Liner notes?

stoned_temple_pirate

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Can anyone scan the liner notes for "In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns"? I'm looking for all the personnel and songwriting credits in the liner notes.

Thanks so much!
 
In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns

Tracks 1-10 Produced by Sorceron and James Murphy
Mixed and mastered by James Murphy

Tryms drums recorded by Thorbjørn Akkerhuagen @ Akkerhaugen Lydstudio (Notodden, Norway)
Samus drums recorded by Ryan Kelly @ Big Blue Meenie (Jersey City, NJ)
Vocals recorded by Ryan Kelly @ Legacy Recording Studios (NYC)
Everything else recorded @ The Safehouse (FL) and Hollow Studio (NY) by James Murphy and Sorceron


Disc II (Agharta)

Tracks 1-5 Produced and mixed by Sorceron and mastered by James Murphy
Tracks 1-4 recorded in The Attic (Irwin, PA)
Track 5 recorded at Ante Up Audio (Cleveland Ohio)



In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns Performance Credits

Ken Sorceron- All Vocals/lyrics, Guitar, Bass (except "Empyrean"), Keyboards ("Smoke & Mirrors", "The Departure", "Floods")
Ashley Ellyllon - Piano, Synths, Orchestration on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and Background vocals on "The Departure"
Trym - Drumming on "A Thousand Suns", "The Departure", "Into The Ashes", "Smoke & Mirrors", "The World Beyond"
Samus - Drumming on "Acolytes", "Empyrean", "Floods"
Mike Wilson - Guitar solos on "Empyrean", "Floods", and "Acolytes". Additional guitar on "Into The Ashes"
Plaguehammer - Bass on "Empyrean"
James Murphy - Guitar solo on "The World Beyond", Whammy on "Smoke & Mirrors", Acoustic guitar on "The Departure"
Mike Heller - Mallets on "The Departure"

Agharta Performance Credits

Sorceron - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys and Programming on all tracks
Zach Gibson - Drums on "Floods (Demo)"
Alana Potocnik - Keyboards on "I Am (God)"
Ian Jekelis - Additional Guitar and solo on "I Am (God)"
Ashley Ellyllon - Keys on "Floods (Demo)"


Cover art by Toshihiro Egawa and Matt Vickerstaff


Thanks: James Murphy, Steve Beatty, Paula Hogan, Edward Christie, John Finberg, Marco Barbieri, Bjorn Dannov, Lee Barrett, Mike Gitter, Jerry Clubb, Chris Cannella @ Jackson Guitars and EVH Amplification, Axis Pedals, Dave @ Earsplit PR, Rachel (Rash) Finley, Diane and Stan Mleczek, Kim Sweep, Matt Brown, Joe Hollow, Mike Wilson, Zach Gibson, Mike Heller, Conor Droney, Sherry Jordanhazi, Amanda Nelson, Autumn Mitlo, Tristan McCann, Darren Toms, Trym Torson, Nicholas Barker, David Cooper, Nicholas Morgan, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Daniel Mcbride, Cole Martinez, Sven De Caluwé, Sam and Brenda Paulicelli, Ivette Ayala, Ryan Kelly. Jon-Michael Louis Herlth, Ryan Pack (Thanks for the bass!), Garrity, Bear Dannov, Mom and Pops Dannov, Cathy Oh, Barbra, Lori and Michael Jekelis, Joseph Potoncik Frank and Jennifer Bedene, BC, Chef Jeff, Mark Kozuback, Andy Schroeder, Nathan Gearhart and Kyle Moeller, Bobby Thompson, the other Matt Brown, Emperor, Malevolent Creation, Vader, Dark Funeral, Enslaved, Job For A Cowboy, Nightrage, Ansur, Profugus Mortis, Goatwhore, Aborted, Sothis, Enfold Darkness, Ansur, Blackgaurd, Neuraxis, The Faceless, Decrepit Birth, Emperor, Book Of Black Earth, Abysmal Dawn, Daath, Arch Enemy, Vehemence, and to anyone we forgot! we wrote this quickly!


