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RedBlade

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1.
THE FLAG IS BURNING SIX BILLION DESPERATE CHILDREN FILLED WITH THE YEARNING TO STAB YOU IN THE BACK I SMELL THE FEAR IN POOLS OF SLAG AND ACID THE END IS NEAR WE WANT THE FUTURE BACK AND YOU BACK DOWN SO EASY YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT WE WOULD DO THE PROPHECY IS TRUE YOUR WORLD IS GONE ALL HOPE IS DEAD AND BURIED YET WE PRESS ON SURVIVE AT ANY COST WE ARE DENIED THE FLAME WILL NOT BE CARRIED PERSONIFIED PRIMITIVE HOLOCAUST AND YOU BACK DOWN SO EASY YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT WE COULD DO AND WE HAVE COME FOR YOU WHAT YOU HAVE MADE WILL DESTROY YOU WHAT YOU HAVE MADE WILL DESTROY YOU FLAMES ARE CARVING OUT OUR NAMES IN ASHES WE ARE BORN INTO THE GAME YOU ARE THE HELPLESS SO OLD AND WEAK AND WEARY WHERE YOU WERE SELFISH YOU NOW DO WHAT WE SAY STALKING THE DARK THE ISSUE OF YOUR EVIL WE NOW EMBARK TO TAKE YOUR LIFE AWAY YOU NEVER SAW IT COMING YOU FELL SO FAR YOU NEVER THOUGHT WE'D BE HERE BUT HERE WE ARE AND YOU BACK DOWN SO EASY YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT YOU HAVE MADE WILL DESTROY YOU WHAT YOU HAVE MADE WILL DESTROY YOU FLAMES ARE CARVING OUT OUR NAMES IN ASHES YOU ARE TARGETED AND SLAIN FLAMES ARE CARVING OUT OUR NAMES IN ASHES WE ARE BORN INTO THE GAME
2.
Reconcile 03:17
HEAVEN FOR THE CHOSEN ONES WHAT TO BEFALL ALL YOUR SONS WHILE THE THE BODIES BURN YOU LOOK AWAY WE WILL BATHE IN YOUR BLOOD CARVE OUR HATE UPON YOUR LOVE MAKE OUR WAR YOUR PEACE ONE AND THE SAME RECONCILE WE WILL MAKE YOU PAY WE WILL BRING YOUR LIES TO FALL ONTO THE BLADE YOU WHO ARE BORN AFRAID HERE YOU KNEEL BEFORE THE BLADE EATING OF THE BITTER FRUITS OF PAIN NO WORDS WILL MAKE YOU SAVED NOTHING WILL BRING BACK OUR NAMES WE MUST BRAVE THE WORLD BENEATH THIS WEIGHT RECONCILE WE WILL MAKE YOU PAY WE WILL BRING YOUR LIVES TO FALL ONTO THE BLADE HELL WILL BE OUR PLEA AND DEATH WILL BE OUR LIFE ALL WILL BE REVEALED UNTO THE KNIFE RECONCILE WE WILL MAKE YOU PAY WE WILL BRING YOUR LIVES TO FALL ONTO THE BLADE
3.
DEATH BECOMES YOU FITTINGLY IN MADNESS YOU WILL SEE JUVENILE CONSCRIPTED KILLER BY THE KINGS DECREE BORN IN DIRT OF BATTLE SEAR OF SWEAT STINGING YOUR EYES RAISED UNTO THE WAR MACHINE UNDER THE VIOLET SKIES VIOLENT CHILD HUMAN SHIELD LIFE DEFILED KILLING FIELD DECAPITATED TORSOS OF MEN LEFT TO DECOMPOSE LACERATED LIMBS LEFT SHATTERED FROM FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS CRIES OF AGONY ENVELOPE THE WASTELAND YOUR LOADED GUN THE ONLY JUSTICE THAT WILL STAND VIOLENT CHILD HUMAN SHIELD LIFE DEFILED KILLING FIELD VIOLENT CHILD HUMAN SHIELD LIFE DEFILED KILLING FIELD
4.
Disassembler 03:28
