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The Halogen

by Roman Ring

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1.
Charles 02:49
I am creation I once believed in providence But a man in control of his destiny is like an ant woven by the spider it never knew I am entropy We mortals are confined by time The unwinding coil that returns us to dust But even dust finds purpose in this physical realm Just as the shadows and the dark matter that we breathe I have collapsed Dwelling with brothers and sisters in gaseous black clouds Flowing together in singularity Void of all sense I am entropy I am every living thing before it came to be I have shattered heaven I am creation I am entropy
2.
Vatican City 04:40
December 8, 1941 Destination: Vatican City, Rome It was the day after Pearl Harbor The day my life changed forever The scientists insist, I will be the first super-human I am the glorified mutant To be one with the shadows To effortlessly know thy enemy To have the next six steps in mind An ability that man can only dream of I once heard when giving to others, do so in secret That's been my life in the corps I've given blood, sweat, tears, and sanity I've landed now, greeted by men in suits and the lifeless stare of laboratory masks in the distance I had to remind myself why I was here To change the world as the unspoken savior When properly executed. I'll possess the ability to mimic surrounding atoms in regulated lapses Systematically gathering enemy intelligence, to eliminate their chain of command The laboratory men began to prep me for the procedure I lay stiffened on the slab limbs restrained Enthralled in the chamber accompanied by vapor and exhaust, my soon to be brothers The scientists insist, I will be the first super-human I am the glorified mutant Banish this physical vessel and dispel my flesh Where I will dissipate into my surroundings as camouflage Dispel flesh Where the laws of physics will all be bent Allowing me to exist cloaked within the laws of chemistry I began to vomit enormous amounts of black mass Spewing forth gaseous murk The siphons around me violently shatter As gas ruptures through my pores Smoke fills the air Releasing the seething fumes Clouding throughout the room My new form drifts away
3.
God Narcotic 06:09
It all happened so suddenly I was floating backwards through a black tunnel of nothingness I, but a speck of pure awareness (in a lost and dismal over world) I felt myself being pulled into hyperspace, by a pod of souls Solar beacons streamed from my fingertips Ultraviolet light dripping from my mouth My existence, one of the stars The ethereal vista I found myself in was overwhelmingly fascinating It was seemingly an altered dimension, one of indescribable complexity For even the air around me was visible, like some sort of super intelligent message And orbs of brilliant light continuously cascaded down from the sky The experience was somewhat catastrophic For I soon realized it wasn't simply a trance, but maybe I'd crossed over into the afterlife I accepted the fact, that whether I was dead or alive - this was still consciousness Perhaps in a dark realm of sentient existence One that felt eerily divine As if this celestial benediction was but a hoax Regardless, I was a supreme being there Where streams of uninhibited imagination were ushered by my will Like a deity conjuring its throne in limbo One of undeniable proportions that would leave me condemned, to oblivion Then insurmountable fury began to burn Throughout my soul
4.
Helix Altar 01:11
5.
Umbra Mortis 03:41
I'm greeted by shadows and fog, with a dimming light overhead I feel deathless and eager to unleash this unlimited potential I am nacreous I am murk, beyond the sun Iridescent at will, or as absent as the empty night sky I am earth and the waters that are held within it I am the limitless winds that exists unseen I'm the epoch of this bastard multiverse A dismal nightmare latching unto all Ubiquitous and infinite I'm greeted by shadows and fog, with a dimming light overhead Burning throughout this enervated planet For it's importance has now been compromised For I am the air you breathe and every sequence of yoru existence is now a result of me For infinity I, now a shade of reality, latching unto all Ubiquitous and infinite
6.
Flesh Dispel 10:20
Between the lines of shadows and dust A fluorescent beam of light emits from beyond Pouring seething columns of distorted shapes Oscillating throughout this prismatic vortex of celestial spheres Creating a blurring vista of disarray in loathsome profusion I've lived 300 billion lifetimes simultaneously within linear intervals of stolen time Merging the past, present, and future into one What rapture, to subsist in perpetual supremacy This feeling is more than I ever wanted I'm hearing colors and seeing sounds And then... Silence Blindness Suppression of sense This ebony mass engulfs my soul As I spiral throughout the abyss of expiration Augmenting kaleidoscopic ruin Ionizing throughout this poly-chromatic plateau of non-existence As animation is restored I am surrounded by a luminous chaos In which I slowly dissolve Disintegrating sinews into orbit While I am devoured by the void in a flurry of inconceivable sequences I burn through the cosmos As birth and death occur at once Penetrating the walls of existence Absorbing infinity To conquer mortality I am encompassed by hallways of dimensions Pseudo realities, each leading to astral damnations Where the flesh is condemned and the elements reign crowned with obscurity A continuous array of ashes hover overhead The totality of human thought beyond the speed of light My ethereal form liquefies into plasma and then I slowly dissolve Dispelling my eternal being into limitless abstraction A fathomless ascendance into illusory dominion There is nothing left to embrace, for now I am all Every feasible quantum outcome has materialized within my Stygian evolution The paramount distention has now been completely exhausted A wave-function collapse is inevitable I have become decoherence itself - an inter-dimensional harbinger of self-ruin and bane I am now dead on the inside by virtue of everything being dead on the outside What a marvel it was To proclaim authority over the multiverse And pluck the strings of all phenomena Conquering the unknown I've seen every corner of heaven I've felt the furnace of hell But this was all just a death hex And the high was a spell I began to vomit enormous amounts of black mass, which encompassed the paradise around me Blackening it all with ire until I could perceive no more As I observe the occurrence of every single event throughout the course of all time All in the blink of an eye Dispel flesh
7.
White Noise 06:33

