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about
‘Drowning in Flames’ is a mental roller coaster. A twisted riddle full of metaphors. It’s the outside voice we all wish we could hear over our own noise. It’s everything you hope you’re not. It’s the shackles you watched your own possessed hands put around your very ankles. It’s the only way out.
It’s a long trip, musically speaking. A labyrinth. Hooks left and grooves right. A push/pull of thrash, chugs, and sway. It’s a bit of an arpeggio of a song structure, with an exit hidden in the middle. Will you burn your way out, or will you wind up right back where you started?
lyrics
Suppression
Cover-ups and loss of control
Regression, never ending
Yeah, I'm digging a hole
Don't I know?
Depression
Spiraling into the abyss below
Aggressive, so defensive
Putting on a shit show
Don't I know?
This is the art of denihilism
Glass half full, just another job left undone
Better chance at trying to fill a fucking hole in the sun
Do my actions matter? I get by on words
Someone else will come by and fix up my work.
Glass half full, just another drink and I gotta run
Guess I'll get to walking, ain't no time for talking on the
Sun, ain't no time for talking on the sun
Walking blind, staring dead-eyed
Biding my time, burning alive on the sun
Walking blind at the end of the line
Nothing in my mind, nothing left to find here
I lie down in this hole in the ground
I hear not a sound as the wake starts to drown me
Waves crash down around me
Waves crash down upon me
(Drowning sounds)
Glass half full just another job left undone
Taking, never giving, grab up what I get and then run
Does it really matter? I get by on words
My world, my time, my chance to burn you
I can put out the fire
I will let it burn you
I could put out the fire
But I will let it burn you
I could put out the fire
But I'll let it burn higher
(Burn chant)
Higher
(Burn chant)
Here is the lighter
(Burn chant)
Set you on fire
(Burn chant)
Let it burn higher
(Burn chant)
Suppression
Cover-ups and loss of control
Regression, never ending
Yeah, I'm digging a hole
Don't we know?
Degression
Spiraling, descending deeper below
Aggressive, so defensive
Putting on a shit show
Don't we know?
credits
released January 27, 2023
-Video produced/directed/edited by Jake Schultz of Squidhammer.
-Camera work by Jake Schultz, Kyle Fawley, and Ericka Schultz-Niemann.
-Shot on Sony A7IV w/ 50mm lens
-Audio recorded by Evan Yoakum at Red Shed Records in Watertown, WI.
-Audio mixed and mastered by Russell Hollar at Nomad Recording Studio in Argyle, TX.
'Hail The Squid', our Wisconsin vocalist collaboration project, is currently being rolled out to the world via a series of
single releases. Check it out on YouTube and Spotify!
Squidhammer is:
Ericka Schultz - vocals
Jake Schultz - guitars
Eric “Skeebo” Kjelland - drums Joe Dunn - bass...more
