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What Unknown Force
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WHAT UNKNOWN FORCE
How can someone who delivered such hope
Have none left for themselves?
And why did no one who believed his steel
Foresee the black dog stalking him?
Feeling great now, I won't tomorrow
But I'm better than yesterday
Thousands have died, only one that matters
Seems like they were his last straw
Healing pain now, silent tomorrow
Hail the conquest of yesterday
This one’s for everyone, whose life's in tatters
With a black cloud that won't go away
What unknown force gave his revelation
At what cost was his salvation
What unknown force took his attention
What answer brought his destruction
Ideation of suicide solution
Delivers selfish peace whether we accept it or not
Uncertainty permeated destiny
'till the darkness became the light
Feeling great now, I won't tomorrow
But I'm better than yesterday
There’s hope inside, and he brought it to us
Persevering where others fell
Healing pain now, silent tomorrow
Hail the conquest of yesterday
His creative, call to arms
Was beautiful idiocy
Times ticking, ticking on me
Do I want to die, or just want to be free
Five minutes, is all it takes
To be overwhelmed, by my perceived mistakes
Times ticking, ticking on me
Do I want to die, or just want to be free
Five minutes, is all it takes
To be overwhelmed, by my perceived mistakes
What unknown force gave his revelation
At what cost was his salvation
What unknown force took his attention
What answer brought his destruction
I'm glad I could not see into the future
Because this wonderful tale of old
Would have been ruined with this shit ending
No one dreamed would come to pass
Feeling great now, I won't tomorrow
But I'm better than yesterday
The needs of the one, outweigh the many
Even apocalyptically
Healing pain now, silent tomorrow
Hail the conquest of yesterday
As I draw strength, from the brotherhood
That rages against false steel
Times ticking, ticking on me
Do I want to die, or just want to be free
Clarity, bestows unto me
A yearning for eternal sleep
Times ticking, ticking on me
Do I want to die, or just want to be free
Clarity, bestows unto me
A yearning for eternal sleep
What unknown force gave his revelation
At what cost was his salvation
What unknown force took his attention
What answer brought his destruction
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PRACTICE FOR THE APOCALYPSE
Twenty five mils quetiapine
Three times daily keeps me from strife
Floating along inside the dream
Of the psychosis of my life
I took my meds to kill the blues
A thousand more died on the news
I accept this for what it is
Practice for the apocalypse
I've lived in poverty most of my adult life
Gone without food and lodge, ate porridge and mouse shit
My resentment has grown for capitalism
But today I am glad for the pain I've endured
I have never laid roots, spent most of my life lost
Every day I have praised Hell for making me hard
I have learned how to fight and been forced to adapt
Knowing this day would come, to me it's sort of fun
Communities falling apart
Across the world breaking my heart
We consume the grim updates
Upon death we will concentrate
I took my meds to kill the blues
A thousand more died on the news
I accept this for what it is
Practice for the apocalypse
We have become so soft, detached from our planet
People running amok, fatties fighting in shops
Privileged lies unfurled, not even the third world
Clown kings fail to control, the facade they have sold
As the virus condemns rich and poor, us and them
Will this nightmare reveal economics concealed?
This ain't Armageddon, taster of what's to come
What we fear in the west is just life for the rest
I hope this is the worst I see
This war that is waged on mankind
We asked for it we raped the Earth
This is the retaliation
I took my meds to kill the blues
A thousand more died on the news
I accept this for what it is
Practice for the apocalypse
Terrifying nana’s raking through the bins
Teenage prozzers smoking blims
Hello is that police Scotland 101?
