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Venus

by Hemina

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Lawrence Faber
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Lawrence Faber I’ve just discovered you guys and I think you’re great.please continue recording these masterpieces 👍🏻
I will continue to support the band.
Thanks .
Thomas Anderson
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Thomas Anderson This is such a beautiful album! I absolutely loved it from the first moment I heard it. The opener is so epic and sets a great mood for the rest of the album. The theme of relationships and domestic violence is very interesting. Favorite track: Fantasy.
Djentastic
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Djentastic This album is a journey that you take great pleasure to listen again and again. The longest epic really consolidates this one. Favorite track: I.
Sean Oakes
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Sean Oakes Hemina's best album to date! Favorite track: Venus.
The Prez
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The Prez Hands down, the best progressive metal album of 2016. Favorite track: I.
Crooked Finger
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Crooked Finger Surprisingly excellent album that deserves to be heard from start to finish. This track in particular has a heavy djent jam about 8 mins in. Even after 10 listens, I still discover catchy bits. Favorite track: I.
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1.
Fantasy 06:11
Now we have have our lying cheater Have remorse? This whore forlorn? You lying bitch, you cheat yourself You left behind your life, you lost! If you can look past this mirage... You wipe these eyes to slow resolve With this pixie dust your problems solved Your gallantry of fantasy fight your wars remotely A surrogate - not a real thing A walking corpse - petrifying The sleeping troops that you're hiding Mask the screams from within You smear these eyes you have drawn on With this caustic rust, your face decries You fantasise of fantasy Yet never live presently Worthless scum - not a real thing A walking curse - terrifying The sleeping girl that you're hiding Jabs herself from a tin [Keys/Guitar Solo - D Skene] [Guitar Solo - M Coull] Learn remorse before you're gone And in due course bear its fruits And then at last look past this mirage!
2.
I am weak and tired here, you are mine and I am yours This “L” word we mutter, what does it mean? A single breath or something more? One ticket please, I'd like to take journey; A pleasant trip for something more [Sax Solo - J Garden] The chills, the shocks. The shell around me crumbles A cracked egg - your undead yolk Your chiseled face sets my mood On top or bottom? Jazz or Folk? Trust is must, and I want you I'm feeling sticky, so be my glue Expect, my dear. Men always do I've got something in store for you, it's unexpected
3.
[Guitar Solo - M Coull] Surely winds will blow when you are locked away Cherishing a white and shiny pearl that we call time Free choice costs us funnily You must have heard the tale of Arabian nights Where a magic carpet sails the sand dunes To give a view that money could never buy These fairy tales dictate your plans... As you minimise what could only be death alive! People from the lower floors hear the whimpers of a Woman consumed by guilt You broke the trust that was your glue Now you bear a cross you can't undo It's peppered with hate, it acts as his bait There are limited ways to deal with your fate Lay your body down for the High Kite Ride I guess I was never too good at confrontations I spent too much time bringing balance to the equation As you minimise what could only be death alive! People from the lower floors hear the whimpers of a Woman in a hell she's built You broke the trust that was your glue Now you bare a cross you can't undo. It's peppered with hate, it acts as his bait There are limited ways to deal with your fate Lay your body down for the High Kite Ride Slowly the insults sink in - she is lost Grasping at the last signs of normal life It's a lie / you can cry She knows it's always the same... [Guitar Solo - M Coull] Put aside the kite string, you are locked away Euphemising control as passion got you nowhere But this life of misery [Keys/Guitar Solo - D Skene] [Guitar solo - D Skene] As I justify what could only be death alive! Day-by-day ad nauseum As I watch the petals of the table orchid wilt I stole the trust that was our glue If I leapt back in time I wouldn't hurt you Once a loving man Now a psychopath There are just some things from which we cannot come back! Lay your body down for the High Kite Ride!
4.
[Sax Solo - J Garden] Know the skin The supple flesh of X and X Curves and hips The ability to make you weep and cry It's taken time to learn to like this me Bathing, suds oozing down my slopes Once was all it took took for me To become the Moonlight Bride Lights are dim I bathe in glow of moon and stars #curvesfordays But in some strange way I'm almost satisfied... If I'm so worthy of your goddamned hate Why would you waste a second stalking me? You write me messages and deem me a slut Those IG likes the only heart I got... [Guitar Solo - D Skene] I am the Moonlight Bride!
5.
Venus 11:12
A shift of frame binds me to another life To shift the blame - to learn, to love Venus: My timeless abode The resting place and cradle for my welcoming Hatred: For the horrid beast I am Embodying the questions that need no answering Breathing in the perfumed mountain dew Golden sanity in my cocoon Beyond the glow that blinds my eyes A fragile child lies All aboard now it's time to depart Beneath the blades of scars to be Far up high, a new life waits to take your place Venus: The celestial vial Enclosing me to banality 25 years; still no quickening On a high, and wasting time away A simple fix; my only... This habit of mine completely sickening! [Flute Solo - S C Henderson] I wanna know, what's the point of it all When it's all up here? It's slaked by ecstasy Lies! Oh lies... It seems that way to you, when it's all up here. We live a different reality [Guitar Solo - M Coull] [Guitar Solo - D Skene] Now we're at the point of no turning back, it's real Oh, but why is there no clear message or no sign? Feel the glow, cos it's here to stay on my yellow sunshine
6.
Born apart but fall together And tucked away we ride a vortex of love... We bare a dream state of mind - a fantasy Locked in stasis forever Moreover; together. The turbulent waves of a sea untamed A gentle display of love These planes in which we walk We mould, we form together Tonight... [Guitar Solo - M Coull] [Guitar Solo - D Skene] Nocturnal days and sunlit nights A full moon's beam In pitch black sight
