Embryonics 90 - 98

by Alchemist

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1.	Chinese Whispers 09:37	lyrics	buy track
Speaking my mind Single trail of thought Difference in the way we perceive Your ability to receive I know you listen, faults lie between us. You hear my speaking, something changes my words. [Chorus] Hordes of inconsistencies and fiction swarm the paths of your thoughts. Your interpretation of my actions, convenient to your cause. I'll say again another way. Splintered slithers of truth, rumored tales, my proof. Tolerance prevents and outcome. [Repeat Chorus] Words a moldable form of matter, interpretation, your point is shattered, lies a manifestation of truth changes arise because of a difference, Words a moldable form of matter, interpretation, your point is shattered, lies a manifestation of truth Don't accuse me because of a difference I know you hear my words, But somehow there's faults that lie between us. Speaking my mind Single trail of thought I know you're listening But some faults lie between us, I know you hear my words. [Repeat Chorus]
2.	Abstraction 03:37	lyrics	buy track
Help me! I am watching atomic warfare from the safety of the moon I am dancing sacrilegiously to sound of infectious tunes There is no sunset, is no sunrise, things on Earth don't seem as they are The opal planet I once called home is revolving a dying star Strange! Awakening from cryonic sleep I vacate my homely hemisphere My soul travels on turbulent thoughts whilst my innards remain here I feel pity for the ignorant one who leaves the egg but the shell remains The severance of umbilical ties multiplies his deepest pains Thought the eyes in my head I hear the purple flower's scent Casting shadows in the shade Lusting for the gates of jade Though hallucinative wealth I can not comprehend myself Sterility, fertility - the life that dwells inside of me I often stop to wonder whilst gazing to the sky Is there life beyond the quasars, will I find out when I die? Is there a beeing out there who gaze into the night And see our burning sun as a tiny spark of flight? [Repeat verse one]
3.	Unfocused 06:21	lyrics	buy track
All my thoughts are unfocused. help me focus the distorted - my conscious span is spun all my thoughts unfocused - a collage of thoughts in my mind help me focus the distorted - conscious span is spun protruding exertion of concentration - perception corruption is my frustration unbearably undecided - undefined and uttered.
4.	Enhancing Enigma 05:16	lyrics	buy track
A captive soul returns Limited materialistic boundaries. Repeating the progress of leaving as previous knowledge dissolved long ago. Bewildered by totems in nature we quest universe reflection, but When mind potentialities exhaust the answers remain untapped. Homo sapiens terrorize one another Conforming like drones Homo sapiens, molesters of nature Homo sapiens, parasite of the Earth Concepts of existence astonish, reality resides within myself. Significance is questionable We're less to the universe then amoeba to the oceans A mass of molecules and atoms united to my consciousness Ending in physical erosion Repeating the cyclic process Is this concept mirrored within myself?
5.	Dancing to Life 06:03	lyrics	buy track
LIFE In all it's fragile beauty surrounds me LIFE It's energy and vigor consume me LIFE My zest for life and living remain LIFE The chi flows thick and forceful through my veins The wisdom of her anatomy Denies the first to enter the chance to create Survivors travel the unknown With the knowledge of the location of their goal Each an individual Yet all together one
6.	Brumal 05:45	lyrics	buy track
Dwell on an eccentric orbit, Plutonian hemisphere engaged in a mutual - eclipse. The sun just a bright star low in the sky. Rock and ice, the dark world under - Charon, where the light succumbs to dark. Pluto god of the lower meridian. The apparent paths of the sun. Two nuclei collide and from into a new phase, exploring retina is locked into zenith gaze. Far from a common orbit - I see sights that no man knows! The picture of our universe, spread infinitely over space, observe the riddle that's entwined - beginning yet existed forever. Cold as?? The initial state of the universe is often hard to comprehend, due to the macrocosm of space. Alpha Centauri is now clear in view, yet the galaxies still can't be seen thought. Light years away from any other being? Shadows of Charon I am now foreseeing. Existence within worlds within worlds? Existence within worlds within worlds! Existence within worlds within worlds? Existence within worlds within worlds! Two nuclei collide and from into a new phase but now the zenith gaze is just a haze.
7.	Lunation 03:47	lyrics	buy track
The silent image of a poetic light the crescent moon enhances the blackened night my eyes are bound to the beauty that I see the moon's magnetism - it beckons me pores of my mind rise and fall in lnation lost in a spell entranced in lunar fixation alters the rhythms and the tides of the oceans eclipsing hemispheres of my emotions moon enters in its new phase-governs both the nights and the days bathe in its heavenly rays - strange allure the one that I praise
