The Last Universal Ancestor

from Earth (24 bit FDR) by Monsterworks

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Boundless source to fuel the change
Thunder, lightning, rain
Against a backdrop of extremes
Evolution crucible
Earth-engine finds its stride
Despite thousand foot tides
Time, the enabler of conditions
For abiogenesis

Chemical reactions
to produce more complex molecules
Simple organic compounds: nucleobase, amino groups

Oceans command, a primitive world
Black smokers or thermal vents
Establish weather in the skies
On the crust, clash tectonic plates

Carve the face of mountains
with movement of glaciers
The highest peak dives deepest,
but one day returns again
It is believed, of the multiplicity of protocells
Only one line survived – the last universal ancestor

“Therefore, should infer from analogy that probably,
all organic beings
Which ever lived on this Earth have descended
from some primordial form
Into which life first breathed....
(the) great first cause of animality
Delivering down those improvements
by generation to posterity.” - Erasmus Darwin

The last universal common ancestor
Progenerator of the immortal gene

At the deepest root of the tree of life,
neither true animal or plant
Alive in its purest form;
something new, unique, in a vast Universe

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from Earth (24 bit FDR), released August 20, 2013
Words and Music by Blade

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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

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