Mechina - The World We Lost

All music and sound design created by Joe Tiberi and David Holch.
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Lyrics
The World We Lost
"Input accepted. Access granted"
"Welcome. How can I assist you? Message number one selected. Initializing interplanetary communication. Communication network online. Select message destination. Primary Earth-bound U.N.I intelligence network selected. Would you like to review this message before broadcast? Stand by for message playback."
"December 31st, 2154. I'm relaying this message to any inhabitants of Earth. By the time this message arrives, everyone aboard will be in cryo sleep. For some, this is the last opportunity to send a letter home. Not all of us are expected to arrive alive. No one really knew how hard it would be out here. If anyone receives this, send a message in return. I won't forget Earth. I won't forget the world we lost."
"Transmission has ended. Message incoming. U.N.I. Command."
"Reporting. Condition Black. Enemy detected."
Forge our song
From blood and steel
Embers of Earth
And endless tears
How cold is human life
Born in the dark
With limited sight
We run from each other
Fearing the night
We painted the sky
With stars as our guides
Connecting the lines
We brought them to life
With faces and names
We gave them our traits
Both gods and men are one in the same
Don’t close your eyes
Death comes to cowards who hide
Set fire to the skies of the earth
And let their monuments burn
Every trace of their race
Will be burned and erased
Their culture debased
For our god shall replace
Don’t close your eyes
Behold the human design
The day has come
For all to witness the final war
Every trace of their race
Will be burned and erased
Their culture debased
For our god shall replace
Oh, cruel blacksmith
Imbued without fear
The wails of your hammer
Sing so perfectly clear
We march in endless waves
Atop their nameless graves
Unleashing our weapons to remind our enemies
We have no use for slaves
Don’t close your eyes
And witness our value of life
From the seas to the sky of the earth
Now watch it all burn
Every trace of our race
will be burned and erased
Our culture debased
For our god shall replace
Don’t close your eyes
Behold this human design
They advance in endless waves
Atop our nameless graves
Every trace of our race
Will be burned and erased
Our culture debased
For our god shall replace
"Cryosleep protocol initializing. Biometrics online. Destination Alpha Centauri. Estimated cryo sleep duration, 120 years."
A world that we see
Plagued by deceit
A fate of the world
In the hands of belief
Exile or death
To fight or to flee
Is this what it means to be free
Born from the ashes of earth we sleep
Is this what it means to be free
Once and for all
One by one
All humans shall fall
The essence of peace
Broken and weak
As martyrs will clam
We kill in their name
A life to regain
Is a life worth disdain
When the only world left
Has been consumed in flames
Don’t close your eyes
All witness the value of life
All prayers will be lost in the storm
Plague, disease, famine, and war
Every trace of this race
Will be burned and erased
All culture debased
All gods are replaced
Don’t close your eyes
All witness the final sunrise
Beyond the sun
Lies the last human source
Every trace of this race
Will be burned and erased
Their culture debased
For our god shall replace
A world that we see
Plagued by deceit
A fate of the world
In the hands of belief
Exile or death
To fight or to flee
Is this what it means to be free
Born from the ashes of earth we sleep
Is this what it means to be free
Our world laid to waste
By the forces of faith
Divided by race
And walls of a state
Unleashing a wave
Of violence and pain
The essence of man
Has been raped and betrayed
The structures in place
Hasten unto the day
The foundations below
Begin to give way
They failed to contain
The truth
God and men
Are one in the same
“U.N.I Intel Systems offline. Stand by. Nuclear pathways identified. Planetary fallout imminent.”
“We saw this coming. We saw this coming for centuries.”

[@TrouvatkiDePercusion]

That "1" dislike on this video proves that, no matter how phenomenally fucking magnificently amazing you are, there's just no pleasing everybody.

[@deathwing9664]

+M. Hunter-Bathory If this cant satisfy him, nothing can do it my friend

[@NASCAR_Junk]

Maybe they were head banging so hard they dropped and smashed their phone and accidentally pressed the dislike

[@smartalec24]

This is the greatest song of All Time

[@ScariestMidget]

Lol okay, critikal

[@onearthonelegion]

Alongside Empire Of The Clouds, Winter's Gate and Greatest Show On Earth.

[@morkahnofficial]

That's about it, see ya.

[@PeepsBucket]

Yeah, I would say that this is the absolute pinnacle of this particular sub-genre of metal.

[@Z3r0.L0g1x]

In all this time, He hasn't released anything close to this. Trully a masterpiece

[@knsdfjnlasdfnjklfasdnjl4485]

Only 56k views? This deserves at least a million!

