Just put up the demo version of TERROR CONSUMES. This version's been around for about a half a year while I waited on the celebrity guest vocalist... who wound up letting me know he was no longer interested by ignoring repeated emails. Thanks dude.
So these vocals are the dummy vocals I put in just to show where the vocals went, and they're not so shabby. As it's a demo, almost everything's getting rerecorded.
Hell, I just realized this version might not even have the bass track. Funny.
What mind can't devour itself?
Atrophied ego, degenerate cells
Just beyond the curtain of dark
An unknown number, an unseen attack
Suggestions of something beyond
Moving about in dark attic rooms
Subconscious thought working against
Your own will
Terror Consumes
Dread's geometric design
Evolution's byproduct, sickening fear
The mind simply cannot abide
All of the things that it can't stop creating
Branches black against the sky
Brain is imprisoned and skull is a tomb
Beckoning arms of the night
Calling you
Terror Consumes
Terror Consumes
No release from horror
Recreation recombines
Charming by the light of day
By night it realigns
Anxiety will overcome
And all the world's askew
You can't see the ghost
But be assured, the ghost sees you
Pale radiance as day breaks again
Heaving a sigh as the witch takes its leave
Go hide in the hours of the sun
But time is a cycle, it's finite, and soon is it spent
On the horizon the sun
Is dying and red in a worsening gloom
You will return to the house
that you built
Terror Consumes
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
3rd album update
I gave an update a while back. Here's an updated update. The songs for the third album are currently (and in no particular order)
Terror Consumes
ED-209
Lich King III
A Storm of Swords
Waste
Act of War
annnd one that I finalized the arrangement for today. It might make the first track. It's called... Behaver.
We're unsure at this point as to whether the Aggressive Perfector cover is going in there or what... We're not too worried about it. Also? We might put on Grindwheel, which is a song we did about three or four years back, before we ever got serious about this stuff. It's got a slower sludgy thing going on. I think I can heavy it up a bit. There's no current title for the album. We're batting around some ideas.
The cover art is in progress and is about half done. I expect it to be done sometime over the next month. Here's a hint: It features the Lich King. It also features zombies. Gasp! Spoiler alert, LOL
So there, yer updated. Shaddap.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
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Also, become a fan of us on Facebook. I'd give an address if Facebook could figure out how to make the URL easy. Just search for LICH KING, filter out the shitty Warcraft pages and that's us. You could also search for THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME.
A big development happened today. It may lead to things. Certain things. Certain things that won't get mentioned now. Stay tuned.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Updates on the next few songs
That's right, the next FEW songs.
We're writing and writing and practicing and writing. The new stuff is coming along nicely. ED-209 is the most Lich King-ey of the new stuff, and by that I mean that it's the most in keeping with the goofy fun feel and the familiar song structure. The new stuff is darker, it's faster, it's a bit more influenced by the evil mexican / southern californian bands. I know I've complained about that style but I tried adding some to the mix one day- just a taste- and we liked how it sounded. Consider us influenced. Slightly. You'll hear it.
There are three songs in the hopper right now. The first two are ready to go, pending inclusion of their respective celebrity guest stars' tracks. The first one to make it through will likely be the cover of a thrash classic featuring our pal Michael Ellero of Canada's RAZORWIRE popping in for a solo.
The second song is called TERROR CONSUMES. This is a dark one and a departure for us in both songwriting and lyrics. The music is, as mentioned, a bit more mexi-thrashy than our regular fare. The lyrics are going beyond monsters and machines and 80's action flicks, into our first forays into mental anguish. Have you noticed how most bands' first albums are all about serial killers and thrashing, and the third is a lot more introspective with songs about paranoia, fear and control? We're definitely feeling that kind of maturity and this song will be the first of that sort. TERROR CONSUMES is specifically about fear.
What mind can't devour itself?
Atrophied ego, degenerate cells
Just beyond the curtain of dark
An unknown number, an unseen attack
Suggestions of something beyond
Moving about in dark attic rooms
Subconscious thought working against
Your own will
Terror Consumes
I don't want to mention who the celebrity guest vocalist is for this one, mostly because the celebrity guests tend to back out and I'd like to keep from hyping someone this good. The song was written with his style in mind and if he does it, it's going to sound cooooool.
The third is one we're maybe only halfway through writing, and it's a long way off from being ready. This one's WASTE. It's about being crushed by your own shortcomings... or at least it's about me yelling at myself for mine.
I have a dozen or so riffs waiting to see if they'll make it into future songs, and a handful of titles and ideas. One will be A STORM OF SWORDS, based on the book of the same name. Another that's definitely being done eventually is LICH KING III. Doing sort of an Overkill thing with that one... sequels. The ongoing tale of the mascot in his bid to rule everything.
