- Empyrean
We are the dust of a new generation
Here and now, taking heart in this salvation
Fearless and free from subjugation
We are all bound to the sky
For our birthright, stars had to die
We will remain for eons
Bound to the sky
- 3. Zoticus
From above the land
Armored with reflections of the sky
Towers pressing their chests
Against the elements
Unfazed by the chaos of the stars
How I lust to feel again
My eyes, my heart, my mind are at war
- 6. Phedra
We stand upon these steel
spines
Made of silver glass
Embody the lifeless eyes
And cold touch of the
machine
Open your eyes
- 8. Erebus
A subconscious request
Upon the shoulders of
Cepheus
I hope to amend what’s left
to defend
We are both absent of trust
Yet we mutually
Lust to regain a sense of
- 9. Amyntas
The transfer has halted
Memory frozen in place
Alithea
My heart, my home, my life
now restored
What was lost in the
blackness of space has been
found
- Ailthea
Optical mounted interface
Binary induction
Bionic blood, augmented flesh
Halfhearted machine now living in black and white
Curse my
Human heart
For this flawed inherent faith
- Anagenesis
Exiled just above the highest clouds
Endlessly searching for any sound
As decades pass we devour the outer rings
Our lifeline dependent on in-situ utility
Orphans bound by the frozen sea
We sail upon the shadows of this cruel dream
The world below awaiting the human seed
- Andromeda
Exiled in orbit
Forced to reflect
On what should have been
Freedom or bloodshed
Assembled in dead stars
While my heart remains on earth
Lighted by the waning sun
- Anti-Theist
Crucified horizon
Human lives wasted away
One by One
Scatter the mortal seeds
And sow a failed generation
Conquer all
- As Embers Turn to Dust
As Embers Turn to Dust (Тлеющее пламя превращается в пыль) Седьмой студийный альбом от уникальной команды из Америки, города Чикаго, которые совместили, космическую тематику и безостановочное число гитарных струн.
Со слов Джо Тибери - гитариста и аранжировщика:
"Этот альбом завершает первую половину непрерывной истории,
начатой с альбома Conqueror вышедший в 2011ом году."
А ведь казалось что Xenon - вышедший в 2014ом году, завершает эту первую половину, а там оказывается вся космическая сага растянулась аж на 6 альбомов. Даа видать у Дэйва, Джо и Мелиссы расписан целый производственный план на годы вперед...
Альбом описывает начало населений двух планет, Ахерон и Empyrean. Каждая из этих планет была колонизирована по-разному.
- asterion
A past once forgotten
Reappears and reinstates
The nature of man
This orbital firestorm
Foreshadows my return
I shall regain power over the remnants of earth
I have returned
All shall obey and kneel before your new god
- Clash of Cultures
A Long Awaited Battle
Between Fellow Men
Following Mythical Standards
That Divide Them
Justify The Actions
Of Mankind
In The Name Of A Man Made
- Conqueror
I shall set my eyes on the burning skyline
Fearing the day I lust to replicate this design
Generations of conflict conditioned to conquer the stars
A revolution of freedom, born to conquer the gods
Take to the sky
Abandon the earth once and for all
- Division Through Distance
Shadows of giants
Bring shade to the sea
Mechanical life
For all eyes to see
When you look to the heavens
Remember our plea
For lasting peace
- Eleftheria
My heart is whole again
Bathed in the light of this blue gem
Waiting for the moment
To breathe the air of this free world
My mind is free from god
Seeing a world untouched and unflawed
- Godspeed, Vanguards
The burning empires our past
Pray to the winds
Memories made of cindered ash
Never forgetting the reason
Never forgiving the past
Never believing in freedom
This great storm will build a throne
These first Vanguards will lead us home
- Impact Proxy
Vanguards, we conquer the sky and land -
In search of the tomb made of glass and sand
Once found, we shall carve a path
Retracing the steps of decades past
Daybreak, only moments away
The Centauri stars arise into grey
- Imperialus
The ashes of unrest do a dance under a cold sky
Fireflies, made from our demise
These shadow empires entombed
These ashes are all that’s left of home
Pages of the skinned, carried off in the wind
Into a distant sky, to be spoken again
- Interregnum
Entranced by the contrast of the sun
Against the world that I once loved
I shall praise the stars above
For these empires
Turned to dust
Absence of control is all I see
The end of an age of tyranny
- Interregnum 2013
Entranced by the contrast of the sun
Against the world that I once loved
I shall praise the stars above
For these empires
Turned to dust
Absence of control is all I see
The end of an age of tyranny
- Machine God
I've gone and came
I have no name
And all that's left
Is Earth's decay
Fragility
Their weakness
My virility
- Non Serviam
I see a world destined to fall beneath me
The world, the sky, designed to leave it behind
I shall not kneel
I declare non serviam
Forever enslaved by one law
Forever cast down all dissension
- Phedra
We stand upon these steel spines, made of silver glass.
