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Transition

by Infringement

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1.
Conception 03:50
- Seldom did one venture to this area. Time had for centuries left this place alone, left to thrive in it's own solitude. The place had a spiritual feel to it, total serenity. It all started today My conscience awoke Born from labor of love a complex product of reflective thinking Sprouted by the briny water in the shadow of jagged giants Naked I stood, motionless defenseless against the frigid tempest Through the seasons I grew as winter came summer anew Though my walls sprung up tall as spring once again came fall I was methodically rised upon the virgin soil Nursed with empathic hands ...stuck between the mighty evergreen Walls to love and embrace A shelter I became Silent, but always there An incubator for virtuous new souls Through the seasons I grew, as winter came summer anew. I felt their pain and their sorrow. I shared their laughter and joy. Through the coming calamity, I was left to dread thereafter Through the seasons I grew, as winter came summer anew. Though my walls sprung up tall as spring once again came fall. - My first autumns came and went, The smell of wheat and barley seeping through my wooden skin. The sound of children laughing. Bliss… Could life get any better?
2.
Infancy 07:21
I came of age, started to grow All gone were the people, that I used to know Stepped out of my feeble shadow metamorphosed, into the state of chateau My bovine brother and his ovine twin my nautical sister, came into being In my garden the facade was kept but under my lace fringed eyelids, I wept My patriarchic ulcer kept me up at night as he kept from all, his progeny's plight His purist ways and hypocritical praise he took the name in vain and took away her grace With shortness of breath from his farmer's lung and the charming whispers from his gin pickled tongue He went to her, this creature sublime in the quiet hours of the twilight time She prayed to god for answers but all she got was ill content She only sang her own lament His misogynic oppressive opinion, Her agony in his sadistic dominion. Down her thigh, she did bleed. A prayer for: Hemp against the skin, played the dead march as a well-tuned sting off the wooden arch in her coffin she leaked black bile that weighed her down, as they walked down the aisle. Instead of godly intervention, she got bruises on her skin. She drowned in this cesspool of sin She's no more than quiet whispers, nothing more than hostile lies. Secrecy was her demise Barely three feet down in frozen soil, a blatant prayer and then left to spoil. Just another trick in the devils repertoire, as they answered the call to arms from afar. - The previous years have left a dark aura over me. No matter how much it rained, the sky would not clear up. Still I feared there was yet worse to come.
3.
Childhood 06:01
Gone was the silence of yesteryear change was arise in the northern hemisphere The soft turquoise from the heavens above dressed in amber this season in the mourning of his brother the river, as it slowly creep steeped in the color of crimson deep And his sister the forest so clean and polite now riddled with lead and the smell of cordite Earthbound I stood, rigid and unchanged listening to the symphony, so perniciously I felt the cold sweep in like a breeze lifeless and hollow, though my fibers didn't freeze In my fertile soil, not much did grow. Except wooden crosses amidst, forget-me-nots below. I heard their muffled screams, of lost opportunities, and unfulfilled dreams. Masking the sound of orphans astray, and the tears of the widow as she quietly pray. In the cover of night, led by the stars, a shadow approached, with two silver bars. He said he was taken by her beauty, as he came to perform his levirate duty. Hope returned to the remaining few, as the sky once again turned blue. Gone were my childhood dreams No more knight or squire, all lost to brimstone and fire - Things are better now. The war seems like a distant memory. Somehow they behave more distant, more self-obsessed. They don't seem to care that much about me anymore.
4.
Adolescence 07:36
I´m shouting, but they can’t hear anything He’s a fat cat, demonstrating his superiority while abusing his authority He is well dressed and charming supporting his family through opium farming Praying on the deprived Just give me relief Please help me
5.
Passage 01:08
- What happened How did it get so far I don't recognize myself anymore Where am I heading
6.
Adulthood 06:28
I would like to welcome you to the ball Cliché, hubris and bigotry, we got it all They are all here, obese humps of lard the make-believe duke of avant-garde and the earl of sandwich, tea and pearl As your master of ceremonies, I would like to introduce to you. Please welcome the master of the house, and his disease ridden, charming, unwelcoming spouse. For you gluttons we got produce fresh, or you can partake in pleasures of the flesh. All you voyeurs, you can peep, or dull your senses in opium sleep. The well-dressed marquee with his pompadour hair, and the baron of manners, such a bore. The lord of morals, here without his wife. Father is preaching, with his bloodstained knife The queen of virtue, with her bloodshot eyes. If we're lucky, perhaps the king would die. Rose tinted windows, keep the real world away, rusted gates, keep the negroes at bay. But when you sore with eagles at night, expect to rise with pigs in the morning, pigs in the morning Time to say goodbye, hope you had a good time. Thank you all, hope you come again - Time to reflect, to learn from the past. I don't want to crawl back down into the rabbit hole,
7.
Midlife 03:53
- My best years are behind me, and I look back at the past with an ambivalent eye. Meanwhile balance is restored, and I can look to the future with a glimmer of hope.
8.
Patina 09:56
I used to be bloated now I'm lean Used to be dirty now I'm clean In all the confusion He missed out on the revolution He had to adjust to a different set of mind as she became socially inclined She was all about self improvement so she joined the suffrage movement He was left at home to deal with his feelings while she tried to break through the glass ceiling His harvest hopes and dairy dreams were all left up to the machines Deep down in ground below Back down to earth I go Down to earth I fall All known is now gone I see the future where I don't belong and now I fall Deep down in ground below. Back down to earth I go. Down to earth I fall. He woke up, three sheets to the wind. Fragile, emotionally skinned. Blinded by shiny electricity, confused by people with different ethnicity. First he sang the anthem of Sodom and Gomorrah, then he read the bible, Quran and the Torah. His search for the meaning of it all, ultimately led to my downfall. My quaint appearance and rural charm, couldn't compete with the urban smarm. Deep down in ground below. Back down to earth I go. Down to earth I fall. - I’m tired now… There´s no fight left in me. I think I'll go to sleep.
9.
Rebirth 02:16
My joints are creaking, when they walk around. Like I never heard it before. My pipes are leaking, when they quench their thirst. Never had problems before. Have mold in damp places, they scream at the sight. They never used to before. My vision is blurry, they can’t see outside. I am not young like before. My bones are crumbling, I lean to the side. Wish I was strong like before. Once I was, Now I'm gone. to make way for I-91.

