A Swift Descent To Hell

from Silvaticus by Silvaticus

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

A Swift Descent To Hell

Hell’s troops echo up my stairs, they hammer at my door,
Their voices rend the night.
Dead-eyed devils take my arms: they drag me to the cold:
They take me from the light.
And there’s no reason given, because we all know the reason …
In the precise sense of that word.
Become another lifer, another nameless cypher:
One more voice that now won’t be heard.

Their interrogation’s short, there’s nothing they don’t know:
Nothing I can deny.
Processed, packed off to my cell to await the break of dawn:
The last night of this life.
In time, the boots come for me: a life flashes before me
But it’s a stranger’s, no more mine.
And when they’re done, they leave me on the bare concrete, bleeding:
Facing the start of my hard time.

Taken, tortured and broken,
A living death.
Confined, silent, rubbed out.
A swift descent to Hell.

Scratching out a life of sorts: if you can call this life.
We endure, we survive.
Hanging onto breath, we strive: starving, brutalized,
We keep ourselves alive.
Time now has no meaning: it’s just an endless being
Of constant hunger and decay
But deep within this carcass, a light shines in the darkness:
A spirit they can’t take away.

Taken, tortured and broken,
Disappeared.
Confined, silent, rubbed out.
A world made living Hell.

Hell. A swift descent to Hell.
Hell. Hell. A swift descent to Hell.
Hell. Hell. A swift descent to Hell.

credits

from Silvaticus, released April 27, 2015
Music and lyrics © 2013 Damon Maddison

James Manley-Bird – vocals
Paul Bate – guitars
Jef Streatfield – guitars
Damon Maddison – bass
Nathan Maddison – drums

Recorded at Factory Studios, Bristol, May 2014.
Engineered and mixed by Scot McKenzie for USB Productions.
Mastered by Colin Bennun at Stooodio Mastering, January 2015.

license

about

Silvaticus Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ex-Hydra Vein band-mates Damon Maddison, Nathan Maddison and Paul Bate team up with ex-Plan A guitarist Jef Streatfield and former Eternal Torment vocalist James Manley-Bird to bring the metal!

The first album was recorded between the 10th and 24th of May, 2014 in Factory Studios, Bristol, the UK and tasters from the sessions will be available online shortly. ... more