Saturday, April 3, 2021

'Down to earth' is released !

The new album 'Down to earth' is already available at least in Spotify, Youtube music, iTunes, Amazon music, etc.

I also manually released the album at Bandcamp where I can submit front & back cover artworks as well as graphical lyrics set (PDF) for the package, so if you want to see / get those, check out the release at Bandcamp.

It is done. Enjoy ! 


As I've been writing about posting the lyrics also here into the blog, I'll do it right now with this post.

1. Heaving earth

Earth's core glowing through time
Glowing point multiplies like designed
Earth's core one glowing domain
Grand design heading towards pain

Inhuman rallying on earth's surface
Underneath lies gigantic furnace
Life goes on and on this earth's surface
Giving planet earth one hell of service

Earth's core growing through time
Growing point multiplies like a design
Earth turns into one glowing domain
Grand design heading towards doom

Inhuman rallying on earth's surface
Underneath lies gigantic furnace
Life goes on and on this earth's surface
Giving planet earth one hell of service

Dismal to be alien watching as the earth keeps heating
Crestfallen aliens observing as the earth starts burning
Dismal to be alien watching as the earth keeps heating
Crestfallen aliens observing as the earth starts burning

Heat burn detox and clean
This earth is suffering
Heat burn detox and clean
All this was foreseen
Heat burn detox and clean
This earth is suffering
Heat burn detox and clean
All this could had been prevented

2. Void entities

Particles float inside massive wormhole
Timeless beings blocked by transverse wall
Ships passing by lights flashing worms' eye
Existing factors counted through the cosmic sight

As worms enter their endless tunnel
Anything around them shall plain crumble
Travellers of time and space continuum
Existing life flips void morphs minimum

Worms - Morph - Life - Death
Travellers - Enter - Endless - Space
Beings - Float - Through - Wormhole
Confirmation - Flash - Content - Reset

Death - Life - Morphing - Worms
Space - Endless - Enter - Travellers
Wormhole - Through - Floating - Beings
Resetting - Content - Flash - Confirmed

Particles float through massive wormhole
Timeless beings through transverse wall
Ships passing through flashing worms' eye
Existing factors reset through the cosmic sight

As worms enter their endless tunnel
Worlds around them no longer exist
Travellers of time and space continuum
Existing life transforms void infinitum

3. Planetary autopsy

Dead world scarred, surface lifeless
Dead world silenced, surface sightless
Dead world spineless, surface lightless
Dead world soulless, existence hopeless

Planetary autopsy, main body biopsy
Planetary autopsy, self made biopsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy

Dead world scarred, surface lifeless
Dead world silenced, surface sightless
Dead world spineless, surface lightless
Dead world soulless, existing in darkness

Planetary autopsy, main body biopsy
Planetary autopsy, self made biopsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy

Planetary autopsy, main body biopsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy
Planetary autopsy, self made biopsy
Planetary autopsy, underground necropsy

The end is no longer near, the end can be seen right here
What caused this devastion, what unbalanced equation?
Dead world silenced, surface lightless
Dead world soulless, lost in darkness

4. Through alien eyes

Alien smiles and gazes downwards
Another earthling doped and prepared
This one is no worse than the others
Ready for the ultimate inspection ritual
Goal set for searching the final answers
Nothing is certain for this earthly species
Strange machines hummer in the background
Surgeons floating high up in the air resound

Alien signals and comes downwards
Another race ready to be operated
This one is no better than the others
Ready for the high tech inspection ritual
Goal set for searching the real answers
Nothing is certain for this unearthly species
Strange machines hummer in the background
Surgeons floating next to the human compound

Nano scalpels draw near
Target dreaming no fear
Locks broken secrets open
Black heart of earthling

Through alien eyes
Mankind should arise
Through human eyes
Mankind shall demise

Spaceship lifts up flies above horizon
Football in space earth was the name
Insects taken over planet up in flames
First it was heating next it was burning
Root of all the evil mankind's primeval action
Demolized black earth needs no caption
Through alien eyes mankind should arise
Through earth's eye man deserves demise

5. Space funeral

How could you explain all these feelings
Like massive black hole replacing the heart
Everything once loved is victim of restart
Shroud of nothingness drops over everything

Things that living creatures witnessed in light
Local solar system enters the eternal blight
Silent notes flowing inside the darkest point
Time itself locked out for another cosmic exploit

Solar system entombed
Space funeral finetuned
Beginning this one's end
Errors found in megatrend

Space funeral finetuned
Solar system entombed
Finishing this one's end
Unable to make amends

How could you explain all these feelings
Like massive black hole replacing the heart
Everything once loved is victim of restart
Shroud of nothingness drops over everything

Things that living creatures witnessed in light
Local solar system enters the eternal blight
Silent notes flowing inside the darkest point
Time itself locked out for another cosmic exploit

Space funeral finetuned
Solar system entombed
Beginning this one's end
Errors found in megatrend

Solar system entombed
Space funeral finetuned
Erasing system completed
Begin the space funeral

6. After anomalous extraction

Before the portals of time
Opened very last time
Extraction was decided
Every factor calculated
After the portals of time
Closed very last time
No trace left behind
Experiment that had failed

Seen the portals of time
Appearing very last time
Retraction attraction
Elemental calculation
Seen the portals of time
Appearing very last time
After the portals of time
Closed the very last time
No trace left behind
Experiment that had failed

7. Debris and decay

Debris and decay, what all became
Debris and decay, accept all shame
Debris and decay, none shall complain
Debris and decay, afraid to embrace

