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Phoscoria

by Doom Tiger

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1.
Continental 03:33
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I would love to leave this place but i don't know what to do to really escape You would love to help but I don't want you to be encased in this rocky tomb Someone help me There was a time I could do anything at all But now I'm broken inside, and I don't know what to do I've hit a wall One thing I have found Keep your feet on solid ground Stay away from the sea It's not where mankind was meant to be
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Oceanic 03:57
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Who are you? I hail from the sea Venturing across the expanse of ocean where there be Monsters, and dragons, and if you ask me Something stranger still that could kill us all If it stopped its sleep You say you fell from the sky Do you really expect me to believe you can fly Show me your wings, with angelic voice sing Give out a cry Let us leave this vast subterranean maze I'd say I'd breathed in the sea, but I really don't expect you to believe me Please just help me I've been lost since the first day of my life
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Mohorovičić 03:21
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Anyway, the clock is tickin' It's fixin' to be a good for a slaughter Gotta stop, create a plan if you can Find a way to stop the downfall of humanity The devourer consumes no one is safe down here Further down the rabbit hole goes And nobody knows where he lives Gird yourself for a journey down Into the heart of the reason mankind is all doomed to die Consume Devourer Further down Through the ground Further down Further still
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Upper 04:49
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Miraculous bearer of light Bring back upon us the darkness of night So we'll be blinded by our greed We need the truth on our side So we can combat the father of lies So now we will rise Under the dirt above Absent the sun we love Beam your rays of light upon us I'm so tired of this Who are we to even try to save the world Who's to say the stars won't fall out of the sky and burn us alive And the dirt won't rise and all of the earth Suffocating I don't want to die, no I don't want to die Maybe, maybe we have a chance All we can do is advance I know that we have a chance And now with death we will dance Down among the worms Watch them writhe and squirm Kill them, fire burn Throw them in an urn
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Lower 05:30
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Look now We have them on the run Back to wherever they came from Go now further from the sun Don't stop until we've done What we came for What we'll never have fame for You don't scare anyone We won't stop until we've done what we came for What we'll never have fame for No one will ever know we were here Our legend and nameless legacy will just disappear We'll never see the loved ones we hold so dear
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Gutenberg 02:45
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Morning star Light bearer Lucifer Home is where the heart is in pain Home is where you'll always stay the same The devil's element Is what we need Philosophers stone Causes too much greed Maybe now we won't make the same mistake I know that if we try we can change our fate
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Interlude 02:18
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(Instrumental)
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Outer 03:17
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Down in the caves Where the light can't penetrate Will you bury me in the core Scattered throughout the sea I'm sorry For dragging you down here with me I know somehow it's my fault But thank you for all that you've done You've been the greatest help of all Now we must Kill the beast Dull its horns Crush its wings
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Inner 24:32
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Somebody once told me All that glitters is not gold Not everything ancient is old You and me, we were born to breathe The same air fills our lungs of the older and the young Finally, in front of us breathing gently The devourer himself, the destructive spawn of hell Serpentine, flesh scaly Out of our nightmares, slumbering in its lair How are we supposed to kill Something bigger than our skill Maybe this was a fool's errand after all Burn with fire Greedy desire Wanton destruction Wars and corpse production Burn Waking up Our nemesis draws its breath All I can see is pillars of smoke and falling coals Mem'ry of a fallen time so long ago Wouldn't you like it to see your family again? I can take you to them, your life doesn't have to end All you have to do is kill your fellow man He doesn't deserve the life he wishes he could have Run from its flames Scurry from its hooves Avert eyes from gaze Be careful how it moves Somebody save me I can't do this by myself What have you done? You betrayer You know he'll never keep his promise to you I thought you were better than this All I can do now is run from everything The only thing I've ever done before Now my only hope My only dream Summed up like this Cavern collapse Well it's been fun, but I'm afraid I've got to go You've killed us all, still I want you to know That we will rebuild it all It's a cycle Neverending cycle Darkness betrays her Devour my very soul Poison consumes her Your death will not make you whole
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Epilogue 08:38
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Depths await But I forsake Night will take But dawn will wake Death just aches But love won't break Dissipate All your hate No it's not too late No it's never too late

about

This is technically the longest I've spent on an album. I believe I started recording roughs soon after Pelagia released, although I definitely focused on Ospheria and then The Grippe more that year. I'm super proud of this album. In the end there are only a few qualms I have with it, but I can live with those. I loved how some of the songs came together. Upper/Lower didn't even have roughs, I just recorded those straight through. I almost cut Gutenberg until I got a good drum take and rearranged some notes. Interlude/Outer wasn't even a twinkle in my eye until a couple months before release. I recorded the drums for Interlude first, then figured out the guitar parts. All I had for the first five minutes of inner was one riff until a week before I submitted the final version of the album. I spent way less time tweaking the eq's than on Ospheria, so that was a nice surprise. All in all, I'd say this was a successful venture.

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released August 28, 2016

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Doom Tiger Cedar Falls, Iowa

I do a lot of writing and recording. Here are the end results.

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