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The Long Journey Home

by Forever Dawn

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nefolk
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nefolk Though a sinful carnivore myself, I absolutely worship the creative drive and spirit behind the VBMC videos. Such an amazing talent deserves a lot more recognition, tbh Favorite track: Man Made Machine.
Andy Barron
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Andy Barron Huge fan of your VBMC music, and then this be the first track i heard from your FD album. I loved the song since i also love industrial black metal. I play it at parties, get togethers, on trips. Can't wait for new material, on both projects. A huge fan, the black cardinal. Favorite track: Breath Of The Dying Man.
Miek
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Miek I really like your sound. The only track that I'm not fond of is The Immensity of Darkness, but it's just because of the weird dubstep static noises and the piercing chime.

Also, I love VBMC. You're excellent. Favorite track: Maelstrom.
Jimmy Underwood
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Jimmy Underwood Please give us more! Favorite track: Man Made Machine.
Steve Lawson
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Steve Lawson brilliant industrial black metal from the maker of the Vegan Black Metal Chef videos.
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1.
Maelstrom 05:00
Maelstrom The Maelstrom whips around Fueled by past and future In this it Gathers strength Consciousness Dragged down Helpless against the power. The vortex lulls the mind to sleep. Centered in the eternal the essence immobile The light of awareness that breaks duplicity Ever at rapture in the center of the circle Find this gem beyond the veil The endless war Worsened by struggle The quicksand of unconscious thought Friction created By resistance of this moment Clouds the crystal sight It can not be controlled, the clinging is futile The mana turned to worms if horded There is only this infinite moment Receive the gift of clarity No idea why or how we got here No idea who we are No idea if this is all there is Stumbling around throughout this life A blur of experience Until the moment that we die what if we glimpse our ultimate form what if there lies a stillness in the whirl If all the mental movement stops what is seen? What if our body holds the key? Retreat to this present space In the here and the now Place your awareness within your flesh and blood The Tides of thought cast you asunder No peace amidst the violent storm Currents rip you down To fight them is failure There must be another way Surrendered as the watcher Upon your foundation The only act that calms the violent mental seas Be not the doer but only the observer Watch the tempest blow itself away Again and again the battle is fought Within each conquest you claim its strength.
2.
Man Made Machine The state of the world exists as it always has before There's no growth, progress, or originality Routine leads the way with repetition and decay And your soul succumbs to this man made machine Their will is yours if the reigns are taken While the masses fumble on with their mob mentality Routine leads the way with repetition and decay And your soul succumbs to this man made machine Pain all throughout as your body gives out only coldness comes with the internal silent scream Your gears rotate on but they power not a thing And you sway back and fourth as a man made machine Man made machine The state of the world exists as it always has before There's no growth, progress, or originality Routine leads the way with repetition and decay And you end the life of this man made machine.
3.
Open your eyes And see the depths in which you reside The struggle of this fight The comfort of hell must subside To begin your going fourth We're immortals bound in chains Of our own creation Sleeping giants that know not their own strength Forge your souls in the white hot flame Burn impurities and pound out your own shape Then hardened in the depths of this plane Breathe and awaken, know no bounds Expand like the heat of the flame The lamp once lit can not be put out Uncovered for all to see Speak the word, pronounce the sound Echo of divinity The blinding light in the cosmic sea A beacon of now and forever Freedom from time The awakened shall arise One with the eternal light A child of this might Dispelling all illusion Were immortals bound in chains Of this revelation Realize You’re an infinite drop Of the infinite sea Your life-force goes to feed This abomination Grinding along, each day as a ghost or a slave Within myself I have the key Into the night I shall retreat Immersed in its immensity The endless void The alchemy of souls Granted its final gift Transmutated and ignited from within We emerge anew Born from this chrysalis The change complete Unbound and limitless
4.
Final Stand 05:19