8.	Staying Conscious 05:43	lyrics	buy track
When the first single cells Felt the first rays of light Carbon beings in process. Leading to life that we have today. A billion years later, technology springs, exploding progress pushes is forward, but exploding progress is tearing us down. What is fiction is fact, there is no blame for conditioning, Reality's created by ourselves, we're to blame for our problems. Cells of our shells, merge with the earth. Becoming separately involved, composting, transgressing, in order to embrace life and death, we must eliminate the boundaries that lie between the physical and the spiritual. Symbiosis a two way process, people read their lives and then create their psychosis. Staying conscious requires effort, evolution re-awakes the primal subconscious. Aware - Awake - Alert Know or felt by ones inner being. Flow and slower observer and observed, a wave, invite ocean life and death in cyclic motion. You are a human being You have an ego and mind It's a useful part of you but it's not you
9.	Shell 04:03	lyrics	buy track
The abundance of pores in this shell manifest as I draw experience Only time will tell if I've manufactured a spiritual cell Filling each space with what I see Experience molds my destiny Life is the reasoning for the cause My existence bids to natures laws My body a shell of human cells that contain me Myself a kaleidoscope of thoughts that won't set me free With each breath that I take I slowly fill the space which will be me! This feeling it causes me to While away the years and suck experience till my shell is filled and I die Woven flesh - tomb encases my soul Changes in seven year cycles Still wandering - does my shell have a cause? The end. A measure of my worth.
10.	Garden of Eroticism 07:22	lyrics	buy track
Through the abundant life your ability release my infidelity swollen ovaries of temptation shall I dare submerge myself with obsession ? trapped by lust, nudity an obscenity shading its darkness with light fooled, I am drawn toward the gate of jade garden gates forever trap me, forever to tend her fields rewarded with the fruits of life take another bite, fate seizes me I am punished by my loyalty to her desire garden of eroticism hemaphrodelia punished by my loyalty to her salocrophobia - testostrodelia.
11.	Jar of Kingdom 06:17	lyrics	buy track
Unleash your swimming life Allow it to be caught by science Life's boundaries are being smashed Progress in natures defiance Existence without creation Life without conception Humanity pushes progress but is it in the right direction, baby? cones Not knowing where you came from Professionally created Who were you spawned from? Frozen you have waited. An after crop of technology, not knowing the warren crop of flowing milk and honey. Experiments no longer restricted to animals as long as you got the money. Caught in a realm of fantasy - is an actual reality. Life of mass brutality, you're blossomed from modern surgery. End the tears of infertile parents, embryo's paused in time. Is your life an endless question or unnatural crime? Now you know, you have been told the truth about your life Your father was a sterile test tube, your mother a surgical knife Unable to carry a child so meek and mid - who's fault is this? Our seed shall blend with science in an alliance - our minds insist So now you find your life's an endless cause. The endless question that haunts you - you can not pause Your parents say they are truly yours Answering questions, opening doors
12.	Paisley Bieurr 03:52	lyrics	buy track
[Instrumental]
13.	Yoni Kunda (Live to Air) 05:51	lyrics	buy track
Observe sacred form with reverence. Thoughts enthroned with a deep lust for life Serve her sacred form with reverence. Thoughts enthroned with a deep lust for life The womb that mothers the seed of a serpent energy life springs from vagina completely embodied I genuflect before its totemic power.
14.	Closed Chapter (Live to Air) 05:03	lyrics	buy track
Situated in the present alive in the moment of now separated from attachment - gone but not forgotten what is meant to be inevitably will be, destiny a force rather than an outcome of events my point of change is on the horizon, what brought it together now took it away chapters open, chapters close, opportunities rise and fall like an everlasting circle My memory still plays the events Affection is a state of mind. My mind is altered. Emptiness is eventually filled, The universe unfolds - things shall be as they are. Although I often deviate I always return to me. Many paths are marked for us
15.	Eye of the War 05:17	lyrics	buy track
[Instrumental]
16.	Beyond Genesis 07:20	lyrics	buy track
The past is open, but the future still hides. Natural selection, the strongest will survive. Planetary process of evolutionary change. Natures chosen aspects from hereditary range. [Repeat twice] Perspectives of truth, Artificial selection, Rather than supernatural intervention Could life possibly be as simple as your revelation because we have evolved there is no myth of creation. We may have been created But not from two single beings Eternal genetic process of mutating genes. Random shuffle Random mutation
