THE STORY OF THE ALBUM 'DEATH EQUALS RELIEF'
The album tells the story of a single universe with distant worlds that do not know about each other's existence, but experience an eerie and related feeling of grief and despair.
Become an observer of nine stories, nine wounds that bleed until the very end. A cosmic catastrophe, a legend of the creation of another world, a scientific experiment that went wrong, a killer intoxicated by the collective mind, and the eternal suffering of wandering planets united by a common cause of their sad fate.
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LOCATION: galaxy Khrit Tem
PLANET: Tiyon (Land Of Sorrow)
The next 300 years will be the last for this galaxy due to absorption by a black hole. Someone is trying to escape, someone is trying to join, someone continues the war with other races and their colonies. The main character is a space pirate, a marauder who robs abandoned planets, as if throwing a feast during a plague and wanting to live the rest of his days in battle and adventure. But before the black hole swallows them all, carrying them into the abyss of agonizing chaos and war, he still decides to destroy his home planet and a powerful conglomerate, as if under someone's influence from outside.
The hero is destroyed by his fate, he always felt oppressive loneliness, but decided to take everything into his own hands, destroying both himself and those responsible for creating such destinies (his roots go back to a deserted prison planet, where life once flourished, but which was mercilessly exterminated). In the end, the ironic narrator, who watches the tragic ending of this story, and it seems as if he saw everything that happened in the first person.
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LOCATION: Milky Way galaxy
PLANET: Earth
The protagonist is an artist, immersed in a pool of dark thoughts, full of despair and grief. It is as if he has lost his connection with life, living in a distorted world, where his broken mind and fantasies weave a single web of hopelessness.
Every soul around is turned inside out and exposes the rotting vault of the true "I", for each person speaks an alien personality, created throughout life.
Because of oppressive thoughts, internal torment, loneliness, anger at everyone around him and himself, he comes to a deep disappointment in life and decides to commit suicide, remaining a prisoner of his looped world of self-condemnation and hatred, where there is no peace, no hope for salvation.
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LOCATION: Oit Daran (Land of the Worshippers)
The last man left in this miserable world torments his soul because of his blind faith. In anger, he brands his god, covers him with contempt, and with a cry of hatred renounces him, although in fact he never existed.
The magic hidden in everyone's chest has the power to create and destroy. The local religion, which has long been entangling everyone with the shackles of control, hiding behind good intentions, exalted its power over the poor souls.
After the merciless world war, an eternal cold began, reminiscent of a nuclear winter, when all feelings and hopes froze. In this silence our hero finds true freedom - he, the last slave of the previous faith, freezes to death, turning into stone, and his soul is finally freed from the jaws of the abyss.
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LOCATION: galaxy Khrit Tem
PLANET: Land of Sabens (FUI-44)
Our hero is the chosen one for a long journey into a world of murder, survival and ruthless fighting, raised from childhood in the ancient religious commune led by their leader, who is recognized as a mediator between the divine and mortals. For five years he wandered, surviving and destroying monsters, until he finally came across an ancient race of humanoids living in a lost cave city. In a fight with one of them, our hero miraculously wins, tearing the "treasure" from his chest during his agony. However, he ends up in a parallel world, communicating with the soul of the murdered, realizing the horror of his actions and his own inevitable dying.
This cult, a remnant of an ancient sect, is ensnared by a parasitic force that perpetuates absurd religious myths crafted millennia ago, ensnaring followers in a web of brainwashing. The ancient race they vanquish is not a threat, but a peaceful community, their monsters little more than beloved guardians. The "treasure" that drives the cult leader is merely a narcotic, leading the hero into a deathly overdose where he glimpses the distant realms of the fourth dimension and their haunting melodies.
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LOCATION: Ayenkaat (Forlorn)
An ancient legend, chronicling the birth of the somber, dark fantasy realm of Ayenkaat, a dominion where monsters roam and magic reigns supreme. In the throes of battle, the ancient god of the cold north and the venerable goddess of winds gave rise to an ill-fated son, burdened by a tragic destiny. Consumed by wrath, Zenithal Overlord obliterated his creators, only to be transformed into ashes that later birthed this land and its tormented denizens.
