Born in Dissonance

“This is one of Marten’s (Hagstrom, guitar). For every album he tries to kind of write song that is old school thrash in its approach. That’s kind of where we come from, but it’s hard to do that in our music. But this is his version of old school thrash in 2016. This song kind of ties in with the religious and political themes of the album, but religion is portrayed as a monster that’s coming from beyond time and space for Earth. And that could be an asteroid; there are lyric lines like ‘You can see us coming for a thousand years’ because we have telescopes now that could see asteroids coming thousands of years in advance. But it’s my metaphorical take on the idea of the apocalypse. This monster could be seen by many as a deity coming back to destroy what it created.”

• Tomas Haake

Well, to me it looks like this song is clearly about singularities or "black holes".

"We are origin" - as in the initial singularity of the big bang.

"You will see our coming for a thousand years" - you can see them, or rather the distortion of what's around them for a really, really long time before they finally evaporate.

"Every violent element incarnate, Made flesh and fused to one" - they suck in every element on the periodic table along with smaller particles like photons, fusing them into this one entity and grinding them down, with time only heat radiation is small and light enough to escape from them.

"You may call us remnant, As we are all that will be left" - all matter will end up inside black holes, leaving them the only thing left, well not only cause there will still be a lot of radiation left going into state of thermodynamic equilibrium, leading to the heat death of the universe after the black holes evaporate, but fair enough I guess.

"Brought forth by ancient whisper, Deployed by inverse suns" - black holes come to being from a collapse, an implosion of a star, so an inversion of it on itself.

"To capture the essence of creation, And render it undone" - to suck all the matter into them and grind them down to the finest dust in the universe.

"We come to make all things collide" - like i already said they suck in everything and smash it together.

"Those joules define what we are, An energy born in dissonance, Long before first ever star" - black holes are probably the most violent, chaotic things ever, "long before first ever star" part might be referring to the formation of supermassive back holes from gas clouds, or just that the big bang itself and our universe is such a chaotic entity and that all the energy within it was "born in dissonance".

"Baptized in the river you call time, We know that we are sacred, In human tongue we're apocalypse, For we bring with us obliteration, Through spectacles tuned to infinity, You will see our coming for a thousand years, You will know us then for what we truly are, The realization of every fear" - Viking poetry. :D

To me the song is about entropy and the second law of thermodynamics and how it turns the universe into uniform soup in the end

Does this actually mean anything? Seems to me, about as bland as any elevator tune..