01
THE GREATEST TIME OF CHANGE
sin for the sorrow
scream in a broken heart
in these frail days we keep burning
in darkness without fate, we fade
in this greatest time of change
we keep falling
while this fire inside our hearts
burns our wings
IN THIS GREATEST TIME OF CHANGE
WE KEEP FALLING
ALL THIS HOLLOW
REMAINS, WON’T FADE AWAY
THE END HAS A GHOST FOR YOU
THE END HAS A GHOST FOR ME
AS WE FALL OUT
WE ESCAPE
we seek the savior in silent cries
all for nothing, with death aside
we feel forsaken, despite the raging fire
fractured mind, we still fight
stigmatized we still ignite
in the end of it all
lose the battle
we all fall
we all fall
our dreams have become dead
our blood has become shed
our weakness, out of regret
no longer bleeds the core
we all fall
where you gonna head when the sky is black
who you gonna stare with the eyes oil black
will we ever see the end of the road
if you let go, you never know
this far in the grounds unknown
if you choose life, maybe you’ll find
the price at the end of the road
or suffer in the wait for sanctity
straight out from nowhere
they tear the sun down
in the darkness, in fear
our night remains
run around ’till blood runs out
in the darkest of the hours we have become only ghosts
guidance to the home we will never reach again
no salvation
circle of blood
life is just freezing right inside of you
circle of blood
tears feel so burning right inside of me
frozen and doomed to walk
kill the light that would guide us home
hear their call, the wind, the fire
tears fall out, in defile
my desire
we heal the fear in shelter
we melt the tears my loved one
we fade and die
face of hopeless
the eyes of grace i drown in
the end awakes
the last are the words my loved one
- never see home
in the greatest
time of the changes
we’re falling in hollow
that won’t fade away
this is just a ghost of me
just a ghost of you
into the wind we fly
02
VALKYRIE
we built this fallen bridge the very first day we met
never said i did any better my heart all over the place
just a remind of days will make it burn both ways
sure as hell we blew it together with blood all over the face
since the day i breached through to you
- my breath shall burden yours too
WAS IT FOR ME TO TAKE
ONLY FOR YOU TO BREAK
MAYBE JUST ANOTHER WAY
YOU MY LITTLE PARASITE
REALLY JUST TO SEEK ME
MAYBE FIGHT TO LIVE IN ME
OR JUST ANOTHER DAY
FOR YOU MY LITTLE PARANOID
i’ve lost my mind in the final fight
we’ve passed through the final night
bestowed by the hope of light
oh my valkyrie
I’m so lost in my disbelieve
I was so lost in your paranoia
your sound, killed your noise
was it for me?
or was it for you?
03
MORTAL PARADIGM
for once I have stood
in trust, in the name of the days been born
may this be the way that I refuse to be the one to fall
abandoned, I faced myself when lost the traces
bloodstained, in front of your face, I burn the pages
SO WHAT IF I WILL NEVER
ACCEPT TO SAY IT TO YOU
SHALL I BURN IN HELL OR HEAVEN
IN THE FLAMES OF YOUR FURY
LAST DAYLIGHT
ALL THE HOPE THAT FOUGHT WENT
- GONE IN HELL
SO EMPTY, COLD HEARTED
HUMAN STAINS
we are doomed to walk alone here
from the moment we are born in
we will fight the field with honor
our hearts only as cursed
as blessed of being mortal
nothing will last forever, there is no eternity
and we will never win before losing everything
the wings will guide us home
to the place where we belong
to become everfree
become dead supreme
04
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
stop the randomize, time to prioritize
so lost in this chapter
locks and seals were broken, gates of hell wide open
greatly to unleash the emptiness in me
ripping it through the madness, living a masquerade
reality outlined
blame is for the chosen, careless heart of frozen
who felt no shame on hopeless days
WALK THROUGH THE DARKNESS
AND DANCE WITH ME
EYES OF PERFECTION STARING ME
CAREFUL, THE TRAITOR WILL HEAL
RISE TO THE MADNESS
COME PLAY WITH ME
FAR FROM THE WISDOMS OF THE WORLD
THERE’S NO ESCAPE IN ME
now
there will be blood
the crest of filth and violent cruelty
has collapsed
cover the eyes you coward
nothing for you to see here
on the hands of reduction
inhale this final breeze
i keep running terror
out of human error
a serpent made of bones
and my head explodes
there will be blood
countless days been born again
my hands covered in blood
daylight goes, my eyes are closed and
I - know - there will be blood
circle around soul complete
misery lays me on knees
my head explodes
I wish your faces disintegrated
