Silly Prog Metal

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The first song I recorded for "Moon Rock" and arguably the silliest, the lyric is a deliberately confused mish-mash of modern Atlantean gobbledook. The main intended effect of the song, a great cry (as if by a crowd) of "Atlantis Forever!" proved impossible to achieve without a crowd to cry, and thus you get one weedy bloke (me) instead. I'm still fond of the riff on the verses of this track, and given better production the keyboard theme would be good too, but this one suffers the most from my poor production skills; for instance there's an annoying whistle from some kind of bad mic placement/guitar bandpass filter effect.

Still, if you're into silly prog metal, this could be the song for you.

Before the dawn of the age,
Far across the foggy sea,
We strode a land now bound by ice,
Obscured to history,
Where we worshipped the sun,
And miracles were made,
The birthplace of the power,
A beauty that never would fade,

Chorus
Atlantis, tribal motherland, our wellspring, the eternal,
Mankind's cradle, flower of Babel, the infernal, fabled land of light,
Atlantis Forever!

Our supremacy ended,
Our cities lost in the ice,
Betrayed by wayward magicians,
We paid the utltimate price,
Then came the time of the fire,
The mountains thundered and cracked,
And as we sank in the waters,
We vowed that we would be back

Repeat Chorus

Nomads cast on the oceans,
Became man's teachers and priests,
The Gods of Mesopotamia,
The Seven Sages Of The East,
But we remembered fair Eden,
Where we made our last stand,
And now it's time to return home,
To build again our mystical land,

Repeat Chorus