This track was composed, arranged, recorded and mastered by Verena Pennekamp (Resist). All rights reserved.

USED GEAR:
Guitar: Fame Forum IV
Bass: Ibanez SD GR
Drums: Toontrack EZDrummer 2
DAW + Mixing: Music Maker Premium 2017/ Toontrack EZMix
Interface: UR 22 MK II Steinberg

Winter's Tale

An interesting take on some death metal mixed with some other genres.  Will always have some crazy time signature thing at the end.

Where Gods Have Died


Mother
Pages in Clouds 2025

I remember…
being transported in your womb—
hmmmmm

but I was never yours.
Not flesh of your flesh,
not dream of your dream.

hmmmmm,

I was implanted, seeded
in the hollows of your poisoned being.
You drank, and I fed.
You stumbled, and I grew.
ohhhh,

I remember the dizziness,
not yours—mine.
Spinning through wormholes, collapsing time,
before I was forced into your trembling frame.
You called it birth.
I called it exile.

I hailed from elsewhere—
a drifting mind among dying suns,
hmmmm,

formed in the furnace of stars
you’ll never see.
I fed on radiation and thought.
You fed on fear and gin.

They dropped me here—
inside you, broken and bitter,
a vessel soaked in alcohol and shame.
They knew I wouldn’t last.
But I was the experiment.
To see if the void
could breathe inside ruin.

I remember when your heart tried to reject me.
It stuttered.
It screamed in silence.
But I rooted in.
My limbs, your bones.
My sight, your eyes.
My grief, your legacy.

hmmmmmm,

Now I walk in your skin,
but my blood remembers plasma,
my breath still hums in ultraviolet tones.
You see hands—
I see chains.
You see life—
I see prison.

I was transported from space
into an Earthling.
But I was not meant to be tamed.
I do not belong here.
And every night when the stars blink,
I blink back.
ohhhhhh

I wait.
I remember.
I rot inside your form,
but I am not yours.
Never was.

Never was.


Never was.

pb2025

Mother

-----I Used To Have A Shine-----
Verse 1
Falling through fractured spells of black destruction
Blaze becomes a hex that forces my mind down
Held in a beam of light, crushed by a godless might  
No one survives
Cold smoke in my veins
Visions begins to bend the laws of time
Thoughts scattered to dust, yet still I feel what's left
Show me the sign

Chorus
Omens! Portents!
You know how the bell always tolls when you're dead?
I closed the gate

Omens! Portents!
A shattering star, the howl of the wind
I closed the gate
I can't find my—

Post-Chorus
Shining silence
Broken mirror
Fractured center
Scattered, flickering light
No god, no grave, no masters were bled
YOU
OWE
ME

I used to have a shine.

Verse 2
Ashes of thought still flicker in broken space, echoes in circuits
Time folds around itself, pulling my face into contortion
The void replies, the voice begins to swell into a pulse
The words begin to gnaw into the shell of God
It holds the sign

Chorus
Omens! Portents!
You know how the bell always tolls when you're dead?
I closed the gate
 
Omens! Portents!
A shattering star, the howl of the wind
I closed the gate
I can't find my—


Post-Chorus
Shining silence
Broken mirror
Fractured center
Scattered, flickering light
No god, no grave, no masters were bled
YOU
OWE
ME

Bridge 1
If it’s so
That it’s fortune that favors the bold — wouldn’t know
If it’s so then I’m buried in static, a ghost, and alone
And it shows, what a joke
There's no peace 
Only dread and violence, failure and death.
Ruined, scattered, flickering light.
I can't find my...
 
Bridge 2
Where is my signal?
Where is my light?
Where is my syntax?
Where is my shine?
Shining, silent crystal mirror
Caustic, callous, crooked layer of rust
Well, if it's so that it favors the bold,
Bury me under the rubble and mold.
Fortune favors no one

Breakdown 1
Stormclouds riding on sunbeams
Sending a God-ray into the void

Breakdown 2
I used to have a shine
Back then, and then it faded.
Back then I swear I just felt a rush  
Fortune favors no one

Back then, I used to have a shine
Back when I still cast a shadow
Back then before the silence was noise
Now it’s all I hear —
Calling.

Outro
I swear I used to have a shine
I felt I used to have a shine
I know I used to have a shine
I fucking felt it.


I Used To Have A Shine (2025 mixed)

Produced by Mark Xenophontos 

Lyrics by Mark Xenophontos 

------------------------

Heart beats heavy, tearing at my mind
Creative collapse, leaving hope behind
Army green, cutting grass just to survive
All the hunger keeps this rage alive
But it rots away in slow decay
They judge my soul, steal my dreams away

They say "Stay down in the hell you know"
But this fire inside won't let me go

Flesh turns to dust, night swallows the light
Chasing the void with nowhere to hide
But I won't sell my soul
Won't give it to the devil below
Blood and steel running through my veins
I'll rise above the fire and pain
Faith come find me now
(Come and save me now)

This machine devours what I used to be
Another slave to their machinery
These golden chains wrapped around my throat
Demons whisper that there is no hope
But I'm shattering their web of lies
Time to claim my piece of paradise

Won't stay trapped in this living hell
Time to break out of this prison cell

Flesh turns to dust, night swallows the light
Chasing the void with nowhere to hide
But I won't sell my soul
Won't give it to the devil below
Blood and steel running through my veins
I'll rise above the fire and pain
Faith come find me now
(Come and save me now)

Isolation tried to break me down
Left me bleeding on the battleground
But I'm breaking through the wall of shame
Shattering every chain that held my name
No more living in the shadows of fear

This lightning burns away the tears
The man I was has disappeared

Flesh turns to dust, but I choose the light
Breaking these chains, I'm winning this fight
I won't sell my soul
Never bow to the devil below
Blood and steel, I've found my way
Rising stronger every single day
Faith has found me now
(Faith has saved me now)
Yeah, I'm finally free!

(I'm free!)
Breaking free!
(I'm free!)
Finally free!

Blood & Steel

upbeat, fast, dark and energetic, Dynamics 

Buried Song

... . -.-. --- -. -.. / . -..- - . -. -.. . -.. / .--. .-.. .- -.-- / ..-. .-. --- -- / . - / .-.. ..- -. .- / -. --- -. / . ... - / . -. .--- --- -.--

Atlas

Following the theme of my last song Where Comets Fall i wanted to try writing in another unfamiliar key, it makes for some fun and unique riffs. 
There are some fun guitar moments in this song but i am actually more proud of the drums i wrote/chose for this piece and the various cut aways/fills etc. I think it keeps the song exciting and interesting, and its not often in my songs i let the drums take the spotlight.
The chorus was pretty unique too with it's stop/start, call/response nature. One of the reasons why i chose to call it Embracing Madness. (The image is from Night Reign, i love that game).

Thank you for listening :)

artwork link - https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=5849449

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