unify.
Gone, the chance for our transcendence.
Venthos falling, power shifting,
This, an epoch of destruction.
Corrupting life as it grows
You can see the light is dying
Impose this way of existence
Home for eternity, gone.
Now in this chaos,
Can they truly
Survive and bring themselves to the future?
[Solo - Gallop]
Just in time, we unify.
Gone, the chance for our transcendence.
Venthos falling, power shifting,
This, an epoch of destruction.
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10. |
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Visages of our past despairs,
We now stand alone.
As we break our bonds,
What will be done?
Community was brought to us.
Synergy of cosmic links now lost.
Violently, they are mechanized
Celestials glow, as they feel the might of Grandeval,
some learned they can be conquered
Their societies are now bound to the plague
[Solo - Shankar]
[Solo - Gallop]
Vessels surge through space-time torn.
Nothing regretted, nothing mourned.
We meant to forget these ways
Years have passed, all worlds defiled
Ruined our future, Venthos undone
Technology may not be the plague upon earth
Our nature persists, so putrid.
Why do we choose this way throughout all time?
Throughout all time?
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11. |
Legacy
06:18
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Our decimation, now it becomes clear
Why we’re ending this way,
Tethered to cycles of chaos
Now that we have betrayed
Those who gave us protection
There’s no turning back
Look, and see our tortured life restored.
Why couldn’t we move towards a
way to find peace from strife
instead of divide?
Despite what we are going to give
by living in hatred,
there might be a hope for the future
A missed chance for us all
Pay the price for what we have done
No way now to see
A way around our Consequences
Venthos was pure majesty
Should’ve been left out of our demise
A tormented picture of us manifested
An apparatus that drains
beings of their essence
This aftermath brings back
memories of earth
our second home lies in desolation
[Solo - Shifflet]
[Solo - Gallop]
A missed chance for us all
We’ve paid the price for what we have done
The way now to see
A time beyond our consequences
Venthos, was pure majesty
Should’ve been left out of our stare
In this reality we meet our fate
But we choose if we’re lost forever
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Ice Giant Boston, Massachusetts
ICE GIANT is here to bring you the heaviest in melodeath and thrash riffage, big choruses, and screaming guitars. Our new album GHOST OF HUMANITY is out on September 8th, 2023!
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