Alesana- And Now For The Final Illusion [Lyrics In Description]

[SpardaAsksEmilie]

you guys are idiot. The Emptiness is from Edgar Allan Poe's poem ""Annabel Lee". And a place where the sun is silent is from Inferno by Dante. They're completely different !

[krystanicole19]

Imprisoned beneath the world where the soulless dwell.

Lies a place that the damned call home.

A place where the virtuous hide in fear.

A place we see only in our nightmares.

A place where the sun is silent. <3

epicness \m/

[rodney6413]

Listen to the entire album from beginning to end, and tell me the last 8 words don't give you the chills

[NatsuyGray]

Bum! Shakala! XD

[HUA12312]

EPICCC ALBUM ENDINGGG :D! it's like having kick ass credits to the end of an amazing movie

[Anayabe]

man this whole album helped me right my girlfriends story 

[xWiggleDeezRoots]

Is the place where the sun is silent hell in a way?

[ShawnMilkeLover]

@xWiggleDeezRoots It is hell. The whole album APWTSIS is based off of Dante's Inferno, which is a story about a man's journey through all the circles of hell. If you read the Sparknote for the book, then look at the lyrics to all the songs, the album will make a lot more sense.

[razaksabara]

BASAHMAMY

[razaksabara]

what's going in a new album from alesana so different with the old one album?? the emptiness

i hear this song its very same as emo song

[carmenflor1]

Lol is this the closing to the album or is this a real song!?!? I ♥ ALESANA!!!

[Samantha2762]

JUST REALISED THIS!! BUT THERE IS NO DISLIKE!!!! I ALWAYS KNEW ALESANA WAS THE MOST EPIC BAND EVA!!

[skyx22]

Did the voices of the crucified in the end of this song is actually sound that was recorded in Siberia, Russia that is claimed by religious people as sound of purgatory?

[Myhumpbuddy]

''Imprisoned beneath the world where the soulless dwell.

Lies a place that the damned call home.

A place where the virtuous hide in fear.

A place we see only in our nightmares.

A place where the sun is silent.'' Sounds just like my sister's room

o:

[ZeRoRuLeS561]

@Myhumpbuddy lol

[Azhdeen2]

A Place Where the Sun is Silent (Album) is a prequel to The Emptiness. There will be a concluding album/final chapter released in 2012.

[wolfsraingirl123]

@Azhdeen2 the emptiness was the one released before this one i thought? so how is this a prequel? im confused

[Azhdeen2]

@wolfsraingirl123 That's what I had originally thought, but Alesana released a statement a while back saying that 'The Emptiness' is a prequel to 'A Place Where the Sun is Silent' and that they had another album coming in July of 2012

[tdud007]

@Azhdeen2 link?

[Voldypants]

Now every time I finish the Emptiness I'll have to listen to this, then the emptiness, then this. It'll be an endless circle of the Artist's story!! Mind: Blown

[StealaBreath]

I think this will be the opening to they're newest music video

[poizunlady67]

i love my playlist...this has been the brst album aside from The Emptiness...I WANT TO READ DANTE'S INFERNO NOW OMG!

[yesianicole]

HEAVY LYRICS!!!!!!!

[Gimmebunneh]

Haha! I love people whos arguing and yet they are all wrong XD...

Album is about "Dante's inferno" 14th Century Divine Comedy.

(Refer Wikipedia about Dante's Inferno)

Shawn Milke was reading Dante's Inferno Befor he made this.

[FallOfGrace100]

@Gimmebunneh the album is not litterally simply about Dante's Inferno, just as The Emptyness is not simply about Edgar Allen Poe's stories, theses albums ARE original stories composed by Alesana, but they have many allusions to E.D.P. and Dante's inferno, Influences if you will

[andydeSOLaziON]

SUBTITLE ON SPANISH..PLEASE..

