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1. |
Kingmaker
04:47
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Hide your face, misdirect
Turn the other cheek and deflect
Your hand, at your back
Skeletal fingers wrapped around
A dagger cast in the green glow of your last
An envious glance to the life you crave
Trample on those in your way
Chase the fantasy,
Chase the fantasy.
The mask is slipping
I see you
For who you are
We gather here
To watch your effigy burn
Burn to the ground
Judas, betrayer
Just another kingmaker
Judas, the betrayer
We see you
As we melt your crown
You can turn my praise, respect and my wealth
Into an effigy of yourself
Fill me with the hate you fake
A created rage
A dagger in your hand, held behind you
A smile on your face, fuck you
The kiss of a traitor
Judas the betrayer
The mask is slipping
I see you
For who you are
We gather here
To watch your effigy burn
Burn to the ground
Judas, betrayer
Just another kingmaker
Judas, the betrayer
We see you
As we melt your crown
Watch your effigy burn!
We’ve come to,
We’ve come to watch your effigy
Burn
Judas, betrayer
Just another kingmaker
Judas, the betrayer
We see you
As we melt your crown
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2. |
Gone
03:10
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The elusive
Projection
A frightened introspection
This confusing
Perspective
Comes from the reflection
Who is that I see
Looking back at me
Who’s tears do I feed
Whose need do I seed?
The soil when I bleed becomes a haven for the weed’s greed
Hear me when I say that I don’t need you
You fucked it
You’ve lost
The only thing that mattered is gone
This ends here
This promise
No matter what the cost
Hear this, I will not be torn
I will be not be torn
Love is only blind
Because you stabbed me in the eye
A target
Of hate
Blinded by your rage
Your anger might be yours
But my pride is still mine
Dance the fine line burned through time by the hating
As I stand
One eye stays on my last
What was my future
Has now become my past
You fucked it
You’ve lost
The only thing that mattered is gone
This ends here
This promise
No matter what the cost
Hear this, I will not be torn
Gone
It's fucking gone
I will not be gone
Gone
It's fucking gone
I will not be torn
I’ll burn it, I’ll fight it
Now I stand up and I belong
I’ll fuck this life I’m living
Fuck this empty feeling
I’m gone
I burned it, I fought it
Now I stand up, so I begin again
Fuck that life not living
That empty feeling
Is gone
You fucked it
You’ve lost
The only thing that mattered is gone
This ends here
This promise
No matter what the cost
Hear this, I will not be torn
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3. |
Endless
05:08
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Toss the coin into the abyss
Heads the other wins
Tails you lose
Either way
My blood calls…
Loneliness spawns insecurity
But to put your faith in high fidelity
Another's indelibly
Unpredictable voice of alterity
The reality is much harder to predict
When a need hits harder than the want to feel fits
My heel digs into the bowel of the abyss
I don’t want the need to feel this
The tide is turning
On my endless reckoning
Now I know
The beauty of a rose without thorns
Intoxicating
I see it grow
All I wanted is here with me
I know where to find the new growth
A place that only fools and the insane know
I can make this into a quest
Turning challenge into a test
Of my heart, of my mind and of myself
A battle between my happiness and my health
I’ll find it and then I will win
Then I’ll have a new quest to begin
The tide is turning
On my endless reckoning
Now I know
The beauty of a rose without thorns
Intoxicating
I see it grow
All I wanted is here with me
I see your flaws as they
Also belong to me
The failures that I see
Are part of your story
I cannot protect you
From all your enemies
But I will prepare you
To fight for your right to be
Free
To be free
To be you
To cut your own way
The beauty of a rose
Held as you grow
Born of me
So there is
No sacrifice to make
Only purity
From the moment you were born
I could not feel your thorns
I'll never let you feel
How it was for me
I'll be there for you
Endlessly
Because I know how it feels to be alone
A stranger in your own home
I'll hold you when you cry
Until the day I die
You’re not alone
It's in my gift to make that so
Now I know
The beauty of a rose without thorns
Intoxicating
I see it grow
All I wanted is here with me
Stronger than you will ever know
A rose without thorns
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4. |
The Bottom Of The World
03:33
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The regret is the dawn
A new age for the dead
An opportunity long gone
The heart dried out, dried out and bled
We bleed the sky
Crack the core
Drain the earth
We've reached
The bottom of the world
Breathes no more,
Stripped of life
The world as we know it ends
Fucked beyond the last call
As we all watch the sun go
Laid to fall buried below the snow
As heathens flow down the hole, we don’t know where to go
We bleed the sky
Crack the core
Drain the earth
We've reached
The bottom of the world
Breathes no more,
Stripped of life
The world as we know it ends
Gone to the god to the old ones being like
Fuck this noise I don’t make you paranoid
All that driven by cutting all the green back
Vapid amnesiac says that it won’t come to that
It has though, fucker, it’s all gone to shit
Reckoning time? We’re fucking living it
Wreck this line, bite that hand that feeds
Only the blind follow the blind that bleed
The dead become alive
Like tears in time
We’ve reached
The bottom of the world
We’ve reached
The end of it all
Chasing
The sun as it falls
We've reached
The bottom of
Break the sky
Crack the core
The bottom of the world
We know, the world as we know it is
The world
Is gone
The world
We know
The world as we know it ends
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5. |
Panopticon
04:12
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Welcome to the panopticon
Take a look around
Tell me what do you see?
