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by Messier 16

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1.
Instrumental
2.
Singular 03:45
While exploring Experimenting And more often than not Failing at everything I suddenly realized Despite my attempts of integrity How fragile and erratic My actions have been I think most of us Search for a purpose And in that, we find Different and better Versions of our self It helps us connect With our present dasein To the will of our future heart Albeit, once we get there Everything in-between is just lost There are just more fragments As memories in mosaic display "When ugly weeds Cover your island Your sole thought shall be The future of your imperative hand"
3.
Omicron 04:12
As you rip off the scars on your fingers And the iron seeps through a red soaked film This is the human incarnation of molt Catharsis corporeal Glaring with flaming red bruised upper joints With lingering numbness, and a stringent skin These are the marks set upon your frame From sombre thoughts and worthless efforts See; the callous brought from pain Tiny wounds heal quicker Weave the stains all together Hold on to the storm Cling to the bone Weep through the smoke And listen to your agony Float up to the crust Exhaust your cask Engage your poise And be the sun of your former self For a while, your boredom reaches new heights As the compulsions go unfuelled This is the epitome of self-attrition The place in which you start anew See; the callous brought from pain Tiny wounds heal quicker Weave the stains all together Hold on to the storm Cling to the bone Weep through the smoke And listen to your agony Float up to the crust Exhaust your cask Engage your poise And be the sun of your former self
4.
Sigma 05:09
Drowse Stagger At the junction of eyes Faces Tumbling Tilt-shift periscope vision Crackle Pectoral sink If only I knew better how to straighten my spine Silent Deafening Shrieking Dampening – A mess of colours Tears frazil at dawn How do I know what will leave the least amount of strife? Flushed frontal lobe A clearing for thought I'd go for option four if I didn't manifold Exhaust Reckless movement Hanging Pills of no return sedatives Submerging Hypothermia They all leave Unbearable passive scars The weight is too great to carry Even before it's done I spent years pondering why things turned out the way they did And whether or not I would be able to change Old souls into something That would redeem My discoloured heart Did I choose the right return? Did they respond the way I hoped? Now that they're gone, I know the full extent of my pain It is time to revive and get well before I wither away It is time to revive and get well before I wither away It is time to revive and get well before I wither away It is time to revive and get well before I wither away
5.
Equinox 06:22
Once a child Feeble and mild Grew through fire A burning and warm mind Past stoneware jugs, in shade and chagrin Two springy feet fly out from the dusk "Loathsome reavers I've cast your slimy faces in the bog!" (Now) two adamant pillars lean against each other At the uppermost point, interlaced complexion "On an open canvas, every stroke shine like a firefly" Was whispered in concord Reason Sober Rampant Naïveté Silent Weather storm Dust settling We all hoped to conduct A stream of thoughts That would sing to the heart Sing words of longing Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur Ego hic non Moriatur The voices of a wish That shake the very bones Now with one foot under the sun And another under the moon The voices of a wish That shake the very bones Now with one foot under the sun And another under the moon Staring Flailing Soaring Flames are now clear Opened skylight Sealed shut Stars are now breathing
6.
Bore 01:30
Instrumental
7.
iota 04:06
I've been holding off on reason in favor of guilt It is too easy to lean back on old dust while planning future feats My walls are glaring at me now Bone white with a hint of disgust The only drapery both in and outside of my head: Sound, dirt, old air, mold, sleep, and light Alas, it might be time to make a shift of companionship Show me out to the streets Meet my face at every crease I'd like to listen to all of your morose And pluck the seams off for relief I know how walls crumples the mind But also how in the folds, there are answers to find I chose to be self-aware But despised to act honestly My deeds for tomorrow Are my needs for today This is how I apologize for my absence I'll be a foot closer to your hearts by now This is how I apologize for my absence I'll be a foot closer to your hearts by now
8.
Haze 01:44
Instrumental
9.
Lotus 03:37
The heave The solemn anxiety The stems cling firmly to its thirsty roots Singular eye On top of the surface Jugular sigh Chloroplast remains seep out They left What cloud rained on them? Should my shame be set aside And left to fester in the ground? Root fissure cracks Laden stem bent Bruised panicle detached Split amethyst petal floats away I left all that I loathe Shame to lie in the murky bedrock I cut off my invisible blot To set roots In shallower waters For everyone to see In shallow waters For everyone to see Seedlings spring out No longer Obstructed Discoloration fade Seedlings spring out No longer Obstructed Discoloration fade Closed bell But safe from myself
