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Sunrise
01:28
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Liberosis
04:01
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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
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Kodama
05:07
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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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The Ironworks
02:32
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Fire
06:50
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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
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Ground Analysis
05:42
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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
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Köld
02:08
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Wither
07:12
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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
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Lake Vostok
07:59
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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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The Forest God
12:53
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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
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Billy Qvarnström Sweden
Solo project from Sweden (usually metal-adjacent)
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