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Amphitrite: Ancient Sanctuary In The Sea

by Ruins Of Elysium

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1.
​Alexiel (An Epic Love Story) Amid all the fallen warriors Broken Swords and shattered shields There is space for a love song in the battlefield Holy war, all saints are crying Cornucopia filled with children, dying Time to fulfill a quest Time to have our hearts locked An arrow flies above my head My chest it meant to trespass And her hair bathed in blood (chorus) If everyone could be brave as you are Then maybe hope could be born into our hearts Amid all the fallen warriors Broken Swords and shattered shields There is space for a love song in the battlefield By nighttime I dream of unthinkable sins I bring in my wings such unbearable secrets Oh Brothers and sisters Same blood and same flesh Never thought this war would last From Earth to Heavens This battle’s my ultimate test Loved and condemned For an ever fall Caress me, angel The most beautiful of all (x2) Feathers of light spread in a tormented sky The celestial sphere in turmoil She will be cursed for a thousand ages In unspeakable names My love bears madness A war going on the heights For possessive desire My love is madness You who turns the ocean into the color of zinc The forest into desert, gun smoke from wind And the heavens, scorched, blood of Lucifer’s wrath Our love is madness (chorus) This story will be read in sacred writtings An anciet lore of an old wasteland Amid all the fallen warriors Broken swords, shattered shields There is space for a love song in the battlefield
2.
Queen Of The Seven Seas Oh God of storms, forgive me As I sail through the night Waves on the reefs, my compass is The lighthouse, my coral light Marco Polo heirs, let your hopes take flight Exploring the realms of my pirate dreams Welcome to the land of dragons and the monkey king Between Suzhou’s channels I found my peace They say a pirate’s dream is to find adventures, treasures and gold I’ve heard stories of the silk road Can you point me the right way? (Chorus) Amphitrite came to me and sang a sad song in my ear She said that my love was waiting for me She made me dream of your face every night and every dawn So this sad song turned to my bliss As the wind delivered me your kiss For me the ocean is only a drop Stars are sand, hold my hand Unearth it all (chorus)
3.
Belladonna 05:10
Belladonna Will the humiliated be exalted? And all the glories be exhumed? The blood running in my vein is toxic Inebriating as my perfume I swam against currents, my ship betrayed me Cast away into abyssal depths of the sea I just want to drown, why should I be adrift? I don't mind dying, but what as I live? The wind blows me secrets Sailing in this cove It says beauty kills There is poison on love I'll teach you how to pay the price Without leading to your own demise I'll show you how to throw the dice Do we even realize nobody lives twice? You don't have a disease for the disease is life It's the cancer of nature, virus of mankind I'll teach you how to pay the price Without leading to your own demise I'll show you how to throw the dice There's no need to wear a disguise And by your side, we'll survive Sea, tell me, please Why is heaven so far? For a failure like me An outcast with a scar Even Venus was born from sea-foam Can I rise from the tainted ocean? Salty and dirty as me. ¿Qué será de mi? Nunca pensé que terminaria asi En mis venas está la condenación Me converti en la flor que mata a quien la contempla ¿Donde está mi lugar? Bajo el mar The garden of my body withers in venom As I pray for a beacon guiding me to splendor We will soon find a cure, my child No more fears, no tears, no more reason to hide I'll teach you how to pay the price Without leading to your own demise I'll show you how to throw the dice There's no need to wear a disguise And by your side, we'll survive
4.
Leviathan 07:41
​ Leviathan (chorus) Leviathan, ancient wyrm of the deeps Take my life back, deep into the sea you keep The ancient sanctuary in the sea Embraces the shore, my fears disapear Carries me deep and foresees my way A spirit tired enough to hide Tempestuous blow, pleasure of my soul My dearest metaphor of death I saw it in his eyes What they stole from me You're a prince between the whales In the aegis of your scales We’re nothing compared to the oceans might (chorus) The ancient sanctuary in the sea To sink again, to sleep in the oceans bed A sailors’ lore, memorial in me This empty shore, is someone waiting there? My body drifts together with my dreams You guide me to the after death I saw it in his eyes What they stole from me I’m a prince between the whales In the aegis of your scales We’re nothing compared to the oceans might
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Atlas 05:11
Atlas I hold in my shoulders the burdens of creation The road to our salvation is written on the chart Tattooed on my skin, from my toes to my chin My body is the key to the lock inside the sea Where is the ocean of the Ninth Heaven? My kingdom comes and there’s no treasure Equally, there’s no way to measure In vain cartography Amphitrite, Guide me I’m crying for salvation I hold in my shoulders the anguish of the world’s end A crusade to the waterfalls at the edge of the land I’ll travel the world Art’s the guide to my soul I was marked, but then, redeemed Like a pirate in the sea To sail is a need and I don’t need to live My pillow is the ship I use to cross the seven seas An adventurous threading By seafaring I exist She made me watch over the cradle of creation Amphitrite, Guide me I’m crying for salvation Amphitrite, guide me, I’m crying for salvation She made me watch over the cradle of creation Between Sea-Gods and men there’s no communication Ocean: my bride, my mistress, joy and desolation
7.
​ Book of Seals Something is hidden in these woods… Something that awakens my light Someone wrote it on the book With holy ink: tears of the sky… Elven Lady from a realm beyond desire Sacred wishes lie behind the lore of trees Something deeper then what the eye sees Amid all the old fairy fantasies (Chorus) Virgen princess-Loreil An anciet castle full of love stories and sins Beyond the mirrors and crystal shields Cause I never knew how it feels And I was reading the Book of Seals when I was touched By the magic in the wind By the whisper of a dream Read my letters of horror times In the Ancient Sanctuary we pray For the dusk, for the Queen For the tales we hold deep within There is a kingdom falling Behind a ring of fire, bequeathed by the water Earth is talking to me: A soul from the forest The one born from the ocean Luthien’s sorrow Edwin’s bless All the elves prepare for the fight From her dear book of light, a story to write May the dust guide your path through all times In space, a frame I navigate to the seafloor I will get there somehow In Hyrule I ride A Titan I climb Exploring the lands of Primordia Watch me, I can fly! I can get there sometimes (Chorus)
8.
Amphitrite 04:55
