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An album very different from all other works by Nevermore, this "Enemies of Reality," which continues the path set by the previous masterpiece "Dead Heart in a Dead World," further intensifying its sound.
The tracks included are all of the highest level: the initial triptych "Enemies of Reality-Ambivalent-Never Purify" relentlessly assaults the listener, with accelerations, impossible rhythms, and evocative choruses painted by Dane's unmistakable voice.
A moment of respite is granted by the ballad "Tomorrow Turned into Yesterday," but the following "I, Voyager" is quick to hit hard again, with its dizzying tempo changes and increasingly delirious and melancholic vocal parts.
Also hitting hard is "Create the Infinite," with its schizophrenic structure, while "Who Decides" encloses dreamy guitar arpeggios between a massacre of an intro and outro, serving as a backdrop to one of the most beautiful lyrics on the album. "Noumenon" is just the prelude to the final blow: the majestic "Seed Awakening," a true creative pinnacle of a magnificent and unforgettable album.
Yet another success, then, for this band, which has truly produced a masterpiece with every album without ever repeating itself or resorting to the banal. The remastered version by Andy Sneap (who worked on the previous album) will make this little gem appreciate even by the discerning (poor them!!!) who did not appreciate the original "dirty" production by Kelly Grey. All that remains is for me to thank Dane and company once again for all the emotions they manage to convey to me every time through their music and words... Never stop dreaming!
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Enemies of Reality (05:11)
We are the nothing grating against the norm
We are the something that will not conform
No one understands what we've been given
We are the useless by-products of soulless meat
We are all gone we all sing the same tragedy
Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving
Waiting to sanitize bastard tongues
To purify the ignorance that hides the sun
The less you understand the more you're driven
Packaged and processed the masses are force fed
The standards they judge us on swallow the rot we shed
Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving
Breathing dust and decay while I'm sipping
Human trust and betrayal
Losing faith once again
Take my hand my friend, my foe, I am enemy
Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving
Open wide, eat the words, become what you most fear
02 Ambivalent (04:12)
Blind and ambiguous, all part of the game
I've feigned my ambivalence with a smile
All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became
The sun in my hand becomes my despair
For I still want the truth
Play the fool so ignorant in the shadow of disdain
Breeding your deception without eyes
All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became
The sun in my hand becomes my despair
For I still want the truth
Play the fool so ignorant, deception is the game
Bleeding hearts and soiled minds
Reflect the state of our being
All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became
The sun in my hand becomes my despair
The sun in my hand becomes my despair
Play the fool so ignorant, deception is the game
Bleeding hearts and soiled minds
Reflect the state of our being
03 Never Purify (04:03)
Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify
Look at me, I'm on display
Another animal in this zoo our creator betrayed
If you don't feel the lesson, you're blind and deaf my son
But don't run
Look at me, I'm on the wire
I am not your saviour
Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify
I am not your saviour
Look at me, I'm never afraid
I'll never look back in disdain
Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify
04 Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday (04:35)
Inside black decision concealing what no one knows but I
To regain the vision that my freewill once cast aside
Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
The sweet downhill sadness of our slow decay
Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
And I see the fault of the steps that I mislaid
Tonight the north wind spoke to the trees
And said, "Open your eyes"
Deep silver glimmer slither, drip down
And emotion dies, emotion dies
Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
And I see the fault in a chance that never was taken
Tomorrow turned, tomorrow's gone
But did we learn, where we went oh so wrong
Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
Tomorrow turned, tomorrow's gone
But did we learn, where we went oh so wrong
Oh so wrong
05 I, Voyager (05:48)
If you view life as a mission
For truth and purity in vision
You can become as the anointed
And fade away from the disjointed
In observation, I analyze
All the aspects of humanity that I despise
I am the voyager
I have tasted pleasures of the flesh
And drunk the pleasures of the mind
To reach the point I've attained
Clear focused and defined
Those who don't create dictate
The structure of our world and preach hate
Drifting out of languid boredom
To destroy the structure of our kingdom
In observation, I analyze
All the aspects of humanity that I despise
I am the voyager
I have tasted pleasures of the flesh
And drunk the pleasures of the mind
To reach the point I've attained
Clear focused and defined
If you live life draped in sorrow
You will destroy the path we follow
Take my hand and walk in wonder
The patterns spin in random order
In observation, I analyze
All the aspects of humanity that I despise
I am the voyager
I have tasted pleasures of the flesh
And drunk the pleasures of the mind
To reach the point I've attained
Clear focused and defined
I am the voyager
I, Voyager
06 Create the Infinite (03:38)
Listen and I'll tell you the story of our end
Equate the calculation, salvation's fucking dead
Learn the lesson quickly
The enemies of reality bring the sickness
Of cleansing genius
What are we but men without eyes?
Swimming through the poison of design
Create the infinite and expand the question
Count to number seven
Your day of rest creates infection, your imperfection
What are we but men without eyes?
Swimming through the poison of design
The waves ran as the storm came
The lightning in the distance signaled the coming crushing days
The sky was brooding and beautiful
And the gulls sailed like recycled fragile entities
The waves bled as the storm changed
In the cold embrace of the unknown
Not even blood could bring us warmth
There is no future shock
There is no god
There is no fashionable deliverance
What are we but men without eyes?
Swimming through the poison of design
What are we but men without eyes?
Swimming through the poison of design
07 Who Decides (04:15)
And so we meet again, the dirt on our feet but then
Who knows who really decides?
In this spacial oddity, this viral commodity
The astronaut listens to voices that call
Won't you follow me down?
Breathe, as you suffer with existence
Rags and ruin of all that was human
Leaching the force of collective design
Heroes and rapists they all have nice faces
But who decides, who defines, who draws all the lines?
In this wasted miracle, the outcome so terminal
Why do we waste time on hope?
In perfect execution, liquid and lucid
Born in the astromaut's eyes
Of hate, loathing, wonder, and fear
Breathe as you suffer in denial
The lover and the blind man they sing their song
The pleasured and the pained pray their sins are gone
They can't reach heaven, the truth's brutal lesson
Forgive yourself, for no one else will die for your crimes
But who decides, who decides?
08 Noumenon (04:37)
Regret nothing, resistance is remorse
All feeling is to now be without consequence
Truth has become media controlled
Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
Reality is distortion of perception
We are the enemy
There is no stronger drug than reality
Twist and change, time is nothing, regret everything
Young hearts are pure like violet drops of rain
Until life teaches us to be stoned or ashamed
There is no stronger drug than reality
We are the enemy
09 Seed Awakening (04:30)
There is no stronger drug than reality
Twist and change, time is nothing, regret everything
Witness Seed Awakening
Witness Seed Awakening
The execution solution, we're weeding out the weak
So condemn their revelations, the masses love the death show
We are cold when we are strong
In one breath we can still grow
We are cold when we are strong
In one breath we can still grow
These curious moments of shattered clarity
Stained sentient portraits of our damaged sanity
If this is our perdition, will you walk with me?
We are sentient shades of our subtle mortality
We are cold when we are strong
In one breath we can still grow
These curious moments of shattered clarity
Stained sentient portraits of our damaged sanity
Stained sentient portraits of our damaged sanity
Witness Seed Awakening
Witness Seed Awakening
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By Moonchild
This is the heaviest album the group has ever conceived, accompanied by the raw (or mediocre?) production of the good Kelly Gray.
Nevermore has made a great album, always in continuous search for that elusive ingredient that (damn it) always slips through their fingers.
