Peace by Proxy, by LOR3L3I

Peace by Proxy

by LOR3L3I

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Urso X I *was* going to get this from my non-metal fan account, but fuck it, it’s Heike Langhans, co-Goddess (along with Sylvaine 🙌) of clean female vocals in the Metalverse!

From ISON to Remina/Light Field Reverie to her fantastic work with Draconian, Langhans has elevated every project she’s ever touched to stunning artistic heights, and this long-awaited electronic solo debut is no exception.

An absolutely exquisite dark jewel, almost certain to be my non-metal AOTY 🖤 Favorite track: Passive Resistance.

Jaxx_ I can’t stop listening to this album. it’s a masterclass in synth/vocal synergy that entrances, captivates, and holds you in a beautiful darkwave soundscape that feels both intense and immense. Every song is hauntingly beautiful. Chills, chills, chills.

Andrei Marasoiu The only Black Samurai i know, and love, as an Artist and Friend. If Midas would have turned everything he touched , into a black saphire, his name would have been Heike Langhans . /,,/

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1.	Cloak of Stars 05:06	lyrics
In bewildering silence In aphelion Frozen in time A spark of ultraviolet Brings her back to life Reignite and reawaken Echo and spin Generate more momentum Only then A bright acceleration The force within A final destination Now she moves faster than the speed of light Her star-woven mantle of black velvet that shimmers In the shadow of night She burns green and white like a comet This diatomic carbon in flight Only here for a cosmic moment Until she wanes out of sight A bright emerald coma Vivid in its magnificence Translucent Like the eyes of Asteria Veiled in faintest haze Cloaked in cerulean grace Like trails of fleeting tears Across her timeless face Now she moves faster than the speed of light Her star-woven mantle of black velvet that shimmers In the shadow of night Now she burns neon-bright Like a comet This diatomic carbon in flight Only here for a cosmic moment Until she wanes out of sight Give one last gaze At the night sky She burns brighter than ever before She waves her last goodbye And she knows she has to Give in to the gravity Falling in motion A slingshot journey Through the endless ocean Of nothing but gas and dust So wear your disguise Of stardust threads No one will see you Where no one will ever treads You're safe in you cloak of stars
2.	Black Widow 04:10	lyrics
I can see you through the smokescreen Wearing me like a disguise But I'll accept your unwitting compliment And it must be hard to be invisible But you're nowhere near convincing anyone No hard feelings No damage done We'll never be acquainted So leave me alone Take all you want from me But don't cry when you're lost and can't see Cause you're walking in my shadow, oh Never knew you'd go so low Mirror, mirror on the wall The most dangerous of them all Is the threat you don't see coming But don't say I never warned you honey Careful what you wish for The well is dark and deep Save all your excuses For the evidence I keep The one thing you don't know Is that I avoid detection I guess you'll find out just how well When you least expect it No hard feelings No damage done I've never taken anything for granted more We'll never be acquainted So leave me alone But I can see you, so... Take all you want from me But don't cry when you're lost and can't see You're still walking in my shadow Never knew you'd go that low Mirror, mirror on the wall The most dangerous of them all Is the threat you don't see coming But don't say I didn't warn you honey I know the truth hits Like the widow's kiss Let's not pretend It's all gone unnoticed
3.	Fables 04:16	lyrics
Someone always loses No matter how you play The rules are broken You may dabble in your magic But please remember A debt of souls will always be repaid In a universe with no duality Only chaos in perfect balance And on your final day All you've done Will be reclaimed Everyone expires No matter where you hide The cycle must continue You may wander with the shadows But please remember The dark is just a catalyst for light And on your final day All those second chances spent to change your ways Will mean nothing When on your final day All those hidden demons come to show their face
4.	Exogenesis 04:48	lyrics
We used to move unmeasured When the future was never in question Before every breath became pressure And every thought a survival calculation I asked for guidance Where do we go from here? You answered with no remorse and no mercy You said 'leave and look elsewhere' Why am I human? And how did I get here? Do you remember a night sky that used to shine? In silent darkness away from the watchful eyes When stars were more than mere satellites You chose black and soulless screens Over your own beautiful sky Somewhere along the way We took two steps forward And ten thousand back How could we know better Than to fight what we fear And say it's only survival instinct Welcome to reality Your algorithmic tyranny Oh yes, and all you can do is act accordingly It's kill or be killed If your life depends on it At least it makes us human Take it as a threat Oh and here we go again When the beating drum begins In the fog of war the truth is always lost And never learn the lesson But if it's all the same to you I'd like for you to pay attention Cause if history taught us one thing It's that no-one wins If we don't all If we don't all If we don't all win If we don't all If we don't all If we don't all give
5.	Oneiro 06:08	lyrics
I weave through the minefield Of feelings Breaking the locks On Pandora's box And maybe in another lifetime Another paradox But for now I see you I see through it all How fortunately fated The fear that I've created Died when you entered the room And you're the same frequency Rushing over me (Like tides under the moon) And I recognize you by your soul And you know that I know that we know Only we know... Counting every breath I take Forcing every fiber of my being To stay away The Keeper comes undone And I'm reckoning The serenity of this explosion Of a double-star supernova When these celestial bodies Separated from each other Become one I'm sailing in quicksand I'm sinking in the quietude I'm running on a ley line All the way back to you My existence begins to break down And I'm reveling In the ecstasy of this transformation Deep inside a monochromatic soma Of these star-crossed lovers Fighting fire with fire To be one
