Stranger Than Fiction

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1.	Event Horizon 01:02	lyrics	buy track
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2.	Sigil 04:08	lyrics	buy track
IN CESSANT NOISE DRIVING BLIND INTO NARCISSISM SHIT HITS THE FAN GOD HAS PLANNED NOT TO WORRY FOOL CHRIST JUST SHUT UP STOP THE PRESS AND TRY TO SEE THAT YOU'RE NOT HERE WE DON'T CARE YOU BESEECH WE BELIEVE IN ONLY Our way or the highway Our way or the migrain I will reignite you To sanctify you Hold the line, we prey on apathy Strike the Apparition of malediction But don't hold your breath Lifted calm like child of Saturn Sink the stomach same Swallow whole by holy grace The appetite of the crowned will fade Wails from ivory towers hang disciples out to bleed Gaze of stone in face of terror, brings them to their knees (ON YOUR KNEES) I AM DOGMA COZENED VIGIL SO DON'T YOU TOUCH MY FUCKING SIGIL VIRTUE SIGMA RAPTURE VIRGIL SO DON'T YOU TOUCH MY FUCKING SIGIL Show me what you'll die for
3.	The Titan 04:22	lyrics	buy track
Walk as if made of steel I'm destined to corrode Made up of imbeciles No mind of my own Mock the afflicted with Tyrannosaurus maw Damn you for everything That I choose not to recall I am The Titan Digital walls collapse Debris by the seat The kettle swarms above Elating my defeat I fear what all of you know I live to snuff the real Please reciprocate my bullshit Screaming lies until you kneel I am The Titan No sense of mercy No right or wrong Feeding hand between My teeth where it belongs Drink the marrow Bleed it dry Suffer my ignorance You swing as I deny The stench of loss emits and radiates It reeks of fear and sweat The heart of malice palpitates as the Mania takes the threat I feed a zeitgeist rife with bile As they bow to their pariah I bleed upon my burning cross As self proclaimed messiah
4.	Upon The Sun 05:06	lyrics	buy track
Inject the acid, wire in the vein Wall off the world beyond and you pull it back again Gorge on the ecstasy, teeth sink to skin Just another kiss of death and elate me, let me in This trend is fatal You know it well Are you addicted to the flesh? Breath on my neck I need it again Lust must be fed to stay alive I'll blind this faithless spectre Must keep my eyes Upon The Sun Exhausted, breathless, chained to the wall Svadhisthana leads, I beckon to its call Seek palpitation, seek affirmation Tell yourself it's standing tall even when you're on your knees Take what you need and fly away It's home It's hell It's cold Resurrect my ability (Self control is the way to feeling alive) Resurrect my empathy (Self control is the way to feeling alive) It's light
5.	Flight 04:45	lyrics	buy track
Soar Clasp your freedom take leave of the torture. Or sink Into what you believe is your destined course. Deprived Vision best by deceit, face value ain't concrete So gaze Punch a hole into what's between the lines Stoic and passive and never in fight or flight Observing as sentinel, neither the meek nor the might In the crest of the raven lies determination to edify Trialling heights beyond the sky, prove gravity to be defied The answer to set you free is to succumb to anomaly Bearing witness to levity, expediting your Odyssey Stoic and passive and never in fight or flight Observing as sentinel, neither the meek nor the might The voyeur, the gazer, the jury, the judge, the executioner When the blindfold is off and the wings are unbound Will you tell me that Gravity pulls you to the ground?
6.	Jericho 03:49	lyrics	buy track
Cerulean crusaders are bending their knees to the blind And under the weight falls the calm before a blackened sky Paint the town crimson in fury, blood, and fire And I can't say That I know this pain as you do But know that we will try to Fight and stand beside you Split earth and heaven open Make haste to asphault plains The ruby flood begins to show us What waits in Jericho Rubber cutting through the storm of poison mist The civil scorch the earth to melt the iron fist Sacrifice solace and strike to burst the cist The system has failed The coral God has retreated And they're all but defeated One rule for absolution No surrender
7.	Afterlife 06:59	lyrics	buy track
Cry for all And seek your shelters Or come with us And see it to the end We're on the edge And clinging on for life Be it strength or God, peace or fear We are valley and mountain, the depth and the summit Swallowed whole And sanctified Ghosts of cowardice Don't stand behind us waiting for the fix Shoulders face A world unknown You'll march towards the black or stall And point your eyeless skulls towards the light Refracting Merciless and cold The iris of a higher power Chase us to the close A state beyond a dream With terror all too real A guiding hand to what's beyond Is yet to show itself Don't hold hope For rebirth Spiral down Into the Earth Core is warm And holding tight Final sight Of Afterlife A blinding flash and searing heat Colour seeps through the cracks Embrace yourself from everything to never A second chance to live forever What seems to be the final frontier Colour seeps through the cracks Embrace yourself from everything to never A second chance to live forever
8.	Walk The Sky 07:40	lyrics	buy track
We ne'er seek victory, nor victimhood Mock the grounded or fear those who fly And though the truth may seem Stranger Than Fiction It is the truth beyond the day we die When we learn to absolve, not abolish, apparitions When we learn to look shadows in the eye When we dance and stand tall with our feet of clay We will learn to Walk The Sky

about

Our sophomore release, Stranger Than Fiction, is now available here on Bandcamp! This album was our time-passer during the UK lockdowns in 2020. Having had Sigil ready to go for some time, we began work on a "Sigil EP" and, when we found we had at least 7 pieces of material to add to it, we realised a fully fledged album was in the works.

The entirety of the 2020 Summer was spent writing, recording, engineering, and preparing for the release of this and, not without it's stresses, turned out to be something we look at with extreme pride and admiration.

The disc moved us into a much more progressive direction, though not totally. We see this as our statement of growth from the still-admired Birth of Chaos album in the form of the new direction we hope to move towards.

credits

released January 30, 2021

All vocals, all clean guitars, all harmony guitars (with exception to Flight), rhythm guitars, solos on The Titan, Flight (1 and 3), Jericho (2), Afterlife (1), and Walk The Sky (1), and engineering and arranging of Event Horizon by Daniel Moran

Rhythm guitars, and solos for Sigil, Flight (2 and 4), Jericho (1), Afterlife (2) , and Walk The Sky (2) by Anthony Capitano

Bass guitar and bass solo in Walk The Sky by Elliott Kyriakides

All drums and percussion by Anthony Longworth

Female vocal on Jericho by Emma Shippen

Drums recorded in The Motor Museum with Loic Gaillard
Mixing and Mastering by David Dyson
Artwork by Barnaby Oakley

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Reaper Liverpool, UK

Reaper is a metal quartet from Liverpool, England. Reaper interpolates elements of hard rock, progressive metal, instrumental rock, and even small elements of fusion. Reaper's mission is to diversify the thrash metal and speed metal identity by interpolating any and all ideas we deem necessary. ... more

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