[Verse 1- ambience. Clean, delayed guitars echoing out over a cavernous reverb. No drums yet. Vocals are a rhythmic, urgent spoken-word delivery.]
Phantom shape, heavy karma, suffocating in the dark
Kill the power, let the static swallow every spark
And I will chase you down the neon-bleeding roads
I’m begging to drown where the deep water flows.
[Pre-Chorus- the bass drum starts hitting like a slow heartbeat. Synthesizers swell. The vocals shift from spoken word into a strained, passionate belt.]
The fallout drops, the architecture falls, laying out like splintered bone.
Grip the fragments, realizing we were always temporary!
The peripheral fades to black, I've been starving for the crash
Drag me under 'til the oxygen is gone!
[Chorus- Absolute Dayseeker-style explosion. Massive, stadium-sized power chords but with a complex, syncopated drum groove. Vocals soar into incredibly high, pristine cleans.]
Two fractured machines crashing into one orbit!
At the epicenter, we erase the universe!
The ash is still falling, but we welcome the rot
Ripped at the seams, you’re the only God I've got!
Our fingers interlock, we prepare for the flame!
At the epicenter, we erase the universe!
[Bridge 1- The heavy guitars drop out, replaced by a filthy, low-tuned bass groove and a tight, electronic trap beat. Very moody. Vocals return to a whispered, intimate intensity.]
We are breathing in the rubble.
We are breathing in the rubble.
We are breathing in the rubble, waiting for the daylight to burn it all away.
I trace the fault lines hidden underneath your skin, an absolute divide.
When the dawn breaks the sky...
[The music pauses completely]
Will we be the last ones alive?
[Verse 2- A slow, crushing doom-djent riff fades in, layered with ethereal shoegaze guitars. This is the heavy, atmospheric section]
The optics begin to fail, painted skies rewrite the dark!
Captured by the solar wind, our atoms rearrange!
Pulled by the gravity, drag me through the veil!
Floating in the vacuum until your heartbeat echoed mine!
We are surrounded by the end...
[Guttural roar]: AND I AM beautifully CONDEMNED!
[Chorus- seamless transition back into the massive, soaring chorus. Heavy cymbals crashing on every beat.]
Two fractured machines crashing into one orbit!
At the epicenter, we erase the universe!
The ash is still falling, but we welcome the rot
Ripped at the seams, you’re the only God I've got!
Our fingers interlock, we prepare for the flame!
At the epicenter, we erase the universe!
[Outro -the music violently slows down into a sludgy, punishing breakdown. Dissonant guitar squeals and double-kick drums.]
At the epicenter! (Erase the universe!)
At the epicenter! (Erase the universe!)
Our fingers interlock, we prepare for the flame!
[Deep, earth-shattering low scream]
WE ERASE THE UNIVERSE!
[Interlude- Instrumentation: Fades out into the sound of atmospheric wind and synth static.]
Atlantica
