ENSLAVED - 2001 "Monumension" Track List: 1. Convoys To Nothingness 2. The Voices 3. Vision: Sphere of the Elements - A Monument Part II 4. Hollow Inside 5. The Cromlech Gate 6. Enemy I 7. Smirr 8. The Sleep: Floating Diversity - A Monument Part III 9. Outro: Self - Zero HOV Featuring Trygve Mathiesen presents: "Sigmundskvadet" Line-Up: Grutle Kjellson - vocals, bass Ivar BjÛrnson - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals R. Kronheim - lead guitar, vocals Dirge Rep - drums and percussion 1. Convoys To Nothingness +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Faces - eyes - noise Flowing patterns of no-coherency None needed >From behind the chapel of dreams Came imagery >From another world They left for a brighter star A new home called "now" Womb - death - dawn Fellow seafarers on an ocean of silence Remaining humanoid shells a Distant thought The chasm between truth and Flesh paved With bricks from secret cities Entering linear orbit Crushing the foundations of Divided times Suns reflected Convoys... Convoys... Convoys to nothingness... 2. The Voices +++++++++++++ I hear their poisonous words Again As the call out for submission And code "To be less than one and drown equals pride". They say These were the voices that Destroyed us Did I want for this loss to be Sustained? Through the clipping of wings Found the secret paths >From the blinding light of lies Obtained second sight Stabbed in the back gained Strength in One-ness Taken from me, I learned to Preserve These were the voices that sink our ships These are the voices-poisoned Cars bleeding Did I pray for the dead to be kept awake? Did I gently place these horns Through the surface Of my eyes? Did I ask for this fathomless Tragedy to go on forever? Fail to comply - reborn in war The answer being no Did I? 3. Vision: Sphere Of The Elements - A Monument Part II ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Betrayed by disillusion Enslaved by insanity Enslaved by commitment to Betrayal Betrayed by all elements My vision is clear and strong I comfort myself to fulfill it There exist no edge Clearly existence is wrong I kill myself to fulfill my vision Consumed by astral interference I deny this monument to be ml Sphere I choke my ego to find that I'm Dead I deny this monument t o be my Sphere 4. Hollow Inside ++++++++++++++++ Hollow inside - I didn't sleep too Well last night Step over, turn the light Hollow inside - I didn't dream too Much last night Step over, turn the light Knock on the door- these are the interfering themes Open it up, too soon Shorter in time- the interactive Parts go by I fear for a while - my head I fear for a while - my head Will expand And strength out into the stratos Wild Can't you see, those birds in limbo breaks and of course you hear, listen the strams >From above you and Widerneath in the glow I can touch them Spiritualized Dogs with bones they are Released One too many to get on 5. The Cromlech Gate ++++++++++++++++++++ The fool: "Fear not dear Kinsmen 'cause your Saviour I am. I'll bring you back our Glory And wisdom achieve I'm searching The Old path to bring back the elder Smug as only the fool can be Mindless Blindly he marches towards his Fate Summoned to the Cromlech by Hunger within Voice fro parallel existence "Come inside my friend tour father is waiting Your search ends here Wisdom You have Gained the signs you have read" Doomed to walk the smiths dungeons Underworld slavery Through eyes of the fool Nothing can Be seen. The elder is hiding Beyond thoughts Only teasing with gimps of long lost knowledge I once saw Cromlech and Was kindly invited But I slayed the beast I kissed The ground (I drank the mine) (I look up the runes) I found the home of the elder 6. Enemy I ++++++++++ It was here I was born While the stars held their breaths After ages of pseudo-presence I climbed the final steps Up from deep beneath fire Shores Lieth no longer sleeping gal Thus alive and the Stillness Only to be broken by whispers Towards the moon Blooded from the Unborn Ones Cries That will not be silenced or rest Forever more and awaken not To paint in blanks or wither Beauty blinding no more Than the whole is less now We see clearly what was not There The prey became predator Slaughtering not raging blindly Through tunnels of sorrow and Lust For solitude and peace of mind Says it is tune to unmask and Face 7. Smirr ++++++++ He sees his world through the Crystal state of departure The hooves echo the approach Of the third coming On its back it goddess with Shining black arrow The steel that will separate the Will from doing Closing in as he falls to his Knees surrounded by Plasma of dying chapters Life succumbs to silence desire Alone the dying Of inner banes His hands no longer grasping Contraction as he laughs Winds play their mourners dirge Through heaps of corpses The hooves thundering the Arrival of the final coming Carving forth the seeds of Eternal night So that the Shadow may sleep, Eternity weeps While we laugh and remain forever M... She feels the cold floor giving no Comfort as she fades The hooves echo the approach Of the third coming On its back the faceless her Older Ones saw The agents of microcosmic Change shattering the Megalith Stories told, divinity unfold She passes on, yet remains in Smirr Cold remains scattered in dead Void dreams (...) 8. The Sleep: Floating Diversity - A Monument Part III ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The battle's now past The war of all was within itself Painfully sleeping All hail the fallen The time is now for the king to Tell The battle's now past All hail the fallen Floating diversity equals no Scream Thickening intensity now fatal Beyond portrayed dream 9. Outro :Self - Zero