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Go for it,
Bow to the supremacy,
Go for it at last.

You do believe, so I can say
That you are owned by me.

Go for it,

Living at different places
Evading into various spaces
My compass has broken
I'm losing the way
An ongoing madness has led me astray

My past breathes down my neck
And it seems now that all I can do is

The origin of a dogma
Placed in a new millennium
Vilified demons have been embraced
And given a warm welcome

The Seif al Din
Hasn’t got the ghost of a chance to rust
Because it has always been kept in shape

I can't stand the way you've forsaken me
I see through the wicked games you've played with me
Do you feel the suspicion stirring up?
Can't you see that they long to give you up?

Can't you come lie with me?
Forget about your fallacy.
Seduce me with your fantasies

Memory, fading out
Its presence still lingers in my mind
Listen to your inner voice
There's no escape, there's no other choice

A foolish fate that came about
Death could not leave without
Don't try to scour your inane soul

It feels so warm when you are near
You are all I want to feel
Tell me now, is this for real?
It’s hard to breathe
We’re all lost and travelled high, cannot find my peace of mind
When the sun will rise again, we’ll fly away

Take the stairs to the stars

f you search for enrichment
And injure others
Earning more that you can spend
You'll pass the borders

When you think you've succeeded
But something's missing
Means you have been defeated

Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
This is the final end

A voice in the wilderness
Fights in fear no more
Because this stronger death
More sold men before

Shine through the sky
Beyond the matrix
Feel what it's like to be divine

Shine through the sky
Beyond the matrix
Feel what it's like to have attained Nirvana

Trying to keep myself afloat upon this stream
But a thought is pulling me down
Pulling me all the way down

We are wandering towards a blank infinity
And extinguishing will now be the only way
To diminish your sins
This vortex can't be filled up again

Deep in the night, boundless violence will seethe with the danger
Our laws collide not allowing another contender
When the wine drinks itself, you will burn to a cinder
We're fighting time awaiting the answers

I'll never let them stake you down
Take you down
I'll fight to find a way

Free my mind
Heal my scars
Erase the past
Dark days to forget
And memories to last
In my heart

Free me now

How can we let this happen and
Just keep our eyes closed 'till the end

The only thing that counts is the prosperity of today
Most important to us is that our bills get paid

Our good intentions have always been delayed

Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this bulwark
Forever and ever, forever and ever

Indoctrinated minds so very often

When darkness will reign and blind us all

When darkness will reign and blind us all
Allegiance will bind us if we do not fall

We cannot tell when morning comes
Is there a choice to live another day?
It's hard to find a new direction in your fragile life

I followed your rules
A willing fool
Branded by shame

My soul suffers from your hostile ways
I bear so many scars, hit me hard
Time to change we have to rearrange
For this has gone too far, way too far

If we could see ourselves
The mirror would reflect
Insanity
Instead we camouflage
The flaws that lie within

Condone the suffering
We witness as we mingle

We have to wait
For a dying day
Full of black decay
We'll find a way
To become aware
Breathing tainted air
We change the lanes
In every second of our lives

Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening side
Now that I'm empty, my dreams once were many
Souls bid a cry to unleash the divine

When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away

Shield the monocrat and
Better fulfull his needs and wield his sordid means
Thank you for all torture and maul
Which only keep it running

We condemn disruption
We should fight for liberation now
(Liberate us now)

Edge of the Blade (оригинал Epica)

Time to break through the anger
Hunt down the remnants of the everlasting myth

Incinerating hands that touched your graceful face
In their mysterious ways
The scorching scars have left an everlasting visual trace

Sanguis meus tibi non iam perbibendus sit

Macula aeternitatis
Numquam detergrenda
Quisnam surget et deteget
Imaginem veritatis?

People created religious inventions

Потухла самая яркая свеча из всех.
Ее потушили те, кто не в силах принять правду Такой, какая она есть.

Каждый удар твоего сердца
Заставлял ложь содрогнуться,
Но озеро породило волны,
Что заставили фарфор разбиться...

Keine Zeit für dein ewig falsches Spiel
Gefährten werden ausgenutzt und bringen dich ans Ziel
Es wär’ besser wenn du dich nicht wieder umdrehst
Die Brücken brennen hinter dir
Auf den Wegen die du gehst

Blind durch den Erfolg
Scheint der Weg aus deinem Mund

The very brightest candle of all has been extinguished
Smothered by those who could not bear to face reality
Every beat of your heart tore the lies all apart
Made foundations quiver
Every wave in the lake caused the porcelain to break
And I shiver...
The leftover tallow just doesn’t contain
All the right answers

Go for it
Bow to the supremacy
Go for it at last

You do believe, so I can say
That you are owned by me

Go for it

Appearance is deceptive
So perfect in disguise
There's more than what you see
A semblance is protective
A blinder for the eyes
A place to hide and flee

