Luca Turilli's Rhapsody have shared the second song off their ambitious 70-minute new album Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus. After you had the chance of listening to "Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)" before, now the band presents the second single of the new opus, "Prometheus" (including Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear as part of the choir). What are your thoughts on the final product?
Mastermind Luca comments: "With my band I like to dedicate a few songs to well-known myths and legends in every album. But what I really like is to take these subjects and 'dig' into them revealing new interpretations often related with deeper spiritual meanings. So I surely start from the tale of Prometheus everybody knows, but soon transposing it in a timeless dimension where the Ignis Divinus, the divine fire given by him to the men, represents nothing else than a quantum gate revealed to a mortal soul on its journey to the immortal cosmic truth."
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The symphonic metallers will release their new record Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus on June 19th (Europe), June 22nd (UK) and June 30th (US) via Nuclear Blast.
Step 1: Get a bunch of random Sci-Fi books
Step 2: Randomly go through them and write down random words
Step 3: Randomly chant them throughout the song
Step 4: Profit!
I used to love whatever Turilli would come up with. Hell, I even found many things to appreciate in Dreamquest and IWoC.
But now it's just getting ridiculous.
Step 1: Get a bunch of random Sci-Fi books
Step 2: Randomly go through them and write down random words
Step 3: Randomly chant them throughout the song
Step 4: Profit!
This, lol.
The instrumentation is actually pretty good but again, vox could be better, lyrics are abominable and Luca sounds more and more like a alternative spiritual kook everyday...
I've enjoyed Rhapsody (both of them) for so many years, I know all their albums, but this time Luca overdid it. Music is OK, but lyrics are a joke. When I was listening new song I was laughing so hard:
"Quantum Fire Humans Titans Novous Motus Alien Corpus"
The worst part is that they probably think that those random keywords have very special meaning of thousand words describing the deeply thought ideas of new era.
Nope. It not only makes no sense, but it is utterly stupid and ridiculous.
I've enjoyed Rhapsody (both of them) for so many years, I know all their albums, but this time Luca overdid it. Music is OK, but lyrics are a joke. When I was listening new song I was laughing so hard:
"Quantum Fire Humans Titans Novous Motus Alien Corpus"
The worst part is that they probably think that those random keywords have very special meaning of thousand words describing the deeply thought ideas of new era.
Nope. It not only makes no sense, but it is utterly stupid and ridiculous.
Prometheus - Well that covers the Humans and Titans bit. Novous Motus? New Inspiration or something. Alien Corpus, alien body? Quantum fire? Fire in space...haha, yeah you are right it makes no sense. Luca has been smoking something.
Shocked people claim the music is still ok. That's the worst part imo lol
oh come on ... the music is at least decent .. nothing mind blowing, but not crap either ... but the lyrics .... daaamn .. I've been a huge fan of rhapsody ever since I came across them and they have never been great lyricists, but that is beyond awful..
I can't stop watching this. It's like someone did a parody of "modern" power and progressive metal lyrics. QUANTUM NEXUS NUCLEAR FIRE HUMANS CYBORGS GODS AND TITANS NEO GENETIC MOTUS KARMA ALIEN FOETUS MATRIX CORPUS!
Gotta love Luca Turilli's ability to crack a good joke and excuse for still having a band.
He's a great guitar player, and should put that talent at the disposal of a good songwriter.
As you know, the RHAPSODY lyrics always include hidden messages inspired by the hermetic tradition (for example, around one year ago, I revealed on these same Facebook pages that the origin of the well-known EMERALD SWORD of RHAPSODY was related to the EMERALD TABLET of HERMES TRISMEGISTUS).
We can now reveal that the song PROMETHEUS, the title-track of our upcoming full length album PROMETHEUS, SYMPHONIA IGNIS DIVINUS (Out on June 19), is related to a special CONCEPT connecting some songs: QUANTUM X, ASCENDING TO INFINITY, DARK FATE OF ATLANTIS and OF MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL AND LUCIFER'S FALL from the previous ASCENDING TO INFINITY album, NOVA GENESIS, PROMETHEUS and MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL Part II: CODEX NEMESIS from this new album, and three more titles that will appear on the next Luca Turilli's RHAPSODY release, ending with the final part of the MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL trilogy.
The encrypted lyrics of the single PROMETHEUS, the most important song of this mini concept, represent the "quantum key" to discover more about the CODEX NEMESIS, the code of the codes, a real quantum gate allowing the access to the "divine fire of wisdom" (the IGNUS DIVINUS given by PROMETHEUS to mankind). A part of the great secret kept by the Ancients and transmitted orally by the Tibetan monks, the Indian Rishis and other spirits of light.
