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Norchestrion: a song for the end

by Need

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Hetairos Hekateros
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Hetairos Hekateros An impressive work of progressive metal, seems initially to be taken out of the best moments of the genre’s behemoths (Fates Warning, Dream Theater). However, with enough distinction and personality, featuring Greek folk elements here and there, the musicianship mastery of the band members make tracks like Nemmortal, Norchestrion and Circadian, bright jewels for the genre and for metal in general. A must have album!!! Favorite track: Ananke.
Stéphane Gallay
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Stéphane Gallay Norchestrion: a song for the end est, dans son ensemble, un album plutôt solide, avec des fulgurances enthousiasmantes. Need manque un peu de personnalité, mais le groupe compense par une maîtrise et une intensité remarquables. Si vous cherchez un metal progressif moderne, je vous conseille de lui consacrer une écoute. (Chroniqué sur alias.erdorin.org) Favorite track: Nemmortal.
cartmanlolo
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cartmanlolo fantastique album . 🎸👍🎵🎶need déjà dans mon top 5 des meilleurs groupes de prog. Merci pour cette perle musicale. love u . prenez soin de vous . vivement le retour des concerts .
Valentin Danailov
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Valentin Danailov I Love your work :) Best regards from Plovdiv Bulgaria
Jonathan Traynor
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Jonathan Traynor what is this album number five from these guys? and they get better everytime, this album has a lot of different sounds while remaining a progressive power house. Favorite track: Norchestrion.
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1.
Avia 05:48
Pave the way, and I will follow you there I’m right behind you Endless lack of reason we’ve lost sense of wrong and right Is there anybody listening To the emptiness inside Voices, noises coming through That no one seems to filter What am I supposed to do I trust you know the truth so Pave the way and I will follow you there I'm right behind you I can't wait to dive into the unknown if I have you to guide me Every day's a nightmare from which I'm longing to wake up Hordes that feast on slander We're being fed up, fed up, fed up And still the noise is cutting through the answer's right before you Pave the way and I will follow you there I'm right behind you I can't wait to dive into the unknown if I have you to guide me Voices, noises coming through That no one seems to filter What are we supposed to do I trust you know the truth so Pave the way and I will follow you there I'm right behind you I can't wait to dive into the unknown if I have you to guide me
2.
Beckethead 07:01
Give me one more try before I lose my sight Before I lose the grip of what is holding me in line Feel me one last time before I lose my mind A silent touch, a final grasp of what is real I'm hoping to find that something that helps create emotion What is the drug that binds us forever be alone Bending the rules and sailing all helpless in this ocean Feeling this hole inside me has now become the norm...no...no Crawling for so long in the ruins of my temple Dreaming I found home, woke up screaming, lost and all alone I need one more day before all this goes away (Be)fore the answers are lost and I'm choking on words that could once have saved me Trying so hard to make some sense of my inclination Cling to my past for signs that can make me become whole I have become a slave unto my own expectations Still I repeat the cycle that brought me to my knees so I'm crawling for so long in the ruins of my temple Dreaming I found home, wake up screaming, lost and all alone One last try before I lose my mind One more day before all this goes away Let go of this deception Break free of my expectations Make sense of my direction Just follow my inclination
3.
Nemmortal 05:23
I've become so I've become so I see the world through the eyes of all who came before me Like I've absorbed all their suffering Now expectations and dreams failed All come back to haunt me Looking back I remember The bleeding, the things we left unsaid Misleading all our hopes When I look around me I can see the empire falling It's crashing down before me All I ever longed for pieces of myself exploding, burning me I've become so dark, so dark and sinister We've implicitly failed to face the consequences We let our own void enslave us We've allowed for the hate to numb and kill our senses I wish I could not remember The bleeding, the things we left unsaid Misleading all our hopes When I look around me I can see the empire falling It's crushing down before me All I ever longed for pieces of myself exploding, burning me I've become so dark, so dark and sinister
4.
Bloodlux 06:17
Hear their cries at night, their howling echoes as we're sailing onward Paddling underneath a pitch black sky We gave up our days for what we thought would be the future Life in promised land but now we all are slaves What went wrong, cannot be undone Who's to blame we are all the same Waiting for the dawn, what have we become Follow blindly what we're told lost and tortured souls Now is it too late to go back or we're doomed and we're slowly just wasting away Deadly silence now, we finally realized that hope has vanished and our dreams of greatness were all lies We ripped off our sails completely blinded by the greed they planted in our hearts when we were young and frail What went wrong, cannot be undone Who's to blame we are all the same Waiting for the dawn, what have we become Follow blindly what we're told Lost and tortured souls Now is it too late to go back or we're doomed and we're slowly just wasting away a sign of hope that breaks the violence a single dream of love, an act of bold defiance I'm left alone to scream in silence I open up my eyes and find that I'm still here Waiting for the dawn, what have we become Follow blindly what we're told lost and tortured souls Now it is too late to go back we're all doomed and we're slowly just wasting away
