Chirality

from Awakened by Ascent of Autumn

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Our debut single, and one of our personal favourites, Chirality is a culmination of all the elements that make Ascent of Autumn: groovy riffs, melodic breaks, chunky breakdowns, and a sprinkle of some sweet, sweet dissonance.

Lyrically, this song is an exploration of identity through an epistemological lens - that is, what can we know about ourselves and each other, if we can't ever claim to truly know anything through perception?

lyrics

I awake from a chiral nightmare
This dispossession of identity consuming me;
Drowned by the question of who I am -
Lost in disparity between who I see and who I chose to be.

Wide awake but still drowning in chiral dreams.

Open my eyes in time to realise
The fractured glass upon which my self resides -
Distorted by design.
Reflected outwards so none see inside;
This fractured mask upon which I am defined...
Is it even mine?

Swimming to the surface my emergence is a vergence
As a coalescence of subconsciousness and my awareness
Brings a current sweeping me away unto the shores of surety -
Yet riddled with uncertainty I gaze back to the blackened sea.
Out from the void my eyes stare back at me
But hollowed out, gouged by reality's chirality:
A shallow manifestation of anything I've ever been.

Let the tide break on me to break down my naivety.

Stare into the surface of the ocean in the depths of the night
Reflected is the shimmering lights of the stars -
A sight to behold.
Drown in your vision and bask in the misguided truth that you see
But you mistake the reflection for the heavens themselves.

Open my eyes in time to realise
The fractured glass upon which my self resides -
Distorted by design.
Drowned by the question of who I am -
This fractured mask upon which I am defined
Is all a lie.

The stars on the sea
Are all that we see;
In the end
Is deceit.

All that we see
Is deceit.

Breaking the surface, within my emergence, a final convergence of my understanding, as
I open my eyes in time to realise the truth's in the sky;
Watch the reflection - an image in flexion, a fatal distortion of all we perceive;
A visage mistaken, the truth is forsaken; awareness awakened: reality's chirality.

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from Awakened, track released August 10, 2021

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Ascent of Autumn Sydney, Australia

Groovy Melodic Deathcore from Sydney, Australia.

Founded in 2018, the three-piece's early work was inspired by old melodic metalcore bands like As I Lay Dying, Bullet for my Valentine and Currents. Following a number of lineup changes, the band undertook a shift in direction, incorporating much darker sounds inspired by bands like As Blood Runs Black, Shadow of Intent and Fit for an Autopsy. ... more

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