ABOUT:
SYNTHETIC BREED was formed and began playing live in 2002. By late 2003 their debut self-titled EP was released. The band continued to write and perform, molding their unique style and in early 2005 released their second EP, "Fractured", leading to an invitation to perform at the prestigious “With Full Force” festival in Leipzig, Germany. 2006 saw SYNTHETIC BREED record and release their first full-length album, ‘Catatonic’, which was received with worldwide critical acclaim. After a short hiatus from playing live in 2009-10 the band returned to the studio to record their second feature album, 'Perpetual Motion Machine', once again released to worldwide acclaim. 2011 saw the band sign a North American distribution deal through ‘Rogue Records America’ and undertake their most ambitious Australian tour to date.
While the prior EP's hinted at the musicality and progressive tendencies of SYNTHETIC BREED, their full length releases showcase their unique and individual style and sound in a spectacularly authoritative manner. Crushing riffs, pounding polyrhythms and a superior technicality are combined with both explosive and dark movements of musical excellence to form a unique brand of Industrial Death Metal.
Paradox
Synthetic Breed Lyrics
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Falling through forever
Planetary sickness
Shut out in the shadows
Rediscover
Move in empty space
Sensing but can not feel
This place pulled out from underneath
Preaching egocentric
Theology accepted
For the inequitable
Illusion is now complete
Futile efforts work in vain
Searching for peace of mind
False claims take the pain deliver us from our sin
Test subjects ingest history
To see our world with blinded eyes
Oblivious souls mesmerised
Bioorganic origins bound
To a post modern society
Infiltrate in continuity
Destiny brings self destruction
Suffer
Genetic segregation
Systematic wreckage
Sinks into the waters
Suffocating the mind
You will hear the haunting truth
In states of indifference
Hold on to your life when pertinence is lost
Test subjects ingest novelty
To see our world with blinded eyes
Oblivious souls hypnotised
New synthetic formulas found
Chemicals counterbalancing the pathogenesis
Spreading like a plague no equilibrium
Prototypes of a silicon caste
We're nothing our cells evolving still
We're existing now self's dissolving us
Holding on it's all gone
Opening eyes
Completely mesmerised
Were hypnotised
And dead inside
It's all gone
Opening eyes
Completely mesmerized
Were hypnotized
And dead inside
(watch as our world dies)
The lyrics of Synthetic Breed's Paradox delve into the theme of society's downfall due to various issues like religious beliefs, segregation, and the dominance of technology. The opening verse sets the tone of despair with the lines, "Stumble, Falling through forever, Planetary sickness." The lyrics suggest that we are all stumbling through life without any clear aim or direction. Similarly, we are falling endlessly into a pit of despair due to the sickness that surrounds our world.
The second verse explores the idea of illusion created by religion and the pointlessness of "Futile efforts" in finding solace in such beliefs. The lines "False claims take the pain deliver us from our sin" suggest that religious beliefs are just empty promises that fail to save us from our miseries. The third verse delves into the perils of technology and how we are losing touch with our organic selves. The lines "Prototypes of a silicon caste, We're nothing our cells evolving still, We're existing now self's dissolving us" indicate that we are slowly being consumed by our creation, i.e., technology.
The chorus of the song, "Opening eyes, Completely mesmerized, We're hypnotized, And dead inside," emphasizes the idea that we are all just living a meaningless existence, our minds consumed by empty promises and futile efforts. In conclusion, Paradox by Synthetic Breed explores the idea of a dystopian world, where society is plagued by various issues, and people are lost without any meaningful direction.
Line by Line Meaning
Stumble
We are unsteady and uncertain in our movements through life.
Falling through forever
We feel adrift, as if we are falling endlessly through time and space.
Planetary sickness
The world itself is diseased and suffering.
Shut out in the shadows
We feel isolated and alone, as if we are excluded from the light of the world and its blessings.
Rediscover
We seek to find anew what has been lost, what has been forgotten.
Move in empty space
We are moving with purpose, but without direction or meaning.
Sensing but can not feel
We are aware of what is happening around us, but we cannot connect with it emotionally.
This place pulled out from underneath
The world has changed beneath our feet.
Sorrow
We are filled with sadness and grief.
Preaching egocentric
Our leaders are promoting selfish, self-serving ideals.
Theology accepted
We have blindly followed the religious dogmas imposed upon us.
For the inequitable
These ideals serve only the privileged.
Illusion is now complete
The deception is total, and we are completely taken in by it.
Futile efforts work in vain
We are struggling, but our efforts are hopeless and meaningless.
Searching for peace of mind
We aspire to find a sense of calm and tranquility.
False claims take the pain deliver us from our sin
Our leaders promise to provide salvation from our suffering, but they only increase it.
Test subjects ingest history
We are consuming the past without understanding its implications or relevance to the present.