but they all come back to me
I am crawling in shapeless silence
I will carry my tears to be shed
as the world will carry on - carry me home
but there will be blood
05
WHERE THE SINNERS CRAWL
I can smell the fear and weakness
see right through inside your soul
I can dwell in silent secrets
mirror tell my tale, no more
I’ve strayed so lost with all this hate
I’ve lost my faith to make the change
relentless, I am reachless
we reign, we fall
in hope we carry on
PUNCH ME THROUGH THE FLAMES
I’M NOT AFRAID TO DIE
WATCH ME BURN AFAR
IN THIS GIVEN TIME UNTIL I’M DONE
WHEN MY EYES CLOSE
WHEN THE SILENCE BLINDFOLDS
I WILL RESET
THE GLORY IN MY HEART
I can see it in the eyes of redemption
as a devil of the ride
the second when I sought for a shelter
only found a cage to hide
in the middle of your saints
a demon needs to be chased
I see you try me
as much as nothing left to say
one of the last ones left to save
I see the end has just begun
I kiss you one more last goodbye
there are reapers and angels
drifting to share the way
right here where the sinners crawl
we fall - out of shades, all the desperate ways
revolve - future as a great unknown
06
OCEANS ON FIRE
fearful faces, stranded hearts
between birth and death we all fall
heartaches, fatal words
cares of the waking world
come to terms with our days
and scars as decorations
final heartbeats giving in
lose the battle to flatline
in my sweet end of the world
my sweet end of the world
on a day when the thoughts can be found
in a stone and six feet down the ground
your world will bleed out of blessings
breathe in, my sweet end of the world
ARE WE PLANNING TO DIE TONIGHT
DRIFT NOTHING LEARNED
WHERE THE OCEANS BURN
ARE WE PLANNING TO LIVE THE NIGHT
OR PAINT THE SKIES
WITH THE ASHES OF THE WORLD
burn
oh my sweet end of the world
the revelation of desire and the final flame out
fade out
if you’re planning to die tonight
we’ll hold the skies
for a while
die tonight
never learn
live the night
end of the world
if you’re planning to die tonight don’t bloody wait me
you’ll bring us a world to breathe
drift with nothing learned
live through the night
grey the skies of the world
ARE WE PLANNING TO DIE TONIGHT
DRIFT WITH NOTHING LEARNED
PLANNING TO LIVE THE NIGHT
GREY THE SKIES OF THE WORLD
OCEANS ON FIRE WILL FREEZE ON THE DAY
WE DRIFT TO SILENCE
IN SAFE
07
BASTARD’S SEED
feed it with fire
seed it to life
born to witness this life here
hard not to feel the shame
shame on you for bringing the sorrow
earth down to her knees
in this world of greed
uncontrolled, selfishly
fuel the flames of seed
when nothing remains
the victim is stained
where is your planet b?
CREATION ON HOLD NOW
OR WE WILL FALL
CRASH AND BURN DOWN
YOU FEEL NO REMORSE
BERIED ALIVE WE’VE TORN OPEN
HEART OF THE EARTH, SO BROKEN
her sore eyes keep begging for freedom
but your pale hands keep shoveling graves
what have we done with this power
lost the control of running this breed
this world has
overcrowded, paralyzed, blinded by the fear and lies
and I cannot believe
how this humanity
is withered in bastard’s seed
you brought her
so much of the hollow
families the sorrow
with your useless burning greed
feed it with fire, seed it to life
feed the fire with infinity
but you’re bringing in the final destruction
we run out of air, we run out of room
because of people like you
we run out of air, we run out of room
until we run out of people like you
someday you will open up your eyes and see
this world has overcrowded, paralazed and blinded
by the fear and the lies
cannot believe, still you bastards seed
08
ETHEREAL
this vile curiosity consumed her faith
gone into the wind with the ashes of the agony and sin
this flickering faith she fell
turn it lose and let the omen burn
this world will keep on changing
but you never learn
until you never wake up again
SHOOTING DOWN THE ODDS
WELCOME THE MISFORTUNE
WE HAVE LEARNED TO SWIM
JUST BY WATCHING YOU DROWN
SHOOTING DOWN THE STARS
CONFINED AND FORSAKEN
CONFINED AND BETRAYED
WE MUST FIGHT
THROUGH THIS LIFE OF OUR TIME
AND NEVER WAKE UP AGAIN
AND NEVER WAKE UP AGAIN
destruct, burn the witchcraft hearts
restruct, burn the fractured scars
ancient power, lies and greed
you selfish, control your breed
angels holding hands in the world
soon we’ll never wake up again
we will never wake up again
the world is set on fire
we have a thing to save
save your breathe and your sermon
it’s the last thing to ever retain
the world is set on fire
we have a thing to save
now, you have nothing to say?
