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The Ascended - DEMO

by Astral Winds

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PROJECT ORION DARKNESS FELL UPON THE LAND, THE DAYS ARE GETTING COLDER, IT SHOULD BE DAY, YET IT IS NIGHT, THE SUN SHINES NO LONGER, THE TIME IS NEAR, OUR DESTINY, THERE‘S ONE THING WE MUST DO, TO FIND THE WORLD, BEYOND THIS SPACE, TO WHICH THE OLD ONES FLEW. CHORUS: ORION - OUR SPIRITS TURN TO YOU EMPIRE - REBUILD UNTIL IT‘S DONE OUR MOTHERS - SO FAR AWAY YET STILL THEY PRAY OUR GODS - UNITE US ALL WITHIN THY REALM A SENSE OF FEAR, SOME STILL UNDECIDED, THE SKIES ARE CLEAR, THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM?, MAYBE IT WILL PASS US BY, HOPE STILL REMAINS WITHIN, THE SPARK OF LIGHT WILL SHINE SO BRIGHT, ON MARS WE STILL MIGHT WIN! CHORUS 2: O‘ FATHER MARS - BLESS US WITH FIRE, REDEMPTION CALLS - OUR BLOOD IS YOURS, DEFEATED HEARTS - CRY OUT WITH DESIRE, WE MUST SURVIVE - THE LINE MUST BE CROSSED. WE WERE WRONG, IT CAME TO BE AS THEY IMAGINED, WE‘LL LOSE OUR HOME, WE SHALL NOT BREATHE AGAIN, ORION IS LONG LOST NOW, WE HAVE TO FIND A DIFFERENT PLACE - ANOTHER PARADISE, AMONGST THE STARS.
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IT BEGAN ON MARS In the Wake of the Serpent, Their path was clear, yet uncertain, from their homes they fled, To a new world, found in the distance. Their new world awaits, Not far is this destination, A young planet of blue Their new home arose, Beneath the horizon! It All Began On Mars, Our Mothers Were Born, It All Began On Mars, Our D.N.A. Was Torn! Into the oceans they‘ve crashed, Earth shook upon their arrival, Fires burned on the shores, Fresh winds swept through the flames! From the outside the coldness of space, Inside the blackness of the oceans, They made it so far, They will not die now, A new home they must construct. For a long time, They‘ve gazed upon the stars, But only silence, To fill their broken hearts. They saved themselves, Yet sorrow lurks inside, The dream of a new hope, Came to be!!! But still, their eyes were full of grief, All the beauty they ever knew, Ceased to exist!!!
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A BEACON OF HOPE IN FRONT OF ME I SEE THEM STAND, A CIRCLE MADE OF FIRE, OF GODS THEY SPEAK AS THEY LOOK AT ME, ONE POINTS TOWARDS THE SKY. THEY KNOW WE‘RE LOST, BUT THEY THINK WE‘RE DIVINE, I NEED TO MAKE THEM SEE, THAT WE ARE NOT THEM,WHY WON‘T THEY BELIEVE? THEY DON‘T SEE US - FOR WHAT WE ARE, THEY DON‘T FEAR US - THEY KNOW OF THE ONES THAT CAME BEFORE. CHORUS 1 : THE OLD ONES, HE SAW THEM, THE SYMBOLS, I KNOW THEM, CAN THIS REALLY BE, WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR? I CAN SEE IT, I KNOW WHERE WE ARE, WE STILL CAN MAKE IT, NOW WE ARE SO CLOSE, ORION‘S CALLING, I HEAR A VOICE AND IT BRINGS ME JOY, ‘CAUSE NOW I KNOW WHAT THE ANCIENTS DID. THIS WAS THEIR HOME, NOW I‘M STANDING HERE,AS THEY DID, (MILLENNIA AGO), LOOKING AT THE STARS. CHORUS 2 : THE MESSAGE - RECEIVING, CONNECTION, ESTABLISHED, NOW WE‘RE SENDING OUT OUR BEACON OF HOPE FOR SO LONG, WE‘VE WAITED, SEARCHING BUT HOPELESS, NOW WE‘RE SENDING OUT OUR BEACON OF HOPE! AFTER DECADES HAVE PASSED, WE FINALLY SEE THEM ARRIVE, IT‘S BITTER SWEET,SEEING OUR HUMAN HOSTS, WAVING GOODBYE. I HAVE ALWAYS HOPED THIS DAY WOULD COME, BUT NOW THAT IT‘S HERE, IT‘S HARD TO GO ON. GOODBYE DEAR HUMANS, GOODBYE DEAR FRIENDS, OUR HEARTS ARE WITH YOU, WE WISH YOU WELL. NOW WE SHALL LEAVE YOU, NOW WE SHALL FLY, WE WON‘T FORGET YOU, UNTIL WE DIE. CHORUS 3 : THE GROUND IS SHAKING, WE‘RE FLYING AWAY, THE HUMANS ARE WATCHING, SOME PRAY THAT WE STAY, THE STARS ARE AWAITING, OUR NEW HOME WE‘LL SEE, THE JOURNEY BEGINS, WE‘RE GOING TO SLEEP.
