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Weightless

by Impera

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Sailor of Doom What a beautiful album!
It's beautifully created and executed, exploding with sublime emotions that are sometimes hard to acknowledge.
This unusual combination of violance and grace is undoubtly a masterpiece.
The circular composition is pure genius, makes you unable to stop listening to it. Favorite track: Grasp.
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João Monteiro (Qwëzall) IMPERAAAA!!! Allready addicted :D
Favorite track: Grasp.
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1.
Sisyphean Task 05:56
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My senses fade to black My echo keeps coming back Makes me lose track of myself Time keeps flowing away Slipping under my fingers Like i was sand That's nothing but dismissed My everlasting penitence Lei it commence Embrace the rage forget all restraints Embedded constructs that were grinded into place Faulty pillars made to crumble and quake Seal shut my only exit Endure repression for the promise of freedom The means to maintain this poisonous system intact "You will not make a dent Your will is not enough You wont make it alone And no one will join you! " Am I broken? Am I wrong? Is it everything else around me That was built to make me doubt? Surrounded by madness Compliance has become method Learn nothing teach what was taught Revel in the ignorance I will change I will stray from This flawless path that might as well be a parade It's time to drop the mask Pure intentions Stamp all that has happened A bargained future Spent not by oneself Reaching senseless conclusions Repeating the same blind reactions Another pointless eruption Long lost inside myself Am I broken? Am I wrong? Is everyone else around me Constantly feeling this same doubt? Our errant fathers told us to abhor abnormal thoughts Kind-hearted ignorance can and will draw blood By myself I'll never find my way out Find the truth Let it betray you And try to forgive And try to forget That you're broken That you're wrong That everything else around you Was built to make you doubt Im not broken Im not wrong And though i cant find the guilty I will expose the flaw
2.
Lights 02:41
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On top of concrete foundations Above rivers of shit The frantic veins of the city Lit up by cancerous cells Towers do light up the sky But don't get anyone closer to the stars False lights that obscure the real night Leave all wondering what the sky looks like An inescapable virus The touch of man A being made to move Trapped by himself The understanding of greatness Over the understatement that we're small Is only ever achievable When you place yourself in scale It's time to look further Seek out the answers Justify our impotence It's time to go home
3.
Diluted 04:30
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Engaging in endless social acceptance Masking yourself just to change your perspective Wandering in a faceless crowd, feeling surrounded You blink only to see you're alone, you forgot your way home Scorching gazes carbonize your thoughts Adopting those imposed but they never feel your own You are no one, just a sheep in a herd Identity lost, nothing but a clone Diluted yourself 'til everything is gone Blasphemous pig, tossed down the sink Like an undifferentiated piece of shit Feeling something not your own Starting to lose sense of self-awareness Erasing yourself for a glimpse of acceptance Living in a loop-hole, just an illusion to retain the control You try to get out, but there is no way Diluted yourself into a comatose state Never awaken, consequently forsaken The part of yourself you allow to be taken Voluntarily subdued Forged like an object Equal to the rest But you dare not protest No more control, you're just a drone Gave up your will to feel somewhat whole A slave, you've been picked dry No trace, left alone to die Brainwashed, utterly gone Diluted yourself to the point of no recall Nothing but a slave Just another number on the line of the abyss that will take you under But you dare not protest (x4)
4.
Five To Nine 05:20
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Thrive in negligence Indifference is bliss Worship the noise, flee from the silence And the thoughts it brings forth Hide all our disgusting traits Embelish the image, display the outter layer Gauge out your eyes Trade them for a manufactured smile Ignore the real costs behind the price A routine malice sets in Mass consuption becomes a reflex A triggered mechanism sets the clock that's ticking too fast Adopt self-centered reflexions Celebrate yourself Another useless injection Provides fake sympathy All you can eat consume your weight in tainted gold Conscience sold for a local promotion A fools guide to warm your soul Induldge all cravings The less you think the more you can get Exalted images of self importance Raise up shrines to these selfish delights Find absolution in plastic gods Push the price of progress onto lesser selves Let the disposable suffer for your material wealth Assign random value, accept it without question Cripple the pillars, ignore the damage done Welcome to the age of information Destroy everything for a fleating connection The land exhales the stench of steel See the child crying in silence Shape the truth to justify your need Thus it is set, the mark of our existence
5.
Wings Of A King 03:18
