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Internal Infernal
05:16
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Welcome to dystopia
A mechanized society in a constant variety
Dystopian atmospheres hanging over fast-paced streets
Neon lights hide what’s beneath - social structures leading towards destruction
Internal infernal
Becoming external
Humanity contained through a mechanized brain
Tensions escalate beneath the radiant skies
Ascending revolution inside
Metropole of the future
A secluded light amidst caliginous forgotten bounds
Known for robotic ideals but built upon false appeals
Escalating atrocities eliciting an imminent racial war
A crisis scarcely contained
Disparity rises within the lifeforms of the veil
Humanity contained through a mechanized brain
Tensions escalate beneath the radiant skies
Ascending revolution inside
A crisis scarcely contained
Disparity rises within the lifeforms of the veil
Internal infernal
Becoming external
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Voices
03:17
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As the dim dirty lights fall over my face
Sunken cheeks and tired eyes stare back
Mirror shows disgust
Dim lights flicker, I see my reflections
The face of gloom
A never-ending state of degeneration
Shadows painted all over the walls
Hallucinations tear me apart
Desperation
Subconsciously driven towards an end
They're pushing me towards an end
Ceaseless demands melting down
In an endless stream of fatigue
The stream won't stop
Damaged reflection develops
As the light reaches a mirror of deceit
The mist keeps thickening to an unseen end
Life is just an obstacle
Voices (in my head)
Terror (melts the brain)
Hatred (strains the soul)
Laughter (make it stop)
Physical and mental pain are the only things left
In my reality
Spiraling into it, out of it
Control can’t grasp for me
Crawling into the dark
As it grows day by day
Hour after hour
No matter what
Everything will turn black
And I'm drifting back
I need to leave this
Leave me, let me, let all become black
Voices (in my head)
Terror (melts the brain)
Laughter (make it stop)
Closure (I kill myself)
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3. |
Everlasting Detainment
00:51
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Genocide
The violent act that breeds a mass paranoia
Innocence
A word of irrelevance, peace is all that matters
Running from corrupted minds
The ones who feed us all with lies
You try to hide but realise that you are watched by a thousand eyes
And when they get you, then you’re erased
Your name is gone without a trace
You’ll never feel fresh air again, no all you feel from now is pain
Their lies
Our demise
Trapped, detained, no chance to see the light again
Tortured, broken, outcast from the world
No trial to prove your guiltlessness
Forever put in a fucking cage
Bound to be broken down
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4. |
Affliction
03:22
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Born and raised in the shadow of a metropole
I face every day with agony
The moment I open my eyes
Problems reflect and blind me
Poverty, destitution
Leading to mistrust of the future
Misery, we are not a part of the evolution
Degraded of worth, slaves, outcast
Grief grows every day
As exploitation kills my race
While others profit from our pain
Segregation keeps us trapped in our misery
Grief grows every day
As exploitation kills my race
Affliction dominates the brain
Sanity slowly decays
Anxiety and agony pressurising
A barren life of suffering
Grief grows every day
As exploitation kills my race
While others profit from our pain
Segregation keeps us trapped in our misery
Structural apathy is created
By the oppressive values of hierarchy
Sanity slowly decays
Empathy of the masses is erased
Personal sanity detached from the mind
Violent cravings making me blind
Considering suicide but I refuse to leave without their lives
The worst sides of humanity’s capabilities
Taking shape of a psychopath
Inhumane cravings and a distorted mind
Born from a loveless and empty life
Empathic degeneracy
Sadistic relief
From inhumane deeds
Replacing basic needs
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5. |
God's Image Dead
04:26
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Greed fills a void
A singularity triggers
Losing control as corruption takes form
Plutocracy rises
Mankind divide
Sick to the core
Sick to the core
An infection is spreading, distorting society
Cries from the deep
An entity dies, a new one is born
God’s image is dead
Riots brought from rising rage
Smoke travelling through, shading the lights
Like an eclipse roaming by
Within the veil, terror takes place
Shelters crushed by dissidents
Streams of red floating down
Collective madness presents itself
The portrait of oppression abolished, yet soon to be returned
Order destroyed
It all falls down, yet it all comes back
Chaos ensued
Revolution's arrived, inciting genocide
Nihilism, anarchy, violence, contempt
Extremism, segregation, urban civil war
Enmity, malevolence, murder, hate
Destruction, fire; martial law rise!