Flee and you'll never see

Higher High

Fireflies are flying higher
They draw their wings up in the sky
Something I cannot read now
For my vision is blurred

We are all ruled by our fears below

Call me a liar, a king or a fool
But sing me a song of prosperity
Higher and higher, the farther we fall
Hard to remember

I will surrender and I'll always wait
Wait as in all of eternity
Hard to remember and hard to forget

Illusive Consensus

So sweet caress, never long to last!
You entered my soul and gave hope to my life.
So sweet caress, never hope to last!
You left me behind all alone and aghast
Capured inside such an austere Elysium

Allow me to write my final words
I can't stand this anymore
Hold me when the time has come
'Cause I don't want to be alone

In my heart you're still here, it's the bond that we share
I can feel you're are around, everywhere
Even though you're gone, our spirit is strong

00:00-00:27 - Resign to Surrender
00:27-00:57 - Martyr Of The Free Word
00:57-01:45 - Kingdom of Heaven
01:45-02:27 - Burn To A Cinder
02:27-03:01 - Tides Of Time
03:01-03:43 - Monopoly On Truth
03:43-04:27 - Delirium
04:27-05:01 - Internal Warfare

I. Hold in Derision

[Mark:]
Pioneering, big breakthroughs
Proceeded by the opposition
Hold in derision all that is new
Afraid to lose their own esteem

[I. Hold In Derision]

Pioneering, big breakthroughs
Proceeded by the opposition
Hold in derision all that's new
Afraid to lose their own esteem

Scorn shall be directed at the genius

It feels so warm when you are near
You are all I want to feel
Tell me now, is this for real?
It’s hard to breathe
We’re all lost and travelled high, cannot find my peace of mind
When the sun will rise again, we’ll fly away

Take the stairs to the stars

[Mark:]
Don't believe what you see
Believe in me
In my reality
I am a man of God

[Choir:]
God, can't you hear that I’m begging you?

Speaking interpretation
A conversation can take a sudden turn
And reaching the point of violence
Because your silence left you without a hand to hold

Your past will lead you on to make...

Making a final judgement

[Vinyl Additional Track]

[Music: Ariën Van Weesenbeek & Epica, Lyrics: Simone Simons]

A soul in flames inventing crime
A soul at pace against new times

Her face in red outrules the law

Compulsive expressions of your social weakness
Vented on your countless made up enemies

I cannot know how you feel
When you don't say anything

We don't care what you say
We'll never join the games you play

It always puts me on the edge
To think of all the spoiled lives.
Today I'm one step further,
Not sure if I've survived myself.

Reality is sometimes stranger then fiction:
Whatever happens in my dreams
I know it can't be worse than this,

Natural corruption

Another day passed by in ruined paradise
Another night will pass until we're sheltered
We're aiming for a life that won't be compromised
And when we say goodbye it's devastating

Now that we have finally realized

Can't you hear me screaming, once again?
Voices you can't hear
Because you are consumed and incontent
With everlasting greed

Don't you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You're smiling as you bite the hand that feeds

Can't you hear me screaming, once again?
Voices you can't hear
Because you are consumed and incontent
With everlasting greed

Don't you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You're smiling as you bite the hand that feeds

Dying slowly, all alone
Hope is gone, the seeds were sown
Another day without a touch
Another dawn with only dusk

But sometimes it rewinds me
To the bliss of languid dreams
To my precious memories

Это знамение
Сбивает нас с толку,
Несчастье объединяет нас.
Когда кажется, что мир разрушается,
Помни, что именно ты задал курс,
Когда чувствуешь, что никто не отвечает,
Вернись к своей внутренней силе...
В то время как начинают звонить

So many days we've spent together
Trying to get ahead with our dreams
Now we have come to the goal forgotten
Hurting within left us torn

The road is open
We find out way through ties where broken
So the means to the end

Преступник, ты действуешь прежде, чем думаешь
Пойман в твоем невежественном грехе
И, обманывая свое собственное отражение,
Ты думаешь, ты можешь спрятаться

Лишенная своей невинности, отвергнутая

Бесконечность повторяющегося учения, твоя отповедь

There is no love!
No love!

I am a duplication
Innocently
I was conceived
So violently
There was no love

When silence betrays

We've tried to find a reason
To go on and cross the line
Tell me
How can we justify the act
We've tried to look around and
Search for ways to shift the blame

0:20 - Introspect
4:29 - Monopoly On Truth
11:39 - Sensorium
17:30 - Unleashed
24:00 - Martyr Of The Free Word
30:27 - Chasing The Dragon
38:50 - Presto
42:02 - Never Enough

0:01 - The Obsessive Devotion
8:20 - Retrospect (Unreleased Song, Live Premiere)
13:30 - Battle of the Heroes & Imperial March
19:29 - Quietus
24:45 - The Phantom Agony
33:43 - Cry for the Moon
45:31 - Sancta Terra (Ft Floor Jansen)
51:25 - Design Your Universe

Do not use the past as an alibi
For all of your deficiencies always standing by
Face your negligence, do not fool yourself
Shortcomings will soon appear
For weakness shows itself

Blind from your success and all of the excess
Deaf from the praise you had

Memories that fade away
Have not left their mark
But you live on, every single day
In many different ways
It’s the truth between his cunning lies
That hands him his suspicious alibis
Persuading with your force will never be the way
To our destiny

A place which I have searched a thousand times
To finally free myself
Forever wasn't ever long enough
I will refrain

I feel a passion washing over me
To shed the skin I'm in
This evolution will empower me

Born to fight, and we're born to flee
Doomed to live on ecstasy
Born to lie, and we're born to cheat
Look in the mirror, who do you see?

