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Spectacle of Tragedy (2023 Full​-​lenght album)

by VELIAN

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1.
Spectacle of Tragedy The intricate art of selfless love Is the irony of the spectacle Perform your heart out beyond and above To receive the applause of the indifferent The curtains fall, the stage is set for your betrayal! Stab me with the knives of treason Tear my heart out with a deadly touch Don’t give me no motives, no reasons Just lie that you love me much The words “I love you” hold no meaning Beyond the curtains of duplicity Ice cold soul with amputated feelings Stabs a dagger with unreal serenity The theater of fallacies and lies Your facade of care and dedication Hides your inner haunting cries Screaming for salvation The curtains fall, the stage is set for your betrayal! Stab me with the knives of treason Tear my heart out with a deadly touch Don’t give me no motives, no reasons Your play I watch in dismay Stab me with the daggers of deception Slay the feelings and romance in inception Don’t bother your conscience is gone Play your part- I will die alone Just tell me when you’re done
2.
For Eternity 03:36
For Eternity In the spirit of loneliness We thrive Denying togetherness We fight Crumbling down and down, down and down There is nothing left to say You cannot change my way I’m heading where you cannot see me crawl I’ve lost my inner light I’ve given up the fight I scream but no one seems to hear my Call I fall And I still remember Your touch The wounds of my failure Hurt so much I drag you with me down and down, down and down There is nothing left to say No one can change our way We’re heading where you cannot see us crawl I’ve lost my inner light You’ve given up the fight We scream but no one seems to hear us Call We fall The fall precedes the winter’s whip Floating leaves and then the icy grip The darkest season is upon us now The shallow waters, they invite us down There is nothing left to say No one can change our way We’re heading where you cannot see us crawl I’ve lost my inner light You’ve given up the fight We scream but no one seems to hear us Call We fall
3.
Sin Eater 04:39
Sin Eater He’ll eat this putrid meal Of his own free will He’ll swallow down the rotten pill He’ll take it all away The price of all he’ll pay He’ll take away my soul decay The burdens of the fallen race, He’ll take the pain of our disgrace He’ill take our pain away A bitter, rancid mouthful of pain He’ll take a bite of the shame and disdain He gives us right to give up the fight, to abandon the path the most difficult path In our minds we’re always right, We never care of the aftermath When the weight pulls us down And we’re about to drown He’ll give us the helping hand The drowning humankind Already mad and blind We pull him down as we try to climb The burdens of the fallen race, He’ll take the pain of our disgrace He’ll take our pain away A bitter, rancid mouthful of pain He’ll take a bite of the shame and disdain He gives us right to give up the fight, to abandon the path the most difficult path In our minds we’re always right, We never care of the aftermath The burdens of the fallen race, The sin eater will take away He will take our pain away A bitter, rancid mouthful of pain The sin eater swallows the shame He gives us right to give up the fight, to abandon the path the most difficult path In our minds we’re always right, We never care of the aftermath
4.
Waiting in Silence In this silent night the moon shines in your eyes In this lonely night I see your eyes in the sky Nothing else that matters now that I’m with you And there’s nothing in this world that’ll make me leave you I fight to stay afloat I fight to live again But the memories of old they surface now and then And when they do, I start to live in such denial I know I lost you, but my mind is such a liar We are forever young, we are forever young In my mind I’m always there for you I deny the things I can’t undo Waiting in silence For you to come down, to give me a hand, to give me a frown Waiting in silence For you to decide I want to see you again and the fire in your eyes Waiting in silence I lay on the grass overwhelmed and aghast What if I never cross this void empty and vast if I never feel your warmth in my embrace What if I never feel your lips caressing my face We are forever young, we are forever young In my mind I’m always there for you I deny the things I can’t undo Waiting in silence For you to come down, to give me a hand, to give me a frown Waiting in silence For you to decide I want to see you again and the fire in your eyes Waiting in silence
5.
Funeral 04:03
