Swedish death metal with melodic solos

The Futile Quest
This song was chosen to be the opening track for
it's in-your-face qualities, and we believe it
represents Anachronaeon pretty good as to where
we're at today
The theme of the lyrics is about the vanity of
mankind, and the human need to leave something
behind to the next generation. We'd all like to
feel that we make a difference, even though one
day the sun will die down and all things we're
been working for are lost forever
This song is also a boot in the ass to all
investment companies and relentless business
people who will do whatever it takes to turn every
penny into profit, no matter whom they have to
trample along the way to reach their goals
The lyrics take upon a medieval tyrant, and draws
parallels to a president of a company in our
modern society. Not much has changed really
except for the fact that a dethroned tyrant loses
the head, and a fallen corporate president laughs
all the way to the bank

Ages Ago
Ages Ago is a track that's been recorded once
before by Anachronaeon. It was originally on our
demo "Tales from a hollow eternity", but since we
think it's a good song we felt that we should
record it again, this time so people can get to
hear it. The original song however was like 2
minutes short, so half of the song is new. The
melodies added fit the concept of the old song
perfectly (at least in our opinion) and they might
as well have been there always
The lyrics are about a ghost wandering the earth
to inflict the same amount of pain that he himself
had to endure during his horrible life, now
regretting that he left it behind. I guess the
grass is always greener on the other side of the
fence

The Beast Called Man
This song is one of the slower epic ones on this
album with amazing melodies at the end (if I may
say so, and hell I run this site so I can write
almost whatever I want here, hehe). It affects me
the same way every time I hear it
The lyrics are self-explaining I think. Man is a
beast. Pick up a newspaper and read through it and
tell me that you live in the best of worlds. The
story is narrated through a disillusioned person
who've lost his entire family to war, and he
wishes to erase mankind, which of course means
that he also is a beast. We all are the beast
called man

Wither
This song I wrote a long time ago for a solodemo
of some sort. The song is so good that I wanted to
use it for Anachronaeon. Parts have been rewritten
and rearranged from the demo version (which you'll
never hear anyways) but the lyrics are the same
This song is about the autumn and about the people
in the world who have no one to turn to

Towards Purity
This song contains the fastest blastbeats that
we've ever recorded (observe, not the fastest
Andreas ever played, but the fastest recorded, and
Eyecult is of course excluded )
This song is about making career, and the
situation many people live in. There are many
people trying to live up to certain ethic
standards, but they all get shaped in corporate
form in way way or the other. It takes on the
question if we really are suited to the demands of
companies, and how the things that make us human
makes us inefficient
The moral of the song is that if you sell your
soul to make that political or working career
chances are that you'll end up alone in a big
house with lots of cool stuff, but have no one to
share it with, except the guild in your mind that
will never leave you alone. Damn, do we sound like
hippies?

The Message
This song was also on my solo demo, and also too
good not to be Anachronized. There's alot of
rewritten parts in this one, and the lyrics are
also brand new
"The Message" is about the message that we send
into space, telling about mankind and the planet
we live on. The Aliens get really happy, and have
so much to teach us and want to ask us so many
things that they too can benefit from. However
when they arrive there is no life left on earth
The idea for these lyrics came to me when I was
watching the stars one evening, thinking that it
is a mirror into the past. There must be so many
stars that we see that have already seized to
exist because of the great distances

The Darkness in the Corner of My Eyes
This song is one of our favourites on this album
Melodic, fast, furious, and with a theatrical
touch to it
This one is about a bipolar person, that suffers
from great paranoia about things he's done in his
past life. Things he cannot escape from. The only
way to end the voices and the things he see in the
corner of his eyes is to end his life, which he of
course does with a thud in the end

Grief was Never far Away and I invited Her to Stay
This one came to me when I was jamming on the
guitar late into the recording process. I wrote it
and arranged it in an hour. It has a little retro
feeling to the clean guitar sound, which is nice
My wife thinks it sounds a little like Opeth. I
guess she's right in a certain way

End
This song is about a person who wants to die. The
love he/she has in his/her life is treasured, but
it is not reason enough to stay
I guess we don't have to explain why we put this
song as the last one on the album?

1. The Futile Quest 4:34
2. Ages Ago 4:01
3. The Beast Called Man 5:56
4. Wither 4:01
5. Towards Purity 6:24
6. The Message 3:37
7. The Darkness in the Corner of My Eyes 5:17
8. Grief Was Never Far Away and I Invited 4:08
Her to Stay
9. End 5:56
43:54

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