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Partum Vita Mortem

by Orpheus Omega

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John Darville
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John Darville Absolute gem of an album and Beacons is a gem of a gem. Bouncy riff, atmospheric keys, great interplay between the guitars and keys and a great sing-along chorus. Awesome album. Favorite track: Beacons.
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Arulator While the music seemingly got softer than previous two albums due to much richer usage of cleans & keys, don't get misled so quickly. Lyrically I'd say it's much darker than the previous releases and I can't say anything but that I really dig the new sound! Great job guys! Favorite track: Beacons.
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IDE A satisfying melodic death metal album in the manner of melodic death metal around the year 2000, resurrecting emotional elation of In Flames's Colony, Soilwork's A Predetor's Portrait, and Enter My Silence's Remotecontrolled Scythe with modern aggression and arrangement. Tons of Good riffs! Favorite track: Our Reminder.
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1.
Conception 01:50
2.
I, Architect 04:44
Imperfect design I am the Creator in my own mind Builder destroyer guardian of time Holding on to a sense of purpose Seeded deep within a castle stands Tools within my grasp built by my hands Toss and turn adorn the altar This a place to exist but it's not my home Material nature sweeps away the right Uncommon creation burgeoning life A sun sets on a unique singularity In thoughts depth grey matter holds the key Instilled in consciousness we are the gods of our own existence Omnipotent presence commercialized I architect inside these eyes Forced to feel what others feel I'm just the number you idolize Push in line to do the time Autonomous replicated lives Pick their value from the crops Stand the same and look inane Replication of all mankind Stand above the endless sea Of mass produced identity I am but one but I am none The soul anomaly Our journey an evolution From matter to maker we are the conclusion The writing's on the wall we bleed the truth Built by broken hands and shattered belief Take the time that life demands visual our dreams Replication of all mankind I am but one but I am none The soul anomaly
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Failing to see direction in their eyes Affinity for a predetermined line that’s set inside The mind uncanny confusion pictures collide Coalescence of vital falsities deny A moment’s clarity to bring back the voices of our reality To stop and see what’s there to see Labelling all that presents itself in kaleidoscopic banality and see what you want to see Guilt for the lesson learnt inside Covered in white from head to toe Hold tight to your fears and don’t let go Fate’s not here to show The path that leads the coward’s chain This empty conscience once burns bright Grips destiny’s hand to be its guide Now you see that karma favours the weak A glimpse into the pale keyhole’s light shows treachery A puzzle piece but one of many Unlock the door and end this prophetical yearning Join us in the journey from obscurity Yearn for the writing on the wall Awaiting fate’s misguiding call Yearn for the writing on the wall And wait for fates misguiding call Wake up to see there’s a world alight with unprecedented chances to be all that you believe Unbound from wasting and wishing the stars align just to be a step defined Destiny is not your guide
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Delusions of grandeur reality of failures spit on their ashes and laugh in their crashing dreams Placate implications of greed’s misdemeanour the fall from your pyre is my life's satire Designed by the system designated a number crawl into its shadow or break free from its bounds Engorge on the weak complication amasses as the creator defiled chains you to the ashes When we see our humility torn to shreds by ruthless faces Take a rung to the very peak in shadowing post hostility Burn bright from within for them to steal the light Set fire to themselves so their spark can ignite Weary bones and broken seams Wearing out the tattered causes Point a finger in every face A harrowing mirror of futility Your value is high a precious commodity For others to use and abuse with no sympathy Mouths like voids swallowing all the light Where their words lead a merry dance you signify their plight
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Our Reminder 04:07
Peel away the scab to which you fall Flesh anew waits just below Take heed to the sounding of the war drums A battle to the end of all you know Crumbling towers but time stands still When visions intersect Abuse the acceptance Rousing desistance Our reminder the scars that lie behind these eyes Forever it takes as time’s hand slowly falls Wind back the clock and learn the lessons we forgot Correct the path anew and see it through while we remain In these remains we build Like a phoenix down from the ashes A drop of your resolution In a concoction of conviction Deliverance to the horizon Paradoxical lost tomorrows Through the wormhole envision the pain you suffered Break from the black hole’s grip make for a new day’s tale A drop of your resolution In a, concoction of conviction Deliverance to the horizon Paradoxical lost tomorrows
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It’s hard to see today in this pixelated age A digit in the combination faceless in the limitless stream Connection pending to the human race Run to see your fifteen minutes fade As we start to look the same A diamond in the rough a null point intrusion When winning is never enough a need to be plastered on every screen We race through a network of lies Faces blurred between the lines Made to believe we pull the strings Puppets to this global reclusion Create the new ideal a better way to put this stale world at bay End the cycle of disposable memories bring meaning to forgotten identity Disconnect from the master race pull the plug on what's begun before it’s too late Reset the system create disorder Disrupt the masses and watch them falter Send yourself off to the node recycled information dwells There’s no more chance to be the new age king succumb to the digital world order
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We live a life Unrelenting in its force With good and bad Born to feel Our pain and suffering  We can overcome Our loss and grief  We can hold on A struggle conceived  By callous thieves  Your strength perceived  A guilt relieved   They can't take from you  What they do not own You control your fate You claim the throne There's nothing of them  To frame as unknown  Their weakness is visible In all their tone You’re free to choose You’re free to live  Let not your dreams  Fall to these thieves There's nothing you can't do  You have what it takes  To live your life through With all its wakes
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Memories pouring through the weave as you lay confined Attempted divination fearing what's to come Take a look behind the shadow lurks one step at a time  Knock down the door don't let me in I'm here to steal your everything Scared to see scared to be anything more than a step away What came and went what's here and now the ghost of yesterday dispelled My delusions fill your vision I'm hiding deep inside your soul Extend my hand to pull you through just to toss you back again The needle's eye lies far beyond  Don't let my lies falter your aim Scared to see scared to be anything more than a step away What came and went what's here and now the ghost of yesterday dispelled Scared to search scared to find fearing yourself to be denied What's yet to come what's yet to be tomorrow's fiend your enemy It's easy to see when the lights come on spectres fade away see what they become Reflections of you self-defeating mind taking steps in front but always ending behind Tomorrow's fiends and yesterday's ghosts apparitions made to soften the blow When all is said and all is done tear off the mask you and I are one
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Beacons 04:39
Do anything to cling to embers a fire burns inside Of a light that burned out long ago Construct the lie to fight for All things amiss as you convince yourself the pain is fine When our beacons lead back to the start Convictions fail we fall apart Made to feel your hurt and just keep breathing Take apart moments of this time and still keep moving on Beaten down and stripped in a glint of sadness Well designed enabler of delusion When our beacons lead back to the start Convictions fail we still fall apart Broken as the chapter ends lost in despair Find solace as you turn the page  Ink that flows to another place Made to feel your hurt and just keep breathing Take apart moments of this time and still keep moving on Close the wound so deep and find you’re bleeding Out no more it’s just beginning
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Day breaks through another night of sleepless thought Imagine if time had truly stopped  When every minute feels like the end of time  And every breath takes everything Look at the story told transcend the open page Read every line until the chapter ends the full stop awaits our gaze When the silence takes me to that wandering place traversing roads I dare not walk forced to hold within my hands what moments passed to find us here Then the world seemed like a bigger place when the dreams took us past the stars The dying sun shines brightest before the darkness takes the light And in the dimmest lit corners of your heart the memories keep us alive Dig past this fortified state of mind And I push on with all the strength that seeps from me I’ll build these walls around to keep the world at bay We’ll meet again at the finish line the future stands but a breath away Stretching out to eternity The flesh and bone give way to dust a soul adorned  By those we leave behind our mark is etched in time
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Built to break a sense of purpose as we fall To endless slumber holding on to the pieces as they ebb away Time and tide awaits no one only the early bird catches the prey Or go hungry in this world of disarray Remembering that nothing lasts forever In this deforming state of consciousness We’re left to live what’s left behind Only dining on memories of the future Bringing us the same defeat Revel in oblivion discard your mortal shell And embrace the end as life wears thin Revel in oblivion Now you paint your piece on the canvas To be covered up by the next in this bloodline frailty But without an ending why seek to reach the highest peaks With fragility and weakness in mind another reason to Revel in oblivion discard your mortal shell And embrace the end as life wears thin Revel in oblivion the darkness grows within Embrace the cold as the lights go dim Revel in oblivion Our chance is fleeting and ends but a moment much too soon Etch in deep secure your place in the precious flow of nature’s flawed embrace No one escapes
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Kharon 04:52
Lashed by wicked tongues  Words of salt to open wounds My life was naught but pain In death I have an escape I’m bound to the ferryman  With all my sins You think you got away You think you're clean Your soul is stained A coin to wipe your dream The journey was long But it's not over yet  The lonely man awaits my passage The river calls I’m lost to its charm It calls for you like it called for me Heed my words that left with me Your breath runs short as mine did Heed the warning written in the sky Soon you’ll join me when you die Kharon he calls to me The lonely man he stands as host Heed my words that left with me Your breath runs short as mine did Heed the warning written in the sky Soon you’ll join me when you die Forced into a place you don’t know You’ve already died This is the end of your time You’ve already died
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Fading light the turn of time There’s nothing left  Dead embrace Follow the darkness Stray from sight And make the call Your loving might Fall to your knees Praise us for we bring you to life Praise us for we're your dying light In our twilight hours we cling to this fatal act of breathing Engulfed by silence suffocated by darkness embraced by the everlasting night  We are the idols to the blind like thunder to the deaf A cry from the mute and the first of a dying breath taken without mercy The candid decadence of man's proliferation  Spewing forth the degradation fills inside our lungs  Existence is cyclical PARTUM VITA MORTUM