Funeral I see you standing there, ephemeral The most perfect version of you I reach and grasp nothing but air Could this be really true I’m dreaming again then I’m not And I can’t seem to comprehend This reality’s too painful to bare Its marks will never mend Handful of dirt after handful of dirt Our years are slipping by Handful of dirt from the cold and barren earth On your eternal prison- good night Handful of dirt after handful of dirt The memories of your life Handful of earth, and no hope for rebirth This is not enough for goodbye I see you standing near Then you disappear Is this all a vision in my head I take a long breath Then I remember I remember that you are dead Sometimes in utter regret I seem to forget Your touch, your smile and your face This hurts more than anything, more than anything You’ll be gone without a trace Handful of dirt after handful of dirt Our years are slipping by Handful of dirt from the cold and barren earth On your eternal prison- good night Handful of dirt after handful of dirt The memories of your life Handful of earth, and no hope for rebirth This is not enough for goodbye In this barren earth I lay you down You’ll sleep forever without a sound Without a smile, without a light in your eyes Which were bright as the morning sky Bright as the morning sky Handful of dirt after handful of dirt Our years are slipping by Handful of dirt from the cold and barren earth On your eternal prison- good night Handful of dirt after handful of dirt The memories of your life Handful of earth, and no hope for rebirth This is not enough for goodbye
6.
Star of Mine 03:43
Star of Mine In a time forgotten and erased in books Lived a man who hunted in the darkest woods So brave he stood against the tides of time He was truly divine Until one faithful day he fell in love As he was gazing at the sky above He saw the glitter of a lonely star Between the clouds it shone afar And in this moment his whole being Was overwhelmed by the desperate desire To be together with his beloved one Up there in the sky, to shine above the clouds Shine over me in my quest to find A path to you I’m roaming blind Give me the strength to vanquish time So I can hold you Star of mine So he set out on his lonely quest He roamed the lands at his heart’s behest He climbed the mountain side to find a way For the first time he was afraid That he will never find his love That all his strength is not enough Shine over me in my quest to find A path to you I’m roaming blind Give me the strength to vanquish time So I can hold you star of mine Then he reached the end of the road There was no latter, nor stairs, nor walls He could not climb to reach for his star So he stands forever gazing afar Shine over me in my quest to find A path to you I’m roaming blind Give me the strength to vanquish time So I can hold you love of mine Shine over me in my quest to find A path to you I’m roaming blind Give me the strength to vanquish time So I can hold you star of mine
7.
Reduced to Irrelevance On the silent shores of the endless sea She was shedding the last of her tears She arrived to the end Her life was all spent She left all the fear And slowly disappeared In the lonely fields where nothing grows Where all the forgotten, forsaken mourn The loss of their love the doom of their faith They crave for life as they fade away into nothing The vortex spins round and round Nothing Slowly she is falling down Into nothing She crumbles fast in the vastness of the Nothing Through the storm she falls as the darkness calls She sees the flame and the lightings She hears the roar of the thunder She loses direction, and conscience, and thought as she falls Her whisper echoes in the empty halls Transgressions, sins, mistakes unforgotten The burden of the past weighs down as she’s cast In the vast and ever-growing void of nothing The vortex spins round and round Nothing Slowly she is falling down Into nothing She crumbles fast in the vastness of the Nothing Through the storm she falls as the darkness calls She sees the flame and the lightings She hears the roar of the thunder Transgressions, sins, mistakes unforgotten The burden of the past weights down as she is cast In the vast and ever-growing void of nothing The vortex spins round and round Nothing Slowly she is falling down Into nothing She crumbles fast in the vastness of the Nothing Through the storm she falls as the darkness calls She sees the flame and the lightings She hears the roar of the thunder She’s in the flame she’s a lightning She crumbles down, she falls under
8.
