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From the Ashes of a Wasteland

by The World Within

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    Jewel case, 12-page booklet, with artwork by Anna Armona and pages designed by Joni Teppo

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1.
Fireborn 07:49
Hush, be quiet Don't awaken a sleeping bird In due time the phoenix will Rise From the ashes of its own grave From the shallow soil From the gloomy grey Demise Read my mind and burn yourself now To survive this night To be young again In fire The story begins and it ends The will of the Fireborn always transcends Desire To tame the blazing guide To restrain the phoenix inside Can't stay in this mire I follow the fire To build new empire My bridges are burning with me Resurrection Through self-immolation Injected with passion I'm ending this part of my life Listen to the wind Do you hear the coming voice In due time the whole world shall Burn In the heart of evolution Praise the healing flame Opening your eyes Turn Your escape into revival Meet the scarlet dawn In another shape Hide In the hands of immolation From the cryptic stare Of the wanderer Death Is your way to stay alive and To forget the frames Of the fleeting past Wreath Is the crown of your salvation Take it for a while To get out of here
2.
Yesterday is dead To renew it is to fall By the bloody hand The dynamics take it all This round should end, I need to start another one These barren lands are gonna see my setting sun Before they finally die Stay where you are, don't follow me The point of no return is here I'm lost and found in foreign place And all I was is now erased No return From where I am Stranger to all I knew is me The sun is setting All turns grey Oh, just take me out of this day There's no return I'm moving on In this pit I just curse my own intentions That caused my presence here It's not supposed to be Waiting for nothing special I shall inearth this day The night goes on I have been here for too long The myriad points of no return In this direction make me turn Into the stranger to myself Wherever I decide to dwell Out of this day Just let me out
3.
Come to me I'll breathe an artificial spring Into your heart I guarantee You will admire My intricate brainwashing art The pseudo comfort I will provide you with I'll give you hope I'll give you rope I'll give the comfort ground to your knees You ask me if this world is really dead Why do you wonder? There's no need to understand Listen to another tale of our creation And let me guide you to the cult of aberration Blessed with drivel and the grand indoctrination You are craving for the cult of aberration Follow me I'll show you what hypocrisy Is all about I'll set you free You'll have to see The world where foolishness abounds The sacred lunacy Is what I'll put into your mind Tame your own fright I'm on your side Just take my hand, it's gonna be alright Never let me down Or I will make you drown Replace and be replaced Swallow and follow Worthless is your faith My guiding hand is what you need You're just the void without it Praise the savior stuck in the womb of drivel Holy hunters of non-existing evil Follow me, I'll guide to the nothingness I need you here until your final dying breath
4.
I fall asleep And something weird occurs I face the things I slayed and buried Long-long time ago I’m in too deep Can’t open up my eyes to make it end And ease this night Depths of my memory deny this How could it look so real? It can’t be true, it’s just a dream What’s gone is back to me this night My eyes are closed, but not my mind Horrors gathered in this vision Came united in collision Die! Just like before Your time is out And you are no more Now! Go where you came from God of the darkest and dead in me I won’t pray to you My sleep Is where it all goes on I face the things I slayed and made them Gone long time ago I’m in too deep Can’t open up my eyes to make it end And ease this night Depths of my memory deny this I cannot leave this dream My mind has locked me here Lost in the world within I beg the sun to wake me I want to leave this dream My mind has locked me here Lost in the world within I beg the sun to come
5.
Sudden return of the morning star Awakes a feeling that something's wrong That something's gone too far Incarnation of chaos is getting too strong The breath of time will devastate The sphere of all the worries Now you are gonna sit and wait For resurrection of the buried stories Tonight the world is not the same Don't hide your eyes, you have to see This void is shouting out your name Through the mouth of treachery I am detached From everything related to the days When it all happened Now I am far from being the one I used to be But still strong is the connection Between me and the ghost of yesterday Silence shall return To crush and burn To subdue the fortress of concern Silence shall come back Painting world in black Weaving barbed wire around a neck The whole world is in muted state Injected with the cynical wisdom Spreading like a plague Through the weakened kingdom The storm will come to shake the life Based on the cycled slumber Looking for a sacrifice Obsessed with an aim to be torn asunder Your expectations were your maze The cemetery of your hopes The crystal wall before your face Distorting your intended course Once again I'm face to face With the withered days of mine Feels like I'm still in touch With the ghost of yesterday Gone but still alive It chases me, I'm deaf and blind tonight Silence shall return To crush and burn Silence shall return To crush and burn To subdue the fortress of concern Silence shall come back Painting world in black Weaving barbed wire around a neck Changes shall arrive To reign and thrive To bring back a meaning to a trembling life Changes shall appear And you will hear All the sounds outside your hollow sphere
6.
The world I'm in Feels like a massive cage I'm stuck within A puppet on a stage I want to hide To be invisible But it's denied So irresistible The things around Rape my tranquility These lifeless ground Knows no serenity The panic speaks When I am lost for words When safety leaves I wonder If I’m Marching Under the flag of self-destruction Am I marching Under the flag of self-destruction And who’s to blame? From different sides Disorder’s coming on I run and hide When I just must be strong The darkness stays Erasing what I am The trembling slays My calm like it’s a lamb The silence’s wrecked And cannot be repaired This place is cracked But I was not prepared The den of mine Is also so unsafe So many times I’ve wondered If I’m Marching Under the flag of self-destruction Am I marching Under the flag of self-destruction What makes my way? I need to drown myself in silence To get out of here Wake me up from this nightmare raised from violence Just set me free I am marching…
7.
Spring 04:11
Choking flow of hours A trap An unbroken leaden mass I dived in, blind to the consequence And the light of life (that) in me was dying fast My self-abhorrence would drive me toward the dark The way felt but perfect so I stayed With grim Hades as my sought patriarch With sweetest dreams of no more light of day Direction sealed and mine Serene in devastation But something died inside Perception shift I see my spring Black waves subdued to carry me ashore I woke to a hope that I’m pursuing All still unclear but this only thing - Darkness - I won’t surrender to it Black waves subdued to carry me ashore I woke to a hope that I’m pursuing All still unclear but this only thing - I will stand tall Plague relieved A vortex flooded with moonshine A dive to the stream of life
8.
Brought into the world So innocent and clean Until the moment The bleakness had stolen you Let the weakness grow Keep blaming the world For your helplessness It surely deserves to die Behold! Artificial feeling Spreading around Sucking dry the empires Let it go on Behold! The harm is done But let's bury the words The reason must be unknown No, that's not for me It's not where I should be I'm just the stranger here This time we walk this road apart Oh, don't come closer Just stay where you are! That’s not for me It's not where I should be I'm just the stranger here This time we walk this road apart Oh, don't come closer Just stay where you are Weakness breeds weakness Safety is gone Only grief remains Injection is done Lying and bleeding Suffocating one by one Sharing the anguish Salvation shall come to none Behold! Artificial feeling Spreading around Sucking dry the empires Don't stop it now Behold! The savior is dead Let's bury him with all the words The reason must be unknown
9.
So many roads I used to know So many roads I’ll see And one more bridge to burn The brightest flame I’ve ever seen I used to die so many times Before I found my way And all the pain I used to try Became my flame Maybe sun, maybe moon Light it up all the way All I know - it shall burn There will be nothing to save Whatever heals the bloodred wounds There'll always be one more unhealed Farewell white-cold and ancient moon I keep your light, I flee as wind Be the morning sun And you will not burn Just to see the dawn Of the newborn day Sacrificed and bleed Waiting to be healed I’ll take what I need Just the way you did I won’t stay the same When I end this way Nothing but my name Will be saved I’m not scared, not this time There are things not to save I must leave this behind Let it burn
10.
Emberland 04:49
Us, Still naked, weaving a thin blue cosmos With suns to see deep under our skin Lifelines coincide to form but a point on a sine wave The gauze of our strengths is for our frailty too thin This is us Abandoned sons and daughters Of a volatile element, howling under the curse of reason Cold screams buried in our lungs, incautious Breathing firewinds Born to carry all that is Till it isn’t Should The three of us at once Look each other in the eye, rediscover Communication, quench the inner star? Or leave the gates of truth ajar? Abandoned All wished away, burned by the sun Still naked Atomic winds howl close Ice at the top of our lungs

