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The Forest God

by Billy Qvarnström

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The Popu An album filled to the brim with compositions reigning from hauntingly beautiful and majestic to eerie and haunting and straight up sick and disgusting (in a good way!). Strong recommendation to anyone that needs a soundtrack for intense lifts. Favorite track: Wither.
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Lukas Dj0nt as fuck! Damn Billy <3 Some crazy stuff right there! Favorite track: Fire.
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Alejandro Hernandez MADE ME WANNA GO TO DISNEY'S WEBSITE WITHOUT MY PARENTS PERMISSION Favorite track: Kodama.
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1.
Sunrise 01:28
2.
Liberosis 04:01
One cell organism I struggle and press on I feel it’s here one second gone the other All this time to ease my pain A lonely clump of unborn existence But when will I be there Liberosis engulfing my inner self There must be more than this If I look back into the void, it escapes All created, motivated, made, grown Press on, press on or it dies Loosen the grip on reality itself And it can not hurt you Pretentious is the struggle to better, stronger Sacrifice comfort, safety, target To grow inside, to grow them out, make them die Find a deeper meaning to this The energy to form a new tomorrow Can be found in the sun But they’re already destroying everything And would rather let it go again
3.
Kodama 05:07
Hear the call The echoing presence, the curse As it’s placed upon the heads of raging fools Reside above where their eyes can see Reside amongst heaven bound crown To leave behind a layer of filth That will always be present in us Care for the tree in whose shadow you rest Heaven bound No one can undo what has so far been done No one can foresee what happens to us now Defaunation, vanish like light at nightfall, falls asleep Disinfection, hear creatures fall down as they softly weep See the end Come crashing with thunderous blows As they are destroyed, picked off one by one Despise the disrespect of what is sacred That kept us alive and raised us through time To leave behind a drained and deserted wasteland the forest once held in its grasp Care for the tree in whose shadow you rest And they will dwell Heaven bound
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5.
Fire 06:50
Catastrophe showed us its face Now the world has been set ablaze Brought upon us by human hand Now they’re burning the bodies of the lost ones Ravaging, tearing through the land The fire will rise, fueled by greed This monster is unstoppable This monster is invincible Rise and be strong, not all hope is gone yet Rise up for life and raise up the mountains Walk with me here, towards what’s ahead Gather your strength and walk through the fire Gathered to quench the flames Reconquer what is ours The anger built within summons the spirit’s demon form We will not succumb to fire Time is up, fire raging Time is up, fire burning
6.
Lying on the floor of an empty hall Burning in-and outside, decoding the cipher The walls of civilization to crumble and fall To dissolve what’s yet to be done Shivering, trashing wildly about Cringing and twisting, you’ve seen it all What you’ve become, what you have done Blackened and destroyed, killed and infected Formal undulation to be continued A solemn obsession with no sign of end What will you do when all you destroyed comes back to destroy you When the sea is vertical and the earth falls out of its socket Water consumes the land, water consumes the land The readings are off the charts, the earth is quaking Your ground analysis foresaw this It’s not if, it’s when you take what is not yours Blood from a rusted wound, the water consumes the land The engines to run for this one last time Before they forever fall down in silence The sky to tear open with downfall and fire To strike down the mountains and shatter the ground Break down earth, make it disappear You’ll see everything wither away What you’ve become, what you have done Blackened and destroyed, killed and infected
7.
Köld 02:08
8.
Wither 07:12
Journey to find an unexplainable phenomenon Shivering, winter has taken its toll Now I run, but the walls are coming down It’s caving in on me I try to scream, but the dust is choking me The errand’s through The marrow freezes inside the bones Struggling to be lost again The skin is turning pale No key will unlock this door No path leads to an end This shrine of frozen memories Will wither away with me This shrine of broken memories Will wither away
9.
Lake Vostok 07:59
In the dark depths Where the sun has not yet reached There is light not visible to us In the dark depths Where our eyes have not yet gazed There is sound that we can’t hear Dislodge horizons, summon Leviathan To break the ice and contaminate the empty spaces The so far untouched ground, the place that did not exist Gather to see the sun divide, eclipse A place so far below where it will never again rise Subglacial Lake Vostok Asleep beneath ice and snow In silence, a silent reign The time is standing still Asleep under ice and snow Gone and laid to rest Brute power does not suffice They can’t break through Break through the core They can’t break through
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Humanity’s reached the line This must come to an end The war is growing They are not satisfied What is the meaning of it? Destroying what once gave us life The trees are dying Soon they will all be gone But no one ever understands Am I one of you or am I one of them? I need to know, I stumble through the forest I need to find the root I feel the presence of his light A distinct urge within me He calls to me and seems to say I must find the forest god The spirit of all this life The trees, the sea, the sky I tremble violently now I must find the forest god He’s out here, in the northern forest As told by the legends through time I must find him soon I’ve searched for weeks on end But soon he’ll open up my eyes Open up our eyes And lead us home In a meadow, more beautiful than anything I’ve ever seen The light is blinding, but I can not cover my eyes What I see seems so unreal But there he stands before me I can’t believe it myself I have found the forest god He speaks to me, right to my heart Of what is yet to be Now is my time to leave and change I have found the forest god I found the forest god

credits

released December 21, 2015

I'd like to thank all of these people for helping me make this album way, way better - Sincerely, thank you!

Guest solos by Alejandro Hernández / AHmusic (Ground Analysis), Emil Westin Skogh (Wither) Erik Olsson (Lake Vostok) and Cederick Forsberg (The Forest God)

MIDI reamping for the song "Fire" by Rickard Svanström

Album art by Marie Sjöberg

Font by Huong Le Thi Thu / PoemHaiku

And finally, huge thanks to my friend Tobias Hansson as well as my friends in the video game cover community for cheering me on through this project - I likely couldn't have done it without you guys!

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Solo project from Sweden (usually metal-adjacent)

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