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The Barren Lands (Special Edition)

by Marianne Holland

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Tomasz Frankiewicz One of the most engaging album I came across recently. Spectacular musical arrangement with breathtaking vocals. It reminds me a bit 'The 3rd and the Mortal' Favorite track: Human Taint.
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This could be seen as your typical post-apocalyptic story told yet again, spreading the message of doom and gloom and a struggle for survival of the human species but, this has a twist to it.. It’s about ordinary people from every walk of life living out there lives, it’s also about taking everything we have for granted and not knowing what you have lost until you lost it. We had lost touch with our affinity and respect for the earth Humans were stripping the Planet of all its resources with no thought to the consequence of what might happen when it was all gone. Already too engrossed in our own lives, few seemed to notice the dramatic weather conditions sweeping the planet. Tsunamis, Tornados, Hurricanes and earthquakes. Volcanoes were spewing after many dormant years Animals and people were stuck down with unknown plagues and diseases, species becoming extinct Nobody realised it was the last day
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The Last Day 06:24
Stargrace - The Last Day Smashed and broken and filled with inner cry Watching the world like this cuts me up inside It needs to be free, he needs to break free He holds it inside and never confides He lives as if it was the last day He’s got to live… as is if it was the last day Chorus1 To live.. and the sun wouldn’t shine again To live … and the night blacks out forever To live … and the winter comes again We’re so lost.. In hope Its so easy to hate, so hard to love Such was the rules from up above It’s not easy to see, so easy to be But only open your eyes, just open your eyes Then cry as if the last church bells tolled on the earth Chorus 2 To live with your eyes clouded is to live with no truth To live with the sound of death everywhere To live with no love is to live with rage To live where there is no love but war To live when the bells don’t chime no more We’re so lost… It’s too late Ah when the sun wont shine no more.. Ah.. when there is no love but war.. He’s got to live… as if it was the last day! Oh the last day… Chorus 2
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The Wilderness Part 2 War now ravages the land, as they seek to survive in blood thirsty chaos. Humans have become reduced to the way of beasts Kill or be killed, Systematic genocide. Mountains of smouldering fire Smoke fills the air, cars pile and smash Some people run, some people scream, Thunderous noises screaming guns. Magnificent buildings that once stood high are rusting and corroding The sky turns black, the buildings collapse We've reached the end As flames engulf the earth The sun hides behind dark clouds of poison and filth And bitter coldness devours the land The once beautiful seas now stagnant water filled with debris and Death There’s nothing left here now but barren lands.
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Human Taint (part 3) And nobody heard it stir deep inside the earth’s core. Awakened by the wounds inflicted to its creator Its programming initiated long before human existence Stirring to life, sensors detect the lives running over the surface Rising slowly from beneath the sea, sleek metallic like skin gleaming in the darkness Impervious to everything that was thrown at it. Its metallic inhuman cry shattered the silence; deep red eyes shining like blood! the hunt had begun. It’s only instinct was to cleanse the planet of the human taint
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Human Taint 06:41
THE BARREN LANDS PART 3 (HUMAN TAINT) Crunching on empty lands on charred remains… Bleached and tainted bones form these wastes… Through this hell, it stamps through no man’s land… On all that the sun won’t shine on again… Like chimes of doom… It lives through metal breaths… Crunching flesh… Live from a spark of the core of mother earth… Dormant before humanity.. Hidden beneath the stagnant sea No eyes saw it rise beneath the blackened skies Grinding around, it heads on north through this barren land… Dead, decaying things left behind Sensors move.. It charges with a battle cry.. Dealing justice to living things from land to sky It doesn’t know the meaning of revenge… All it knows is to clear the land of all human taint… To clear the land of all human taint… and on..
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War Child (part 4) Mother, father, sister and brother gone Their legacy is death and guns. A lone survivor, she lives out her days with no memory of what her fore bearers enjoyed Among the ruins of which was her parents doing. She is Armageddon’s offspring.. It was a miracle she had survived so long alone. She had only known suffering in all the days she had lived.
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War Child 05:36
The Barren Lands Part 4 - War child She likes to watch a screen where pictures used to show. Em They told her she’d be safe and to stay inside the shelter How long, she doesn’t know, as time has stood still. No difference in the day and night as the sky is always grey Clinging to her broken doll, for it is all she has left Long ago soldiers came with guns and took her family away. Chorus No memory of when she ever saw the sun with her own eyes. But in her dreams it looked just like in the pictures She remembers the stories told in the dark.. about the days gone by About the trees and rolling hills, Waterfalls and the blue skies And among the war torn ruins she sometimes likes to play.. Among the dust, ash and bones that now litter her way, Always on the lookout… for the monsters that prey Momentary existence, as if it was the last day She’s a war torn baby It’s a black n' white world Stained in Filthy rags, A face washed with mud She looks up for the sun, choked by the Clouds Waiting for her Family to find their way home Try to find a small hope.. in this desolate, lonely Shroud
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A concept EP about Another post apocalyptic story but with a twist.
This will be 2nd release from Marianne Holland

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released April 2, 2017

Marianne Holland - Lyrics, music, composition
Martin Eve - Production, additional composition, tracks 1,4,5 mastering
Graham Lavallin - Guitars on Tracks 2,3,4,5

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Marianne Holland Wales, UK

Marianne Holland is a multi-Genre Singer/Songwriter based in North Wales who has been composing music and singing since the early 1980's. Mainly known for her versatile and powerful voice, She also plays keyboards, bass guitar, and guitar, composes and edits original music using music software in her home studio. ... more

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