[VandersonStudios]

Sorry for the other half of VS. He's not as much of an Alesana nut ad me, but he's learning XD the album isn't continued from The Emptiness. This one's based on Dante's Inferno, I'm pretty sure

[mrdarkmasterf]

Annabel for all time

[Keenerjared123]

he wakes up and kills annabel

[AwesomeDoesExist1432]

Hahaha just found out that on my iTunes, it goes straight from this song into To The Stage by Asking Alexandria... THAT is the perfect transition ever. Story fits perfectly too :D

[xalmonable]

I am really hoping that this is not the very very "final" illusion.

[Jessica122598]

OMG just read the story...god they sure do no how to write the vocabulary and just the set up is sooo....exquisite lol and AWESOME!!!!

[slangtand]

@Jessica122598 Where did you read the story?

[Jessica122598]

can sum1 plzzzzzzzz give me a link to this story cuz i read the emptiness cuz i have the album but i cnt find this online and the store was sold out:/

[Jessica122598]

OMG! #Shocked this was the dream he had before he woke up to his dead Anabel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg­ggggggggggggggg!!! EPIC O.O

[musiclover279801]

when i read the description my jaw dropped to the floor! oh my god! I LOVE ALESANA! each album is a work of art <3

[gikk01322]

Holy shit!! the emptiness happnd in between. The time he woke up and the time he realize he was stab,

[execute11]

hope someone makes a article about the story of this album

[MarbethMonster]

its about Anabell Lee :o

[mrdarkmasterf]

@MarbethMonster yeah annabel lee!!!...

always...

[Hardcorevoxsynth]

GOD DAMMIT LOL i cant believe it

[AwkwardPSN]

ALESANA great story tellers

[imUrderFuCkTArdS]

uhmm...just asking....does anyone have a link to the story behind this album??? i want to put the pieces together cuz i'm kinda confused....

[TheLilslox10]

@imUrderFuCkTArdS at the end you see its a prequel to the emptiness and you can read the 2nd halph of the story here at wherethesunissilent(.)com

[imUrderFuCkTArdS]

@TheLilslox10 ...i was wondering where the other half is.....but thanks though.. :)

[DearAmandaMarie1]

And on the cover that's the temptress, the house is the house he follwed her into, the light by the trees is the forest he ran through multiple times and kingdom in the upper left corner is the golden city (heaven). :DDD yay for interpretation!(:

[DearAmandaMarie1]

And in the trailer for A Place Where The Sun is Silent after it says Imprisoned beneath the world where the soulless dwell.

Lies a place that the damned call home.

A place where the virtuous hide in fear.

A place we see only in our nightmares.

A place where the sun is silent.

he says: This isnt the first time Ive had to watch myself die.

Because after he realized he killed Annabel someone stabbed him. In the Emptiness Annabel killed him so it was the second time he died.

[xXInsaneFangirlXx]

@DearAmandaMarie1 Even though I haven't been lucky enough to get the album so I'm just freeballin' here,

an alternative to when he says "This isn't the first time I've had to watch myself die" can also be because they say that when you go to hell, you're forced to repeat your sin for all eternity

[DearAmandaMarie1]

If you read the story online It says that in the dream where everything happened he killed the temptress, but then Annabel tells him to wake up. Since it was all a dream he didn't kill the temptress, he killed Annabel.

[Hardcorevoxsynth]

ANNABEL O.O

[cedezrants]

I can understand how people are getting things all confused, but does it matter? As long as it makes sense to you, and you like it, what else is important? Yes, this song mentions Annabel which is decieving, but these albums are seperate. The Emptiness which Shawn wrote, A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, epic poem ,Inferno, written by Dante. Again, who cares? This album is fucking delecious so is The Emptiness so is Where Myth Fades To Legend, and same with On Frail Wings Of Vanity and Wax!

[NakedCupCakeKitty]

i felt like i was dying with them playing t my funeral in the background .___.

[Mykal82000]

This Is Officially The Prequel of The Emptiness. You can tell yourself by reading the story.

[VandersonStudios]

@Mykal82000 You're kind of wrong dude... it's more like the sequel and prequel. The whole story is him, after annabel kills him, going to hell slowly realizing everything about himself and his love for her. Him waking up to her dead, and showing an endless loop.

[Mykal82000]

@VandersonStudios Have you read the story?

