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Dust
01:53
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Marcasite
08:45
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Stone, day and night
Sky and ground
Sound and silence
Light in the dark
Still, cold and warm
Roots and leaves
Round and round
Storm of life
Signs of life
Spark of urge
Before the fire, under the souls
Uplifting
By the blast of breath
To burst hunger
Follow the source of blood
Thirst grows from the ground
In the moment of fear
Instinct is the only guide
A beast ready to kill
To save its own child
Each day, each night
Living nigh it
Today the sun reaches for the rocks
Spreading out of nowhere, matterless glow
Ethereal body, shaping the blow
Lighter than winds and faster than streams
Only stones can stand its burn
Each day, each night,
Living with it
A blazing flake splits the whole
Split the whole and watch the showdown
A new being is made, through the hand
Released out of control
A new spirit is created, through the head
Released out of control
By the light of the flame
Smashing the clouds
Follow the path of man
I grow out of the fire
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Inner cycle
07:00
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I walk on silence, in the shadows
During days and nights
Feel and smell the way of flesh
In each moment and everywhere
Track down to find the tension to chop down
Open the bleeding source into new wakes
I see balance in everything
Nothing is lost, nothing is created
Everything is one, inner cycle
Everything in its right place
The light has come for a reason
The perfect time, the perfect place
Take the throne of blood
Nothing ever dies
All is reborn
Fractal ramification
On the same scheme everywhere
Pieces split but never spoil
Track down to find the tension to chop down
Open the bleeding source into new wakes
What you give is what you take
You're part of it
You are the wolf, you are the sheep
You're made of stones
You're everything
What you give is what you take
Too much noise
You're part of it
You are the wolf, you are the sheep
To find
You're made of stones
You're everything
Where is my inner circle
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Pareidolia
05:28
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From the scars, knowledge is born
Through my fingers, new shapes arise
Deep inside my heart, in my veins
A world is born from my eyes
Seeds from the past grow in my mind
From the source, I carry the stones
Inertia
Time passes, and the choice is mine
To think and create new life
I write down the time aligning the stones along the stars
Revealing the dawn and drawing the cradle of new souls
Where does my power end?
The ants are crawling forever
Building mountains
Last night, they told me the secret
Giant stones
In erection
Toward the sky, toward the sun
Toward the stars
Giant stones
To be seen
From the sky, from the sun
From the stars
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Faces
01:38
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Visions in the cave
08:12
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Flood of life in my brain
Blood is rushing to my head
Everything beating
To the sound of my inside drum
Here comes the blur
Here comes the faint dark
The light is fading
Colors shining
Conscience shaking
And I feel I'm not alone
The sounds are growing
Strings vibrating
Someone's watching
And I feel everything's gone
Nothing is real
But I feel I'm there
At the core of this world
In the womb of time
I am rising
Flesh and bone out of the soil
Scattering life around the world
I'm letting go where nothing dies
Into the creator’s eye
The hand takes my heart, drags me out of my mouth
And they announce themselves with signs
Pierced by spikes, the cutting up starts
Muscles swell as they scatter my bones
Encrypted light shouts symbols
Wisdom is blown through my mind
I put the pieces together
It all makes sense now
Nothing will ever be the same again
Let there be light
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Abred
08:09
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The present is every moment
Between life and death
In the chasm of choice
Hidden by consciousness
Wake up
Burnt by the sun
Falling with rain
You ride the flesh
Outside the glass of the mind
Inside the blast of time
Cross the sphere and pray for me
Crawling to the sunlight
It's time to cross the layers
By a mind straight on the line
Of absolute consciousness
Duality shattering reality
Everything must be done again
This is our prison
This is our trance mission
Like a christ at the crossroads of heaven and hell
Things so real and so senseful
Steps are mountains
Animals stars travel and draw a circle over my head
And lead my way beyond time
Dance of myths, trance of filth
Thoughts, blasts, no turning back
Hands around the present, trust required
Expanding universe
Solved complexity, ruins carve my eye
Split myself in two and
Cross the sphere and pray for me
So hard to say
Burnt by the sun
So hard to see
Falling with rain
Is this just the end
You ride the flesh
Or the beginning?
Day after day
The light touches our skins
Making us older
In the eyes of the sad men
Where are all the dreams
My father used to have
Lost in the ocean of chaos
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In the wake of the millions
And the warm waves of creation
I feel the dawn is old
How to find again the remains
And the feelings of what I have been
I see future has come
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Laniakea
07:20
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My people wander at dusk
Chasing the night back in the woods
Disguised in fear, trapped in anguish
My people is invisible
Our stones bend toward the skies
Either by defiance or submission
Or is it just the adoration?
My people will always explore
When we kneel down before the fathers
We close our eyes in reverence
The ones living between us and the gods
Are the wanderers of the invisible
My people will never forget
The holy tales
A wild beast is a godhead to us
And we seize the beast with a mark on the wall
Divine drawings out of colors and shapes
And confront whatever exceeds our understanding
Connecting these worlds
We rise to a new level
We call for the gods
This is the new visible symbol
In this very moment
The passing of the sun
Illuminates with liquid light
The carving of our lives in the stone
This is where my people is born
This is where we learnt to walk
This is the place that owns our memories
A world ruled by luminaries
Laniakea
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Dead Sun
12:51
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Melting the knowledge into one mind
Work is a treasure
Deep inside the earth, in the rock's veins
Crushing the core
The gift of the stars is revealed by the fire
Open the depth of the past
Reach for the stardust inside
To burn them again and again
Bring the dead sun back to life
Open the depth of time
Light up the embers again
Hammer the dust from the sun
Into the shapes of the mind
The gloaming is coming
It's time to guard the glimpse in the gloom
Wait for the moon to brighten up the fire
Ready to hammer
In the wave of the rough and the fond
Stone circle transcends the iron drum
Melting the knowledge into one mind
Deep down the hole, there's a burning sun
We're becoming our own creations
Melting the earth into gods and weapons
We're becoming visions in the caves
Drawing dark smoke out of the earth
Blaze and flares shoot up and burn your skin
The light so bright that you'll become blind
The hits so loud that you'll become deaf
No cliff is high enough
To satisfy my will for endless fall
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Mantra France
Free spirit of the French metal scene, Mantra has been exploring the boundaries of progressive music for nearly 10 years. Ritual-like atmospheres on stage, shamanic or metaphysical concept-albums: the band cuts loose to give life to genuine shows, and goes as far as incorporating contemporary dance into its appearances on stage. ... more
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