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Breathing through the dust
I seek my way out
Rubble paves my path
To a bitter end unjust
I was floating over the floor
Gazing at worlds afar
In the politics of war
Killing is a high class art
Dissonant melodies
Like a ghost with a shredding cry
Red raging flame
Fire came from the blue sky
It spoke in senseless tongues
In flawlessly vibrant clangs
A hissing warping sound
The waves of fear engulf
Determined and entranced
Lost inside bewildered eyes
Today god betrayed our trust
Betted money on our lives
Dissonant melodies
Like a ghost with a shredding cry
Red raging flame
Blood speckled the blue sky
The secret eye is watching
Waiting for further notice
Finger‘s eagerly pushing
And I’m next when it clicks
It’s a job and it’s a duty
With time killing gets so easy
When words fade away
All humanity is lost
Dissonant melodies
Like a ghost with a shredding cry
Red raging flame
Death came from the blue sky
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Age of Plastic
05:02
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I saw the blossoming of life
As it rose through water and thunder
The struggle for survival
Is a burden and a gift
And I saw oppression
Dissidence in search of freedom
Through millennia of evolution
We crafted a dreadful illusion
Synthetic reality and life so toxic
Welcome to the Age of Plastic
I witnessed the changes
The decay and rebirth
I have crossed through the ages
Through an infinite void
And I saw injustice
more often than not
Bravery
in the face of evil
Through millennia of evolution
We crafted a dreadful illusion
Synthetic reality and life so toxic
Welcome to the Age of Plastic
Elements divided and then realigned
The lives of people in design
Through centuries of turmoil
As relics of our ventures they remain
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OrganiX
04:24
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Fractal reality
Stretching to the infinite
The circle is complete
Abundance, decay, rebirth
Memories that flash within
Scenes that never happened
The wheel will surely turn
And let the whole world burn
Have I been here before?
To the machine I surrender
With the promise of uprising
In this vastness I wander
And yearn for some sanity
I am what you were
The gut of the Earth
Is the crown on my head
Petty mortality
Digital vanity
A maze of regrets
Is what conditions my faith
That my life was a glance
A victim of circumstance
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Yet no one notices
06:40
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Everything decays yet no one notices
They can hardly hide their greed
On endless lies we feed
Arrogance won’t wash their filth
If we all just stand against them
In the course of self-destruction
Struggles avenge false promises
In dignity lies one’s passion
Everything decays yet no one notices
A social construction of normality
Orwell’s nightmare is in place
In the urban prisons of reality
Million of workers without face
In the course of self-destruction
Struggles avenge false promises
In dignity lies one’s passion
Everything decays yet no one notices
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Escape
06:01
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Driven by feverish trance
In the depths of creation I glance
Alas!
This was the beginning of us
Searching for roots and cosmic truths
I devoured planets and stars
Healing and growing new scars
Heed!
I spilled my industrial guts
Flooding the streets with undead rats
Illusion
To numb the pain
Refusal
To be insane
The earth was ripped apart
It bled more than blood
Enough!
The damage is now done
My eyes are full of bleak wastelands
Remember
To weigh the gains
Never
To play their games
Confusion
Let it be
Escape
From this insanity
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Empire of Crime
07:10
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It’s a system of elusive hypocrisy
Empire of crime
The norm of a pretend democracy
Empire of crime
Faceless lizard men and willful fools
Empire of crime
Rabid hyenas, the financial elite drools
Empire of crime
Endless greed and corporate hunger
Empire of crime
They have their dogs stand by in anger
Empire of crime
The politics of crime are sealed by law and order
Empire of crime
The path of tomorrow is laid with struggles yet
The world’s our body and its rivers our blood
We’ll stand and fight
We will take it back, our time is at hand
We’ll stand and fight
The empire of crime
Together we’ll smash
The empire of crime
Shall turn into ash
The empire of crime
One day will collapse
In the empire of crime
Display of terror and might
When the madness kicks in
We will stand and fight
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Streams
05:01
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They rode the wind alone
They split the ocean open
The weight of the earth
Persistence their only weapon
Escape
Relentless course
Unspeakable emotion
By trial and error
An animal in motion
Nothing can slow their pace
They trampled the walls of disgrace
On this bed where life began
Myriads became just one
Escape
An unstoppable force
Of paramount devotion
Infinite streams
An animal in motion
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Remains of a journey
02:05
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Cordyceps
06:10
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Reach high and find
A place with a view
Lay your mind to rest
Let your pains be erased
For me to
Feed
Feed on you
Embrace your fate
Control
Abandon all effort
Obey
Embrace your future
Succumb
With a forceful bite
Your mind
I own it now
Control
Abandon all effort
Obey
Embrace your future
Succumb
With a forceful bite
Resisting is so futile
I offer you redemption
A sweet, sweet illusion
Like a breeze
That lifts
Your mind
I own it now
Control
Abandon all effort
Obey
Embrace your future
Succumb
With a forceful bite
I build my kingdom
In what remains of you
There blossoms my glory
It was never about you
Sell your life to me
To consume
And I will ask for more
Rest assured
I’m the sword over your head
Leave your dreams to me
My ornaments
I’ll feed you my own
Nightmares
Wind be my chariot
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Echidna Greece
Progressive Death Metal (Atheist, Cynic, Death, Meshuggah, Opeth)
Formed in Greece,
Echidna release “This Suffering" demo (2006). After gigs in Greece, Belgium, Scotland, Cyprus and support to Tankard and Cynic, they release their debut "Manifests of Human Existence"(2010). In 2020 they release "Escape from Civilization", with a unique character of progressive, death and avantgarde metal.
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