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The Intricate Path of Creation

by Antilles

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SkunkBeatManiac This album is like making Mors Principium Est into a Progressive Death Thrash Metal by mixing a plenty of Tech, Djent and Metal Core elements. Pretty amazing! Favorite track: The Great Unknown.
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BobaMett Great blend of thrash and death metal with some progressive influences. Stellar work! Favorite track: Black Mountain.
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IDE Progressive thrash metal. Strange thrash riffs, some brutal moments, and dark melodies in theatrical composition. I can't believe they are unsigned.

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The Haunted, Obscura, Revocation, reunited At The Gates. Favorite track: The Great Unknown.
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I awake from hibernation A distant calling, slowly fading Images of a foreign world Trying to clear my mind What is the meaning of this? Unknown but yet familiar Visions keep reappearing The calls are getting louder Subconscius overload Vorfelan Rhinata Morie I have to go Follow the call What will I find? Uncertain destiny Across space and time The visions are guiding me Logic defied Into the cosmic sea The desire for knowledge Is what shapes a man The vast beyond surrounding me One world was never enough The great unknown What lies beyond? Time is relative I let myself go Surrounded by light Spectral colours encircling me I open my eyes Finally I understand
3.
Helios 04:54
I was there at the beginning The bringer of light, the creator of life The origin of all existence But am I eternal? “Thy name shall be Aton, thy name shall be Ra, Huitzilopochtli” Every form of life has witnessed me As I observed, watching from afar, Silently, steadily Almighty Man has killed in my name Fought wars for my glory My countenance has always been prevailing But will it last eternally? But am I eternal? “Thy name shall be Aton, thy name shall be Ra, Huitzilopochtli" The day I die, I’ll embrace you And you’ll remain to be nothing more Than a footnote in the history Of this universe Fear my countenance Fear my grace My augustness, my majesty My ever present embrace
4.
A gate will be opened Ready to spread fear amongst all species No one saw the signs, no one heard the call Planets will burst and cities will fall Monumental gate in the alterverse Independent of time and space Will spawn a power never seen before Our swan song has been sung Our reminiscence spilled across the skies Dreams of the immortal kind Gave life to this very demise We did not see the signs We did not see the truth We must accept our fate A gate has been openend Bringing death to all species We ignored the signs, deaf to the call After all longing for the downfall We weren't the beginning And won't be the end Pushed from the throne of hubris Our memory fading away Now silent myth, a grave lie Neither are we the beginning Nor are we the end Insignificance
5.
No, this can’t be real My mind’s just fading away Swept henceforth by the stream that is My subconsciousness Why? It’s the question that’s driving us Towards a frightening infinity No distant world within the range of our vision What is past, what is present What is about to be In the end it was nothing more Than a mere reflection in my soul Blinded by mastery Blinded by splendour Driven by an affliction of progress We’ll pay the price A necessary sacrifice In the name of progress That put my death first Amongst many others Swallowed by light Fallen through time Lost on the intricate path of creation My name shall forever be forgotten We are the stain on the Countenance of the skies No distant world within The range of our vision
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An ancient calling Echoing off the mountainside Carried out by the winds Begin your journey Through ashes and dust An endless march continues The pilgrim’s spirit unbroken Driven by the land’s calling Towards the black mountain Every step could lead the passage Into lunacy’s realm The wanderer’s gaze is focused Beyond the horizon He used to walk this path In every dream he ever had The untamed spirit of the ancient land Is whispering to him the prophecy Across endless planes and oceans The path him leads Always the black mountain in his sight Two worlds that coexist Like ill-lit ships late at night Passing close but all unknown To one another He reaches the foot Starting his ascent Following a path Only he can see "I will climb this mountain" A bonfire about to shed it’s light Onto the ocean of space and time On top of the mountain Lies a fallen star Slipped from atlas’ shoulders Buried beneath the snow The monument shows the answer Man was not supposed to find The pattern now visible The one constant
