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Cleansed By Fire

by Mission to the Sun

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1.
Take me back Take me down Mount the pressure In the ground Hope you take The outer path All above Colorblind Take me out Take me down Into the ground To the ground Nothing falls Away from you All together Wept the tears Take me back Take me down Into love Underground Eat my flesh Open door In the lie From before On your back Where you stand Star crossed sinners But you don’t care Keep on moving Late at night Another dream For all time Roll me back I ought to run I don’t become... Hold the door Hold the door Hold the door Hold me down Hold the door
2.
Dreaming of another time See you fall apart I agree All I see Are dreams Can’t remember beyond the sea Need another body Warned ahead of all the sinners Cleansed by the fire from above Take it down Another love Floating above the floor Tempered assassination All is lost Unanswered And Defaced Outside Another nameless face
3.
Damaged 05:30 video
I will follow you I will find you Inside I will find you In the cold ground I’ll find you I tried to reach the sky But I burnt out We will find you We will bury you We will carry you We will And when the angels find you They will sing We will find you We will bury you We will carry you We will We will We will
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Take all my possessions Release me from confession Drain me of ability In the deepest water Just waiting for the slaughter Dark forest Under the tallest tree Bind me In eternity Stepping on The corpse of my lover Hold me back And send them over No place for religion Under the prescribed believes There is no soul There is no solace Under the unbroken sea
6.
Computers 05:28
Longer look ahead From where I stand I don’t see it sitting Well at all Locked down behind Triple walls Who is protecting you tonight? Who has the might? These angels carry you away Across the white water Into black sand In the computer And in their hands The punch is up Obliterates The punch is up Obliterates Who is protecting you tonight? Who has the might? These angels carry you away On the white water Into black sand In the computer And in their hands The punch is up Obliterates The punch is up Obliterates I am not afraid to lose That degree of control I am not afraid To lose it all From nothing it all comes Back into Nothing Dissipates Longer look ahead From where I stand
7.
In Your Eyes 05:34
How long do you think it will be? Nothing Somewhere Driving Stacked decks Parking space Going out But going late And in your eyes I saw reflection of the world Beyond And in your lips I felt the cure But in your mind All things obscured Was it erased Or never there How could i have recognized? Beyond All of time Coalesce Inside How long do you think it will be? Nothing Somewhere Driving Stacked decks Parking space Going out But going out late And in your eyes I saw reflection of the world Beyond And in your lips I felt the cure But in your mind All things obscured
8.
Sanguine in the glory of Comprehension within the intermediate Like the moon wake over the waters Floor of heaven mingled with the tossing world of stone The landscape listens to the unborn rhythm While the neophyte modulates A syllepsis of sound Estranged, he becomes self-exalted Under a vertical sun, the exposed brain Lidless eye and dis-imprisoned heart Shaking her obscure body As they cross the ocean of this world Each in their average cabin of life This octosyllabic mantra You chant in a palatine fashion Is the trinity of the sphere Palingenesis of palindrome evocation Spilling as a fluid from confinement Realized through each & every movement Of tongue and body Reshaping the form of the folds in the dress of emotion Producing molten points of release And liberation

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Mission to the Sun synthesizes ambient, post-industrial landscapes with expansive arrangements and haunting vocals. Comprised of Christopher Samuels (synths, samples, programming) of Ritual Howls and Kirill Slavin (vocals), the Detroit-based duo creates an atmosphere of lamentation for a world left behind.

Fragments of industrial noise and hypnotic synths fill Samuels' foreboding, alien terrain, and it's in this vastness that Slavin’s voice mourns the drudgery of everyday life and the loss of universal consciousness.

The duo's debut album, Cleansed by Fire, takes the listener on a journey home to the inferno of the sun, navigating memories of a life lived, dissolved into time. A wind of desolation opens "Take Me Back" with Slavin mourning for a return home to a distant reality. The song uses repetition to build a somber ambience while maintaining a spaciousness sparsely accented by noise with care and precision. Slavin's lyrics examine the conflict and paradoxes that riddle the human condition with Samuel's instrumentation providing a fitting backdrop. "The Unbroken Sea" illustrates this symbiotic reflection with a propulsive bass line contradicted by ethereal synths that swell and contract, only to be finally engulfed by a pulsating crescendo of rhythmic noise at the end. The dystopian title track "Cleansed by Fire" marches steadily along to a creeping darkwave rhythm. The basic elements of dance music are there, yet the song remains devoid of danceability. Punctuated by lyrics inspired by J.G. Ballard and technological isolation, a glimmer of pop sensibility can be found beneath the haze of the track's potent mood.

Mission to the Sun beautifully captures an alien feeling: one ripe with despair and longing, one that doesn't quite belong to this world or time. A slow, satisfying burn, Cleansed by Fire traverses the dystopian past and present, while moving toward the future.

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released April 2, 2021

℗ + © felte 2020
All songs written and performed by Mission to the Sun
Christopher Samuels - Music
Kirill Slavin - Voice + Lyrics
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studios, NY, USA 

Artwork by Christopher Samuels

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Mission to the Sun Detroit, Michigan

Detroit based project Mission to the Sun synthesizes ambient, post-industrial landscapes with expansive arrangements and haunting vocals to create an atmosphere of lamentation for the world left behind.

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