Beacon of Hope My heart breaks When I witness the hate- humanity’s disgrace I grow cold To the lies of our leaders- our future they sold Nothing will break me down I will swim to the shores of my promised ground Nothing will take me down Deep in my heart determination I found This feeling I get when my mind is set When I know I’ll keep fighting till my last breath This feeling I find is a righteous sign That my eyes are open and I’m not blind And I suffer as I walk the mile I see the future shatter And I yell to the masses running blind under their corruptive spell But nothing will break me down With my bloody bear feet I will walk the barren ground Nothing will lead me astray I am here to stay, my anger will not go away This feeling I get when my mind is set When I know I’ll keep fighting till my last breath This feeling I find is a righteous sign That my eyes are open and I’m not blind The shiver I get when my eyes are set on a goal so noble it protects me from cold The power of my fate in humanity won't fade And I will preserve it- it will show me the way This feeling I get when my mind is set When I know I’ll keep fighting till my last breath This feeling I find is a righteous sign That my eyes are open and I’m not blind
9.
One by One We Fall Waiting for the black void to call Cursing, screaming one by one we fall Another night brings the darkest tide in the fading light Another wave of death upon the brothers of mine Who is the real enemy who causes all this loss, we pay the cost Who is the one condemning us to this horrendous pain, we die in vain Waiting for the black void to call Cursing, screaming one by one we fall To survive this war, you must realize that you’re already dead To be brave enough to stand tall in the face of death To inspire the change, to be aware that you’re not alone, you’re not alone To rip and tear and to beat despair, until the enemy’s gone, you’re not done Waiting for the black void to call Cursing, screaming, and fighting, we fall Waiting for the black void to call Cursing, screaming one by one we fall
10.
The Voyage 04:28
The Voyage Light is fading And I dream awake of places I’ve never been to but my spirit wants to see my spirit wants to fly free Far into the fantasy so real I fly and flying into the sky I glide to meet the night to burn it with my light so bright I fly into the sky Nothing lies ahead My journey seems like it never ends It is eternal My wings have lost their feathers My wings cannot carry my weight In a nightmare I fly in the blackened sky And screaming I fall The pain is tearing my soul I wake up in tears The joy consumed by fears My wings are burning down I'm falling on the ground It hurts, when dreams reality desert Light is dying and I am awake, I'm crying Banging on the walls I live to see the fall of my, my long endured selfish pride My wings have lost their feathers My wings cannot carry my weight In a nightmare I fly in the blackened sky And screaming I fall The pain is tearing my soul My wings have lost their feathers My wings cannot carry my weight In a nightmare I fly in the blackened sky And screaming I fall The pain is tearing my soul
11.
November Farewell ‘Tis the season of the mist again The sun shines no more It’s forgotten by the tired land The artist paints with a palette of gray And brown and yellow, and red And the fallen leaves are damp and moist and wet Where did you go, did you hide in the fog? Just like the summer you left in the fall Time heals the wounds but time does not fly back After all the lights are spent night is always black! The cliffs are wet by the tears of the rain The sky meets the sea, a wall painted in grey… And the storm descends on me Where did you go, did you hide in the fog? Just like the summer you left in the fall Time heals the wounds but time does not fly back After all the lights are spent night is always black! Where did you go, did you hide in the fog? Just like the summer you left me in the fall Time heals the wounds but time does not forgive In the absence of tomorrow in the past with you I live!

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VELIAN are:
Ivan Ivanov - Vocals;
Dilian Nedev - Guitars, Keys;
Antonio Mitov - Bass;
Velizar Bolchev - Drums.

Audio - produced by VELIAN, mixed and mastered by Dilian Nedev
Cover Art - Ina Astardjieva
Art Designer - Nikolas Petras
Photos - Viktoriya Vucheva

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released January 20, 2023

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VELIAN Sofia, Bulgaria

The band Velian is the brainchild of five very well-known musicians on the Bulgarian metal scene that have been part of acts such as Wartime, Fanagoria, PhyX and Progression. Some publications in the Bulgarian press called it a “true underground super-group”.
The band’s concept and its message are related to the destructive materialism, the lack of values of our society and way of life.
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