17.	Yoni Kunda 05:12	lyrics	buy track
Observe sacred form with reverence. Thoughts enthroned with a deep lust for life Serve her sacred form with reverence. Thoughts enthroned with a deep lust for life The womb that mothers the seed of a serpent energy life springs from vagina completely embodied I genuflect before its totemic power.
18.	Purple 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Looking in the corner of magic round room trying to find the bottom of the top from the in between plane. Ultraviolet craniums glowing with seductive scent The circus now surrounds me, attractive but obese I do not understand me! Could you repeat me please? A strange and distant melody Provoking an absurdity Opaque, my existence from the end to the start Numbering creation but creatively inspired I do not understand me! Could you repeat me please? Particles of edis saloc Taste the thought provoking breeze. An interpretation of creation Feel the uncontrolled is oscillation But a vision alienation Enter into a labyrinth A new direction to uphold New inputs accepted Then as entering the world still turns and mother nature will never grow old! PURPLE Angels found is symmetrical visions - impossibilities come to life Edis saloc stripped from nature Severely severed Placed in a pyramid
19.	Imagination Flower 02:44	lyrics	buy track
Let your imagination flower, pollination of thoughts you devour. ( X 2) Imagination flower Imagination flower. Search to find- Fruits of the mind. Let the journey begin to the left zone. Provoking genius within the unknown. A spectacle of majestic sight. Delivered to imaginary life. QUEST EXPLORE INQUIRE Alter my mind to reach the unknown. Enhance my own enigma all alone Kiss the porthole, imagination flowers Entwined in a mystic path of cosmic power. QUEST EXPLORE INQUIRE This fiery mist opens the left zone door. My mind is mine for me to explore. Fruits of the mind. The left zone's the desired space to be. Utopia for all to see. Bathe in forces yet untried. Soul and body, now untied.
20.	Spiritechnology 06:34	lyrics	buy track
We offer you the key to your spirituality, the answer that links us to our eternity, the difference that lie between yourself and all you see. But this does not convince you, you lust technology. Unite the earth Our gods have failed us, All along it was a farce an all along you knew, but refused the help of visitors, a concept that would boom higher intelligence Was kept a secret from us for a minority's profits. But praising god won't save the world only praise of human kind [Echo] You close your eyes and place demise. On this forgotten entity. Fabricated stories, to protect your former glories. A time is soon at hand, the covered hall be revealed exposing your whole lifestyle as nothing but a lie. Galactic intervention Dimension intervention [repeat] Progress your spiritechnology [repeat]
21.	Soul Return 08:18	lyrics	buy track
We do not die - We only change All must die before their rebirth as fruit must rot to release its seed soul transmigration from divinity to the mutable world of birth and disease, old age and death the breeze created by a soul's departure arising from this dead and lifeless shell we emanate from the deceased we do not die only change, only change, you know we do not die only change - you know we only change death is the dying of the light now the imperishable soul begins its journey to the divine implicit and vague become explicit and clear infinitely long passage from another world to our own the winds of a departing soul- the time of now is slipping away we do not die only change, only change.
22.	Road to Ubar 05:37	lyrics	buy track
The commands of an ancient sultan Whispers through the sandstorm winds of time Calling across the centuries A lost ghost city of the mind Far beyond the valley of the kings Lies buried deep within the sand A city of decadence and lust and greed That's why the gods condemned this land The gods condemned this land Furthest reaches recorded time Lay Ubar, city of lust and greed Reading the chiseled inscriptions A funerary temple Osiris's tributes to the gods The sultan of Oltman Denied the presence of this land Decipher the hieroglyphics City overcome with lust Ancient brothel returns to dust Angered by the plague of sin Let the holocaust begin Furthest reaches recorded time Lay Ubar, city of lust and greed Reading the chiseled inscriptions A funerary temple This was the city of Ubar Watch our modern life return to ancient ways Was the city of Ubar Watch our modern life return to ancient ways We're on the road to Ubar (x4)
23.	Found 01:21	lyrics	buy track
I once had a vivid dream Where all was so clear yet unseen And boundary-less I could go My physical form did not show And looking down from below At the people who gathered and cried Came the realization That my body had died
24.	Clot 04:36	lyrics	buy track
