''Lunasphere'' is the second full-length album by the

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n progressive metal band

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, and the first of their albums to be released by

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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 ''

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

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Track listing

All tracks by Alchemist

Credits

* Adam Agius – vocals, guitar,

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* Rodney Holder –

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* John Bray – bass guitar * Roy Torkington – guitar, artwork * Alchemist and John Hresc – Production at Paradise, and Powerhouse Studios,

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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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lunasphere 1995 albums Alchemist (band) albums