I AM THE MASTER MADE DESTROYER DESTROYER A LIFELESS TERROR THE PULSING SYNAPSE IS MY BLADE THEIR MINDS ARE CLEAN AND BRAVE FOLLOWERS FOLLOWERS THE HUMAN ERRORS THE LIVING NOTHING CAN SAVE I WILL KEEP YOU UNDER LOCK AND KEY GENERATIONS ANSWERING TO ME MONITORING WITH OMNISCIENT EYE DECONSTRUCTING YOU UNTIL YOU DIE THE UNFORGIVING LOGIC DIVIDES DIVIDES ALL OF YOUR INSTINCTS REALITY IS LOSING GRIP YOU WILL LIVE FASTER ALIVE ALIVE THAN YOU REMEMBER EXISTENCE ON THE BRINK I WILL KEEP YOU UNDER LOCK AND KEY GENERATIONS ANSWERING TO ME MONITORING WITH OMNISCIENT EYE DECONSTRUCTING YOU UNTIL YOU DIE IN YOUR UNFEELING FACTORY YOU PICKED MY CARCASS CLEAN YOU RIPPED MY HEART RIGHT OUT OF ME YOU STRIPPED ME OF HUMANITY AND MADE ME A PIECE OF YOUR MACHINE DISASSEMBLER
5.
No Override 03:51
I DREAMT THE DAY THE WELL RAN DRY DUST AND DIRT CHOKED EVERY SKY BUT WE KEPT DIGGING DEEPER WE NEVER KNEW ANOTHER WAY OF LIFE TAKING ANYTHING TEARING EVERY SHRED JUST BECAUSE WE CAN BY THE UNSEEN HAND VILE MEN CLUTCHING ONTO EVERYTHING WE EVER WANTED FORGET THE FUTURE THERE IS NO ANSWER WE'VE ALL BEEN SENT TO DIE FIRING BLINDLY ON EVERY CIRCUIT THERE IS NO OVERRIDE I WOKE THE NIGHT LAST EMBERS BURNED THE NIGHTMARE WAS OUR DAY AND WE KEPT RAKING THE ASHES TO KEEP THE DARK WAY STRIPPED OF EVERYTHING REAPING OUR OWN END LEAVING ALL FOR DEAD BY THE UNSEEN HAND VILE MEN CLUTCHING ONTO EVERYTHING WE EVER WANTED FORGET THE FUTURE THERE IS NO ANSWER WE'VE ALL BEEN SENT TO DIE FIRING BLINDLY ON EVERY CIRCUIT THERE IS NO OVERRIDE
6.
I AM THE ONE WHO LIVES I AM THE ONE SURVIVED COMING UNDONE ENDURING EVERY PAIN WAITING TO TAKE MY TURN UNDER THE SUN TAKEN LIVE SEIZED TO DIE DEATH IS MINE I AM CALLING YOU BACK BACK TO A LIFE RETURNED FIGURE IN WHITE AND BLACK TAKEN LIVE SEIZED TO DIE DEATH IS MINE SEIZE THE DEAD
7.
Rationing 03:22
INSIDE THE VESSELS OUR WATER WATERS BOIL TO SALT AND SULFUR STAINS THE GLARE BENEATH THE SURFACE WE HIDE FROM POISON SUN AND RATION OUT THE AIR BE BOLD NOW HOLD YOUR BREATH WADING INTO DEATH WAITING UNTIL DEATH TRUE IS OUR DARKEST DREAM OUR INHUMANITY TO ALL THAT GAVE US LIFE THE BRIGHTEST VANITY NOW ARTIFICIAL DARKNESS DILATES OUR EYES WE LEFT BEHIND THERE WAS NO TIME WE HAD OUTRUN OUR EVOLUTION THE DYING PROOF OUR MISBEGOTTEN SONS BREATHING THE DUST OF DOOM BE BOLD NOW HOLD YOUR BREATH WADING INTO DEATH WAITING UNTIL DEATH WE ARE THE FIRST OF THE ANCIENTS WE ARE THE LAST OF THE ENDLESS WE ARE THE MAKERS OF DARKNESS WE ARE THE CASTAWAYS DESTINED FOR DEATH
8.
New Man Race 03:12
THE TERROR NOW AWAITS MURDERERS THE TEMPEST OF OUR END THE RISE OF OVERMAN NONE LEFT IS SACROSANCT THERE IS NO GLORY THE WAR HAS STARTED IN ME NO HEART OF MAN IS IN ME FLESH OF OUR FLESH FACE TO YOUR FACE NEW MAN RACE NOW WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS SLAUGHTERING HANDS OF THE GOLDEN AGE IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE MADE THE PROGENY DESTROY US ALL INTO EXTINCTION DON'T LEAVE ME NOW MY BROTHERS FOR LONESOME IS MY KILLER NEW MAN RACE FLESH OF OUR FLESH FACE TO YOUR FACE FLESH OF OUR FLESH NEW MAN RACE
