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KLOTHO

by ALKIRA

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LIMITED TO 150 COPIES!
    Pre-order your vinyl copy of ALKIRA's sophomore LP KLOTHO. Pressed on classic black wax and featuring a full-colour 2-page lyric insert!

    Includes unlimited streaming of KLOTHO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digipack version of ALKIRA's highly-anticipated sophomore album 'KLOTHO'. Features pullout lyric poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of KLOTHO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Hospice 01:41
UNABLE TO FULFIL YOUR GIVEN PROPHECY RULER OF THE SKY, BUT NOW THE SCAVENGERS FEED KILLING ANY HOPE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO BE THE VULTURES ARE CIRCLING SANCTUM HOSPICE BORN AS A GREAT BEAST TO REIGN OVER THE SKY BUT YOUR POWER NOW FAILS AS YOU’RE CLINGING ONTO LIFE NEW WORLD VULTURES, WAIT FOR YOU TO DIE AS A FINAL DYING LIGHT, KEEPS THE PHOENIX FLAMES ALIVE BUT YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME VULTURES WITHOUT SOLACE, CIRCLE SANCTUM HOSPICE FEATHERS SHED AND YOUR FLIGHT PATH BLOCKED FROM LIFE AND DEATH YOU STOKED YOUR FLAME WITH EVIL FIRES ABUSED YOUR POWER, WHICH BECAME DEFILED ‘TIL YOUR DEMISE STRANDED IN THE DESERT AT WAR WITH DEATH SCAVENGERS FEAST AT YOUR FESTERED FLESH PICKED YOUR BONES FINDING ONLY DUST THE DOOR TO THIS EXISTENCE NOW SHUT IN THE ASHES YOUR FILTH WON'T DIE THE DOOR WILL OPEN AND PHOENIX FLAMES WILL BURN AGAIN
2.
Karmaphala 04:34
WITH EACH PASSING DEED I HAVE PLANTED A SEED ACCORDING THE ACT, BE THE CROP THAT I REAP DESIRES DEFINED BY THE POWERS THAT BE OR IS THAT ENTITY ME? ALL POISONED RIVERS BLEED INTO THE SEA DETERMINING MY DESTINY OUT OF ONE SHELL AND STRAIGHT BACK TO HELL REMEMBER THE MILLIONS I FELLED CAUSE AND EFFECT, STACKING THE DECK PREPARE FOR THE LIFE THAT COMES NEXT KARMAPHALA CURSED TO LIVE AGAIN MY SAMSARA BORN FROM SIN WHAT COMES AFTER? IN ANOTHER SKIN KARMAPHALA MY SAMSARA WHAT COMES AFTER? DESIRE IS MAN’S WILL AS IS HIS WILL IS HIS DEED AND THESE DEEDS HE WILL REAP KARMAPHALA SAMSARA CURSED TO LIVE AGAIN IN ANOTHER SKIN MY EVIL FORMS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE PALE WHEN COMPARED TO THE COMING STORM IN SAMSARA SINCE THE DAWN OF THIS WORLD LIBERATION THROUGH ERADICATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL DOCTRINE OF CERTAIN CONSEQUENCE BREEDS UNHOLY PESTILENCE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL LAST LIFE RISE TO KILL YOU ALL FINALLY FREE OF THE CHAINS ON ME BEGIN A NEW LIFE OF TYRANNY THEY’VE ALL GONE DOWN IN HISTORY BUT THIS TIME I WILL END YOUR WORLD MASS GENOCIDE LAST THREAD SPUN, THE ULTIMATE ONE END IS HERE CAUGHT BY FATE IN A REALM OF HATE SPREADING FEAR BROUGHT, BACK AGAIN, BROKEN CHAINS NOW I ENTER THIS FINAL LIFE
3.