Me neighbours getting murdered again
Child porn stars with suicidal ideation
Pledging allegiance to the butchers apron
Midnight knobhead knocking at my door
Selling his trainers for draw
The people are rising for the social virtues
While moron gorillas are guarding fucking statues
Dragon Soop, thirty pregabalin
And it’s not even a fucking mad yin
Hoovering lines like liposuction
And practicing anti-social distancing
Devastation sweeping the nation
Cutting us deep from station to station
The black dog barks and bites
And the darkness calls in the empty night
The world isn’t in on a joke
Reality isn’t a hoax
And who’s gonna mop up the mess
Seems like every motherfucker’s in a web of stress
To those on the tin foil ride
Who call it a lie, no matter how many die
It’s like your personal conquest
To try to be the vilest cunt bitch
You’re cursing the nurses
In the year of the hearses
And you can’t reverse this
So hear the verses
You don’t care who has suffered
Sisters, mothers, fathers, brothers
We’er gonna drop you like a bombscare
You’re fucking lucky you are here
Hate is seeping out your pores
Venomous nazi little whore
Some day your glass house will shatter
Fuck you black lives do matter
You, you even mock the fucking dead
This one goes out to the rattling bams
Scripts not enough and you’re feeling damned
Dihydrocodeins not touching the sides
You gotta stay clean if you want be alive
Withdrawal hell changes your mind
You buy thirty blues and a bottle of wine
And not even a naloxone calzone will save you
From your own brain’s
Manifestation of isolation
Suffocating the fucking nation
Sink back into addiction
And pause your imagination
Accommodating the abomination
‘till it dominates your attention
Was never the original intention
Waking sleeping it’s all the same
When your living in a world insane
Reality cannot be ascertained
Unlike a visit to the astral plane
You’ve got tracks but missing a train
Citric acid burning your veins
In a dystopian terrain
The horse of pestilence reigns
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ENTOMBED WITH MY PRIDE BY MY SIDE
Territories are disputed
Infinitely passionately
I've longed for my small piece of hell
Entombed with my pride by my side
She is more beautiful up close
The creature senses my terror
Expression invokes the princess
The dark lord slumbers in the sun
Humans are shit, boring as fuck
My life is filled with feline muck
Relationships with the giants
Influence the hierarchies
Creating responses to dreams
Entombed with my pride by my side
Desperation for isolation
Confuses the dedication
Exalted and desperate for death
Entombed with my pride by my side
In servitude she shall transform
It screams in frenzy for the flesh
Attraction to the creation
Climbing the mountains of concrete
Humans are shit, boring as fuck
My life is filled with feline muck
Menial toil, minimal gold
Distributing fears distraction
Imprisoned with all that I love
Entombed with my pride by my side
Deepening the bond with the beasts
Entombed with my pride by my side
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THE BLIND MAN SHINES LIGHT ON THE TRUTH
The slow erosion of intelligence
Within the oppression manifesto
Dumbing down the schools, enslaving the arts
Turning rebels to tory apologists
Where once we strived to be unique
Culture now worships the banal
School of hard knocks has now replaced
A trusting respect for the facts
The one who cannot see
Reveals sights to behold
To those with eyes closed shut
Resistant to knowledge
The blind man shines light on the truth
Fools take offence to his wisdom
The obsequious cattle of death
Applaud their own ignorant lies
Denying reality is easy
We are born enslaved on a dying world
When thousands of people die needlessly
Enlightenment brings forth immolation
We are in the darkest of days
The government has failed us all
Yet so many break their own backs
To remain cocooned in bullshit
The one who cannot see
Reveals sights to behold
Unto the baying crowd
Unwilling to accept
The blind man shines light on the truth
Fools take offence to his wisdom
The obsequious cattle of death
Applaud their own ignorant lies
Taught subservience subliminally
To authority, title and money
Those with the least still worship royal beasts
And never dare think above their station
No wonder there is so much hate
It's a shame it is all displaced
The masses have sealed their own fate
Rejecting rational debate
The one who cannot see
Reveals sights to behold
To plankton given voice
By a digital god
The blind man shines light on the truth
Fools take offence to his wisdom
The obsequious cattle of death
Applaud their own ignorant lies
Twenty twenty X-Files echo chamber
Need an escape from fucking social media
