We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Grandiose

from Universe by Monsterworks

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Limited Edition Digipak CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Individually numbered Digipak CD SIGNED BY THE BAND with 8 page lyric booklet.

    Recorded and mixed mid-2012 at Earth Terminal Studios.

    In an effort to conceptually top “Earth” the only option was to produce an album about the life cycle of the Universe itself. At least it started out with that intention, i.e. lyrics exploring big bang to heat death, but it gets a little more philosophical along the way considering the path mankind might take in its evolution.

    Much of the philosophical side was inspired by the short story “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov. Our own take on the conclusion from that is embodied in the final track: Outside Time, which was the last song written for the sessions and completed only just before recording began.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Universe via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

about

Once the building blocks of the Universe were in place it was just a matter time. Stars gathered together into galaxies and the birth/death cycle of stars produced heavier elements, including carbon which provides the framework for all known organic life.

lyrics

Supermassive centre - the lynch pin, focus point
Basis for growth to begin the task of spinning and -
congealing galaxies
Natural philosophy, language of god; - the Grand Book,
writes itself
Endeavour to discover or wander - endlessly in a dark
labyrinth

All Suns Born
From dust and gravity
Spheres in fluid
Buoyant in the black

A stellar nursery, gas and colours
Embrace the spiral arms of a billion brethren

Across aeons in silence
Structure of the Cosmos takes form

Assayer and examiner
Theorised fields toward a proof
Non-intuitive - Cold dark matter
Self accelerating engine
Clusters will cluster if left alone
From finite mass or break the fundamental law

Living theatre
Ancient and young

Finite age limits
How much light we see
Era of stars entrenched
In a swirling ether

All Suns Born
From dust and gravity
Spheres in fluid
Buoyant in the black
Symptom of the awe
That we all feel
Almost forever
Is the longest time to be

credits

from Universe, released March 11, 2014
Written by Blade

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Monsterworks image

Monsterworks London, UK

MONSTERWORKS : has unashamedly stolen from a ludicrous number of metal sub-genres to create a truly unique beast. Be it thrash, death, old-school, prog or black metal, there is something for everyone. Expect wailing guitars, wailing screams and a pounding rhythm section, delivered by a four-man war of sound. Surely they can’t be serious? ... more

contact / help

Contact Monsterworks

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Monsterworks, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now