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Phylogenesis

by Abysmal Dawn

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rroehric hope to see you all play soon even if I have to have you play at my house.
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A legit moneky Every song is an anthem to the shitty year that was 2020. Thanks Abysmal Dawn for the foresight. Favorite track: A Speck In The Fabric Of Eternity.
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Johnny The Viking Dane There is never a day without this album and band! \m/\m/ Favorite track: Soul‐Sick Nation.
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DFS The best combination of groove, technicality, and brutality. Favorite track: A Speck In The Fabric Of Eternity.
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Ian Ockerman Killer technical/progressive death metal mastery!!!!! Do not sleep on this band! Favorite track: Coerced Evolution.
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1.
Mundane Existence 03:56
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“Are we not gods, but for the wisdom?” Apocalyptic prophecies A kingdom gone insane A living breathing landscape Of contemptuous malaise An endless waking nightmare Suffocates mankind Traverse the path towards the inferno Humanities decline Life a slow demise Fate revealed with time Amongst the seas of filth and greed There’s something that remains False hope and possibilities That linger like a plague Unrealized potential Locked within our minds Clawing through our eyes we reach Until it makes us blind I was forged in the madness A prophet born out of scorn And I can see through the vastness New worlds that wait to be born Chorus: Life is ruled by madness The life you lead and you breed serves no purpose Life is plagued with sadness The god you seek despises your mundane existence (Lead: Elliott) (Lead: Petroni) Thrust across a cosmic sea Amongst the astral plane The building blocks of life were sent An experiment in pain We long to meet our maker And gaze at the divine We were deceived now we should be Afraid of what we’ll find (Chorus) You are a sin and a disease A failure for a dying god You are a sin and a disease A failure for a dying god You’re a sin; a disease A failure for a dying god You’re a sin and a disease; a failure Now fucking die
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The Path Of The Totalitarian 04:17
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Vulgar masses Senseless bickering sheep The blind are led to their destruction A billion voices Cry at once for their turn to speak Distracted and destined to be controlled Gripped in fear The numbness turns to hate We are our own common enemy The willfully blind are destined to repeat Mistakes we made long before Man made gods were sent to rule the weak They thrive amongst the chaos and disorder Thinking minds are rendered obsolete Ignorant and ripe to be controlled Criticize / petrify Hypnotize / mollify Mechanize / follow blind Subdivide Live a lie / fantasize Stupefied / bred to die Voluntary genocide Criticize Hypnotize Mechanize Subdivide Live a lie Stupefied Voluntary genocide Sewn shut eyes cannot see The truth before them Deafened ears cannot hear The cries of fraud Severed tongues cannot speak The words of reason Vacant minds can’t perceive What’s really going on (Lead: Elliott) It’s the beginning of the end Grasping at shadows In the path of the totalitarian (Lead: Petroni) Rendered useless Taught now to accept defeat Trampled under the weight of their assumptions A billion worthless Decaying bags of meat Distracted and destined to be controlled
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Hedonistic 04:20
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Crawling, scratching, chasing A hedonistic vicious lie Burning, yearning, seeking Purpose to numb the pain of life Cultivate a life of wanting acclimate to senseless pride Want to believe in something; dreams, left behind Slowly wilting, fading Now choose to live before you die We’re drawn to light in the darkness Just like insects to flickering flames Optimistic dogma; a need to feel complete Contentment never obtained We live our lives in the darkness We strive for joy that seems so far away A spiritual sickness infecting vacant minds Now drives us insane Stare blind into the flames of regret Gaze deep into the embers Achieve the goals you have set Then you wonder, “what's next to come?” A new form of worship contrived To assume control over all of our lives Ravenous vultures that feed on our hearts Enslavement conditioned into matters of our wants Look at me and what I’ve become Imprisoned by the promise of hope A new form of worship contrived To assume control over all of our lives Ravenous vultures that feed on our hearts Enslavement conditioned into matters of our wants (Lead: Elliott) Crawling, scratching, chasing A hedonistic vicious lie Burning, yearning, seeking Purpose to numb the pain of... Slowly wilting, fading Will you live before you die? Toiling, failing, repeating Mistakes you’ve made a thousand times Always wanting, always needing You were robbed of more than life itself
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A Speck In The Fabric Of Eternity 04:46
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This is the age of genocide Of ignorance and self-serving bliss No cure for what we are inside 90-day profits have made us sick Humanity’s inept Cleanse the world again Humanity’s inept The time has come to fulfill our life’s death sentence We chose our fate now there’s nothing we can do Our minor good couldn’t justify our existence Empires fade and it’s time that we did too The time has come to fulfill our life’s death sentence We’ve realized this harsh and painful truth of life There are no real innocent and there is no hope The time has come to fulfill our life’s death sentence End your quest for the preservation of your youth We can’t redeem the thieves and non-repentant Our selfishness a universal truth of life We created our genocide Nowhere to run and hide Our poison has a cure An end that’s absolute Our lives flash before our eyes A speck in the fabric of eternity The mass extinction prophesied Now comes to be (Lead: Petroni) Humanity’s inept Cleanse the world again Humanity’s inept
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Coerced Evolution 05:28
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Humanity is a thing we can’t sustain Endemic vast disease of the earth is known as “man” Cutthroat corporations bred a world we could not fund Force sold a new existence Embrace your obsolescence Ready to die to live for eternity With machine become one As they rid you of these fragile shackles of mortality Become more than man They sold your soul to this corporate entity Your essence is all but gone Uploaded your mind to this virtual reality A new era has begun Reborn in this entropy we regenerate the earth Captains of our industries exploit our new found world Like the itching of a phantom limb feel the body you left behind A psychosis in the programming rips apart the virtual mind (Lead: Elliott) I cannot live within a dream Man was not made for this virtual reality I begin to call out to scream But no sound is made by me There is much more than I perceive A cold dying world beyond the walls that surround me The mind rejects all that it sees Defined by our misery Am I still really me Or projection of a self built from a fantasy? Simulated life was conceived To cull our societies Is this air that I breathe? Or symbolic act to ease the anxiety The program you are is diseased Devoid of humanity Extracting our thoughts To live in machines Evolution coerced By corporate beings As our gatekeepers still Walk the earth We live on a grid Stripped of worth (Lead: Petroni) (Lead: Elliott)
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True To The Blind 03:46
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I’ve learned to despise your best intentions Your misguided beliefs will bring the death of reason So blinded by your faith in false petty convictions You cannot see the truth beyond Unholy cult of misinformation the greatest plague of our time Lies are sold across the boundaries of great nations Reality obscured by personal experience A dumbing down of institutions Cornerstones crumble and decay A taste of blood invoking cries for retribution Judgement is public domain Pre-Chorus: Torn apart in the view of public eyes Our villains are carelessly made Our reflection is a thing that we despise Yet we can’t look away Chorus: You monetize obfuscation I analyze your intentions You profit from misinformation Now your words have become True to the blind Douse the world in the obscene There’s no time to reflect Causality in effect Ignorance consumes us all Hatred breeds and infests Fueled by false information Reality, we choose to neglect Will it justify the end? (Lead: Elliott) (Lead: Petroni) (Pre-Chorus) (Chorus)
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Soul‐Sick Nation 05:51
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(Lead: Folkare) Words of reason allude fragile minds The embrace of pain offers indemnity The knowing victim self-prophesied A life wrought from their own misery Pre-Chorus: A soul-sick nation Of children lost and never found A soul-sick nation Is burning to the fucking ground Chorus: Wherever we go wherever we live We’re haunted by our past Our war-like minds in times of peace are agony We want to move on we want to forgive And take the higher path But madness kills tranquility The ones that exits to defeat us Are demons that feast on the meek They whisper their words from within us To end it all These voices inside that could free us Live in uneasy harmony They fight to destroy or uplift us Which will you follow now? (Chorus) Horrified by a wretched life of stagnation We slowly doom ourselves to walk the earth alone Selfish act of sickening desperation Start anew; subdue the pain that’s never gone Rewrite the past; provide your justification Self-medicate until we are numb Salt the wounds of petty condemnations Never own the fact of what we have done Can we save ourselves From a life of torment? A vicious circle with no end to come Masochistic acts Hinder our fulfillment Thwarts the will and our hope to move on Keep running further and further away from the demons you hide Your shadow will follow you Pick up the pieces of your shattered fragile mind The shards you conceal still remain broken (Lead: Petroni) (Lead: Folkare)
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The Lament Configuration 06:18
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You hold the keys to your perception Unlock the secrets hidden inside You sow the seeds of good intentions The ones you loved have left you behind A suicidal urge and lack of self-worth The sycophants ever alert Did as they said for most your life The reverence fed ignorance and lies You’re dead inside And you believed you’d find redemption Elusive free-will was promised in life Beautiful dream; determination Disintegrates and drifts off to die You’re dead inside Your dreams have all but died and left Crushed by the weight of your own desires The traps you laid yourself are finally tripped You thrived in chaos but that time has expired Lived in a world of vacuous fantasy Dismantled by the persistence of time The glowing hate; the center of tragedy The end you seek, not far behind The crumbling of the will Initiates the erosion of the soul The soulless cannot feel These waves of creeping madness taking hold A voice calls from beyond To embrace the anguish thriving uncontrolled Abandon what was lost And put an end to what they all have done The morbid fantasies The self-inflicted torment You long for agony just to feel alive You want this pain to never stop (Lead: Petroni) (Lead: Elliott) Carving lines into flesh You finally feel something more Your demons come to collect What remains of your soul Dismembered at your own behest A gruesome sight to behold And when there is nothing else left This hell is what you’ll call home