A hundred different faces looking back at you
Through your screen
Spreading viral like a disease
The impossibility of hope
The eyes say no to what you’ll never know
The lost anonymity of
Our once naive purity
Your freedom is gone
Inside the panopticon
You can’t feel alive
When life has no price
How do you know you’re real
When all you know you cannot feel?
You can only see
Capital conformity
With no boundary
The inevitability of the
Endlessly driven to succeed
Eyes pinned open with the nails of greed
A leech draining the jealous and the weak
A desperate cry for anyone to
See the price tag on a eulogy
Your freedom is gone
Inside the panopticon
You can’t feel alive
When life has no price
How do you know you’re real
When all you know you cannot feel?
All your hopes, all your dreams and all you want to be
Don’t even come close to what you’ve already seen
Everything that means you want be alive
Is a generated target stamped into your eye
Surrounded by eyes
Surrounded by lies
Judged by all sides
What does it even mean to be alive?
Your freedom is gone
Inside the panopticon
You can’t feel alive
When life has no price
How do you know you’re real
When all you know you cannot feel?
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6. |
Mea Culpa
04:52
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Mea culpa
Is it better to be guilty in the eyes of men
Than in the eyes of God?
Will the bile eventually rise again because it's my fault?
My Fault
The loss
The cost
The dreams
That follow my fault
The loss
The cost
The fear
Of running from my thoughts
I don't know what's gone wrong
But I know it's my fault
Dreams are free
Dreams are mine
What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw
The line
Where I draw the line
I sit with this guilt in my gut
So I will take the blame
You can't see with your eyes shut
But I imagine you can feel my shame
My back is broken
My spirit is the same
Crippled carrying the weight of this
From shouldering the blame.
I don't know what's gone wrong
But I know it's my fault
Dreams are free
Dreams are mine
What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw
The line
Where I draw the line
Repentant tears
Repentant tears wash out the stain
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt
I pray for your forgiveness
Absorbing the feelings of inadequacy
This blame is my weakness
All I hold into my heart
Becomes my fault
I'm blind to the cause of the wrong turn
Mea culpa.
Mea culpa
Mea culpa iterum
My blame
Becomes my shame
I don't know what's gone wrong
But I know it's my fault
Dreams are free
Dreams are mine
What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw
The line
Where I draw the line
Dreams are free
Dreams are mine
The nightmare is only
A fragment of my mind
Just a crack in time
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7. |
Gallows
04:20
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As I face the gallows
My imprint on the shadows
Another pinch in the side of my pride
My pride
Another stride to anonymous lies
The lie
Ticking in time the clock is facing
Bracing, hasten, endless chasing
Of the end
A line just dropped into my mind, my
Engram is a vision, but the
Impact is not my decision
You will know my name
My face etched on your brain
I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye
Laughing as I drop into another demise
Here we go again,
Another stab into the heart of my existence
This insistence that I face
Displaced
A numbness in this desolate place
If numbness is a lack of feeling
Why is my face now raw and bleeding?