There you go, your nipples are now sufficiently erect from all this teaser info about the third album. I can't say when it'll be done. It'll probably be early 2010, squeezing this into 2009's probably a little unrealistic. As to the title? I dunno. I know what I'm doing for the cover art... but I'm not saying.
-Tom
March 2009
We're writing and writing and practicing and writing. The new stuff is coming along nicely. ED-209 is the most Lich King-ey of the new stuff, and by that I mean that it's the most in keeping with the goofy fun feel and the familiar song structure. The new stuff is darker, it's faster, it's a bit more influenced by the evil mexican / southern californian bands. I know I've complained about that style but I tried adding some to the mix one day- just a taste- and we liked how it sounded. Consider us influenced. Slightly. You'll hear it.
There are three songs in the hopper right now. The first two are ready to go, pending inclusion of their respective celebrity guest stars' tracks. The first one to make it through will likely be the cover of a thrash classic featuring our pal Michael Ellero of Canada's RAZORWIRE popping in for a solo.
The second song is called TERROR CONSUMES. This is a dark one and a departure for us in both songwriting and lyrics. The music is, as mentioned, a bit more mexi-thrashy than our regular fare. The lyrics are going beyond monsters and machines and 80's action flicks, into our first forays into mental anguish. Have you noticed how most bands' first albums are all about serial killers and thrashing, and the third is a lot more introspective with songs about paranoia, fear and control? We're definitely feeling that kind of maturity and this song will be the first of that sort. TERROR CONSUMES is specifically about fear.
What mind can't devour itself?
Atrophied ego, degenerate cells
Just beyond the curtain of dark
An unknown number, an unseen attack
Suggestions of something beyond
Moving about in dark attic rooms
Subconscious thought working against
Your own will
Terror Consumes
I don't want to mention who the celebrity guest vocalist is for this one, mostly because the celebrity guests tend to back out and I'd like to keep from hyping someone this good. The song was written with his style in mind and if he does it, it's going to sound cooooool.
The third is one we're maybe only halfway through writing, and it's a long way off from being ready. This one's WASTE. It's about being crushed by your own shortcomings... or at least it's about me yelling at myself for mine.
I have a dozen or so riffs waiting to see if they'll make it into future songs, and a handful of titles and ideas. One will be A STORM OF SWORDS, based on the book of the same name. Another that's definitely being done eventually is LICH KING III. Doing sort of an Overkill thing with that one... sequels. The ongoing tale of the mascot in his bid to rule everything.
There you go, your nipples are now sufficiently erect from all this teaser info about the third album. I can't say when it'll be done. It'll probably be early 2010, squeezing this into 2009's probably a little unrealistic. As to the title? I dunno. I know what I'm doing for the cover art... but I'm not saying.
-Tom
March 2009
Monday, December 1, 2008
Toxic Zombie Onslaught is OUT NOW
That's right suckers, guess what was unleashed on the world today.
When you get it, let us know what you think. Here's a preview: you loved it.
When you get it, let us know what you think. Here's a preview: you loved it.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
AWW SHIT, what's this?
Could be Thrashbaby™ and the good people at Stormspell records have a little something extra for the first 150 orders of TOXIC ZOMBIE ONSLAUGHT.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Cheesy Metal Intro & Attack of... video
With this, the last remaining unheard track is revealed. Tell everyone you know that it's the happiest day of your life.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
TZO is finally coming soon
TZO's coming soon... like within a month or two, looks like. We're hashing out details with a label and finalizing things. More announcements soon.
The final track count is 10... no covers, all originals this time. Stronger and fiercer than Necromantic Maelstrom, with a much greater riff attack, slightly better production and the same shitty vocals.
Arrangement may vary, but these are the tracks.
1. Cheesy Metal Intro
2. Attack Of The Wrath Of The War Of The Death Of The Strike Of The Sword Of The Blood Of The Beast
3. Toxic Zombie Onslaught
4. Black Metal Sucks
5. Thrash Resurgence
6. I Destroy
7. Predator
8. Cold Steel Machine
9. Office Politics
10. Lich King II
The final track count is 10... no covers, all originals this time. Stronger and fiercer than Necromantic Maelstrom, with a much greater riff attack, slightly better production and the same shitty vocals.
Arrangement may vary, but these are the tracks.
1. Cheesy Metal Intro
2. Attack Of The Wrath Of The War Of The Death Of The Strike Of The Sword Of The Blood Of The Beast
3. Toxic Zombie Onslaught
4. Black Metal Sucks
5. Thrash Resurgence
6. I Destroy
7. Predator
8. Cold Steel Machine
9. Office Politics
10. Lich King II
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