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Emergence

by Symbolik

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Facepalming Panda
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Facepalming Panda Melodic techdeath drenched in atmospheric synths and packed with tasty neoclassical lead guitar work from front to back. An awesome stylistic standout in the world of technical melodic death metal and a welcome change of pace from the faceless multitude of Necrophagist clones out there. Symbolik have a truly unique and immediately identifiable style, which is quite the feat in the tech death landscape. Favorite track: Invoking Oblivion.
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sachavonkarl74 Amazing Tech-Death similar to Inferi to give you an idea. Highly recommended, I got the older album in my BC collection as well, but this sophomore full-length stands out by a ton. For all tech-DM fans, is a must! #staytech Favorite track: Invoking Oblivion.
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S.B.Norton Absolute class on display here. Reminds of Inferi in places though is that such a bad thing? Songwriting is the key here. On repeat. Favorite track: Invoking Oblivion.
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1.
The flesh emerges Pulled from a corpse womb A scene of a mother's fatal love for her child Is drenched in the light of the blood moon Whilst clutching the warmth of his legacy The king weeps and then speaks to his faded queen "My love, rest your soul." He repeated caressing the face of a stone Foretold was the price he would pay If his seed were to breathe The throne he would take And the coldest of the fates Will descend upon the land Long will live the king But not the same for his enemies Even knowing all of this The king could not resist The pride that he took in his offspring For this prince flesh will rip A kingdom built on bones of foes Through the years that would come to pass Disturbing occurrences The haunting of something more Wretched infectious slice of grim A servant reports at the king’s request "My liege I’m not sure how to cleanse this soul." "Do what you must…" His lord insists No matter the consequence A crash followed by the flames Interrupts the peace in the palace walls His royalty rushes from his seat to be greeted by the scene of his kingdoms fall "Sound the alarm, we are under siege!" The frail king shouts to all "Remove my son from the kingdom in secret.” He must not fall Frantic, he collected the boy And proceeded to escape through a hidden corridor He instructed the prince to block all of this Keep a close pace And cling to your focus Approaching the edge of the only land The boy ever knew he is more than confused But he does what he's told Proceeds into the cold with uncertainty into the unknown The empire slaughtered the masses Those who survived were enslaved A dynasty scorned from hatred That will fester until it is saved
2.
Disturbed and unnerved This day, unveils a dark omen It is almost as if the last of his bliss Has diminished into his desire It’s becoming more apparent to the mage That there's been a drastic change in his adolescent ways Longing for a knowledge That doesn't exist within this consciousness Concerned, He sits atop a wooden chair Heavy on his heart are the words he does not wish to share The pen begins to meet the page It pains me to disclose these woes, But I insist you know your fate Here throughout these passing years I've seen the presence that has touched you Born upon the blood moon, It was prophesied you'd bring destruction Now I fear the hour has adorned us on this darkest night For the cursed one to fulfill his birth right Cold twitch with a frosted whisper Soaking within his contempt Entrancing messages of absolution He oppresses you Afraid of who you must be Revoke his gift of life And claim the power you seek Under the cloak of night As his master sleeps he creeps Retrieving the book of the damned He retreats to his chambers To commence the ritual With circle drawn, He speaks in tongues the words of forgotten sins Darkness grips the room and the only glow Is the apparition Long it's been spoken You would bring us to this moment When I could guide you down the path That you were meant Your subjugator has imprisoned your mind If you wish to be free, Then he must die Within an instance He’s standing above his victim Gripping the blade of necromance Firm in his decision Staring at the only mentor he’s ever known He plunges the blade in his chest And absorbs his life force “Do as thou will.” Henceforth, mercy will be A foreign feeling standing cold The summoned one is Nowhere to be seen, But is not gone What felt like illusion Is confirmed to be an actuality The Soiled former husk of life Lies lifeless in defeat He’s calloused and disconnected These walls are without hope With blade in hand He speaks his leave a curse that conjures smoke A blackened spell Which illuminated flames that scorched The heavens above Creature Invoked
3.