Each inhabitant carries within them vestiges of those ashes, steeped in malevolent energy. Blood, unlike the usual, is colored in yellow tones, but it is this perishable element that gives life magical abilities, filling this world with amazing, if gloomy, power. Thus, Ayenkaat becomes an arena of eternal struggle between light and darkness, which always prevails.
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LOCATION: galaxy Ojih
PLANET: Tiluno
An attempt to create artificial life, but the experiment did not go according to plan. The government wants to create a weapon that mimics the enemy and destroys it from the inside, an analogue of a living virus, when the immune system does not see the enemy and attacks itself.
In the process of creating new cells, part of the "human" DNA got into the general "cauldron". The new organism has the skills of changing appearance, teleportation, turning into a swarm of molecular dust, endless endurance, feeds on the light of the sun, bulletproof due to the ability to change the molecular structure. But the downside is a high body temperature, if there is no light for a long time, then it ceases to hold the form of any humanoid and disintegrates into dust. Each of these "decay" and "birth" is perceived as death and resurrection, accompanied by all kinds of pain.
At first, the new organism learns to understand and think (that's why the verses of the song are so strange), then it understands its true plan and purpose - to kill and carry out the inhuman commands and desires of some soldier who does this just to move up in the service. Inside the organism, both anger and despair, inherent in people, and an artificial primitive killer instinct fight. Intoxicated with anger, the main character destroys all those guilty of creating it, but wants to know what else is in this world.
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LOCATION: the village Seur
Life in this corner of the universe, fettered by the weight of everyday life, was full of gray but unchanging routine. Little children were looking for adventure in the dense thickets of the forest and came across a mysterious cave. Inside, among the dust and shadows, they found the diary of an old man - the last loner who survived far from human eyes. At first, his writing seemed mysterious and completely incomprehensible, but on other pages the local dialect appeared, albeit illiterately written. At the very end of the manuscript, they found a verse - a spell calling for the transformation of the sky into silver ash, so that this world would avoid the fate that befell the old man's homeland.
Such was the journey of the hero, who, as if pierced by the highest level of magic, crossed the boundless distances, leaving behind him the piercing cry of the dead souls, forever preserving those ancient secrets of time in his past, leaving this world.
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LOCATION: Gray Age land
Every 25 years the world is overtaken by the Black Harvest - burning villages, killing all people who can be reached, looks like a way to show their power and dominance of knights in some armor over ordinary people. Perceived as a punishment from the heavens, gods, a forced sacrifice to live on.
In fact, this is the scientific routine work of people in spacesuits who poison the population like cockroaches, but who always survive. The sky is cut in two - the opening of the "box" where the experiment takes place and the landing of "sanitary service" workers.
Jubel - the intoxicating effect of "poisonous flame" and the ecstasy of death. This word also means a surge of pain that is always repeated. This is both the harvest and the agony of death, which becomes a new rebirth.
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LOCATION: an artificial world
It feels like an execution or an indefinite banishment of the hero, who kills himself with self-destructive thoughts about injustice and misunderstanding the reasons for his more than painful existence. He feels like he is locked in an aquarium without water or, even more clearly, in a cage. The hero feels the gaze of the observers, but does not understand what they expect from him. It seems to him that they revel in his failures, waiting for his self-destruction, while gaining some kind of inhuman pleasure.
Behind the glass, he sees his dark and unhappy second self, initially paying attention to the increasing pain in the eyes of his brother, until he disappears. Then he passes through the mirror, and the voice appears in his head, increasing his hatred and desire to die. The hero understands that they are kindred spirits, and is saturated with this atmosphere of his impending death.
In one of the realities, everything turns white, and the voice disappears, returning self-control. It seems like liberation, but in reality it is an endless post-suicidal emptiness, from which there is no exit, only a bottomless fall. Having realized the fake and trap of consciousness, the hero again feels déjà vu. In the end, he looks into the distance, sees himself in the past, studying the same reflected world. This is an eternal cycle of life and death, a personal hell, into which he fell by his suicide. An artificially created world, where unforgettable artificial voices of agony sound.