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01. Supernova

Music by Holmlid, Mörck
Lyrics by Mörck
"Imagine being able to unleash one of the most potent of phenomenae in the universe; to implode the sun, to gaze at the cataclysmic discharge while soaring through clouds of aeon-old particles brought back into reborn alacrity and to experience a moment so cogently malign it would instigate the annihilation of an entire solar system. Such a thought would undeniably be labeled as utter madness by self-declared sane men, but with every passing day the human race gains an increasing control over the forces of nature, and such power is surely within our grasp. And as with our other detrimental discoveries, we will not be able to restrict ourselves from using it.
So, when the time for final abolition comes, let us, you and I, marvel at the sight of millennia of eruption become undone! The question is just:"


Do you believe
in powers extreme
Bewildering majesty
Can you perceive
a vision supreme
Eruption serene

Grim destiny
infinity
radiant intensity
Ethereal sphere
Future severe
Benevolent fear

Heed to its fortune bestowed
Marvel and let it explode
To the inferno we go

Detonate the sun
and soar into the supernova
Now it has begun
A solar mass undone

Say, can you feel
destruction surreal
deadly calamity
A final demise
in godly disguise
now will arise

Heed to the wisdom of old
Unleash a glory untold
To the inferno we go

Detonate the sun
and soar into the supernova
Now it has begun
a solar mass undone

Heed to its fortune bestowed
Marvel and let it explode
To the infero we go

Detonate the sun
and soar into the supernova
Now it has begun
a solar mass undone

02. Cassiopeia

Music by Mörck, Holmlid
Lyrics by Mörck
"The sages of ancient Greece told many tales and myths of momentous tragedy and heart gripping sadness. The story of the Aethipian queen Cassiopeia, however, is without a doubt one of the most poignant litanies the ancient world has to offer.
She was as bafflingly beautiful as she was vain, and she continously boasted about being more graceful and admirable than her sisters, the ephemeral Nereids. For this, she awoke the wrath of Poseidon himself, who sent down an abhorrent monster to plague both man and beast. According to the white-bearded oracle Ammon this was to continue until Cassiopeia's daughter, Andromeda, was sacrificed before the Cyclopean Gorgon.
Andromeda accepted her appalling fate, but was saved by Perseus and Cassiopeia's intervention moments before being devoured by the beast.
The Olymian Gods, however, had not forgotten Cassiopeia's atrocious boasting, but upon elevating her to the top spire of Olympia to further punish her, they too, wer struck by her stupefying beauty. Thus, her amercement was to spend eternity among the stars, lonesome and deserted, but her beauty is to this day for all men to enjoy when the firmament is clear on a summer's night. It is said that you can still hear the winds of the Adriatic coast whisper the following words with a ancient, ethereal melody:"


Beautiful queen of the waters
Borne by celestial mother
Sublime astrological divinity

Punished for vain intervention
She sacrificed godlike ascension
Stripped of Olympian serenity

"Solar winds
will carry me far away from here
take me to my journey's end"

Hear a goddess cry,
a silent hopeless sigh
from a sanctum divine

From the stars she still whispers
Envied among all her sisters
Entwined in a kingdom of infinity

The tears of an astral descension
derived from her moonlit dimension
A star that is fading to obscurity

"So, my wings
will carry me far away from home
bring me to my final rest"

Hear a goddess cry,
a silent hopeless sigh
from a sanctum divine

Hear a goddess cry,
a silent hopeless sigh
from a sanctum divine

03. Contact

Music by Holmlid, Mörck
Lyrics by Mörck
"When you gaze upon the flickering distant stars that set the night sky ablaze with brazen diamonds, has it ever occurred to you that the chance is great that someone, or rather something, is glaring back at you?
If such a creature would make contact with human beings, in what shape would such a message be? Megalithic antennas throughout the world continuously scan the skies for such cosmic perplexities, and on one fateful day they might very well find a pattern of cryptic logic in the empyrean waves of sonar resonation.
There is only one thing that can be said with some certainty; if such a stellar scroll would lead to contact between our two races, the destructiveness of mankind would see that only one species would remain."


A cryptic equation
of a pulsating light
An unearthly riddle
from beyond the starlit sky

Message of unknown design
Heavenly but non-divine
Sent by intelligent minds
An echo through space and time

Fractal figures, deciphered lines
Stellar visit is nigh

See the fire in the cloudless night
Bright reflections of lights in my eyes
Now we will see
will our contact be
salvation from afar
a guiding star

A cold observation
of systematical eyes
Our demeanour transfigured
A calculated demise

Contact with alien life
Heavenly but non-divine
Communication with cosmic minds
that travelled through space and time

See the fire in the cloudless night
Bright reflections of lights in my eyes
Now we will see
will our contact be
salvation from afar
A guiding star

Complete fulfillment of ancient signs
A swift destruction by higher minds

See the fire in the cloudless night
Bright reflection of lights in my eyes
now we will see
that our contact will be
destruction from afar
One final war

04. Astronomy

Music by Mörck, Holmlid
Lyrics by Mörck, Jake E
"Change alone is eternal,
perpetual, immortal."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"When you feel that you have achieved everything in life; complacency, comfort and convenience, life has a tendency to induce moments that swipes away the bedrock of your everyday life. Instead of being engulfed in disconsolation and distress, use these times of trouble to reinvoke the dreams, passion and standards you once had before choosing amenity as your personal deity. So, like the people of old, choose the stars as your guide and aim beyond the sun, for a life not truly lived is like a vast firmament devoid of fiery astral bodies."