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AWAKE, YET DREAMING Drowning in a sea of sand, My dried out tongue, placed in my hand, I fade away, Dancing into the sunsets. The oceans of sweat now begin to freeze, Forming structures of ice from my past, I stare upon them, Catch a glimpse of my reflection. Chorus: The reflection is you, Waving, Slowly fading, There‘s nothing i can do, As you slowly slip away. I reach out for you, Yet you‘re flying with the whales. My heart is dripping through my chest, As my eyelids turn to sand. Now, night time turns to day again, No sound, no hope, no nothing, I‘m a boiling pot of water,Slowly running over, My ashes take off with the wind. Chorus: The reflection is you, Waving, Slowly fading, There‘s nothing i can do, As you slowly slip away. I reach out for you, Yet you‘re flying with the whales. My heart is dripping through my chest, As my eyelids turn to sand. The reflection is you, Waving, Slowly fading, There‘s nothing i can do, As you slowly slip away. I reach out for you, I am awake yet dreaming.
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LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND A Distress Is Sent Through Space, Astronauts are calling from their resting place! We Must Assist Them If We Can, They might be dead, but they will come home again! Flying Fast To Planet Mars, The Stars Are Shinning And We See Our Hot Sun Rise! Running Out Of Time, I Hope We Make It There Before It Is Too Late!! Pre-Chorus: How Did It Happen? Why Did They Crash? It Doesn‘t Matter, Let‘s Only Hope We Can Make It Better! We Are Descending, We‘re Almost There, Now We‘ll Go Through This, Until We‘re Sure We‘ve Left No Man Behind. In A Place So Far From Home, Feeling Restless, But We Must Keep Moving On, The Winds Are Blowing Fast, There‘s Something In The Distance, I Think We‘re Here At Last! Their Bodies Lying, In The Sand, Lifeless Expressions, Staring At The Sky! We Were Too Late, We Could‘t Save Them, It‘s Sad To Say That They Will Never See Their Home Again! Pre-Chorus 2: Why Did It Happen? Why Did They Have To Die? They Were True Heroes, They Only Wanted To Save The Human Kind! We Are The Galactic Window, Of The Entire Human Race, Our Population‘s Growing, We Must Expand Or We Will Vanish Fast! Chorus: We Are Ascending, We‘re Going Home, Our Work Is Done Here, Together We Shall Fly Among The Stars!
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UNCERTAIN FATE WHAT IS IT? WHERE DID IT COME FROM? IS IT ALONE? CAN WE REACH IT? WHY IS IT THERE? WHAT DOES IT DO? COULD THERE BE LIFE? EVER SINCE I WAS YOUNG I KNEW, WE AREN‘T THE ONLY ONES WHO LIVE OUT HERE, BUT NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS, COULD I IMAGINE ANYTHING LIKE THIS. IS IT FRIENDLY? IS IT BENIGN? CAN IT SEE US? WE NEED TO FIND OUT, NOW. LET US PREPARE - I FEEL THE URGE TO KNOW EXPLODING INSIDE, ALL THESE QUESTIONS, ALL THESE YEARS, THE ANSWERS ARE NOW HERE. IS THERE ONE OR,…, ARE THERE MANY? WHAT TO EXPECT WE CAN ONLY GUESS. WHAT AWAITS US, WILL WE MAKE IT BACK, OR WILL WE GO DOWN IN FLAMES? CHORUS 1 : LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN, OUR VIEWPOINT IS CHANGING, IT‘S HAPPENING NOW, WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS OUR DREAMS, MAY THEY FREE US AT LAST. ALL THIS BEAUTY SURROUNDS US, ALL SO QUIET HERE, I KNOW IT‘S REAL, BUT IT FEELS LIKE A DREAM, IT‘ SO SURREAL… CHORUS 2 : LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN,HOW MANY YEARS WE‘VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS?! ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE WILL EXPAND, THROUGH WHATEVER LIES AHEAD…
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01. The Arrival Of The Mothership - The year is 2025. A mothership has been detected in orbit and the news reports start spreading. Inside the mothership, the reports are being translated into the alien language.

