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Sputnik-1
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SPUTNIK-1
The first steps of humankind, a prime glance at what’s to come
Ascertain this is not impossible, and explore the unreachable
Overcoming the distance
Grasping what seems so far
Looking up at the sky, wondering what and why
How long before we hold this place?
Draw new lines on the celestial map
Some day these lands will be ours
Fathoming these stainless paths, assembling frail sheet metal
Drag us away from old Earth, and slash a way trough the uncharted
Overcoming the distance
Grasping what seemed so far
Looking up at the sky, wondering what and why
How long before we hold this place?
Draw new lines on the celestial map
Some day these lands will be ours
Tiny shreds of consciousness in the cosmic ocean
Remember the pioneers, forever sealed in our hearts
The lane has been paved by others before us
Clearing the scape for those who shall expand the trail
Fellow traveller exploring the skies
Secluded pathways orbiting our world
Astral empire designed in aether
Celestial spheres looming within reach
The cradle is way too narrow - Borderlines ought to be crossed
More awaits to be seen elsewhere - Remote shores calling are for harvest
Printed feet into stranger dust - Further havens to be called home
A bold flag floating into the void - The claim of stars has now begun
Overcoming the distance
Grasping what seemed so far
Looking up at the sky, wondering what and why
How long before we hold this place?
Draw new lines on the celestial map
Some day these lands will be ours
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Voskhod
10:30
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VOSKHOD
Dawn breaks
But it's still dark
Through the ship porthole
The stars are shining
And the blue sphere glows
The narrow cabin creaks
Screeching sounds from the dashboards
The radio crackles
The suit is ready
The air is clean here
Just like the silence
Right there outside
Biting cold and indifferent
The airlock opens slowly
One foot first, then the other
A thin metal partition
Splits the midst and the pit
Floating in nothingness
To become one with it
Tame the depths too
Like an adverse obstacle
Breathing sounds are very loud
Time doesn't really exist anymore
This darkness is so beautiful
Yet so unearthly terrifying
To be the initial front-runner
To dive into the unknown
To be the first pathfinder
To leap in Terra Incognita
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Kudryavka
10:30
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KUDRYAVKA
Destiny loads passengers with no boarding card
Steers them to absurd terminal destinations
Innocuous souls exploited by ambition
No one ever agreed to the stoping station
Great, immoral, remarkable, despicable
Wrong, essential, criminal, phenomenal
Not a chance to reach awareness
Just being there, breathing, living
A beating, loving, trusting heart
The horizon is vertical
For the unfortunate brigade
Future craves for a sacrifice
Soft friendly hands, hard hostile hands
Device of an epic sad tale
That will never be forgotten
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Soyuz
10:00
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SOYUZ
Let's do it together
We are unified
A man is an atom
One common goal matters
No more alternatives
Death waits for one of us
At the end of the road
Fate is written up there
Launching is a countdown
How much more time is left?
None of this makes sense
Except that of saving face
One last bitter farewell
A last look at the Motherland
Trees slowly get smaller
The ground gently depart
And the sky calmly turns black
How many fallen heroes
Aware of their outcome
How many nameless brothers
Merely fame remain
Rest in peace brave soldier
You did not die in war
But what the world needs is cannon fodder
A metal coffin falls from the sky
A halo of fire lights it up high
A lost burning machine betraying
High speed scorching carcass returning
Dazzling bright comet blazing in the rain
Static noise drowns the screams of pain
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Kosmonavt
26:00
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KOSMONAVT
Space is a sea on which no ship has ever sailed
Vastness to discover along the stellar winds
So many exotic ports to navigate to
Follow the cosmic tides where no map has been drawn
The stars will be the next gods
Of the galactic highway
Era of a new conquest
Settlers of a modern type
Farmers of the universe
Harvest these fallow pastures
Taming these strange fields
Where they will set foot first
Straddling the endless light
Adjusting their visors
Looking further, always
Galaxies, be their cattle!
The cosmos is a farm waiting for its owner
Inept inception will return to oblivion
The time of the iron grip of men will soon come
Follow their progress as they brave their hard way through
Adventurers, slowly letting void disappear
Unsung heroes expanding the realm of life
Armored knights without weapons nor ennemies
Cruising through the eternal hollow avenues
The cosmonauts shall become
Prophets beyond the frontiers
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MONOLITHE Paris, France
MONOLITHE’s first 4 records of epic & grandiose Cosmic Doom Metal, “Monolithe I” to “Monolithe IV”, released from 2003 to
2012, have established the band internationally as one of the household names within the Doom Metal community.
MONOLITHE then released “Epsilon Aurigae” (2015), “Zeta Reticuli” (2016), “Nebula Septem” (2018) and "Okta Khora" (2020), all met with praise.
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