[AwesomeDoesExist1432]

@VandersonStudios No no no no no. If you know the Emptiness deeply, you know that before the emptiness, he was going crazy. The "going to Hell" references you're picking up on are just him going crazy.

[Tinopa2]

@VandersonStudios wait...., does this one include a book too? stupid me downloaded it on I-tunes D:

[Zackattack2522]

@VandersonStudios So this album takes place before he wakes to a dead Annabel, the dreams before hand. And it takes place after he is killed and is going to Hell to find her? idk havent really disected it yet but im bad with that anyways lol help an alesana fan out :D

[alesanasexy]

@Zackattack2522 This album is about the hell he goes through and it keeps going round and round. Really I do not understand the hell part yet because I have not read the Inferno yet but it just basically tells us how he is in hell. And it will keep happening.

[Zackattack2522]

@alesanasexy me and my friend think that its a loop between the emptiness and APWTSIS where the emptiness happens first then he goes to hell and when he wakes up he goes the emptiness all over again.

[doomaster1999]

@VandersonStudios wait i thought he killed himself :/

[Rupp101]

@VandersonStudios Ummm your both wrong, If you look up some interviews he says this album is about dantes inferno with kinda mixed with the annabel, idk thats just what ive heard in intreviews..

[LexiiGoesRawr]

Yes, unfortunately, this is a prequel to the Emptiness. Alesana is my favorite band and I love them, but honestly, they disappointed me with this ending. In my opinion, they should have left the albums and unrelated stories. The stories just don't mix.

[mrdarkmasterf]

There goes Annabel again...

[darkcrusaderXX]

The intro sounds strange haha

[Godly875]

Great final song, I bow to you.

[hghytrdgb]

The album is a concept album. Dante's Inferno is the concept.

[NieaXcVII]

3:34 i get tingles every time i hear her voice even in the emptiness when she says "The emptiness will haunt you" when its her voice alone i feel cold like a monster is speaking to me but i love it so much. Interlude 4 has to be my favorite "Song" off the emptiness just because of her voice

[Mykal82000]

Just for you people who are discussing the two albums, in "A Place Where The Sun Is Silent" It shows a picture on this song of The wanderer with blood over his hands looking at The Temptress in bed who has been slaughtered with a mirror over the head of the bed..... so if this gets you any clues here you go.

[uramirez17]

@Mykal82000 According to Alesana's official Facebook fan page: "Shawn talks with Noisecreep about how the 14th century poem 'Dante's Inferno' influenced the new album 'A Place Where The Sun Is Silent'" so pretty much, the songs describe the famous poem 'Dante's Inferno' which btw is a great poem.

[wALter06100]

@Mykal82000 is the story in the internet..pls tell me the link..im confused in the real story of the emptiness and a place whre the sun is silent..

[dustyjuiceboy]

@Mykal82000

its is sometimes believed that our punishments in hell take form in our greatest fear or worst memory, so it MIGHT make sense for having to relive that horrible morning over and over again to be the artist/wanderer's eternal punishment...

[ZeRoRuLeS561]

@dustyjuiceboy true read Dante's Inferno

[addaegwtrhtwrjnmn]

@Mykal82000 "A Place Where The Sun Is Silent" is about The Inferno.

[Naio1342]

This album has to be the prequel to The Emptiness. Cuz if you think about it, the Artist says, "I wonder why her flesh has the chill of virgin snow. My thoughts are disrupted as reality hits me like a bold of lightning and I scream." Thus begins The Emptiness story, The Curse of the Virgin Canvas, this is when the Artist wakes to find Annabel dead.

[MyChocolateMoose]

@Naio1342 its not a prequel. its a concept album about the divine comedy (dante's inferno) its about the 7 deadly sins basically...but since its about sins i can see how you would relate it to the artist in the emptiness album.

[mokonaismokona]

This doesn't make sense though if this is the prequel to The Artist waking up in The Emptiness to find Annabel dead. Since the majority of the events of The Emtpiness never happened, does that mean that this is like a dream within a dream? So Alesana is basically rewriting Inception.

