1. |
Prologue
10:24
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Colours dance in free will
A solitary novice views the spectacle
allow the light to penetrate and rupture your bonds
fold up inside and become liberated
Limbs fresh from the womb attempt the perils of a planar shift.
Vertical face of stone ascends out of sight.
Yet ever present orb of light
a radiant wound in the throat of the darkness.
Sleep
Erase
Expand
Wisdom has a price, what are you willing to sacrifice?
One day you'll fall into rivers of your own design,
Yes you'll fall to the serpents of your broken mind.
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Submergence
09:54
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The sky burns
Invocation of ancestral blood
I plunge my hands into the soil and feel the pulse of countless hearts beating.
Alive in the caverns of the mind a dormancy beyond time.
It dwells in a primordial substance, the evils of mankind.
Journey to the core
Clawing through the floor.
Floating over a lake of infected blood,
The clouds clear and I can see it all:
The past, future, and present linked by the call
of Terra Immaculate
I omit my fears and dive in
Evolution hinders my way
Currents push me astray
Choking on what I've found
Inching closer to the ground
Journey to the core
Burrow through the ocean floor
Journey to the core
Lungs collapsing, can't take much more.
The plates shift and vacuum pulls me down
Titanic force inhales without a sound
Visions of a cavern underground, light dies.
My reality becomes stone and void.
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3. |
The Machine
05:10
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Millstone jaws grind.
Arterial passage left behind.
Sinew binds the tissue,
gears turned by chains.
Beast without eyes carving out veins.
Boring into Earth.
Swallow it whole.
Erode the boulders,
and hollow bone.
Edge devourer
Wall crumbler
Crushing through
Path Maker
Boring into Earth.
Swallow it whole.
Erode the boulders,
and hollow bone.
Flesh and cog.
Grease and blood.
Endless engine.
Screams and fog.
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4. |
Permafrost Link
05:47
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Constant shift
Within, Without
Thrown outside myself to watch the strands unravel.
All consuming event horizon.
Trapped below the iron permafrost.
This vortex cuts through stone.
This vortex shapes the land.
Resets the mortal coil.
Mountains become sand.
Each second the hole closes and motionless I bury myself.
Slowly descend step by step.
All consuming event horizon.
Trapped below the iron permafrost.
All my sense pray for surrender but hands form as one to melt away the ice.
I need the warmth of others to survive.
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5. |
Release
07:40
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Writhing through this earthen hole,
narrow passage of mud and bone.
Stones gnaw unprotected skin.
Naked, bloody, but still I persist.
It's all the same a sediment maze, the paths converge.
All senses used,
No guiding light,
for sight I yearn.
Like vermin on all fours searching.
Oblivion's maw opens.
Semblance of time is lost I can't recall my name.
A hollow shell who's losing hope, nothing to gain.
Eroding,
my spirit is crumbling.
Frantic, constricted, and struggling.
Enclosed these tunnels will become my tomb!
I press on forward, though the path narrows.
I've come to this point and retreat can't even save me now.
I lick the walls for perspiration, what strength I can receive I'll cherish on the miles ahead.
But I stop moving. This vessel's sinking.
My will alone can't even break this new paralysis.
This battered body, no longer suits me.
I must move inward and emancipate my true self.
Peel away my structure
I breach the manifolds
The restraints are coming loose
I swallow darkness with my glow.
The locks to my cage rupture
and these walls hold me no more.
Reality suddenly a memory.
Omniscience.
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6. |
Epilogue
03:43
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Underground, underground, exalt my roots with an earthen crown.
Underground, Underground, to expand my limbs free of gall and flame.
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Teleportoise Guelph, Ontario
"This is a bit of a weird and borderline one. All things considered, we feel that this is more on the heavy, sludgy post-rock side, as opposed to metal."
Azmodes, Encyclopaedia Metallum 2019
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