Epic Progressive Metal
This band is my solo project; still trying to find a gigging metal band. Everything, from death grunts to power vocals to guitar and drums is performed and overdubbed by me (drums are from my piano).
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Story behind the song
Story kept changing as I wrote the song--was supposed to be about an Indian who didn't reincarnate properly, then sorta turned more philosophical, and more hopeful than before.
The basic gist is he (or she) remembers their previous reincarnations, and ponders the vastness of eternity and how some gods will die in Kali Yuga ("the final Yuga") and how even Brahma Himself will be reborn like men.
Eventually after a raga, the character has a vision of the gods and Brahma (whenever I capitalize he, it referse to Brahma)
Nataraja is "Lord of the Dance" in Hindi and a name for Shiva, which is why I threw in what I thought at the time was a raga. Samsara is the reincarnation cycle.
Lyrics
Piercing through the murk of ritualized affairs
A searing symbiont cosmos and I share
Exorcise recesses of dim past lives
I am reborn to a new caste's strife
In drugged oneness of revelation now
My thoughts clattered and strewn, a heaving prow
The crystalline order unfolds pristine
Awash in eddies of enlightenment
CHORUS
Break samsara
Castes are no more
Revel in freedom,
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Eons will pass in the wink of Brahma's eye
Soul shattering immensity smotes my life
Yet even He will die, the three share our plight
When the final Yuga brings its blight
Clutching greenish effigy, the madness is stilled
Ganesha and Parvati see my void is stilled.
In many-limbed splendor, Shiva alights
In sacred raga, Lord of the Dance
Nataraja
CHORUS
Treading through a nascent obstacle
A swirling gulf not there a while ago
Divorced of my mind, sacred om is reached
Facets unravel, flood cathartic peace
A cool grin splits on His burnished face
Jeweled eyes arrest me, hold me in His gaze
And I see there is a place reason withers
But now I'm not afraid.
CHORUS