7.
At long last true life gleams for me Love's out the window, consider yourself a widow Found the man, the one of my dreams Remember this? We made out by the pines We got high all those times You need me and I need you What does that mean for us? I know all your secrets Your secret's safe Safe inside of you Know the face The eyes of blue Get down from the clouds, look at me now! Love's out the window, consider yourself a widow Answer this My pleas of help Speak, Scream, Sneer Show me signs - signs of “we” Just remember I know all your secrets Your secret's safe Safe inside of you Know the face The eyes of blue... [Guitar solo - D Skene] Although you found yourself here, calling out for help Reaching out for help while you can Would it be enough, could it be enough to leave here? (Your secret's safe, my dear Your secret's safe while you can Show respect to me Have some faith in me) Although you found yourself here, calling out for help Reaching out for help while you can, Would it be enough, could it be enough to keep it?
8.
Starbreeze 03:24
Feel the glow it's here to stay The earthly astral interplay The Starbreeze Oh, it must be fed Time to face the music that's ahead Starry night o' night so bright Behold our pixeled cosmic sight Past the solar wind lies a Starbreezes The cooling flame, the lion's gaze The golden bars on heaven's gates Beyond the glow of Venus, a star is born Is this the age they'd sung about In hippy tales of galaxies? Beneath the sugary sky lies a Starbreeze Rainbow excites the child's eyes The pastelled stellar dance tonight Betwixt our moon and Venus, a star of beauty; me Let this gust wash over me I'm soaring through the air Higher and higher and higher again Higher and higher, please never end Till I'm dead... [Guitar Solo - D Skene] Gather round and stay a while It's time to face the music ahead!
9.
I 10:41
[Guitar Solo - M Coull] Let's take a moment, if you will, for me Give me a moment, just one moment to breathe If every step I've made was made with the burning hope That one day I would wake up just to know who I am A cotton welcome mat A pushover and a diplomat A girl, not a woman bred for futures passed I'm more to you than you are to me Start to learn your place before I leave But if I'm more to you than you are to me Why can't "I" be easier to say when you mean nothing? If every step I've made was made with the dying hope That one day I would wake up just to know that I am I'm not your welcome mat Nor your slut or punching bag A girl, not a woman whose only future's past I loved you through the crimes I led you through the darkest times I held you in my god forsaken arms! [Guitar Solo - M Coull] If you told me it could possibly be like this (I won't stand for this!) I would have packed my bag and ran No matter how lonely or how at fault I was or am (I won't stand for this!) I would have packed my bag and ran I... [Guitar Solo - D Skene] But then I found myself a way To move my mind to another world The simple life on Venus Whilst my body lurks this lonely place I'll live to see a longer day on my yellow sunshine A year will never seem as long As the bodies above sing their song
10.
[Sax Solo - J Garden] Burning an inferno while smothering a flame This hour sought promise, what can I take away? Living surreality whilst dying from heartache Fraudulent conclusions I've yet to validate Falling down from a solid sky, all of this my dream state of mind Defined myself - Dream State of Mind You always speak the words I want to hear... But what if you could remember ANYTHING and everything you wanted to believe? You had to believe it - but is it really REAL? You change your thoughts, your mind, and such and such, but did you EVER really think it would change a thing? Your brain crumbles from a marmalade sky, yet it scars like a BLOOD orange. A vivid hallucination that's left you with nothing more than the hope of being DUST One hour of DREAMS and delight to end up where you started Worse than vanishing, worse than say... BEING NOTHING?! Melting down from liquid sky, all of this my dream state of mind Faced it all - Dream State of Mind You always speak the words I want to hear... Oh I was born to be a winner, but these lines are getting deeper You missed your life go flashing by In your dream state of mind [Guitar solo - M Coull] Have you ever stared into the night sky And wished another star or planet would be your home? Well walk a mile in my shoes! Cos in this world there's so much pain For just a girl of 29, without a child, living each day as if she had died! Parched the sky for all its worth Believe or not - own your state of mind! You always speak the words I want to hear... Purge the falsehood! [Sax Solo - J Garden]
11.
[Guitar Solo - M Coull] Pining for the touch of a hand The softness of a long awaited kiss Longing for the warmth of a hug For the smallest glimmer of hope I know you can be better than this So I bide my time and so I bite my tongue Wanting the life we share in my head We shared an hour all alone. Greet the sun with me. Greet the sun... How did I get here? This isn’t my place I used to be stronger, pain written on my face The daily struggle with thoughts of escape And down will come baby, cradle and all Stuck in this limbo and I’m losing my mind I'm over your games and we've tried so hard I know what I need and it's down below I'm not even sure what I'm missing, but I know it's not this I've gotta gather the courage to take back my home; Two or three storeys and some broken bones If I'm being honest, I saw myself as a woman of the world To travel abroad and break bread with bros To be this young with an old soul's glow I never pegged myself as the naive type How did I get you so wrong? Down Will Come Baby I know I shouldn’t be here, too weak to deny this fate He thinks he can break me, he is truly mistaken I will break out and remember who I was before us And down will come baby cradle and all [Guitar Solo - D Skene] [Guitar Solo - M Coull] [Keys Solo - D Skene] Free from your clutches, I can finally reap what this life will offer me Apart from jealousy and fear I want to know joy, and I'm not just talking about a chick in daytime TV scenes I threw away 5 awful years and it's sick how good the outside feels Left alone day in, day out, my guilt; the lifeforce to his clout Yet I know one day a time will come when I know it's not my fault I'll no longer be here, only I can deny this fate He thought he could break me and in truth he was right But no matter how shaken, I will break from this cot And down will come baby, cradle and all! [Guitar Solo - D Skene]

