The complete Antithetic Affiliation album spread on 2 CD's featuring an exclusive bonus DVD featuring the acoustic debut performance of Dreamwalkers Inc at Progpower 2016 filmed with mulitple camera's.
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The chances are that once in life, the stars align and show you sights.
An overwhelming sense of joy, which bitter pain will not destroy.
But is the fear of losing all the spectre that remains as tall.
Can you relinquish your deepest fear, to just enjoy what’s now and here?
What wondrous chances one can see as it strikes the numbers you received. In darkest hours a dim light shines that casts away the shade of night. An offer you cannot resist. A pick-me-up that can’t be missed.
And as you move you see the sun like saying you are not alone.
Sometimes the puzzle that you try to solve is solved by letting go.
Sometimes the answer that you’re looking for can be what holds you back to grow.
Sometimes the greatest gifts are those you don’t receive.
But the ones that happen to you as you walk through life.
And though it can be frightening to let it all go,
It’s the more that we remember that finally makes us whole.
How can you prepare for such a surprise?
Can you catch coincidence in a mid-air flight?
Can you save it if it’s truly there?
Or will it dissipate into thin air?
Part 2 - Gratefulness
I can’t see how this happened or what contest I have won.
It all seems so right. Isn’t this supposed to be wrong?
I have learned mistrust as my life ran away from me.
So now that light is shining bright. Is this insecurity?
I know this is weird, but it just seems in place.
The world truly seems to work in marvelous ways.
I’ll grasp every moment that I can find, for I know what it is like to lose.
But now the odds are in my favor and I look behind,
Is what’s happening coincidence or did I actually choose?
So now it seems a revelation. Things happen as they go.
It’s like the world is in my favor, and it has finally shown
The colors of success that match my inner grace.
And I now oversee it, the vast amount of riches that I’ve gained.
Have I gotten used to be at the receiving end?
That when things happen as they should I’m doubting all instead?
I’ll grasp every moment that I can find, for I know what it is like to lose.
But now the odds are in my favor and I look behind,
Is what’s happening coincidence or did I actually choose?
Have the odds perhaps turned in my favor?
Or have they never turned against me in the end?
Or do you get what you have worked for and you have deserved?
Now I hold this fortune in my hands!
Part 3 - Overconfidence
Behold the wonder of being on top! Everything in my own hands.
A sense of control ‘bout my life while I still don’t understand.
But what use has understanding when you ride a wave of joy?
As everything you touch turns gold!
The past is what it is and the future isn’t there.
The perfect sense of emptiness, I’m free not to care!
I have earned this given right. No plans left to follow.
Backups are for the weaker kind, for I control tomorrow.
I now have what I deserve, I have justified this turn…
Is there a limit to the things you pull your way?
Are you sure that all these riches are just yours to enjoy?
Don’t forget that humble starting point from whence you came!
The taste of winning is so sweet. The dragon’s breath runs down your neck.
And every second you remain on top brings forth an optional end.
And as you savor your achievements an addiction’s born.
Remember that each rise will have its fall.
You won’t get your fix no more!
Can’t you see your grasped illusions? You hopelessly try to escape
The rude awakening that’s reality.
Nothing can describe your weakness better than the path you’re on,
Chasing hollow goals and fancies.
Luck is just a fleeting moment, another phase that passes by.
It can never be controlled!
I won’t catch you when you’ve fallen, I will just sit back and smile.
The past can never save you and for the future goes the same!
The perfect sense of emptiness ‘cause nothing now remains!?
I shall claim this taken right and claim it as my own.
There’s no backup plan for me and in fear I shall move on.
Passing in delirium, I fear it’s out to take me,
But stupid pride has got its hold and it is out to break me.
So is there now just one path for me? A subjective torn reality?
If something good must come my way, is it just to serve
As an example for my life, that I should feel a constant sense of hurt?
Part 4 - An Educational Moment
So, a fleeting chance was what I had. And it’s all happenstance, we can forget. My sole redemption was a moment trapped in time.
Just a reminder that pure luck was never mine.
Such brutality to take away one’s chance of pure happiness just to reveal coincidence. So would that mean that there’s no such thing as joy? Was my true happiness destroyed?
In this veil of contemplation lie the answers that you seek.
Take a step back from the storm, look beyond the dreaded beast.
All we know is that nothing’s for certain and in that notion we stumble on.
So what control can now be had within our words and in our thoughts?
Can we learn to break our fall?
Can we take a beating and outgrow the pain we suffered with each blow?
And can we learn to not replace a one-off chance with constant states?
Do we see the greater scope, or remainders of our fleeting hope?
A chance to grow to pastures new, or is that just for the lucky few?
Stop. Rethink that you are worthy of your mind and stay in questioning.
For you don’t know, the future might just hide the solutions deep within.
Power lies in finding out that we’re all just searching for a way,
And realise that we all hope that we choose right every day.
We all know that nothing is certain and in that notion we’re stumbling on.
And as control is left beside us, we can only hope that something better will come.
We can only hope that something better comes…
Part 5 – Embrace
I cannot remain the same in a state of stagnation,
As my perspectives re-aligned and I’ve found a new salvation.
What’s left of my illusions now became a comfortable release.
I know that happiness is fleeting, but I refuse to let it bleed!
All is relativity, but the search for luck and love I won’t cease!
Sometimes the puzzle that you try to solve is solved by letting go.
Sometimes the monster that held you back can be the most beautiful.
Sometimes the greatest gifts are those you don’t receive,
But the ones that happen to you as you walk through life.
And though it can be frightening to let it all go,
It’s the more we remember that finally makes us whole.
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The cheer brillance and boldness here makes it up for it.
(*) It does matter. It might convince other metalheads to give it a try. Also, don't depreciate yourself, unless it is for a joke.
-- What? But my life is a joke!
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