Wretched and Sullen This path you follow Roaming for weeks Searching for the souls of servitude A familiar stench of flesh Corrodes his nose And in disgust he scouts his way Seeking its source He finds a tower Bearing the sigil Of those who seized his land Within its gates are those Living under the tyranny  Of a vile regime That eradicates All who oppose Undeterred He appears in the captain’s quarters  “Choke on your tongue.” He commands and the captain Begins to suffocate He then proceeds to disembowel the corpse With blood and marrow excavated from this life He collects the ingredients of which he needs To curse his foes And end his people’s strife Etched in red he draws the symbol of oppression An impaled offering from organs freshly plucked He burns away with calloused flames Illuminated by the fire Sacrificed And torn asunder Swiftly souls within the region Wearing the armor of imperial legion Drop dead or were left with afflictions Seemingly without reason The people congregate within the courtyard Baffled by the  Sickness and decay Spread throughout the entire countryside A stoic stature Emerges with a severed head in hand Throws it at their feet Then begins to speak “These very tyrants are the reason We are refugees They orphaned me and made me Flee the place I was conceived.” While he addressed his people A surviving soldier fled with haste And with visions of death He arrived at the empires gates And just like before They initiate with overwhelming force Only this time Their land was protected by enchantments As crows collect overhead They cast a shade upon the battlefield And sporadically fly down and pluck Out the eyes of the soldiers That fight for the enemy Black magic, His preferred and most favorite Choice of weaponry Filleting his foes with short bursts of quotes Known to carry the reapers tongue He calls to arms His recently liberated lot Of ravenous men Now knights in the service Of their one true ruler They charge into battle With no fear of death With every enemy Lying dead before his feet He begins to Raise the blade of necromance And all the corpse in unison Reanimate and bow before The one who brought them back to serve He repeats this process As his armies march To see out his will Until they finally reach Their destination To bring forth the decimation Of this empire and everything it represents His undead carve through the flesh of the Sentry’s that stand in defense of the fortress As his loyal mortals follow him To decapitate the serpent in the throne room At their arrival There’s a scene of a false king Slumped in his soil “Remove this filth at once.” He commands as he takes his seat Upon the throne He speaks an incantation Summoning the four lords Demanding their display Of their allegiance to his word A telepathic tongue Intrudes the minds Of all who breathe Entranced and completely Convinced to worship their new king And through the years to come He cultivates his lands Into a nation far beyond the dreams of man With so much cosmic influence His reigns been absolute Until his later years He had forgotten the sound of The winters breath And now it has begun "They call me Veles.” The one who has come here to execute the creator And all of his disciples “I am the urge you are compelled to address.” “I come from the nothingness that will eventually end All of existence.” Frozen in motion the king then said “Through my own ashes I will rise again."
4.
Slouched in his throne, Consumed with disarray He raises his blade And fixes his gaze Upon the illusion it displays The glow of a wretched Disastrous fate Overcoming all life And all of existence  Detailed images of catastrophes And fallen kin A whole world Swallowed into nothing Locked in terror, He misplaced the courage To stare any longer He throws aside the blade From its handle, A parchment emerges He summons forth What appears to be a letter Inscribed in blood For the cursed one To fulfill his birth right This message appears to be From his former master Detailing his life And a fate so tragic Bound to a demonic entity The sacrifice of his life A necessity  The key to defeating the beast That is tethered to you Resides within your name “My dear Velos, You must challenge the void.”  Let no cost be too great Do as thou will No matter the consequence Festering in hatred Violently searching for A way to free himself In desperation, He uncovers the words that he seeks  “Requiem Mundi!” Sensing he’s not alone, He proceeds to the palace Balcony Reaches into the night And commands, “You will reveal yourself!”  Emerging from the darkness With a cold grin The king begins To shout to the cosmos The brightest flash the night has ever known Encased the world The ground begins to shake And cracks appear to rend the earth Bask in the light of the ancient one His own legions are burned in the light Then the darkness engulfs the sky, An Endless Night We are one Seamlessly, The augury is carved in stone A devoured sun As the sun succumbs to the black hole Perceived as created erroneously Galaxies start to collide And debris Showers the world A coldness sweeps over the land As time and space are misconstrued Those who survived have now died In an instant infinity Surveying chaos that has stemmed From his own hand All of existence deconstructed By the void  Perplexed by destiny, He stares into himself A realization of a forgotten Futures past Engorged on Greed
