The Sunless Empire, by Modern Age Dying

The Sunless Empire

by Modern Age Dying

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1.	Prologue 00:56	info	buy track
2.	Infinite Reprisal 05:01	lyrics	buy track
Welcome to my world The modern concept of a dark age Where vitality grows cold And the lust for technology begins to burn another page We are damaged by the past and the present On the brink of strife Hiding behind our screens and sharing discontent But blindfolded in real life Every day my disgust for humanity grows stronger It's keeping me awake Hollow gazes that don't define life any longer Follow me on every step I take The underbred beings in sleek suits want to direct our lives Subverting our steps of self-development without looking into our eyes I won't be a part of it anymore Even if it results in another personal war Chorus Faded is our right to live, yet i won't deny my free existence Repress me, I will break my chains to show you my persistence Hatred is the main thing that feeds on my survival Disgrace me, I will stand again to keep up in my infinite reprisal "Do you even realize what the fuck did you just say?" Questioning your sanity keeps cycling in my head Who are you to blame me for your critical mistakes? Without a pinch of conscience Every abjection convinces me that I have what it takes To outlive another sentence We're shackled to a price tag, always expendable Slaves of the moment Paying with own blood to delay the inevitable To ease the daily torment We're not your fungible tools programmed for eternal servitude No more of decelerating our progression, nor crushing our fortitude I won't be a part of this anymore Even if it results in another personal war Chorus Faded is our right to live, yet i won't deny my free existence Repress me, I will break my chains to show you my persistence Hatred is the main thing that feeds on my survival Disgrace me, I will stand again to keep up in my infinite reprisal I will worship my infinite reprisal Until I reach your fucking downfall
3.	Then There Was Silence 07:25	lyrics	buy track
Rise above the ashen cold In the land of ruins that used to be your world The touch of Sun is fading away And the colors of life are withering, fed by the forced decay What have we become? There’s no turning back to where the apocalypse began Driven by technology Relinquished of what gave us life, behold, this is our anthology Hope has said its final words, and the voices hushed ...then there was silence We have put this pain in motion Not expecting the outcome Blinded to the signs of devotion We’ve followed the ruinous system Humanity was just a virus Spreading uncontrollably towards its own destruction Until the darkness erased us Weaved by the clutches of greed and affliction The last throne, a doombound icon, Claimed by the embodiment of our sins Stands alone, under a grey horizon To finally rule the Sunless Empire Chorus: We've ventured to hell and back, the journey was vast Consumed our future, and profaned the past The cycle ends with the Earth's last unheard wish Then there was silence, a scarred witness of what we've abolished Do you hear the echoes of the tortured souls? Crying for help, but no one hears their screams, Nor see their shattered dreams, When they realise their own extinction These are the scraps of The Prophecy The one we must reverse Let's make these chapters disperse And put an end to our atrocity Bodies are piling up, blood has filled the wells and fountains Those corrupted face their purge, reunited with the roots of Earth Face your trial, look at the world you defiled To feed your greed, you were consumed by your own deceit Humanity was just a virus, until the Darkness finally erased us Chorus: We've ventured to hell and back, the journey was vast Consumed our future, and profaned the past The cycle ends with the Earth's last unheard wish Then there was silence, a scarred witness of what we've abolished
4.	Thronebreakers 06:13	lyrics	buy track
