In a heart stopping moment
Between hope and fear we gaze
Across the vast interstellar
We have been looking for purpose
Does our existence make sense?
The way ascends to the heavens
A path to shimmering expanse
In the afterglow
Who we are? At the edge of fate
What if we’re all alone
In the storm of millennia
The stars never fade out
Through aeons they guide us
To follow them we are bound
In their light we are dying
As we fare through eternal void
Longing for ever distant suns
All the answers are hidden far
Beyond dimensions of death and life
Our moment is fleeting
Then we are gone with solar wind
Towards the timelessness of light
Being woven of stardust
Yet all alone since we are born
We head to no destination
Wandering without sight
We won’t go gentle
Into the afterlife
Our spirit’s timeless
As stellar light
We are but echoes
Of hundred thousand worlds
Doomed to be gone forever
Lost in the cold of space
The way long forgotten
In dark, in dark, in dark
Yet our marks will stay
In dark, in dark, in dark
We’ll not be going gentle
In dark, in dark, in dark
And our marks will stay
Only stars never fade out
The beacons that guide us
In a voyage that has no end
Across the infinite silence
Cast adrift like grains of sand
By the gods who abandoned us
Yet we shall blaze our trail in space
Beyond the confines of death and life
Mechina has done it again - an absolute masterpiece. More peaceful than previous albums, but delivers with majestic orchestrations and empowering motif. Morkahn
It's hard to pick a favourite track. This is the only album i have so far deemed as "perfect", where every track, even the intro, is just a masterpiece in its own right. From the hard hitting Perturbator's Theme to the emotional title track, its 68 minutes of perfection. 10/10. connivingkhajiit
Scalding metalcore from Spain, “Where the Waves Are Born” swings from clean to growled vocals over blindingly intricate fretwork. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 19, 2023
The metal’s band revelatory new record crosses genres and styles, effortlessly combining seemingly incompatible subgenres. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 26, 2024
While there's just no beating Starlifter as a track, Venator is likely Mechina's best full album so far (possibly behind Siege). It starts out strong and ends with a trio of 10/10 masterpieces, with the perfect blend of catchy rhythms, story depth and musical complexity. _shadowstorm_