Tombs, by Skeletons

Tombs

by Skeletons

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1.	A Lonely Place of Dying 05:42	lyrics	buy track
A lonely place of dying Wrapped and bound; your limbs Commit your faith to love or blood And your ending can begin A dark house through stagnant air Reeking of fear An omen smeared in your Mother's blood Upon your bathroom mirror A sickness of screaming knives Languished in rust Behold how they ache and starve How they squirm in lust Messiah Devours worlds Pariah Bloodless and cold Don't trust in God Don't trust in love Don't trust in man I Don't trust in anything Except the blade within my hands A dark house through stagnant air Reeking of fear An omen smeared in your Mother's blood Upon your bathroom mirror Six feet deep; a nameless grave Where the insects twitch I commit your worthless body to the ground Dropped into this ditch A lonely place of dying Wrapped and bound; your limbs / Rope burns at your wrists / Contusions on your skin Commit yourself to love or blood And your ending can begin
2.	Mantis 04:08	lyrics	buy track
I'm drained - I'm blind I lay weary Tearing out my own eyes As she sucks the meat from me I am sex and I am death Cannibal aphrodisiac I am life and I give breath Glimmering in the black I spit blood in the face of God I give life forevermore Sustained by flesh alike my own Devour and leave only bones All our monarchs lying dead Unending urge that must be fed As this holy copulation ends Give yourself to nothingness Devour
3.	Texas Burial 05:15	lyrics	buy track
What would you give just to feel something? It happens here and it should be understood This daily dirge - so pale and grey And the streets are running red with blood I can see the earth covering your hollow eyes I can hear the dirt smothering your empty cries We're making a stand - we're digging a grave You ain't the first and you sure won't be the last All the pleading screams of soulless meat It breaks my heart to see you die so fast Now you're gonna have a lot of time to think on your sins, boy Why do we build what is so easily destroyed? One last look to the sun and we drive these coffin nails These brittle bones - this useless flesh; we are all set to fail
4.	Skinning Angels 02:55	lyrics	buy track
Suffering engulfed in flesh Trapped in sinew and bone Swallowed up by human filth Rotten organic drone Pale and pure My Angel carved in human skin Stretched thin across your beating heart Decayed and old But warm within My Angel screams to me Enter the night Red meat to get you wet I am the light Swollen - choked Buried where no flowers bloom Bloodless - drained Secreted in this rancid tomb
5.	Pale Children 03:32	lyrics	buy track
The haunting chill of the evening Dead laughter echoes in waves Pale children play in the courtyard Dancing round nameless graves Wake in the aftermath Bells toll for your doom Sickly and translucent In the dead light of the argent moon Pale children haunt these grounds Irradiated Burned by a thousand suns That our leaders instigated Damned to walk upon a dying land Jaundiced eyes survey one billion grasping hands Crawl across the cursed earth Our judgement has begun Regressed and animal In the dismal light of a disease-ridden sun They reach out twitching - shaking Insectile - mutant - horror Grotesque - misshapen - writhing Abortion - aberration Nuclear Winter
6.	The Dead Circus 04:53	lyrics	buy track
Burning paper to make things living A cosmic womb through a doll's glass eyes Parading it's flesh and begging for death The sun is burning holes in the sky My sky Spitting forth life with the blood I drain A monarch to the lepers - a god to the insane Injecting slow death to set me free Resurrect me through your apathy My eyes have dried out - scabs - peeling I see them scaling down my walls The needles shriek - standing on end Burrow into my mind with rusted claws Red claws Burning paper dolls Under a blanket of night These ashes glow to embers The final gasp of the light I see an endless void Nothingness fills my eyes Injecting slow death The sun is burning holes in the sky
7.	Whiskey, Blood & Voodoo 03:47	lyrics	buy track
This humid evening chokes Mind in a haze This flesh seems so surreal In our graveyard game Drink deep to steel yourself Intoxicate Under the cold gaze of the dead We celebrate Through swarming flies Our mouths they drip with blood Divine and high Carcasses all around Scenery drips The Whispers of the Loa The blood-lust grips High on the stench of death This copper taste Cursed to walk this dying world And lay all to waste Now doomed to bear this weight Marked for the ritual A sacrificial whore These open veins let flow Drowning in gushing red These mouths in rabid foam The faces of the dead Beckoning you on home
8.	Starless 02:58	lyrics	buy track
Now we will float downstream Into the black of the night And all our blood comes clean Under the glow of the moonlight Starless is the sky Empty of life Starless is the sky Empty as I All bodies float downstream In the dead of the night And all this blood will drain Under the glow of the moonlight
9.	Morgue Party 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Lost in a haze - my mind is gone It must have been the flesh I ate I got a remedy for all your pain Just close your eyes and slip away I can't think of a Goddamn thing to make me feel more alive I kick you down into a shallow grave, and I slice you open wide You're in a daze - there's something wrong You're nothing but a sack of meat Just broken bones all tied up with veins Inherently weak Drink - Smoke - Inject Morgue party fucking She deepthroats the dead Rape - Murder - Suicide Lace my glass with cyanide And watch me die
10.	Tombs 06:49	lyrics	buy track
Holy water don't ease the suffering You give me oil for upon my sores I tore my flesh down to the bone Gave you my skin to keep you warm Open tombs they long for silence Open graves they long to breathe I gave my life - I gave my soul Just to see you bleed I tear the veins - I drink the life - I absorb the soul I live eternal death and sanguine is the toll I stand above and crush the insects all below For I am Tepes, Bringer of eternal woe I bring death I seek the crypt to defy sunrise I'm blind and anguished in the light of Christ Strip down; annulled from all this sorrow Blood hunger such a gripping vice The dead, they are not resting peaceful Their howls and cries they fill the air I cast a shadow across this sorry world A growing plague or hate and fear I see that blood is life And I know that life is death

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"A world of engaging horror and convincing mish-mash of styles all wrapped up in a blanket of memorable riffs"

- Neil Arnold, Metal Forces Magazine
Source: www.metalforcesmagazine.com/site/album-review-skeletons-tombs/

"The sludge masters increase their repertoire with some modern thrash here, and the result is a more dynamic affair with a strong post-thrash flavour."

- The Thrash Metal Guide
Source: www.thethrashmetalguide.com/S.html

"If you like Acid Bath, this has some similar sounds and melodies, but it touches upon several genre styles."

- Rate Your Music
Source: rateyourmusic.com/release/album/skeletons_f2/tombs/

Cover Art is Public Domain. Thanks and credit to Ivan Aleksic: unsplash.com/photos/4EQMyLRzbzE

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released January 6, 2014

Dominic - Vocals & Instruments

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Skeletons UK

"A world of engaging horror and convincing mish-mash of styles all wrapped up in a blanket of memorable riffs "
- Neil Arnold, Metal Forces Magazine

"Stories of Agony, Madness & Death evoking the cavernous, dark and ominous vocal presence of Danzig."
- Javier Carrillo, Verdadera Radio Online

Grunge/Doom/Sludge Metal project helmed by Dominic Goulding. ... more

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