Well, beloved friends, we can not believe it. Even before the release of our new album, our friend GABRIELE SAPONANGELO, while listening to our new single PROMETHEUS, was able to reveal a small part of the CODE, analyzing the lyrics of the same song. The pre-chorus is divided in 2 sections. If you overlap the lyrics of the 2 sections of the same pre-chorus listening to what ALESSANDRO CONTI is singing, you will get:
QUANTUM nexus
nuclear FIRE
HUMANS cyborgs
gods and TITANS
neo (NOVUS) genetic
MOTUS karma
ALIEN foetus
matrix CORPUS
If you divide the words in 2 columns and associate the numbers 0 and 1 to them (the holy numbers considered as the fundament of all the "system-universe" even before PYTHAGORA's numeric revelations), while considering only the main "key-words" sung in the second part of the pre-chorus (above in capital letters), you will get the following result: 01010001, corresponding to the decimal number: 81. Gabriele was able to reveal everything until this point and it is already GREAT what he found out. Congratulations!
But that's just the beginning. If you are interested in discovering more about the CODEX NEMSIS, then you should consider the 81, defined by SENECA as the PERFECTUM NUMERUM QUEM NOVIEM NOVIES MULTIPLICATA COMPONIUNT, simply as a starting point for the comprehension of all things. Again, congratulations dear Gabriele. We will send you a limited edition of the CD and a PROMETHEUS shirt as soon as it will be released!
Two years ago, the topic is like, which Rhapsody is better, Turilli's or Staropoli's; now the question is which one is worse. Wth is Luca doing? Random Latin words generator?
As you know, the RHAPSODY lyrics always include hidden messages inspired by the hermetic tradition (for example, around one year ago, I revealed on these same Facebook pages that the origin of the well-known EMERALD SWORD of RHAPSODY was related to the EMERALD TABLET of HERMES TRISMEGISTUS).
We can now reveal that the song PROMETHEUS, the title-track of our upcoming full length album PROMETHEUS, SYMPHONIA IGNIS DIVINUS (Out on June 19), is related to a special CONCEPT connecting some songs: QUANTUM X, ASCENDING TO INFINITY, DARK FATE OF ATLANTIS and OF MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL AND LUCIFER'S FALL from the previous ASCENDING TO INFINITY album, NOVA GENESIS, PROMETHEUS and MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL Part II: CODEX NEMESIS from this new album, and three more titles that will appear on the next Luca Turilli's RHAPSODY release, ending with the final part of the MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL trilogy.
The encrypted lyrics of the single PROMETHEUS, the most important song of this mini concept, represent the "quantum key" to discover more about the CODEX NEMESIS, the code of the codes, a real quantum gate allowing the access to the "divine fire of wisdom" (the IGNUS DIVINUS given by PROMETHEUS to mankind). A part of the great secret kept by the Ancients and transmitted orally by the Tibetan monks, the Indian Rishis and other spirits of light.
Well, beloved friends, we can not believe it. Even before the release of our new album, our friend GABRIELE SAPONANGELO, while listening to our new single PROMETHEUS, was able to reveal a small part of the CODE, analyzing the lyrics of the same song. The pre-chorus is divided in 2 sections. If you overlap the lyrics of the 2 sections of the same pre-chorus listening to what ALESSANDRO CONTI is singing, you will get:
QUANTUM nexus
nuclear FIRE
HUMANS cyborgs
gods and TITANS
neo (NOVUS) genetic
MOTUS karma
ALIEN foetus
matrix CORPUS
If you divide the words in 2 columns and associate the numbers 0 and 1 to them (the holy numbers considered as the fundament of all the "system-universe" even before PYTHAGORA's numeric revelations), while considering only the main "key-words" sung in the second part of the pre-chorus (above in capital letters), you will get the following result: 01010001, corresponding to the decimal number: 81. Gabriele was able to reveal everything until this point and it is already GREAT what he found out. Congratulations!
But that's just the beginning. If you are interested in discovering more about the CODEX NEMSIS, then you should consider the 81, defined by SENECA as the PERFECTUM NUMERUM QUEM NOVIEM NOVIES MULTIPLICATA COMPONIUNT, simply as a starting point for the comprehension of all things. Again, congratulations dear Gabriele. We will send you a limited edition of the CD and a PROMETHEUS shirt as soon as it will be released!