HOLOCEN

Our first full length album from 2018.

Produced by Fredrik Ingebrigtsen & Chris Clancy
Co-Produced by Nikolai Svorte
Engineered by Fredrik Ingebrigtsen
Recorded at Front Row Studio, Norway
Additional recordings at Infusion Audio, Norway
Mixed by Chris Clancy at Audioworks, UK
Mastered by Acle Kahney at 4D Sounds, UK
Artwork by Josh Middleton

TRACK LIST / LYRICS

  • Water drops
    I feel them soak my skin
    In solitude I take my form
    I find a source within

    I'm purified
    Yet cold inside
    In time I will decay

    I'm petrified
    So dead inside
    I'm done
    I'm done

  • Evolving, trying to grow
    Out of the darkness and into the sun
    Dissolving, I wither
    But I'm willing to try

    Withered inside out
    Why won't the raindrops fall?
    Hopelessly clinging
    Onto the surfaces

    Seamlessly falling through a hole in time
    So insignificant, yet vital
    Can't you see it?
    Can't you see that there's a hole inside?

    A drop in the sea
    A grain of sand in the desert
    These condescending thoughts
    (So condescending)

    Withered inside out
    Why won't the raindrops fall?
    Hopelessly clinging
    Onto the surfaces

    A drop in the sea
    A grain of sand in the desert
    These condescending thoughts

    I thought I had a chance
    To tie a bond
    Surrounded by these flames
    I don’t belong

    Will you come to me
    Deep within my sleep
    Let go of everything
    Even though I’m weak

    Water drops
    I feel them soak my skin
    In solitude I take my form
    I find a source within

    I'm purified
    Yet cold inside
    In time I will decay

    I'm petrified
    So dead inside
    I'm done
    I'm done

    Withered inside out
    Why won't the raindrops fall?
    Hopelessly clinging
    Onto the surfaces

  • Hidden away by myself
    A chance to sculpt these feelings
    Into something,
    Something of substance

    Escape the formula
    Avoid repetition
    A cathartic release

    Decompose, disintegrate
    Pick up the elements
    Turn them upside down

    Intuition leads the way
    Creates a natural expression
    Forges our shapes

    Stuck in one dimension
    Following misleading paths
    We’re just wasting time

    Decompose, disintegrate
    Pick up the elements
    Turn them upside down

    Decompose, disintegrate
    Pick up the elements
    Turn them upside down
    Upside down

    It’s such a shame to waste
    Our colours and shapes (colours and shapes)
    Watch the friction

    What can I do? (What can I do?)
    Direction determined (Determined)
    Just take this day

    Colours die
    Shapes collide

    It's such a shame
    To waste our colours and shapes
    What can I do?
    Direction determined

    It’s such a shame to waste
    Our colours and shapes (colours and shapes)
    Watch the friction
    What can I do? (What can I do?)
    Direction determined (Determined)
    Just take this day

  • Creative for no one
    Productive alone
    I constantly get in the zone
    Just in time (for the world to close)

    Crashed, collapsed, left as ash
    Strong enough to be weak

    Take your time
    Relax, breathe, flow
    Waves will come
    (Waves will come)
    I must battle the tide

    I must battle the tide
    I must battle the tide

    I constantly get in the zone
    (Constantly get in the zone)
    Just in time for the world to close

    Creative for none

    Take your time
    Relax, breathe, flow
    Waves will come
    (Waves will come)
    I must battle the tide

  • Exotic dreams so deep
    We were going all these places
    Then I opened my eyes, stared at the seams
    Gone without a trace

    Suffering from delusions
    Voices in my head
    Echoes creating all these illusions
    My mind pulls at the threads

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    The dreams I follow are made of glass

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    Cause they’re made to break
    Made to break

    I’m overthinking
    It’s an incessant disarray
    Of patterns not worth repeating
    These lines won’t see the light of day

    I’ve realized it’s not okay
    I’ve realized it’s not okay at all
    Breathing makes me shiver

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    The dreams I follow are made of glass

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    Cause they’re made to break
    Made to break
    The dreams I follow always lead to collapse

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    The dreams I follow are made of glass

    I need to lower expectations
    Minimize anticipation
    Cause they’re made to break
    Made to break

  • A cult enclosed
    The line is drawn
    Imposing depraved beliefs unto me

    Blinded by devotion, your eyes wide shut
    You've lost perspective of right and wrong

    A new level of ignorance achieved
    You obey the words, but they're false

    Blinded by devotion, your eyes wide shut
    You've lost perspective of right and wrong

    Numen, do you even exist?
    Numen, do you hide in our midst?
    Depraving minds, inciting crimes
    I watched them all create your name

    Create your name

    Killing in his name
    Will not release you
    Your hope's in vain
    You've only got yourselves to blame

    Killing in his name
    Will not release you
    Your hope's in vain
    You've only got yourselves to blame

    Blinded by devotion, your eyes wide shut
    You've lost perspective of right and wrong

    Numen, do you even exist?
    Numen, do you hide in our midst?
    Depraving minds, inciting crimes
    I watched them all create your name

    You're to blame

    Killing in his name
    Will not release you
    Your hope's in vain
    You've only got yourselves to blame

  • Take these anchors out of me
    I can’t hide them here anymore

    You see what you want to see
    Forcing yourself to believe
    You hear what you want to hear
    What do you think you’ll achieve?