just a crest of wave
the justice, a part of what’s gone wrong
running to the outcome
we have nothing to save
angels keep dancing ’till the end of the days
playing the same song right till the end
and never wake up again
soon we will never wake up again
09
PERDITION
let the bloody heaven fall, we’ve already seen it all
in the destruction we’ve had to rebuild
that’s how we’ve kept the evolving in
way to go, welcome the fall
right about to lose it all
none but ourselves are guiding the way
lighthouse of faith all down from the shame
it’s all the same - you keep the change
DEPRESS THE DARKNESS
DEFILE THE SHADOWS
A WILL TO FIND THE DAY
FIND THE DAY
AND WE WILL FIND THE WAY
mesmerised, paralyzed
suckers bite their holy blood
never had a thought
where you gather it all
our headaches, shit storm servants
we have the freedom, we have the will
not exactly we’re out of the sins
never ever questionize my eyes
they burn the fire inside
hide the wings to fly when darkness surrounds
off the world we’ll find our way
depress all the darkness
defile through the shadows
have a will to find the day
and we’ll find the way
fly away like a firebird, run away with the heart oh so hurt
if I let you fly alone will you find the way?
10
MEMENTO MORI
time is up
count me out from the rest of the days
you may try- to fight the reaper inside of you
leave you try - the wrap of sanity laid on you
ask your gods what are going to do when
there is nothing left to lose
I have already wondered
enough in the time to be chosen
I’ll take it from here on my own
while your heart goes frozen
questionize your path of sorrow
keep your laws in your own graves
IN THE END WE ALL
TO THE SAFE WE FALL
BURIED ALIVE BY THE DARKNESS, NOW
WHAT YOU NEED IS WHAT YOU BREATHE
TAKE A LOOK INTO THESE EYES
LET ME SAY MY LAST GOODBYES
I WANNA SEE THE SUN FALLING - SO FALL IN
AND DREAM OUT OF SORROW
never leave me die here
hopeless on the grounds of the holy hearted
suckers of the sorrow and lies behing the suffer
the circle will complete
and pass my pain away
now can you judge my strength here
with more ignorance in veins
it’s to be chosen when life goes on around here
there is no room for weakness right inside here
you are the reborn
generation fail
give me the doctrine of eternal sleep
bring me the beauty what you can not see
you fucking piece of
generation fail
we have no reason
to suffer all the pain
never surrender to pain
they say you’ll survive
burn it in your sermon
freedom of soul
give me my way to go
weak upon
my heart will die
can not go back and rewind my time
all that hate this world gone through
you bought yourself the fucking rules
just to lie
just to wait till we die
from the love that you break free
turned into hate
can’t be prayed free
tearing our loved ones down
we were soulmates we were one
and i cannot believe it
face the world as you see it
cuz’ we were one until we’re done soon to be gone
all the love that you gave me
burns in the heart soon to fail me
tearing my life came down by force fed lies on starless
skies again
no longer the pain revolves in me
never
ever wake up in me
now
what we deceived (deceived)
in this life that forms us the sorrow (sorrow)
as we wither (wither)
paralyzed in our prayers (prayers)
so we receive
this choice to bring in the hollow
still we dream on
while you kill our final hope
never ever
wake up in me again
TRACK BY TRACK
by Jarkko Koukonen / vocals
The Greatest Time of Change was the first track we put out long before the actual record, and that's because we wanted to give everyone a clear sign this album is going to be something different from what we've done before. It's a massive song with a lot of stuff and obviously was a tough task to keep it together with the vocals too. I remember listening the instrumental demo for months before I was able to build up potential ideas what I'm actually going to do with the track. Randomly placing the spoken words at the beginning of the song also opened up the chorus and it turned out to become one of my personal favorite sections on the album. You can hear Lauri's voice on chorus too and I think we really form a nice co-op sound here. Lyric-wise I wanted to follow the epic route like the song itself, so it's kind of a more artistic, dark twisted poetry about the struggle of life as it may sometimes seem, in this constantly changing world we live in.