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A golden beggar with a rotting hand Accept the invite let the power trip commence Set illusions for a life stealing fee Quench the thirst of your sadistic greed Tainted ruler under a misplaced crown Fuel thy subject's wrath Incite their revolt A victim under your own sick plot The power trip is gone, your time is up A chess board where there are only pawns A single player calling all the shots Yet an empire's life span's always short The emperor's end will unfold once more Tainted ruler under a misplaced crown Fuel thy subject's wrath Incite their revolt A victim under your own sick plot The power trip is gone, your time is up There is no point in holding to your wings You'll find it hard to fly with them while chains hold your feet Champion of light, bringer of darkness Another two faced fool to rule Greed and corruption will inflame your throne Higher the rise, bigger the fall A victim under your own sick plot The power trip is gone, your time is up Higher the rise, bigger the fall Higher the rise, bigger the fall Bigger the fall
6.
Lebensraum: Scorch 03:30
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The silhouette of a man promising bright futures from afar His goblet shines as his dark cloak absorbs its glow Euforic mobs with free hands to play Rejoice as the blades are sharpened The crowds merge into a single formation Staring with eyes open wide at the flags being hoisted A sense of entitlement compels us So we all dance along grasping blindly towards the skies Towards the skies Stand attention as the shrapnel flies by Whisper your last breath for a pointless cash grab Follow the footsteps of the corpses that pile up Dream of glories that fade as you rot Smoke a cig while the earth is shattered And call thy basement your new family quarter Celebrate the victory among the ruins Claim the high-ground and refuse to bargain Erase the history that falls out of place Incite the crowd with a web of deceit Move to the frontline for the righteous incursion Another godless martyr cannon fodder Endure proudly through a barrel-storm Exalt the fallen and await your turn Sign the truce with the edge of a dagger Innaction only brings diasaster (x2) Disaster
7.
Lebensraum: Sow 06:40
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Weaving a web of lies Slowly building deceit Concealed the truth, force-fed plot Assuring immunity Unblemished hands murking the path Accolytes saw back-bones in half Done right before our eyes Blatantly Create the results which tarnish the land Scorched earth policy, start from scratch Broken bridges bring the stench of success As the wheel breaks the cycle must adapt Borrow the chips, stolen stack Gambling your time away Tools for the tyrants, pawns moulded Moulded as clay Scattered gravesites make fertile soil Plant the seeds, corrupt its growth Pestilence greets them at the toll Through a barrel-scope it watches them fall Create the results which tarnish the land Scorched earth policy, start from scratch Broken bridges bring the stench of success As the wheel breaks the cycle must adapt Follow your profit to the kingdom come Praise the deity who raptured us home Walk through the gates of Eden towards fire and stone This dream turned nightmare will collapse on its own Its own Collapse A stage in constant mutation A leading actor with a hand full of nothing The curtain brings the same ending Yet the seats never empty Stitches holding blind eyes While the script is revealed Still you sit through the show Enjoy your lebensraum
8.
Weightless 05:30
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A loose trigger pulls itself by my hand Blank shells loaded to keep me in check Forcing me to create the perfect setting Fear myself, fear the unknown Flow weigthless Through time Let the days fade into nights Lay low your hands Wait for the day It's only a matter of time until it all seeps away The original piece is beyond recovery As the second skin becomes first nature Cast a shadow heavier than light Stumble along and wait for it to be bright Flow weigthless Through time Let the days fade into nights Lay low your head Wait for the blade It was only a matter of time until I seeped away The shadow cast is my own The green horizon is always beyond the wasteland Flow weigthless through time Let the days fade into nights I have been in a slumber Trapped myself under the weight of all this fear The trigger has made me restless In motion it all becomes weightless Flow weightless In motion Flow weightless Through time
9.
Grasp 10:23
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My sweet deception lays me down As I commit myself to sleep again Inhale as it all becomes much clearer Misleading connections Struggle not to be attached Unbroken but wrong Trapped in a room of my own reflections Now that my failures lay to bare I will embrace the mist again Exhale as my breathe fails to hold the weight of all this guilt Exhaustion has filled my lungs Filled my bones I feel so grounded I barely can move Barely can breathe Barely can be at all So much weight I’m giving it up My deceptions have laid me down So I commit myself back to sleep Forget the rage, embrace restraints It’s time I breathe again Reaching senseless conclusions Repeating the same old blind reactions Another ever pointless eruption I’m lost within myself Let it commence My everlasting penitence That’s nothing but dismissed Like I was sand Slipping under my fingers Time keeps flowing away Makes me lose track of myself My echo keeps coming back My senses fade to black

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released October 13, 2017

All music and lyrics by Impera

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tiago Mesquita at Nox Messor Studios
Sculpture by Daniel Castro Gamelas
Album cover by Mário Pereira Coutinho and Beatriz Cabeleira

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Impera Lisbon, Portugal

Impera is a metal band from Lisbon, Portugal. Its five members have been the same since the founding of the band back in 2012. Impera takes influence from many classical rock and heavy metal references, aswell as those of progressive and groove metal. Its sound ends up being an atempt at achieving a balance between those influences while exploring original concepts in their lyrics. ... more

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