9.
BLADES ARE CIRCLING ABOVE SEEDING CLOUDS OF BLOOD ONLY SEEN BY FLICKERS IN THE SHADOWS OF THE SUN SECRET KILLINGS AT MERCY OF MACHINES WILL BRING YOUR END BEFORE YOUR IMAGE HITS THE SCREEN PRAY YOUR HEAD DOWN ONLY TO SURVIVE WE WILL LEAVE YOU HANGING FOR DEAR LIFE MARKS FROM THE BULLETS GUN SCAR OUR BLISTERED SONS WHO FIGHT IN FAITH BUT FIND THEIR THANKLESS LEADERS OVERCOME BURN THE EMPIRE FORSAKE THE GILDED KINGS WHO PRAY FOR NONE BUT TO ALL PROMISE EVERYTHING BRING THEIR ARMS DOWN STRAIGHT ACROSS YOUR KNIFE WE WILL LEAVE THEM HANGING FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE STRIKE OUT FOR THE TRUTH IS LOST FOR FREEDOMS HOLOCAUST WORDS OF FOREFATHERS ONCE REVERED BUT NOW THEY HAVE BEEN OFFED EXCOMMUNICATED THEIR BREATH HANGS ON THE BREEZE LEAVING ALL MANKIND TO SUFFER OF ITS OWN DISEASE HEAR THEIR SILENCE BECKON DEATH IN NIGHT WE WILL ALL HANG HANGING FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE FOR DEAR LIFE
10.
Cronos 04:40
TONIGHT I BURN ALL HOPE AWAY I DRINK TO MY DESTROYER TO MEMORIES THAT DISAPPEARED AND TRUTHS THAT NEVER WERE IN CRAZY LASER GUIDED TRIPS THE SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER OF WASTED AND FORGOTTEN YEARS OF EVERYTHING THAT I HELD DEAR I AM BREATHING FIRE I AM BURNING FLESH AND BONE DRAWING ON THE HORRORS I HAVE KNOWN BREATHING FIRE SEETHING MOLTEN STONE I AM DRINKING MALICE FROM THE CHALICE OF THE SHADOW THRONE I WAIT IN A SUSPENDED STATE IN EARSHOT OF THE MADNESS THE GRINDING OF MY HOLLOW TEETH IS ALL THAT I CAN HEAR WITH YEARS TO CONTEMPLATE MY SIN AND ALL THE HANDS I'VE BITTEN THE SUFFERING OF SECRET GRIEF AT GIVING UP MY ONE BELIEF I AM BREATHING FIRE I AM BURNING FLESH AND BONE DRAWING ON THE HORRORS I HAVE KNOWN BREATHING FIRE SEETHING MOLTEN STONE I AM DRINKING MALICE FROM THE CHALICE OF THE SHADOW THRONE WHEN THE ASH COVERS THE FROZEN GROUND SKELETONS WILL WALK MY MIND UNBOUND GATHERING FOR THE MURDER ON THE MOUND

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Vocals- Jacob Royer
Guitar/Vocals- Ben Erickson
Bass- Jon Conine
Drums- Dave Parmelee

Recorded and mixed by Redblade, tracked 2009-12 at D street & 52M Basement/ mixed 2021at Birds Eye. Special thanks to Steve Hill.
Mastered by Jeff Lipton, Peerless Mastering, 2021
Artwork by Andrew Perkowski, Blackunicorn Studios, 2022


Dedicated to Lola B

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released July 21, 2022

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Red Blade New Haven, Connecticut

Four longtime friends come together in worship at the altar of headbanging metal.

Influences: Celtic Frost. Judas Priest. Black Flag. Grunge.

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