Scar Symmetry is a Swedish metal band from Avesta in Dalarna County, Sweden, formed in 2004. The band has released six albums, with seven released singles. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast records.
Formed in April 2004, Scar Symmetry came together during the band Altered Aeon's recording session at Jonas Kjellgren's Black Lounge Studios by guitarists Jonas Kjellgren, Per Nilsson and drummer Henrik Ohlsson. That same month, vocalist Christian Älvestam and bassist Kenneth Seil joined the band, which then recorded a demo for the song "Seeds of Rebellion" which helped the band get a recording contract with Cold Records (a subsidiary of Metal Blade Records).
In July 2005, the band entered Black Lounge Studios to begin recording its debut album, Symmetric in Design. It followed it up by playing festivals in Europe, as well as touring with Soilwork, Hypocrisy, and One Man Army.
In June 2006, the band signed a new record deal with Nuclear Blast records. Eight months after the release of Symmetric in Design the band started recording its follow-up, Pitch Black Progress. The band again followed up its recording by touring, this time with Communic for the Waves of Pitch Black Decay Tour 2006 throughout Europe, and they toured North America with melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity and The Haunted. The song "The Illusionist" began receiving air-play on MTV2's Headbangers Ball. In September 2007, the band embarked on another North American tour with headliners Katatonia, Insomnium, and Swallow the Sun, the "Live Consternation Tour".
Thus shone internal light, severe as the sun
Born from wombs of a deadened horizon
Within where worlds reside
Born galaxies
A universe inside every mind
Behold dead stars ignite, for death...there is none
Now gone, off to a different horizon
Deep inside every mind a universe resides
Where entire planets lie, inner stars ignite
Chorus:
This is a dream and yet it's not
Within the astronomicon
Each seed is sown in everyone
To fall or to rise
Become dreams set in flight, forever transform
To most, change is a fearsome liaison
One universe outside and one within
Which sends the mind to flight?
Set souls alight?
Avoid inner insight and slowly become
A drone caught on the event horizon
The black holes open wide in the resistant mind
Devouring each sign of emerging light
Chorus
And though we know new things will empower the old
All will be gone, each and every deed undone
Lead: Nilsson
Lead: Kjellgren
And as we go, move towards the towers unknown
Seeds have been sown and within the dream has grown
Know that we own minds that could devour the sun
And what we've done will remain although it's gone