6.	Passive Resistance 04:25	lyrics
This crystalline shield This invincible force field A prison of my own making This armor that keeps Dreams of inner peace Under my skin (Where I'm) Free to resolve the state I’m in Disengage and rearrange This diametric self within It's just the way it's always been If I say nothing at all What is left to lose If I build nothing but walls It's better than disappointing you... The cage that keeps the horror in me (It's better than disappointing you) Self-contained in a silent rage (What else am I supposed to do) When I...I can't relay еverything I wish to say (It's only my point of view) So I walk away Still waters run deep Thеre's nothing I won't take A passive resistance As calm as the coming of a storm Quiet as I can keep A slow-motion earthquake A paralyzing heaviness Before I lose control If I say nothing at all What is left to lose If I hide behind these walls I'll never disappoint you... If I say nothing at all I have no excuse And I'll always take the fall If it means I still have you...
7.	Drive 05:12	lyrics
Neon Night City lights And smoke fills the air Shadows with chrome reflections Still chasing me And all I need is to drive Just drive I'm burning brakes beside That forsaken place With a forgotten name A broken down ghost town I haven't seen in so long And I know nothing will ever the same Now it's all in my rear-view mirror Nothing but the desert wind in my hair The open road and the radio static The dust of the dreams I left to die here A scent so feint, of acid rain Or is it the burning wires in my brain? I'm semi-artificial I'm dreaming in pixels A cyber-psychosis Turning me insane But this is all we've got This liminal and lonely existence Like it or not... So I'll just drive Into the night Away from the neon city lights I'll just drive The wind in my hair And the cool desert air Is all that I've got Now it's all in my rear-view mirror Nothing but the desert wind in my hair The open road and radio static The dust of the dreams I left to die here
8.	Rogue 05:28	lyrics
Just for one moment I had my head above water But nothing gets easier Will you make it make sense to me? You're behind your black mirror Lost all sense of human decency If you could spare me one moment Just to look me straight in the eye At all When you sneer and you hide In your virtual disguise Does it make you feel better When you think you're always right? Are you so insecure that I need to dim my own light? Why do I live in your head every moment? Do I keep you awake just knowing That I'm still here Just for one moment I had a peaceful state of mind But you had to get greedier When you stepped over the firing line Just when you think you're out of sight I know the devil's in the details So if you think you've got the time You can play this game on your own For the rest of your life You come undone With every word you say I know it's not long Before you give yourself away So why Do I make you so uneasy? See I just don't have the time For you to ever get to know me So hi Do you need some more attention? But I just don't have the time For your insane obsession
9.	Peace by Proxy 04:50	lyrics
Lay down your weapon How many times can you die hoping That you may force the gateway open To reach the stars And map the dark But that's not how it seems The more you think you know The less you want to believe That something so beautiful Will always be out of reach Until you find peace A stairway to somewhere A distant dream No matter how intelligent Your sentient machines So many worlds we won't ever get to see Until we learn we don't have to agree We've searched the noise in the void for so long And asked so many questions If no one is answering Does it mean we're all alone? We point the mirrors in the wrong direction Searching outwards A subtle deflection If nobody else is out there? Does it mean we have nowhere to go? A stairway to nowhere A distant dream No matter how subservient Your replicate machines So many worlds we won't ever get to see Oh my wayward child Please don't deviate Every step a trial You fail time after time By a cosmic mile For the hate encoded Another soul eroded By the steel and circuitry Of a disconnected being Is it the future you hoped for? Keep suffering a little more As you tolerate another war We're taught to Conquer, divide and kill Still fighting against all will To be sentient Before we ever let Machines rule the world We've gone where no one's ever been No science will bring you one step ahead Of what it takes to become The concept of One
10.	Opaline Tears 04:48	lyrics
Gone too soon I remember every second with you There's no reprieve And it's almost too hard to grieve What's happening to me Without you The pale river Where I lay your ashes To go in peace In opal streams I submerged myself In silent anesthesia For all the years gone by between us If nothing truly dies You are traveling on in light The Evenstar that ushers in the night Somewhere your atoms Cross the threshold Forward in time To coalesce into new life And I never had a chance To say goodbye Can you forgive me? When none of it matters But I still cry When no one can hear me If I never left Would you have tried To hold on longer I'll never have the answers as to why And I can never ever make it right Goodbye my beautiful friend Your name in the constellations And your voice in the wind Go on and finally transcend Only if you promise to be here in spirit Until the end Until it all ends It all ends...

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The solo album I have been promising for so long is finally done! After more than a decade of unfinished demos and other obligations, I bring you 'Peace by Proxy' - a 10 track offering from the heart.

This is entirely self-funded and self-released, so it is only available in digital format until further notice.

Opaline Tears is dedicated to the memory of Delene & Poyin.

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released May 1, 2026

All Music, Lyrics & Artwork by Heike Langhans

Mixed & Mastered by Mike Lamb at Ghost Bird Studios, Dunedin NZ

Cover photography at Doctor's Point Reserve, Dunedin NZ

Ghost Bird Studios contact:
ghostbirdstudios@gmail.com

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The dark electronic solo project of Heike Langhans.

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