"Awakenings" - the debut album from Innerverse guides you on symphonic progressive metal path with ethnic moments
With 8 songs to his credit, mixed and produced by Bob Katsionis, it sets sights on one of the strongest beginnings in the history of the Greek music scene...!
BAND INFO
Innerverse is a group founded by Lampros Marantos. Lampros is the main musician and composer of the group. Many of the compositions that appear in our first album - Awakenings, come from a period of many years , composed from 2010 and afterwards. Although the songs vary in style, they can be categorized as Symphonic Progressive metal with ethnic elements. Vasil is Marantos (my brother) also appears as the main Vocalist in the song "The Promise", all the other songs are instrumental. Awakenings is mixed and produced by Bob Katsionis at the Sound Symmetry Studios and the artistic effort took about one year (from September 2023 to September 2024) to complete.
SONG INFO
Lust For Freedom:
This composition is concerned with the concept of freedom both in the indivual as wEll as the collective level. An urge for expansion, to break the bonds with the conformity, to evolve, to rise above the current personal, social, cultural affairs. In a personal level, many times we feel that we are pressursed by our surrounding and relationships. In order to move forward and become more honest in the path of life we have to fight in order to liberate ourselved. The same applies in the collective level.
Source Of Life:
This composition is infused with the spirit of life The dimension within us that knows no boundaries and it's connected with life and infinity. When we put both our feet in the river of life, we feel centered and empowered and we conquer all our fears and accomplish our dreams.
Cry Of Lucifer:
The main idea of this composition is within a mythical / religious concept. The myth of the fallen anger, Lucifer, which was the angel that was expelled from paradise. The cry of Lucifer, is his realization that he is doomed for eternity to rule in his own kingdom of sin and despair, away from the grace of the diving God. Soulless, merciless for ever.
Flight In The Dark:
This composition is about the love affair of a couple. The erotic, mystical bonds that entwine the lovers. They follow their own path., step by step, as their hearts come closer, they share their stories and secrets and let their erotism ascend in the night sky as they become one. In the dark of the night, we listen to their whispers, their hopes and fears.
Fractal Of Loss:
This composition deals with the theme of Loss. Loss of a lover, or a person that is close to us. We experience a fractal of feelings, as we go through the remembrance of past times. It's a process where a part of us also dies, as we need to evolve further. A spiral of emotion leads to our own darkness and light, as we identify within ourselves all the sweet and bitter we shared with our loss.
The Promise:
Promise is about the promise one man makes to his beloved one, that he is going to take care of himself when they will be no longer together.
Ishtar:
Inanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven".
She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main cult center. In archaic Uruk she was worshipped in three forms: morning Inanna (Inana-UD/hud), evening Inanna (Inanna sig) and princely Inanna (Inanna NUN), the former two reflecting the phases of her associated planet Venus.[5][6] Her most prominent symbols include the lion and the eight-pointed star. Her husband is the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her sukkal (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal.
Radical Revolution:
This is a symphonic opera-like piece of music from Innerverse, with avant garde metal elements...The main theme behind the song is to visualize in an orchestration the transcendence between the ages of Pisces to the age of Aquarius...this transition blends elements both from the present as well as the past (ethnic, myths, folklore) in order to represent this grand cycle of the heavens...This transcendence is related from a spiritual perspective with the awakening and evolution of consciousness in an atomic and collective level. This awakening in a social context often happens radically and appears as the clash between old and new world views and flourishing and decaying ideals.
In the coming Age of Aquarius, spirituality becomes more humanitarian in nature, more part of the human collective, less monastic, sectarian and part of holy groups. The music borrows elements from opera, symphonic prog metal and rock, ethnic textures as well as some jazz / ambient elements. As above so below...
"Awakenings" by Innerverse is out and you can find it on all digital platforms!
