A figure of facts are given in the album booklet, by means of a list of sources provided at the end. The sequential order of songs is the same as the track order (as opposed to Entropia) and a number of the events plus places are real. Intended for example, the Black Hills in North America and Lake Karachay in the former USSR.

The sound is generally darker and more subdued than Entropia, by means of a harsh, manufacturing feel to the guitar tones. He realises that he is just a part of a big "mechanism" plus so as to it wheel his life. He makes a New Existence decree to discover come again? penalty his life plus labor has on additional part of the world, and to break free of the "machine" so as to controls his existence. In the second chapter, he travels around the earth and sees what his weapons are actually responsibility in a lot of dissimilar places.

He witnesses a war, and remembers that he was told that the weapons he helped to create would save human lives and preserve the peace. He also sees native populace (specifically, native American Indians) struggling to reclaim their sacred land from the colonising white man, who also had in use uranium as of the ground plus place the waste back into the local rivers. In the third chapter, he arrives at shoreline of Lake Karachay (in Kyshtym in the former USSR), where so much nuclear waste was dumped over the history fifty years that if single stood by the shore for single hour, the exposure to radiation would be such so as to death from physical injuries would happen within two weeks. The entire lake was eventually covered in real, however, for the radiation to be acceptable, it would require to wait there for tens of thousands of years.

However, following ten years the concrete had begun to crack and split open. Also, the lake connects to many underground rivers and absent to sea. The man's quest to leave the "machine" ends as he realises so as to it is impossible for anyone to leave the "machine" since exterior one machine there are just additional equipment. Though, he too realises that the "machine" is only made of its "wheels", so the only thing he can do is choose which machine he wants to be part of and take some responsibility for its direction.

The meaning of the name is that intended for anyone to realise the wickedness of the issues raised in the album, it would only require them to stand for one hour by the Real Lake. The message of the album is for the listener to realise these same belongings. Inside (D.

The Big Machine (D. Handful of Nothing (D. Water (D. Home (D.

Black Hills (D. Pilgrim (D. Coast Tranquillity (D. Inside Out (D.