Amphitrite Let my tears become dry My feelings descend Cause this matter can die, but I can´t… All in black, joy only comes to me when I´m in shadows They hide away my fears Ocean, embrace me. I become light when I dream of green meadows Oh, please, forgive my sins. Lady of land hidden in water Touching the beautiful desert, calming the sea down Oh, I love this melancholy For a moment, I can forget everything (Chorus) Amphitrite, Let my tears become dry My feelings descend Cause this matter can die, but I can´t… (Even though I want too) The landscape talks to me Hypothermia, water’s flowing My last vision: caring eyes of a siren (Chorus) Deliver me the answers that I’ve asked to the Moon Take my hand, my eyes cannot stan the Sun Some may call it the easy way But the easy way is the hardest one And the other way is still so hard When I think my sorrow will last forever I hold very tight to the image in my mind The desert, the sea, the melancholy Alone in my dreams for a moment of peace
9.
Okami, Mother of the Sun Children of the sun, heirs of Nippon Offer your prayers to the mother of us all Origin of all that’s good The goddess of the brush The howling of a spirit fighting darkness itself Faced trolls and demons, spirits of hell In her eyes is reflected the beauty of the sun Because she is the mother The original one (Chorus) Diva Amaterasu, hallowed Okami I heard your tales in the province of Nanami You who bring light to the homes of your crest You that bless us with the new-year’s harvest From the plains of Shinju to Ryoshima coast Inside the Oni Island, a nine tailed ghost The fire that burns brighter in her core Alights our country Oh, mother of us all Susanoo fought Orochi A nine headed beast Ancestor Shiranui The bringer of peace You paint the skies with light And the path of the heavenly envoy, our majestic Queen Himiko Kami yo anata no shiwaza ka (Chorus) May the constellations in the sky Guide you in your quest Keep you as you fly And, with your brush, turns day to night Inside your spirit, warming light
10.
The Ocean is Yemanja’s Terra Brasilis! We have land on sight Our land, of palm-trees, where the mockingbird cries Our grooves, full of life On our skies, the starlight Our land, of palm-trees, where the mockingbird cries Axé! Oshalá! Odoya Yemanja! Euphoria baffled by yoruba cries Ossaim granted passage. His precious red trees But when he saw his people, the God melted in tears Chains aren’t right adornments to heirs of kings and queens Heirs to the burden of creation, Pride of the mother of the Earth Sun and Moon nurtured from their breasts Legacy held by Dandaras, Marielles Yèyé Omo Ejá, mother of salty waters We’re fishes adventuring in cruel tides of life Against the rage and madness of the ocean Oxumaré shall send a rainbow after the storm Salve Yemanja, rainha do mar Proteja os filhos de Ogum, Orixa Senhora do mundo e daqueles que nem por um segundo Desistem de lutar Sou preta da Bahia, tambor de Candomblé Sou filha da rainha, mãe das ondas ela é Minha terra tem palmeiras, tem belezas, tem guerreiras Tem um povo que tem muito a cantar The conquerors, and in disgust I use this word Their pale arrogance, still denying that our world Was given shape by the wombs of Sheba, Yemanjá and Iara And all dark skinned women tortured by time Descendants of Oxum, Beauty draped in gold The treasures of Africa run through Brazilian blood But what is land, if not a part of the Aiyê? Plains, mountains and valleys Inspiration to poems of black fishermen Silenciaram nossa voz América Latina, Pindorama Protestar é terrorismo onde bala queima roupa de criança Travesti, kamikaze Me recomponho, entre escombros Toque no meu corpo ou quase Mas jamais apagarão o que componho Agora o sangue que cai não é nosso Agora paga o preço Vocês provocaram o ódio O revide vem do gueto Yèyé Omo Ejá, mother of salty waters We’re fishes adventuring in cruel tides of life Against the rage and madness of the ocean Oxumaré shall send a rainbow after the storm Paguem por cada Vida arrancada Pelo sangue na calçada Cada Travesti assassinada Pelas almas suicidas que encerraram sua própria jornada É foda memo Não tem como não ficar cansada Quando levantamos flores Vocês nos respondem com rajada Vandalismo é resposta Pra esses patrimônios Sobre senhores de engenho Levantemos estátuas Para Laura e Dandara Juntes venceremos! Yèyé Omo Ejá, mother of salty waters We’re fishes adventuring in cruel tides of life Against the rage and madness of the ocean Oxumaré shall send a rainbow after the storm And he did. And he still does. It’s hard not to lose hope But giving up is far worse Guard me from the sea Been here for so many years Today I feel adrift My voice, taken by my fears Let me succumb to your embrace, oh my dear mother My land has sunken. The seafloor: my only ship.
11.
Cathedral of Cascades If love and hate are brothers They are both prodigal sons They are close, like life and death And pain is to orgasm Two sides of the same coin It all gathers The earth, the sky, the weather A world cursed to fear The demons nourishing From the lies we created Relentless I dwindle in the charades of my eyes Disrupted and swinging in the void of gentle cries My hair opens a portal, open seal for the immortal I’m no saint and I’m no devil But a vassal of our fate Then open, Cathedral of cascades Nor witches neither sages Can get to the gates of heaven The heavenly depraved In taboos, fight, raging Against a forbidden pleasure Only makes me want it more We were all dismembered in vain patriarchy Your beliefs are the reasons of the bruises on my wrists Than rise among the graces Reminds me that sanity’s a requirement for my kind Cathedral of cascades Of the raped and renegades Everfailure, even sages Can’t get to the gates of hell Canticle of the raged Opulence among the riches Everslumber, even witches Make all paradise burn The demons serenade Cathedral of cascades The chaos immolation Celebration of disgrace We embrace the torments within Cause somethings can’t be erased Don’t fuck with a witch!
12.
Canzone Del Mare (Canção Do Mar) I climbed the peak where my fears and hopes fly Somehow the water has always attracted me Jump or not to jump? To be or not to be? Take my hand, the night is so clear I, the goddess bathed in the moonlight Let time flow through silver tides (Chorus) I behold the sea Just like the water, just like the air I feel, I’m staring at the middle of the night I whisper to the moon; I see the infinity going into me And I dive into endless emotions In eternal oceans I drown The temples of Thalassa Were nereids entwine in dances among Whales and crystal shrines The requiem of coral harps Of dolphins pulling me closer A shell is my carriage A bottomless pit before me And I don’t feel like throwing myself down A whole existence under my feet No suffering here but I, the goddess bathed in the moonlight Let time flow through silver tides (Chorus) Drops of dew sparkling From the depths of my mind Shards of soul walking slowly To the sea I live to hide (Chorus) In eternal oceans I will drown