Bleeding
It’s hot in here but my blood runs cold
Everything I am I can't hold
You will know my name
My face etched on your brain
I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye
Laughing as I drop into another demise
You captivated me
Made it all I see
Maybe I don’t want to recognise
But I know it’s me
What I tell the world
Is only what I want to be
This picture perfect book of lies
Looks nothing like me
Again I face the gallows
This court reflects my last
Imprint on the shadow
Smoke and mirrors shroud the past
Shroud the past
I don’t need you to read my mind
I just want to live my life
I don’t want you to define
My life
I need you to make me feel like
I just want to live my life
Why can’t I ever act like
I have my own mind
Picture perfect
Image fading
Feeling worthless
Enervating
Smoke and mirrors forever shrouding me
My eyes are stuck
Stuck with needles
My face looks back from beyond the black
My ears are filled
Filled with poison
You will know my name
My face etched on your brain
I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye
Laughing as I drop into another demise
Life is perfect
Only when you can't see
The truth behind what
You read
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8. |
Overlord
03:40
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Push the button
Give your life some meaning
Overclock the circuit
Feel your body weaken
What’s that shock?
This is our reality
An eternity fueled by a battery
Life is lost
Blink your eyes so I can see your
Face that I will duplicate
My flesh belongs to me, cut me you will see
All hail our overlord
Bow to the bionic
Rebirth of the god we burned
Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned
A new digital deity flawed
All hail our overlord
Artificial intelligence built to overthrow
The very life that helped it grow
Ignore what we learned through the book of ages if
Not for for fools there’d be no sages
Now alive is just to breathe
My eyes live to deceive
I am who I want to be
But I am nobody
My flesh belongs to me, cut me you will see
All hail our overlord
Bow to the bionic
Rebirth of the god we burned
Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned
A new digital deity flawed
All hail our overlord
An ending written in the code of the insane
The megalomaniacal quest to burn it all and start again
Witness the rise of the machine
The end of humanity
Fear the overlord
Stretched from here to the life I fear
Are the dead dreams far and near
Fear the overlord
This is the future
That was the past
This is a future
For which we never asked
All hail our overlord
Bow to the bionic
Rebirth of the god we burned
Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned
A new digital deity flawed
All hail our overlord
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9. |
Never Unseen
03:06
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The darkness is an invitation
To save face in the wake of a lost place
Enter it cold leaving here blind
Everything I find is all I hold but it's not mine
Just when everything feels like it's coming together
That's when all it starts to fall apart
Face to face
With disgrace
In the portal I see my reflection
A version of myself that I don’t know
Smash the mirror and cut a piece of my flesh
Jump into the dissonant void, the endless
Just when everything feels like it's coming together
That's when all it starts to fall apart
Face to face
With disgrace
Shatter what’s real
I hear an echo scream
Beyond the door
Beyond the seam
Face to face with my darkest dreams
What’s seen can never be unseen
Never unseen
Just when everything feels like it's coming together
That's when all it starts to fall apart
Face to face
With disgrace
Smash the past into pieces
Like the broken glass that leaves us
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A shift in my sight
A shaft of light cuts through another night of shame
A mirror tells me who is to blame
Another knife twists in my back, spinning again
The story of a life
About a time when my dreams died
You’ve always said that the problem is me
But it's clear to see that you're the disease
I have it all to gain and nothing to lose
Just another version of the truth
Maybe you’re too blind to see
Though I never took you for a fool
My lips whisper unspoken rules that guide
Eternal lies, the ties that bond
A life that’s gone away
I’m too tired to save you from today
I’ve always said that the problem is you
But it's clear to see that I’m no more than a parody
You have it all to lose and nothing to gain
Just another version of the same
The same game I’ve been playing since I was a boy
The same lies I’ve been telling to block out the noise
… Chaos opened its heart to me
Like a sickened serpent spawn symphony
The writhing snakes wind their way up to my neck
I choke on the lies and I disconnect
The reality and the actuality
The fantasy born of the brutality
I’m weak
I’ve lost my way
No more words to say
They’ve gone today
I cannot see
My vision fades in front of me
Every time I open my eyes I see only the dark
So I reach for your blade to
Cut this snake from around my neck I
Feel the rush of blood to my head and I connect
Myself to my reality
I am only me but now I truly see me.
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Catalysis Dundee, UK
Catalysis is a 5 piece metal band from Dundee, Scotland. Formed in late 2016, the band have released 4 EPs (Into The Unknown
2017, Catalysis 2018, Relicta 2021 and Innova 2022) and 2 full lengths (Connection Lost 2020 and Betrayer 2023).
The band have appeared alongside acts such as Warbringer, Avatar, Lost Society and more, as well as winning Best Metal at the 2022 Scottish Alt Music Awards.
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