Afterlifelines

by Rage

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1.	In The Beginning 01:31		buy track
2.	End Of Illusions 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Father, I'm lost, tell me why Mother, I don't want to die We felt secure, we were sure to be safe Now it's all crumbling, all lost in the waves Down and out, the dream is over The end of illusions, in what we believe Down and out, it's getting colder The end of illusions, a still tragedy Falling, we're falling from grace Brother, I can't see your face We've gone too far, we destroyed all we had Shot down in flames, when we leave all is dead Down and out, the dream is over The end of illusions, in what we believe Down and out, it's getting colder The end of illusions, a still tragedy Down and out, the dream is over The end of illusions, in what we believe Down and out, it's getting colder The end of illusions, a still tragedy (Down and out) The end of illusions, in what we believe (Down and out) The end of illusions, a still tragedy
3.	Under A Black Crown 04:00	lyrics	buy track
After the end, when the wishing and hoping is gone When the last man is awaiting for what is to come Take their perspective, take them all will to survive In these last hours of darkness despair comes alive, and it's here to stay Just death - no glory, that's all to await Thanks to the rich ten percent They wouldn't listen till nature would end their game Under a black crown, the God of life and death Hail to the hunter, thy armour will be blessed Under a black crown, reducer of the damned Kneel and be counted, then die under a black crown (Die under a black crown) There's no illusions beyond the point of no return The last conclusions, they make sense no more, all is gone Gone are the days where we could have saved future for all But short term profits seemed brighter, so this is the fall, maybe better this way Just death - no glory, that's all to await Thanks to the rich ten percent They wouldn't listen till nature would end their game Under a black crown, the God of life and death Hail to the hunter, thy armour will be blessed Under a black crown, reducer of the damned Kneel and be counted, then die under a black crown (Die under a black crown) Die under a black crown Just death - no glory, that's all to await Thanks to the rich ten percent They wouldn't listen till nature would end their game Under a black crown, the God of life and death Hail to the hunter, thy armour will be blessed Under a black crown, reducer of the damned Kneel and be counted, then die under a black crown (Die under a black crown) (Die under a black crown)
4.	Afterlife 03:45	lyrics	buy track
From the fragments of our minds Grows a web far out in time Every thought just like a wave Reaches far beyond our grave Forever and ever the energy remains From now through the never, the dust of life that still contains Our Afterlife, our Afterlife to come Our Afterlife, our Afterlife lines (Thought - Word - Act - Death) Is there a meaning for all things? Or is all coincidence? Is there swarm intelligence? Will it bring us competence? Forever and ever, from thought to word to act From now through the never, in future worlds a great impact Our Afterlife, our Afterlife to come Our Afterlife, our Afterlife lines Our Afterlife, our Afterlife to come Our Afterlife, our Afterlife lines (Afterlife)
5.	Dead Man's Eyes 03:24	lyrics	buy track
I have seen you running from machines that felled your trees And these undertakers with their weapons hit your knees They would try to bring you down, destroying all your home Killing all your people, in the end you were alone Long ago, your red hair blowing freely in the wind You have been the forest man and I have been the maker of all Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?) Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?) Sons of the same fathers, born to walk here hand in hand Children of our mother earth, sharing the same land But then we have stepped astray to choose he path of hell Now we are the last to die, to follow you as well Long ago your red hair blowing freely in the wind You have been the forest man and I have been the keeper of sin Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?) Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?) Yes, we killed them all Long ago your red hair blowing freely in the wind You have been the forest man and I have been the keeper of sin Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?) Dead man's eyes in a dead man's world (Brother, are you gone?) (Did we kill them all?)
6.	Mortal 04:04	lyrics	buy track
Day by day I can see your abuse of life Can't you tell you are wasting your precious time Don't you know that fighting and struggling for things will not save your life There's no need to worry and hurry through the day, it won't make you wise Blessed are all the peaceful, their kingdom will be coming for sure Blessed are all the lovers, this is the healing forevermore Just remember that you are all mortal None of you shall survive in this world Days are counted cause you are all mortal Use your time, implement what you've learned Death is sure for what you call identity But remember that you're made from stardust and this is eternally Blessed are all the peaceful, their kingdom will be coming for sure Blessed are all the lovers, this is the healing forevermore Just remember that you are all mortal None of you shall survive in this world Days are counted cause you are all mortal Use your time, implement what you've learned Just remember that you are all mortal None of you shall survive in this world Days are counted cause you are all mortal Use your time, implement what you've learned
7.	Toxic Waves 03:36	lyrics	buy track
God! There is a swimming continent inside a swirl It's made of plastic waste that comes from all the world It's found inside the dead whale, in the seabird's mouth Now, homo sapiens, are you proud? The poisoned sea, where all we know goes down in toxic waves The cradle of life is all lost inside these toxic waves We never stopped to dump our waste And overpowered nature's ways, We disappear without a trace - into these toxic waves Lost - that cormorant that tries to lift from that black mud There's nothing left alive here, now, where is your God? Who will bring justice for all those we rooted out? Now, Exxon Mobile, are you proud? The poisoned sea, where all we know goes down in toxic waves The cradle of life is all lost inside these toxic waves We never stopped to dump our waste And overpowered nature's ways, We disappear without a trace - into these toxic waves The poisoned sea, where all we know goes down in toxic waves The cradle of life is all lost inside these toxic waves We never stopped to dump our waste And overpowered nature's ways, We disappear without a trace - into these toxic waves Into these toxic waves
8.	Waterwar 03:42	lyrics	buy track