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Infringement's debut album Transition.

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released May 17, 2017

Infringement:

Guitars & vocals: Stig André Clason
Drums & vocals: Kristoffer Utby
Lead vocals: Hans Andreas Brandal
Bass Espen Larsen

Music:
Stig André Clason
Kristoffer Utby
Hans Andreas Brandal

Lyrics
Hans Andreas Brandal

Produced by:
Stig André Clason
Kristoffer Utby

Studio: Progshack Studio
Mixing: Arild Brøter - Spider Room Studio
Mastering: David Zells - Lydspesialisten
Artwork & design: Stig André Clason

Thanks to!

Øystein Heide Aadland
Keyboards: 01-09 On all tracks

Clive Nolan
Lead keyboards: 04 Adolescence, 08 Patina

Elisabeth Syrdal Ellingsen
Vocals: 08 Patina

Morten L. Clason
Saxophone: 07 Midlife

Stian Delbekk Johansen
Backing vocal: 02 Infancy, 08 Patina

Mats Lillehaug
Co writing: 04 Adolescence

Arild Brøter
Additional percussion,acoustic guitar
keyboards & programming: 01-09 All tracks

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Infringement Oslo, Norway

It all happened in the King’s year 2015. Stig Andre Clason, Kristoffer Utby and Hans Andreas Brandal met over good whisky and love of music. Not long after we were rocking out, inspiration filled and conquest seeking.
Something was missing, an empty void in our musical expression. Queue Espen Larsen who joined spring 2016. He was Tonya Harding to our Nancy Kerrigan, a knee-crackling epiphany.
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