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On Strange Loops

by Mithras

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Why do we live? To till the earth in our gardens To reap whatever we have sown To fade as life’s flame slowly wanes While gazing folorn At the horizon To scratch at dust in barren deserts To clutch at all which we can claim To flail as death’s hand reaches out Never thinking beyond the bars of our cage To plant our seeds in far oases To set free that which we create To rejoice as the wheel turns again Dreaming far beyond The bounds of our realm Why do we live?
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To where did you go, oh wanderer of the bleak unknown? Under what suns did you dance and play But when the stars align, you’ll come back to me I’ll call you back to me The spirits move in me, the galaxy converging The music of the spheres will sway the hands of time So long ago, twenty-six thousand years I remember when you departed The agony, the ecstasy, the entropy I beheld clarity through strange windows Your spirit moves in me, the spheres are in alignment The stars answered my call, we are as one again Here in my final jubilation let me tell you of my trials The vistas I’ve seen, the places I’ve been, the things I’ve done Now hear my lament To where did you go when you died For all that I was I gave to you But you are gone and left me bare Bereft I cannot reach the other side My arts were thought so mighty yet humbled for Who could know the mysteries of life itself? But I resolved to breach the tower Its arches knew no limit Time could barely enter there Its walls containing all the knowledge The power to reverse and even cheat death I longed for it yet the toll was heavy My mind opened - I felt the pain all living things feel What is the point in being alive - I’ll know why we exist When the stars align
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Legends tell of a place abandoned A distant island shunned by my race There a once great city lies Haunted by dreams from time yet to pass There something fell to Earth A sphere which came from beyond our skies From it the traveller emerged The knowledge she shared was to be her doom Her statue stands alone as stone Expectantly pointing into the sky Since my specious ancestors Dared to turn her gifts back on her But the legends also say She foretold she would return to life When the planets and stars aligned And her last words were spoken I know the words, the curse Discovered on aeon old tablets Beneath the temple Transcribed to devices Lost to history When the ancients fell Where did they flee my forebears? What did her curse do to those who remained - they are gone Now I speak the words and free her Will she give me her grace? I speak the words She wakes Speak to me Speak unto me I have come here for I must know The enigma given to our ancients The races who knew the secret To the entrance The passage to other worlds The gate between the stars Pour into my ears the secret Whisper to me the key She speaks The knowledge flows into me Yet her gaze pours molten lead into my soul Fixed solid, I cannot flee She departs Becoming a fading light flying up into the black of night I realise my fate Rooted to this spot I’ll remain
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Minds unrivalled, unravelling the answers Solutions, to master Great talents break the worlds’ divide Striving to break the chains Seeking to change the patterns of the universe To twist the strands of time Is to work beyond the gods I’m beyond the known Opened minds, confronted doom The ways are parted for I am the one who ended time Worlds beneath me Creations lesser than my mind I am the one who conquered the unconquerable Your lives are nothing Memories forgotten For I have made the leap Into the great void Searching, beyond the realms of time I parted the ways Reaching for the last unknown I am the god of gods Witness the dawn of a universe He parted the ways Seeking the last utopia Lost beyond the gods
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When I began I ravaged from where the serpents lie Descending on you, barbarians, hunters and the Gods of sun Consuming civilisation My eye, transfixed upon your moon Reaching out beyond Earth’s loams Your wars brought me the terror A terror destined for Theia’s grave I begin my quest into the universe I use your curiosities To reach further And with your icons Absorb galaxies into my mind Conquered races add to my arms Stretching out into the blackened skies Searching the edges of existence The unknown ceases to be All of space now filled Knowledge swells inside me From your world’s promise I’ve taken all you see We searched together Your odyssey’s at its end When I began we were as one The clock ticks on You are left and I move on Your clock ticks on ... our time is done
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We read the signs We hadn’t seen before Drifting across the solar waves What could it be? Uncharted space or time A race unseen by our eyes A revelation for our times We drew towards it A voice speaks out inside my mind Harrowing dread It was the end Harrowing dread - a voice speaks out inside my mind We found the end The howling of the distant spaces What have we found? This is the end of all we know Turn back Surely we did not see The mouth of the universe is open
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It will take forever For us to meet again If you even live - how could you know? The door we used, so casually That ancient gateway Bridging vast spaces between which Light itself had barely travelled That great eye Would blink, flare, close forever Fading from our existence There was no time, no recourse Horror encroached upon the system you were in Abandon you to save us all Between Scylla and Charybdis I mourn for you - but more I mourn for me For it was me who closed the gate With you on the other side So how can I live When you are gone Fallen into memory Your path ends - mine stretches on I journey on alone Now a solitary figure
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Because time never lasts It ran down and out Frozen we never were Once endless now entropic and relative Ending with no fanfare In the beginning of the end We tried to find escape But time never lasts Our hearts became so cold but once burned With cores of fire our auras everlasting If only those moments could last forever Joined as one we chose this existence Now all our works will be lost with time The attraction fades We drift apart You grew so cold We’ll dance no more Off into the dark To orbits far from here When young we played Between the stars We never knew Time was set against us And when the distant Began to fade We’d stayed too long Our time was gone Because time never lasts
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I dreamt of God He turned his gaze unto me I stared His eyes of fire Into my mind I was blinded Was what I saw the mind of God? I remember what I saw Mere words could not illuminate How will my mind contain Thoughts so alien? Monstrous visions Of the vastness of void and time And bear The ululation Which lies beyond The final wall In the spiral Where all beginnings end Lurks a horror A palsy upon the face of god Expressing The uncreation of all times When all becomes nought In the minds of the world eater The shimmering
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Nearing the beginning of an end Was just the end of our beginning Born on strange loops We burst into life and decay into death Dreaming on alternate planes of existence We aim to trace the steps to paradise Back to that time, that moment, that place Where it all began and all were one We must leave this realm So barren, so lonely Abandoned by the creator of worlds We watched the stars die out Knowing one day they’ll sing again When all matter draws to matter Crushing to a fiery dawn Set on an endless loop Our domain became our cage Let’s strike out far for vistas new And places only dreamed of So come with me into the outer dark We’ll pass the last redoubt To where the cold closes in And all the lights go out There time stands still.. We’ll leap beyond the curve of space For another time, another place To rejoin the pantheon alongside our ancestors And wonder Why did we live?

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The long awaited fourth album from the UK's Mithras, bludgeoning and powerful yet atmospheric extreme metal

released 21/10/16

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released October 21, 2016

Recording Line-Up:
Oratory / Bass - Rayner Coss
Guitars / Drums / Synths - Leon Macey

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Open your eyes... Awaken your senses... Gaze carefully upon a bleak dimension of blastbeats, savage frequencies and shattering vocal expulsions. Enter the domain of Mithras, one of the UK's most uncompromising and extreme bands to date.

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