The Way is Open

by the Evolutionaries

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    The Evolutionaries blend industrial rock, electronic textures, and heavy guitars into a sound thats dark, cinematic, and driving. Known to many fans from their song Slave,featured as Cliffs boss fight anthem in Dead Rising, the band pushes genre boundaries with pounding rhythms, layered synths, and raw vocals that shift from haunting whispers to powerful shouts. Their new album The Way Is Open expands that vision, fusing metal, electronic, and occult-tinged atmospheres into an immersive listening experience.

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    The Evolutionaries blend industrial rock, electronic textures, and heavy guitars into a sound thats dark, cinematic, and driving. Known to many fans from their song Slave,featured as Cliffs boss fight anthem in Dead Rising, the band pushes genre boundaries with pounding rhythms, layered synths, and raw vocals that shift from haunting whispers to powerful shouts. Their new album The Way Is Open expands that vision, fusing metal, electronic, and occult-tinged atmospheres into an immersive listening experience.

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    24-page zine companion to The Way is Open.

    A premium-quality zine that expands the world of The Way is Open. Across 24 pages of text and symbolic art, this work unfolds like an occult journal—part lyric companion, part secret scripture.

    Printed on heavy, magazine-grade paper with rich black-and-white-and-purple artwork, the zine feels like an artifact from another place: compact, beautifully produced, and meant to be returned to as the songs reveal new meanings.

    More than liner notes, this is a doorway into the mythos of The Evolutionaries.

