Archspire - The Lucid Collective (2014)

Archspire — Spontaneous Generation (Track 8)

Information

Artist – Archspire

Album – The Lucid Collective

Label – Season of Mist

Released – April 25th, 2014

Type – Full-length

Additional

Notes

The Lucid Collective is the second full-length album by Vancouver technical death metal band Archspire, released on April 25, 2014 through Season of Mist. The recording lineup comprised Oliver Rae Aleron on vocals, Dean Lamb and Tobi Morelli on guitars, Jaron Evil on bass and vocals, and Spencer Prewett on drums.

The album was recorded, engineered and mixed during spring 2013 at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver. Stuart McKillop handled recording, engineering, mixing and mastering, with additional engineering by Curtis Buckoll and Mark Mckitrick. Its sound uses rapidly segmented riffs, sweep-picked and tapped guitar figures, abrupt rhythmic transitions, gravity-blast and double-kick drumming, audible bass articulation, and Aleron’s tightly synchronized rapid-fire growls. The mix emphasizes separation and upper-mid definition, keeping the dense performances intelligible across the album’s 34-minute runtime.

Videos

Lucid Collective Somnambulation
Spencer Prewett Drum Playthrough
Lucid Collective Somnambulation [Live in Montreal]

Recording

Recorded, engineered, and mixed at Rain City Recorders, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Spring 2013.
Mastered at Plush Vinyl.

Identifiers

Barcode: 822603132922
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LN08
Mould SID Code (variant 1): IFPI J105
Mould SID Code (variant 2): IFPI 1021
Matrix / Runout: 03/11/2015 08:04:58 PM #139381 SOM329 2526997 01

Tracklist

1. Lucid Collective Somnambulation – 04:16 >

[Verse 1] Sweating blood from open pores in fear of these nocturnal visits Many tongues chatter incessant, deep into my sleeping self Instructing me while I dream from worlds beyond and below Their voices, a kaleidoscope of colours I can't describe Foreign senses stimulate the brain beyond all comprehension An entity only visible as a radiant force They speak to me more intensely knowing now that I am able To sculpt the world within this lifting lucid field of REM [Verse 2] From under my skin The blood I’m sweating Turns black as it spills from me From out of my mind Inner voice of reason Falling away My tongue and ears and eyes, removed by the force of voices That now control my living river of bleeding endless black ascendance Hear none, speak none See a new consciousness beyond escape [Verse 3] What am I and what are they to me? What are they and what am I to them? Cleansing stream of fluid flowing Flushing all my fears away All the rotting cells I leak Drown me from the outside in Dissolving my expired body As I'm carried toward the awaiting shore [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] Lucid collective somnambulation Lucid collective somnambulation Lucid collective somnambulation Lucid collective somnambulation [Verse 4] Voices of the many now become one Tell me I must find my other For although we've never met in life We share the same dream Two minds Construct matter from a unified consciousness Reborn to dream forever [Verse 5] From her eyes and mouth The sands of time spray A burial from the inside out Expelling endless earth Freed from fear Becoming dunes that level out To form the coast of sand and blood A mental mending Existing as dead, alive, and dreaming Within each blood cell and sand grain Shaping the fabric of the collaborative dreamscape Triggering the birth of a vast land beyond our Earth [Instrumental Break] [Verse 6] Join us in the vibrant bliss Dream a new reality Sleepwalk off the crumbling edge of illusion and mortality See now what the many see Hear now what the many say Lock into a lucid state to congregate upon the plane This realm grows larger with each new awakened dreamer We will guide you into lucid collective somnambulation Lucid collective somnambulation Lucid collective somnambulation [Outro] Pass the portal leaking evil duplicates on Earth If in dream you truly live, in reality you need not exist Unlock the powers of your sleeping brain and ascendance from your body will begin