Clot - by my own closed mind poisoned images self imagination - sense of reckoning halutz its gestation attitude and feelings unable to relate the iron barrier my subconscious creates - clot, CLOT, CLOT, micro-electric memories solitarily confined preventing new additions to the archives of my mind confrontation of my lobes to bridge the gap where knowledge flows knowing what I thought is hidden from me - confrontation of my lobes to bridge the stream where knowledge flows
25.	Worlds Within Worlds 07:07	lyrics	buy track
Like creatures within the deepest oceans, you are existing unaware of worlds outside your own. Disregard what is believed and fantasy shall enter Begin to think of concepts that are slightly left of center Begin without beginning and conclude eternally A mass infinite cycle I am in and is in me. The not yet born and dead may know where we've been and where we go what's to come and why where here but when I look it's most unclear. At times I'm lost with things I find Is god creator or image if mind? A macroscopic universe - a microscopic view variety of astonishment I can't see thought. Imagine places I've not been Picture sights I've never seen Believe in worlds I cannot see Those I'm in and those in me Though life's torment I now find Life may be a state of mind Disregarding the impossible We believe in what is tangible We feel the warmth of one in a trillion starts Ethereal continuation - thoughts beyond infinite cycles are we just a chemical equation that reached consciousness though evolution? Earth's nature confines itself. But within cosmology - infinity
26.	My Animated Truth 03:28	lyrics	buy track
I exist yet still exist intoxicated with the senses of life an awareness, an example in this world I am god picture mind's eye to stimulate the nuclei I am the god of the inner world, all I see and comprehend is mine visions taken in remain sublime, overcrowded ethics overwhelm - Welcome to my animated truth. Picture of a world of imagination, physical world is just interpretation. Reconstruct myself. Dreamscape. Imagine images of your imagination.
27.	Closed Chapter 05:04	lyrics	buy track
Situated in the present alive in the moment of now separated from attachment - gone but not forgotten what is meant to be inevitably will be, destiny a force rather than an outcome of events my point of change is on the horizon, what brought it together now took it away chapters open, chapters close, opportunities rise and fall like an everlasting circle My memory still plays the events Affection is a state of mind. My mind is altered. Emptiness is eventually filled, The universe unfolds - things shall be as they are. Although I often deviate I always return to me. Many paths are marked for us
28.	Chinese Whispers (Live) 09:29	lyrics	buy track
Speaking my mind Single trail of thought Difference in the way we perceive Your ability to receive I know you listen, faults lie between us. You hear my speaking, something changes my words. [Chorus] Hordes of inconsistencies and fiction swarm the paths of your thoughts. Your interpretation of my actions, convenient to your cause. I'll say again another way. Splintered slithers of truth, rumored tales, my proof. Tolerance prevents and outcome. [Repeat Chorus] Words a moldable form of matter, interpretation, your point is shattered, lies a manifestation of truth changes arise because of a difference, Words a moldable form of matter, interpretation, your point is shattered, lies a manifestation of truth Don't accuse me because of a difference I know you hear my words, But somehow there's faults that lie between us. Speaking my mind Single trail of thought I know you're listening But some faults lie between us, I know you hear my words. [Repeat Chorus]

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Embryonics is a deluxe, double-disc collection spanning the pre-Relapse work by one of heavy metal's most unique and creative bands. An extensive and exhaustive collection, Embryonics features Alchemist classics (Chinese Whispers, Yoni Kunda), band favorites (Dancing to Life, Staying Conscious), rare demo tracks, and never-before heard recordings. Enveloped in a stellar package created by Alchemist guitarist Roy Torkington replete with liner notes and photography encompassing the bands history, Embryonics documents the growth of this Australian band from its formative years into one of the most progressive and inventive bands to grace the international metal scene.

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released February 21, 2006

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Alchemist Canberra, Australia

Alchemist is an Australian progressive metal band from Canberra whose style combines death metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, Eastern, Aboriginal and electronic influences

Instinctively aware of the importance of stylistic individuality, and disillusioned with the stagnant metal scene of the late eighties, ALCHEMIST was formed with the purpose of creating original & emotive music. ... more

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Tripsis

Oct 2007
Embryonics 90 - 98

Feb 2006
Austral Alien

Jun 2003
Organasm

Oct 2001

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