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THE METALHEAD AND THE GRANDMA: SECOND EPISODE.
Bedroom. Painkiller blasting, resonating through the walls.
"Strunz, I bought you an album for your birthday, turn down that damn noise"
"What do you want, old woman?"
"Here's your grandma for your birthday. Give me a kiss..."
"An album? What is it... Fear Factory? But noooo, I've told you a thousand times, you have to buy Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Metallica, Fear Factory just made one decent album 'Soul Of A New Machine'."
"And the shopkeeper recommended it to me, said it's good, you should try listening to it."
"Alright, let's hear it."
He puts the CD in the player and "Self Bias Resistor" starts playing. Our hero realizes there's something different compared to the previous work. A devastating sound. He looks at his grandma, who returns a menacing glare. The music is making her angry. "Zero Signal" comes on, and our hero understands that he's faced with one of the revelations of 1995, not suspecting that this album and Korn's "Korn", from the same year, would represent the zero point of "New Metal". The tracks follow one another, each song is a perfect blend of violent urbanity, corrosive and incisive riffs, powerful sound under a large melodic bell that sews the whole structure together. Grandma and grandson look at each other like in a "Spaghetti Western" duel. "Dog Day Sunrise" starts, and they respectively draw the tinfoil sword and the "Push Christians on the bus" umbrella.
The grandson swings a folder hit to the grandma's head, but the blade's consistency is too light. The grandma responds with a slash to the stomach, but the grandson is used to tougher things. Both realize that such a quarrel doesn't do justice to such an album, so they decide to go to the D - scount. They go to the announcement room and insert the CD into the player, headbutting one of the cashiers in the temple. From the D - scount speakers, the powerful music of F F spreads like the Plague, but it's the variant: The Pesto!
On the furious and relentless notes of "Flashpoint" - "Pisschrist", people start hitting each other with provolones, hams, bananas, peppers, and eggplants. Everyone is brawling, but no one understands why. The album ends, and people go back to shopping as if nothing happened. They remember nothing, they only know that, for some reason, they feel more relaxed.
Grandma and grandson are exhausted. They decide to retrieve the album and head home.
"Miss" grandma says to the cashier, "Can I have the CD I put in the stereo, please"
"Which CD?" responds the surprised cashier who doesn't remember. She looks at the CD player and sees it on. A strange uncontrollable force urges her to press the Play button.
"Nooooo" screams the old lady. But it's too late. The album has restarted, and the salesclerk has already armed herself with a radiator pipe...
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Demanufacture (04:11)
Desensitized by the values of life
Maligned and despaired by government lies
Revenge is so strong
I taste it on my tongue
My gun will be
Your angel of mercy
Dislocated by the eyes of disdain
Abused beyond recognition
I can't cope with
The madness abounding
Blasts in my head
Of gunfire resounding
Firing relentless
Killing the senses
I've got no more goddamn regrets
I've got no more goddamn respect
I am the thorn
In your eye
Am the thorn
In your eye
I am the thorn
In your eye
Am the thorn
In your eye
Revenge is so strong
I taste it on my tongue
My gun will be
Your angel of mercy
I've got no more goddamn regrets
I've got no more goddamn respect
I've got no more goddamn regrets
I've got no more goddamn respect
I've got no more goddamn regrets
I've got no more goddamn respect
Regret respect
Regret respect
Regret respect
Regret respect
02 Self Bias Resistor (05:12)
Hey you! Wake up!
open your swollen eyes
Erosion invades your mind
A cancer that grows over time
Hey you! Rise up!
Rise to fight, eliminate
Burn your fuse to detonate
The human machines of hate
All these years they've tried to break you
To your knees
Anger scours right through your veins
Now it's time to put an end
To all the lies
Now it's time to take control
Of your life
Huh!
Wake up! Rise up!
Open minds will dominate
Burn your fuse to detonate
The human machines of hate
All these years they've tried to break you
To your knees
Anger scours right through your veins
Now it's time to put an end
To all the lies
Now it's time to take control
Of your life life life life
Hypocrisy
You can't believe
Machines of hate
A disease that infiltrates
Persist for resistance
Resist their insolence
You are a dissident
Burn away conformity
Persist for resistance
Resist their insolence
You are a dissident
Burn away conformity
All these years they've tried to break you
To your knees
Anger scours right through your veins
Now it's time to put an end
To all the lies
Now it's time to take control
Of your life
They have tried to break you
They have tried to break you
They have tried to break you
(Kill them all)
They have tried to break you
03 Zero Signal (05:57)
So withdrawn and feeling numb
Watching life come all undone
Growing fear, a human grace
A drowning mind in a dark embrace
My, life,
A disarray
And, I,
Fade away
(CHORUS)
I am down on my knees
Praying beyond belief
The silence deafens my ears
And welds the shackles
Onto my fears
Lost!
All faith!
Lost!
All trust!
Lost!
All faith!
Lost!
All trust!
So withdrawn and feeling numb
Watching life come all undone
My, life,
A disarray
And, I,
Fade away
I am down on my knees
Praying beyond belief
The silence deafens my ears
And welds the shackles
Onto my fears
I have lost all faith-
I have lost all trust-
A sordid mesh turning to dust
A sordid mesh turning to dust
I am lost
I am so numb
I'm so numb,
I am so numb...
04 Replica (03:56)
Huh!