about

The World Within is the international melodic metal band founded by Joni Teppo and Slava «Hadfes Oblivion» - the Finnish and Russian musicians respectively. In 2014 their strong intention to make a song together just for fun was followed by the act of creating the band.

When the first original song of the project called «The Candles» was written and the musicians started tracking it, Russian singer Igor Plotnikov was asked to record the clean vocal parts for it. After providing the song with the vocals, he joined The World Within as a full-fledged member. After releasing the single «The Candles» the same year Joni, Slava and Igor started writing the new songs for the first The World Within’s full-length album.

The next year the geography of the band became even wider when American drummer Kevin Tutaj joined The World Within and the musicians kept working on the songs already as the quartet.

In 2018 The World Within is finally ready to present their debut full-length album «From the Ashes of a Wasteland» to the world outside their band. The style of the album may be described as symphonic melodic death metal with the elements of many other genres. The fans of Wintersun, Ensiferum, Frosttide, Kalmah and Norther may find themselves liking The World Within’s music as well.
Instead of belonging to the certain geographical area The World Within is uniting the cities Nivala, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Las Vegas.

credits

released July 2, 2018

Joni Teppo - harsh & clean vocals, guitars, bass
Igor Plotnikov - clean vocals
Hadfes Oblivion - guitars
Kevin Tutaj - drums

Additional backing vocals in «Spring» and «Emberland» by Amari Satsu

Artwork by Anna Armona
Logo by Ethan Grierson

All music and lyrics by THE WORLD WITHIN except for:
«Spring» & «Emberland» - lyrics and co-arrangement by Amari Satsu
«Nothing to Save» - lyrics by Anastasia Ratkevich & The World Within

Written and recorded between 2014 and 2018
Mixed and mastered by Joni Teppo

Kevin Tutaj's Drum Endorsement:
D’Addario-Promark Drumsticks,
Evans Drumheads,
PureSound Snare Wires,
Soultone Cymbals,
Roland Co. Avid,
Alternate Mode-DrumKat

THE WORLD WITHIN thanks:
Amari Satsu, Leon Relentless, Alice Prismitskaya, Anastasia Ratkevich, Anna Armona, Ethan Grierson, Giza, Lucifer Bathory, Igor Nikolaev, Rudi Wolff, Ksenya Gervas, Daria Kirianova, Maahzur Phalmorg.

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