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Universe

from Universe by Monsterworks

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    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.

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The prevailing hypothesis for the formation of our Universe is known as “The Big Bang”. About 13.7 billion years ago an extremely hot and dense point began expanding rapidly. The first cause of that expansion is unkown, but time itself is believed to have begun in that instant because conventional physics breaks down “before” it occurred. Some hundreds of thousands of years later simple atoms (mainly hydrogen) had formed that eventually, after millions more years, could condense into stars.

lyrics

Beginning in oblivion
Primeval atom point
Forces once unified
Spontaneously tear apart
Creating space and time

Inflation for a millionth of a second
Mass from energy
As it cools in a new expanse
Welcome first gravity
Then strong and weak nuclear
Electromagnetic might
By the first second fundamental particles take form

Nucleosynthesis
Recombination

Now there is enough substance
To be called a void

All the time in the Universe
For Building blocks to coalesce

Until the first spark ignites
Hydrogen compressed to fusion
The first sun is born
A light to shine in the darkness

And then everywhere at last the sky is on fire

Circles in circles, background dispersed, defining a ghost of
the past
Is this the first or the last or the middle of infinity
What was meant to be!

Cyclical regression
Exists, as observed
Chaos and imperfection is the seed of existence
Sown so that it will evolve

Universe of untold beauty
Elegant, complete and free

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from Universe, released March 11, 2014
Written by Blade

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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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