5.
Nightmare He can’t seem to wake From this dream You will not For this is no slumber You are conscious now I have spent your whole lifetime Assuring this reckoning Gorging on the demise of opposed Beings with misguided hope Always closer then you’ve ever known I freed you from the prison you once Called home This feudal attempt to eradicate me Will always end in disharmony At last eclipsing The edge of the vortex Atop the last shard of land that exists A solar swarm of chaos Dragged by the vacuum As their protected By the eye of the storm Does this entity truly define me? This life believed to be mine Never was Kneel before me as we become All of creation You’ve done well on my chosen road As a vessel who ushered my ghost Watching this worm come to grips It’s as if he has found his resolve He conjures his ancestral blade A galactic energy incites from his core Visibly unnerved His eyes wide with rage Ethereal winds dismounts A demons stance with a celestial blaze With an inhale, In an instant He drives the sword true Only to find that Veles Stands unscathed "You must accept my omnipresence In time you’ll find what you seek in the hole." As He collapses from the weight Of the final blow Playing into the hands Of his most Ubiquitous foe Into the night alone Follow the path That will send you back home Born into the nothing as one Long is this journey that We’ve just begun Spiraling Into a million pieces Pulled through horizons As you question your existence Rearranged on a molecular scale A feeling of infinite ascension Dust Forever cosmic in nature As all that he knew Returned to darkness Within the depths of abyss A ray of light Begins to coalesce
6.
Grabbed him by the throat, Ripped out his tongue While his colleagues sit Bound and gagged in their own making Their low grunts and muffled words Echo pleas of mercy Through a hollow mind Attached to a callused soul Pursuing disastrous designs I am here to present to you An ugly piece of truth Your lives have been fantastic, Now its time you've been removed Distasteful to say the least, Swine upon the throne At last, I’ve been waiting for this moment When I would have you all within my grasp, Where unfulfilled fantasies will manifest As he peels away their fingernails, He starts to laugh Then with a menacing display, He spoke aloud Nothing short of the voice of god Can save you now And the rest of you shall follow Stainless fangs will lick Crimson tears from your cheeks One by one he dissects slowly Such attention to detail, A prosperous future to jade Terror emitting from his pores Hysterical and lost Inside his fascinations Are you not entertained? Are those wounds suffocating your lungs? As the last of your vile pack of rats, I will show you your true desolation Come with me Into the lake of oblivion Take a drink from this chalice of demise, You gluttonous slave Praising your numbers Gloating about the threads within your sheets On your jewel encrusted magic carpet ride You’re the finest cut of all the meats But behold a true sight of greatness Cloaked and cold in his ominous approach Shadows gather and merge within his wake Where the light of day will never shine again Something's awry Proceeding with the final steps Of his elaborate operation He’s distracted by the faintest sound A voice of some sort Or more of a whisper He cannot locate the sound In a frantic he turns the room to ruin Collapsed under psychosis Then the whisper demands with authority, “Rise!” Behold! In your vacuous vessel you have lost the soul That identifies with anything you have ever known Only echoes in you now. The ultimate defect has been realized Unleashed upon the world, Blocked is the way of your return You’ve committed to this disaster And a grave path you’ve earned You forfeit your life unto me And in my chains is where you’ll stay As a slave to every horror known to man Every night the same dream, Different faces but the same conclusion I’m infused with lunacy And this I’ve become certain of If I sit still enough I can still feel the echoes Shaking what is left of this shell, As if the time froze The voice again arose You never will advance unless You coalesce the void
7.
Raised in the fairytale Of evil waiting for a chance to strike Without our loyalty We cease to hold a form of reality All of our heroes will fall The hopes of our lives will be forfeit to dust The thought of this madness Just fuels the devotion to my home No evil to infest our lands Never knowing their work Has already began We cannot support the sword That is wielded to suppress our evolution This program is failing The structures collapsing The source must be shown If you dig for this truth Know there is no return This counterfeit Prison of civilized madness Is built to filter out the frail Leaving a true supply Of a slavish life May father time Bring mercy on humanity And shed his lightness In the darkest corners Of the minds of men The worst is still yet to come They’re already within your home Faith will not comfort you Built by the ones of what I speak