I am getting closer
to a higher ground
My destination
lies beyond the sun

Not afraid of failure,
to crash and burn
If you're not living
you will never learn

Constellations for
revealing my destiny
Astronomy
There among the stars

Like a higher conscience
living in my mind
You're always with me
till the end of time

It is there before me
Undisguised
No hesitation
I am on the rise

Constellations far
revealing my agony
Astronomy
There among the stars

A life without strife
is a moonless night
Astronomy
Ascend to a sky of endless light
Astronomy

Constellations far
revealing my destiny
There among the stars

A life without strife
is a moonless night
Astronomy
Ascend to a sky of endless light
Astronomy

05. Antimatter

Music by Magnusson, Holmlid
Lyrics by Holmlid, Mörck
"Monolithic spheres circle around an utterly chaotis realm with a Dirac sea of baleful negative particles, engulfed in a funereal vacuum as primeval as the very discharge that created this universe.
It is a blighted landscape where the substratum of relativity is twisted beyond the consecrated laws of science and sane logic, and where transcendental matter reveals its dualistic nature. Behold what science dare only speculate about, for this is the dominion of contraterrene corporeality...
So, follow me, my young assistant, to a place disturbingly alike our own, yet inexplicably disparate! Let us just activite the three first phases, and our journey shall commence."


Before the stars were born
A separation of fractal cycles
Decelerating array -
nothing stands in my way
Antiuniverse

See, what science won't believe
A mirror for this world
Through gateways you will pass
Inverted human mass

"Interstellar travels -
naught, in contrast to this...
...inversion of the universe known"

There will be no return
and soon you will learn
Now follow me

Before the stars were born
from matter it was torn
Reach out, you will...

See, what science won't believe
A mirror for this world
Through gateways you will pass
Inverted human mass

Leave this earth to a plane
With shadows lost in time
A vision of anti-life
Abandon your strife

Before this dream was born
my vision was forlorn
None believed but...

Now, behold what can't be seen
The mirror of a dream
There will be no return
So reach out, you will learn

06. The Book Of Shadows Part IV: The Scrolls Of Geometria Divina

(instrumental)

07. Beethoven's Nightmare

Twilight, candlelit walls
A strong crescendo
Highlights the lonely calls
From my piano

Melody, come to me
sing your silent voice
Remedy my envy
Bring me one last choice

Why, why can't you bring me to find?
To clear your sound
no wayfarer is blind

See my hands
Conducting a nightmare
The symphony of a tragedy
So great it devours me
These notes are just fantasy

Peretual dream won't let go of me
I struggle to live
without the notion of a sound
that could open my mind

moonlight, make me conceive
a slow sonata
Midnight, the dead will grieve
to this dark cantata

The detestable dance to my score
they hear my cries
Your guidance I implore

See my hands
Constructing a nightmare
the symphony of a universe
So vast it devours me
These nights are just fantasy

Celestial beam, help me to see
I struggle to live
without the notion of a sound
That could open my mind

Into a unending sorrow
A festival of horror
An orchestra of the undead

So bright my destiny was
Golden future
Inside shadows amass
Nocturnal rapture

Melody, come to me
Sing your silent voice
Remedy my envy
Bring me one last choice

Why can't you bring me to find?
to hear your sound
No wayfarer is blind

See my hands
Conducting a nightmare
The beauty of a melody
Is all that inspires me
to write my last symphony

Perpetual dream
never lets go of me
I struggle to live
without the notion of a sound
That could (have) opened my mind

08. Too Late For Sorrow

Show me, will you lead the way
To a place where I will feel this pain?
Tell me you will always be by my side
and wait for this final moment.

Close your eyes and hear my whisper
longing for the sun

'cause I live my life
I live my life
Lost all of my hope
and I'm fearing tomorrow.
where will I be trying to see?
but it's too late.
So now I know that I'm alone
and it's too late for sorrow.

Trust me, it is my advice
don't look back in time
it's hard to realise.

So hold me
And I will always be by your side
and wait for this final moment.

I close my eyes and hear your whisper
calling for a sign

I live my life
lost all of my hope
and I'm fearing tomorrow.
Where will I be trying to see?
But it's too late.
So now I know that I'm alone
and it's too late for sorrow.

I lived my life
lost all of my hope
now it's too late

I live my life
lost all of my hope
and I'm fearing tomorrow.
(For I need you, I need you)
Where will I be trying to see?
(Longing to see)
But it's too late for sorrow.
(But it's too late)

09. Direction: Perfection

Just one
One more and I'll give in
Say why you stalk me
Everlasting crave

Fly through the light
In nethern realms you will find
No more deception
(Exception)

Now save your pride
Walk this line
And I'll be your guide
See your final hope
Is fading with the light
That blinds your eyes

Gaze high
And see why you will know
In every vision
There's a truth that hides

Fly through the light
In nether realms you will find
Your right direction - perfection

Now save your pride
Walk this line
Towards the other side
See your final hope
Is fading with the light
That blinds your eyes

Fly through the light
In never realms you will find
Your right direction - perfection

10. The Old House On The Hill

(instrumental)

11. Intuition

(instrumental)

12. The Last Word

(instrumental)