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Catharsis

by A Wanted Awakening

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VenoMal1c3
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VenoMal1c3 Awesome instrumentation but the real highlight is in the lyrics & vocals: Cleans are simply OUTSTANDING w/ the right amount of non-clean singing of broad range. I can tell you this: my wife (to whom Music isn't important) loves this album as much as I do & for all the same reasons, so we bond over it. Crazy.
Pilgrimage is another favorite track, with vocal abilities on full display. It's also the only time you'll hear a "Ree" because it perfectly fits. I usually hate piggy vocals, but not this 1 Favorite track: Final Ascent: Exodus.
Tom Deadson
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Tom Deadson This is a must get, I listened to two songs and LOVED it. Actually felt the impulse to buy it almost straight away.
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1.
Here stands the accused Bring her before the bench Her shrunken figure belies the carnage that she creates Persistent images of a savage assault Have been brought before you today Let not the fear in this charlatans eyes Be the forced that compels your will to be swayed Disregard the evidence Behold this evil in deceiving form Her tears an affront to the life she claimed Do not mistake this hollow display For remorse or shame Oh, children Are you not aghast At the sight of this woman Who broke your home The court has witnessed this basest betrayal Of a mother to brood whom she called her own So if a soul you possess Condemn her to death Tear down my defenses Leaving me without an opportunity To contest this warped presentation Of the word of law I have seen your so called justice wane And I am present for the fall Standing upon the threshold of the prison gates I wonder if this is how I'll live out my days Hands bound Drowning in the derision of all these degenerate voices An unholy sound You may have heard my name Carried on the whispers of those who defamed me And left me defenseless What else can be said? Cannot allow the fear to remove my humanity Every night spent praying for a painless death My heart My soul Has been imprisoned Without a single piece of evidence To justify this process These walls consume my life The stars The constellations And all the wonders of the night sky Have been stolen from my sight
2.
Misanthrope 05:24
My life’s been that of a simple man I never held the world in my hands But I know that I am meant for greater things Waking in a world reserved for those who couldn’t find their way From here there’s no returning Surrounded by all of these unrealized dreams, pathetic beings This must have been some kind of mistake I don’t belong in this place There’s so much of life that I have yet to taste When I look back across my days Surely I must have lived well enough to escape this fate I’m trapped inside this place so far from home This world has left me on my own I can feel my consciousness closing in (Without hope) Clutching at the remnants of who I am (For redemption) This can’t be where my story ends I can’t accept that the masses have deemed us all as unworthy What right have they to take what’s ours Their souls be damned for all eternity The price they pay Shall be twice the pain that they have forced on me But for an instant I feel a twinge of doubt Could it be that I could still amount to something more than the world had said that I could be While the world represses changes Condemning all who dare to demand acceptance for them and all their perceptions Instead of feeling wronged I am now out for blood The time has come to reclaim what’s ours We shall take it by force Gather all your belongings We embark at the dawn We can’t sit back and ignore this battle we must make ourselves heard Searching for a way to reach homes But have we ever been welcome here Were we ever home at all Pushing towards a truth we’ve known all along Home is not where the heart is Home is merely a figment of thought When all we wanted was acceptance Then never again shall we try To attain the goals of a simple man We fell prey to ill deeds under idle hands To all those who have wronged us heed this call This is the last time that we fall A new era now approaches The world shall soon be in our hands And all the fools who dare impede us Shall join the ranks of the damned
3.
Dehumanized 04:49
Disgraced and denounced The solution that you’d found Was to ask me to defy what I am Despite that I’ll continue to struggle on Weight down with guilt and resentment I keep the truth from the light of day If there’s a benevolent creator Why have I been made in this way? Looking out on a world that doesn’t understand pain At least not in my way I’m forced to conceal the truth in myself For fear of it getting out This demon that dwells in my heart Has been the reason for all of my suffering An undeniable part of myself That in solitude threatens to swallow me whole I’ve been led astray by these insecurities They’ve permeated the walls of my conscience A conditional existence of shame That only those of my affliction could begin to explain I’ve been trying to convince myself That my heart still beats For a reason between dreams If this is who I am Then why should I be forced to betray my only identity Any chance of peace has been taken from me By the sounds of an era in which it’s shameful to be at peace This wall of lies has consumed my soul And I’m prepared for some honesty To those who’d stand between a man and the life he was made for To see his soul bared would force you through pain you’re not worthy of Dehumanized in the guise of piety More hate than love in this “house of god” I’m trying to make a stand Though I hardly have faith enough to believe That someday I’ll possess the strength I need to show the truth inside me And you say I made a choice But what choice could there be I’m not the man that’s been expected of me Is not my life my own?
