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The Reins Of Life

by Degrees Of Truth

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    Comes in a luxurious exclusive 3-sides digipack, including a 12-pages booklet, designed by Gustavo Sazes (Kamelot, Amaranthe, Arch Enemy, Angra...).

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1.
Pattern 01:00
Instrumental
2.
A state of slumber and void No hourglass, no sand to fall Silent and constant grey calm No one to see, no one to tell What was before The one spark When the Eggshell broke… After the first cry, free to run and burn Reaching the furthest boundaries of space Waves of energy moulding their new reign Primordial chaos tamed by soothing reins And then, when Harmony revealed her laws of consonance Began the Concert, the hymn of time Hail now, past the stor The sublime beauty of the Cosmic Song A silent, hidden force Feeding on itself since the universe was born A restless quiver laying in a planet’s heart And in the blazing fire of a newborn sun Then, like a sudden wave rising from the deep It will make the worlds collide The stars explode and turn to dust Then the ashes would combine, you’d see them Burning, growing, spinning, falling Giving a new galaxy its life Making every death a new beginning While One, still it’s All The immortal energy in a chain of mortal forms Alive through the fall The fiery Phoenix, seeking a new way to sing and soar One last death may end it all Maybe this will keep gyring on Through change, in a restless game of rise and fall While One, still it’s All The immortal energy in a chain of mortal forms Alive, through the fall The Eternal Phoenix again will soar.
3.
-Part I: Imaginary Waterscape (Instrumental) -Part II: A Warm Awakening Rise, rise and breathe! Wind of Life Let the waltz begin! Ah, rise and breathe! May your song quicken a new birth! Rouse matter from her sleep Blow, on the silent world Blow, quicken a new birth! Scatter on the silent world little seeds In the wine-dark oceans wide On a planet runnin' round a young sun One in the far Milky Way Remote part of the Universe Some day, elemental buds began Suddenly, a new dance a new reign of cells did build their first walls Energy swarming Dna forming Now the seeds are planted Life is born! In the turmoil of the Earth The first tiny forms become The first leaf on the tree of Life Oxygen fills the atmosphere more and more Then soon, in this endless growth, behold The first breath, the first beating heart The first brain led by a will to live on... ...rise and breathe! Whole cosmos in a shell so thin! Striving, to preserve their forms Spreading all over the world... Now, a new Era is born The Earth is conquered! -Part III: The Contemplation This is meant to be the Eden The Original place The Story and the Heart The House and the Household The Panorama over the vastest sea The Vision that revealed it all... That voice that resounds within Is the Grasp of Mother Nature Embraces us with sprouting flowers Caresses us with sweet warm honey And keeps us safe with Her Love Contemplate Her Contemplate Her, young life Bow to Her might Don't fear it But gaze, stare, admire Feel that shiver coming on thy spine And prepare... Let the Journey Begin! -Part IV: Journey Begins Life, energy / (Energy flowing – A blooming flower) Wander, breathing endlessly / (This fragile wonder – The reign of Life) Rise, gentle wind / (The microcosm – endless gyre) Now, may the waltz begin / (The laws of Existence – The Reins of Life).
4.
Evolution 05:42
While islands sink and mountains fade The present world is slowly shaped By laws of withering and change The fittest one will rise and stay... Icy fields: an ermine in white Will avoid the falcon’s eye While waiting hidden the clueless prey Only the heirs of the ones Holding the key to survival will grow! The deer and wolf, whales Snakes slithering low The feathered bird riding the wind All found a place in the bounds of their world Gone with the fall of just one It all is so frail! And when the tables will turn Will the white rose be saved or be killed by her thorns? The final page will never come Endless chain of ephemeral ways of Life! In lands of green or deserts dry A different form shall win the fight While islands sink and mountains fade The fittest one will rise and stay When lands of green turn bare and dry the time has come to evolve or die! The world is set aflame! And now who’s to survive the new rules of the game? High trees leaving behind, To stand on plains so wide A spear in the hand to hunt a prey Only the heirs of the ones holding the key to survival will grow! Out in the grass fields, on wuthering shores beyond woods, high peaks and snow All the while changing to fit in their world: Only one moment in time, a creature so frail Sitting by flames in winter nights Singing those tales of ages gone How life began, how mankind will fall In awe wondering what’s beyond While islands sink and mountains rise The unfit form is left behind By laws of withering and change the present world is slowly shaped" "I’m a winner in the fight The fittest form in present times Bound to wither and delay The fall to come 'till I breathe!"
5.
Civilization 04:37
Well may it thrive Our world of Man! We’re building a new way Our home! Science, Philosophy Art to understand the world The wonder and awe for this wide Planet we live on! Where will we start Molding our home? We’ll settle down and give A name to it all... In the vastness of this world We’ll pave a road The challenges of this life We shall overcome Through golden fields Ditches will flow And 'round the fire we’ll feast When the harvest comes With the knowledge of the laws Nature did weave We can live on and (We can grow on) Soar! Then may it thrive, This world of Man! We’re building a new way Our home! Newfound technology A search for energy Then gardens and towns growing wide... ...onward!
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(instrumental)
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There is a tower rising on Towards the midnight sky The symbol of supremacy Our will in stony spires Above grey waters The mirror of the truth I see the shining of the steel As thousand trees fall down The more we gain, the more we yearn The more we tame the wild We’re rising higher The reins of life we hold Creating a new world And one by one the waves will fall Back and the sea retire We need more land, the desert’s sand Will turn to a green playground We have just one master: The instinct to dominate The will to have it all! In my hands the divine grace The power of destruction and to create In my mind the course of fate In this dance of existence I will set the pace No rest until I’ll see the world beneath my feet No rest until I’ll see the world bow down to me How can’t you understand? You know we have the right Beyond the limit we can go Rule on death and life Indeed we must find Something we can strive for... The common enemy Nature, has gone down And our lust to kill Is aimed towards mankind In blinding hunger We keep on marching forward We’re marching out to war! There’s no other way to gain The world’s domination, the Golden Age I can ease this endless pain In the tale of evolution I will write the final page No rest until I’ll see the world on hands and knees I am the god to lead the world, bow down to me!
8.
