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Ignite
01:43
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2. |
Germination in Fire
03:35
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Skeletal fingers
Reach for the sky
From blackened trunks that
Refuse to die
Stripped and bare
Standing tall
Amidst the ruins
Of the raging fire
Germination
Immolation
Conflagration
Germination in fire
Splintered and shattered
Buckled and broken
Embers and ash
Carried on the wind
Black scars
Across granite cliffs
Exposed again
To erosive potency
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3. |
Tempest
06:06
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The eagle screams
With the rising sun
I hear her whisper
I hear her call
They know she's coming
I believe them all
The air thickens with humidity's sweat
The scent of her, so distant but yet
Long shadows are cast, a greeting that looms
Foreboding, Inevitable, indiscriminate doom
A flash of light reveals her power
her hoarse voice, a sign of her anger
Marvel at her beauty
both in darkness and in light
Marvel at her fury, her power her might
A distant rumble as she clears her throat
She eclipses the sun
She blocks out the stars
The moon fades away in her shadow
Nothing can compare to her majestic beauty
no one can avoid her touch tonight
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4. |
Shadows in Stone
04:51
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There comes a day
When the lightning strikes
And the forest is engulfed in flame
There comes a day
When the tree falls
And diverts the river
For a century or more
There comes the day
The improbable strikes
There comes the day when the last giant dies
Reduced to myth
And what is left?
The faintest sketch
Shadows left in stone
There comes a day
When the axis shifts
The day the ice advances
Spring air, turns to frost
There comes the day
That a thousand species die
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5. |
Echoes
00:46
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6. |
Eruption
03:42
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It begins with a gentle pulse
And the subtle bulge of the peak
Wisps of smoke crown the mountain
Destruction waits within
Basalt raining down
Flames dancing in the sky
Deafening roar as the earth cracks
Devastation in the eruption's wake
Seismographs start to shudder
Alarms raised far too late
No time to evacuate
Nothing can escape the pyroclast
Forests instantly burned to ash
Rivers flash boil as lava strikes
Unrecognisable after tonight
Scars last for a century
Eruptions seem to last for an eternity
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The barren lake
To slake its thirst
Decades long
The nexus
Of a thousand paths
The banks have breached
But the water rises
Floodplains swell
But it still keeps rising
Paths long forged will swiftly fade away
Tributaries
A long lost relation
Calling out
To the inland sea
Gnarled roots
Spring to life again
Desert soil
Parched and cracked
The long slumber
Will ease today
The banks have breached
But the water rises
Floodplains swell
And it still keeps rising
Northern storms
That feed the southern lake
Thousands of miles
Drawn to one
Lashing rains and howling winds
Whip across the arid landscape
Red dirt darkens
In the deluge
As the land
Is reborn again
If only for a brief moment in time
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8. |
El Nino/La Nina
04:00
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Held in El Nino's grasp
Under the beating sun
Unrelenting force
Holding her back
When will she return?
Will she ever come again?
Bring the rain once more
Prevailing winds
West to east
Parched soil
Cracked ground
Spend reserves
No end in sight
I stand alone
On this barren land
Waiting for her to come
Home to me
Bring the rain
Bring me
Relief
Rivers break their bank
The relentless downpour
When the tonic kills
More than the disease
When will he return
Will she ever leave
Bring the sun once more
Prevailing winds
East to west
Drenched soil
Sodden ground
Broken banks
No end in sight
I stand alone
Inundated land
Waiting for
Her to leave
Leave here
Take the rain
Give me
Respite
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9. |
Mass Extinction
04:40
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Defenceless
Fire streaks across the sky
Chaos
Spreads its wings
indiscriminate
Strength alone will not save you
Its coming
Death is eternal
Ice
Creeping equatorial
Predators
Find themselves prey
Evolve or die
No time for weakness
Standing at the brink
Of a mass extinction
Impact
Half a world away
Darkness
Will it rise again
Blackened
Ash raining down
Winter
For a century
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Crystalise
01:03
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11. |
Glacial
04:05
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Ice
Grinding
Carving
Winter accumulation
Melt water infiltration
Incising striations
Directional indications
Glacial
Abrasion
Forging
Drumlin fields and eskers mark the path of deposition
Boulders dropped miles away in erratic tills
Hanging valleys, brutal horns, majestic, unforgiving
Landscape stripped, bedrock shattered by slow moving destruction
what the ice greedily takes, spring melts will set free
Continental water may finally reach the sea
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Lithik Sydney, Australia
Embracing the relentless passing of time and our own insignificance, LITHIK spans the expanse of black metal and doom, with an organic, melodic and sombre aesthetic evoking the harsh, rugged, and eternal landscapes of Australia.
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