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Empire
Metal
Empire was released on October 31, 2023 by Escarion Records as a part of the album Towards a Futile Existence
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Release DateOctober 31, 2023
LabelEscarion Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM

Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Arhondis
John Arhondis
Songwriter
Gaia Lily Mitting
Gaia Lily Mitting
Songwriter
Rhys Kevin McKenzie
Rhys Kevin McKenzie
Songwriter
Timothy Hugh Bottams
Timothy Hugh Bottams
Songwriter
Louis Surya Parengkuan
Louis Surya Parengkuan
Songwriter

Lyrics

Tear down your martyrs and fall
For absolution in grievance
Acquittal, reprieve
Forsaking cultures unknown
With zealotry unrepentant
Imperium dei crucifixion
Credo ex nihilo
Spawned the plagues that torture the soul
With benediction
The chains fall into place
ODIN! ARES! POSEIDON!
ROMA! PARI! ATHENA!
THOR! OSIRIS! FREYA!
This false empire
The pantheon of lies
This false empire
Bleeds into me
Arise from thy slumber
From whence didst thou bow?
This false empire
legatum manet in aeternum
Reading perceptions of reality
Through the pupils of the blind
Nailed down
Between the realm
Of physical and mental machinations
Behold the monolith of existence
This cage of mine
It's yours too
It holds no truth
Wildness thunders, feels the stinging whip
Clawing hands reach from incarceration
Domesticated
The mask of docility slips
I relish in your ugliness
Can you relish in mine?
Face your freedom with a willing smile?
Or bow
Bone framed bars
They caterwaul
Higher, higher raise
This false empire
In the halls of the oppressors
I bow to disobedience
And coil with trepidation
Forever cast and reside in shadow
Ignorance is what we feed the mind
While the body blindly pursues
Depravity of the flesh
A broken mechanism of feudal cognition
In a perpetual mental quest
through an abyss of mirrors
If only reflections held answers
If only introspection brought joy
Instead of knives in the dark
Constellations shift with every blink
While every stare stares back empty
The aether withers
And aeons fade
Until the void in between the stars
Enlightens the last
Enforcing perceptions of reality
Through the pupils of the blind
Nailed down
Between the realms
Behold the monolith of existence
Held with the feeble hands of beggars
Written by: Gaia Lily Mitting, John Arhondis, Louis Surya Parengkuan, Rhys Kevin McKenzie, Timothy Hugh Bottams
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