Extinction Arrives

by The Antarctican

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lyrics

We're slow to start
Robbing ourselves blind
Breaking down this fragile world
As if we don't, we don't know better
When extinction arrives
When extinction arrives

First, the acid arrives
Dissolving the seashells
Polluting the skies
Next, the oceans arise
Higher and higher
Like ancient times
Finally, the flamestorm
Will burn away our lives

Do you hunger for the smoke?
Or have you heard enough?

No chance to back down
Chained to the gas
And blazing out in the fire
Locked into the pattern
Just getting by
As the rack spirals tighter
No one left to follow
To hell and back again
So in hell we'll stay

Inferno surrounds us
Sweeps away the silence and the sky
All our dreams are hollow
Swallowed up as machines bleed us dry
No guilt or repentance
Can heal the wounds carved in mountainside

No chance to back down
Chained to the gas
And blazing out in the fire
No breaking the pattern
Chasing the end
As the smoke spirals higher

Now, the cancer will spread
Driven by poison
And lead in the air
Nothing will change
The asylum of billions
Will always hold sway
As expected, the signs increasing
Never slowing down or releasing

Do you hunger for the smoke?
Or have you heard enough?

No chance to back down
Chained to the gas
And blazing out in the fire
Locked into the pattern
Just getting by
As the rack spirals tighter
No one left to follow
To hell and back again
So in hell we'll stay

In hell we'll stay
In hell we'll stay
In hell we'll stay

credits

released December 8, 2023
Lyrics, Mastering: Alex Roumanidakis
Music: The Antarctican
Recording: Giulio Isopo

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The Antarctican Albany, New York

Actively denying that pandemic boredom spawned a metal band, the members of The Antarctican indulge a fantasy that their project comes from the lethal desolation of that icy continent, a primordial cross-section of unfathomable extra-terrestrial sophistication, mutagenic radioactive reptile droppings, and limitless volcanoes of molten mental magma. ... more