about

After 6 years of silence, American death metal collective Abysmal Dawn have returned with ‘Phylogenesis,’ their most technical and refined offering to date. The highly-anticipated album displays a clear evolution from the band as they put forth a complex cacophony of searing riffs, blood-curdling vocals, and pummeling drums.

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released April 17, 2020

Mixed by Charles Elliott at Tastemaker Audio.
Mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios.
Rhythm guitars and vocals tracked and produced by Mike Bear with Charles Elliott at Tastemaker Audio.
Lead guitars, bass, additional vocals and guitar re-amping tracked and produced by Charles Elliott at Tastemaker Audio.
Drums tracked at Trench Studios by John Haddad with Charles Elliott.
Editing by Mike Bear and Charles Elliott.

All lyrics by Charles Elliott.
All music and arrangements by Abysmal Dawn except “Flattening Of Emotions” written by Chuck Schuldiner (Death).
Fredrick Folkare appears on “Soul-Sick Nation” courtesy of Unleashed, Firespawn, Napalm Records and Century Media Records.
Artwork by Pär Olofsson.
Photo by Rodrigo Fredes.
Layout by Mike Wohlberg.

Abysmal Dawn is:
Charles Elliott - lead and rhythm guitar, vocals, soundscapes
Eliseo Garcia - bass, additional vocals
James Coppolino - drums
Vito Petroni - lead guitar

Abysmal Dawn uses:
ESP guitars, Trick Drums, Soultone Cymbals, Scorpion Sticks, Mesa / Boogie, Dunlop, MXR, Darkglass.

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Hailing from Los Angeles CA, ABYSMAL DAWN plays an aggressive mix of modern death metal. The band seamlessly blends the hooks and technicality of early 90's American death metal, with atmosphere, melody and the brutality of their contemporaries.

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