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Astasis

by Astasis

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1.
Engage 03:29
Spending all your moments that pass Living in an insulated dream Increments of digital flash A compulsive pageantry Dopamine chemistry masks A malignant disease Stroking egos dulling a path To mediocrity Fattened pigs we line up en masse A feed monopoly System babies carry a glass Of serendipity The sycophantic wet dream will crash Like a pyramid scheme And everything underneath the veil Was really just a product Of... Blind luck The gallows pole The gold you struck A lonely noose Seduce the lion Bruise the vantage Bemuse a fire Rip the bandage Spending all your moments that pass Living in an insulated dream Increments of digital flash A compulsive pageantry Dopamine chemistry masks A malignant disease Stroking egos dulling a path To mediocrity
2.
Slipping away from fathom’s pace A phantom is she Who gods make ample chase Novelty’s skew Cursed allure Is fire that heats And wakens the reborn If bluer skies fail to be Anything but The same monotony A heroic dose Of mind’s intrigue Will tick like a clock And brighten up this camouflage Who rained this warped sun? Down on everybody on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who wants us to go blind? Mind blind, on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who rained this warped sun? Down on everybody on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who wants us to go blind? Hacking away miles of taste Vanished from us without a single trace Conditioned by Canned routines Indoctrinate With endless luxuries Wandering eyes Fail to see What it is That they’ll no longer be Muted and fat And barely warm Sit in a cell While grasping onto this mirage Who rained this warped sun? Down on everybody on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who wants us to go blind? Mind blind, on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who rained this warped sun? Down on everybody on the move Down on everybody’s sin Who wants us to go blind? Peel away It’s frightening what leaves you Bleed the vein Paint life with a new shade of truth It’s horror that breathes life into new It’s horror that feels soothed Can’t keep what you don’t know like Memory Safe space Handicapped sun Save face A•STASIS stuns Safe Space Fear She’s a haunt hailing from nowhere And all her hell is best blessed
3.
Maroon and disengage Could it be just folly in the end? A mirror reflected doom Could it be just routine miscue? Say That I could take a life Stay The light of my night Beating is a metronome Burning the time Machiavellian lips Whispering the sweetest crimes Ground that once was paved Washes with the tides of disarray The night is the weight of stones That falls on our bones like death Buried deep small piece of empathy beckons me like a Melody in the dark As time still stands still On the eve of... Losing all touch of the metaphysic A soluble cure for the pessimistic A fitting demise for the chaser of mystics A soluble cure for the metaphysic Losing all touch of the metaphysic A soluble cure for the pessimistic A fitting charade for the chaser of misfits A soluble cure for an epidemic Sign of the times An inversion of a gift bestowed Sign of the times A masochist's art is a twist of the heart Breeze still swells Pheromones We exhale Damage done
4.
Strobe Mind 03:03
Salient crimes Lust for high Mania shines The fool's excess No time, no change The barrel's aged Brewed out of sin A soul's nexus Chameleon skin Unmasked breadth Master of spin A muse's hexes Unfiltered light The drifter's gift Selective blinds The mind flexes Like lightning cracking the sky Sanity bruised Icarus' epitaph Electric signs Blur the lines Change of the winds A blues dead end Dodging the shade A player's game A blink of an eye A moot errand Buried in trends A gem's hidin' Aging like wine The mood's shiftin' Simmers like swine On fires high An unlikely win Of strange chances Black magic bending the time Devil's excuse Kiss of death calculus
5.
It's only servitude Pay all the scars forward Rainmaker where were you When all the trees have fallen? Manifest Candle's catalyst It'll burn while you sleep Get you moving 'til you get to a Beat of a sermon so sweet (Dancing on the laws, singing in the rain) Fallacies are miles around you hon' Time to calibrate a moral reset 'Cause your fate is blind to the demagogue shine And won't it be a shame if you moved on with the flock Baby break the rules Don't snuff out the fuse It's only shades of truth That the sinner lusts for It's your living room On pages long forgotten Blood lost without a taste Isn't love Love lost without a face Is allure Manifest Candle's catalyst It'll burn while you sleep Get you moving 'til you get to a Beat of a sermon so sweet (Dancing on the laws, singing in the rain) Fallacies are miles around you hon' Time to calibrate a moral reset 'Cause your fate is blind to the demagogue shine And won't it be a shame if you moved on with the flock Baby break the rules Don't snuff out the fuse
6.
Kings 06:21
Time ago the world was bought and sold Hills of conquered fists and monotone song Aimless pleasers counting plastic votes Aimlessly crowds bow to darkened throne Baited cannibals are easier to mold Kings collecting tears, then turn them to gold Harbored savages meant to be controlled Selling out for the next free fantasy Fleeting crimes will sell Seeded minds will tell Broken time elapses Dulling the zombies walkin' Caught in a mind collapse Stalling an endless fucking reboot Lulling to slow surrender Appease with incremental poison Losing is science A crying truth A tailspin of consciousness Moved the bar An impulse, a stranglehold Renewed a grudge A blinding ministry Broods a lust Idle hells exacerbate Masochistic atrophy Pale fed Chains are made obsolete Slaves of modernity Want a carrot to lead Feigning absurdity Kings shaping history With careful trance Flawed revelation Consented castration
7.
Time ago The world was bought and sold Ashes in abyss Malady's home Fear sewn bloodless theft Mastery's lore Road to serfdom paved from every door

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released September 10, 2021

Written by Blaine Matte
Produced by Skunk Manhattan
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Rob Hinton at Mesa Recording Studios

Drums - Eoghan McCloskey
Guitar, Keys - Skunk Manhattan
Vocals, Bass, Keys - Blaine Matte

Artwork by The Horux
Logo by The Black Moon Design

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ASTASIS Austin, Texas

A•STASIS is a grooving, hook rich, prog rock band from Austin. Rooted at the soul of A•STASIS is an appetite for novelty and artistic expression in the context of an impending culture crisis. Melodic, dynamic, and lyrically dense, A•STASIS doesn’t hang in one playground for long as their songs dance from infectious prog riff to funky pop sequence while remaining elusively catchy. ... more

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