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The Halogen Concept

A U.S. soldier was experimented on during the beginning of WWII. The U.S. Government had a secret base in Vatican City, Rome - This was a neutral area during the war. The secret base was used to conduct voluntary experiments on U.S. soldiers.

The goal of this particular experiment was to create a method of organic camouflage by manipulating electrons in the human body to allow it to dissipate into its surroundings while maintaining consciousness and senses. The purpose of this was to create super-soldiers who would have the ability to spy on enemy forces to strategically eliminate them all in stealth. The main character "Charles" is the guinea pig soldier for this experiment. The drug that is developed, known as the “God Narcotic” is tested on Charles. The experiment goes wrong, immediately sending Charles into a rapidly induced hallucinatory trip that brings him to a coma, subsequently killing him.

In his experience resulting from the God Narcotic, Charles "awakes" into an altered dimension where he is no longer bound by physical laws and is now capable of traveling throughout space and time. However, he is unable to control these "powers" and ends up burning through the universe until he is lost within the void of the cosmos. Within his trip, Charles believes that he has become the universe itself, or rather "God". However, Charles does not realize that he has passed away and is now trapped in the afterlife as a restless ghost. The epilogue of the EP titled "White Noise" is meant to suggest that Charles is still trying to communicate with humanity from the other side of consciousness in order to find his way back to our reality.

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released March 20, 2020

Recorded by Paul Aluculesei
Mixed by Nate Madden and Paul Aluculesei
Mastered by Rolin Weary at IV Lab Studios
Artwork by Parin Cashmony

Piano on 'White Noise' composed and performed by Adrian Perez
Guitar solo in 'Flesh Dispel' (2:24) composed and performed by Paul Aluculesei

Drums, guitars, bass, piano, and reamping tracked at IV Lab Studios
Additional guitars and bass tracked at Paul's home studio
Vocals recorded at The Space

This recorded was created between May of 2016 and March of 2018

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An anomaly amongst the Chicago metal scene, Roman Ring fuses together elements rarely heard from their local peers. Combining blistering speed and technicality with passages of polyrhythmic grooves along with other-worldy influences. Their music will take you on a journey to another dimension before bringing you back to this earth as an evolved being. ... more

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