To see our world with blinded eyes
We are blind to the realities of the world due to our ignorance and prejudices.
Oblivious souls mesmerised
We are completely unaware of the world's true state, and are under a spell of deceit.
Bioorganic origins bound
Our biological origins and our connection to the world have been suppressed and bottled up.
To a post modern society
Our society is disconnected from its roots and its natural state.
Infiltrate in continuity
We are connected to the world and to each other, but our connection is corrupted and destructive.
Destiny brings self destruction
Our fate is to destroy ourselves through our own actions.
Suffer
We are in pain and distress.
Genetic segregation
We are divided and separated by our genes and genetic makeup.
Systematic wreckage
Our systems and structures are collapsing and failing.
Sinks into the waters
We are drowning, sinking into the depths of despair and ruin.
Suffocating the mind
Our mental health and well-being is being suffocated and destroyed by the world we live in.
You will hear the haunting truth
The truth is painful and difficult to accept, but it must be faced.
In states of indifference
We are apathetic and numb, unable to react or respond to the world around us.
Hold on to your life when pertinence is lost
We must cling to life and to what remains of our own meaning and purpose when all else is lost.
Test subjects ingest novelty
We are blindly consuming new ideas and technologies without considering their consequences.
New synthetic formulas found
We have discovered new ways of manipulating the world and ourselves, often with disastrous effects.
Chemicals counterbalancing the pathogenesis
We are attempting to counteract the damage we have done to the world and to ourselves with more damaging chemicals.
Spreading like a plague no equilibrium
The damage and destruction we are causing is spreading uncontrollably, with no balance or sustainability.
Prototypes of a silicon caste
We are creating new types of beings and societies from silicon and other artificial materials.
We're nothing our cells evolving still
We are insignificant and powerless, despite technological progress and changes in our biology.
We're existing now self's dissolving us
Our existence is leading to our own destruction and loss of self.
Holding on it's all gone
What we have held onto and believed in has slipped away and been lost.
Opening eyes
We are finally seeing the world as it truly is.
Completely mesmerised
We are stunned and amazed by what we are seeing.
Were hypnotised/And dead inside
Despite our newfound understanding, we feel powerless to act and disconnected from ourselves and the world around us.
It's all gone
Everything we believed in and held onto has been lost and destroyed.
Watch as our world dies
We are witnessing the collapse and destruction of the world we once knew.
Contributed by Michael S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@dsp6373
Most importantly, mouse traps are inanimate objects. Cells and organisms are living. Mouse traps are machines, but inanimate nonetheless. Cells and organisms are machines, but living machines.
Thus, inanimate machines do not replicate and reproduce themselves. They're made one by one by humans.
By contrast, cells and organisms are living machines, and they do replicate and reproduce themselves, in a way that leaves room for errors, also known as mutations, which are heritable.
Enough of these mutations, that are heritible, and accumulated over a long span of time in a population = evolution. Mouse traps can't do that.
Therefore, this is the most embarrassingly stupid video.
@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan
@@chancelersincero "Sadness" is a human term.
Why do you come to that conclusion? Why is life without god sad?
Who in the world says that life has to be "not sad"? If you value a life without god as "sad" it is sad for you but not for others. It is subjective.
Life can be very sad. If your loved ones die, or you get serious sick. Nothing in the universe says "all your life is happy".
On the other hand:
You tell me you believe something because it makes you happy? Is that really a good basis to think something is real?
"It makes me happy, it has to be real?" Really?
@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan
@@abosaleh3318 The argument is "irreducible complexity". Only the final stage has any "use"/"beneficial result" for the species at all.
One very good counter example is the eye. Why? Because we can still see all the different development stages in nature today.
From some photo sensitive cells which can only see "light" or "no light". To photo sensitive cells in a small dent in the skin to get an direction of light source. Up to photo sensitive cells in a dent in the skin overgrown by some kind of tissue to get a lens.
It is all there, today, in nature.
Even for the mouse trap the argument of "irreducible complexity" is very weak.
The thing is "he claims: If I take out this or that it is not a mouse trap anymore". But evolution does not work like that. If there is any beneficial result for the species the mutation will passed on more likely.
If you want to use the mouse trap as an example. Take out everything and just the board it is all mounted on. Is it good at catching mice? No. Can you use it for something else? Yes.
We see this in nature all the time. Something develops and is useful in some way or an other. And after that it is used in a very different way and over more and more mutations this gets specialized even more.
Take the development of wings. There was not a mutation where suddenly a creature was born with wings. It started out with limbs and the creatures where running up tree trunks to escape predators or whatever helped them to survive. Some of them got better up the tree trunks.
Guess whose genes were passed on better? Even a very slight increase of survival chance by 1-2% leads to more gene spreading. Over years and years the "pre wing" got developed more and more to bring the animal better up the tree trunk.
