01.The Four Laws

By Phantum Quields · Thrash Metal · From the album Infernal Recurrence

When A equals B, and B's exactly C,

From the thermal balance, none of them can flee

In isolated systems, all energy forms

Never break a constant, they follow the norms

But entropy recklessly cannot simply drop

Climbs to equilibrium, always to the top

The absolute zero is finally reached

The ground state minimum can never be breached

Thermal gradient halts to null

Dual systems find their hull

A non-conductive bridge is built

No more kinetic heat is spilt

Mercury climbs the glass-walled vein

Markers frozen in a static chain

Binary logic: the merge is done

Two distinct masses become as one

Equilibrium reigns supreme

Tearing through the sentient dream

Power is never born from void

By the first law, it is employed

A constant sum of blinding light

Submerged within the cosmic night

Combustion feeds the iron mire

Transmuting fuel to kinetic fire

Nothing emerges from the naught

In the energetic trap, you’re caught

Enthalpy rises, the pressure swells

Trapped within containment shells

Matter to dust, spark into rust

In the conservation we must trust

Matter to dust, spark into rust

In the conservation we must trust

When A equals B, and B's exactly C,

From the thermal balance, none of them can flee

In isolated systems, all energy forms

Never break a constant, they follow the norms

But entropy recklessly cannot simply drop

Climbs to equilibrium, always to the top

The absolute zero is finally reached

The ground state minimum can never be breached

Sophisticated order grinds to dust

Molecular iron succumbs to rust

The gradient dictates the flow

Nowhere left for the heat to go

The arrow points to the formless end

Snapping the structures that will not bend

Scatter the seeds in the thermal gale

Every closed system is ordered to fail

Entropy: the parasitic toll

As the void consumes the whole

The Arrow of Time: a one-way display

In a cold, dark, entropic decay.

Molecular stillness, nearly complete

Kinetic surrender, total retreat

The perfect crystal, frozen and still

Deadened force of the cosmic will

Asymptote of the utter chill

Bending the atoms to its will

Motion expires at the zero-point gate

Locked in a rigid, motionless state

The ground state is a hollowed ghost

Entropy claims its final post

The ground state is a hollowed ghost

Entropy claims its final post

When A equals B, and B's exactly C,

From the thermal balance, none of them can flee

In isolated systems, all energy forms

Never break a constant, they follow the norms

But entropy recklessly cannot simply drop

Climbs to equilibrium, always to the top

The absolute zero is finally reached

The ground state minimum never can be breached

Equilibrium...

The void...

Equilibrium...

The void...

Equilibrium...

The void...

Equilibrium...

The void...

About Thrash Metal

Fast, aggressive metal emphasizing rapid-fire riffing, intense drumming, and punk-influenced energy, pioneered in the 1980s as extreme metal's velocity standard. Bands include: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth

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