Embody the lifeless eyes and cold touch of the machine.
Open your eyes to what lies behind the liquid fire that's burning the sky.
I will breath the air of Acheron.
Enslaved.
Another nation built on the back of slaves.
- Pray To The Winds
Breathe the air of a fallen world
And tear the sky with a golden storm
Destabilize this world of slaves
And debase their fallen gods
Let the crescent flag
Be stained in human blood
Kneel before the myth of mankind
- Reclamation Of Mortal Nature
Blind your flesh on this new pain enrichment
Constrict the begin to exploit your failure
The old
The new
Exceed all those before you
In your mind, you are one of a kind
Conception
- Shattered Cry
Divide the world
Embrace all chaos
Erase all peace and beauty
This is the anthem of mankind's
Eternal morality
The flames engulf the horizon
The Earth begins to decay
- Tartarus
Eclipsed in the shadows of
lifeless eyes
A broken man
stands shattered and cold
Searching for a memory
of home
Although my number implies
- Terminus
Breathe the air of this modern world
The scattered seeds have sown a generation
Whose evolution is both body and mind
I see a world destined to leave its imprint upon the stars
Condemning their past to the blackness of space
This future empire will never find the books that enslave
- Terrae
In a fearful attempt to touch the warmth of the sun
A simple glance upward, vertigo at ground level
Symmetrical muscle memory
An active human redundancy
A world's fate relies
On machines to survive
Only titans remain
- The Assembly Of Tyrants
Come forth now young one
And bare witness
To the fields of slaughter
Where you fathers take blame
Your nation lays waste
From words of the elders
The words of tyrants
Show no remorse
- The Horrizon Effect
Into a cosmic sea
Fragments of our essence
Scattered beyond the sun
Into a cosmic sea
A frozen symphony
At any moment this all will end
I shed my skin of human life
- The Iron Law
Future empires will only find
The steel spines that hold up the sky
Empty streets echo
The time when authority guided the blind
Future corruption will hide behind
The shadows of men with god given rights
Hope and fear an infectious flaw
- The Synesthesia Signal
Hear the leaves with the breeze
Clouds form from a distant sea
With rain comes light
Upon incandescent Flora
Captivating our eyes
This Horizon only breeds humility
Oh, how fragile is the signal
- The Tellurian Pathos
Those below are destined to be
Consumed by human fragility
The moment between cause and effect
A violent reminder for those who left
Enyo's colossus, a journey within
Becoming immortal from the blood of her kin
Eternal life, living within
- The World We Lost
"Input accepted. Access granted"
"Welcome. How can I assist you? Message number one selected. Initializing interplanetary communication. Communication network online. Select message destination. Primary Earth-bound U.N.I intelligence network selected. Would you like to review this message before broadcast? Stand by for message playback."
"December 31st, 2154. I'm relaying this message to any inhabitants of Earth. By the time this message arrives, everyone aboard will be in cryo sleep. For some, this is the last opportunity to send a letter home. Not all of us are expected to arrive alive. No one really knew how hard it would be out here. If anyone receives this, send a message in return. I won't forget Earth. I won't forget the world we lost."
"Transmission has ended. Message incoming. U.N.I. Command."
- To Coexist is to Surrender
- "Sentient #2154
Neurological output augmentation complete
Sweep memory for simulation analysis
Stabilizing biometrics for memory transmission" -
- "Communications located
Headquarters has issued a full scale withdraw of the entire city
Invasion force detected" -
- Unearthing The Daedalian Ancient
The cold storm fades
Lost to the crystal horizon
Clouds shattered and torn asunder
The distant call from our God machine
Mistaken for wails of waning thunder
Echoes batter the canyon walls
A faint Titan Roar
- Xenon
You've sent many gods, to be martyred. x3
Martyred.
From where I stand, cities made of steel, cradle the horizon.
A global marvel, gleaming with life, from above the clouds.
You have sent many gods to be martyred.
Martyred.