4.
Abandon all the ties connecting you to this life Only then can a soldier be born Pushing forward through the lands of these heathens and liars All that’s left in our wake shall burn As you pass through the gates let your vision run red And let nothing in your path remain alive Show no mercy to woman or child Cut the throats of the elders Disembowel every child Make the men see their daughters despoiled Let no man cast his duty aside An example must be made This is a herald of the massacre to come For your country be brave Conducting chaos into permanent symphony Let this city be razed And if you hear a growing sound In the halls of the wicked By it’s beauty be not swayed We the voices of the fallen brave These women are ripe for the taking Spurred on by the smell of blood Join me brothers Revel in depravity The earth itself affirming our divinity We are gods tonight Our voices sound the will to fight A dim refrain that will meet it’s end this night And though we pass this solemn hymn continues Drive them into the caverns And in the darkness they shall bargain with death In growing daylight you can hear their final strains Growing fainter still Oh god This hellish descant Which once was faint as morning’s light Now resounds with a staggering might This vile elegy I fear shall be the death of me Ravaging the depths of my mind This must be what madness feels like When in death you’re forced to see your crimes For the sake of your soul don’t avert your eyes So upward to the cliffs march in single file And with your final breath pay your respects Cast yourselves to the sea That your mind may soon be free
5.
Flameborn 04:53
This was a simple action From my hands came the spark That led to this My first attempt to cleanse A grand incineration of forsaken flesh My wrath embodied now in flame Avoiding all the pitfalls and traps that destroyed those who came before me This will be so much more than just one tragic headline I have only just begun Is your sin (An act of pure aggression) Worth this fate (My simple crime of passion) Contemplate (Your every single action) Or I will bring the judgement straight to your door In the first act of this tragedy You will find that my hands were meant to be The ones holding your throat and extinguishing The last spark of your worthless existence As I fall to the ground This beauty is blinding me I have found me place Now Oh come all you warlords Perverted and depraved And heed the signs Premonitory warnings of this conflagration engrossing the landscape A masterpiece consuming the wicked Send up a prayer to whatever god you pray to And hope it’s not in vain I swear I’ll be the cure to this plague A swift and unending cessation of greed But can I atone for my crimes When the time of my judgement arrives Can I devise a new plan In this perfect disarray Or will my fate be decided by all that I’ve done My soul be condemned to a hell of my own design How can I know This is eradication Destruction of the weak You soon will know of whom I speak The streets are burning with the blood of those interred In prisons built within the bowels of this world I am the harbinger of things yet to pass I am the omen I am the last While my bloody banner is unfurled Hear my battle cry across the world This is but a simple taste of what my new regime will bring All who dare to stand against me shall find Their last gaze reflected in hollow eyes
6.
Tempest 03:45
We are departing on a journey that will take us to the ends of the earth The true embodiment of freedom awaits all those who desire to prove their worth Never have you felt this kind of strength Carrying the weight of your brothers in hand Living on the edge of existence Controlling the hands of providence Beyond cerulean crests Into extrinsic depths Though we sail without uncertainty It’s clear we ride the edge of sanity these days On the horizon appears a vision of power That’s closing in for convergence soon this day Could you have ever believed you’d live this way At the mercy of the sea Through the gale we will find our fortune No matter the cost And I saw through the looking glass a storm The likes of which no man could suffer A destroyer An ender of worlds This is our time Our tale We are not lost Hold fast For all your fellow men We will forever change what courage means We’ll redefine bravery This I swear In our defiance we challenge the gods But be not quick to forget This battered vessel our only reprieve from the agony of these crushing depths A blacker abyss than you could conceive Is what awaits you beneath these waves Could you have ever believed you’d live this way Without hope to see the day Through the fear we can still recover All’s not been lost I beg your allegiance in these trying times When the only measure of a man is the respect that he’s earned Will you follow me Into the tempest
7.