In that dried out land you see We live our lives in misery Shallow cheeks and starving eyes Our children, victims of our life lies War for water to survive It became our daily life In that world that we have made Without water, without hope We have minimized our scope It's the end that we await Some of us had seen the signs, But the most stayed dumb and blind Planet Earth, you've changed your face To an uninhabitable place War for water to survive It became our daily life In that world that we have made Without water, without hope We have minimized our scope It's the end that we await What have we done? Merciless sun War for water to survive It became our daily life In that world that we have made Without water, without hope We have minimized our scope It's the end that we await
9.	Justice Will Be Mine 04:35	lyrics	buy track
Our world declines in many ways All previous glory lost in haze The dices tumble but the game Is not in our hands Who's to blame if all seems lost? The loser's standing small But we know, there'll be another day For all Stand the ground in these hard times One day justice will be mine Have believe, have peace of mind One day justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine The liars play with hate and fears They're getting rich with our tears A flock of wolves, a herd of sheeps If you want out So free your mind, think for yourself Stop running with the pack One day all the brave will find Their freedom's back Stand the ground in these hard times One day justice will be mine Have believe, have peace of mind One day justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine Stand the ground in these hard times One day justice will be mine Have believe, have peace of mind One day justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine Ooooh, and then justice will be mine
10.	Shadow World 03:22	lyrics	buy track
Do you believe in fear of God? Of punishment in pain and blood? No matter what your prophet said Whatever was, we made it dead Denied to see the signs Close your eyes, never learn Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world Life has gone from this Earth Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world We're eating more than we could chew We swallow all, so sad but true The painted green technology A radiation death to be Denied reality Close your eyes, never learn Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world Life has gone from this Earth Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world Close your eyes, never learn Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world Close your eyes, never learn Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world Life has gone from this Earth Welcome to this shadow world Still it was our concern Welcome to our shadow world
11.	Life Among The Ruins 04:06	lyrics	buy track
In these times when all is painful and the good's not coming back All that's left is hope, so give a little prayer for me Ring the chimes of peace and freedom, against this cruel attack The awaited end and finally we all are free Won't you raise your eyes and see There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, the green is coming back There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, and life is coming back In these eyes hollow from hunger, a smile, it won't return To these dried out lips, they shattered every trust in you Feed the broken, they are starving, enlight a flame to burn In the hearts of those who want to see the light anew Won't you raise your eyes and see There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, the green is coming back There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, and life is coming back There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, the green is coming back There's life among the ruins, faces that are doomed Give light into the black, and life is coming back
12.	Cold Desire 03:59	lyrics	buy track
You turn me on, you make me live, you are like frost and fever You shake me all, my rise and fall, bad medicine, fake healer It's what I try, it all must die, your poisoned sting in my heart And what I fear is always near, with you I'm lost from the start Fire in my eyes, I believe your lies You're my hate, my cold desire My reducing flame, I'm the one to blame Grinding me down to the wire All that is left inside, hiding from the light Burning like a cold desire Fear, drying out all life, haunting in the night Burning like a cold desire You follow me, I cannot sleep, my nightmare and deceiver I try to run but you are there, I am your true believer This black inside, my evil guide, will eat me like a cancer To rest my head I must be dead, become a necromancer Fire in my eyes, I believe your lies You're my hate, my cold desire All that is left inside, hiding from the light Burning like a cold desire Fear, drying out all life, haunting in the night Burning like a cold desire All that is left inside, hiding from the light Burning like a cold desire Fear, drying out all life, haunting in the night Burning like a cold desire All that is left inside, hiding from the light Burning like a cold desire Fear, drying out all life, haunting in the night Burning like a cold desire
13.	Root Of Our Evil 04:02	lyrics	buy track
We're pushing all ahead, until it all is dead We only see just our concerns We have internalized a saying from old days That we should all subdue the planet So we believe the lies we are initialized To take it all, whatever we want We just ignore the fact, the truth we always lack The animal is all what man is Oh, can't you see, we're just about to end it all Root of our evil, the origin of our madness We feel so special, who do we think we are? Root of our evil, you bring us down, fill hearts with sadness We're not so special but still we think we are We turn around ourselves, we love to do that dance Around the golden calf, believing The sun and all there is was made for our bliss How narcissistic can you be, man Oh, can't you see, we're just about to end it all Root of our evil, the origin of our madness We feel so special, who do we think we are? Root of our evil, you bring us down, fill hearts with sadness We're not so special but still we think we are Root of our evil, the origin of our madness We feel so special, who do we think we are? Root of our evil, you bring us down, fill hearts with sadness We're not so special but still we think we are
14.	Curse The Night 03:34	lyrics	buy track
I - I cannot stand that clock on the wall Why - how can the fingers move at all? Cause time is ending for us, we have found Down here, this fall out shelter underground They played their games of threat and fear Their hate and war has brought us here The daylight, it has died I curse the night I curse the night Dark - into eternal twilight thrown I'm torn, I feel the worm that licks my bone Await the final moment soon to come Too late! And then we all are finally gone Yes, I recall a better time When we lived common sense, now I Envy those who had died I curse the night I curse the night Yes, I recall a better time When we lived common sense, now I Envy those who had died I curse the night I curse the night I curse the night I curse the night
