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Ferocity, desolation. Contrasting sensations, but too easy to perceive. I am convinced that when a song manages to perfectly empathize with a certain state of mind, no musical genre can hold you back. So let's be clear from the start: ferocity, desolation: this is what awaits you. Yes, because trying to place Dax Riggs' former band in a specific genre becomes quite a daunting task. It's a bit like following the directions of various road signs, convinced you're heading in the right direction, only to find yourself somewhere completely different, lost and pissed off like a beast. Yet the elements, the "directions to follow" to try and decipher their sound are all there. In essence, to cut it short, you just need to listen to: "Bleed Me An Ocean", track number two.
But didn't Mudhoney only like the Stooges and Blue Cheer? Since when did they put up a poster of Tony Iommi in the recording studio? And what's Al Cisneros doing there in the middle? Oh look, it seems he brought his bass along...
More or less a nice picture of junkies, nothing to add. Yes, nothing to add because it's pointless to warn you with a sign: "Attention Sludge Danger!", maybe with Mike Williams' face instead of the exclamation mark. Yeah well it's sludge, but within the album you'll also hear: grunge, stoner-metal, even death. Just to reiterate the concept, to the question: "is there a band that somehow approaches/has approached the sound of Acid Bath?", the answer is no, there never has been either before them or after them. Not comparable to the genre that the Melvins invented, not comparable to what Neurosis have gradually, let's say: "progressed". Lethal intuition then. Six guys from New Orleans who, in the span of two years (1994-1996), made one beautiful album after another.
Then it happens that the bassist dies and so the ride ends, but the awareness of having created something unique remains. The voice and the words by Dax, whether held back or spat out in all their atrocity, remain something unforgettable. The melody, the void, alternating with the most thunderous explosions, those pure ones. Beyond a musical genre, nothing more than music for states of mind. Everything else is superfluous.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Bleed Me an Ocean (06:15)
Let the blackness roll on
Mother's cool reptilian womb
Ain't so cold tonight
My fingers trace the exit wounds
by graveyard light
There's bone dust in my throat and everything is DEAD
but it's all right
Take it easy
You bleed so easy
Bleed me an ocean
Bleed me an ocean tonight
By electric graveyard light
Bleed me an ocean
Let me lie beneath the sky
Teach me how to die
Bleed me an ocean
As the blossom eats the butterfly
Can you feel the cold death
That rides along your spine
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Let the blackness roll on
I was sexless in clouds again
I was chasing a cold, cold wind
I've become bored with flesh and bone again
The deepest alone
I was riding the turbulence
an ocean of Hades
it's all downhill from here
on the outer nowhere
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Let the blackness roll on
I was stoned to the drone
of the blackness that hums
I've become bored with flesh and bone again
The endless hum of the highway drone
I was riding the turbulence
an ocean of Hades
The taste of dead sex on my tongue
On my tongue, yeah
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Just like a rain drop
I was born baby to fall
and scale these prison walls
It was over before you were born
Sucked into the vacuum of this universal tomb
It was over before you were born
Sucked into the vacuum of this universal tomb
Old blossom dies
Like a young man breathes
The insects hum with their hunger and grieve
An icon of pale bone
Static white dream
Blind in the wilderness
Everybody scream
I couldn't find my way
Out the door
We all died
Woke up on the floor
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
03 Graveflower (06:07)
Like Murder
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
Where kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
Like Murder
The ghost of a pale girl is solemnly following me
Pale will she follow me
Into the sea
I feel the flowers screaming
To consume you
Like Murder
Earth and sky your cradle
Earth and sky entomb you
And death beside me
I burrow through the dust
In your skull
But I cannot seem to find your soul
Bloodless and numb
We orbit the sun
Hungry will this pale thing
Follow me into the sea
On the cold side of her face
The reptiles awake
Locust swarm from open mouths
That sing thy kingdom come
While blackness hums
Nothing is true
and I'm tired of your sad today
You're screaming because
There's nothing left for you to say
Bloodless and numb
We orbit the sun
Hungry will this pale thing
Follow me into the sea
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
Where kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
Like Murder
04 Diäb Soulé (04:34)
Summer feels like death
Godless we run
In my eyes there dreams an ocean
Hell beneath my tongue
I understand
And don't care
Well the skyscrapers look like gravestones
From out here
Throwback
With blood in my cum
In my heart the song plays on
The Insects Requiem
I understand
And don't care
'Cause the skyscrapers look like gravestones
From out here
Pissing your life as fast as they consume you
Killing everything as fast as they can bleed you
Pissing your life as fast as they consume you
Killing everything as fast as they can bleed you
Throwback
With blood in my cum
In my eyes there dreams an ocean
Hell beneath my tongue
I understand
And don't care
Well the skyscrapers look like gravestones
From out here
From out here
From out here
From out here
05 Locust Spawning (04:40)
Locusts are coming
Spine will twist, heads will cave
I am the funeral dancer on the outer wave...
the outer wave
Spine will twist, heads will cave
I am the funeral dancer on the outer wave...
the outer wave
Plastic heads with painted sockets
and death rode through the sky like a rocket
Everything dies so fast
So this is it
You're a dead motherfucker
Wading through a world of shit
With dust on your lips
Tell me do you exist?
You were born to die like this
Chins smeared red with conspiracy
The fiends nod off after bloodsex and blasphemy
You were born to die like this for me
Chin smeared red with conspiracy
With dust on your lips
Tell me do you exist?
Pale spirits laughing into the abyss
You were born to die like this
You were born to die like this
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With dust on your lips
Tell me do you exist?
Pale spirits laughing into the abyss
You were born to die like this, baby
You were born to die like this
Naked and tripping, killing flowers
Empty is the urge to devour
I'm dead bored with your deathless blues
Scream for me, and I'll die for you
I'm dead bored with your deathless blues
Scream for me, I'll die for you
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
Devour...
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