BORN, MALFORMED A FREAK, UNNATURAL SPAWN THALIDOMIDE ONE, PILL, THE INTERNAL WAR IS PACIFIED QUIETS THE MIND, YOU’LL FIND THE PAIN SUBSIDES BUT YOU’RE KILLING WHAT RESIDES INSIDE HEY YOU, THALIDOMIDE KID TELL US AGAIN ABOUT THE PAST LIVES YOU’VE LIVED WE’RE ALL FREAKS, YOU’VE GOT NOTHING TO PROVE IN THE ZOO, WE’RE HERE TO SEE YOU TELLING TALES OF RULING BEFORE I WAS GREATNESS, I FOUGHT FOR THE LORD A BODY BORROWED TO END ALL WE KNOW YET NOW CONDEMNED TO THE FREAK SHOW A KINK IN CLOTHO’S FINAL THREAD APOCALYPSE UNRAVELLING FROM THIS FRAYED END THE LAST LIFE, THE TRUEST TURN, AT HER WILL THIS WORLD WILL BURN THE STRONGEST SOUL, OF THEM ALL, TO REIGN SUPREME AND KILL THEM ALL THESE FIRES, YOU IGNITE UPON THE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT WE’RE HERE, TO SEE YOU ALL THE FREAKS, THEY WILL GO TO SEE THE KLOTHO SHOW WHERE THERE’S CHAOS ALL AROUND GETTING TRAMPLED BY THE CROWD WE’RE HERE, TO SEE YOU EVERY VOICE IS SCREAMING LOUD AND WE’RE DEAFENED BY THE SOUND SEE RED, KILLING VIEW THEY CAN’T FORGIVE THE THINGS YOU DID LAST CHANCE TO LIVE THALIDOMIDE KID A MORTAL SHELL FOR THIS SOUL TO DWELL STRAPPED INTO THIS WALKING CELL SENTENCED TO PROSTHETIC HELL A VESSEL TO ASSIMILATE NOW THIS WORLD WILL MEET ITS FATE
4.
ONCE, THE DRUNKEN BREED GENETIC SUPREMACY REVIVE YOUR REASON TO LIVE SEVERED LIMBS EXPERIMENT DISSECT THE FLAWS OF HUMAN FLESH WITHIN THE BEAST BREWS IMMORTALITY REDESIGN YOUR ANATOMY AND RECLAIM YOUR DIVINITY TRIALLED IN FUGITIVES RIPPING HEARTS FROM THE CHEST OF RODENT PESTS EVOLUTION, XENOTRANSPLANTATION SACRIFICED FOR OUR SALVATION GENETIC SUPREMACY PERFECTING REJECTION DISEASE MADE OBSOLETE SUBHUMAN DISSECTION HUMAN MADE SUFFICIENCY DESTROYING FAITH DEPENDENCY CORRECTING ALL OF HIS MISTAKES, MASTERS OF OUR OWN RACE TAKING THE POWER FROM HIS HANDS TO GIVE TO THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND CLEANSE THE WORLD AND GIVEN HANDS, A NEW REFLECTION OF THE WAY OF MAN GENETIC SUPREMACY PERFECTING REJECTION DISEASE MADE OBSOLETE ALTERED TO HELP SET YOU FREE EXTRACT THE PARTS TO GIVE BACK LIFE BY THE KNIFE, SUPREMACY, INSANITY GESTATION PERIOD HAS TAKEN ITS COURSE THROUGH BLUNT FORCE, INCISION REDESIGN YOUR ANATOMY RECLAIM YOUR DIVINITY GEARS TO FIT THE WAR MACHINE GENE SUPREMACY END WORLD ONCE UNWORTHY, BEREFT NEW WORLD, HARVESTING THE CROP REBIRTH, LAST LIFE BREWED IN A TUBE REVIVAL OF THIS RESTLESS SOUL GENE SUPREMACY
5.
The Null 06:18
MEPHISTOPHELES, HE KNOWS YOUR NAME THE SINS YOU’VE SOLD AND YOU PROCLAIM CORRUPTED SOUL, YOU’RE LOST IN THE MAZE OF THE HE SENSES SELF-DESTRUCTION, POTENTIAL FOR SEDUCTION CORRUPTED SOUL, YOU’RE LOST IN THE MAZE OF THE NULL FLAT-LINED, DEAD IN SURGERY SEPARATION FROM THIS BODILY SANCTITY NO WAY LEFT YOU CAN ATONE ETERNAL STAIN LEFT ON YOUR SOUL THE SENTENCE FOR YOUR TYRANNY THE LIVES YOU’VE LIVED IN INFAMY THE SIGHTS OF TERROR TO BEHOLD, ACROSS THESE PLANES YOU CRAWL ON FLAMES THE NULL KEEPS BURNING SET FIRE TO THE SOUL A PLACE SO MORBID YOU LOSE CONTROL NO ESCAPE BURN IN THE FLAMES OF THE NULL TORMENTED, IMPRISONED, DOWN IN THIS WORLD THE TITANS AND PRISONERS THAT LUCIFER HOLDS ALL YOU IMAGINED OF THIS TORTUROUS ABYSS CAN’T COMPARE TO WHAT THE NULL INFLICTS AGONY, MENTAL, PHYSICAL ABUSE RESTRAINED FOR A LIFE TIME BY THE NOOSE YOU’VE REACHED YOUR CYCLE’S FINAL TURN PHOENIX FLAMES NO LONGER BURN ALL SINS IN LIFE DESERVE PUNISHMENT PROMISE THE THREAT OF ETERNAL TORMENT DESTINATION OF A DAMNED SOUL’S DESCENT LIES TOLD TO KEEP THE SHEEP OBEDIENT THE WORLD OF NULL YOU CALL YOUR HOME ALL TERRORS GONE UNTOLD STENCH OF FLESH ROTS IN SWAMPS ENSLAVED IN THE MAZE AS DEVILS HAUNT RECHAINED AGAIN AS FEAR IT REIGNS NO CARDS TO PLAY ON YOUR FINAL DAY MEPHISTO CRIES “YOU’RE HERE TO STAY” DO A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, SATAN HOLDS YOUR SOUL AND ESCAPE THE NULL FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL UNCHAINED SHE REIGNS