There is no love
No Love
Huh!
I am a duplication
Innocently
I was conceived
So violently
There was no love
There was no love for me
There was only hatred
I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate
Every day I feel anonymous hate
Forever in the shadow of disgrace
I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate
Filled with pain
A bruised and darkened soul
Spare me from the
Life that's full of misery
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
There is no love
Huh!
Every day I feel anonymous hate
Forever in the shadow of disgrace
I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate
Filled with pain
A bruised and darkened soul
Spare me from the
Life that's full of misery
I am so
Filled with pain
A bruised and darkened soul
Spare me from the
Life that's full of misery
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I am so
Filled with pain
A bruised and darkened soul
Spare me from the
Life that's full of misery
Spare me from the
Life that's full of pain
Spare me from the
Life that's full of pain
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
I don't want to live that way
05 New Breed (02:48)
We are the new breed, We are the future
We are the new breed, We are the future
We are immune to life itself
Cold rules are reality
We are immune to life itself
Cold rules are reality
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
We have control of destiny
We have control of what's to be
We have control of destiny
We have control of what's to be
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
New breed, new breed
New breed, new breed
We are immune to life itself
Cold rules are reality
We have control of destiny
We have control of what's to be
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
Born, bred, beaten
New breed, new breed
New breed, new breed
New breed, we are the new breed
New breed, we are the future
New breed, we are the new breed
New breed, we are the future
New breed
New breed
New breed
New breed
06 Dog Day Sunrise (04:44)
Dog Day Sunrise
Every day of my life
I'm working on a scheme
Working overtime underground
Girls work under floors
The failures tend the moors
But once the seem is cut
They find out what is learned
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Drag your feet through hollow streets
Drag your feet through hollow streets
Drag your feet through hollow streets
Drag your feet through hollow streets
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Valentine has shining eyes
Valentine has shining eyes
My valentine has shining eyes
Valentine has shining eyes
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Valentine has shining eyes
Valentine has shining eyes
My valentine has shining eyes
Valentine has shining eyes
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
Dog Day Sunrise
07 Body Hammer (05:05)
I clench my teeth and realize
My world is so near its demise
A dying sun in a poisonous sky
Stinging my eyes
Burning with contempt and conflict
As of now
I am a tool
Of servere impact
I clench my fist and visualize
The blood that is spilled is our own
I open wide my bloodshot eyes
Count the dead
A result of dysfunction
Chorus:
As of now
I am a tool
Of servere impact
Hammer down
Cause and effect
And create a new world
Pound, drive, swing, strike
Break down, smash down
Pound and drive, swing and strike
Break it down
I am a tool
Repeat chorus (x2)
I am a tool...
I am a tool to break down
Break it down and smash it all away
08 Flashpoint (02:53)
I lied
Right to your face
And I'll burn internally
In flames
In flames
In flames
In flames
Instinct
Have failed me now
Enslaved
By my mistakes
Lies sink in like gasoline
Saturates my body
One last spark of dishonesty
And that will be death of me
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
Lies engulf me
Lies burn me
Lies purge me
Lies free me
Lies sink in like gasoline
Saturates my body
One last spark of dishonesty
And that will be death of me
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
Damned in flames
10 Pisschrist (05:21)
Where are we now?
When we are blind
Abandoned faith
You left behind
Were you betrayed?
Or did you lie?
Our common fate
Our common demise
Where is the son?
To light the way
Along the path
Of our dismay
Look to the sky
On judgement day
A human god
That was man-made
So we lie
So we lie
So we lie
So we lie
And so we rise
Just to fall down
In reality
You're never found
I'm reaching out
With sealed eyes
I grab for light
Visitors decried
Repeat fourth verse
So we lie
So we lie
So we lie
So we lie
Face down, arms out
Nailed to the cross of doubt
Blood runs like rain
Drowning for this world in vain
Crown of black thorns
Human skin, ripped and torn
Crown of black thorns
Human skin, ripped and torn
Where is your savior now?
Where is your savior now?
Where is your savior now?
Where is your savior now?...
11 A Therapy for Pain (09:46)
I welcome death with open arms
Her soft breath and simple charm
Wandering through memories
Takes my hand for me to see
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
Echoes of innocence
Are my thoughts into dissent
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
When we finally reach the end
She lets go of my hand
Waking into realms of light
There will be no death tonight
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
Tried so hard
Tried so hard...
12 Your Mistake (01:29)
We're here to be the ones to succeed
No need for you to tell us how to be
Can't seem to find your reasons why
You tell us lies and think you're wise
Why can't you think before you sink
Why can't you see, then come to me
Tell us lies and ask us why
We hate society
And we're here to fight
I won't shake their hands
Cause they're not our friends
Won't talk to you 'cause you can't be true
You've got problems, yet you keep hiding them
You entered their gate but now it's too late
It's your mistake
13 ¡Resistancia! (02:54)
They walk over you
As if you weren't there
Equality does not exist
In our cold life since...
Chorus:
They don't know who you are
They don't care
They don't see that we are
Everywhere
Nation under fire
And they just sit back
They don't seem to realise
That we will fight back
Repeat chorus
Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight
Out of mind
They walk all over you.
Look into their eyes.
Make them see their foes.
Be the individual
To strike the fatal blow.
Repeat chorus
Out of sight.
Out of mind.
Out of sight.
Out of mind. (x3)
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