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Tales of a Future Past

by Mekong Delta

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vecxio In my view, this is the best thrash metal album of the 21st century hands down. I'm aware many other incredible bands have released amazing stuff in recent years, but they are yet to match the level of musicianship and brilliance here displayed. As per usual, it remains overlooked by the vast majority of metal listeners for reasons I can't understand.
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MENTAL ENTROPY A tiny voice grips tight the word And the holy ghost seems to appear And nervous ears engulfed the stream Ignorant minds in their own time Salvation Damnation Dull puppets marching without plan Can feel it Have to believe it There's still a touch of truth somewhere Try, rear up for one last time Mendacity creeps out of their heads Walled around from liar towers And no white knight seems to to be there Encountered entropy Betrayers philosophy And I realized there's no space left for hope If certainties fusing like snowflakes If words don't carry sense anymore Who will dry the tears of tomorrow And count all those tormented souls? If moral becomes unsavory vicious Than look around, they could be seduced Sense this as a memory of tomorrow Without a shadow of doubt Without a shadow of... No shout for a reverse Talk to each other disappeared A wall of lies before me Ignorance this is your time Can't feel it But like to believe it That still a touch of hope is there Not many left who stand behind her Can truth survive in their hands Dark stands the giant tower Casts his shadows a'where Lunacy now seizes power No dissent left in the air Try to see it Hope to feel it But no touch of hope left somewhere Truth died in their liar towers Who cares, no helping hand there Unmasked they lost their power But no white knight was there This mental entropy Disasters philosophy And I realize there's no space left for hope If certainties fusing like snowflakes If words don't carry sense anymore Who will dry the tears of tomorrow And count all those tormented souls? If moral becomes unsavory vicious Than look around, they could be seduced Sense this as a memory of tomorrow Without a shadow of doubt Without a shadow of doubt!
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A COLONY OF LIAR ME Let me get closer Don't step by side I am the owner Of all that what's right Mental flatliners Entered the stage Loudmouth spills wisdom Nailed as a lie Inside a mirror A stash you can not see Obscure a message of what could be Removed the wrapper Had a look inside Refused to believe what's layed down on this sides You don't need our knowledge 'Cause awareness creates fear All removed from college Sold your consent to Disobey, disobey, disobey An idiot to the left of me A moron to the right Both they try convincing me At least it feels not right What brought down this papers Laying in those cases Elegy? Entropy? Fragments of this words I found inside my mind History? Banality? Further now Anger grow And for the first time I can see They build the perfect enemy That's me Deep odds with visions No way to clarify Confused by pictures of their destiny Moral imperialism and no proof insight Perdition wells up out of their lying loads The end is near the noctortel cried All a lie the nut replied Repent, repent, the riffraff tried No loud call to Disobey See, here comes the tick tack bee You love it or you die Be proud to pay another fee Kneel down, he comes The blessed, the pest, the best Darkness of ignorance is no sign of live Idiocy? Density? Insanity? Foolery? And once again it's time to see They find their perfect enemy That's me Their (o. the) rest of mind now totally blurred Victims, victims? The spin of doctors narrate their truth This echo room full of minds that loose Liar men Begging hard for overtone, blind deference From his window out of side Bishop framing feels so warmed inside Liar men No, no, no Liar men No, no, no They can not convince me Another way instead Try to convince me
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MINDEATER Tonight this world will be on fire And I know you think this way Audience will be there who will admire They have been influenced so well Marooned creeps are here for hire Later on, than, they will obey Overstuffed with public dire There's nothing more left to say What you are reaching for Past have seen it all before Seems that no one keeps in mind The final result of more Closed eyes and mostly blind And therefor no enemy Apocalyptic scenery They will admire We are We are pilgrims Gracious to distorted minds We are We are heroes Merciful to those who are still blind We are Punishment of decadence We are! To rule all men is their desire To burn their signs into the lands They want to see us suffer Dominating everywhere Malice thrills the shimmering sky And live ends up in a preachers lie No light in agony Cataclysm proofed before A loss of harmony Some few believe in more All pray is misery Fatal way to bigotry Apocalyptic scenery They wish to admire Desire No secret that they think this way Only few can set the world on fire And they had tamed you to well Marooned creeps were there for hire Later on, than, they will obey Unified by desire Their only wish is to see the earth burn We are We are shepards Helpful to mental emptiness We are We are heroes Merciful to those who are still blind We are Keepers of your endless fear We are! We are! We are!
