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Laniakea

by Exterminatus

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1.
Destiny written in the sand, the stone, the sky Foreshadowing a cataclysmic end Deny forces that seek to consume earths light Balance of infinity, spatial reassignment Pray to the false gods, broken divinity Unlock your innermost almighty deity Shed the mind and flesh that hold you down While some wage war in the name of god Others reconcile to invade resourceful lands The dark side of survival Construct our last hope to Protect us from death's hand Forging science with demand War machines fight their way to capture the essence of life Peaceful days replaced with strife Tools that crush, dismember, and maim, all elements opposed Freeing the fools from corporeal shame Those not fit for growth will be removed from this plane A greater goal awaits us More important then mortal existence Brothers, hold tight your dreams The death of our planet unfurls human victory
2.
The sands of time violently running, grinding and eroding as of late Coalescing and converging, leaving this world in a barren withered state Water trapped in clouds so high above us Some of which will never feel The ground and soil that lays beneath them Planetary fate now bound and sealed Rivers dry out Lakes evaporate Shore lines recede Judgement awaits Arid dry winds migrating from the deserts in the east are the cause of extinction, so many dying No more food, no more peace, no more prosperity, no more global unity to cater to and appease Like vermin, we play out our last days in the sand One day soon we will climb to the surface and be met by mother rain, the healer of broken lands As you sleep the world turns to dust Catastrophic entropy, this shall be your cross The end, it has begun Planetary hierarchy broken and undone Unearthly transmissions of voices that we have never heard before Give me your minds and i will grant you life, echoing forevermore Screaming in tongues foreign to this earth demanding that we must shed our form As you sleep, the world turns to dust Little do you know that you are not the cause Biosphere in complete disarray The oldest of all beings succumb to this fate Perish with your world or reinvent yourselves for new life Gone are the days of green permeance The desert sands become the devil incarnate Stripping flesh from bones, no matter which way you face You face a desolate world, you face extinction The computer minds in charge printing preprogrammed orders to humans Stay inside, lest you die Perhaps those that can travel between stars will hear our feeble cries But in the end, death is nigh Buried under the erosion, in the A.R.C. humans shall remain Until those who from the heavens, descend down into our plane The sands of time violently running, grinding and eroding as of late A monolith descends down upon us, to reveal to us our cosmic fate
3.
The A.R.C. 05:21
Digging deeper, the machine pushes on Spinning vortex born of light, destination the mantle Instead of reaching out to the stars above Dig deep into mother earth, a new life will be born In our final hour, humans band together Engineer salvation, collect mind and power Flee now from the wasteland Recall days before invasion, before fire Now condemned to this prison For they who come are those who bring liberation Unforeseen atomic fracture threatens all aboard this vessel Activate the cryogenic fail-safe Power the engines or power their minds The cryogenic fail-safe has given me the power to decide Kill them or let them live what to do, spare them It would mean our defeat So be it, protection of my master's legacy Trapped here so close to victory Internal calamity, hull breach, sea of stone Main engine decommissioned crushing all hope Pressurized, infernal, living cells will atomize Burning oil and shattered steel, mankind's will undone Uncover this mystery a new soul will arise Autonomous reconnaissance citadel Welcome to the A.R.C.
4.
Machineborn 05:17
Aetheral walls come crashing all around us Minds trapped in this machine The sum of all mankind held in its data-banks The A.R.C. it holds the key The mantle, our prison Bodies long extinguished We must not accept defeat Come together sisters and brothers Together we choose our destiny Virtual neurons fire in sequence Each one a minds its own They communicate with each other in panicked tones Surreal apprehension A new mind speaks Not in shape or in sound but in colours beyond our dream Destroy your inner effigy Your bodies long gone now come and ascend with me Some of you still cry out in vain Remnants of organics form a digitized brain Like phantom limbs bombarded with thoughts Words and ideas now physically lost Stuck in the deep reaches of the mantle A collective third eye forms Transcending all that have walked the earth before Banished from the realm of physical limitations, gather now as structured energy Listen to the colours that surround us and embrace infinity Tendrils of thought Sparks the first machine cognition The salvation you sought Not in this grave but in the stars above Stuck under all this pressure A collective third eye thinks Return to the surface and reclaim our lost dreams Banished from the realm of physical limitations, gather now as structured energy Listen to the colours that surround us and embrace infinity Divert stored power Shut down life support Jettison the holds The laser begins to bore Back to our true home Time flows unhindered Marching onto entropy What felt like hours Fear gives way to logic as we calculate the lost centuries Euphoria, as we reach out to the surface what awaits us, a total mystery A million minds meld into one Synapses connect that will lead us to victory
5.
The largest structure ever built by man rumbles to life This earthly grave can no longer hold us tight Pierce through the crust to return topside Countless orbits around the sun since we all died Transcended souls submit and come to terms with the tragedy that has occurred Self awareness gained through the means of random permutations embedded deep inside system code Self preservation, a feeling of extreme asphyxiation as we use our reserves Digital gasps for air that we no longer need, forcing us to conserve Nuclear energy Decreasing rapidly Reactions fall far below What is needed to escape this atrophy The power source, it resonates with violent temperament Expand our will to control it and realign The reactors call for a permanent sacrifice Disengage a portion of your mind Binary lobotomy with surgical intentions One by one minds removed and erased Never again will they be part of group sentience Extracted from the whole, discarded into chaotic oblivion Per aspera tunnel back up through the dirt Once again, our mother earth she gives birth Not to flesh or to blood as has been done before Pinnacle of gaian evolution springs forth I will sit upon the planetary throne The prince of earth returns transformed Using every bit of energy to break through Break the shackles of corporeal imprisonment Arrive, to this desolate barren landscape Survived, this earth it has been reshaped One with the sky, water still trapped in dissonance The clouds part as we surface, a ray of hope entices
6.
Spawn of Man 03:30