Even better, we can still see that in nature. We see "birds" which are not capable of flying but they run up trees to escape and they flap their "wings" to help them up there.
I have to say: I find it very confusing that evolution is that hard to understand. I don't get what the problem is. The concept has just two steps "random mutation" and "selection of survivor". If you need to you can add an explicit "the genes of the survivor are passed on more likely".
Greetings
@asamiyashin444
It is amazing how some of you, guys, cling to the evolutionary mythology like religious zealots.
Your comment is no more than the authority fallacy. "Actual biologists refuted it". And then you go on by gaslighting Behe. But saying that something was refuted "by actual biologists" (whatever that means) and that someone has a "cognitive dissonance" are psychological abuse tactics, ways of authoritarian intimidation and nothing more.
You change your comment a bit by saying that something "was refuted by actual priests" and that someone against them is a "pagan" and you can see how your attitude is that of a religious zealot trying to impose his beliefs onto others.
Saying that something "could have happened" is wishful thinking, my friend, not an evidence, not a refutation either.
The logic of Mr. Behe is flawless and that is why you, evolutionists are pissed off. And the bad news to you is that his are not the only arguments against it, there are many more. Just google antidarwinism. You will realize how darwinian evolutionism is in crisis. The darwinian ship is full of holes and going into the deeps of the sea, whether you like it or not.
Inventing some phantasy scenario in which this or that could have happened, something evolutionists have been doing all the time, doesn't refute anything. The one with cognitive dissonance is you. You will faint if tomorrow evolutionism gets the last nail in the coffin because it's your religion. Of course you need to believe that every opponent of evolutionism is refuted or is crazy because otherwise you can't manage the psychological pain. Because you are all weak-minded, like all religious zealots. If that is not a cognitive dissonance tell me what it is.
You, evolutionary zealots are all the same. Abusive sociopaths trying to impose your cult beliefs and insulting anyone who doesn't share your beliefs. You are like the Talibans.
I'm pretty tired of reading your mantras parroted again and again. Change the discourse, guys. It's boring.
@Thor.Jorgensen
@@outofthebox9699 Let me guess. Did you take law classes in grade school?
A scientific theory is the highest possible status within the scientific fields.
Quick Wikipedia result: "A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world and universe that has been repeatedly tested and corroborated in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results. Where possible, theories are tested under controlled conditions in an experiment."
A scientific theory should not be confused with a colloquial theory.
Among other scientific theories we have the theory of general relativity and the germ theory of disease.
Are those just conjectures? Do you perhaps believe that "bad air" and "bad humors" gives you diseases?
@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur
i agree, i don't think a mousetrap evolved naturally over time. it's pretty sus.
@skywalker9770
Similarly the human cell being vastly more complex defies common sense to have just popped into existence or naturally selected itself into existence. Akin to magic without a magician.
@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur
@@skywalker9770 do u really not understand evolution tho?
you know the algorithm that decides what you watch on youtube goes though many generations in a similar evolutionary process. so they are using evolution, to feed you ant-evolution videos in your recommended list.
that's hilarious!
@skywalker9770
@@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur the algorithm is written by an intelligent being akin to intelligent design. The algorithm did not write itself and I've long being an ardent skeptic of evolutionary theory although natural selection I don't take issue with, rather descent from a common ancestor I find hard to accept and huge gaps in the fossil record. I follow the likes of Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer and David Berlinski these men are not fools. There are two sides to every discussion and it's worth listening to both on the topic of evolution and intelligent design. There is no reason why an intelligent super intellect could not design species with sufficient variability and adaptability in order to propagate in the face of climate and environmental pressures. God could have designed and intended the process we call natural selection
@ChickenNugget-zh9bn
@UCZi-ww_UPN_tfs1tLBneR5w Lol you evolutionists making fun of that man's "mouse trap analogy" when you're being hypocrites and making dumber analogies and believing in a really dumb theory yourselves". I'm really amazed on how stupidity infects you simple minded who is easily mezmerized by the idea of evolution just because it sounds "scientific and cool"
@AbdullahAlMamun-iv7er
Why a mouse trap can't evolve naturally??
@LarryTownsend
"Why Charles Darwin’s theory is inadequate to explain the origin of life."
Darwin's theory doesn't attempt to explain the origin of life.
@juanpablosanchezaveleyra6454
The Bible fails to explain quantum physics. then there's no god.
logic works against them
@tartaglia.
Agreed. That is what the Big Bang theory attempts to explain. Darwin’s theory is meant to explain the adaptation of life, the evolution of species, the “origin of species” (so to quote the man himself).
@LarryTownsend
@@tartaglia. Abiogenesis is one plausible hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth. The big bang is the origin of the universe.