Come, play the finest game! With gain and life at stake See them crawl and strive! Watch mercy, kindness, law Become hate, chaos Be torn in fire! Isn’t that the one vocation of Man Crushing what lies in our way? Come, play the slaughter game! Let masks of mercy fade and havoc rise! (Let it rise!) Pawns all aligned, lay down before my sight... This is the moment, the die is cast And the massacre will soon begin These eyes dim and wild, a silent quivering The only sound’s the wind Craving, feral egoism... Just let it out Let the hunger for preys and lust and fright! Ignite the world! (Out to war!) Bow to the martial law Civilization failed To quell our desire! (Let me rise!) To kill’s the finest art To paint amazing sceneries of blood and fire! What shall be the fittest way To slay our own kind? "Bow to the martial law Civilization failed To kill’s the finest art To paint amazing sceneries!" This endless, primal force Lets masks of mercy fade (Let masks of mercy fade) As logic meets the wild! (Lust and mind!) Be it desert, forest, sea They all are chessboards for our fights! (Death and strife!) Our pride shall swell to see The world enveloped in a fire!
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-First Act As I open my eyes Oh, give me the heart To face the grim truth I can’t deny! The greenlands are now bare The spring of life has dried The Mother holding her dying child What has been left behind of towers rising high? And while we thought we had The brightest of all minds... ...what have we done? The will to hold the reins Born from the wish for life A fever, devouring all we had Unfit to win the fight We were our own demise! -Second Act "But in this madness what have you gained? Demolished your home for a jail! Was this the unavoidable fate For power in the hands of apes? Oh, in this madness what have you gained? The illusionary throne you built Fallen, scattered ruins and tears Is this mankind? Is this the logic beast?" "Was this the price for the apple you seized? Was this the wisdom you claimed to seek? Was this the control you claimed to keep? Was this your dream? Silent's the song of humanity Nothing more’s beyond!" "What have you gained? Nothing more beyond" "Fallen, scattered ruins, tears! Perish, foolish beast!" -Third Act "Where is the awareness, the wonder for it all? Where is the beauty, the poetry? Where is the wisdom you claimed to seek? What of all this? What did you find past the boundary? Was this all enough? Will you ever learn?" "Where is the balance between you and the world The one that made you be born and live? How could you lose the survival key Throw it away? Illusions fade and your towers sink" "Where is the awareness, that made you win and grow? Where is the wisdom you claimed to seek? Where is the control you claimed to keep? Burnt by your own flames!" -Final Act But in the aftermath Of our darkest night There is no light of a new sun Beyond the horizon line We may build a new path Or just evolve to dust...
10.
Deep Six 06:03
May the Mistral rise and blow May the wintry mantle fall May it dye this scenery in white This silent field of stones Bitter and wide... "May their spirit rest" the letters cry, but... The echo of screams, these scars will stay! Bury all our hope and our dreams The ruins of our world, our own kin The pitiful beliefs and the pride Bury all the progeny of mankind What is the point in regret and wails? Awareness always comes far too late! Can you tell me where the sense is? Living on when death is all we achieve! What other way can we try? Dig your grave, foolish child! Do you believe you can survive? Bear the consequence of matricide! Come on, face your demise! Bury Hope, let Despair lead you to thy grave Bury Hope, enter Hell, come inside! (The warmth of Life shall fade) Bury Hope, for Eden's land has been lost (Heaven is lost if there was one) May silence cover the Earth May Ammit devour us all! End the song of Mankind Dire song, turned into the dirge for Life! From now on we can't change our way! "Can't you look the Truth in the eyes?" The lesson we did learn... "Oh, sure, you failed for the last time!" Tears may well fall over silent graves 'till new flames will shred the world again Memories fade as time flows We forget and it's all vain! Bury every sterile seed of hope May shadows of Hell feast Upon this blasted kind! (Six feet underground)
11.
-Part I: Essence Rise, my children, now A new day of light is here Beyond the curtain of night, and I see... The flowing of time, morn and eventide The hawk on the green woods, the mountains high Now the circle of change and life Can dance again under starlit skies A new horizon seems to wait And from the embers leaps a flame Now, through silence, hear my cry: I am a Muse of Life A perfect symphony Making the world breathe since ancient times Letting life rise from the ashes For nothing really dies I am the keeper of the flame Singing on! Aware to be just one tune in the song Remember the grim past and let it go Now you can see that fall and rise Are all the same, and your pain will die So, now, take in the beauty of sun and rain Be part of the One, perfect game Dance to the pace set by Time Led by the Reins of Life Hear me, perfect symphony of endless strife Beyond the limit of the single form I live in a never-ending gyre I am the Pillar standing tall since ancient times Letting life rise from the ashes And nothing really die I am the Phoenix from the flames, soaring on... -Part II: Equilibrium Born from stardust Energy from the void Atoms of the Universe Thin equilibrium Beauty between the beings Survivor of a million species Chosen One in countless decades "Man" By Nature, wanderer By instinct, hunter By reason, conqueror "Life" Creator of New And great, impressive monuments Things Earth could have never seen before There to stay and remind "Art" Hands, able to forge the unseen Intelligence to overcome any challenge How could all this awesomeness be dispersed in such a wasteful way: "Pride" Forgot our roots Unlearned the good old past Slanted to the future With no regret, no pity, no mercy We tried to superimpose ourselves On our bountiful home land And we got back nothing but ash and unforgiveness That's not what mankind deserved Sure, we were warned! We could have been able to recover Completely from our stall Set our wings back into the air And soar again
12.
There is a tower rising on Towards the midnight sky The symbol of supremacy Our will in stony spires Above grey waters The mirror of the truth I see the shining of the steel As thousand trees fall down The more we gain, the more we yearn The more we tame the wild We’re rising higher The reins of life we hold Creating a new world And one by one the waves will fall Back and the sea retire We need more land, the desert’s sand Will turn to a green playground We have just one master: The instinct to dominate The will to have it all! In my hands the divine grace The power of destruction and to create In my mind the course of fate In this dance of existence I will set the pace No rest until I’ll see the world beneath my feet No rest until I’ll see the world bow down to me How can’t you understand? You know we have the right Beyond the limit we can go Rule on death and life Indeed we must find Something we can strive for... The common enemy Nature, has gone down And our lust to kill Is aimed towards mankind In blinding hunger We keep on marching forward We’re marching out to war! There’s no other way to gain The world’s domination, the Golden Age I can ease this endless pain In the tale of evolution I will write the final page No rest until I’ll see the world on hands and knees I am the god to lead the world, bow down to me!