Final Stand The enemy appears All around us calm inside for this is not our end Hearing only The voice that guides us That softly speaks through the thick and thin On this path Our spirit leads us We will always have the upper hand Though the waves Crash against us They will break for we shall not bend We've come this far No chance to turn back now Time to unleash with the all of your lives The strength to push on against the force of the masses Time to stand up in the truth and the light Day by day This force within us Grows only stronger can't they comprehend This Noble cause We take upon us It is our purpose that we shall defend No matter how That they besiege us We walk the line unto the glorious end The snares of life Sometimes distract us We reawaken only to ascend Prepare to engage The hours' upon us victory will be our final result Armed to the teeth and with a steady heart No move amiss as we greet onslaught Who else will keep This flame alight Who else will ever Carry this torch on Our destiny cannot be stopped Casting aside all obstruction As the world changes Inch by inch The beginnings of a brighter day emerges One by one, the old system crumbles One by one this paradigm dies The new times will rise The new times will rise, forever more.
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Tales Of Our Tribe When the time has gone dark Reflecting through our lives The Legacy’s been made, what has been left behind? Wandering with the herd being led by the blind Stand up and change your fate These are The tales of our tribe A story of fear running from the shadows Or a story of comfort always swimming with the tide Or a story of conquest over lesser foes which matter not Or of a life lived to the fullest and the largest dreams realized The Heroes of old The men of renown Fallen from the norm Fallen forever more This earth which has been pillaged, and devoided of its life All for the gathering of trinkets our lust gone far and wide Polluted all its elements of which we are intertwined Nothing natural in these lands its purity has been denied The waters give no life The air not fit to breathe The Fires refuse their heat These are the tales of our Tribe The enslavement of every creature human or otherwise For purposes as nefarious as the mind can devise The torture never ending for those we sacrifice These are the tales of our tribe Is this the end of which we have settled for Is this the state in which we will leave it all behind If only there was another way out If only there was another chance at this life In desolation we retreat The abandonment we reap Ashes form all around Singing eternity's one sound A radiant glow The cloud we all know Surrendered eternally These are the tales of our tribe
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Sirens Call 03:54
Sirens Call Noises of distraction Bombards from all directions Never a moments rest for the consumed The sirens call Beckons me into her arms After all I succumb to seduction I recall The Irresistible compulsions Big or small Time slowly slips away Reprogram the mind in the language that it speaks Anchors of the past scratched out as old memories The Sirens call Distracts me once again Subtle fall Chips piece by piece Once and for all conquering the daemons standing tall I reclaim control The ghosts of the past which haunts our esteem Sinking legions of time As it drains into obscurity Forced into action, despite the heavy burden Frees oneself from the latches of these chains Tethers long buried yet still holding strong Teaching us the mystery of release Be the journey and not the goal Though at times you may lose hope Give not your power to the fleeting things Intoxication dulls the senses Killing the pain with everything else Constant activity on the trivium of life Cut out the excess with a surgical knife Refusing to look in the mirrors reflection Afraid of what appears before thee Striving at fulfillment but never reached A never ending circle of valleys and peaks The same time given to all of mankind Make with awareness The choices that decide your life
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The Long Journey Home Now The Infinite Glow Has Been Cast Upon The Mind Now Will Sleepers Awake To This Light Only To Find There's No Return From Whence You Come How Can Others Understand This One? Changed Forever From This Day With This Moment Have You Found The Way. The Infinite Struggle Manifested On Earth Embrace The New Heaven And The New Rebirth The Chains Of Bondage Are All But Gone From The Darkness Of Your Soul Comes The Breaking Dawn The Glimpse For But A Moment Fades Its Radiant Light Imbued Forever Strength, Its give To Thine The Choice To Trust This Instant Laying The Child Aside The Path Of Knowledge Fate, Begins The Climb As The Sun Rises In Eastern Skies A Birth Of Life Upon My Eyes This Shrouded Covering Conceals The Light Unfolding Now After The Fight Now The Way One Shall Go Is No Longer Undefined Now Though Change May Be Slow The Eternal Flame, It Shall Ignite. There's No Return From Whence You Come How Can Others Understand This One? Changed Forever From This Day With This Moment Have You Found The Way. The Infinite Struggle Manifest On Earth Embrace The New Heaven And The New Rebirth The Chains Of Bondage Are All But Gone From The Darkness Of Your Soul Comes The Breaking Dawn The Glimpse For But A Moment Fades Its Radiant Light Imbued Forever Strength, Its give To Thine The Choice To Trust This Instant Laying The Child Aside The Path Of Knowledge Fate, Begins The Climb As The Sun Rises In Eastern Skies A Birth Of Life Upon My Eyes This Shrouded Covering Conceals The Light Unfolding Now After The Fight
