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    Recorded and mixed in several excruciating sessions amidst the plague of 2020 and 2021 at Elfo Studio, Tavernago (PC), Italy by Alex Lizzori and FORMALIST.
    Mastered at Elfo Studio by Daniele Mandelli, summer 2022.

    All lyrics by Ferdinando Marchisio.

    "Warfare": music by Michele Basso.
    "Monuments": music by Ferdinando Marchisio & Michele Basso.
    "Selfish": music by Michele Basso & Nicola Casella.

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    Electronics & industrial disturbances by Riccardo Rossi & Michele Basso.
    Cover-artwork concept by Ferdinando Marchisio.
    Band picture by Marta Piroli
    Artworks and graphic layout by Evokaos (Brucia Records)

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lyrics

Arms outstretched towards a waning sun
The memory of what we once called society
A burial between concrete and broken glass
The subway stands silent, devoid of the swarm, now speechless
The ghost of consumerism floats
Revisiting the gallows of a long lost dignity
I remember the flames touching the sky
The wasteland of our values
A vast grave with a million views
Like broken dolls we lie scattered
Our dreams absorbed through the cracks of a sidewalk
Through the ashes of meaningless monuments
We’ll dance in circles

Woke slips into deep sleep, coma
Reason collides with ego-neurosis
Servants of a crooked scheme, deployed
Massive disillusion turned agitation
From the sewers to the elysian fields, backwards
Catharsis through broken links of the oppressed
Degeneration burns, lies explode
Through the falling monuments we arise

The sun has collapsed
Embrace the aeon of the weaklings
Slaves to the hive-mind
Stand up and suffer
Ghosts of our youth
Won't help the blind to see
Ghosts of our fathers
Won't save us from what's out there

Flood streams from the wayside, drown
Needle enslavement, cattle parade
Bringing down tyrants, uproar
Inner temples crumbling, dismissed
From the gutter to the golden gates, transpired
Uneven counts of murder, scorching defeat
Something to forget, deprivation weighs
Through the falling monuments we arise

Come with me
Behold the tides that darken the sun
Slaves to the grey skies
We inherit a world at the seams

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from We Inherit a World at the Seams, released May 25, 2023
Music: Ferdinando Marchisio/Michele Basso
Lyrics: Ferdinando Marchisio

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The FORMALIST unit was founded in 2014 when long-time associated individuals from the Italian heavyweights FORGOTTEN TOMB [vocals], MALASANGRE [bass & drums] and VISCERA/// [guitars] joined forces with the aim to open new gates to total sonic horrors.

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