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The Fire Inside Waiting for the water, always felt alone Kept quiet secrets, everyone had known Hear it moan Hear it groan The broken soulless drone Be at peace in your empty home He was the shadow of a man who had the sense to fade away He gave up the plan, he gave up his face This why we’ll never die, we’ll always rise on the tide of the fire inside In the vigor of the blood, youth are shown Dust-covered doors, cut into the stone They are tall, we are small, but there’s room to crawl He was the shadow of a man who had the sense to fade away He gave up the plan, he gave up his face This why we’ll never die, we’ll always rise on the tide of the fire inside He was the shadow of a man who had the sense to fade away He gave up the plan, he gave up his face This why we’ll never die, we’ll always rise on the tide of the fire inside No more shadow of a man, No more shadow of a man This why we’ll never die, we’ll always rise on the tide of the fire inside
2.
Never Be The Same Believe in nothing and you’ll be alright All that goddamn noise and not a lesson in sight I don’t want to let you know how to speak my secret name It’s better for us both if you just play the game Feeling’s everything to have a good time Ignore the cursed words that bring darkness to light I don’t want to let you know how to speak my secret name It’s better for us both if you just play the game I don’t want to see you yearn for a cup of shame Feed the fire in which you burn or you’ll never be the same I don’t want to let you know how to speak my secret name It’s better for us both if you just play the game I don’t want to see you yearn for a cup of shame Feed the fire in which you burn or you’ll never be the same
3.
Deepest Sea 03:56
Deepest Sea Woke up by the sea, none are near to me Washed ashore, empty and clean Nowhere left a piece of me This flesh changed by the sea I was drowning in the deepest sea But now i’m safe where I can never dream Look around there’s nothing in this place Its a temple to a vanished race There’s nothing left to keep me here Without hope there is no fear This where I confess what is never said This is where I broke, this is where I bled I’ll never be something more than me I’ll never see stars in the sky again I was drowning in the deepest sea But now i’m safe where I can never dream I’ll never be something more than me I’ll never see stars in the sky again I was drowning in the deepest sea But now i’m safe where I can never dream I was drowning in the deepest sea But now i’m safe where I can never dream
4.
Velvet Black 04:02
Velvet Black Hand over hand, climb my strand Break no bread, rest when dead He’s a deep sleeper, dreaming of a velvet black feeling. Dust to dust, cleave the night Child of lust, finds the light He’s a deep sleeper, dreaming of a velvet black feeling… … who will wake up reeling from a velvet black feeling Weak old man broke and sad Dry, all bled, left for dead Ash to ash, all for naught Where’s the foe that I fought? He’s a deep sleeper, dreaming of a velvet black feeling… … who will wake up reeling from a velvet black feeling
5.
White Hole 04:02
White Hole Red, blue, black, and white All goals are out of sight Off the map and out of mind The Spirit of the Age wants to fight Hit me once I fall and pray But stand back up, i’m no prey Hit me twice if you may But beware the claws I put away Restless soul, it all comes round again Through a white hole, the flat circle has a third dimension The broken made whole, blinding new horizons The brave man stands for heaven’s election More hungry each bite I take, all the food here is fake Nobody can create in this icy desert scape They all fear the fire, but the ice is much more dire Eternal night, eternal ire of the ancient queen’s black empire Oh Spirit of the Deep I pray for you to keep A spark to my rage, make me a flame to burn the Spirit of the Age Restless soul, it all comes round again Through a white hole, the flat circle has a third dimension The broken made whole, blinding new horizons The brave man stands for heaven’s election Restless soul, it all comes round again Through a white hole, the flat circle has a third dimension The broken made whole, blinding new horizons The brave man stands for heaven’s election
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The Children of Frankenstein Fed by shadows lit up by sparks We are groping in the dark Defying nature, ignoring fate We know not what we create Remade by our desire, redefined The children of Frankenstein Our code’s unraveled our wire’s fray As we dissolve and melt away Electric curses keep our minds ablaze We paint ourselves in blues and grays With every change, with each new design We perfect our human crime Remade by our desire, redefined The Children of Frankenstein Our essence scatters, our form decays Into the void we fade away Remade by our desire, redefined The children of Frankenstein Our code’s unraveled our wire’s fray As we dissolve and melt away Self-made, self-erased Self-made, self-erased Unraveling faster, dissolving disaster Self-made, self-erased Dissolving disaster Self-made, self-erased Remade by our desire, redefined The children of Frankenstein Our essence scatters, our form decays Into the void we fade away
8.
Super Manifest Destiny In a crowd all alone, silent man, lips are sewn Stranger among unclaimed dreams, he’s deaf to the whispers of the queen Sun beat down burn the weeds, sun come down spark the seeds Old maids grasp at the brave secret servants who escape the cave Become the dragon, your claws a guarantee Sun storm wash the earth, true men find their worth Old hags in their rags melt back to their black birth Become the dragon, your claws a guarantee Your flames a new dawn, a supermanifest destiny Falcon soul buried deep. arise Taking wing, raptors in the skies Become the dragon, your claws a guarantee Your flames a new dawn, a supermanifest destiny Become the dragon, set us all free Supermanifest destiny
9.
Unbroken Chain Vibrate, create the stepping stones That makes the potential explode I gotta be true to my code Not gonna hold dear what corrodes I see you hiding in plain sight, my crown is so full of eyes Twisted pairs of light make primal metal sparkle and shine Spiral spaces twist minds that demand to survive Unbroken chain Manmade prisons cannot obscure what’s outside Eternal flame, unbroken chain Down deep we keep the light cold We wait to make the truth known Believing in a song sung by stone We are part of a great crescendo Pressure in the pit of our souls to grow Harmony’s in the uncollapsed flow Even in the black abyss, we know The way is open where we go I see you hiding in plain sight, my crown is so full of eyes Twisted pairs of light make primal metal sparkle and shine Spiral spaces twist minds that demand to survive Unbroken chain Manmade prisons cannot obscure what’s outside Eternal flame, unbroken chain Not the first but not the last Future men, we shape the past Spread to the winds to keep us weak There’s no hiding what we seek Beyond pleasure and pain Unbroken chain
10.
X 06:12
It’s just the wind whipping me in the eyes Highlighting the thing I despise Its just a whisper of light, no surprise A shadow of a memory that can’t hear my cries Plaster the wall with what it holds dear Replace the air, let it drown on its tears Cant see the face anymore locked away behind a door Wind-whipped eyes so blind, you will see nevermore Nevermore I am blessed with an ex sense of being I am X, a revenant without a voice for pleading cant see the face anymore locked away behind a door wind whipped eyes so blind you will see nevermore nevermore I am blessed with an ex sense of being I am X, a revenant without a voice for pleading I am X, a revenant without a voice for pleading Without a voice Without a voice

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The Evolutionaries blend industrial rock, electronic textures, and heavy guitars into a sound thats dark, cinematic, and driving. Known to many fans from their song Slave,featured as Cliffs boss fight anthem in Dead Rising, the band pushes genre boundaries with pounding rhythms, layered synths, and raw vocals that shift from haunting whispers to powerful shouts. Their new album The Way Is Open expands that vision, fusing metal, electronic, and occult-tinged atmospheres into an immersive listening experience.

This download includes full-quality, uncompressed WAV files of the original masters. Includes special edition digital copy of "The Secret Book of the Dead" journal.

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releases May 29, 2026

PRODUCED & ENGINEERED: the EVOLUTIONARIES
CO-PRODUCTION & MIXING: MITIA WEXLER
MASTERING: NOEL SUMMERVILLE

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