about

Hemina are a 4 piece Progressive Metal band from Sydney, Australia. The band's sound has been described as a unique combination of hard hitting syncopated grooves, lush synth backwashes, multi-part vocal harmonies, memorable leads with a focus on songwriting and emotion.

The band have supported international bands Uriah Heep, Kamelot, Apocalyptica and will be supporting Queensryche in October 2016 for the Sydney leg of the tour. They have shared the stage with Aussie legends, Caligula’s Horse, Chaos Divine, Voyager, James Norbert Ivanyi, Divine Ascension, Breaking Orbit among many others and simply live for the stage.

Hemina's first two albums 'Synthetic' and 'Nebulae' were met with critical acclaim traversing two different sides of the band's sonic spectrum from the complex and dark, to the concise and uplifting.

With a reinvigorated lineup, the band's third album 'Venus' is the most collaborative work to date offering flavours of what fans have come to expect in the past as well as a new palette and range of expression never before heard from the group. Hemina return with an 80 minute concept album detailing and examining domestic violence, relationships, and individuality in the 21st century with a narrative arc to accompany and elaborate on their previous conceptual output.

'Venus' is Hemina at their heaviest and most energetic without ignoring the tender and delicate side that keeps the music in balance. With a powerful modern production and mix crafted between Skene and McMahon at Ploughman Studios with audiophile mastering from Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions (Periphery, Devin Townsend, Plini) - this is the band at their best.

Hemina is:
Douglas Skene - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Mitch Coull - Guitars, Vocals
Jessica Martin - Bass, Vocals
Nathan McMahon - Drums, Vocals

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released November 11, 2016

PRODUCED BY DOUGLAS SKENE

Mixed and Engineered by Douglas Skene at Ploughman Studios
Drums Engineered by Douglas Skene and Nathan McMahon at Somerset Music
Drums Mixed by Nathan McMahon
Mastered by Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions

All lyrics by Douglas Skene except 'Down Will Come Baby' with Jessica Martin.
Additional Sound Effects by Bugsy S.S. Edwards.
Tenor/Alto Saxophone on 'Expect the Unexpected', 'Moonlight Bride', and 'Dream State of Mind' by Jimmy Garden.
Trumpet on 'Moonlight Bride' and 'I' by John "Daddy Webbo" Webster.
Flute on 'Venus' by Sarah Cathleen Henderson.
Percussion on ‘Down Will Come Baby’ by Edwin Saute. Additional Gang Vocals by Shane Ian Leadbeater and Samuel Joseph. Additional Choir Vocals by Selin Akbaşoğulları, Reece Denton and Stephanie Orellana.
Digipak and Disc Design by Tristan Tait.
Booklet Design by Nathan McMahon.
Photography by Selin Akbaşoğulları and Hemina.

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