Prepare for prog liftoff! Are you ready for Rush: The Next Generation? This exciting new video from Crown Lands shows them playing their newest song live. It’s an amazing performance. We can’t wait for their Fearless album release at the end of March.
As noted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
Crown Lands’ music tells a story inspired by what songwriter Cody Bowles calls “Indigenous futurism.” There’s a science fiction narrative running throughout their catalogue, about an anti-capitalist space hero fighting colonization across the stars. Genre pastiche is a huge part of Crown Lands’ approach, but this feels unique.
Why not explore their back catalogue while you await the Fearless double LP to be released at the end of March 2023?
Catch them live, if you can, because they’re an outstanding duo in concert!
0:00 I. Overture
3:09 II. Begin Transmission
3:52 III. Fearless Awakens.
5:35 IV. Departure
6:53 V. The Journey
9:40 VI. Interfacing The Machine
11:26 VII. Requiem
12:52 VIII. The Battle Of Starlifter
15:32 IX. Event Horizon
I. Overture
I’ve returned
Beyond the realms of light
Yet I see a tarnished world devoid of life
I recall
In the deeps within the void
Of a greed that grips the hearts of mortal men
To the stars
They colonized our worlds
And a vast machine has caged our dying sun!
II. Begin Transmission
Instrumental
III. Fearless Awakens
All around the winded spires
There I did arise
Where the oceans that once churned
The sands replaced in time
All the ones I’ve known and loved
Have passed so long ago
And their distant echoed voices
Trapped within the stone
The imposing fortress
Lines the outer wall
By my hand I swear
I will bring its fall!
Power-hungry tyrants hailing
From a distant star
A disregard for life!
On the worlds eclipsed by war
Trekking down the barren road
To where the great ships loom
Starlifters set to launch
To spell the planet’s doom
Calling ancient wisdom
Present evermore
For my name is Fearless
And this world shall be restored
IV. Departure
Wicked engines wheeling
Through the dizzying abyss
Riding silver flames
Into the great beyond
V. The Journey
Through vast oceans of space
I sail across the stars
To rout the Syndicate
Before the dawning war
Steal into the brig
Encounter the machine
Risking everything
I recognize
The artificial prisoner
Held against its will
Destroying outer worlds
To turn the planets still
Two minds combined into
The integrated whole
Synaptic matrices
I must take control
VI. Interfacing The Machine
Instrumental
VII. Requiem
In the dark
A cold machine
I am
I am lost, but I see
I transcend
This mortal shell
And I await the reckoning
If life is a wheel
Please let it spin…
VIII. The Battle Of Starlifter
We alone command the Starlifters
You will not win this war…
The stellar engine cannot be destroyed
This is the end for you, Fearless
We control the stars
And all the fates of our worlds!
IX. Event Horizon
Event Horizon
Point of no return
Black hole!!
Machine Messiah
One-one zero-zero
Sail into the point
Of no return!!
https://youtu.be/DW9ufgf0ihI
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