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Ex Nihilo

by Menos

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1.
Nihil 06:49
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Stare, stare at the monument of our time Stare as it pierces the black cloud of past Stare, stare at the baseless building Whose foundations, hidden in darkness Are either lost, forgotten or despised Passengers bound to a vessel Ascending the skies Caught in infinite streams of Repeating words and thoughts Everything's modern, nothing old, nothing new Who can create from nothing ? What can be built on top of thin air ? Suspended, still, stale, Stuck in a loop of time That fools the eye no more Yet we extend our stare Until the last moment before All what was born in the air Inevitably falls Cast aside the shackles Delaying fate Cast them aside To let the ground claim you To rest upon the earth again And rediscover this truth Ex nihilo nihil So that we won't be lost, forgotten or despising
2.
Echoes of Men 08:08
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I... the only light Cast upon reality I... the only horizon The impassable frontier I... the determination Of every action, every view I... the discoverer of all Renounced my search I... fascinated by myself Am polishing the world Into a perfect mirror To admire I am Narcissus, the cursed myth alive I shall not turn away from my own reflection I shall not act except to preserve the image I lust With time, the picture fades Slowly, the substance of it disappears The I is left nothing but the dim shape of a man I will surround myself with mirrors So I can maintain the illusion that I am I... the center of a mass of devices A hollow shell emptied of life That echoes the passing voices Then calls them my own I... both Narcissus and Echo Like a reflection on still waters I disappear when you reach for me The unfindable echo, the solitary narcissus
3.
Satis-Factory 07:36
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Silence has been silenced By a noise unheard before The unending unhuman roar The louder and louder Manufacture of consent Prodigious, ubiquitous Deafening and shattering Now sound is Only unsound One frame-long pictures Flicker at a speed Exceeding brain capacity The saturated reality is Unable to stabilize The very same light that allowed The mind to see, is turning it blind Vision is lost in the midst of Unproccessed, unordered Ultimately meaningless information Yet contentment is found nowhere But in this stimulation overload In this constant pushing of limits Where knowledge is bliss Can't we stay in silence ? Can't we stay in silence ? So that we may hear again Can't we stay in silence ? So that we may realize quiet and loud Are two sides of the same coin Can't we be quiet ? Can't we be quiet so that we can be Loud Stepping aside from The products of the Satis-Factory Thrown at us, without rest Without rhythm Replacing our machined eyes With human ones Limited as they are Yet true to our reality, to life Can't we stay in darkness ? Can't we stay in darkness ? So that we may see again Can't we stay in darkness ? The artificial satisfaction man is given Is but the painting of a smile On a cogwheel His hope to match The consistency of machines Denies what he is A cyclic creature With ups and downs With feel
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Terra Infirma 05:36
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Mountains crumble Into valleys they fill Hills collapse To compress the horizon The wrinkles of the old world ...Erased Mountains crumble Into valleys they fill Hills collapse To flatten the mind Smooth, even, ungraspable ...Environment Differentless, immaculate, uniform, Inscrutable...land One picture spreading through The cracks of weakened lands Filling the emptiness One culture, desired, praised, Copied, therefore replacing Every other One picture ever-expanding, Ever-absorbing, Leading to One way of living One way of thinking Identical identities Copies, clones share the same weakness And will all fall as one Nations refusing to be Create a world terrifyingly same
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Stone Upon Stone 12:28
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Yet another stone stacked up Another step to take Another direction to explore Breath after breath Life after life Death after death Stone upon stone From the smallest pebble To the largest boulder Are built countless pathways Yet another stone stacked up Another step to take Another direction to explore The highest monument is still built The longest journey is still taken on One step at a time Yet another stone stacked up Another step to take Another direction to explore Off the paved road, off the beaten track An ancient cairn stands proud As it has always done Its stones defy Time They remain unaffected by its assaults And after thousands of years They will still stand Outlasting our lives Beacons in the mist of Time Immortality crafted By a mortal's hand Allowing him to venture Even further On the same road As his predecessors Off the paved road, off the beaten track We add our stone to the cairns we followed Merely extending what already is A new idea resting firmly on former ones Yet another stone stacked up Another step to take Another direction to explore Breath after breath Life after life Death after death Stone upon stone A heap of stones will turn into a cairn Only thanks to the craftman's art Regardless of their numbers Ideas stacked at random Will crumble, whereas a few Assembled with care and structure Will be able to travel beyond the certainty of Death The implacable end of all And the roads of stones will reach further And the spiral of ideas will keep circling As long as there are men To put one stone upon another

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released February 10, 2018

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Menos s'est formé dans le but de proposer une musique originale et progressive, influencée par les rythmiques de Meshuggah et les ambiances mystiques de Tool. Ex Nihilo, notre premier album est sorti en février 2018.

Menos est composé de : Pierre-Yves (batterie), Guillaume (guitare), Antonio (basse), Antoine (guitare lead), Charles (chant) ... more

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