title: Impending Ascension
text: # Impending Ascension
  
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  Impending Ascension is the second studio album by the progressive metal/rock band Magellan.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All music and lyrics by Trent Gardner.
  
  * "Estadium Nacional" - 11:16
  * "Waterfront Weirdos" - 11:05
  * "Songsmith" - 5:33
  * "Virtual Reality" - 5:28
  * "No Time for Words" - 2:09
  * "Storms and Mutiny" - 11:50
  * "Under the Wire" - 1:42
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Musicians:
  
  * Trent Gardner - lead vocals, keyboards, backing vocals
  * Wayne Gardner - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
  * Hal Stringfellow Imbrie - bass, vocals
  * Doane Perry – drums on "Waterfront Weirdos" at Narnia Oaks Studio, Woodland Hills, Ca. All other drum tracks by Magellan.
  * Hope Harris – female voice on "Virtual Reality"
  
  Production:
  
  * David Houston – engineer
  * Shawn Lux – cover paintings and coat of arms c/o Lux Metals, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  * Mike Martin – engineer
  * Kenneth Lee Jr. – mastering at Rocket-Lab, San Francisco April 1993
  * Trent Gardner – cover concept
  * Wayne Gardner – Magellan portrait and "The Overseer & His Witnesses" painting
  