Living in a hell hole with those who refuse to lose insane view
Swamped in the cess pools of right wing cries of fake news
Fake news we’re all born to lose, we’re all born to lose
Never been a better time for a suicide
Utter bullshit crowding my blind side
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Escapism And Lethargy
11:02
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ESCAPISM AND LETHARGY
Infinite days enjoying the holiday of death
An alternate reality, righteously obsessed
Nightmare pantomime plays on my TV screen
If you liked Brexit, you'll love covid-19
Forbidden truth, forgotten lies
I hide from grief and fantasise
Escapism and lethargy
Distraction from insanity
The Andromeda galaxy has been colonised
Virtually as I languish in dank quarantine
Pathetic leaders, lying with every breath
If you liked Grenfell, you'll love mass care home deaths
Reality monstrosity
Replaced by epic fantasy
Escapism and lethargy
Distraction from insanity
Dystopian conspiracies used to be fiction
Doomsday preppers blaming 5G, winning elections
Hero pensioners wheeled out for all to see
If you liked the blitz, you'll love child poverty
The greatest saga of my time
Is observed as I soak in wine
Escapism and lethargy
Distraction from insanity
I feel a massive disturbance in the web of life
And experience this sadness via metaphor
Evil is revealed yet somehow still concealed
If you liked Saville, you'll love the peado prince
Nihilism claws at my mind
Existentialism sublime
Escapism and lethargy
Distraction from insanity
I convert negativity
Into this music before thee
Escapism and lethargy
Distraction from insanity
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ALL OF THIS WILL BE
EATEN BY THE SUN
My music exists as a by-product of me
I can control it and thus affect destiny
There is no reason that I do this save I can
So many times when it was all that I have had
My nihilistic creative process sucks the joy out of life
All of this will be eaten by the sun
Us and them both equally forgotten
All of this will be eaten by the sun
In a galaxy long silent and dark
Psychosis and pandemic were the catalyst
For the creation of my latest sound sculpture
It is like all my work, the beginning and end
As we attend the musical hexenzirkel
My existential creative process suggests reasons to live
All of this will be eaten by the sun
Us and them both equally forgotten
All of this will be eaten by the sun
In a galaxy long silent and dark
When I was young, I dreamt of a silver future
A utopia of diversity and peace
Where the infinity of wisdom was worshipped
Science translated religion into metaphor
Yet as I grow older the present becomes grey
A dystopia of division and hatred
Newton is denied and Darwin blasphemes again
As four horsemen graze on our absurd extinction
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Tommy Concrete Edinburgh, UK
Tommy Concrete is a metal musician based in Edinburgh Scotland.
Blending multiple genres to create shifting
styles.
Challenging, progressive, avant-garde but sometimes just straight up Motorhead.
Often compared to Devin Townsend but
Influenced by Hawkwind, Amorphis, Enslaved and Opeth..
Tommy has been a part of the UK underground for 30 odd years and has played in a million bands.
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This can't get any worse
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You may very well be interested in hearing Tommy Concrete's non solo music with his old-school extreme metal band. This is the debt album and pretty much Motorhead Celtic Frost worship. Check it oot
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Thirty Hours Work Or Less
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Tommy Concrete with guys from Juniper Grave and Atragon doing Obsessed style Doom Metal! Don't miss!
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Destroy The Machines Of Slaughter
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Legendary Scottish metal band Man of the Hour, with Tommy Concrete on vocals and Matt Justice (The Exploited, Anaxor) on lead guitar! Full Heavy Metal!
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Coagulating Darkness
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Pretty much the best Black/Speed Metal I've listened to since I learned about Evil Invaders and Vulture. Everything you'd love to be reminded of about this musical era is there. The influences are what you'd expect too: Motörhead, Venom, Bathory, early Slayer, Celtic Frost; aggressive vocals, tortured guitar solos, pounding drums; everything is fast, clear and still a little grimy, but without reverb cranked up to the max. Amazing band, amazing album.
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