15.	One World 04:24	lyrics	buy track
We reached a level that we cannot play no more Our hard drive is dated, reached its overload And all the spaces where life could have made a stand Reduced to a minimum, drowned desert land Time has slipped through our hands We closed our eyes to see What then would come to be reality One world, too many people One world, deadly mistreated The uninvited stranger at your door Is running for his life but space is poor We only have one world Increasing damage, depletion and littering The rainforest tragedy, the glacial melt National interest of profit was overrated The price it was global, our children must pay Time has slipped through our hands We closed our eyes to see What then would come to be reality One world, too many people One world, deadly mistreated The uninvited stranger at your door Is running for his life but help is poor We only have one world One world, too many people One world, deadly mistreated The uninvited stranger at your door Is running for his life but space is poor We only have one world We only have one world We only have one world
16.	It's All Too Much 05:11	lyrics	buy track
Endless profit, growth increasing Top your numbers, I don't care Liquid gold in black disguising Endless hunger, I don't care I don't believe these liars They ride a dying horse We all dance on their wires They never show no remorse It's all too much, we should tear it all down It's all too much, now let's rip off their crown Mass consumption, the stock market Speculators, I don't care Global trade, increase indigence Overpopulation, I don't care I don't believe those prophets That speak of a new world order We all dance to that rhythm But there is no more borderline It's all too much, we should tear it all down It's all too much, now let's rip off their crown We don't believe your lies, it's all too much (too much) We all dance on your wires, you never show (no remorse) I don't believe these liars They ride a dying horse We all dance on their wires They never show no remorse It's all too much, we should tear it all down It's all too much, now let's rip off their crown It's all too much, we should tear it all down It's all too much, now let's rip off their crown
17.	Dying To Live 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Nightfall has darkened these fields of winter Snow white are covered my brothers out there Bodies in camouflage, torn and tortured Price to be free one more night I was a student, my father a teacher We loved our lives and we lived it peaceful Now we must carry these guns and armour With our end coming in sight Doomed in our anger and fear of the downfall We're forced to be dying to live Senseless aggression to kill and destroy all We're forced to be dying to live Sacrificed for our hope for redemption Although we had so much to give We're dying to live Trust in our cultural evolution Was built on sand, like our constitution No one believed this would come back to us We felt so safe and secure How can one man dare to throw the whole world Into the abyss of ruin and downfall Tyranny offers just death and destruction There is no future for sure Doomed in our anger and fear of the downfall We're forced to be dying to live Senseless aggression to kill and destroy all We're forced to be dying to live Sacrificed for our hope for redemption Although we had so much to give We're dying to live Please give us peace We gave it all we can give We can't take no more Cause we are dying to live Doomed in our anger and fear of the downfall We're forced to be dying to live Senseless aggression to kill and destroy all We're forced to be dying to live Sacrificed for our hope for redemption Although we had so much to give We're dying to live We're dying to live
18.	The Flood 03:56	lyrics	buy track
Since I can recall the days we settled near the river bays We have built our houses here, feeling safe and without fear Growing cities took the land, asphalt, concrete, hand in hand But then came the days of rain, it was pouring real sustained On and on, our world was gone The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood Our end is near when the river brings the flood Our primal fears, punishment by the gods The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood Our place is washed away, drowning in a giant hole Many of us died that day, the survivors feel so small On and on, our world was gone The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood Our end is near when the river brings the flood Our primal fears, punishment by the gods The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood Our end is near when the river brings the flood Our primal fears, punishment by the gods The deluge is here, we are drowning in the flood We are drowning in the flood
19.	Lifelines 09:54	lyrics	buy track
Beneath these crumbling remains I find myself waking from dreams Still I don't realize what we've done The fading shadows of night They lift up a terrible shroud It's hard to understand what we've done This endless greed for profit This ignorance in our minds Has lead to end all our dreams, now we Search for lifelines of a long gone world Silent echoes that remain unheard Search for lifelines in the desert sand Afterlife lines, seen in our own hands The cold gives way to heat up That still unseen fields of destruction There's nearly no single stone left unturned Who could have had imagined How far we would lead this disaster We went far over this point to return Now, what do you do, you rich man Do you eat money and gold? What do you say to your children, who Search for lifelines of a long gone world Silent echoes that remain unheard Search for lifelines in the desert sand Afterlifelines, seen in our own hands I'm reaching out to search for remains Of what is left of faces I found An endless pattern creeps through the veins The tree of life, a mystic compound Search for lifelines in a lifetime that we still have to go Search for lifelines in a lifetime that we still have to go Search for lifelines Search for lifelines in a lifetime Now, what do you do, you rich man Do you eat money and gold? What do you say to your children Search for lifelines of a long gone world Silent echoes that remain unheard Search for lifelines in the desert sand Afterlifelines, seen in our own hands Our Afterlife, our Afterlifelines Our Afterlife, silent echoes that remain unheard Our Afterlife, Afterlifelines seen in our own hands Afterlifelines
20.	Interlude 02:43		buy track
21.	In The End 03:23	lyrics	buy track
In the end, when all given will be taken What is left when from our dreams we are awaking You will find that in the end All that remains, dust in our hands In the end it was a stairway out of heaven Our world is devastated, unforgiven And we'll find that in the end We poorly failed in the end

