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LP I

by Thieves

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theneutronstar Really dig the whole album. Borne reminds me slightly of related deceased band, Disbeliever. Come to Denver! Favorite track: Borne.
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Darknight Only Thieves could create such an assault on your eardrums and such an awesome sound which is so unhinged and diverse. Every track bursts right through and melts your ears with every listen, STUNNING! Favorite track: Torn.
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1.
Immersed 02:42
Sealed beneath waves unseen Hands of lead grasping me Carried down into the dark A thousand limbs pressing down Beckoning to stay, to melt into the ground Gone The veil ripped asunder The hands withdrawn Pounding, dragging, trudging, pulling Flowing through the veins Dashing, coursing, rolling, reeling Blurring through the days Swept with the tide Borne on their backs Devoured, swallowed whole Pounding, dragging, trudging, pulling Flowing through the veins Dashing, coursing, rolling, reeling Blurring through the days One with the tide Crushed underfoot Thrust out and left to fall A wrenching in our bones The cacophony shatters The river, the gateway The maw opens wide Sink beneath waves unseen Hands of lead welcome me Carried down into the dark A thousand limbs pressing down Beckoning to stay, to melt into the ground
2.
Torn 01:17
The walls rush forward, the vice is thirsty Tied down, strangled from the inside Embers bursting from the marrow The tide laps hungrily at your neck You lay upon the rack Your breath ripped from your chest Shaking hands, twitching fingers You feel the blood start to boil Bursting the seams into ribbons Champing gashes on the bit You lay upon the rack Your breath ripped from your chest It splinters beneath your skin Festering, feeding You lay yourself into white As it bursts from your pores
3.
Drawn 00:54
Torn into a thousand pieces Springs and gears tear at their flesh Chipping away, giving ground Doors nailed shut Every horizon lost and buried Signing away the years Bitter satisfaction, hollow comfort Shackles trailing Giving our names, tying our bonds Cogs in the wheel, carving the soil The telltale thorn, the golden badge The unrelenting wrong Thrusting our necks to this yolk The path narrows ahead
4.
Rejected 01:17
Shut off and discarded Thrown under the wheels Painted a pariah Branded a scapegoat Your thread is cut While sealed behind closed doors Fed by tongues of liars Eating hollow words Crossed off, exiled, unwelcome A marked soul, cast down, cast out You were measured And found wanting Feel the heels upon on your back Feel the blame Nest upon your shoulders Crushed under the weight Of impotence Crossed off, exiled, unwelcome A marked soul, cast down, cast out Eat excrement from a gilded platter Live on your knees with your eyes to the ground
5.
Hindered 01:39
Beset and bogged down Breathing dead, stale air Dancing to the crack of the whip Nothing moves Nothing moves Their nails dig deep Giving inch after inch Their nails dig deep Moments melt into weeks As the lights and the voices sink Their nails dig deep Plodding ahead and looking back As the lights and the voices sink Throw the doors wide Lift your hands to the black above Drink deep the swirling lights The beast beckons Breathe deep The flesh beckons Drink deep
6.
Deluded 00:58
Dead light flows from the glass Slaving at nothing Tap and scrape Scratch and prod this world of false light Taken in and held from each other Living each moment in opulent lies Walking with restless ghosts at our sides Shackled to meaninglessness Shut it off Break their hold Cut your ties Sever yourself
7.
Smothered 00:33
A river of eyes turning in on themselves Uncaring cattle, smashed into ranks Turning their eyes and avoiding my gaze Trample each other, smother yourselves Fighting tooth and nail for inches of filth Rushing to bury yourselves in the dirt The doors are closing
8.
Confined 01:16
Turning gears Grasping hands Swaths carved upon the blackened rock Footfalls as scars Fetid Wasted eyes Soiled rags Stooped spines The throng presses inward Arms crushed to my sides Their breath upon my face Their eyes rake mine Fetid Wasted eyes Trailing through filth and dust Sparks leap from below The roar engulfs us all Decaying flesh Decaying vessels Left forgotten underground The doors are closing
9.
Borne 02:28
We are the blood upon the air We are the blood under the ground The way is flooded by a writhing mass Bones grinding themselves into dust We are the blood under the ground We are the blood upon the air Churning through these limbs that never rest Bodies adrift in the bowels of this machine We are the blood Sink from the sky Break from the earth Seeking home