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Blood For The Blood God I have called For This offering That Was meant for me And I have Called for the fat and blood That you shall not eat You have burned, what I command For The Smell Pleases me With Blood and Ritual that you shall be kept clean In this tent I reside your lord with daemon wings Here I am, Your God, that you refuse to see Those who defy me, shall be cast out to die My justice to offenders shall be eye for an eye A feast of your offerings with corpses piled high Pour the blood on the altar for the blood it is the life Blood For the Blood God Blood For the Blood God Blood For the Blood God Blood For the Blood God You have burned, what I command For The Smell Pleases me With Blood and Ritual that you shall be kept clean In this tent I reside your lord with daemon wings Here I am, Your God, that you refuse to see
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Picking away at this fatal wound of time I see all that was Wasting away with these faded memories of mine As the dying man does Actions forgotten, the wasted deeds of the past Hauntingly return, as the hours approaching their last woooooooooahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh approaching their last The astral light has come Right before my eyes The Heart and feather are weighed On the breath of the dying man Forcing through this path I see the sign Its fate I shall adorn Standing against the waves I walk the line Spirit battered and torn Alone, I'm forced to complete this path Awaiting the end of the journey, that closes upon me fast Woooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Upon me fast The astral light has come Right before my eyes The Heart and feather are weighed On the breath of the dying man
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At The Gates Of Discipleship There comes a time In ones life When the wonders of the past Are set aside Like the man trying to find Fulfillment of the highest kind With a rattle the babe heldfast That must now be left behind This choice that must be made Ignore it, or wish it away Yet it eats at your soul Day after day The Knowledge can not be unknown Will you stand or lie prone Embrace your sense of growth Or be brushed aside In a flash the way is seen Will you accept responsibility? The life you know shall be left behind If you choose not to turn away Once entered upon this great path All ultimate fear is dissolved In this ocean One finally has found A piece of solid ground The world still changes around you But you are not of it The mind still churns within you Yet your are not your thoughts All at once connected with all things No longer a separate being All actions joined to this root spreads across the world At the feet of the new found master Let him fight the coming battle for he is your guide This is yourself in its highest form Allow the two to merge, if for just a time Anointed one Give your all For there is no time to waste Avoiding the pits of mire Of hesitation with your light that shines before you You can cross the sea Upon this day the first gate is passed The beginning of the end, yet a gulf remains Two steps forward one step back We learn the way
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Channeling the Infinite Expression flowing pure and free our divinity The smallest voice not heard speaks most clearly Retreat to your sanctuary amidst the infinite blackness In the darkness(safety) of the void the whispers come to guide your way From empty space pull fourth the guiding truth With the lightest touch The infinite speaks Listen For The Commands Do you dare to follow what answers come? Free to shut out the voice, to feel eternally numb Hear The calling of which is true to your core Eternally guided forever more Visions appear on the mental plane when the seed is born Traveling down through the realms of feeling and power. Alas it comes to this world with the clarity of focus held from the start The object of your manifestation drawn down through this art Quiet the mind or let it run itself to your command In The center of all Listen to the voice from the great beyond a breath of new life From the the shadow form Reset like a blank slate Ready to be carved anew In the void that surrounds you calm A clear stream flowing into the muddy waters of this world The channel of light which cleanses all away Giving all of yourself holding nothing back. Feeling the whole world increase The work goes on and on throughout many lives Thus is the work of ages

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This Album is dedicated to Ryan McCue. Thank you for being with me... I would have never made it here without you.

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released January 14, 2014

All music, lyrics, and production - Brian Manowitz
Guitars on "On The Eve Of Battle" - Ryan McCue (RIP)
Logo Artwork - Christophe Szpajdel
Album Artwork - Maus Corderman

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