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Mortal Blade - Unplugged

by Koronus

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The unplugged version of our song "Mortal Blade" off of our album sentinel. The song describes the transition of the sentinel from an honor-filled proud samurai into a cold-blooded psychopathic enraged killing machine.

After finally completing the quest to retrieve the Mortal Blade, the sentinel feels a glimmer of hope that he may return home and return to his normal life. He walks over and grabs his new treasure, his final ticket to get back home. As soon as the blade touches his hands, he feels something strange come over him. It almost feels as though the blade has entered his mind and was talking to him. Suddenly, the sentinel begins to feel immobilized. Whispers and dark thoughts flood his mind and persuade him to follow his rage and give in to a path of darkness. Helpless to resist their power and persuasion, the sentinel accepts his fate. The remnants of what he once was have faded away as he completes his transformation into a vessel for the will of the blade: an entity designed to create havoc and destruction and kill all those in his path.

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And now at last
I have the blade in my own hands
The burden of the beast cries no longer
Inside this hellhole of the dammed
I can feel the power of the steel
It feels like it’s taunting me
A darkness concealed
I hear a call from within

Somethings breathing out from the metal
It's clutching onto my soul
Festering inside my head
I’m losing all control
Hypnotized immobilized
From this virus in my hands
Oh now I’m swallowed in fear
From a power I don’t understand

I’m lost
Inside my mind
No control
My fate aligned

And Now I’m falling through darkness
Sinking down
Drowned by shadows
As colors fade to gray
My memories
Wither away
I’m fading away

Crawling
Leaches fester inside my mind
Controlling
Every waking feeling
Every thought inside
I - I feel a hatred rising
This rage coaxed by fear
From this animal
This animal I have become

A wretched injection
Stokes the fire inside
A psychotic connection
Seeds a hatred divine

Decimate
Those who have betrayed
All this to create a new world of my choosing
Eradicate
All those in my way
How their blood will stain as I kill them to become king

Inside
Controlled by the blade
By this Monster in me
A slave

I’m lost
Inside my mind
No control
My fate aligned
Now I’m falling through darkness
Sinking down
Drowned by shadows
As colors fade to gray
My memories
Wither away
I’m fading away

Fading Away

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released November 3, 2023

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Koronus West Lafayette, Indiana

Koronus is a progressive metal band that creates unique culturally influenced story-based concept albums that some have described as “watching a movie by listening to an album”. Their music combines bone-crushing djenty riffs, catchy feel-good melodic choruses, and carefully crafted dreamy soundscapes all woven together to create albums that aren’t just music but a work of art. ... more

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