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Chariots of the Gods?

by Animal Soup

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1.
First Contact 06:32
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(instrumental)
2.
Escape Velocity 04:44
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Cosmic dust and heat rays Burn my eyes A crater in my yard By surprise A darkened pilgrim stands there Beckons me The moment I have dreamed of I now see We’ve been waiting for this day Your arrival in our age You left all of us to die Now you’ve come to justify Why can’t we come with you On your quest Unless we learn the answers We’ll never rest We never got to know you Or your tribe We could use a new world To divide We finally made our first contact Now the earthlings can’t turn back We never learned their names Maybe they’ll return some day We didn’t come here to set you straight We only want to learn of your race There’s nothing here for us to see This blackened world is not worthy
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Her Body Was a Planet 14:12
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Is this the afterlife? Or is this some illusion? No kingdom in the clouds No answers to the questions I feel my body fade As I’m slowly drifting Flashing lights invade Every color surrounds me And every star I see The universe expanding And yet I feel so small Like dust upon a great sea Random memories flood in Like an image On a computer screen And all my sins replaying In real time The database of my mind And now I touch the face of God The other beings I always knew were there I feel the warmth I never had in life I further plunge into the great unknown I ask if they could help me understand My own death But they do not hear me These solar angels guide me silently Through the stars To my celestial glory I am become the face of God All my life I knew you were there I look inside the arc of space and time Finally my transformation begins! Spinning in and out of time New dimensions open up to me Little knowledge I had in life The third side is finally complete So removed from humanity Loved ones are so far away Was it all worth it? Will I forget? Dreamless sleeping Floating through the abyss Space and time No longer exist Body’s melting Mind turning to cosmic dust Endless drifting Swimming through a cosmic sea My soul is being torn apart My molecules expanded back into stars I was once a grain of sand I have now become the planet

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NEW ANIMAL SOUP SCI-FI SPACE OPERA

Recorded simultaneously with the Edgewater album and REheated EP, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? is a mini-concept album that blends progressive rock and metal with a storyline that blends science and religion. The material that makes up Chariots was written way back in 2017 for an unrelated project. When the sessions for that album were shelved, Josh repurposed the material for Animal Soup. It was originally meant to be a bonus disc for Edgewater, but the band felt so strongly about the material that they wanted to give it its own release. The epic Her Body Was a Planet in particular has become a staple at Animal Soup’s live concerts.

THE STORY

Inspired by the 70s pseudoscience book of the same name, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? explores the idea of religious figures as greater extra-terrestrial beings who have interacted with earthlings.

The instrumental opener, First Contact, depicts the aliens’ first visit to earth. Escape Velocity is taken from the perspective of an earthling awaiting their return. Finally, Her Body Was a Planet explores the afterlife journey that a recently deceased earthling embarks on.

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released January 27, 2023

All songs written by Josh Mundt

Artwork generated by DALL-E

Animal Soup at the time of this recording:

Bridget Burke - Vocals
Josh Mundt - Guitar
Eli Baumgarten - Keys
Elliott Elder - Bass
Brennen Schedler - Drums

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Animal Soup Denver, Colorado

From Denver Colorado, Animal Soup plays a special blend of progressive rock and pop. They draw from many different influences to create a diverse style of music.

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