5.
V.a.d.i.s. 03:18
6.
Norchestrion 09:28
Now we're gone, tried for so long The zero won they took control Now we're gone, what went so wrong? I'm so damn tired, my words feel numb Left to mourn, what will that solve Now we're gone, what went wrong We're the new age, you've become obscure We don't tire, we're invincible Holding on to something that can make me belong Holding on to nothing, reaching out for so long Hope is my opium, never trust a dreamer New found odium, there's a new way of things now Wondering what will be the end of this Praise the worm, praise the new god We're the war, praise the new god I fear what's become of us Time will tell if we were weak or we were strong The tears raining down on us need to wash the sins we've carried all along I fear what's become of us are we down or are we done I fear we're down, we're done I do believe there 'll come a wave To finally thrash it all away and all the lies we've come to know Will be the prize for all to show Feel the new rage, it's the modern cure Never tire, we're unstoppable Holding on to nothing, reaching out for so long Hope is my opium, never trust a dreamer New found odium, there's a new way of things now Wondering what will be the end of this Praise the worm, praise the new god We're the war, praise the new god Now we're gone, tried for so long I'm beat and worn, I lost control Now we're gone, what went so wrong? My hopes expired, I'm so damn tired Lost the war, what was it all for? Now we're gone, now we're gone
7.
Circadian 07:01
I understand that I'm becoming much less than a man I'm so tired I need a helping hand To pull me back to my own feet again I am just so tired to feel I'll reclaim myself to deny this feeling of despair that breeds inside me Tear my life life to shreds just to find me open up again one last time now 'fore I lose myself in a perfect circadian pace n I find myself in a perfect pace n I lose my find my lose myself in a perfect circadian pace n I lose my find my lose myself I try to hide from all the things that live inside my mind clutch at straws n' feeling left behind try to run but end up more confined still I am just to tired to heal I'll reclaim myself to deny this feeling of despair that breeds inside me Tear my life life to shreds just to find me open up again one last time now 'fore I lose myself in a perfect circadian pace n I find myself in a perfect pace n I lose my find my lose myself in a perfect circadian pace n I lose my find my lose myself in a perfect circadian perfect circadian pace I'm too tired to find my way home Sick and tired of doing this on my own Sinking further down into this hole I'm too tired to find my way home Lose myself, find my way Lose myself, find my way Lose my way, find myself
8.
Ananke 18:55
Walking blind outside the stream Hoping time will mend one last smile to drown the scream Dream before the end Struggling on through years of pain I make my final stand Breathing out one last refrain A song before the end Heading towards the end my knees are trembling No need to pretend Scared of what I've become Give it all I am I'm hoping hoping Someday what remains the essence of fights we won Silence and lost hope they crumble and now I'm breaking free Sending out a signal just to let you know my time is running out I need to push on harder give it all I got and all the burdens of the past will be the fuel to drive me on So I burst my lungs I'm screaming out now Born found a reason to hold on Rite of passage for me No time to waste I'm coming home Back to where I belong Once again I'm feeling down Fear and broken smiles all around Who'll be there to stay and fight Who'll be there to help shed some light Twisting turning my life is burning while I'm still waiting for a glimpse of change to come Waiting for a sign of light to come Cornered and vilified watching the years go by while we've been struggling giving it one last try singing a thousand times like saying one last goodbye What if it's all a lie Lost what we're trying to find still we keep pushing Instants of glimmering light still for a thousand times we sing our last goodbye walk with me see the things I see walk with me Someday what remains the essence of fights we won Silence and lost hope they crumble and now I'm only Sending out a signal just to let you know my time is running out I need to push on harder give it all I got and all the burdens of the past will be the fuel to drive me on So I burst my lungs I'm screaming out now Born found a reason to hold on Rite of passage for me No time to waste I'm coming home Back to where I belong Holding on right now I am holding on I cling to that memory of what used to be While I crave to fall no net now I crave to fall still dream of that melody that could help me feel something small Not holding on right now I just crave to fall I dream of that melody that would make me feel While I'm left alone like all of us left alone I cling to that melody like a remedy for us all I'm walking blind outside the stream Hoping time will mend one last smile to drown the scream Dream before the end Struggling on through years of pain I make my final stand Singing loud one last refrain A song before the end
9.
Kinwind 02:51