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“Amphitrite: Ancient Sanctuary In The Sea” intends to be a round-the-world voyage in 12 songs as it borrows a lot from Folk Metal, but not only the Celtic folk style that is already so traditional in Metal. Ethnic elements and instruments from around the world are being used to contemplate various cultures and folklores. From the Scandinavian Nyckelharpa to the unique sound of Middle Eastern music, to Japanese traditional instruments to Brazilian and African rhythms that gave inspiration to samba and capoeira. Between all this celebration of cultural diversity, there is a soundscape inspired by New Age music, Enya, effects and vibrations that resemble the sea, the melancholy of the ocean and unexplored sanctity of the seabed, but of course not losing the epic, majestic and heavy sound Ruins of Elysium is known for. If in our previous album, Seeds Of Chaos and Serenity, the universe and outer space were the connection between stars, galaxies and worlds, in Amphitrite the sea is the connection between the various worlds in our own world. And, following the tradition of Ruins Of Elysium in celebrating female and LGBTQ icons, nothing more appropriate to name this adventure than a pagan sea Goddess: the Greek Goddess of the oceans, Amphitrite.

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released January 15, 2021

Mixed and mastered by Vincenzo Avallone in Deep Water Recordings
Guest vocals by Melissa Ferlaak, Föxx Salema, Rayssa Monroy and Zaiiah
Music and lyrics by Ruins Of Elysium (and Zaiiah on track 10)
The Elysian Choir: Drake Chrisdensen, Marshelz, LuíZa Maria, Laís Azevedo, Rayssa Monroy
Artwork by The Art of Sabrina Schmitt. Photos by Anna Fernanda

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Epic Symphonic Metal with operatic Tenor vocals

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