02. Project Orion - Thousands of years ago. The people of Mars realise that some big cataclysm is approaching and that it would be best if they leave the planet before it happens because otherwise, they will not survive. But not all agree so some leave for Orion and some stay behind.

03 The Stars Are Shifting - the ones who stayed notice, that they were wrong, and, that they still have time to leave... Or do they?? In space, the cataclysm is upon them. Time and space around the planet going haywire. Mars is shifting. Sometimes it seems as if someone or something is pushing the forward and reverse buttons. The remaining people of Mars must leave. The ships are launched and they rise up in a majestic and colourful roar….It is time to cross the stars….

04. It Began On Mars - Mid flight, shit hits the fan, some of the ships get hit by the space-time distortion. They, realise that they can not make it to Orion and they crash land on a young blue planet (Earth). There is no way off the planet so they decide to stay, thinking about their kinsman on the way to Orion and realising that they might never see them again. And they also see their home, Mars, being destroyed, from afar. Sadness erupts.

05. Wheels Within Wheels - First contact between the Ancients and the humans of planet Earth. Humans see them as Gods and they show them, what they think, is a doorway, which leads to the earthly home of the gods. A cavern with strange markings. Older than even the ancient astronauts who just arrived on earth. More investigation is needed. Markings look familiar.

06. A Beacon Of Hope - One of the ancients goes deep within the cavern and notices that it is an old outpost/command centre, used by his ancestors, to communicate with their HQ on Mars and their colonies all over the Solar system. So, he decides to give it a try and as luck would have it, they receive a signal from the surviving Orion fleet and they dispatch a mothership to rescue them while the rest continue towards Orion. it‘s all bitter sweet. Ancients and Humans just started developing friendships and they were all sad to see the “Gods” leave.

07. Towards A New Horizon - The mothership is blasting through space, making their way towards the rest of the fleet. But suddenly, something goes wrong. Warning alerts go off and they are being pulled into some kind of a wormhole. A few seconds pass, and they are back in the same nebula again. But something is wrong. The stars aren‘t where they were supposed to be. More research is needed. Meanwhile, something is on its way towards the nebula...

08. Awake, Yet Dreaming - 2025. Mars. An astronaut from Earth is dying on the planet. He and his crew had an accident. He is delirious and his visions have materialised. To him, they are real. He sends out a distress signal while exhaling his last breath.

09. Human Error - The signal is making its way towards Earth. Being reflected by a strange and unseen force, before continuing on the path.

10 Leave No Man Behind - Earth receives the distress signal from Mars and sends out a rescue team. They don‘t know if the astronauts are safe or in danger or...dead. They hope for the best but prepare for the worst. They reach Mars, but unfortunately, too late. But the team decides to complete their mission regardless, so, they take the bodies into the shuttle and start on the return journey home. Oh, what a sad homecoming this will be...

11. There‘s Something In The Nebula - Whilst checking the readings on the rescue team, the command centre on Earth notices a blip on the radar. it is triangulated to a nebula, close to the rescue teams position. So, they are ordered to send out a probe. Meanwhile, on the mothership in the nebula, the ancients are still trying to figure out what exactly happened and where or when they are. Suddenly, a new alarm starts ringing. it is a proximity alarm. Something is outside the mothership and it is scanning them. While trying to figure out where it came from, they triangulate the route it took. From a shuttle near the nebula, which came from Earth. But that is impossible. They, the Ancients, just arrived from there, and the natives weren‘t anywhere close to being that sophisticated. They decide that it has to be connected with the anomaly that changed the space around them and they start the return trip back to Earth.

12 Uncertain Fate - Meanwhile, back at the command centre, a scientist is preparing for his first journey into space, to find out who or what is in that nebula far far away. Will it be a good encounter? Will they make it back or will they vanish into oblivion? Only time will tell.

13. What Lies Ahead - While the scientist and his crew are on their way, the mothership is making its way, slowly, towards earth. reaching high orbit and scanning the planet. After seeing the technological advancements and an entirely different people and life on the planet, they come to only one conclusion. On their way they came across an anomaly, that transported them thousands of years into the future. What will they do now? What happened to their fleet and their own people? Should they make contact or just leave the humans be?....to be continued

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released April 27, 2017

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Astral Winds Upravna enota Maribor, Slovenia

A drum n bass inspired project by R4yd3n and Ωsupr33m, two malevolent aliens, stranded in Slovenia, EU, Earth/Terra/Gaia ( depending in which timeline you are reading this ). We are legion, for we are 2.Two visions collide, one outcome - a never ending journey across the far reaches of space.We need potassium. Resistance is fert....,am, futile. ... more

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