about

Great events cast their (apparently equally significant) shadows before them: German metal band Rage have announced the arrival of their latest studio album ‘Afterlifelines’ in March 2024. The double album will consist of a total of 21 songs, including an intro, interlude and outro. Remarkably, the two records feature different musical approaches: “The first CD is called ‘Afterlife’ and comprises songs that we recorded as a trio, while the material on the second CD ‘Lifelines’ also includes classical orchestral arrangements,” explains singer and bassist Peavy Wagner. Wagner and his two band mates Jean Bormann (guitar) and Vassilios “Lucky” Maniatopoulos (drums) have cut more than 94 minutes of new Rage music, including what Wagner calls a “20-minute grand finale”.

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released March 29, 2024

Peter "Peavy" Wagner (bass, vocals)
Vassilios „Lucky“ Maniatopoulos (drums)
Jean Bormann (guitars)

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E1 London

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Hademarscher Hof

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Club Tante JU

Dresden, Germany
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Kwadrat

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Krakau

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Proxima

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Proxima

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Kubana Live Club

Siegburg, Germany
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Kubana Live Club

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Rock in Rautheim Open Air

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Mergener Hof

Trier, Germany
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Trier, Germany
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HIRSCH

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Spectrum Club

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Lindau, Germany
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Club Vaudeville

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Musiktheater REX - Kulturdenkmal Güterhalle

Bensheim, Germany
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Musiktheater REX - Kulturdenkmal Güterhalle

Bensheim, Germany
May 25

Ragnarok Open Air

Bree, Belgium
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Aching Metal Fest

Colmar, France
Jun 13

The Brightside

Fortitude Valley, QLD
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Zilina Airport

Zilina, Slovakia
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Rockharz Open Air

Ballenstedt, Germany
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Irslingen

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Saloon De Fort Fun

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Rock am Turm

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Masters Of Rock Festival

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Wacken Open Air

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ROOM WROOM FEST

Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Savino Live

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Metalacker

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NordRock Schwaben Festival

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Herne, Germany
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