8.
Holding tombs In the forms of pictures With an overcoming feeling Of undying an rage Blisters annoying Inside your palms As you dig further into the hole That’s been awaiting the smell Of your bones Moist is the breath Of your death As you feel his icy embrace Erase all the doubts of your fate Hope your breath don’t escape As your pupils dilate  And adjust to the darkness That has bound you We shall dance on the edge of oblivion And bring forth this disease Purifying the waters Of these parasites That’s been feeding On the souls of mankind's most naive Condemning their minds Into self loathing madness Seeping through this Grotesque flesh of flaws Is a monster in disguise Nightmare of the gods Explode Let the words of the dead Be reborn once more And realized through this madness Soulless sights staring straight into lies And willing swimming In the acid of deception Can you break from the chains of the mind? And die for the breath of an unknown generation These creatures have been roaming your lands Distilling the poison the fuels your movements If you remain oblivious  You’re volunteering for the fall Without the truth of the situation Then you’ve already lost Unknowingly your skepticism Is their strongest tool The ones before us Knew this truth And tried to spare us of this Treachery No veil to disguise These acts of betrayal Now kneel before your own design No longer silenced and contained Behind your wall of illusion Spoonfuls of death being fed With injections of a loose faith A diluted structure Fit for the weak Out of sight out of mind Has robbed your life And awakened a bomb inside This palace was once all gold Bathed in hope and promise Only promise of death has remained  How much longer do you believe you will Remain safe inside your home Before it’s among you Beware
9.
This chasm of hate That’s been fueling The flaw of your creation Has illuminated silhouettes Of my familiar discontent Within these walls of thought An abomination crawls about Stalking out a way to unleash The final seeds of anarchy Hypnotized within a mirage Of a blatantly unobtainable dream Turning your brothers to enemies While the siphoning out the air that we breath This is obscene A cancerous product of empty hope Disposing of souls into vanishing smoke Leaving the future without a home of their own It won’t long before we all behold The collapse of the tower of jewels No puppets to prevent the slain Of the one who controls false Only through the liberation Of the standard fabrication Can we unveil the strength to overcome The sickness we’ve requested The seeds of death that we’ve ingested The power of thought to an unseen And an unknown source Separation implemented No longer informed of your surroundings Sedated through persuasive tales Destroy the lifeline and begin your own assault This treason must be addressed
10.
As if nailed to the bed He lies motionless Drowning in the deafening wind Of a presence unknown With a feeling of being Lifted through the ceiling The Beckoning of Elysian Fields An Infinite prism Injecting all agendas Bartering life In exchange for absolution This knowledge will bring  A horrendous intention Told throughout eons His return is definite Awakened by a sound Of an experiment’s malfunction Realizing he is in his lab and Far away from home  Investigating disruptions He relinquished his chair As a familiar voice is heard Revealing past timelines With visions of a frozen world Parallels of a boundless one Who transcends dimensions  He fights to focus For his work must be Kept in secret Sequestered in his research Learning to manipulate a stellar mass Defeated From years of  Failure to find his purpose A formless being guides his hand To accelerate the machine Symphonies of endless destruction Play as the atoms collide The forming of a hollowed realm Only death and rebirth wait inside Accepting his destiny He faces the beast from his dreams Reflections are all that he sees A paradox he’s forced to repeat As the universe is slowly disassembled A former life is recalled by a king Understanding the one true intention He welcomes reawakening

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released April 10, 2020

Chris Blackburn - Vocals
Allen Burton - Guitar, Orchestral Arrangements
Daniel Juarez - Bass
Brandon Clevenstine - Drums

Production Credits:
Guitars, bass, and vocals recorded by Allen Burton at Sanctum Sound Recordings
Drums tracked by Zach Ohren at Sharkbite Studios
Mixed and mastered by Zach Ohren

Artwork by Mark Erskine

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Symbolik Stockton, California

Symphonic/Technical Death Metal

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