In the Shadow Of A Thousand Suns Tracklist:

I
The World Beyond
Acolytes
A Thousand Suns
Into The Ashes
Smoke & Mirrors
A Semblance Of Life
Empyrean: Into The Cold Wastes
Floods
The Departure

Disc II (Agharta) Tracklist:

I Am (God)
In Death Comes The Great Silence
Waiting For The Rain
Infernal Divide
Floods (Demo)
 
I Am (God)
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

I oppose the light
I Am the bringer of storms and eternal fire
Into the night
I am the ruler of this mortal world
Under a pale night sky blood rains from above
Curdled and spoiled

I am the walker of etherial worlds
Marked by the shadows
Eternally yours
Unblessed be
Behold the vastness of the sorrow
I see no traces of light through the silence of night
I am the earth

Shattered images
A grain of salt
What we once were, what we once lost, cursing the dawn of man to hell
Black candles burning
Darkness and death
Beyond the light of the sun
Make no mistake
I am God

Damnation
Harvesting the ruin of a another failed
Creation
The sign of evil, the path of the wolf
Invocation
In the morning twilight, elemental wisdom
Elimination
Of the weak, slit their throats to the spine

I am God
In the burning darkness, death and beyond
I am God
The center of the earth shall be my throne


In Death Comes The Great Silence
(Lyrics and music: Sorceron)

Another day passes by and
I am running out of excuses
Running out of words to describe...
And as my heart becomes dust a final exit becomes clear
I stand beyond the sun with the comfort of emptiness inside

Because I could never swallow your false ideals
And I will never follow your god at the heels

Dark waters running deep as my hatred
Only the moon will witness my revenge
And the blood stained snow reeks of your invention
But in the loneliness of winter I am abomination
Oh these words flow like the blood of mankind
Cold dreamless sleep is beckoning and in death comes the great silence


Infernal Divide
(Lyrics and music: Sorceron)

As the daylight withers and night falls over the earth
Weltering in sadness
Over a bitter loss
You are the tragedy
You are the land of no return
I will watch the sky for a sign
Will you wet the earth when you weep from above

Rain pours down like wisdom
Awakening the sleeping
We have waited an eternity for the return
When they shall rule again

My existence
Infernal divide
A monument of the past
Descending


The World Beyond
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron, Ellyllon)


Dwells no man into this infinity
For as the last glow of the sun sets
I feel an affinity towards the unity
Between mankind and his divinity

And they shall live out their lives
Like an atom in infinity
Void of their true destiny

Though all of this holds a globe of significance to the coarse corruption
The two thousand years of false assumptions

So I gaze to the stars and seek the strange wisdom of the worlds beyond
Empowered by the pulse of the cosmos to leave this world behind
There is an exit

I see nothing as the last glow of the sun sets
I walk this earth like sand in the wind
Drifting on and on into the years

And they have lived out their lives like atoms in infinity
Void of their true destiny

Driven to madness the moon speaks to no one
Spheres of darkness perpetual through the aeons and beyond
Into the moonlight
Upon the shoulders of ignorance
They ask us a question
One thousand words, read the writing on the walls


Acolytes
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron, Ellyllon)


Thy kingdom of heaven is foundering
A foulness to the race of man
Where they worship in the lands of the northern
Where elder gods still lie in slumber

In the dim light behold the vengeance of the infinite abyss

Their seasons
Their blood
There is nothing but reservoirs of darkness
Their seasons
Their blood
There is nothing

Rise
Stricken with fear and repent
Rise
Stricken with fear
The darkest clouds form an alliance
They're pounding away at the dawn
Rise
Where the cold waters tread fear


Thy kingdom of heaven is foundering
A foulness to the race of man
The blackest of tides is rising
Storming across the heavens

In the dim light behold the vengeance of the infinite abyss

Divine diseases
Ailments of infinity
Dwells no part of empyrean virtue
I bid you haste
I bid you haste

Their seasons
Their blood
There is nothing but reservoirs of darkness
Their seasons their blood
There is nothing

Rise
Stricken with fear and repent
Rise
Stricken with fear
The darkest clouds form an alliance
They're pounding away at the dawn
Rise
Where the cold waters tread fear




A Thousand Suns
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron, Ellyllon)

Those treasured wisdoms were forgotten over time
Holds a message stolen from the stars where we live in the shadows
Here in the womb of a thousand suns

The treasured wisdom forgotten over time
Along the shore of the cosmos stolen from her embrace
And so we stay here waiting for the call
Waiting for the call

The current situation demands contemplation
War wages
The battle still rages on and on and on

That is what we were
This is what we have become
A reflection of purity cannot tell a lie
And as the sun fades on the surface of the earth
We are hell-bound