[@franciscoarrieta75]

This song takes place on Earth, in the year 2154. It is a prequel to the events of Conqueror. Story Overview There are citizens of Earth who know the war between the IGC and UNI is reaching a breaking point. They've built the first Titan, Anicetus, and they plan to use it to escape the Earth and find a new planet to inhabit. This will eventually lead them to Acheron. It is unknown if Acheron is actually close to their intended destination of Alpha Centauri. Before entering cryo sleep with the rest of the crew, Andara leaves a message for anyone on Earth who may be listening. The Soldier of Earth receives this message (and will later send his memories to Anicetus). As these survivors enter cryo sleep and begin their journey, the IGC begins their scorched earth policy which will end most of the life on Earth.

[@Yojimbo711]

Its a first for me to encounter albums of a band that actually have a fictional lore/story behind them, awesome.

[@AksenowtCc]

@@Yojimbo711 you can find the lore on the Mechina Wiki. Many people there try to explain the albums and the whole story, and they did a pretty good job.

[@ChaoticSphere27]

Best early birthday present ever. Fucking amazing as always, another great track

[@molletre9606]

We march in endless waves Atop their nameless graves Unleashing our weapons to remind our enemies We have no use for slaves EPIC JUST EPIC

[@SuperBlazeomatic]

I love that the Chicago accent transcends Earth and makes it into space! "Relaying this message to any inheeabidnats of Earth." Awesome1

[@themadmanofgadara8584]

I listen to mechina while exploring space in Elite: Dangerous. It makes it so much better.

[@iateotw000]

Try listening to Mechina while playing Star Citizen

[@spikewalker6690]

I might add that given the nature of the overarching story line, surely Civilisation: Beyond Earth is another good game to partner with. Will be playing that myself later tonight.

[@GlaDurDeaD]

Imagine listening to it in a giant EVE fleet battle. Dude- Goosebump city.

[@zainul0021]

TheMadManOfGamorah Killing Floor 2 and Doom (2016) my dude

[@itsQuilow]

I knew I wasn't the only one doing this!

[@AshlandTalos]

This is just proof that, in my eyes, Mechina has one of the most prolific, and staggeringly high quality, track records in the metal community. I don't know any band that creates so much high quality music so quickly.

[@AshlandTalos]

***** I would support your inevitable prison sentence

[@andrewjohnjones4867]

This is where elitism will lead us unless the many stand against the few.

[@Screamer-tm6ly]

15:27 is brutal

[@studiophile22]

Only a thousand subs. That's a crime

[@jmakowski1138]

Another epic masterpiece from Mechina; utter perfection. I especially applaud the return of David Holch's clean vocals. 9:12 was incredibly haunting...

[@s-progaming5213]

Loving the clean vocals, also love the fact that your music sounds ten times better than most metal bands with a much bigger budget.

[@dave6564]

+Matt Nevens the clean vocals pretty much make the track a solid 11/10

[@s-progaming5213]

Dave CSGO Agreed. Everything is awesome, just those epic cleans make me go "whoooooooa". Missed them on the last album. :)

[@cbl6520]

+Matt Nevens oh the joys of owning a studio with about $80,000 worth of professional equipment and having unlimited free access to all of it, like Joe and David.

[@joetiberi]

+Chris Lewis wat

[@cbl6520]

joe tiberi You telling me those photos of that mother ship style recording studio aren't yours?

[@captaindraiven]

Utterly magnificent!!!!

[@AKZM1210]

I want a MECHINA book - WAR OF THE WORLDS!

[@RasmusYde]

What about a movie series. Think Pink Floyd - The Wall style! :) If I had the money I would gladly have provided the funds for such a project myself!

[@meetwheatpodcast9078]

I've actually been using Mechinas music as inspiration when I write, I have a book coming up inspired by their music but never actually associated with them fully

[@AUM_-po9sc]

It seems, that Tiberi finally started doing something in that way.

[@xanatos68]

Marcos Garcia did you ever write that book? Sounds like something I’d read

[@tfries1607]

I mean.... This is fuckin music !

[@mirjanamatic66]

Perfect. Not just this song! I can't believe someone have achieved such harmony and melody combining incompatible...orchestral, ethno, electronica, symphonic, death metal... I can visualize almost every song. I am literally stunned by Mechina's music..

[@DickGazInYa]

Just discovered Mechina. Holy shit! Subbed.

[@Velcharoon]

"Click here to bypass intro"? Fuck. NO! It's a part of the experience :D I love it! Once more i'm amazed at how awesome your music is! An epic mammoth of a song, as always! :D Good shit!

[@marknewlands9839]

FCKING EPIC! 😮😊

[@anthonycooke942]

Don't stop making music man. I've been listening to you since Assembly of the Tyrants was released and you still manage to rope me in with every song and album you put out. There's only one word to describe you guys: COSMIC. Keep it up!

[@kalmametallinen]

Another gorgeous piece of art.

