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Again It strikes. Shoot awake in panic.
Reality is fleeting, or perhaps I never had it.
How could you expect anything else
Considering how I rest
That night, out back, for no reason
The hammer drops upon random flesh
Never forgetting this hallucination
This conceived recollection, or so I think
Remains continually fresh
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Internalizing
04:37
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Clenched, writhing again, seething with rancor.
Watching it all pour down the drain.
Tied myself to a sinking anchor
The only forgiveness is enduring this pain.
Resentment so thick you can slice with rusted blade
Explosive tension rapidly ignites.
Unrelenting confrontational tirades
You wish I died one of those nights.
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Treat as hostile
Making up for years of stagnation
With a vengeance
This contempt is relentless
As I reverse-engineer everything built here
Live to be improved with you removed
Keep that shovel on standby
I’ll not be right there
It will be here, where my last stand
To make you understand
You’ve got no one left to bury you
We’re making cadaver angels tonight
Posing, tracing, erasing
Followed by an impenetrable silence
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It’s from right here. Irritum.
What is this demon possessing me?
A voice whispering internally
It tells me to run, there is a way out
To trust what it says; bear no doubt
It’s from right here. Irritum.
But reality has this way of reminding
Taking me back; fucking rewinding.
Cast it out. This bit of hope.
End it now. Coil the rope.
It’s from right here. Irritum.
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Despondent
03:21
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L'altération Du Sang
03:47
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Ouvrez les vannes.
Assurez-vous que la lignée se termine ici.
Noyer la douleur. Saigner la haine.
Change le sang. Inonder.
Seul le poison nettoiera et déterminera le vainqueur.
Une fin fluide. Grille L'Empaleur.
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Hatecompulse
03:35
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It starts again. It starts again.
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It starts again, this recurrence of betrayal
Life passes in a grey haze day by day
A hacked and strewn slideshow.
Bits are missing. Frames are missing
So many detrimental parts are gone
Because they never existed
And although we’ve persisted
To get to another level
These thoughts still revel
And remain ingrained.
The fact that it all went to shit
And what the fuck I think of it
It’s a punishable offense
Yes, we seek to reprehend
Those who have chosen to offend
The sun has set – another cold night
Another day locked in this place where I’ll die
Fuck this recurrence
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Grid The Impaler
03:10
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Open the floodgates.
Ensure the bloodline ends here.
Drown Pain. Bleed Hate.
Alter the blood. Incinerate. Inundate.
Only poison will cleanse, and determine the prevailer.
A fluid-like end. Grid The Impaler.
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Electrocution Baptism
01:54
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Irritum
04:51
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Sicken myself with these thoughts of intent
Part the seas of my conscience, reality is bent
To sympathy felt, nor a helping hand lent
This deluge of worthlessness will never relent
Days do fade, but slumber will not set in
Nightmare-strewn bursts of restlessness once again
Staring, uncaring, envisioning revenge
Will this ever fucking end?
Having surrendered all thought of an adequate solution
As everything I’ve attempted has ended in delusion
I yearn so intensely for some sense of retribution
Killing everything around me in search of this conclusion
Blinded by rage. Should I turn back? Perhaps.
My brain burning holes, in my memory remains gaps
Somewhere beyond my control vengeance overlaps
In a momentary lapse I watch everything collapse
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Externalizing
03:25
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It all just gets fucking worse
I gave up on attempts to replace it
No fighting energy left
Wish I could just become complacent
How far must one go
To reach the end of their rope?
Ask me not
Here I swing, long out of hope
Grieve? I hope.
Through this bullshit sustenance
Struggling to resist
Fighting off this urge
To end your existence
The barrage of hate
has me at that threshold
Nothing now will stop
Wrath from taking control
Today is worse
Another fucking curse
My disdain I will avenge and
Put you in the dirt
Please, let this action
To which I’ve supplied the reason
A repayment, a reaction
Relieve me of the weight of this treason
And now some choose this day
To grieve for you
Your cadaver angel shall not feel my presence
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Decoration
04:36
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The chair
It’s right there
Coiled cord by its side
Never before did I think
It would actually come down to this
But my will has died
My insides like cyanide
Blood boils from deep in mind
This simple solution
Will give you time to rewind and kiss me goodbye
Dangling alongside the garland
Another dangling decoration
A commemoration of this engulfing depression
Drained of all drive
Devoid of all hope
Gaze upon this conclusion
At the end of its rope
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GRIDFAILURE Valley Cottage, New York
The ominous vision of creator David Brenner, GRIDFAILURE delivers a cinematic, tension/paranoia-driven form of harsh experimentation fusing dark ambient and harsh sub-hardcore mutations with endless other genres including jazz, world music, folk, electronic, and beyond. ... more
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