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Vertigo Steps

by Vertigo Steps

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Negative, negative So what you’re trying to say? Supposed to get past your Sour-hollow mind anyway As inertia creeps, the hypocritical weeps Someone’s (for)got to tell you It’s the climb, no matter the fall Dehydrate, loosen the uptight grin And it’s hurting my sight… soaking my lungs! A spiral of pain and freedom What I give to you… For all the vultures at my dying bed Uh, is the sky caving in already? Ok, breathe, keep steady! Damned lightbulb’s flashing again but the flies already departed Another crazed wanderer lost amidst all this eerie void All you Pretenders to the Bone Spent life believing an essential lie Without even ever questioning…why? Welcome, please take a ride in my world. Kiss the comatose, pave the delirium All set now, embrace the disease.
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Voyagers of extinction Gathering for Armageddon We reach the closing act The carpet swiftly swept away Blindfolded, fettered, hand in hand Feet hooked, bound in iron chains Babylon’s vision – so the Empires Fall (The skies they mourn – Elegies wailed by winds) As we drift under the swarming process Our heads roll in thunder, is this all that’s left? A prophecy of hatred By terrestrials (was) sown The library of Pain Only mankind could pen …And it’s getting close now Grip tight your terminal scenery The Sun hid, the tides swollen Wave farewell in pointless decadence No space for hesitation No room for resignation Watched you hide your unborn sprouts In the ever-changing house of dolls You’re All so Goddamn Vulnerable All so Goddamn Vulnerable…
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Fire Eaters 04:03
Drifting through misery One day I sought my way Please trust my fair clear hand Leading you each step nearer the mire Walking among us are The Fire Eaters, beggars fallen Walking among us are The Fire Eaters, beggars fallen The whore and the fool applaud. What eventually I found Did not make sense to me With the whole wide world to drown Immersed in apathy And it was so long ago The pain yes she stayed All are welcome in this killing field (Jesus crying where Allah wept Empty capsules on swollen egos… The neverending stream of bygone faces) Shove it down on my funeral Sirens screaming that name The plot is thickening At the ticking of the clock No need to fake the disease I can see it already spreading A spectator of your own remission By the ticking of the clock
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Open your eyes, wide, keep them open Reach for the clouds, mistery’s pilgrins Down above convulses the world Where an impregnable mountain stood, now a gargantuan valley deepens oh deepens… In dreamland freedom exists Divorcing all matter Never to awaken Feigning utopias Disintegrating bodies and the law of Life Opposition by intuition Always the one in reverse The sounds eternally unheard, The untamed moonshine, But dreams, everlasting Everlasting… Inside the fevered pitch Lays the Serpent’s Irony A battle never lost Serpent’s Irony Deep inside the fevered pitch Lays the Serpent’s Irony A battle never lost Serpent’s Irony Pitch black absolute Incarnation of the Nothing Bright morning star Is spawning major upheaval The first light is no more than the visible darkness Stars as the forsaken Abyss children The truth through deceit (allegory and myth) a tainted reality Cast out of Creation A memory long forgotten
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Scarheart 05:05
Where did the battered egos flee to? Forever pushing the sanity envelope You gave us new hope each morrow Still locked us pitch dark at the end of the day Chorus: And I think you know Better than the rest Just what’s this show No time to rest From all bleak roads and empty charades Mirrored footprints leading astray A mind not deemed for this world Numb glimpses of random hollowness Coz’ you see Life is always the saddest of pictures As we exude, seeking strength Where only weakness proudly stands A scarheart through the never Bipolar contradictions or a sad excuse for a brain An angel with the soul of a poet A demon within the madman’s cloak
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(The wound is never too deep… I hate your gruesome smile…) Blood spraying like rain Bodies drop without pain It’s never real, it’s all firework flair Hack the pregnant bitch, erase the senseless cop If I should carry the breath of death Every soul in the room would withdraw The wound is never too deep… I hate your gruesome smile… There is always something lurking in the corners of your mind in the steepness of your kind the girl with the stabwounds behind Limbs flying to shame Though hardly yielding to operating morality The wound is never too deep Yet somehow I loathe your gruesome smile We were all left standing cold They came and set free the flies On our own through the never Another descent of earth dies It’s all so hip, all so bloody gore Now haven’t I seen that a thousand times before? It’s all too hip, so goddamn gore Not ogrish enuff, hell we need more! - Human salvation in the barrel of a plastic gun.
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Pain Inc. 02:33
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The deafening sound Of the raging tempest Is music to my ears And fuel for my soul The quietness it instils in me And the harmony of it all Raise me above the ripples Of meaningless existences (raise me above…) In the eye of the storm …All this chaos makes sense All notes ring true …Awash with sensations intense Though the entire world rages …Barren of mirth and warmth I give you the unravelling of ages …For I’m the I of the storm Sorrow is a part of me I welcome and embrace it For while (all) the world is torn apart I grow stronger... wiser. These concrete forest of grey (That) surround and suffocate us Are all crumbling down ‘neath the awing power of the storm… Oceanos de fúria Rasgam o tempo Almas em lamúria Carregam nuas o pensamento (... no centro da tempestade) Empunho os ventos Enceno a majestosidade No turbilhão encontro refúgio No centro da tempestade (... no olho da tempestade)
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Synapse 06:04
Love cannot be trusted You will not find me here No, love cannot be trusted I am a million pieces Your fingers are all crumbled Your face has turned to stone Tears of agony is all you left for me, I know Define my reason... Let me grow Let me grow Let me know My soul is just a fleshwound Let me grow Take my heart out Rip my soul off Take my heart out Only you know Sorrowfed

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"Discovery of the month! What a peerless debut! A disarming occlusion of a musical year" Lords of Metal

"a pretty ambitious debut that achieves all it sets out to, and then some. Everything is touched upon here, with the band retaining a unique identity" Avantgarde Metal

"Dark yet not quite sinister, VS are on the verge of brilliance" The Metal Forge

"lovely album of Dark Progressive Metal which could be associated to the last Katatonia releases for example... a great start definitely!" Metal Storm

"With an excellent sounding CD, it is hard to believe that this band is not an actual signed recording act. VS are THAT good and they won't be unsigned for long." Sea of Tranquillity

"Writing all the music and handling the guitars and keyboard, Bruno’s talent is impressive... the songwriting very solid and the vocal performance of N. Mankinen very cool" Metal Rules

"it went to my brain as a uranium bullet leaving just steming brain cells. VS isn't the kind of music you can categorize easily with a word or two. I liked it, a lot" Imperiumi

"Instead we are left with what should be a glimpse into a realm where the music has "feeling", instead of being soullessly blurted out at you through your speakers" Chronicles of Chaos

"A exigência de Bruno resultou em um trabalho bem elegante e emocional. Há uma linha melancólica que mantém a coesão e voz do finlandês Niko Mankinen é muito bonita e complementa perfeitamente a proposta" Whiplash

"um dos melhores discos que o metal/rock de combustão emotiva viu aparecer nos últimos tempos!" Loud!

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released June 1, 2008

Music & Lyrics: Bruno A

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

Guest vocals:
Stein R Sordal
Sophie
Rui Viegas & André Vasconcelos

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Daniel Cardoso @UltraSound Studios (Braga)
Co-produced by Bruno A
Engineered by Pedro Mendes

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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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