10.
Severed 02:41
Walk in the jaws of the beast You hear the baying of the dogs Footsteps fall on empty streets You see branches tearing the sky Sirens call out from the dark You feel twisting of the trees Death dances the boulevards Shards of glass litter ground Crags and snarls span veins of stone Bars of steel padlock these homes Iron teeth bursting from the ground Eyes press in from all around Ivory tracks looming overhead Past the stones where the children tread Desperate hands shrouded by the dark Every wall bearing their mark This is what separates This is what isolates
11.
Claimed 01:04
When at last our dance is done He welcomes all, old and young To lay with him in darkened earth Embrace of ash, in arms of dirt Through blood and bone he makes his way The darkest step, a waltz of decay
12.
Withered 01:36
Let these days bore through my bones Let these teeth be ground down to dust May my eyes fade into pools of white waste May my ears shrivel and deafen The edifice will give way to rubble Every mark will wipe from this stone All the roads twisting and blackened This vessel will run over the ground Let these days bore through my bones Let these teeth be ground down to dust May my eyes fade into pools of white waste May my ears shrivel and deafen This place will tear me asunder These weeks will feed me to worms Garb me in linens, torch me to cinders I will be devoured in the dirt I am but flotsam and fodder I am strewn in the loam underfoot Spattered on the stones, fattening the roots The imminent and the looming
13.
Debased 00:58
Given to weakness Languishing in scum Desperation frosts Over the eyes Sink into this filth Vomit your excess Purge and reject your own failure This is an every day failure The eyes that you live within This is the page pinned in the book A life of defeat You are the leech you are the host Sucking yourself down to the marrow Abject and befouled Spoiling yourself A breathing cesspool Begging at the feet of whores This is an every day failure The eyes that you live within This is the page pinned in the book A life of defeat
14.
Infected 01:58
Crawling carrion over every inch Belching our excess into the sky We raise these tombs into the clouds Breeding monsters to fear Moulding our misery Sowing our sorrow Puppeting heroes For us to exalt Man foisting his artifice on itself It bows under its own weight; Threatening to collapse Tunnels of offal carved underneath We forge blades to cut deep We run rampant through these wounds We light the ground ablaze We smother our own I am the child of ruin I stand wreathed in disease Donning my crown of sewage I am filth in a world of debris
15.
Numbed 02:48
A slow, steady chill Fills the ribs The cold shambles over your veins Give yourself to the glow As the light shuts out of the world Let it all fall into the dust Feel the apathy curl in your chest Hunting endlessly for release Stumbling with the weight of each gaze Unfeeling Unwanting Disowning everything Done
16.
Ended 02:51
Forging this chain about our necks We fetter ourselves Run while you can, make your escape You'll lay bound and quartered at their feet Your hear their teeth champing at the bit The writing on the wall in blazing black Gaze upon the face of tomorrow The mortar and bricks climbing around his neck This living omen, a breathing martyr Dead eyes hazing within his pallid face The old man sealed within the walls Shackled to his chair Go where you will, do what you may Look not for answers, they fall all around you Upon the backs of old, and from the mouths of babes Our fate is one in the same We’re trapped like rats

about

Thanks to:
Christine. Jen. Kristen. Lydia. Veronica. Butterbee. Bebe. Petey. Bruno. Cove. Life Exposed. The Ox King. Omens. Nathan Landolt. Burlington Record Plant. And most of all to Eric Lee.

Includes a digital booklet in .pdf format

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released February 27, 2017

All songs written and performed by Thieves
All songs recorded by Thieves at Hivemind Studios from May 2014 to March 2015. All songs engineered mixed and mastered by Eric Lee. This record was produced by Eric Lee and Thieves.
Album illustration, photography, design and layout by Rudolf Schultz - rudysdesign.net

Thieves is:
Adam Thorseness - drums
Greg Klemm - bass and vocals
Vincent Giuliano - guitar and vocals
Brian Watts - guitar
Rudolf Schultz - vocals

Guest appearances by:
Mike O'Neill performing vocals on Immersed. David Klingenberg performing vocals on Hindered. Nathan Landolt performing vocals on Deluded. Jim Adolphson performing vocals on Infected. Eric Lee performing vocals on Ended.

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