6.
Wilted Rose 05:57
SKIN PORCELAIN WHITE KISSED FROM THE AFTERLIFE PIERCING BLUE GLARE LIFELESS THEY STARE ETHEREAL BEAUTY NOT MEANT FOR THIS WORLD RAVENOUS SMILE DRIPPING AND VILE SYSTEM ANOMALY SUBJECT HAS FAILED CLAW LIKE HANDS SLASH AT YOUR THROAT BEAST CRIES AGAINST THE SKY FIRST WORDS ARE HEARD DON'T LET ME DIE AWAKEN THE GODDESS SO PURE HER PHYSICAL FORM THE ALLURE INSIDE SHE HAS SEEN THAT WHICH HAS NO REPRIEVE SCARS THAT BURN DEEP IN THE NIGHT ONCE THE MAIDEN, THE ARC THE DIVINITY OF GOD WAS LOST IN THE NULL ABOMINATION REBORN ENRAGED REBORN TO WREAK TERROR DESTRUCTION HER FINAL ENDEAVOUR THIS CARNATION WILL BE A SWAN SONG REDEMPTION THROUGH EVIL DOUSE THE FLAMES OF THE SUN CHILD OF RAGE WILTED ROSE YOUR BEAUTY BEFORE IS NOTHING BUT THORNS WILTED ROSE YOU'VE LIVED THROUGH THE STORM BUT NOW YOUR PETALS ARE GONE CHAOS IS WHERE YOU RESIDE BROUGHT BACK, SENTENCED TO LIFE NO VITAL SIGNS LEFT OF YOUR SOUL EXISTENCE, NO REASON AT ALL TEMPTRESS, A CLOAKED ENGLISH ROSE SNOW BEAUTY LOST IN DEATH’S THROES A GOLDEN TONGUE WHISPERS IN PAIN THIS ROSE WILL BLOOM ONCE AGAIN
7.
AN ARMY RAISED, BUILT FOR THE WORLD OF WAR BEARING FIRE AXES AND STEEDS OF GOLD SERPENT’S SKIN AND REPTILE LIMBS RECITE THE DOCTRINES OF ARYAN YOUTH DISPLAYS OF GROSS POWER SEE THE MASSES COWER NO BARRIERS CAN HOLD THE HYBRID HORDE NEW DISCIPLES, THE VIOLENCE MINORITY SPREADING FEAR AND HATE THROUGH THEIR NOTORIETY WELCOME THE HORROR, THE INVASION OF NATIONS TOTALITARIAN SUPRESSORS OUR NEW SUCCESSORS BOW DOWN TO NEW MAJESTY CULTURAL DIVIDES WILL DIE IN TIME WHEN THE HYBRID HORDE CAN TAKE NO MORE BRINGING FORTH ETERNAL WAR DRUMS FROM THE DEEP LIGHTNING STRIKES CRASHING WALLS BATTALIONS OF STEEL BRED FOR THE KILL SENDING THE WORLD INTO ETERNAL HELL PROTECTED THE COUNCIL OF SCALED SKIN CLEANSING SIN PERFECT FORM FOR THE DYBBUK SOUL HYSTERIA BORN AGAIN TO CLAIM THE CHANGING TIMES FOR ALL MANKIND RISING FROM THE LIZARD’S SONS A HYBRID DAWN BORN IN THE AGE OF THORNS SURVIVE THESE FINAL DAYS ON THE PATH YOU LAY A MODERN AGE PLAUGE THAT HUMANITY MADE ARMIES OF THE STORM BRING THE COMING SWARM BOW DOWN TO NEW SILVER SERPENT FORKED TONGUE MAJESTY
8.
9.
ENSLAVED, INFINITE DAYS COUNTLESS YEARS BEFELLED CHAOS, THE TRUE FORM OF HELL GLIMPSE OF DEATH, NO REST AFTERLIFE NULLIFIED MOTHER WAITS AT THE GATES A HORROR AWAITS PAST THIS WORLD GREATER THAN ANYTHING THE DEVIL COULD SELL LAST LIFE NO COMING AGAIN NO HELP FOR YOU THE NULL IS THE END CULLING THE PUTRID GODS TO BECOME THE TRANSCENDANT ONE WHO DEVOURS ALL WHO CONTEST MY WILL TO DESTROY WHAT'S LEFT LAST LIFE THE OATH TO BE FUFILLED IN THIS CYCLE’S TURN APOCALYPTIC WRATH LAST SIGHT YOU SEE, A WORLD IN ASH WAR, PAIN, SUFFERING THE GREAT TRIBULATION COMPLETED THE CYCLE OF EARTH’S TURN REDEEMED ALL YOUR SOULS IN THE DEATH OF THIS WORLD THE FINAL TYRANT, ANTI-GOD KILLER OF THE SAVIOUR’S SON SHUT THE GATES ON THIS LAST LIFE NOTHING LEFT TO SEE JUDGEMENT LAID ETERNALLY REDEEMED THIS SOUL BACK TO THE BLACK OF THE NULL