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THE HOLLOW MEN A yearning call I never identified before Out of the dark, destined for me Gets louder more and more A look around, try to escape But you don't know where to go "Hear the call" It sounds inside my head "You are not like all" Blandishing my soul "See the fading star" Got a sense of dread "That’s from where you are" Droning echoes in my mind Shouting silence Glowing darkness Final quiteness Just imagined? Sightless, unless eyes appear Existence is illusion Voices getting closer now Resistance no solution Fear is overwhelming me The nightmare is not over A shadow falls, a light appears And suddenly here they are Called themselves the hollow men Beholders of the future Twilight is getting closer now My mind is full affusion I can hear the distant call A yearning just for me Paralyzed, the storm is setting free Shapes without a form I see The colors disappear A twilight comes The light now fades away A vibe, a call for more acceptance than before Marooned by thoughts I hear the voice now starts to tell me more Cloaked in friendly words I feel, they're puzzling my soul "Acting for the dark" It roars inside my head "You can't fall apart" Words that hurt my soul "Remember what you are" Got a sense of dread "A creation of our art" And emptiness spreads out Shouting silence Glowing darkness Final quiteness Fear arises Sightless, unless eyes appear These creatures are illusion A whispering full of dark intense Tries offering a solution Avoid this place, keep far away This warning may not be broken The light fades out, they disappear Like ghosts out of the far Called themselves the hollow men Beholders of the future Can see this much clearer now This all was no illusion I can hear the distant call A yearning just for me Paralyzed, the storm is setting free Shapes without a form I see The colors disappear A twilight comes The light now fades away The hollow men The hollow men The hollow men, hollow men, hollow men
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WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE Now, in the afterglow Time's running up for them And nothing left to say and feel When all is gone All is lost and nothing's won Shattered pieces everywhere Shards of their empire of greed And only hollow ruins left Witness of their deeds, come see Ignorant and decadent Their lives are doomed to slowly fade And rot in time until there's nothing left Of them, no song remains In the abyss, into the void Over the edge, only white noise Deep into the dark star Follow me down, follow me down Follow me down deep in the void Swelling mass is swallowing Gravity is devouring Antimatter is destiny In the end all is startdust and gone All is light, but slowly fades A small white dot in eternity Repeat! Behold by stars, an other of them died Just one of a billion lights It does the same as all before It eats your sins forevermore Nothing will be saved or rescued Nothing will remain Nothing is what will be left Nothing is the truth Not a single grain of sand remains In the tide of time It's the end of the world This is the end of all, the end of hope! The end of it all And so now tell me what did you say So tell me what makes you important? Why do you believe that you are star You are just one of a trillion A germ in this world Of course this life is all you have And your time span keeps you safe From the moment that will end The universe and all within A small dimension you call home Way too much you just don't know And if I am honest with you now The only thing that's left for you Is hope Life is not over yet! Now in the afterglow
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A FAREWELL TO ETERNITY Fear is rising, there's no falling Where no love is gone Life, is a steady old stream That is constantly watching us now And all that, what was once loved and feared Is now rotten and finally gone And you know, that I know what you want And the end I can see It has come Time, is the final objector Who surmount the resistance of all And all of, what you have done and believed in A teardrop in the ocean of time And your heart know That what felt so important A facet of an eternal dream Fear is rising, there's no falling Where no love has gone Fear is rising, there's no falling Where no love has gone
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Line up :

Martin LeMar - vocals

Peter Lake - guitar

Alex Landenburg - drums

Ralph Hubert - bass & classical guitar

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released April 18, 2020

All songs composed by Ralph Hubert except
- “Landscape 4“, original title “Sevilla“,
part of the “Suite Espanola“ composed by Isaac Albeniz

Lyrics by Ralph Hubert except
- “When all Hope is Gone“ by Martin LeMar
- “A Farewell to Eternity“ by Martin LeMar and Ralph Hubert

All arrangements by Mekong Delta

- produced and mixed by Ralph Hubert
- coverart by David Demaret

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