Massive
Style: alternative metal
Color: dark blue, grey
Theme: time and missed opportunities
Foreword
During your childhood you wanted to become an adult as fast as possible and to fulfil your dream. However, you became an adult but your goals have not been achieved yet. Time is lost… What is the most valuable thing in life? Life itself. What does it consist of? Time. Time treacherously flows away through a hole in the goblet of life… Human bodies are choking in a narrow hourglass… The weight of the unrealized plans presses on the sick mind. But it is not too late to throw off the massive shackles of time and take a step forward. Sure, time can’t be returned… Thus, maybe there is still a chance to attain something in your life?
Lyrics
The past is gone
Before I could bat an eye
the train is moving so fast
the last destination isn’t far
There is no time
To start over again
No time to beat the pain
We’re nothing but stains
Nothing remains
The pendulum swings
I cant escape
Can you stop it?
Give me a break
The priceless time is burned
By workaday life
Where are those inner forces
That always moved me forward?
There is no time
to become an astronaut
no time to overcome a doubt
I am tired, i want to shout
I want to shout
It’s around me
I’m a captive
It’s too heavy
It feels massive
Mixtories
A torn piece of plant flesh in the embrace of withering grass… The destructive blackness captures more and more territories… Half of the living surface has already turned into fragile debris and this process is unstoppable. There’s more in common between an individual’s life and a leaf than it might seem: both begin to die after separation from the stem/umbilical cord. The only difference is in the timing.
In a dark corner, forgotten by time, something round gleams white. Oxygen instantly vanished through the broken window of opportunity… Exact figures are firmly sealed over with monotonously repeating words of despair, because the precision of time carries no meaning. At what moment did the clock undergo such a harsh modification? Perhaps it was like this from the beginning?.. A very convenient thought for those who prefer to blame fate rather than fight their own weaknesses.
Credits
Behind the song
The music for this track was composed and recorded in record time: just two days in December 2016. Massive became Anton Ra’s first relatively straightforward song after a long period of obsession with progressive metal, a time when he wrote exclusively long, riff-heavy tracks.
In the years that followed, Anton Ra collaborated with various vocalists in an attempt to form a band, and Massive became a testing ground for numerous vocal experiments: from the hysterical screaming of a fellow vocalist from Norway to the alternative rock style of Phil Jobman, Mixte’s first frontman. Ultimately, finding himself flying solo once again, Anton Ra decided to record the vocals himself, taking fragments of Phil’s lyrics as a base and expanding upon them. The lyrics were heavily inspired by the sheer massiveness of the song’s guitar riffs. The final tracking took place in the spring of 2019, and Anton brought in drummer Mozez — whom he had previously played with in Enterwelt between 2015 and 2016 — to film the music video. After the video shoot, Mozez decided not to stay with Mixte.
Interestingly, Anton recorded the vocals for the song inside his car, as he didn’t have access to a proper recording space at the time. Released on May 25, 2019, Massive became the very first song officially put out under the Mixte moniker. On April 4, 2025, a remastered version of the original video was released, featuring high-definition visuals and enhanced audio.
This song is awesome.