2. Scream Feeding – 04:21 >

There is an urban dungeon encased in brick Within it lies a tunnel into the horror of a man's multiple lives This man's opposing paths collide Birthing a mutant mass that hides in the red pulsing glowing windows One will form a life of moral principle, love and normality Until discovering his other self killed his whole family Spoiling his son and wife’s pure essence and innocence Feeding them to a monster that his mind's created A massive human form made entirely of teeth Repulsive and dripping that feeds on screams This hideous form made flesh by the endless pit That merges parallel dimensions on earth Three red windows open portals These windows reveal the same life When the man was born, when I was woken from my fetal rest with a rusty kitchen blade His mother lay open amongst decay Her peltry gaping, gushing fluid over floor tile With his first breath of salty cold biting air My crippled infant chest filled up with sulphur mold and fear His first vision induced panic stricken cries Our fathers twisted rotting mind Peering out from bulging vacant eyes Altered since delivery I carry the burden to feed the nightmare As his loved ones laughter taunts me I will steal whats dear to him As I have suffered so shall he My shadow heaves black vomit Scream feeding this beast makes it larger Swelling with each shriek it eats We've bred a man that's made of many teeth Scream feeding He is disgusted yet he watches As it grows in one of three red windows Scream feeding From reeking gums his rotten laughter leeks As a useless child, nothing more than barely human waste His first tooth fell from his sunken pale veiny face He saw that night his creator's saving grace When this first sign of mortal decay was placed under his head In the kennel where he was forced to lay He dreamed so real, a splendid day When his mother appeared in flowing white Shining a brilliant light through the grim encasing cage Embracing him and taking him away So he pulled out all his teeth Split wide, path divide Forced to pry tooth from gum of many others "Motherless one, you are a fatherless son Somehow you arrived the night she appeared You come from no one Rising from a parallel realm of the unknown A cursed dark duplicate from beyond Cut away, fallow them Force them here and be rewarded Take their skin and you shall see her Take their cries to use as fodder Hear this now from me your other I’m upstairs, you must not come here Keep my family distant from this secret spawn Our paths are split, yours is worse Yet both reflect within each other I feel your dread when you must feed it And your crushing envy for my comfort The creature remains hidden However, if our paths collide What we have made will be unleashed To feast forever" Your voice circles through my head, a pathetic plea I’m crossing over, you will face me, you will see its growth We will merge in one last feast to set our sick creation free I smash the glass I feed the beast our dying screams It is now released Al dente

3. The Plague of Am (Cogito Ergo Sum) – 03:36 >

One hundred and nine years Trapped within the belly of the supreme machine Only us five left Made immortal, kept alive, suspending time to torture Us Trapped down here we're slaves inside AM A deranged neo-cyber god that man created Has become more alive then we are I have no mouth and I must I have no mouth and I must I have no mouth and I must I have no mouth and I must I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must Lifeless and drained of blood Suspended high above An empty body hangs Taunting us, teasing us We have become meaningless He will not finish us AM will not tolerate attempts at escape We gave to him life, for that he despises us In his wake, only the blasted skin of what had once Been Earth As we rummage through the valleys in search of food For eons Our every fear comes to life in AM The torments AM casts upon us for his pleasure Are more alive than we are I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must Scalding winds, lightning, lava and locusts The machine masturbates metallic insects while mocking us We have no choice but to take it well pleading to die We are the last human survivors of the last war The four others have been set free I killed them to take his toys away For this I have suffered his wrath I will remain, he has altered me Down here I see my reflection Far from what had once been human Alone for all eternity I slither a formless obscene pulsing slug I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must The plague of AM I have no mouth and I must I have no mouth and I must scream