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Existence is cyclical. Partum Vita Mortem explores all the aspects that make us who we are, from our earliest beginnings to the very end of our journeys. Partum (Birth), Vita (Life) and Mortem (Death). These three distinct but interweaved aspects of existence are portrayed both musically and lyrically across 13 tracks that bring this concept to life. In an era where we often forget to experience and reflect on every moment we have, this album brings to the fore the struggles we all must face on our own journey.

Reviews:
No Clean Singing - tinyurl.com/qh8v3hr
The Music - tinyurl.com/pdekncm
Legacy Magazine (Germany) - tinyurl.com/pzk935h
Metal Obsession - tinyurl.com/oqmagt2
Metal As Fuck - tinyurl.com/ook9596
Lords Of Metal - tinyurl.com/pprjwcl
Australian Musician Network - tinyurl.com/nro66ml

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released July 24, 2015

Chris Themelco - Vocals/Guitar
Joao Goncalves - Guitar
Nathan Mesiti - Bass
Matthew Themelco - Drums
Owen Keswick Gallagher - Synths

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Orpheus Omega Melbourne, Australia

Orpheus Omega is one of Australia's finest Melodic Death Metal acts, coming from Melbourne, Victoria. Having toured nationally & overseas with the likes of:

Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquility, Children Of Bodom, Sirenia, Psycroptic, Trivium, Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, Scar Symmetry, Wintersun, Soilwork, and many others.
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