10.
Zenith 06:52
At the core of any decision Lies a permeating ambition To change and improve One's ever-evolving integrity To clasp the sombre And to reach for the unknown Will eventually lead forward And keep your heels firm on the ground In a disheartened state Or at the brink of depression Resolve is not easily found There's a blank plane That flushes out, in a burning motion The will to choose Point the very edge of your cornea At the zenith of your mind And stare into the nucleus Stretch your arms up And free your lungs and heart From the clamping limbs Imagine boring into the husk Of the trepid mould of desolation The heart of your gloom lies here The crux of your anguish With a stretch and a million crunches Slowly eradicate the woes and griefs Through persistence and grit The heart of your gloom lies here The crux of your anguish With a stretch and a million crunches Slowly eradicate the woes and griefs Through persistence and grit At the core of any decision Lies a permeating ambition To change and improve One's ever-evolving integrity To clasp the sombre And to reach for the unknown Will eventually lead forward And keep your heels firm on the ground It might not be all for nothing Deeds undone glare at self-pity Charred in the back of your mind Burns the heat of your toil The heat of your toil Will incinerate your fear And frame the Zenith As the incomplete and dismal past self The heat of your toil Will incinerate your fear And frame the Zenith As the incomplete and dismal past self
11.
Zeta 04:56
We ride on the shoulders of giants Of past surmounts and discoveries We ride on the shoulders of giants For the setting suns and rising moons You had high trust in complacency Before you knew what it meant A generation held in fallacy With peaceful, blissful gloom We see more and farther than our predecessors Not because we have keener vision or greater height But because we are lifted up And borne aloft on their gigantic stature In that, we are not alone in being here; We ride on the shoulders of giants Of past surmounts and discoveries As each giant call to his companion Through the desolate intervals of time We climb up and out together We ride on the shoulders of giants For the setting suns and rising moons We see more and farther than our predecessors Not because we have keener vision or greater height But because we are lifted up And borne aloft on their gigantic stature
12.
Rho 06:13
Each day is a little life Every waking and rising a brief birth Every new sun a quick youth Every going to rest a short death You'll puzzle the thoughts you know Hastening to the reminders of old tales' fright So dense, your iridial bore It's not for nothing you're looking to loosen your chains This shroud is only for your others Foam clouds to blind the azure While your mind sails barren Clear in direction, but without wind Nothing shimmers in a nightfall shade Neither stupor nor declination a slow ebb Not a new moon a quiet old age No animation sprung in dishonesty Come, stay by the hearth Linger, don't let your own hellion be Perched up is the sore in your eye Leave the shackles to char in this place A hidden winding temple Wistful velvet eyeshot Caved in collar, coma airing Zephyr lunging to get home To get home To leave flown Winged dome Mind is stoned Eyes cloned Forced alone Stuck with your bones No shroud is solely for you The steam veils are translucent enough to see The ripples that would come crashing down Unbound subjugation of the mind Come, come, stay by the hearth Linger, linger, don't let your own hellion be To get home, and to leave flown Winged dome, and a mind stoned Eyes cloned, forced to be alone Elude your iridial bore

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The music is conceptually written with the idea in mind that there be as strong as possible contrast between the aggressive and the atmospheric. Throughout the album, you’ll hear large dynamic changes, anything from speedy blast beats to contemplative orchestral elements to mid-tempo groovy neck breakers. Some tracks are meant to be bangers, some are more contemplative, all while attempting to weave the tracks together into a 53-minute tension and release.

The album as a whole is a deep dive in emotional desperation, and hopefully, the listener will find it as inspiring, frustrating, melancholic, and atmospheric as it can be.

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released May 28, 2021

Eirik Haug Stømner (Piano on Track 1)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (Track 8)

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Messier 16 Oslo, Norway

The Oslo based group Messier 16 was founded in 2017 by Jonas. The band now consists of the following quintet: Jonas Ulrik Eide on guitars, Sondre M. Svalastog on vocals, Laszlo Juhos on drums, Aleksander Ilievski on guitars and Nicoló Cavallaro on bass. ... more

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