#cryoshell

[askdacast]

EVERYBODY ALL BONKLE FANS SHUT UP STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS IMMEDIATELY

THEY OPENED UP BIONICLE DAY 2023 WITH VAKAMA (YES) NARRATING AFTER 20 YEARS OF MASK OF LIGHT AND BELOVED BIONICLE S#%&POSTER ESSENGER & CRYOSHELL’S BANGER NEW SONG

[alastheswarmleaderhasescaped]

I got bored last week at work so I claimed the celesta room and just screwed around with BIONICLE music for a bit

And anyway here is the opening of Creeping In My Soul

Yes I know it’s supposed to be on piano and I was in a building with literally at least forty pianos so I had no reason to not play this on piano except that I was already in the celesta room and I love celestas so celesta it is

[bellmo15-blog]

LEGO: It's just a couple of adds for a plastic toy line. You don't need to go super hard with the songs!

Cryoshell, ignoring LEGO and creating some of the sickest Alt Rock songs ever:

[cryoshellfans]

Cryoshell and @essengermusic are collaborating on a new song, releasing on BIONICLE Day, August 10th. Get ready!

[chaoskingcornerstone]

I just realized that the "Is there a cure" line in As above so below could apply to every year of G1 Bionicle

2001 - infected masks and Rahi

2002 - Krana (bit of a stretch tho)

2003 - infected masks 2

2004 - Makutas virus literally comatosed Mata Nui, he used a literal virus

2005 - Hordika venom

2006 - mind control zamor spheres

2007 - the pit mutagen

2008 - shadow leeches

2009 and 2010 (2010 is just 2009 part two after all) - Makuta as a literal virus that controls the GRS

[arzeron]

Maybe Brutaka had a reason to become disillusioned with Mata Nui...

[onvermel]

As Above, So Below. The best 810nicle day gift I could ask for. 

[herora-nuva]

"These machines were never built to make things right.

"These machines were never built to BURN ALIVE!"

Ok but can we talk about how fucking hard these lyrics go?! "As Above, So Below", the new song by @essengermusic and Cryoshell, is a masterpiece and dripping with thematic references to Bionicle, and in particular these two lines from the pre-choruses stick out too me because they feel so filled with meaning to the series. Like obviously I'm not Essenger, so I don't know everything that went into these lyrics, but I have to talk about what they make me feel because I can't stop thinking about them. So, here's my attempt at a lyrical analysis! :D

"Don't you feel that its too late to turn the tide. These machines were never built to make things right."

This line feels so interesting, because it feels like an acknowledgement that the characters were never really meant to be heroes. The Toa and Matoran were just meant to be the worker drones to keep the Mata Nui Robot functioning. Things were never meant to go this wrong, these beings who were just machines were never built to face evils and right wrongs of this magnitude. And yet they did, they rose to take on more than they were ever meant to.

"Don't you feel that its too late to turn the tide. These machines were never built BURN ALIIIIIIVEEEEE."

And then this line hits even harder! At the same time as calling them just machines, it calls them alive, and that they were never meant to burn, never meant to experience this pain. It calls them machines but evokes a pity of them, they were never meant to pay the price for these mistakes.

Just the contrast between these two lines (and I gotta say, I LOVE me some slight changes in repeating lyrics that give new context and meaning) captures what in my view is one of the most poignant themes in Bionicle, that they were never meant to be more than machines, and yet they became a people on their own, burdened with the weight of their creators' mistakes.

"Our sanctuary burns while you play god."

Who this refers to is also very interesting. It works for Mata Nui, Makuta, and the Great Beings, and I'd say most of all the Great Beings, who played god while their world burned.

"The world outside is dying as we slowly drown."

This line comes a little earlier than the previous one I mention, and I while it evokes the overarching theme in the song of the world in peril while the subjects are dormant, locked away in a paradise. It makes you think about the Great Beings off who knows where while their creation struggles. Though the drowning metaphor also makes me think of Mata Nui, also a dormant god who made mistakes, drowning from the waters of Aqua Magna literally filling his heart with the waterfall of Karda Nui. Love me some lyrics that have multiple potential meanings and interpretations.

GOD, this song is so sorrowful, and yet feels brimming with a determined rage to make things right, though wondering if ti may be too late. That feeling was so palpable in Bionicle, especially late Bionicle in the Ignition and Bara Magna Sagas. Ahhh, I love it so much, thank you Essenger, I know this was your dream, but to the rest of us, this was a gift beyond measure.

[drlockdown-reviews]

For freedom, we rise

Learn to fly, reach the sky

Legend will carry you

Thousands of miles

Take a stand, hold the land

Make sure that everyone's ready to win

Find the speed, all you need

Team up for battle, we fly, fly

We fly

Mavity hurts

[mytastessuck]

Cryoshell: Creeping In My Soul

The song that redefined how you saw Lego warriors.

Who didn't hear this song on the commercials and thought they were seeing the sickest shit ever? Listen to it and watch the bottom gif and tell me you don't want to fight the Mata Nui itself.

Sick shit.

And hell, because you've been good this year, here's the orchestral version:

Song Score: 8-16/10

[kanohivolitakk]

Zokkets story with no context

[matau-the-228th]

Going through and listening to Bionicle Music again and I can't help but kinda wish Cryoshell did a cover of Hero at one point. I know it's not their style, and they shouldn't have to be tied down by Bionicle, but still.

[noddytheornithopod]

happy bonkle day all

[cryoshellfans]

As Above, So Below

Cryoshell's new song with @essengermusic releases on BIONICLE Day, August 10th!

Artwork by @amaryllis-no and Essenger.

Presave the song

[nocturnal-desolation]

"Not livin' just surviving..."

[wild-saber1337]

BIONICLES ARE BADASS!!!!

Come on Lego hire thies people they are doing all the leg work for you and saving you money!!!