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surface / light

by Vertigo Steps

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1.
vertigo dawn 01:52
2.
the hollow 04:35
call of tomorrow revelations here today falls the unwanted truth fails conspiracy. dawn i know you'll try to save me they all want to protect me i can see you'd like to be special i know i'm trying i know you’ll fail as saviour they just want to destroy me in the end you'd wished you'd saved me you know i'm dying cold. end of innocence found the one home for your heart? see yourself in them the ones you condemned deny the strife to define your life
3.
silent bliss 03:52
a sigh wouldn’t be sold attractions too weak feathers, creamfilled dreams and some more gray forever gone now behold this burlesque play virtue of yesterday sealed in a box as a curiosity the stage is everywhere audiences elated inconvenience, an unknown concept preacher blesses us and smiles as he goes to heal the broken souls letters - images from above freedom and peace… all is opened up for our eyes none of us is free otherwise declares the insolent ruler secrets and lies to see tomb of the truth again breathe things we don't know about is impossibility I fall into a sleep to find the rapture silence is a bliss I close my eyes to find and free the captured the beauty in white (I fall into the arms of sweet denial silence's a bliss)
4.
fragile thing on fragile wings (silent song won't be long) lend me tears of foreign years take me down to your lounge and let me kiss our bliss and take me down to your lounge yes it is is it not? lend me tears of foreign years take me down to your lounge this is zero, so zero it can’t be right this is zero, it can’t go down
5.
welcome to my hell, I travel alone in fear a soul trapped in plague, what have I done? a mournful world, sad and divine I regret this life, I despise myself when I go into my world I see my demon hell, welcome pain is wonderful you feel alive in the end my life has gone too far standing on the edge of… the life I’ll never live I died tonight in loneliness and fearfulness welcome, welcome, welcome to my hell I will live in divine with my demon (inside my hell)
6.
and the Fall is here again a blink of an eye I was unbroken inside intruders sneaking in we were happy fools oh we're falling again oh we're falling for good the harder i try to make you see the right more into night we're diving every breath we're takin’ we inhale the bad and obscure air around us and the consequences of this day...? again comes the cold and sorrow all the heavy storms to bury our words in days of vigour in the dark month bright ahead joy and laughter sleep and fade away the memory of life we were happy fools oh we ‘re falling again oh we ‘re falling for good
7.
still we fall apart receding waters empty yards empty our hearts (redemption or deception of man) dreams lingering, lingering separated memories call the days of old intoxicate by the fumes of past hands out of reach weight of the word is gone two hearts two minds too late to bind (will is bending, integrating to Earth) dreams lingering, lingering separated memories call the days of old intoxicate by the fumes of past call the warmth and love infiltrated pain that lasts
8.
helsinki 05:09
jäljet jäätyneet on tiehen joka oli loputon taas kun kohti aamua kuljet chorus: later now, shorter steps something else to forget glimpse of bitter regret dawn, still I feel leaving felt so easy unmistakable thoughts flying of the road, of the way, of the neverending day innocence in the air suddenly blown away chorus: later now, shorter steps something else to forget glimpse of bitter regret later now shadows grow end of it all still unknown figures stand all alone long for home something on our way fatal, collapse so easy and the plan we spoke about, dying their words and their names it's a neverending game color of love still change (and the change is common state) the distant calling of siren of sadness one didn’t turn away at all they all went and seemed to regret everything they had and the song of their days abate now crumbling consistency and smiles return one day? those you were waiting for are long gone sorrow they gave and no hope sickness: prevailing belief spectrum of emotions sadness, blind hate and forgiveness cool breeze after the flames the stream goes on and yet new dawn
9.
far and so unfamiliar you are years - oldest are tainted - we've been apart once i was sure I knew you I only knew someone like you someone like you… someone like you… someone like you…
10.
one for the lady we are pouring saying hello for dearest mother of all tonight love died and our will to live on (we fall) chorus: follows fear and this sorrow our days in the silence are gone the war begins tonight. became a day when love was no longer on our side and unity the only word to despise they have won, day has come for us to move on (they won, day has come)
11.
I had to take part...
12.
13.
we are all our memories that float around like ghosts our mistakes carved ever so deep haunting reminders of human frailty failures beyond grasp our innuendos of fear merge with escapist fantasies of milder, grief struck still-lifes etched firmly within ourselves turning nightmares into daybreak dreaming the shine of reality tiny shards of light chorus: Once the storm has set only bent eyes remain this inner evil laughs charred knees laid to rest winds caress iced faces frowned with harvest of ages wearing the streets ‘breath the mischievous night, its bottomless flair

about

PURCHASE CD: vertigosteps@gmail.com / www.eswlabel.com/vertigosteps/?surface-light,6

random media praise (full reviews can be read on the band's website, see link above):

Metal Rules 4/5
Metal Storm 9/10
Loud! 8,5/10
Infernal Masquerade 88/100
Whiplash! 10/10
Heavy Metal Norway 8/10
Misantropia Extrema 5/5
Imperiumi 8/10
Vaskarc 9,9/10
Metal Imperium 8,1/10
This Is Not A Scene 8/10
Noise fi 4/5
Soundzone 8/10
Infektion 8/10
The Bronze Age 86/100
MPF 9,5/10
Fémforgács 8,8/10

credits

released April 16, 2012

Line-up:
Bruno A - all guitars, keys & programming, loops & samples
Niko Mankinen - vocals
Daniel Cardoso - drums, bass

Guest vocals:
Jan Transit
Stein R Sordal
Patrik Karlsson
Sophie

Music: Bruno A
Lyrics: Niko Mankinen, except "railroads of life", "tonight I died", "nothing at all" & "the porcupine dilemma"

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Daniel Cardoso @ UltraSound Studios (Moita)
Co-produced by Bruno A
Engineered by Nuno Pardal

Artwork & Photography by João Pinheiro
Videoclip for "someone (like you)" by Sigurd Svidal Randal

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Vertigo Steps Lisboa, Portugal

Portuguese / Finnish project, with several renowned guests from Norway, Finland and Sweden. Melancholy, mesmerizing atmospheres, timeless melodies and heavy rock groove. Third album "surface / light" was out in April 2012 - earning huge media reception! ... more

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