Name: Upon Ashen Wings by Unleash The Archers
Duration: 5 min 11 s
Description: Track two from the new EP 'Defy The Skies', released July 2012 on 7" vinyl. The EP is an excellent example of the new direction the band is heading in, consisting of three fast-paced, fist-pumping power anthems that'll get you moving in the mornings. \m/

Deliver Us From Evil

The God Machine

Violent Shadows

Blood Of The Elves

The greed of man will get us burnt just like Icarus

On the Edge (1)

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Shattered Illusions

Reckoning Night

Don't Say A Word

Bible of the Beast

Resurrection By Erection

This is the first single from the 2011 release 'Demons Of The AstroWaste', a 12 track concept album following the exploits of a young mercenary set thousands of years in the future. A ridiculously low-budget music video was created for this song, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK61le0_oEo


Dawn Of Ages

Track one from the new EP 'Defy The Skies', released July 2012 on 7" vinyl.  The EP is an excellent example of the new direction the band is heading in, consisting of three fast-paced, fist-pumping power anthems that'll get you moving in the mornings. \m/

The Path Unsought

Track two from the new EP 'Defy The Skies', released July 2012 on 7" vinyl. The EP is an excellent example of the new direction the band is heading in, consisting of three fast-paced, fist-pumping power anthems that'll get you moving in the mornings. \m/

Upon Ashen Wings

The Eighth Mountain

Rain of Fury

We call on you, metal warriors, to join us on this northern passage through the forsaken wastelands of our world. Take up your frozen steel, carry onward, and listen to the hail of the tide, for tonight we ride for glory. Unite! Test your metal on the flesh of those who would stand against us! There will be no crypt for you at battle’s end, for we live in an age with no more heroes than those that rally as one, side by side to face the dreamcrusher that awaits. Rise with your metal brethren! A million strong we are going down fighting… Bound by honour, bathed in glory, for victory we fly, until time stands still around us. Hail! \m/

Upon Ashen Wings

Unleash The Archers

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