    Your conclusions are all bitter lies
    Lies that rust and dethrone
    Frail attempts at defending yourself
    Only weaken the soul within

    Take these anchors out of me
    I can’t hide them here anymore

    I look at a ruin
    A reminder of the past
    Let go, fall into the arms
    The arms that will kill you

    Your conclusions are all bitter lies
    Lies that rust and dethrone
    Frail attempts at defending yourself
    Only weaken the soul within

    Take these anchors out of me
    I can’t hide them here anymore

    Take these anchors out of me
    I can’t hide them here anymore

    I can’t hide them here anymore

    Anchors will build my tomb
    Cut the ropes, let them perish
    Let them descend

    I look down on you
    (I look down on a ruin)
    Frail attempts will rust
    (They will rust and dethrone)

    You are a ruin
    Your time is over
    Let go, fall into the arms
    Let them kill you
    Kill you
    Cut off the ropes
    Sink the anchors
    Let them perish

    Bury the burden
    Let them descend

  • Sustained deception from a violent oppressor
    Genocide justified, a callous existence

    The chemicals manipulate
    Divides us in two
    The world is grey

    We’re at the verge of collapse

    Set up by the callous intent of a vicious transgressor
    Polarized, hypnotized, it will capsize

    The chemicals manipulate
    Divides us in two
    The world is grey

    The world is grey
    We’re at the verge of collapse

    How can you find what won’t be found?
    Are we forced to obey?
    How can you bind what can’t be bound?
    The world is grey

    Compromise
    The transition between the poles
    To coalesce would dispossess
    The controller of the levers

    To coalesce would dispossess
    The controller of the levers

    The world is grey

    How can you find what won’t be found?
    Are we forced to obey?
    How can you bind what can’t be bound?
    The world is grey

    How can you bind what can’t be bound?
    The world is grey
    How can you bind what can’t be bound?
    Bind what can't be bound

  • Pride and contempt
    Which side to choose?

    I'm feeling divided
    Can’t state my point of view
    Anxiety rules this conflict

    Through comfort and dismay
    I’ve found all that I can be,
    But I don’t know which way to set my course
    Revive me, I can see
    That hell on earth will cease
    My silence lost, discordance reinforced

    My feet are cold
    I’m hanging upside down, my head is about to explode

    I'm feeling divided
    Can’t state my point of view
    Anxiety rules this conflict

    Through comfort and dismay
    I’ve found all that I can be,
    But I don’t know which way to set my course
    Revive me, I can see
    That hell on earth will cease
    My silence lost, discordance reinforced

    I’m looking up
    Facing towards the wall I see each day
    Time has stopped, my eyes have turned to grey

    Lost
    Gone
    Cursed
    In the end erased

    The one who’s free to roam
    The one without a flaw
    Can watch the sunrise climb across the sky
    I’m living in a cell
    Locked inside a shell
    From here perspective stays the same, it never changes

    Through comfort and dismay
    I’ve found all that I can be
    But I don’t know which way to set my course
    Revive me, I can see
    That hell on earth will cease
    My silence lost, discordance reinforced

  • Feel the void
    Feel the void
    Find the will (find the will)
    Fill the void (fill the void)

  • I swim in filthy water
    It’s not so soothing on my skin

    Let me in
    Let me breach the passage
    I don’t know
    I don’t see what your shell is hiding

    Rise again
    Dare to take the leap
    Complete me
    Fulfill this void

    Find the will to love
    Trust me you’ll be fine
    Embrace me
    Fulfill this void

    I circle around the outside
    Trying to find a hole in the sphere

    Screaming out in the night
    I'm a lone wolf, I disappear
    Thought-through words washed away
    I'm diminishing

    Can’t you hear me mourn?
    Can’t you see me burn?
    I can hear you mourn
    I swear, I can hear you mourn

    The birds left the tree
    (Feel the void)
    I watched them flee, disappear
    (Feel the void)
    Kept wondering why they left
    (Find the will)
    I watched them move on
    (Fill the void)

    Rise again
    Dare to take the leap
    Complete me
    Fulfill this void

    Find the will to love
    Trust me you’ll be fine
    Embrace me
    Fulfill this void

    Rise again
    Dare to take the leap
    Complete me
    Fulfill this void

    Find the will to love
    Trust me you’ll be fine
    Embrace me
    Fulfill this void

  • I swim in filthy water
    I circle around the outside (of a sphere)
    Drawn towards the center
    Then continuously pulled away
    I circle around the outside

    Hidden truths
    Invisible
    Uncover the void

    I’m diving through
    Infinity
    Deeper I go

    (Deeper I go, harder to reach
    Sinking to depths, textures arise)

    Sinking to depths
    Textures arise
    And all makes sense

    (Deeper I go, harder to reach
    Sinking to depths, textures arise)

    Filthy water
    It soaks my skin
    Will I drown?

    (Filthy water soaking my skin
    We live and die, we rise and fall)

    We live and die
    We rise and fall
    Cycle of life

    (Filthy water soaking my skin
    We live and die, we rise and fall)

    I thought I had a chance
    To tie a bond
    Surrounded by these flames
    I don’t belong

    Will you come to me
    Deep within my sleep
    Let go of everything
    Even though I’m weak

    I thought I had a chance
    (I thought I had a chance)
    To tie a bond (tie a bond)
    But I just don't belong
    I just don’t belong