Foxblood

Foxblood aus Melbourne Australien ist eine Band die am ehesten wahrscheinlich dem Metalcore zuzuordnen ist.

Ich habe sie 2016 mit ihrem überragenden ersten Album "The Devil, The Dark & The Rain" entdeckt. Danach folgte ein Line Up Wechsel (Sänger Chris Millward verließ die Band) und das zweite in kleinen Teilen ebenfalls guten Album "Grief & Mercy Sleep" sowie wieder ein Line Up Wechsel (Sänger Chris Millward kam zurück) und die vor wenigen erschiene sehr empfehlenswerte EP "Dissociation Vacation". Die Band war zuvor unter dem Namen "Gloified" unterwegs und veröffentlichte zwei EPs die auf Bandcamp kostenlos zu erwerben sind

The Devil, The Dark & The Rain (2016)

(mixed by Adam “Nolly” Getgood (of Periphery))

Tracklist:

1 Hurricane Hearts

2 Timeless

3 Brittle Bones

4 The Devil, The Dark & The Rain

5 Die Young

6 Ghost Town Medicine

7 Set Me Alight

8 Bloodlines

9 No Heroes

10 A Place To Rest In Between

11 Swan Song

Das ganze (Konzept) Album ist übelst gut. Als Einstieg würde ich "No Heroes" und "Die Young" (inklusive Videos) empfehlen. - Hintergrund-Infos zum Album/Songs/etc. gibt es hier.

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We're on our way back from parts unknown

Death grabs a hold, time takes it's toll

Wandering down the darkest roads

Night's getting cold with wrongs to atone

Burning maps of the places we go

It's starting to rain, knees turn to stone

Forgetting faces of people we know

There's no hope, there's no heroes

And I don't know much of fate

But what doesn't kill you lies in wait

(It lies in wait)

We are the warning signs

We will never forget, no we will never forget, no

We spent our whole damn lives living as children of regret

There's no hope, there's no heroes

I told you, I'm perfectly fine walking the thin line between disgraced and divine

With a heart of gold and the highest crimes

It's dawning on me as I'm growing older

That God is a bastard with a chip on his shoulder

And it's getting colder

And we lay down like dogs with wolf teeth dreams to bite the hand that feeds

But they hold all the keys, and thus we are little more than sheep

So I guess we'll always be tethered like birds of feather

Whatever the weather

We flock, fly south together, so I guess we will be lost forever

Lost forever

We are the warning signs

We will never forget, no we will never forget, no

We spent our whole damn lives living as children of regret

They buried the rich men next to the slaves

To show that in death, we are all the same

The grass is no greener, they're buried no deeper, and six feet down?

There is but one shade

Retreat to sleep, on your final day

No castles, no gods, no pride and no shame

They bear no crowns in tired ghost towns

No matter your name, they are just words on your grave

There's no hope, there's no heroes

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She's made her peace with her demons, so she's not alone

Sound asleep in the back seat on the drive home

I'm drunk on ideas of what will kill us faster

Eyes firmly fixed on our next disaster

So let me know what curses you wear on your sleeve

And let me know what sickness is the flavour of the week

I've got a smile like a broken record, so sing your saddest songs on repeat

"Well, I'm so tired of idle', we're far from perfect but I'm okay with denial"

"I've got these fears that tessellate through the threads in the wool

I miss the smell of smoke and the whiskey in a glass half full"

I don't want to die young anymore

Stay beautiful, stay beautiful, stay beautiful

Before I left I wrote you a letter

Said 'it's going to get worse before it gets any better'

So take a good hard look into these tired eyes

Because they're going to be tired for quite some time

I don't want to die young anymore

Would you kill for me? Because I'd kill for you

I'd lay the world at your feet

I'd tear the world apart so you could stay beautiful

Stay beautiful, kill for me

Can you please hold on? Lately you've started to fade

How are we so far gone? Look at the mess you've made

So please don't say a word, because I already know

That you've been drifting for days, my heart's no longer your home

I know we're dying, lover - I've seen it in your eyes

And honestly? I die a little inside each time

I'd take the lives of thousands, tear apart the world

Because love is the violence inside us all

Would you kill for me? Because I'd kill for you

I'd tear the world apart so you could stay beautiful

Stay beautiful

Kill for me

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Another night in a wasted life, in a private hell hidden out of sight

