Lunasphere is the second full-length album by the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Alchemist

Alchemist (band)

Alchemist is an Australian progressive metal band from Canberra whose style combines death metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, Eastern, Aboriginal and electronic influences. The band formed in 1987 and has so far released six studios albums, an EP and a compilation album. Work began on a new EP...

, and the first of their albums to be released by Shock Records

Shock Records

Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...

 through its metal subsidiary Thrust, in 1995. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic described Lunasphere as "Like a doorway into another dimension, the Aussie group's wildly experimental songs often stand on the knife edge between control and chaos, between reason and insanity, and are capable of melding wickedly crushing heavy metal riffing with surprisingly gentle moments of quiet introspection". All of this album's tracks later appeared on the Embryonics

Embryonics

Embryonics is a double-CD compilation of tracks by the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. It was released in 2005 in Australia by Chatterbox Records and worldwide by Relapse Records...

compilation, except the instrumental fragment "Luminous". A live version of "Yoni Kunda" was used on the "Eve of the War

Eve of the War

Eve of the War is an EP from the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. The EP was released by Shock Records through its subsidiary label Thrust in November 1998. The title track, "Eve of the War" is a cover of the opening piece from the 1978 production, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The...

" EP. An alternate live version of both this track and "Closed Chapter" were also included on Embryonics. "Luminous" and "Garden of Eroticism" were used in the soundtrack to a 2010 episode of the TV show Bondi Rescue

Bondi Rescue

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.

Track listing

All tracks by Alchemist

Credits

• Adam Agius
  Adam Agius
  Adam Agius is the vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Alchemist. He formed Alchemist in 1987 while still in high school and is the group's only remaining original member...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
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• Rodney Holder - drums
  Drum kit
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• John Bray - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Roy Torkington - guitar, artwork

• Alchemist and John Hresc - Production at Paradise, and Powerhouse Studios, Sydney
  Sydney
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  , 1995
• John Hresc - Engineered and mixed at Sony Studios, Sydney, 1995
• Hedrush Art - Design

Songs

In the song "My Animated Truth", at 2:35-2:40 a faint voice sound can be heard that says "I'm ready" in the song's background sound when the guitars end playing and then start up again. It could possibly be from a Lunasphere recording session when the band started to record too early and whether it was mistakenly or purposely incorporated into the song is unknown. Also, when reversed, the excerpt at the beginning of the song can clearly be heard saying; "nothing is real, nothing is real, nothing is real" but fading out.