Track By Tracks: Ashes Of The Sun - Gods With Machines (2025)

1. Sophisticated Clowns:

Is about People trusting their government and eventually seeing through the lies. The leadership ultimately pushes its people to question everything and start losing faith in their leadership.

2. Save the World:

This track is about one of the planet's native characters finding a child of the gods. The child communicates with the man, asking to be returned to where it came from through telekinesis. Unsure if they want to take the task, the tribe supports the idea of returning the child before it angers the gods, potentially causing problems for the locals and their community.

3. Forced to Kill:

Is about the chosen one venturing out to return the child and discovering the truth about their gods. He soon realizes they are not who they appear to be. he is threatened by the gods to keep his mouth shut, and he will live to see another day. They spare him because of his good deed. But leave him deep in the wild to fend for himself on his return home.

4. The Elephant:

The chosen one has a long journey home. He looks to the sky and to the gods for help. But his prayers don't get answered...they never get answered. He lost and is disappointed with his so-called gods, and his faith is gone. He doesn't know where to turn and loses his faith and fears that there is no one looking over him.

5. A New Way to Die:

The chosen one is lost and giving up. He has lost his faith and doesn't have the drive to carry on when he hallucinates a child taunting him. He cannot catch the child and continues to follow deeper into the wild. Eventually, he concludes this is the end and there is no hope. No one will find him. No one will save him. There is no heaven. We live in hell. What's the point go going on? It's time to throw in the towel.

6. Gods with Machines:

Our hero is rescued by his tribe. tired, weak, Delirious, and malnourished. He tells the story of what he experienced and how the gods aren't really gods. He drifts in and out and has visions of Gods and angels. They aren't like the ones who live on their planet. They tell him it's okay and they do exist. He drifts in and out between reality and his visions.

7. The Lost Ones:

The local government seeks to speak with the chosen one and threaten him to keep his mouth shut about what he saw. His tribe and community stand up against the leaders and support their champion. Their aggressive approach to address the hero leads the community to question their leadership and to listen again to the chosen one and his story of False gods and deception.

8. Here to Stay:

This song is about the chosen one and his community accepting the reality that the gods are not what they appear to be. The Leaders are in league with these false gods. As a whole, they decide to take their lives, land, and religion back. It's time to unite and stand up.

9. They Bleed Just Like You:

The people, tribe, and community are led by the chosen one to the gates of paradise, where the gods reside. Once inside, they ravage the communities within the walls. During their cleansing, they soon realize the gods aren't fighting back, and they aren't special or even much different from what they are. In fact, these people have been lied to but their leadership and have been led to believe the tribes and communities were wild, savage animals and didn't have the ability to understand how to be civil, how to work as a community, how to love. Soon, both sides realize they have been lied to by the same people and decide to work together and take back paradise and take back their freedom. Once they overthrow their tyrants, they learn to live in peace in paradise and have the freedom to find their own way of life and find their own version of god.