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Catalyst

by Archaea

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1.
Omnicide 04:14
Seas of fire Fuelled by acid rain and wind A billion voices screaming Hands reaching for indifferent stars Much too late Too late to regret, too late to amend Far too far, too far we have gone In our war with ourselves Great wings of death envelop the earth Display your visage, blot out the sun Ending a war that cannot be won Omnicide All-encompassing terminus of our biosphere Civilisation Castles and towers of glass Fragile and shining In burning twilight Shatter the image Refusing to face Our glaring reflection The weakness within Annihilation of imperfect life With pure light beyond our grasp Plunging the world into total darkness Omnicide Terminus All we've accomplished dissolves into naught Before the harvest of what we have sown Under the gaze of a pitiless sun A terminal breath ends a legacy lost
2.
Silhouette 04:13
Out of the sun an outline of truth Darkness draped in brilliant light Blinded – unable to gaze Down the chasm of enlightenment The rays sting my eyes as I turn to the sky The scornful face of a merciless sun Unable to slake my thirst for insight My mind desiccates with ignorance A perfect image of contradiction Reflecting in my fading consciousness Fierce blazing light Perfect solid dark My thoughts invert In the barren wastelands of insanity My only light is that of the sun Trapped in darkness, now lead astray By luminescent lies What if the world as I know it is false? What if illusion is the only thing real? I have sought the line between light and dark The incision between life and death I realize that my search is futile That all and nothing are intertwined My mind scorched by enlightenment The sun sets on my dying eyes A monument to my failure I disintegrate
3.
Vacuum 04:34
Hear the roaring silence Echoing from my inner void Here I am – Empty of emotion, matter, thought Soulless hull – Collapsing from within State of mind – Lacking purpose or direction Unfeeling rock – Imploding on itself Is this my destiny? Being devoured by emptiness Sucked into vacuum Where nothing can exist Synaptic gorge Failure of perception The laws of physics are twisted Into spiral descent Becoming null Hammer of gravity crushing my bones Against the anvil of futile existence A fate worse than death Realization of total insignificance Reaching origo of meaning and life I am null Face to face with emptiness Meeting its eye with pure defiance Doomed to fail but refuse to the end To bow down to this existence To this Vacuum Shattering the silence with my final breath
4.
Cryosphere 04:27
No eyes fall on glaciers Ever held in winter's caress The ceaseless expanse of Earth Cased in ice None remain – nothing stands, still All we held true now gone Our constant hunger for more and more Let another bear the burden As we burn and forget Encase in ice – Halt all Blacken the sun – Pole to pole Frozen wasteland – Cryosphere extend The guilty long since dead The pain of blame Fuels the combustion chamber Our bias too great No perspective or incentive Fading freedom dreams The true fossils our minds Extremes extend as flows cease Burn and freeze life away Arid and glacial wastelands collide A sphere where only ice can prosper Flee the frozen lands Where only death holds sway Regardless of how you shift the blame We are bound to pay Sentenced and bleeding Lifeblood glacial Deceased and shrouded in snow Cataclysmic defeat for aeons to reign No eyes fall on glaciers No one will witness our end
5.
I come from a distant sphere From this yet another world Different from all you’ve seen Unreal I can’t be defined By your inferior minds What your eyes see Isn’t reality Bred by terror and hatred Of them I’m defined Nurtured by a sea of flames Beneath sulphurous skies Cradled by death In a fire cocoon Carrying the inferno Bringing your doom Born of fire Grown with hate Meant to be the bane of all In hellborn flame Magma flowing veins Fuel my dark intent Bring my poison, my pain My searing death Rupture the earth Bringing about the end Of the world By purpose of my soul From pyrochrysalis come to stop The flow of life Slow burn
6.
Salt 04:00
Ta i, alle man! För vår skuta ut ur hamn Bogen skär vågor famnar höga Vi trotsar stormen – ut till havs Under grå himmel och över grönt hav Isande vind och bitande kyla Vi kämpar för att hålla vår båt på rätt köl Annars havet vi aldrig lämnar Jag smakar salt i vinden Genom år har den garvat mitt skinn Mina händer är grövre än läder Men saltast är själen min Havets vrede är en fruktansvärd syn Men värre är att vara dess byte Jag slits från däck och kastas överbord Min grav på sextio famnars djup Salt Havet det omsluter mig, fängslar var lem I sitt kalla sköte mig sänker Och jag bereder mig att dö en fiskares död Då grova händer mig ur havet lyfter Jag smakar salt i vinden Den fyller mina lungor med liv Mina vänner är här vid min sida När vi åter mot hamnen styr Jag har gift mig med havet Ingen kvinna eller barn väntar på land Men min familj är här i båten När tillsammans ut vi far på sjön På sjön Till havs Salt
7.
Quad Damage 03:51
Contenders – arm yourselves Spectators – come take your seats Referee – sound your voice The match has begun – place your bets In this game that defies reality Death is not the end Pile foe on foe, die time and again Till you win the love and praise of the masses With the correct application of force I can crush every single foe Four times the carnage, four times the fun Half a minute, I rule the killing field Quad Damage Win the sign – win the game Magnify force – multiply death The corpse stack grows tenfold Bodies re-spawn on top of their bones The sound of battle drowned in the roar Of exalted viewers eager for blood For money, women, power and fame Through slug and shrapnel I rip my way A private war of greed and vanity All in the name of entertainment Quad Damage The symbol of dreams fulfilled and broken The dividing line between win and loss Free for all! There are only winners and losers Such are the rules we've made for ourselves I'm a madman in a mad world Playing the game as it's been wrought With the correct application of force I'll be the top freak of this freak show Four times the slaughter, four times the fame Half a minute in blood red stage light Stop thinking Justification I do not need To hell with reason, to hell with all Honour is dead – there's only war All I need is another bullet Another kill, another win In the darkness of ignorance Under the sign of triumph so sweet Quad Damage The drive of every man made solid My past, present, future and life Quad Damage!
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Sol 02:21
The distant light of a new day Behold the first light on the horizon A ray of hope in the darkest hour Now the veil of night is ruptured Let the tide of daybreak flow Heavens of east are rekindled again The last shade of the night swiftly fading away When the sun rises up, shows its bright smiling face In a cascade of light a new day has begun Shine over the earth Every morning is a friend returning Each day a gift of heaven's light Life in every form we know it Beast and plant – all stem from you Day after day you will shine over heaven and earth High above in the sky you are ever enthroned As a proof of God, or a God of your own You're the centre, the source From which all energy is derived Time draws to a close For now you're setting The circle complete Now enshrouded in eventide We have no fear because There is no night that is Without an end so we Wait for the first distant light Of a new day, of a new day!

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Exclusive live video preview - Omnicide Live @ Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg

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released August 28, 2015

Written by Archaea, recorded by Archaea. Mixed and mastered by Johan Treptow. Original artwork by Demithréa Mikulasi. Photography by Jessica Blomé.

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Archaea is a melodic death metal band founded in 2007 by the Heidarsson brothers. Catalyst is our first full length album, that we recorded ourselves. If you want tonally interesting harmonies anchored in solid metal, you've come to the right place.

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