Song #1 of the prog metal album Within the Depths, a dark sci-fi themed concept album about a lone astronaut struggling with madness and his own impending doom after an extinction event on earth leaves him as the last man alive.

Within the Depths

What Lies Below

We Shall Have to Learn

We Shall Have To Learn

From the Album, We Shall Have to Learn.  Track 2- based on George Orwell's 1984

The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen

From the album, We Shall Have to Learn.  This song is from the perspective of a centurion in Caesar's Thirteenth Legion who is about to cross the Rubicon and engage in civil war.  A true believer in his cause, he comes to doubt his decisions...

The Die Is Cast...

Track 4 from the album We Shall Have to Learn.  Song is about an unknown force that crashes into Earth, causing catastrophe and a bizarre warping of peoples' minds, shattering their perceptions and sanity...

Planetary Wheel Train

Track 5 from the album We Shall Have to Learn.  Song continues story of Planetary Wheel Train.  Having their minds warped by an unknown entity, all of mankind has an uncontrollable compulsion to return to the sea, to where all life began, to where something eldritch and ancient awaits, to where they will become something greater, within a drowning dream...

Within A Drowning Dream

Track 6 of album We Shall Have to Learn.  Song is about the tortured spirits of the Roman soldiers massacred in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.  After being betrayed and slaughtered, their spirits now "bathe in suffering" and vow vengeance on the descendants of those who sealed their fate.

Arise, Dark Spirits of the Forest!

Song 7 of the album We Shall Have to Learn.  A profoundly sad song about loss, regret, and emptiness.

Just Like Always

Arcadian Extinction

Track 9 of We Hall Have to Learn.  A romping instrumental track!

The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen

CrowsVsRavens

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