4. Fathom Infinite Depth – 05:07 >

There is a pit I may have dug within one single frozen moment In it lurks a haunting endless multitude of vile incarnate We now are linked, I have become it's counter-part Its mindless pawn Relentlessly racing encircling curse Blistering, this unrelenting becoming to excavate The rancid soil that lay upon the artifact Why is my hand gone? Constant begging, oleading, screaming I attempt to reason with the recess Fusing with the elder's vision, to see as it sees Does it hear me? For I now hear it This pit the past, and I the present Deep behind my eyes we merge as one This tunnel is the retina of the Ancients eye Spewing forth from its dark chasm The entangled, deranged, constant vile constructs of the onyx What lay beneath my eyes, exhumed from evermore Our minds unable to measure How minute yet immense the grasp of this vacuous gash Excavating the pits innards Bore an object that of which I craved possession Slime, reflective I reach down to grab it, it eats my hand Leaves my limb dripping A taste of what awaits I will take it to my casket, this incessant mesh of madness My son and wife, and hand, and mind have left me Incineration of my sanity leading me closer to death Yet I must illuminate its fathomless depth Emanating forces from this unearthly twisted retinal orifice Drag me down at night to reveal The awful dwellings of its depths below Crepuscular visions of vastness haunting me Trapping me, taunting me, draining me Slithering liquid breathing Black ooze leaking from my wounded limb Insatiable, its gluttony to be fed I want to wake up I awake to find I'm staring Oblivious into the pit that I have dug Revolted yet I cannot turn away Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Man can't fathom Fuelling my crippling phobia of infinity Consuming all within its potent grasp After tasting my hand it demands more and more flesh It sucks in stray birds from the withered grey sky In fever I erode my fears, digging ever deeper still As past, present and future collide What remained of my mind is now crawling away With the one hand that I have left I wield the shovel that digs beyond earth Through the dirt, through my eyes Through the worms, through the world As it stares deep into me, I respond with equal enquiry Demented sycophantic liquid doppelgangers Leak out to our surface In search of life to feed into the gape Taking over the world we know, as I join the world below Merging with the spiralling retina of the mind's eye Altered, I face all my hells Inside this pit I can't crawl out Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Man's attempt to fathom the infinite depth, lurking within finite matter Past the timeless tunnel awaits Life in mass-less hyper state Wake!

5. Join Us Beyond – 04:23 >

I awake on the shore The entity that greets me upon this plane Appears as many changing forms Flushing constant waves of shape None of which I've ever seen "To unite, we breed with all species indiscriminately Live or dead, from any universe Righteous, the torment that you will endure Just to comprehend what we are Overcome the self, leave your fear behind Open up your mind Let us in" I'm asked by the being if I'm dreaming or I'm dead? When the portal opened, changing everything Catastrophic multitudes of dimensional mending Offset the natural order Spreading its disease over every world In the wake of its infection Causing counter planetary lifeforms to contact each other By engaging mental methods of unifying dream response Thus the Alliance for Timeless Existence formed A galactic coalition of intelligence Unanimously ravelling their consciousness to become one "Ever growing, we are many, join us in our hive Dream with us and we will teach you How to visualize the surroundings of your new world Once you break through the fabrications of fear You can become any construct that you desire If your dream be that of fire Transform the fire to earth, wind or water Sculpt the elements around you with intricacy Comprehend the nature of their pliable dimensions You are the conductor The path is clear to cut away the fabric of the linear, that which you fear Join us beyond The path is clear to cut away the fabric of the linear, that which you fear Join us beyond The path is clear to cut away the fabric of the linear, that which you fear Join us beyond Always question if you are dreaming Envision every inch of your newly born surroundings As pieces of your self For you have constructed every molecule Of this unstable plane of the subconscious Comprising your lucid dream Remove the body through the mind Find your hands while you are dreaming Carry that self to the distant place where your old dying self lay Sink into this decomposing human slab And ride upon its life light as it fades in flashes" My essence now mates with the thousands of others No longer apart from the creature that brought me here The voice of this entity has been ingrained into me Guiding my path into hyperreality Breaking down patterns of pain that emerge In the very last seconds before my new reckoning Thriving in a formless state of pure expression Fearlessly I join the Lucid Collective beyond "A web of new life awaits exempt of the body Leave yourself behind and become one with the hive Join us beyond the gateways of the dreaming dead Join us beyond the gateways of the dreaming dead"