Along the shores tonight
Scatter the ashes of a fallen empire
The time is nigh

Like dark mantles under the night sky
This night will last forever

They fell prey to the corruption, now they prey to the corrupted

That is what we were
This is what we have become
A reflection of purity cannot tell a lie
And as the sun fades on the surface of the earth
We are hell-bound


Into the Ashes
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron, Ellyllon)


You call from the shadows and curse my blood in the wind
You speak in riddles
The substance which is chipping away at the garden so balefully

I will hunt you
And even your god can't save you
When the wind blows
A mourning morning whispers serenity
There's none to be had


I will curse the very soil you walk until you drown in your own shame
And feel the sweet kiss of death
Across your cold skin
Under the pale horned moon

Their blood is stricken and cursed to the outer hells

We conquer
All in the sign of evil
Into the cold embrace
As the wind blows through the willows
And the signature of man
Has blinded the stars and the infinities beyond
Reclaim the alter
Rewrite the books

I will haunt you
And even your god can't save you
When the wind blows
A mourning morning whispers serenity
There's none to be had


Smoke & Mirrors
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

In a dark corner of the room she sits in silence
Behind the mask of beauty lies the truth
Taken away

The land has suffered under your heedless reign
There is no end

The land has suffered under your heedless reign
Where is the end?

Your love is like a sea without a shore

You wear the crown of shadows well my friend but the truth of the matter is,
Your stranger then a stranger in a strange land

Your love is like a sea without a shore
Your love is a curse holding me under its terrible spell
I should not be here

You wear the crown of shadows well my friend but the truth of the matter is,
Your stranger then a stranger in a strange land
I tried to reason
I tried to comprehend
This is treason



Empyrean: Into The Cold Wastes
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

Oh in the night skies
Burns a darkness that will enlighten all of mankind as we know
And it will glow with so bright a light showing us a clear path once invisible

But in the stage of decay...
Enshrine the forgotten secrets of the earth buried by angels in starlit chambers
This is the sound; listen for the sound of the trumpets
Through the eyes of creation I see the final stages of decay
Beneath the burning palaces of heaven and into the pits of sands
I watched thy kingdom come crumbling down

Wrought their own destruction
Subterranean origin
Cataclysm casting the world into the dark
The winds of wrath are howling into the cold wastes

Under Hell
Under Satan


The Departure
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

I will ride again
Beyond the moon wandering
In the land of the dead I am a king

(King) of these negative forces
Reclaim the earth and burn down the heavens
A god who’s kingdom lays within
But the cruel frosts and wintry winds
Make it difficult for me to protect you from the cold
These icy shores are never...

...Ending this perennial cycle
And if I'm not back by dawn please call my name

Run into the night
Your snow covered heart is dripping away but mine is shattering in the coldest of winds


Floods
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

A fortress of evil surrounded by darkness
I move through the shadows
I like the feeling of having you with me
The power of the ancient course through my veins as we drink from the everlasting fountains
We are gods in this state

I am your keeper
This is shelter
This is everything you ever wanted
Ever needed
I am your keeper
In the eye of the winter
This is everything you ever wanted
Ever needed
This is your sanctuary

Oh I cast my hand out and bring forth the floods unto the lands
And cast away all amongst the living from the earth
May your spirits cry for all of an eternity though I'll hear them nay
There's but one refuge once the storm is summoned
Can your hear me? Can you hear me?

I am your keeper
This is shelter
This is everything you ever wanted
Ever needed
I am your keeper
In the eye of the winter
This is everything you ever wanted
Ever needed
This is your sanctuary

Awaken the spirits
Returning your memories
Rescuing forever

Flood my soul with calamities
But my heart is beating me into reality
But now I'm leaving
I'll walk away from this
As the fire burns because these curses have no cure

I call out to the below
With hell in my eyes there's no turning back
I'll stay here forever
Your precious flesh is my only token of your memory


The Departure
(Lyrics: Sorceron, Music: Sorceron)

I will ride again
Beyond the moon wandering
In the land of the dead I am a king

(King) of these negative forces
Reclaim the earth and burn down the heavens
A god who’s kingdom lays within
But the cruel frosts and wintry winds
Make it difficult for me to protect you from the cold
These icy shores are never...

...Ending this perennial cycle
And if I'm not back by dawn please call my name

Run into the night
Your snow covered heart is dripping away but mine is shattering in the coldest of winds
 
"You should just buy the cd..."

I will Ken. I'm absolutely honored you responded, and thank you so much for the details, these are precisely what I need.