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"It's interesting to see how a newly created band, launching this year its first album, sounds so cohesive: it is as if they had years on the road together. Even if you can find here or there one thing that reminds other influences, what prevails is the essence of creating something unique." (Metal Na Lata)

"An excellent technique joined with a great taste are the prominent traits of this album, which can boast the astounding cover artwork designed by Gustavo Sazes, and where tracks like "Evolution" or the single "The World Beneath My Feet" emphasize a musical maturity far above the average. This album is an excellent debut being refreshing, powerful and music of a very high quality."
(Metallus.it)

"In this full-length there are no fillers at all, the execution is absolutely commendable and the songwriting is very appreciable from the first listen and the crystalline production is able to emphasize each instrument in the mix. Definitely Degrees Of Truh is a new reality to be kept in mind in the immediate future!"
(Rock Hard magazine - Sep'16)

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released October 17, 2016

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Degrees Of Truth Varese, Italy

Degrees of Truth is an Italian female-fronted progressive symphonic metal band.

The band released their first album ‘The Reins Of Life’ in 2016 for the Italian label Underground Symphony, followed by the EP ‘Lifeless, Faultless’ in 2017 and by second full-length "Time Travel Artifact" in 2019.

New full-length ALCHEMISTS out June 2023 for Scarlet Records.
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