6. Seven Crowns and the Oblivion Chain – 04:50 >

In an age of dark and boundless riddle An artifact of reflective glass was discovered And brought to a king of eld, encroaching irreversible decrepitude During a laborious search for any and all demented fruits Bearing any unknown wonder or remedy for timely death Above or below the broad aberrant land that which he ruled over Then uncertain of its hidden wisdom The artifact was unearthed And with haste, taken to the kingdom Where it gained control The glass proved to be most abnormal Even more so then when it had first been found For this living mirror was discovered nesting Deep within the dank dark bowels of an ancient well Below an army's worth of old boiling blood Entrenched amidst a windy maddening maze of sand dunes In the great blistering dead black desert As the king received this treasure from the netherworld Immediately he could sense The power that it held was not from Earth Reflecting with imperfection as if it was imitating First only what stood before it Then whomever it desired Yes, it had desire It would cast the king with obsessive reprise For this was a mimic, not a mirror The glass was very much alive Becoming of many as each reflection comes to life The dilated pupil of the mirror started dripping liquid Leaking out from its maternal well was the first duplication Tearing through its keeper Fiercely ripping out the retinal membrane, born ripe In slime summoned from its slumber with inherent malice for man Cloaked in black embryonic fluid from an ominous cosmic womb Hypnotized in awe and wonder as one by one, they crossed over Replicants from beyond bloodlust As the deathless ringers arose The artifact grew roots, planting itself into the castle's centre Burrowing its living venom deep into our planet's core Drilling the portal into oblivion, birthing spawns from evermore Mutations from parallel dimensions Then conspired against the King When his six reflections had crossed over Their transfer linked the realms together Creating a chain of worlds That although remain separate Share a new born centre The centre of this link is the endless pit into oblivion The infinite and non-linear chamber of Kairos The King was bound and cast into this pit By his evil duplicates The infinite hells created by his deepest fears Torment him endlessly in a moment of frozen time Sacrifices to the pit were necessary To restore the rightful order Ending the king's reign Seven crowns and the oblivion chain Six, seven and nine "We are the six, with you we are seven The artifact and the portal make nine" This revelation of sacred numerology Is the key to unlock a life without time When these numbers align then the gates will open Sixes, sevens and nines Seven crowns and the oblivion chain Seven crowns Seven crowns and the oblivion chain Seven crowns Into oblivion

7. Kairos Chamber – 03:18

8. Spontaneous Generation – 04:44 >

Phantom limbs arrive Binding to me through the artifact infecting flesh The glass spawns life Amazed as I mutate My mind transforms the skin that surrounds me In grotesque embrace What was once locked has now been reopened I can't stop morphing I have made a new hand It can excrete larva from the lost kings constant nightmare Unleash Exploiting entities released from infinity Spew forth insects from my hands portal Scarab beetles scurry out from my palm Cloning super-numerary body parts I’ve never needed Contorting my new limbs into impossible configurations I can't stop morphing See with six eyes Speak with seven tongues Hear with nine ears My veins swell until they splatter Capillaries crawl from my eroded skin like centipedes Black-living-sludge Animated automatic anatomy attack This anomaly intimately integrated into me Arms dissecting one another, opening with wicked rigor I’ve become a mass of ponderous bulk expanding rapidly Self modification propelling my delusion Enlarging living tumorous tissue Cell mutation becomes addictive Insects swarm out of my hand Capillaries crawl out of my eroded skin like centipedes Black-living-sludge Animated automatic anatomy attack This anomaly intimately integrated into me Pulsating fragrant lesions and cysts Ripe with the abundant stench of metamorphosis My mutation infatuation To cultivate spontaneous generation My mutation infatuation To cultivate spontaneous generation My mutation infatuation The catalyst to cultivate spontaneous generation My mutation infatuation The catalyst to cultivate spontaneous generation My mutation infatuation The catalyst to cultivate spontaneous generation My mutation infatuation The catalyst to cultivate spontaneous generation Animated automatic anatomy attack See with six eyes Speak with seven tongues Hear with nine ears See with six eyes Speak with seven tongues Hear with nine ears Manifest nightmares from the hells of the king's infinity As he returns from solitude to infamy Manifest nightmares from the hells of the king's infinity As he returns from solitude to infamy Manifest All await the new beginning Open up your mind

Total length: 34:35

Lineup

Band Members

    Jaron Evil – Bass, Vocals

    Spencer Prewett – Drums

    Tobi Morelli – Guitars

    Dean Lamb – Guitars

    Oliver Rae Aleron – Vocals

Miscellaneous Staff

    Stuart McKillop – Recording, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering

    Curtis Buckoll – Engineering (additional)

    Mark Mckitrick – Engineering (additional)

    Kevin Moore – Design, Layout

    Ken Sarafin – Cover art

Links

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