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KLOTHO is the sophomore album by South Australian thrashers ALKIRA.

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released November 18, 2016

ALKIRA IS:
GREGORY CHALLIS – LEAD GUITAR AND VOCALS
KYLE SIMPSON – RHYTHM GUITAR
SEAN GRUBEL – BASS GUITAR
RYAN QUARRINGTON – DRUMS

DRUMS RECORDED AT MIXMASTERS STUDIOS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
EVERYTHING ELSE RECORDED AT AGAINST THE GRAIN STUDIOS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
ENGINEERING BY ANDY KITE.
MIXED BY ERIK RUTAN AT MANA RECORDING STUDIOS, SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA.
MASTERED BY ALAN DOUCHES AT WEST WEST SIDE STUDIOS, NEW WINDSOR, NEW YORK.
ARTWORK BY AARON SCHIRMER.
ALL MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ALKIRA 2016.
TRUTH INC RECORDS.

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ALKIRA Adelaide, Australia

Since forming in early 2010, ALKIRA have made a name for themselves as a young group of talented musicians with a brutal live show. Hailing from the small country town of Strathalbyn in the Adelaide Hills, this four-piece thrash-metal band have taken inspiration from all eras and incarnations of heavy metal and punk to developed a unique sound which can be appreciated by all heavy music fans. ... more

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