Don't let anyone in, I think the devil's listening

Throw another shot back, and I've lost track of each spin in the cycle of self-loathing

So I'm begging you, don't let anyone in, I think the devil's listening

Bottled up, or on the rocks

Drink it down, wash away with the things you're not

Heart on your sleeve, next to your suffering

With the things you're not and never will be

So the seasons change, I'm waiting, I'm fading away

And I swear on my name I watched you change, it's not the same

You said you were a new leaf, but there's a forest fire burning

Looking back on the wars we'd have never won, spring cleaning of your mind with a shotgun

I wish I could write my name in the wet concrete of the bricks I tied to my feet

So I could recall who the fuck I was before I started to sink beneath the hours and the days and the weeks

Keep quiet, keep your conscience clean, don't say a word, the devil's listening

You said you'd never leave but I can see the smoke in the trees

You said you'd never leave. But there's a forest fire burning

I'm not worthy of my name

I am withered, I'm decay

I'm a wretch, I'm a waste

I am wilted, a disgrace

Tired mind, empty gaze

In an awful fucking place

Half-hearted smile on my face

With a pocket full of plagues

It's the devil or god, but I'm not sure which

This swan song's reaching fever pitch

And so, young wings, I've heard some things about falling, whoever's pulling the strings

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Bevor das zwei Album erschien, wurde der übelst gute Song "Bittersweet" (Lyrics ) veröffentlicht. - Hier findet sich das "Rain-Motiv" wieder.

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We spent the night outside on the porch drinking gin in the house on the coast as the storm rolled in

My regrets, where to begin?

It's coming back to me, it's coming round again

Your dark hair and your pale skin, and all the goddamn times I never let you in, shit

I swear to god I wish I told you everything

It's coming back to me, it's coming round again

We're hopeless again (X2)

Bittersweet, you know what they say

We shine and we fade, it's always the way

Bittersweet, you know what they say

I guess everything's going to kill you one day

The doctor said "Your head's a mess, you've come apart bit by bit

Take medicine, you'll feel again", but I sure as hell just feel like shit

Bittersweet, we shine and we fade

I guess everything's going to kill you one day

Bittersweet, you know what they say

We shine and we fade, it's always the way

Bittersweet, you know what they say

I guess everything's going to kill you one day

The doctor said "Your head's a mess, you've come apart bit by bit

Take medicine, you'll feel again", but I sure as hell just feel like shit

He says "It's probably all that drinking", and I say

"Doc, you're overthinking, why would I interfere with a process that's keeping me from sinking?”

(We shine and we fade) It's coming back to me, it's coming round again (x4)

There are pieces of us strewn across your bedroom floor

And there are pieces of me in a trail out your door

Your sister's sad smile as I passed her on the front porch

I got stuck in a downward spiral in a time when you needed more

I said "I'm sorry, you know' You said "Get out, just go”

And I went to pieces with you watching from your window

I've got these loveless bones, now all I know is alone

So I lit my final cigarette and I walked three postcodes home

We shine and we fade (x2)

The doctor said "Your head's a mess, you've come apart bit by bit

Take medicine, you'll feel again", but I sure as hell just feel like shit

He says "It's probably all that drinking", and I say

"Doc, you're overthinking, why would I interfere with a process that's keeping me from sinking?”

Bittersweet, we shine and we fade

I guess everything's going to kill you one day

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Dieser Song bedeutet mir persönlich im Zusammenhang mit

Dayseeker - Sleep In The Sea (II) ,

Kings At Heart - This Love Will Be The Death Of Me

Mayfeld - Blossom und

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (ganz anderes Genre) enorm viel.