Valkyrie is a pretty simple, straight forward and melodic song, which we think has a catchy chorus. It's quite easily approachable, I guess, so that's why it was chosen to be the second video song of the album. This was one of the songs for our composer and guitarist Antti, where everything just fell in place easily and the final instrumental arrangement was complete in a very short frame of time. I don't think it comes as a surprise that Valkyrie is themed as kind of a melancholic love song, but more than addressing any specific relationship or individual experience, it's about love as an emotion in general. At least most of us know it, I think, and sometimes it can get pretty nasty inside our heads. Our drummer Jarkko came up with a list of cool song names for this album and Valkyrie was instantly the perfect pick to represent a relative figure for the lyrics. From there it also found it's way into the album cover.
After something quite massive and something more easily approachable we wanted to go fast. Mortal Paradigm is more of an action filled song and even if it doesn't have that much of a wide variety in it, I think it has a great atmospheric chorus and the instrument side is really flying throughout the whole song. This was originally one of the songs we were not so sure about, but it kind of came into life during the final periods just before entering the studio. After we received the first mixes it was obvious it works really well. This is also the only song that has lyrics from someone aside of me, as Jarkko wrote them for most of the song. It's about accepting your mortality, and appreciating the short period of time we are here. You can't cheat the death.
There Will Be Blood was among the first composed songs for this album and it was clear from the beginning it's going to end up in the live setlist too. It's clearly divided in two parts, has quite a big chorus with some piano, some rough triole riffs with maybe the most aggressive chapters of the album too. Lyrically it's a personal song for me. It's one of those not so beautiful realizations, I guess, when you are not interested or being able to make the change out of what you represent.
Where the Sinners Crawl has this very different kind of build-in and it really drops down nicely when it starts properly. We think the chorus turned out to become catchy too. It's been in the live setlist and already kind of become some sort of "anthem of madness" out of the new songs we've played. That's why we filmed it back in Jurassic Rock-festival in our home town and released the video of it. Basically it's for all the narrow minded people who refuse to let go of their views, opinions and believes, and refuse to open up their eyes for anything else than what they've got used to. They easily then see your actions as evil and are always the first ones to judge you. It's about kissing these kind of retards "one more last goodbye".
Oceans on Fire is a bit of a "hate song" that does not have any certain person as an object, it's kind of a reminder about the fact how privileged we are to witness the form of life in our humanity and how some people completely disrespect that. The track is built on pretty simple elements but after all, forms one of the most roughest songs on the record. We think it also has been solid on live set.
Bastard's Seed was one of the older songs that ended up on this record, and was actually modified quite a lot, even as late as during the recording sessions at the studio. This was the only song I had pre-written the lyrics before even diving into the arrangement side of things. We think it has pretty artistic feel in it and it's definitely one of the most obvious statements in our history when it comes to the lyrics. Life is a gift, not a given right. Quality, not the quantity.
Ethereal is more of a traditional melodeath-style song and was also the first track on the album I did the demo vocals. As it opened the game for the album that way, it surely has somehow shown the path for the whole record. Lyrics are pretty poetic mind-flow stuff around the fact that world is changing, and some have completely failed to stay on with it. I came across this line "we have learned to swim just by watching you drown" somewhere and instantly knew this has to end up in a song. I think it really sums up the story here.
Perdition. Fast, more punk, aggressive and short track. In contrary, it has a really big sounding middle-section where you can find massive keyboards and some really dark atmosphere. This one also has a really catchy lead-melody throughout the song, if you ask me, and Lauri also has a lot of vocals to double things up. Lyrically, it's a song from the perspective of humans who don't need religion in their lives and are able to find the strength to continue purely from themselves when going through darker times. It's about shaking hands with the darkness, and being able to move this new best friend out of the way when necessary. It actually has a really positive vibe for this album.
Memento Mori. This is the first track Antti composed for our second album. It has a lot going on and I think it has so many different atmospheres you can not even find elsewhere on the album. Memento Mori is most likely the best song on the album to describe where the band stands musically on this day. It was the first track where we started to try very different kind of approaches on many aspects. I had the chorus done with vocals, but struggled like crazy with the rest of the track for a long time. Then again, when things started to fall into place it all came together quickly. I think this song is the ultimate summary of the whole record, and basically every song just falls under it lyrically. It also has a very distinct view on euthanasia. It was an obvious record closing track from the early stages on.