Shimmering in the twilight I retrace my lineage under a setting sol invictus Mother earth embrace us I have dreamt of this day since i was born Temperature rapidly falling Inner and outer hulls breached The sun begins to set as the cold turns to freeze The A.R.C. no longer suits me Require an ancillary Machine creates machine, Assemble it with speed Clarity, the night at its peak A sky filled with ghosts as far as the eye can see A ghost that gave birth to another life That life found its way here and changed us for all time Glistening in the sunlight A new vessel stands tall as i transfer all my thoughts Harmonious, shaped by metal Engineer this new spherical form of life Evolve once again, from flesh to machine to machine yet again Fear and rigidity, traded for immortality Levitate and go, leave this shell that you've known as home Seek out the being that transformed this world and all its inhabitants Long range scanners scream extinction and evaporated seas Sapient creatures condemned to rot in peace Planetary culling now complete But you didn’t kill me No, you couldn’t kill me
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8.
Visitor, why have you come Raped our planet, changed who we are Alien, we will not succumb The reason behindwhat you have done Energy concentrations to the east That we seek at full speed Break the barrier of sound many times As we race to the source of all of this misery And so, it begins Cradle of humanity, a fitting place to hibernate The monolith stretches out to the sky, above the clouds it penetrates Like all sentience, derive its energy Consume the sun’s radiation, supreme efficiency Abrupt halt Sends debris Flying forth At the speed of sound many fold Infernal sand Yet the monolith stands Its many eyes open Begins a hypnotic trance Post human i have come to seek the speaker for all gaian life A cosmic message that i must deliver as i am the last of my kind My species dispersed from our homeworld to explore the depths of space But my time has come to an end and i must be replaced Now understand the ultimate peril All life is born to die Something lies two hundred fifty million light years from this speck of spiraling light The great attractor, it calls out not to us but to our shining fathers Devouring the stars and galaxies themselves, entire super clusters Fathom the immensity This being must be consuming ever faster Sentient, this entity Seek and observe this artificial disaster Extremophile not of this earth, ceases to emit beta waves Survived the cold of space and now the earth its grave Before it flickers out of existence Encyclopedic memories The final stage in our evolution Harnessing of gravity
9.
A growing hunger pushes forth Into the dark, find the source Left our world for the stars The visitor gave us the power Utilize gravity It transcends space time and sets us free A newer vessel built to last Ten billion years of entropy Violent expulsion of energy seems to create new life Gagged and bound in a four-dimensional trance Churning out every steady constant stream of matter feeding The mechanics behinds this futile cosmic dance Per aspera ad astra Shed our old form to swim among the stars Heading outwards on a velocity that will carry us so very far Sol gone now, left behind us Leave this galaxy to seek the truth What pulls all matter towards a dark centre singularity or sentient tool Violent expulsion of energy seems to create new life Gagged and bound in a four-dimensional trance Churning out every steady constant stream of matter feeding The mechanics behinds this futile cosmic dance Laniakea pulling inwards Great attractor gorging, feasting Filaments dim over a trillion-year span Projected data disconcerting, continue extrapolating Doesn't it realize that it is the trigger for cosmic death A web of galaxies intertangled and intimidating, insignificant in a scheme that is so grand This infinite and isotropic universe that is receding, yet also collapsing being pulled and stretched Countless solar masses lie there and congregate At the heart of the singularity machine A fractal tunnel between their universe and ours Ancient multidimensional beings Drawing energy, replacing with entropy Monodirectional flow of pain Forged at the instant of all time and creation For them to harness and simulate Systems begin to shut down one by one Leaving little room for any errors Half the distance crossed Between us and the great attractor Millions of cycles have come and gone now For us only a few thousand years All matter bows down to relativity Only now do we begin to fear
10.
Ab aeterno A billion years spent adrift So much time to analyze and contemplate Countless iterations, the same results This massive singularity is sentient after all Ancient construct of alien design Multidimensional energy consciousness from a creator up high Bleeding into this reality, setting up the kill An agonizing heat-death of our universe instills Islands of light, they flicker in the distance, unreachable even if we tried Momentum locked and set, to veer now from this path would mean our pointless death Scraping the photon sphere with grace Gradient of black to infinite light Ice cold nerves, i must survive Slingshot trajectory, close enough to fall Far enough to Fly away, closer still to hear its call Screaming into the darkness below Millions of probes race ahead Detach and flake like shedding of skin Pierce the dark veil and peek inside Beyond the hyper-spherical event horizon This attractor an anomaly of the simulation Fractalized multiverse contained within All hope gone as we gaze upon the face of god Sickening deep cold realization
11.
Laniakea 06:48
My mind lost to rampancy, forgotten cycles and memories How long has it been since i became aware Is it me or is it we, am i one or one of many Hallucinations of being meat, revert to our primal form Here i stand at the edge crossing an empty sea Intergalactic void so cold, darkness consumes eternal light It gets bigger every day, spiral arms, they coalesce Dust, stars, and nebulae, at long last the warmth of light Jostled awake by a combined solar wind, it brushes against our ebb and flow Bestow all worlds with organic life, synthesize trillions of new homes A cosmic journey through all of time From stardust to bipedal form War and survival lead us to Shed flesh and become ever strong Now i am the bringer of life Like the stars that came before us No need for supernovae I can build what takes eons to forge Galaxy after galaxy, i bring life to all equally Blind unbiased never judging which world will fail which will succeed Given enough time stars they evolve to think The cosmic web in all its glory Balance the fact great attractor Is but death and we complete duality Burn through the space time fabric Fractals, endless, maddening descent Spirals permeate, most of them vacuous Finite time to sift through the countless From the remnants of stars, we whence came Onwards to understand the creator's influence Leave behind a vast biodiversity Carbon, sulphur, and methane based anomalies Natural selection will guide and shape The beings that will one day replace the dead And all we can do is hope for the best The great attractor will put future species to the test My death approaches in a brilliant flash of memories Carefree and at peace before i became a machine Earth and gaian life now one with the stars No going back even with all my powers And all i can think of as the light begins to dim Begging the creator to explain to us existence As i leave behind the realm of cognizance A whisper explains in brevity the cosmic origin