[@user-dq7mi6lx5d]

today is the first time when I dared to listen to this almost 19-minute track. the part of it that begins on 8:20 made me burst into tears with its endless beauty and epicness

[@machinegunmessiah8038]

JUST FOUND YOU GUYS AND I'M ADDICTED

[@arniewarnie]

Love hearing little bits of Anathema from Empyrean in there!

[@MoSweiti666]

I love this song!! acheron is one of my favorite melodeath albums

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

This could theoretically be a pretty cool music video, although it'd probably have to be edited to fit people's attention span better and not get repetitive with the imagery. I keep imagining a play through of human history, showing our greedy, our violence, our will to dominate, our monuments, our achievements, going up through the ages, interspersed with imagery of the great things we do and the potential we have, as well as some beautiful space imagery or something during the clean vocal parts, between which the nuclear war is shown. Then the final chorus is basically a rapid edit of good, the bad and the great of our history as well as imagery of the apocalyptic destruction and aftermath, stuff like that. That amount of grand and diverse footage would probably never go into a music video, even if it was for the biggest band/artist ever, but I suppose it could be at least a bit more realistic if it was done with stock footage or something.

[@arniewarnie]

+Tobias Hagström I had a very similar idea to that, only without the space bits.

[@zainul0021]

each of Mechina's albums and musics told an epic sci-fi story, you can look it up on the wiki. Everything you said here actually in the story itself. Nuclear war, space, and domination

[@volin_d]

Incredible song and huge improvement in the quality of sound. Great work!

[@donaldwatson1535]

Fuck yes!! I found a new favorite band

[@johngiuliosprich]

Absolutely stunning piece of work!

[@ares9701]

This is by far the best Mechina track, love the long progression and story elements. please do more of these longer tracks, much more of a journey! Please bring back to spotify!!! *Playing this in background with the release of starfield, works so well xD

[@drcz666]

I feel like I have just crawled out from some ditch and got slapped with reality......lol.I apologise for not finding you guys earlier. Love melodic metal....but this screams complexity and ingenuity.Thanks gents.....

[@metalhead8728]

I love Mechina 🤘🤘

[@somarriba333]

This was the most epic song ever! Half the length of Crimson and double the epicness. WOW!

[@vargasisking]

I wish I could describe my love for this band... mechina is essentially my soul mate presented in music form.

[@erebusterrornm5184]

Уникално,невероятна музика правите!!!!!Радвам се че отново има Български женски вокали.

[@molletre9606]

Without disprespecting all the other fantastic songs, this is your best, the pinnacle of what the band is able to do. Sound, lyrics, the storytelling, your guitarwork, Davids growls and clean singing. 19 Minutes of pure space opera, if Mass Effect needs a soundtrack in the future, you should make it.

[@GreyMan216]

You guys release perfect 10/10 stuff at a disturbing rate. Beautiful work yet again!

[@jasonc5085]

Still incredible!

[@cghoselle]

Waiting for a visual rock opera

[@xenna4795]

You guys never cease to amaze me, this is the most epic thing i have ever heard since Xenon.

[@vincenzogalizia791]

quando la musica diventa potenza, pezzo devastante

[@627jace627]

I'm late to the dance with this band but I've been blown away since discovering them.

[@somarriba333]

I just joined this dance and am equally blown away.

[@tienshan9819]

Jeeze, how did I only discover Mechina now?

[@damnedmonkey01]

I listened to on the wings of nefeli and I was hooked, then i listened to the rest... what an awesome surprise

[@inpyre]

Beautiful, simply beautiful.

[@xfrozenearthx]

Mechina gets better with each new song. Keep it up guys!

[@rastafari8459]

3:58 This is the musical equivalent to getting hit by a fully laden semi truck.

[@TheChaosIncarnate]

Another astonishing track!

[@PastLifer]

I need this in my life !!! Forever!!!! Your doing an awesome job guys !!!111oneone ... please ... do this because you want to ... not because you have to ... this dry arid world of metal would be lonely without your input ... much love xxxx

[@sephirothdoug]

A world that we see Plagued by deceit A fate of the world In the hands of belief Exile or death To fight or to flee Is this what it means to be free Born from the ashes of earth we sleep Is this what it means to be free

[@jackl9755]

holy shit dude this is sick.

[@Z3r0.L0g1x]

It's out on Deezer !!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@heavymetallabrat]

I really want all of these on an album. These always come before the new album and are almost always bangers.

[@bork750]

This is my favorite Mechina song. It literally has everything that makes a ridiculously epic song.

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

This is absolutely amazing, gosebumps for real.

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

+Tobias Hagström I just realized this is actually uploaded by the band, so I want to be even clearer with how much I like it, it's really powerful and epic. I also like the lyrics a lot, they're sung in a different cadence than I'm used to so it's somewhat difficult to follow them, but I'll probably end up learning them at some point, because I find them very compelling.