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Following their critically acclaimed 4th album 'Hegaiamas: a song for freedom' and its massive success in the prog metal community, 'Norchestrion' is by far the band's best and most ambitious album to date. In the album's 66 minutes, prog metal fans will see Need experimenting with new elements, as well as maintaining all those characteristics that made them one of the most unique bands in today's vast progressive metal landscape. Need once again teamed up with hector.d at HD Factory (Mother of Millions, Poem, Calyces, Slayerking) for the mixing and mastering of the album while the visual/video elements for the first single, as well as the ones that followed, were handled by HK Visual Creations (Sabaton, Rotting Christ, Nightrage, Hail Spirit Noir) that also did the animation videos for ‘Rememory’ & ‘Alltribe’ from ‘Hegaiamas’. ‘Nemmortal’, the first visualizer from ‘Norchestrion: a song for the end’ is already out to amazing feedback so far. The album’s cover artwork was created by the band’s longtime collaborator Dimitris Tsoutsas (also responsible for the covers of ‘Orvam: a song for home’ & ‘The wisdom machine’, Need’s 3rd and 1st albums respectively).


With almost 15 years of active presence in the metal scene, greek progsters Need were for long the best kept secret of European prog metal. But after the critical acclaim of their previous album ‘Hegaiamas: a song for freedom’ that was released in 2017, Need have been working relentlessly to spread the word and their music to the metal masses. The promo cycle of ‘Hegaiamas’ ended with an impressive 72 shows worldwide. Summer of 2017 saw them touring for a month in US/Canada with Sweden’s Evergrey (25 shows). The collaboration went so well that the two of them teamed up once more for a euro run in the fall that took them through 10 countries in the span of 25 days (22 shows). 2018 was as busy for the band that did a 10-date headline greek tour while in the summer/fall they appeared in numerous festivals including the 20th anniversary edition of ProgPower Europe in the Netherlands and SoundArt Fest in Romania. Following the feedback from Romania, Need did also their first headline Balkan tour in October of 2018. They were also selected to open for Fates Warning, Pain of Salvation and Coroner in their respective greek dates. All of that didn’t happen from nothing though. 2014’s album ‘Orvam: a song for home’ started the buzz in the underground and gave Need a slot in ProgPower USA in the same year. A live DVD from that show entitled ‘Orvam: a song for Atlanta’ was released a year later in the fall of 2015 building the momentum. 2006’s ‘The wisdom machine’ and 2009’s ‘Siamese God’ were the band’s first two albums that started it all and led Need to tour Europe with Jon Oliva’s solo band (of Savatage fame) in 2010. In Greece Need have established a very strong fanbase headlining the all greek prog festival ‘Prog Over Athens’ in December of 2017 with over 700 people in attendance. In the past they’ve shared the stage in their respective greek dates with the likes of Symphony X, Candlemass,Threshold, Evergrey, Jon Oliva’s Pain among others, while in 2011 they appeared in the greek edition of Sonisphere Festival opening for bands like Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Mastodon and Gojira.

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Need is a prog metal band based in Athens, Greece. in their 17 years in the scene they've released 5 studio albums, 1 live DVD filmed at ProgPower USA, have toured the US, Europe & Greece having shared the stage with the likes of Iron Maiden (Sonisphere Festival), Fates Warning, Pain of Salvation, Evergrey, Sons of Apollo, Jon Oliva's Pain, Symphony X, Candlemass, Threshold and more. ... more

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