“The song was first jammed into the universe in the band’s rehearsal spot in Umeå back in 2009. Back then it didn’t have any lyrics and the current chorus didn’t exist. The idea when creating the riff was to, for the first time, try to write a song in 5/4 time signature. We were slightly inspired by the classic jazz track Take Five. But today I don’t think there’s much more similarities with Take Five other than the time signature. We didn’t get much further than the riff when we were jamming and the track just lived on as a phone recording for over ten years. However, after some tinkering many years later, it was eventually rearranged and got lyrics that loosely told the story of one of Sebastian’s favourite moments in Metroid Prime – entering the ice cold Phendrana Drifts after exiting the lava steaming Magmoor Caverns. The voice is meant to be a chozo storyteller and the second bridge is referencing a Chozo Lore message from Phendrana Drifts called “Entrusted One”.”
Sebastian Mårtensson
A silence grows from her isolation
Frozen is the land she sees
As she’s gazing over the shorelines
snow is falling down on her
Is there no hope?
Are they all lost and gone?
Blighted by
the poison that evil spawned
Many memories lies below the ice and snow
while the once so majestic halls now rest, hollow
I’ll avenge you, I’ll be thorough, I’ll be swift
Oh, what darkness wreaked these scars, Phendrana Drifts
From the depths a darkness is growing
Gnawing on her very mind
It devoured a civilization
Promise to avenge their kind
Entrusted one,
wield our wea-pons and armor
Reverse this evil,
break its strength to reach farther
Many memories lies below the ice and snow
while the once so majestic halls now rest, hollow
I’ll avenge you, I’ll be thorough, I’ll be swift
Oh, what darkness wreaked these scars, Phendrana Drifts
SOLO
Many memories lies below the ice and snow
while the once so majestic halls now rest, hollow
I’ll avenge you, I’ll be thorough, I’ll be swift
Oh, what darkness wreaked these scars, Phendrana Drifts