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Climb down the ancient steps Of the old city To open the holy gate The sleeper is awake Sunken island, reemerged Unveiling our genesis Cosmic nature guiding us towards the stars I wander ill-lit eonian paths I’m standing at the edge Echoes know every language The great hollow depth The all swallowing sun Staring in the abyss My mind’s racing away Shapeless thought pattern There are shallows Spiritual horrors haunting my dreams The great old ones speak to me Cthulhu fhtagn The dreamer’s dream came true Remaining sanity ripped to shreds Forever trapped in the wake of a dream Cthulhu fhtagn
8.
This is the dawn of an age Everything draws to an end Inherent the futile fight Against the transience of all being A deluge of guilt An endless unforgiving sky Cast our memory into vacuity Erase the mark off the table Away with everything Reminiscent of our existence The veil is wearing thin Perception dawning on all of us Accept the gift of finiteness Something awaiting beyond creation The day that man steps aside A new world will thrive See that everything has to die There will be a time Ferocity, the holy constant Cannot resist the draw of a new shape (A) farewell to everything and everyone Freely given considering our aftermath
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Angoris VII 09:07
A voyage to nowhere Towards a clandestine hell Anxiety intensifies as we slowly reach our destiny Stigmatized in order to live Through a man-made nightmare Disobedience earns one a severe punishment Those who successfully resisted conditioning Those who still possess individual thought patterns Off with them to Angoris VII Where fear reigns every fibre of one’s being The blackened sun, the all-consuming cold Welcome home The raining ashes The empty everblack sky To live, to die, to be obsolete To be or not to be irrelevant Grace disgraced to a mere perversion of morality Obey the creed of worthlessness Object deprived of all dignity All is lost Defiled is our humanness Broken is our free will All hope is gone, all is lost Farewell to a world ruled by sanity and reason Arbitrariness, the tin god we all serve We’re without purpose, we are nothingness On Angoris VII A whole generation damned into slavery Great is our sin, refused conformity We’re without purpose, we are nothingness Left to rot on Angoris VII This god forsaken planet Seventh of the colonies Place of no coming back The exiles deprived of everything Except one last wish: Give us death
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Ascendency 07:39
Rise For you are chosen One out of myriads Your destiny awaits Rise From dust and ashes A higher cause to alter The fate of the universe They will not bend you You will prevail Seeing the skies, you close your eyes Your mind’s at ease Throughout the waste Into the void Within yourself You are at peace Shapeless essence Surrounding you You find yourself On higher ground The end is near The path laid out The choice of life and death Inescapable A prophecy Passed on for ages The time has come Rise Step off the edge of this world Freeing yourself From the shackles of flesh Rise No longer bound Embracing your own mortality The end is near The path laid out The choice of life and death

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released June 1, 2018

Conrad Meyer - Guitar, Vocals
Oskar Kowalik - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Niels Luft - Bass, Backing Vocals
Alex Domke Drums

Guitars, Bass & Vocals recorded by Antilles.
Drum Recording, Reamping, Mix & Master by Sebastian "Seeb" Levermann at Greenman Studios in Arnsberg, Germany.
All Piano parts recorded by Max Alsmann and played by Niels Luft.
All Samples, Intro & Interlude by Nicolas Goldmann.
Cover Artwork & Booklet by Niklas Schwartz.
Illustrations by Gustave Doré, taken from his Illustrations of Dantes Divine Comedy from 1861 and from his works on the Bible from 1866.
Lyrical quotes & paraphrases:
Black Mountain (Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind)
The Great Unknown (Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear)

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Antilles Germany

Founded in 2015 in Münster, Germany, Antilles have taken influences from thrash, death, black and progressive metal to create their very own style of progressive death metal.

Debut EP "Definition of Insanity" released in 2016.

Debut album "The Intricate Path of Creation" released in 2018.

New EP "Entheos" OUT NOW!
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