Copy of our 2023 release Atlas Ruinica, signed by all members of the band. The disc is an orange-on-black burst color design and comes in a full-color jacket
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Mazerunner - Elise emerges from the other side of the Norwegian glacial portal to find herself in a bizarre world-between-worlds: an entire planet of a labyrinth suspended in the void of space.
The purpose of the maze world is to protect the entrance to the resting place of the Atlas Ruinica, allowing only those who are both determined and wise to obtain the book’s powers.
Mere seconds after she arrives in this strange place, the cult leader of the Ptolemaic Kings passes through the portal, consumed by rage and hellbent on stopping Elise from getting to the Atlas Ruinica before he does.
As they both race to find the center of the maze they encounter many perils in the form of traps, guardian creatures, and illusions designed to confuse all who venture there. Elise manages to shake her pursuant from her trail as she nears the center of the maze and encounters the final guardian of the maze alone: an ancient Sphinx charged with guarding the portal that leads to the Atlas Ruinica. After correctly answering the Sphinx’s riddle, he gives her a pendant that will lead her to the book and, having fulfilled his duty, returns to the ether. Elise steps through the portal only to find another world even more bizarre than the last…
“The Key” referenced in the verses is the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle
The line “guiding lights that led astray” from the chorus is a callback to an old song of ours called The Sea at Storm
The Sphinx is “bound by glyphs” to guard the portal, meaning he was cursed by a sorcerer to remain in the maze until someone correctly answered his riddle
The riddle of the Sphinx is: “I am not dead though I eternally lie, and in my strange aeons even death may die. What am I?”
The answer to his riddle is reality - it uses a double entendre in “eternally lie” saying that the nature of reality extends for all time, but also that what our senses tell us is frequently a lie. There is something fundamental about reality that is a falsehood that the Sphinx knows
lyrics
There’s no way out
There’s no way out
Racing through to find our way out
The exit’s much further now
I race through fear
Just to find a way out
But each turn I take is always worse somehow
It’s so close at hand but much further than it seems
A turn of fate in a twisted world, I must find the key
Should I stay or should I go
When every step leads away from hope
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by forfeit souls
Guiding lights that led astray
Distant fragments of memories
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by voices of forfeit souls
Woe to you
And all who meet me in this place
You will learn of loss
Your teacher will be misery
Tragedy shall walk your path and you will find
That when the time is ripe she’ll pluck your spirit from the vine
Yield to me
Guardian of ancient flame
Bound by glyphs and not allegiance to another name
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die”
Should I stay or should I go
When every step leads away from hope
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by forfeit souls
Guiding lights that led astray
Distant fragments of memories
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by voices of forfeit souls
It’s so close at hand
Nothing’s quite as it seems
I’m racing through this twisted world
At last with the key
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This album manages to mix pure brutality, emotional melodies, addicting riffs, and brilliant lyrics all together, and it works in the most beautiful way. razorfish123