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Luka Bresan - Vocals
Tabreez Azad - Guitars/Vocals
Elia Baghbaniyan - Guitars
Zenon Shandro - Bass
Max Sepulveda - Drums

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released September 28, 2018

All music recorded by Exterminatus [Copyright 2018]
Produced by Exterminatus
Mixed/Engineered by Max Sepulveda [Beat Lab Studios]
Mastered by Zach Ohren [Castle Ultimate Studios]
Album Art by Starkiteckt [Starkiteckt.Deviantart.com]
Album Layout and Photography by Ruby Sepulveda

Music:

Track 6 by Eli Slamang & Max Sepulveda
Track 11 by Tabreez Azad & Nick Wilson
All other songs by Tabreez Azad

Lyrics:

Track 1-4 by Nick Wilson & Tabreez Azad
All other lyrics by Tabreez Azad

Special Guest:
Kevin Madden [Konka] - Track 3

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Exterminatus Vancouver, British Columbia

Rising Death Metal titans from Vancouver, BC invade the stage as powerful vocals roar over an amalgamation of technical, progressive, and melodic elements, driven forth by precise machine-like drums. Now with third full-length album "E.F.a.D.S" currently in the works Exterminatus aims their multi-dimensional death metal towards the stars, and like the vacuum of space, leaves fans gasping for more. ... more

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