Born to flee, and we're born to fight
Without your mask, you're terrified
Don't hide your personality

See through the veil

Our perspective on life
Defines everything we reach
Most of us will aim for
All the certainties

Beyond the veil

Never could we see what lies deeper
Seeming that our view can't be changed
Deciding where to go
And believe in your disaster
Deleting a future untold

This is the final deceiver
This is the devil in me

Living at different places
Evading into various spaces
My compass has broken; I'm losing the way
An ongoing madness has led me astray

My past breathes down my neck
And it seems now that all I can do is
Go back to beginnings when all lay ahead

Along the way i find myself
To be confined within me
My place where all the others mind to interfere

To press the meaning of it all
To overcome my limits
And dance away from any void and empty tasks

Something is wrong
My strength has gone
Thoughts are corrupting my mind

I can see I perceive this ain’t me

Something so strong
My mood has swung

Я не могу смириться с тем, как ты оставил меня
Я вижу насквозь все подлые игры, в которые ты играл со мной
Чувствуешь ли ты, что подозрение становится все сильней?
Разве ты не понимаешь, что тебя собираются бросить?

Можешь ли ты остаться со мной?
Забудь о своей ошибке
Соблазни меня своими фантазиями

2 года назад, Нидерландцы Epica выпустили альбом "The Quantum Enigma". Альбом выстрелил масштабнейшим зарядом и был очередным шагом вперёд в их творчестве.
Масштабный симфонический фон, обилие хоров, всё такое же крутое сочетание "красавицы и чудовища" (в котором "красавица" - естественно, Симона, а "чудовище" - соответственно, Марк Янсен) и многое другое.
И вот, два года спустя, Epica выпускает новый альбом под названием "The Holographic Principle". Говоря объективно, это попытка второй раз выстрелить в рамках "Энигмы" с некоторыми изменениями в музыке. Более "прогрессивные" гитары, Симона стала петь в своей новообретённой "зоне комфорта", а Марк стал наоборот лучше рычать. Ну и да, ещё больше симфоники и хоров.
А субъективно - это просто хороший релиз в рамках "футуристичного" концепта. И, наверное, тут одни из лучших текстов из метал-релизов этого года.

1. Eidola
2. Edge Of The Blade
3. A Phantasmic Parade

Magna culpa nostra
Poena danda nobis erit
Usque ad finem dierum

Ad finem temporum

You can't force yourself upon me
And you never will

Don't you ever blind me
Don't be a foolish thief
-Am I?
Don't you ever bring yourself to grief

Don't you ever blind me
Don't ever trick my mind
-Did I?

I. Impasse of thoughts
I can’t see you I, can’t hear you
Do you still exist?

I can’t feel you, I can’t touch you
Do you still exist?

The Phantom Agony

Visum commutamus
Nihil certum
Qui observat, visi
Pars est

The quantum enigma
All your laws and the assumptions
Leave them all behind

O, ne moriar bis
Oro supplex

Sometimes I feel like my reason is weakinning
My inner clock's forcing time stand till
I'm breaching borders between life and sanity
That's when it all starts to shatter in front of me

We're in a time where all enterprises fall
We should beware of the wolves that haunt us
They are not all the same, cannot take the blame
Await the time to unchain utopia

Am I the only one who sees the troubled lines?
Reading illusive writings on the mirror
Is there a way that we can all erase mistakes and start anew?

Inventing, improving, creating existence
Embrace the technological remedy

Robotic legions stand in line to carry out
The retribution and effects of this advanced technology
All new inventions have to pay
They have to fight their way to judgment day
(Technological tragedy is near)

Declining, all color fading
Defining, time coming for me
Rescinding, my inspiration
Receding consciousness

Back in the day, I can recall that,
My thoughts were unclouded and sage
There was no black staining the walls of my memories

Your words are meaningless, as pain fills the void
Hollow words won't hurt no longer
You will regret every life you've destroyed
Blaming the whole world will never make you stronger

Be prepared for the righteous self

If you blame all your failures on someone else

Epica - White Waters

I see a silhouette, liquid that moves
Skin like a pearl in the sea
I cannot resist this, her voice in the wind
But is it my eyes are deceived?
Is it you I see?
Lie down in my arms