Now that the solar system has been cleaned
Virus of warkind totally annihilated
Certain energetic elements floating up in space
Silent celebration of this experimental demise

Debris and decay, accept all the same
Debris and decay, admit the mistake
Debris and decay, look at the terrain
Debris and decay, failed to upgrage

Silent celebration of this experimental demise
Certain energetic elements floating up in space
Virus of warkind totally annihilated
Now that the solar system has been cleaned

Debris and decay, what all became
Debris and decay, accept all shame
Debris and decay, no more charade
Debris and decay, absurd to escape

Now that the solar system has been cleaned
Virus of warkind totally annihilated
Certain energetic elements floating up in space
Silent celebration of this experimental demise

Debris and decay, you will be amazed
Debris and decay, you will be betrayed
Debris and decay, you will try to dictate
Debris and decay, you will just deprave
Debris and decay

Friday, April 2, 2021

Through alien eyes promo

As it's just one day left before 'Down to earth' is released ... check out the promo video for the fastest song of the album. And don't let the goofy lego theme fool you out, lego men are not happy at all.



Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Playthrough video

 Since the release date is getting closer ... 4th April ... crafted up a "playthrough" video for the opening song just for fun. And the fun part is ... that it's not your usual guitar playthrough at all, but a guitalele playthrough instead. And drums on background aren't quite like the album version plus there's amount equal to solar system of reverb with drums, intentionally. Part of the fun. Video itself? Doomy of course. Enjoy!



Sunday, March 28, 2021

Release confirmation and some thoughts about lyrics

 I got the release confirmation from CDbaby sooner than I thought; it happened during the night of last friday/saturday. Didn't take even a week, and the have a "warning" that currently the release confirmation timeline is 1-2 weeks on average ... and when I submitted, at one point it was stated actually that it's more likely 2-3 weeks. So, ... I am really happy that I got through so fast. I usually do this "administrative stage" very carefully and precisely, so that there wouldn't be any error and questions to be asked, that could well be the biggest explanation. It went through, because there is nothing wrong and no changes needed to be asked to make. Yeah.

This means that the release date is certainly 4th April 2021, coinciding nicely with debut album release exactly 10 years ago. Hooray!

Of course I can't say for sure, how the album appears on all the different streaming platforms, but it seems that it will be released at for example Spotify exactly on 4th April. I know that, since I already got artist confirmation mail from them and I went and tweaked the forthcoming release there already. Chose "through alien eyes" for artist pick, for possible curators. Also for the 1st time ever I updated M4D avatar / band picture in Spotify, as well as uploaded doomy starscape as header picture. About time, ehh?

I'll post the lyrics here probably next, bit of a shame I can't use the PDF I crafted for lyrics, with graphical background all through and special explosive fonts ... but that will end up into bandcamp site as bonus material for album, as usual. 

Anyway, about the lyrics, a brief thinking session since at some point I commented about "having a challenge of singing them, since the lyrics are quite cryptic" (or something like that). Actually that is somewhat misleading or indescriptive expression. I guess I was thinking the amount of lyrics when I was mentioning "cryptic", ... because, well, on this album some of the lyrics are definitely the least cryptic space lyrics ever on M4D release. There are some space visions for sure that can create weird space trippin' images for those have vivid imagination (like errr myself), but there is much larger portion of completely understandable, straightforward english lyrics instead of coded stuff, fictional place names, connections in fictional world, or word play things etc (take a look at 'Cosmic time foundation' lyrics for good comparison!). This wasn't intentional in the first place, but it happened naturally since the theme of "earth album" started to take its' shape. Since it's a fictional, scifi styled & sort of post apocalyptic vision of Earth, ridden with critical approach - it's about a place everyone know, not just a product of imagination: It comes from that, the fact that lyrics turned out quite straightforward and definitely understandable instead of being gibberish word play stuff. Hell, there is even a kind of "love" song for earth (or not just earth), a very doomed one. Though, that said, some songs are not necessarily so straightforward with lyrics, that is part of the bigger picture and not at all a coincidence which songs are like that. The songs happen in certain order, but funnily they were also composed almost exactly in the order they appear in the album, too. Small tales (songs) and when combined with each other, from start to finish, they form a much bigger tale / vision about the earth and solar system. 

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

'Down to earth' cover art

Haven't yet received final confirmation for the album submission process from CDbaby, but I didn't expect to receive it yet, anyway. Currently they have 1-2 weeks of average time for reviewing submissions, so it might and hopefully will happen next week.

In the meanwhile, ... here you go, take a look at cover artwork for 'Down to earth' below, front and back covers. As usual, clickin' da pics opens them in larger size if you wanna see more details.




Sunday, March 21, 2021

Master V3 is the key

So, it's been a full weekend of tweaking & listening and ... it turned out that the third version of master is the very final version of this album. First version had some notable flaws and it was soon clear that it needs fixing here and there. But the second version was already a good one. In the end I had to make just some minor finetunings and tweaks and then it was time for 3rd version of master ... I listened to it multiple times with headphones and with speakers and was like "this is it, really!". Then I even went and blasted it with our TV & stereos combination. No flaws.

I've submitted the album to CDbaby system for analysing and set the release date as 4th April 2021, so that it is exactly ten years from debut. We'll see when it appears into streaming systems, but I expect it to happen in the early April anyway.

I'll post the cover artwork here at some point, too, closer to the digital release coming out.


'Heaving earth' lyric video

 Here you go, the opening track of the soon-to-be-released new M4D album: