Aviators - Godhunter (NEW ALBUM | Alternative Rock)

The new album is finally here! You can find it on Bandcamp with bonus tracks right here:

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At the very end of the world, The Elder of the last city on earth sits on his throne awaiting the end of his immortal reign. There is only one being that can complete the task, and he's been warned that she's finally come to take him. He warns to anyone left listening, "Godhunter's gonna hunt you..."

I'd like to thank every single one of the 59(!) Discord server members and patrons who lent their voices to this song in the backup crowd vocals. You all sound amazing!

Lyrics:

Rumors heard
From a little black bird
The edges of a prophecy
The pieces I have learned
Said the daughter of the reaper
Has been searching for the keeper
And I fear she'll let me burn
Locked tight up
In the tower on top
Of the domain of humanity
The godhood that I've earned
When you're holding on to majesty
You'd fear the hunt, a travesty
That balance may return

When you're sinful to the bone
Unholy
And you've claimed yourself a throne
Like me
Wield power of your own
Making
Godhunter's gonna hunt you down
If you're something more than flesh
Ascended
And you've taken on the rest
To end it
Then she'll find you in a dream
Tormented
Godhunter's gonna hunt you down

Fear confined
To the depths of my mind
For what could be such a threat to me
The conqueror of time
Yet the whispers of a reckoning
Have kept the spirits beckoning
To look upon my crime
Blood and war
When the world is no more
She's been watching for a century
With hatred, and with scorn
If you know the hunter's coming
Then you hide or keep on running
'Cause she's slain the gods before

Don't let her see your power in the daylight
Don't let her see it when you bring the storm
To the master of the eldritch she's a growing bed of thorns
Dark cults, leaders of the night,
Tell the tales of a fright
From a ghost of the future days
A holy crusade
On the gods decayed
To end our violent ways
Lost kings, fallen in the mist
Made their names on a list
And the hunt was carried through
A price for the past
When your name is last
And the hunter comes for you

Of all the free
She has none left but me
And my loyal knights have passed with time
A god and a throne, locked up all alone
In the kingdom I called mine
Dreams of a being
From the watcher unseen
Now he warned me she'll come to take his due
"The hate in your head, she has more" he said
"The godhunter waits for you"

[zackdonzanti]

"Of course monsters can be killed. If they couldn't we'd have to call them gods." ~Catherine Foundling
"There's a difference between Gods and gods. I have a few corpses of the latter in my laboratory." ~Warlock

[archangelofstories]

"The difference between Gods and Demons largely depends on where one is standing at the time" Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers Legion

[branard]

reminds me of a quote from a dnd-like game (if you know the story, you have good tastes)
"But you're a villain, you can't kill a hero!"
"well its a good thing you aren't a hero"

[melhupby]

"Then you hide or keep on running. 'Cause she's slain the gods before"


Chills. Everytime man.

[malrok]

, ,The hate in your head, she has more, he said''' - that line is so fucking poetic. I don't know why, but that sentence just sounds perfectly

[ThePrzibilla]

"What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive?"
-Dagoth Ur

[eye]

The line “but she will find you in a dream tormented” always gives me chills i don’t know why

[abreebee]

As the man spoke, the people around him grew more nervous. They tried to keep to themselves, focusing on their drinks, while the man continued to boast of his greatness and power. He must not have been from around here.

Moments later, to no one’s surprise, the man went too far.
“As a matter of fact, I am so strong and powerful, I’m practically immortal! I may as well be a god!”
A hush fell over the bar. Then, without warning, there was an icy breeze, and a mark appeared above the man’s head. A symbol made of light. No one knew what it meant, and yet everyone knew _exactly_ what it meant.

A chill ran down his spine, and a voice only he could hear whispered in his ear.
“You have declared yourself more than mortal. A god. Now, you have been marked. Run, but know that you cannot hide. The godhunter is coming for you.”

[MarkoArillius]

This sounds like a story based off of a D&D campaign these guys play... and I love it.

[elrusito]

"They say gods can't be killed... But have you ever wondered why you've never seen one?"

[evanhunt]

"I am a god!"
Godhunter: "And I took that personally."

[Cygodol]

This song surprisingly works very well for The Chosen Undead, The Ashen Undead, The Tarnished, & The Cursed Undead.

[chris-mlm]

I tried to make a story line based off the four albums (Stargazers, Dystopian Fiction, Godhunter, Building Better Worlds). Enjoy. (Based off lyrics, lore, and speculation.)
Stargazers is mainly about the war. We don’t know when it was, but it happened.

In mankind, there rose up men who were merged with machines to become beings known as "The Ascended". The Ascended were more than human. They became powerful, unstoppable, immortal. They may have even been able to travel through time, at least a one-way backwards (based off “Signed on for a Sequel, where it states “When the 21 century arrives”). This power seems to have come from The Watcher: "He's been given a warning from a visitor who gave him his power long ago", "From the watcher unseen
/Now he warned me she'll come to take his due" (Godhunter lore/lyrics). As to "why" he did this, I will attempt to discover this later.

But anyway, one way or another, the Ascended rose to power. They became government leaders. But they wanted full power, and so they declared war. First they bombed and decimated their opponents, turning cities into wastelands. A huge, giant war that caused the water to be red with blood, and blood ran through the streets like running red water. Then, they fooled the people. They made them forget that they were once men, and were worshiped and feared as gods. The Ascended were in control.

Dystopian Fiction is after the war. It starts with the song “Exodus”, and it is aptly named. Miami was hit with a massive exodus after the Ascended ordered the city to be firebombed, which happened at midnight (Whenever it Rains). The lucky ones escaped. After that, the city became known as “Bleeding Sun”, because the fire fell so heavily it looked as though the sun had bled upon it. The people wanted to overthrow, but how could they? These were immortal gods, and the people still worshiped them as such. But then they found out the truth behind these “gods”: they used to be men (Rogue assumedly told them, but more about her later). The religion that helped keep the Ascended in power crumbled. They were still powerful and immortal, but they were still once men. The people had an anthem to give them hope (Dystopian Fiction). They began to unite against the Ascended, under the leadership of a young woman. However, not all Ascended are evil.

Now for the complicated bit.

1) The Godhunter/Hunter: she is the young woman leading the uprising against the Ascended. When she was younger, she witnessed the horrors of the Ascended government: the war, the slaughter, the innocent lives lost. She couldn’t do anything about it, but then she became Ascended. She infiltrated the tyrants who had taken over Bleeding Sun (the Keepers), who trapped the survivors inside the city like a prison, encouraged the name “Bleeding Sun” as a warning against revolution, and used their god status to keep people in line. (Side note, central Miami is called “Kingdom Come”, where the leaders live). She hid her nature and became the leader of the human revolution. She used her position inside Kingdom Come to infiltrate their strongholds. She killed the gods. She saw humanity rejoice and build better worlds (the entire album is about rejection tyranny and rebuilding). However, she is immortal. She sees humanity rise up, start a war, rebuild, start a war, rise up... She finally saw that humanity would never learn. This hopelessness, plus the centuries she had lived and the lives she had seen lost led her to want to stop hunting, because during this entire time she has been stamping out any Ascended that threaten to relive the past “Ascended Dynasty” (as I just decided to call it). But eventually, she changes from not wanting to hunt, to wanting to finally die, but being unable to due to her Ascension, and so she waits for the end of the world to see if she will finally have peace.

(I have been told she is the one with the gun, according to DeviantArt.)

2) The Traveler: Not much is known about him, as he was just given a name in Godhunter. However, what we don’t know, we can speculate. We do know for certain that he is Ascended, and seems to have been pushed into the past, based on the phrasing “At the beginning of The Traveler’s journey through time”. His story starts in a village on a stormy night, where he is about to witness the 100-year breach. This is a breach caused by evil magic, which allows the dead to rise for one night. Obviously a bad thing for that village, though luckily there is only “one breach every hundred years”. It never states it, but it can be assumed he broke the spell. From there it is unknown what he does, but we know he has watched innocent lives lost to war, and mourned them (based off Whenever It Rains). This mourning presumably means he fought to stop the Ascended, and I speculate he is the mysterious “Ascended” in “No More Heros” who kills any being that may become more powerful than the Hunter, the one who killed the gods that caused such death. Unfortunately, this can’t undo the last and the one he loved is dead, killed in a firebombing, probably the one that caused Bleeding Sun (based on “I’d tell you I’m sorry I’d walk through the flames”).

As he continues, he realises the world is about to end, and he wonders if he can truly die, despite his ascension.

(I have been told he is the one on the far left, according to DeviantArt.)

3) The Rogue: Another one who was just named in Godhunter, so much is unknown, but, again, we can assume the capability to time-travel (“A god traveling through history”). The Rogue fights for truth, and opposes those who lie to the people. Her fight is different though: she fights with words, by spreading the truth. In the age of technology, she has sworn to oppose all enemies to truth, which sets her against the tyrannical Ascended, who lie to the people to keep power. It was presumably her who revealed their true nature to the prisoners of Bleeding Sun, which led to the revolution of The Hunter. However, by the time of the revolution, truth is all-but dead, killed by the lies of the Ascended. After seeing this, she gave a final warning: the path of lies lead to war. It can be assumed she joined in the revolution of The Hunter, seeing as how she was partially responsible for it, and, judging by the album cover, traveled with The Hunter and Traveler to kill all the “gods”. We don’t know what happens to her, but it is likely that she, too, awaits death.

(I have been told she is the one with the bow, according to DeviantArt.).

4) The Watcher: he has been around for a very, very long time, since before the 4-part album story arc. The Watcher does what his name implies: he watched humanity. I can’t say he is Ascended, because he is mentioned by the creature in “Far Side” (a song about an actual demon trying to trick you into going to hell), and in “The Watcher”, where is the one who leads people in limbo to heaven or hell. In fact, he seems to be a type of judge, coming for those who he deems worthy of death (I’ll forgive the death you’ve earned/The cities you’ve burned).

But all the same, he exists, he is immortal, and he is ancient. The Watcher, whatever he is, does not trust humanity, presumably due to him watching “the slaughter of billions across the Earth”. In fact, he seems to be the one who started the Ascended, as mentioned previously. The only reason that seems to make sense for this is that The Watcher's distrust of humanity made him desire to place other beings, who have a share of his power, in charge of humanity, rather than humanity itself. However, his actions led to the end of the world. Due to the evil he created, and his presumable dislike of evil (I'll forgive the death you've earned/the cities you've burned), The Watcher ascended The Hunter, The Rogue, and The Traveler to kill the gods in an attempt to undo the mess he had made, as he refuses to interfere. However, as he sees the world about to end in war, he steps forward. “As the only god with the power to take action”, he approaches the last leader of humanity with a deal. This is a huge occasion, as The Watcher not only doesn’t trust man, but also made it a rule that he won’t interfere (“Now I’ve broken all the rules I’ve written”).

He brought he last human leader to his domain in limbo (“Just to bring you to this cold fort between/your ailing home and afterlife’s wither”). He makes a deal to save humanity, and the Earth: he’ll grant his soul, his power, to the leader, if he leads humanity to something better. The Watcher will ascend the leader to save the world. It seems that The Watcher needs humanity to exist: “To the last home/of civilisation/without which I’m gone”). This makes sense, given that, if there is no humanity to go to limbo, there is no need for a gatekeeper of limbo. Thus, he will strive to keep humanity alive, so he may survive. While the leader rebuilds, The Watcher will wait in a castle by the sea, presumably in limbo.
However, there is one catch: if the leader becomes corrupted, if he fails, The Watcher will return for him.

(He is the one on the far right by the pillar.)

The man in the middle clutching the arrow is the last god, who wrote the warning of “Godhunter”.

So... what'd you think?

[antoniocarniero]

This God hunter sounds like a really pissed of Warlock.

[UltimosGabriel]

Okay, I finally realised. This is from a rpg session you had.

Well done, your dungeon master must be proud.

[SomeKrieger]

For newcomers to the Bleeding Sun Universe, This image depicts The Elder the Master of the Ascended, The Watcher the Reaper, The Godhunter, The Traveler, and The Rogue. The Ascended are in laymen’s terms, a group of swamp cultists who have become god the the Elder as their leader, and the city known as The Bleeding Sun is just a some how more dystopian Miami. It’s awesome :D

[alienavery]

I love to think about Hollow Knight when I hear this song. The player is literally a god hunter. I have so many ideas for what could be used in like, a video made with this song. I love it!
I also think the narrator could be the Pale King, possibly as some sort of spirit or dying god that is invisible to the dream nail, watching over the ruins of his kingdom.

[PankoBreadcrumbs]

A god minding their own business: *WHY DO I HEAR BOSS MUSIC?*

[ValexTheGobbo]

My group and I just finished a year and a half long campaign where we were forced to slay the literal manifestation of darkness and dreams and evacuate an entire plane of people to Eberron. This song basically became out theme song at the end.

[herobrineharry]

“You fools! You disastrous, bumbling squanderers! It's not right! Who now shall be First Navigator, Lord of Shapes, harrowed god, Taken King? Not you! You might have been Kings and Queens of the Deep! But you have toppled Oryx and you have not replaced him!

There must be a strongest one. It is the architecture of these spaces.

Why are you leaving?” -Toland, The Shattered One, King’s Fall Grimoire Card.