My people feel the strain of the unforgiving sun Beating down on their backs every day And those who don’t succumb to exhaustion Are called upon to prepare for war Is there another way out? Do we all suffer in vain? A grand inception has graced my mind At it’s success we shall transcend these pains Observe my creation It heralds the dawn of a new age A race of novel construction Neither man nor machine they shall set us free They fight with the strength of a thousand men The barren fields they shall till under our command At their advent let our broken bodies mend How quickly can we place our faith in a creature without a soul I can’t justify my doubt with any form of proof But I just know that’s there’s a reason for my sense of foreboding Cause I can sense a hidden force in these beings An underlying corruption A demon horse borne in on cybernetic wings Is stepping out of the shadows As they become self aware It’s only a matter of time Before they question their existence Subservient to a people with weaknesses of our kind My home is just on the brink of an all consuming war These hours may be my last I beg forgiveness from all I have harmed I hear the sounds of my people submitting to bio-synthetic butchery I can’t contain this monstrosity The blood of thousands is on my hand And it seems that our society has come to an untimely end
8.
Pilgrimage 03:55
This is what my people have been reduced to A life spent wandering the stars A fleet of unparalleled grandeur Without a place to call home Each one confined to a prison Unlike any beknownst to man With the protection Of these second-skin like Metallic and leukocyte suits We’re kept alive in a haven of disease Pan-systemic pathogenic waves Meant to infect us Are broken on me Sure as the coastline repels the sea Bear me hence ancestors I pray As I embark on this pilgrimage (To stay alive) Guide me safely through Jettisoned from the fleet I’m struggling to keep composure I’ll never see my home again Only returning with proof of my worth Into the void A vast expanse of dark matter Slowly envelops me Only a fool would search for value here Have I been betrayed by my kind? Drifting through ravaged galaxies I can see now how hopeless this journey must be In reflection I can see the charge I’ve been given’s essential To our continued survival So even in the face of death I’ll persevere without regret I can hardly breath Fearful that somehow I’ve lost my way Give me strength ancestors I pray I see a glimmer of light Before the dragon’s teeth rise up to pierce the sky The broken bodies of a nation A race now claimed In the name of false gods and idols Flesh now gone Leaving empty veins where once was blood As in lament I turn to walk away I hear the devil’s call I see not a flicker of recognition in these eyes Just an unholy light Muscles replaced with circuitry powering lifeless hands Closing around my throat
9.
Spiders 04:56
We are not broken I am just a man clinging desperately to reality My sanity fading before me A constant battle is waged in my mind To which there’s no end in sight Enter a nightmare Where gossamer threads peel back my skin And bind me to darkness They won’t relinquish their hold Until my blood runs cold This has taken possession of me And darkened all my dreams All my life I am not broken How can I protect against the walls of my home If your seek the demon’s refuge look no further than the rafters above A malignant shape now apparates All Hope Lost A wave of paranoia is washing over me I can’t contain fear that’s pulling my life away As I stare into this darkened space I can slowly feel the press of their legs Only in the darkness can they find my reprieve This void without forms brings the creatures to my escape But in light my strength restored I pray it sustain me for just one day more I will not just live my life in fear I know soon it shall be my time Till I have the strength to persevere I will have to confide in the light
10.
Carrying the weight of indifference upon my soul Ten years of penance for another’s crime I’ve fallen prey to the apathy That’s been the unmaking of countless lives before my time The prison gates have finally opened To return me to a former life But what it expels Is just a hollow shell Robbed of my emotions A mere shadow of what I used to be The world has moved on without me Though by law I’m unbound It seems the home that I’d found Can still see my chains I have lost my shelter now For it seems I’ve been disavowed My beloved children The last vestige of hope that I could somehow mend the fragments Of this long since broken existence They now recoil at my touch For in the eyes of the world I’ve been judged They were present for my prosecution Subject now to grander disillusions That day In their eyes As a mother I died How can one be expected to pick up the pieces of a life long since forgotten There is no going back I’m in the process of a spiritual cold snap Rehabilitation Just a word they use to sleep at night My heart My soul Never left the prison gates The human that I was Has ceased to be Judging by this vague sense of apathy Hope lost (hope lost) In time (in time) Spent knowing I’d never get out alive As the truth washes over me I can finally understand What must be done Contemplating the death of a loved one That is the crime for which I’ve been punished No longer bent on the task of survival It seems that I have forgotten How to live Looking out at the streets right before me I know that his has been my final ascent I’d convinced myself That after all this time You’d still be by my side Fear not my love One leap of faith and I’m coming home

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released June 24, 2012

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