[darkcrusaderXX]

@mokonaismokona As said by Melissa Milke, "This would be a better question to ask the band. From my standpoint I can assure you it is a prequel. The Emptiness takes place in the mind of a delusional man, not his dreams. Inception came out 6 months after The Emptiness so, No, alesana is not "basically rewriting Inception".

[mokonaismokona]

@darkcrusaderXX Well its obviously supposed to be a prequel, but this leaves several questions, namely whether or not The Artist actually had this dream. As we know, Annabel never actually died, so for APWtSiS to end with the Artist finding Annabel dead must mean that APWtSiS never occured either. At the end of APWTSiS, the Artist is killed by Annabel mere moments after he leaves her body and looks in the mirror. This cant be so, as it skips the events of the Emptiness.

[mokonaismokona]

@darkcrusaderXX There are a few other plot holes. In The Emptiness the Artist wakes Annabel up because he wants to show her his latest sketch. However at the end of this album he wakes her up to tell her about his dream. Also, at the end of The Emptiness The Artist sees Annabel as she ends his life, but in this album he doesn't bother to open his eyes. The story to The Best Laid Plans also heavily implies that the artist was lead to kill Annabel by The temptress even though it was The Thespian.

[TheLilslox10]

@mokonaismokona i think the plot holes are more like 2 alternate universes

[mokonaismokona]

@TheLilslox10 So it isn't a prequel then? Darn, I wanted them to connect seemlessly...

[TheLilslox10]

@mokonaismokona i just thought of it could be a prequel because he wakes up shes dead someones stabbing him but remember in the end she was never dead durring the emptiness so it was a nightmare within a nightmare and she kills him at the end

[paperkuttv]

this is the best album ever

[FallOfGrace100]

perhpas this entire album is an continuation of the Emptyness?

[Anna4ever98]

I think this song is the sequel to The Emptiness, because if you read the booklet from the Emptiness, this song makes so much sense. I think this song describes the beginning of the story and his point of view after being stabbed by Annabel, the lyrics "My thoughts are disrupted as reality hits me like a bold of lightning and I scream." And the 'we are the crucified" part & the woman talking in the end, i think she's explaining that the sketch artist was sent to hell. THATS JUST WANT I THINK:)

[Anna4ever98]

@Anna4ever98 hahah oops, what, not want:)

[alche4]

i think this album has something to do with the emptiness .

[TheThespian70]

So no story booklet then, but thanks anyway. :)

[TheThespian70]

Does the album come out with a new story booklet?

[Mykal82000]

@TheThespian70 It comes with an art booklet that includes the lyrics.

[OurSweetBlasphemy]

@TheThespian70 Part one is in the booklet but the second part continues online :P

[DarkSpawn505]

Yeah its a new story based on part 1 "Inferno" of "Divine comedy".

[kaguyahiwatari]

SOOOO THIS ALBUM IS GOING TO BE A SEQUEL TO THE LAST ONE?! LIKE AWESOME!? or am i just stupid and thinking like a retard and getting everything all wrong? O:

[ThePoizonx]

@kaguyahiwatari No, this is a totally new story, i believe.

[mefinzo123]

@kaguyahiwatari i believe that this is a prequel to the emptiness. the reason i say this is because he awakes nd tries to wake her but finds her dead which might lead into curse of the virgin canvas thts my opinion

[OscarLopezProduction]

How did you get their music so early?

[XBOXKILLER33988]

@OscarLopezProduction on the Official Alesana Facebook, they posted that if you didnt want to wait to hear the songs that you could follow a link to the album. I think its pretty cool that the band themselves allowed us to hear the songs before the release date :)

[alesanasexy]

@XBOXKILLER33988 It was just previews and for people to buy it off of itunes hopefully. They hate it when you download it illegally.

[XBOXKILLER33988]

@alesanasexy

Yeah.

I followed the link to listen to them (full songs by the way) but I didn't download them illegally or at all.

I got some money when it came out and bought the cd :D

[darkcrusaderXX]

@OscarLopezProduction Didn't they stream it online?

[starlightw0lf]

SIR FOR THIS I ETERNALLY LOVE YOU -3 :3