Grief & Mercy Sleep (05.08.2019)

Vocals jetzt vom Bassisten Anthony Syle, und ex Gitarristen Tom Beale (Lyrics) - eventuell auch noch von Chris Millward (bisher keine eindeutigen Aussagen dazu gefunden)

Tracklist

1 The World At My Feet

2 Young & Invincible

3 Kill The Lights (Ft. Chris Millward)

4 Seven Years

5 Grief & Mercy Sleep

6 Carry Me

7 Never Rome

8 A Storm In The Walls

9 Mess Like Me

10 Sunshine

11 Feel Good Ode

12 Vanishing Act

13 Everything You Love Will...

14 Fade Away

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Lay your head down, sing me to sleep as I come undone

I fell out of love with myself

I’ve got a bad heart, in more ways than one

Gotta tell you, the last few days, weeks, months and years have been kind of rough

Drink in the dark for a while, so I go out with a smile and I guess that’ll be enough

I’m sorry that I couldn’t make the pieces fit

I’m so far adrift

In an ocean you don’t even know exists

This is more than a rainy day, this is a hurricane

We are one

Empires pulled apart by stones

We are one

But we were never Rome

Sit alone at home pick apart my thoughts remind myself, even the best things run their course

Sitting, drinking, trying to bring myself back from the brink

But I’m a lost cause, and I’m starting to sink

So I pick myself up, write myself off

I’m shooting for death, but clearly not doing enough

I’m not doing enough

Fell by the wayside, getting high more than ever now

And I never found the strength, to put the bottle down, my fire's burnt out

My old lover, my old friend

I’ve been thinking about dying again

My hands have got the shakes as I put pen to paper in your name for the last time

Let myself down time, after time

Tell myself lie after lie

And the sun shines lightly through the window pane

I think this could be the morning of my final day

And I need you to do this final thing for me

There’s still gold in my heart, so bury me deep

My old lover, my old friend

I’ve been thinking about dying again

My old lover, my old friend

Everyone of you means everything

And the sun shines lightly through the window pane

I think this could be the morning of my final day

And I need you to do this final thing for me

There’s still gold in my heart, so bury me deep

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Some of us live our lives in truly screwed up minds

Doing anything we can just to get by

While others just wish they were

Searching for clouds in a blue sky

So stop kidding yourself, you’re doing just fine

So share your goddamn sunshine

You’ve gotta realise we’re on borrowed time

Can you honestly say ‘yeah at least I tried’?

We saw the warning signs

But never really realised

Tell me where you stand, an addict or a good man?

We saw the warning signs

This time it wasn’t your lies

Anyway you spin it, you’ll end up alone

The whole world’s a stage for your suffering

Are you happy with the company that you keep?

You spent your whole life searching for sympathy

While others keep searching for the missing piece

So stop kidding yourself, you’re doing just fine

So share your goddamn sunshine

We saw the warning signs

But never really realised

Tell me where you stand, an addict or a good man?

We saw the warning signs

This time it wasn’t your lies

Anyway you spin it, you’ll end up alone

This is a reminder that you’ll always be

Stuck in your own made up tragedy

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It comes, it stays wave after wave

I guess you'd call it a tirade

Rolls in and breaks like pins and needles, and I’m a slave

To a rising waterline headspace

I am numb but in disgrace

So I shake and sweat and puke this out

All over my bed frame

Breaking pills in half to avoid the tolerance next time I go down this path

White knuckles clenching tightly to the aftermath

‘Put down the bottle’ they say

Or it’s an early grave

‘Let yourself heal, this’ll go away’

But I swear my darkness lies in wait

Kill the lights, crawl inside myself again

Kill the lights because I can see the end

Kill the lights, I’m beside myself again

Kill the lights, you wanna die tonight my friend?

They said we’re surely set to fade

Like wilting flowers on a grave

So how the fuck can I save this?

I can barely save myself

Can’t seem to save myself

Never cease to pull me under

My own mind tears me asunder

Slip back to the depths within as the pills kick in and I drown in it

Check 1, 2 OK still sane

Can you feel it running through your veins?

With that same old endless rain and the goddamn migraines and stomach pains

And I can feel it coming over me

I can tell you a few things about half empty

They said we’re surely set to fade

Like wilting flowers on a grave

So how the fuck can I save this?

I can barely save myself

I’ve got a comfort wine

Do drugs from time to time

I told you I felt fine

You said I’d lost my shine

Kill the lights, you wanna die tonight?

