Track By Tracks: Inverted Ascension - Descension (2024)

The story behind “Descension” is dualistic in nature.

It is essentially the tale of a man’s fall from grace woven together with a witch’s fall from malevolence, both resulting in the darkness (or entity) of the void entering the physical realm.

Each track has been written in a way that leaves the lyrics open to interpretation individually.

1. Thine Greatest Enemy Mine:

Musically: This song funnily enough was written on my daughter's little pink acoustic guitar; the first riff is a riff I have toyed with over the years, and I picked up her guitar to have a play-around on it and the song basically wrote itself from that first riff. The song has a strong emotional feeling to it.

Lyrically: The theme of this song is the inner turmoil felt by a man after essentially selling his soul to acquire worldly power. In reference to the main story, this is the inner thoughts of the man after his fall from grace.

2. Son Ov The Dawn:

Musically: This song was written with a classical/epic feeling in mind. As with the first track, the first riff was written and then the rest of the song basically wrote itself. It is an aggressive sound as we are attempting to capture the feeling of war and victory.

Lyrically: The theme of this song is war, bloodlust and victory. This is part of the story preceding the man’s fall from grace in the first track, where he sold his soul to acquire worldly power. In doing so he was victorious in his pursuits; however, the power overcame him, and he turned on his own and took his own life.

3. Contraction:

Musically: This track was a wildcard. I’m not sure how this was written, I just picked up the guitar and started playing. I wanted it to sound evil.

Lyrically: This is the part of the story where the two tales intersect. The events in this story are happening at the same time as the events in the previous track. This track describes a witch in her lust for power performing a ritual to conjure up the forces of darkness to possess her unborn child whom she is on the verge of giving birth to. The ending describes the birth of the moment the spell has been cast, in relation to the previous track this is the same moment the man takes his life.

Through the witch’s spell, the soul of the man is woven into the body of the child and possessed with the darkness of the void. An “Ill-Begotten” so to speak.

4. Lord Ov The Dusk:

Musically: At the start of this track we tried to capture a high atmospheric feeling, then descending down towards a heavy ending. We tried to capture the same feeling behind the lyrics.

Lyrically: Lyrically this track is written from a person's perspective of the dark entity being summoned from the void into the physical realm. This is the entity that possesses the witch’s spawn.

5. Behold The Spectre Of War...:

Musically: This song was written through pure persistence, staying awake late hours and forcing myself to make magic happen.

Lyrically: This track is written about the chaos that follows once the unholy trinity has spawned. The unholy trinity is the physical child of the witch, the soul of man, and the spirit of the darkness of the void. It is essentially a global cataclysm.

6. ...As She Witnesses Annihilation Made Flesh:

Musically: The inspiration for this track came from the score in the final scenes of the James Bond film “No Time To Die”. Funny how inspiration works.

Lyrically: This track is written in the aftermath of the cataclysm caused by the birth of the unholy trinity. Tying the track together with a similar feel to the first track, this is written partly from the perspective of the witch after her “fall from malevolence”, so to speak. Cursed to watch the chaos she has caused. Together the man and the witch’s lust for power has resulted in the destruction of everything they sought to acquire. A “descension”, so to speak.

Huge credit to Andy at Against The Grain Studios for translating these tales into soundwaves.