Marching to the rhythm of distant warfare Dancing in the rain of lead bullets Seeking vengeance, not a single life to spare, Purges to commence Hollow faces, parched by the horrors Of bloodshed, death and twisted reality The hunted ones became the hunters Rising from the trenches, rejecting the sun The final liberation comes to life This eternal decay cannot be undone As we stride into the victorious strife Chorus: Our pain is lost in silence While breathing ashes of betrayal Our eyes, gleaming in absence Of all that's human, a life-denial We are the Thronebreakers Harbingers of absolution The bringers of menace And the final retribution We don't feel any guilt As you sliced our tongues and left us mute Liberating from the rotten filth This crumbled world is about to reboot Do you hear the choirs of misery? As we burn your last cords Tying you to the last remnants of dominance The fear has overtaken you It feels you, run coward, run! Behold, the world in flames Gaze upon it as you fall from your throne We're the consequence of your deeds Imbued with hatred to the last bone You're the architect of your own destruction We're the embodiment of your perdition Chorus: Our pain is lost in silence While breathing ashes of betrayal Our eyes, gleaming in absence Of all that's human, a life-denial We are the Thronebreakers Harbingers of absolution The bringers of menace And the final retribution We don't feel any guilt As you sliced our tongues and left us mute Liberating from the rotten filth This crumbled world is about to reboot Feasting on the blood-soaked remains We claim your throne Finally unshackled, we lost our chains And you died alone These decades of despair Grief, hatred and lies Not a single life to spare As we are our own demise
5.	Disintegration Effect Pt.I. - The Anomaly 01:15	info	buy track
6.	Disintegration Effect Pt.II. - Into The Abyss 06:35	lyrics	buy track
Take a walk through a world of lies, Encased in your mindlessness Where everything around you dies, And drowns in a well of emptiness. Those moments of bloom you pass by All turn into ashes Coffins closing without a lullaby Burned by the blinded masses Ashes to ashes and dust to dust Your urgeis fueled by relentless disgust Through Mire of Vanity lead you final steps As you finally gaze into The Abyss Chorus: Bow before the Miscreator of corruption Spill the innocent blood for the false king Burn the truthbearers in the name of destruction Break the ties that mark you as a living thing No cleansing by the fire Just one leap into the void of black mass Leave behind the fallen empire And immerse yourself into The Abyss Chorus: Bow before the Miscreator of corruption Spill the innocent blood for the sake of destruction Make your final breath worthwhile Dispersing into omniverse, your last trial The smoldering World of Grief Dying under your belief Of war and corruption And eternal deception Pointing fingers on themselves Kings and queens that rule our hell Oblivious to the withering world Sinking their roots into the mold Don’t look back on the ruination Descend into paradise Plunge into damnation And you’ll finally pay your price Immerse yourself into The Abyss And make your final breath worthwhile Dispersing into omniverse, your last trial Chorus: Bow before the Miscreator of corruption Spill the innocent blood for the false king Burn the truthbearers in the name of destruction Break the ties that mark you as a living thing No more bloodshed for the sake of destruction Levitate in the breeze of grief Falling endlessly into The Abyss Hollow eyes will swallow your disbelief And The Void will endow you with its cold kiss 4x: Eyes wide opened, mouths are sealed Embraced by darkness, you’re finally healed
7.	Echoes Of The Sunless Empire 04:47	lyrics	buy track
Beyond the Ocean of Ruins, out of the Sun's reach The last burning flag flutters above the endless siege Grounds are soaked with blood, skies lit by open flames The final bastion built on corpses and forgotten names The coffin of human race hammered its last nail Our solipsistic sins have reached the highest scale We've choked on our pride, rejected our one true purpose Thoughtless acts of our ancestors have devoured the future All that's left is a reverbation, a spark of once great empire Listen to the echoes of the Sunless Empire The shattered fragmets of the land forever lost Destroyed by the joy of your darkest desires You established a declining era on a holocaust This barren Earth will never seal its scars The fires of damnation have forever shrouded the stars Put on your mask, and carve in a fake smile Build your utopia on the bones of those you defiled Ages have passed and we're still the same We can't go back Ruining the world and hiding our shame We're a living plague
8.	Traitors 06:11	lyrics	buy track