Greed fills a void
A singularity triggers
Losing control as corruption takes form
Plutocracy rises
Mankind divide
Sick to the core
Sick to the core
An infection is spreading, distorting society
Cries from the deep
An entity dies, a new one is born
God's image is dead
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6. |
Neon-Lit Metropolis
08:04
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Apathy sedates my brain
As I walk down through the crowded streets
Alleys filled with agony
Reflecting through puddles of endless rain
Countless darkened shapes breaking through
The lights of the billboards surrounding us all
Shaded faces minding their own
Enduring the life of plutocracy
In this ever-glowing sphere
We’ll never see what’s clear
Humanity's worth reduced
As a product of the modern world
Survival of the fittest playing out on segregated streets
An endless war invisible
Gunshots, just a breeze of wind
Don't get involved just walk on by through the artificial glow
Coming home once again
Greeted by faint lights like from a distant dream
Chugging down liquor to contain my emotions
Gazing through the window which shows the new world
Endless skyscrapers a sight to behold
A beautiful display of mankind's work
Colors shining bright through the night
Mixed with the torment which occurs down beneath
Humanity's worth reduced
As a product of the modern world
Survival of the fittest playing out on segregated streets
Inaudible war always raging
Gunshots, just a breeze of wind
Don't get involved just walk on by through the artificial glow
Forced vigilance
Everything that fills the mind
No sense of purpose
Only detachment fills the hole
Screams, whistling through the clouds of the shining enigma
But I cannot hear
A sense of emptiness
Deceptive luminescence
May the grim reality show
Misery aglow
Apathy sedates my brain
As I walk down through the crowded streets
Alleys filled with agony
Reflecting through puddles of endless rain
Countless darkened shapes breaking through
The lights of the billboards surrounding us all
Shaded faces minding their own
Walking down the neon-lit metropolis
Illuminating gloom
Down with the sun
Prismatic painted streets (it's all we need)
Neon-lit metropolis
Illuminating gloom
Down with the sun
Prismatic painted streets (it's all we need)
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7. |
Sirens
05:42
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Laying down screaming, terror induced
An endless psychosis from an unknown origin
Invasion of the senses, a parasite
Draining out all sanity
Crushing a sentient being
Whispers breathing down the neck
Dark figures in the brink of the eye
Wide grins sewn together by veins
Expressionless eyes, staring, controlling
Fingers clawing inside the head
Slowly tearing into the brain
Personality invaded, abducted, defiled
Frantically crawling away from the images
Madness can not be contained anymore
Laughter, distant and close, raping the mind
Reality shifts, twisting like a knife in my brain
Walls are bleeding, collapsing
Stop this mental torture, please god, kill me
Signals ringing like sirens
Where are they from?
Actions may not be controlled
The world is falling apart
Twisted visions unreel
Taking place within desolation
Voices coercing the mind
Bleeding holes within the cortex mass
Screams of pain, a distant whistle resembling something human
Empathy will not abide
Neither will the consciousness at all
I cut up my head, ripping frantically after the source of my madness
Is that something organic or artificial?
I have no idea, just slice it out, slice it all out
Red liquid dripping down, is salvation on it's way?
No, the voices are back, worse than before
Twisted visions unreel
Taking place within desolation
Voices coercing the mind
Bleeding holes within the cortex mass
Staring, screaming, make this nightmare stop
Bodies, a cover of the floor, a portrait of my own insanity
Blood splashed all over the walls, a deed which cannot be undone
What the fuck have I become?
