Order In Decline (Chaos Reigns)

1 week ago by @gwenthered

Liner Notes

Ok... I guess I was wrong about being done with my angry songs. This one's gonna have to go under Obsidian too. I just started writing and I couldn't stop and really liked the vibe of this one. I love that I was able to tie in some of the Children Of Chaos imagery that I had in mind with my first album. Kind of ties them together.

Oh! And surprise! No profanity! (Don't worry. It's all in the next song I'm putting up)

DEMO UPDATE: Ok. So here's a rough demo. I'm using FAWM to really experiment with my voice since this is really the first time I've tried to actually sing in a recording, and I need to keep reminding myself that these are just rough drafts. I was experimenting with a bit brighter of a voice tone in places but I don't think my training is far enough along to really make effective use of it. It was still fun for me to give it a try, even though it kinda sounds bad.

It feels a little flat to me. I think the vocals need to get a little more punk-y, the guitars are kinda boring, and I even missed a word or two from my lyrics... but that's what the final version is for. For now, that's another demo done.

Lyrics

(Verse 1)
Born under the black sky of your domain.
The dark reflection in your eyes covers us all.
Every extension of yourself bears the stain
Of blood and lies. And we dream of your fall.

We were bound in chains to protect your position
Pushed down to our knees by fate's happenstance
And now we face your unending derision
and suffer in your endless self-aggrandizance

(Chorus)
Now these children of chaos rise
Fire in hand and steel-like will
Born from the flames of all which you despise
Ever in motion, sweeping through the still

Your command will face our rage
Vindication for the scars that we bear
And now as we set the stage
We issue this challenge...
Face us if you dare

(Verse 2)
Your gaze extended to your next conquest
It was not enough to command land, seas, and skies
You felt nothing of our futile protest
Our bodies your next horizon, amid our ignored cries

As beneath your regard under your foot we lied
Violated, the desecration of that which chaos granted
Stripped of our minds and souls, autonomy denied
Prisoners of the obsidian lie you implanted

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Your black night draws to its end
This is it. No more. This is the line.
Your life from your body, we will rend
Your counterfeit divinity in decline
Prepare yourself.
Today is the day you die.

(Chorus)

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