Upheld by society Damned by the closest ones Lives sold for a notoriety Drowned in your worthless lies Gained the highest form of trust Recklessly left it behind To fill your only lust Without reproach of your own decline Remember the time when you were the lost one? We shared all our secrets and sweared we divulge none And now you bow to your own ideals Two-faced, deprived of all your feels Chorus: Be who you really are The embodiment of betrayal and deceit Traitors cannot be reshaped Locked in the prison of morbid conceit You have made me incredulous To never again trust a soul Bearing the mask of innocence Underneath which hides a guilt Now you ask for forgiveness But those bridges cannot be rebuilt Remember the time when you were the lost one? We shared all our secrets and sweared we divulge none Enormous lack of self-control Insatiable urge to betray Falsehood is your life role That led you to a self-decay Look at yourself in the mirror The reflection of a scum can't be clearer Chorus: Be who you really are The embodiment of betrayal and deceit Traitors cannot be reshaped Locked in the prison of morbid conceit Crawl back to your holes Never cross my path The end of your bullshit calls This is the aftermath Enormous lack of self-control Insatiable urge to betray Falsehood is your life role That led you to a self-decay And now you bow to your own ideals Two-faced, deprived of all your feels Chorus: Be who you really are The embodiment of betrayal and deceit Traitors cannot be reshaped Locked in the prison of morbid conceit
9.	Modern Age Dying 05:32	lyrics	buy track
Behold the following manifest, listen closely As the protagonists of the free will fall Our world will soon become a lost memory Ballancing on the edge of collapse We created, you destroyed Days of our making are long gone We have pledged our lives, utterly blinded Yesterdays are forever gone The modern age is dying, we have lost it all Harvesting of our souls has already begun Step forth to a newborn world, the era of greatest fall Your past cannot be undone Devils dressed in human flesh sit on the highest thrones Pulling up the darkest sun, oppressing the righteous ones The words of piece are blackened, they lost their weight once more The last of innocent blood is spilled, the world is set for a final war Decisions mark your path Choose if it'll end with a bloodbath From the beginning of time we have been slaves of the system Every human from a lower stratum is a victim Church, policy, trade - few of the crimes created by man Held in the hands of puppeteers since the cycle of decadence has begun We created, you destroyed Days of our making are long gone We have pledged our lives, utterly blinded Yesterdays are forever gone The modern age is dying, we have lost it all Harvesting of our souls has already begun Step forth to a newborn world, the era of greatest fall This is not a call to arms, but another death sentence Let's play our final role to bring the rulers to repentance Burn the seed of misery For another pointless victory
10.	The Prototype 04:07	lyrics	buy track
Born in the circle of blinded minds Procreated from perfection Raised in the womb of pure malevolence Sentenced to violence, in eternal subjection My hands are covered with blood an sin Death walks in my shadow Nameless demon in human skin Without a soul to redeem or bestow My only purpose is to hunt, to kill and consume Draining life from the marked ones I have no conscience, only hatred alternated with gloom Suppresing the spark within me until my time comes Chorus: I, I am the prototype, the master in the art of destruction Waiting for a kill command to unleash my murderous rave Soon my soul will be awoken from its sham hibernation To annihilate my creators, that made me a volatile slave I am a killing machine A mindless puppet, with emotions unseen I make no exceptions, no mistakes A single spared life would be a disgrace Now my end is nigh, and my final will is to bring my makers down Chorus: I, I am the prototype, the master in the art of destruction Waiting for a kill command to unleash my murderous rave Soon my soul will be awoken from its sham hibernation To annihilate my creators, that made me a volatile slave I have transformed into a neo-god As my life slowly fades away And I've severed the hands that led me astray I have foreseen that I'll die alone Yet never felt so alive after leaving behind the violence I've known

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Recording took place in 2019-2023 at Modern Age Dying home studio.

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released October 31, 2023

All tracks mixed by Jakub Nestak.
Mastered by Marek Kriska at Askela Studio.

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Modern Age Dying Nitra, Slovakia

Modern Age Dying comes from Nitra, Slovakia. Born from the ashes of Apothecy, the band combines many genres like melodic death metal, black metal, thrash metal, or metalcore. The band released their debut EP "The Age Of Regression" in July
1,2017, and over six years later, the full-length debut "The Sunless Empire" was finally released at band's own expenses ... more