Kill the lights, I’m beside myself again

Kill the lights, you wanna die tonight my friend?

Can’t seem to save mysel

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We’re waking up to the age of children living in pain

Born chasing storms, just lonely souls

We’re always chasing new plagues

Why do you feel so hollow?

Why do you live in sorrow?

Sit alone at home looking at your phone, listen to the tone as your mind free roams

Soak up the sound as you drown in it

Loneliness found you again

Sinking feeling, mind never clearing

Every wonder does life have meaning?

Everything you love will fade away

And there’s nothing you can do to make it stay

The awful part of you will watch this happen

With a smile on it’s face

Do you ever wonder

Why your heart forever wanders?

We love in different ways and often do not tessellate

Different hearts in different shapes

Not knowing names it’s all the same

We slowly lose ourselves through age, lack and decay

Just so you know, one day it’ll be too late to change

I’m just pieces of every single thing I feel and every word I say

I’ve come to see that memories are the only things that never age

Everything you love will fade away

And there’s nothing you can do to make it stay

The awful part of you will watch this happen

With a smile on it’s face

Don’t spend your life casting stones or digging for diamonds in their bones

Love or lust, every heart is a home

I wanna see every sight

You are your world as I am mine

Maybe one day we’ll coincide

So I can see the stars in your eyes

I’m just pieces of every single thing I feel and every word I say

I’ve come to see that memories are the only things that never age

My old lover, my old friend

I’ve been thinking of dying again [s. Never Rome]

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Dissociation Vacation (02.12.2022)

Tracklist:

1 Secondhand Lions

2 Que Sera

3 Kind Regards

4 This Town Needs Guns

5 Kingdom Come

6 Hollywood

7 Into The Wild

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Speak to me, preacher, a damn shame to meet you

The whole world's gone mad, what the hell did they teach you?

We've drunk all the rivers and sinned like the plagues

Still creeping ever closer to our end of days

And I still recall the day I lost my faith

When I hung up that cross on the mirror's frame

I think I'll kill another man, and burn all the bridges that I can

And I hope I never see that fucking thing again

We tore down Verona to write it again

Poisoned the horses and all the king's men

It's box office bullshit, it's Hollywood, friend

And we'll never be in fucking showbiz again

They said Jack was nimble, and Jack was quick

He snuffed the wick out, he's a giant prick

So tell me more about 'mysterious ways'

And mass graves and war crimes on hot summer days

We tore down Verona to write it again

Poisoned the horses and all the king's men

It's box office bullshit, it's Hollywood, friend

And we'll never be in fucking showbiz again

If there's good in this down, man, I ain't seen it yet

The two-dollar beers are as good as it gets

So sin with me, preacher, over cigarettes

And maybe we'll talk of this 'church' thing again

Let's make a mockery of how youth die

Let's write a smash hit the kids can buy

Frame a suicide note, hang it on your wall

Then proceed to live to age 94

You've got your golden ticket, but you can't play nice

You've got your pigeon holes right on the dotted line

Man, I can fake it too, just show me where to sign

You better stick to binary, that's the life

Got to slice the cancer with minimum fuss

Before the scalpel decides to rust

While Salem's cisterns turn to dust

And we'll burn the rest of it if we must

Do you remember the last days of Rome?

Did it feel a little bit like a broken home?

We're going to drag the church through the dirt

Hope it doesn't hurt, and make history alone

Yeah, we'll make history on our own

So I drove a thousand miles down a yellow-brick road

Trying to find a good price for my spine and my soul

And Alice always told me that, "That's the price of fame,'

Better wash the red pill down the rabbit hole again

We tore down Verona to write it again

Poisoned the horses and all the king's men

It's box office bullshit, it's Hollywood, friend

And we'll never be in fucking showbiz again

If there's good in this town, man, I ain't seen it yet

The two-dollar beers are as good as it gets

So sin with me, preacher, over cigarettes

And maybe we'll talk of this 'church' thing again

Maybe we'll talk of this 'church' thing again

Maybe we'll talk of this 'church' thing again

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Lyrics