[@streetmachine6697]

holy hell, im blown away, this is just wonderful. following you guys for over 3 years now, and my expectations are always surpassed by miles, its crazy. you guys deserve to be big in the metal scene (cause i wanna see a europe tour lol) anyways outstanding work, keep it up!

[@mirjanamatic66]

+Streetmachine 66 I wanna europe tour tooo...and deserve to be big in the metal scene too

[@luisrodresso8070]

Phenomenal ,

[@coffincandy]

Another AMAZING song. you guys got me hooked lol

[@72394jjw]

Jesus Fuck this is beyond amazing!!! Great fucking job! Really great when you are high ;)

[@dave6564]

music is so good, you get stoned half way through :o

[@Mysterytour7]

For the longest time I didn't notice that this song was nearly 20 minutes long, because it does not feel long at all. Testament to what a fantastic composition this is.

[@MY1BLACKCAT]

I love all their stuff - this is really good

[@umbertobittar]

Soundtrack this year! Thank you for this.

[@pavelh.2893]

This thing is ABSO-FUCKIN'-LUTELY EPIC! I love your music, guys. Keep up the good work!

[@indranilchakravarthy]

My favourite is Mechina! And will be Mechina!!!!!

[@nanoSam]

all this feels

[@kristianm8861]

Incredible!!

[@Elvnprincess]

Fantastic!! Keep up the great work!

[@nyirizsolt939]

Epic!!!!

[@iateotw000]

You good sir, are a GENUIS!! \m/

[@Mysterytour7]

I have listened to this a few times and hadn't noticed that it's 18 minutes. It doesn't feel long at all. Cracking stuff!

[@tonalrhythmexperiment1044]

MORE. PLEASE MORE.

[@__BlacklotuS__]

man you guys are good

[@madsanderskeskitalo4552]

Im fuckin happy i found this band, few years ago. 🤘 🤘 🤘

[@Crowpsey]

This track is ridiculous. Great work.

[@InfiniteGenresOfMusic]

Love this band.

[@berettaxd7566]

Just amazing band.

[@thesteammachinepodcast]

God, this song is so good

[@EddyYounes111]

Reminds me about : A Dark Halo

[@dorfagordeathmatch6585]

awesome. epic music and death metal

[@BetweenTheLyons]

This is so fucking epic!

[@CalebSteele]

Keep up the awesome work, guys. Bought the song off Bandcamp.

[@Amorctis]

MECHINA, THE BEST!!!!

[@Friedhofmagazine]

Fucking awesome single guys!. Congrats!!

[@jacquesduplessis8944]

holy shit balls, fantastic song

[@thesupremeplayertellsyou9312]

This reminds me so much to the Killzone games!

[@MunkeyBeans1082]

I hope you guys get to compose for videogames sometime.

[@simla5]

The whole story behind Mechinas' music should be done into videogame or movie series... It's fuckin' amazing!

[@Krzys_D]

Netflix show!

[@lizardman8712]

This song isn't on spotify anymore, why??

[@jordanmaessen9655]

I just wanna say that after listening to a few songs of Mechina... I decided to look them up and found the wiki page for the band. and it's REALLY well put together! as if a story is being told. why can't all bands have that type of wiki? lol

[@botanich]

I ve found such comment under Brymir - Slayer of Gods: "THIS is how to make a song that lasts for almost 9 minutes. THIS is how you do it right." Errmmm... *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, AHAHAHHAHAHA*

[@TheAzawer]

Классно дружище!!! Отличная музыка, тематика, текст. Продолжай! Respect from Russia!

[@gley7527]

Everyday I come here and ask myself why isn’t this on Spotify

[@Hvorgandr]

3:36 it's definetely Turkish. starting with "yaralarım sızlıyor" which means "my wounds ache..." and so on. but i could not catch the rest. Will be appreciated if you can tell me. Edit from 2023: Either it is "Yaralarım Sızlıyor" or "Günahlarım Sızlıyor" which means either "My wounds ache..." or "My sins ache..." Either way, it must be a referrence from Mahzuni Şerif's Değme Tabib Sızlıyor song which means "Don't treat doctor, it aches"

[@krc6535]

vaay be :D Mechina dinleyen bir Türk ile karşılaşacağımı hiç düşünmezdim doğrusu. :D

[@scadora5311]

+1 lol. But damn that makes the song hurt even more

[@deniz2459]

2015te bakmıştım.. Lan yıllar önce baktım yine bulan çıkmamış... Anlasılması çok zor

[@Gianar]

spazzatura

[@cthulhu4145]

The story behind your songs reminds me of the first civilization from Assassins Creed

[@TimatorA]

Oh yeaaaaah! This is the shit right here

[@TheHiddenagendaLV]

Awesome stuff! With your stuff you should be opening for a Born Of Osiris - except your music has more epicness in it! Good luck guys!

[@kuntakinte1416]

why is this not on spotify yet