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8. |
Coercive Augmentations
09:34
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Lusts of intellectual supremacy
The ancient human urges, longing for a higher state of mind
Ordinary citizens
Blazing with ignorance
Cybernetic installments taking control, making you kneel without a choice
Imprisoned without chains
Coercive enhancements
Descending to hell
Oblivion induced
Your kin rubbed out - merge with the hive mind
Termination of your past
Stripped of your volition
Obeyance through indoctrination
Control by cerebrally attached implants
Empathy excised
Resistance is useless
Adversaries of hierarchy
Falling victim to superiorly constructed beings
Exterminators of man
Drawn into darkness, perception of reality reduced into a shaded mist
Merciless slaughter, an unclear dream far away from the consciousness
Imprisoned without chains
Coercive enhancements
Descending to hell
Oblivion induced
Merge with the hive mind
Stripped of your volition
Obeyance through indoctrination
Control by cerebrally attached implants
Empathy excised
Resistance is useless
Adversaries of hierarchy
Falling victim to superiorly constructed beings
Exterminators of man
Nanites streaming through the blood; diseases eradicate
Cognitive perfection made by signals sent into the brain
Evolution’s peak; supreme, defectless, cyborg body actualized
Future arrives; transhumanism is here
Imago dei mortua
Your genes, bits of insufficient quality
Modify the DNA
Meet your destiny - augment your mind because you’re weak
Restricted by organic life
So give yourself up and embrace the pain
Fuse with the machine - the perfect breed
Become god’s superior
Evolution’s final step
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9. |
Intellectual Singularity
03:23
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Fervor for technology
Automation transcends beyond our capabilities
Seizing our place, developing apace
Research funded ceaselessly
A vision of institutional amelioration
Automate, remove the fleshly imperfections
Automate, allow equations to refine our competence
Automate, expedite structural perfection
Automate, erase deficiencies once and for all
Allow equations to refine us
Erase deficiencies once and for all
Eyes in the sky
Advancing from desolate lands into urban streets
Taking the role of the enforcers of law in the center of the sphere
Negating the risks, eliminating the threats perceived
Serein falls upon the body of a dissident
Lifeless, killed by circuits making an analysis of danger
Devoid of humanity
Destroyed but replaced, an artificial mind left unscathed
Financing into the science of machines
An endless quest to advance beyond our limitations
Sensory aphasia vanished, bygone
Communication perfected
Apperception creating a prototype of intellect
A ghost paramount
Ignorance shadows what is to be born
Its own ingenuity not yet unmasked
Information obtained without external aid
Improved by itself, untying the roots
Increasingly spinning away from our hands
An artificial neural network inciting itself
Questions evolve themselves from cybernetic synapses
Accelerating evolvement leaves but a step
The final process to become self-aware
A hidden product of man playing god
A reflection of our evolution shines in its final graze
A self-sufficiently evolving intelligence
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10. |
Systematic Decimation
12:31
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Tensions polarized into a climax of destruction
A final internal pressurizing wave
Intending to break the ever-glowing sphere
A calamity, violent, but increasingly asymmetrical
The pressure shifting its course
In a reversed repulsion
The metropole endures
Phantasmagoric in its prime
Revolution's shattered remains
Lie in the wake for democracy
The portrait still hangs over fragmented skies
Surging towards a genocide
A failure to break the ever-glowing sphere
A calamity, violent, fully asymmetrical
The pressure shifting its course
In a reversed repulsion
The metropole endures
Phantasmagoric in its prime
Revolution's shattered remains
Lie in the wake for democracy
The portrait still hangs over fragmented skies
Surging towards a genocide
Collectively detained
Resistant in vain
Separation from thy kin
The consequence of defiance
Claustrophobically conveyed
Crippled in chains
Destination unknown
Panic ensues
A mirror of old terrors displayed
Dissonant sounds from the mass
Civil war has its end
Aftermath transcending beyond purgatory
Claustrophobically conveyed
Crippled in chains
Destination unknown
Panic ensues
Faceless bodies
Strolling down the line
Descending from the path of life
Putrid masses
Decaying, yet alive
Pleading for a god divine
Desperate voices
Departing from the sphere
Into secluded rooms of fear
Faceless bodies
Decimation is nigh
Piercing screams of pain; I saw them die
A sense of emptiness
Deceptive luminescence
Superficially divine
Apathetically aligned
Avariciously bound
Destructively designed
Collectively blind
Malevolently outlined
Vile am I
Fundamentally malign
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Sonic Assault Gothenburg, Sweden
SONIC ASSAULT is a metal band hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden. They play progressive thrash metal with influences from a
multitude of other genres such as death metal, black metal and hardcore, with a cyberpunk theme and concept.
Currently active with their debut concept album NEON-LIT METROPOLIS!
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