Find a vein and plunge the needle in.
Wire your brain up to the cold machine.
‘Cos if you don’t think, well then you don’t fear,
Uncertainties fade, the truth becomes clear.
‘Cos if you don’t feel, well then there’s no pain,
No trauma to bear, no tears, no heartache to face.
A state of disgrace,
Blind faith and apathy embrace.
Your place,
A state of disgrace:
Awake you sleepwalkers, awake.
Bow your head, absolve yourself from blame
Whilst the deaths of millions prove your shame.
If what you believe is all’s preordained,
Immutable will then they can’t be saved
And what you believe sees you off the hook:
No guilt to be had, there’s no backward look to face …
A state of disgrace,
Blind faith and apathy embrace.
Your place,
A state of disgrace:
Awake you sleepwalkers, awake.
Knot that tie and sublimate yourself.
Bug that line – it’s a job and nothing else.
Once you stand outside, well then they don’t count,
The lives you lay bare: They’re ten to the pound
And in your despite, contempt in your heart,
You join the massed ranks of concentration camp guards:
Your fate.
A state of disgrace,
Blind faith and apathy embrace.
Your place,
A state of disgrace:
Awake you sleepwalkers, awake.
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.
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