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Mortal Chains

by Mortal Chains

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1.
I never had much vision But I know what I saw I try to push away the memory Still it returns once more The endless cries of suffering The firestorms and the blood To lash the fallen people Slaves in a fallen world This comes when I close my eyes To all else I am blind I tell of coming times Unwilling, forced to prophesy As the eternal torment Will be brought down on us So I foresee my own pain Blamed for all mankind’s curse Unable to silence truth So shall I bear the brunt Fear of a fallen people Slaves of a fallen world My future decided To such I am resigned All I hear is my own screams As they put out my eyes This I bear for their sake Knowing my end will come Killed by a fallen people Slave to a fallen world This comes when I close my eyes To all else I am blind I tell of coming times Unwilling, forced to prophesy
2.
Advocate 04:17
Fetid remnants of a bastard breed Mired in ignorance, corruption and greed There's no hope of salvation Annihilation The one solution to the human disease I am the one who sees Combined realities The fine line between insight and insanity The one who dares to face The wanton waste of our race Advocate for the eradication of humanity Eviscerate, annihilate Consign the virus to its fate To cleanse the earth The eternal mother Calling forth a planetary purge There's no time left for us now The earth itself will cast us out The earth itself will cast us out There's no fate more deserved Than to see the death of all our futures Human catastrophe on a global scale Mankind's destiny is to stain the earth no more There's no fate more deserved Than to see the death of all our futures Human catastrophe on a global scale Mankind's destiny is to stain the earth no more Eviscerate, annihilate Inspire death throes to castigate Excise the infection A final rejection A vast ecstatic planetary purge There's no hope left for us now The earth itself will cast us out No option left but to abort the atrocity Advocate for the eradication of humanity Execrate the creations of an unsound mind Advocate for the eradication of mankind No option left but to abort the atrocity Advocate for the eradication of humanity Execrate the creations of an unsound mind Advocate for the eradication of mankind Eviscerate, annihilate Consign the virus to its fate Eviscerate, annihilate Inspire death throes to castigate
3.
Affirmation of disease Tunnel visions undermined Deaf to reason, slave to demise Led astray to lead the blind No challenge - a blind faith is no faith at all No question - a blind faith is no faith at all No knowledge - a blind faith is no faith at all A blind faith is no faith at all Too afraid to speak your mind Too afraid to break the spell Blind to reason, slave to demise Double cross yourself again Pass judgment and turn your head Defender of ill faith Whose hand writes your book of life? You’d drown the world to save yourself Afraid of reason, slave to demise Order your creator to make true your lies Affirmation of disease Tunnel visions undermined Too afraid to break the spell Too afraid to speak your mind Afraid of reason, slave to demise Order your creator to make true your lies I challenge I question Your answers A blind faith is no faith at all A blind faith is no faith at all A blind faith is no faith at all No faith at all
4.
I am the first I bring the blindness sought By those who would not see To make empty lives easy And to ease vapid conscience In certainty of their knowledge They know only what they are The second, mine is all right I come to show what should be theirs, Who would have all and more besides Enough is never enough The soul is an empty vessel Full of holes and filled with nothings There can never be enough I am third but would be first I would abandon all to ease my path I take away all promised aid No cause so precious that it cannot be sold To scale another rung I would give all that I was And all that you have I am the crawling, craven one Who cannot bear to face the light Nor allow any semblance of truth To penetrate my self-made world I must have what is not mine And would claim ownership As it has ever been mine, in my own words We four in conclave Would rule an empty world Would taste your tears of despair See only ourselves and each other Hear only cold laughter As all we touch is dust And dust is all we touch
5.
Broken and torn, shattered beyond hope Nothing moves outside these bounds Raging, screaming, damaged beyond thought All words expulsed in this reinvention The defiler defiled, defied, decried Scourges purged and cast aside As we walk alone There is one who watches Waiting for weakness I walk amongst you – defy me not I speak to move you – defy me not I am alone in all the world I alone am in all the world I walk amongst you – do not deny me I speak to move you – do not deny me You will not deny me I walk amongst you, breathing fury I speak to move you , you fear to retreat Dragged by the tide that pulls me under Look far below and scream forever A dragon flies, leaves lies, tears skies And shackles grip tighter still Dragged by the tide that pulls me under Look far below and scream forever A dragon flies, leaves lies, tears skies And shackles grip tighter still Who would walk such a path alone If not for the vision I’d waited for? The silence in the darkness The agony of the emptiness The emptiness that feeds The agony that feeds Broken and torn, shattered beyond hope Raging, screaming, damaged beyond thought Who would walk such a path alone? Who would walk such a path? Such is knowledge, such is power Such is wealth, such is influence All things in haste Are wasted All things in haste Are wasted without wisdom Who would walk this path alone? Who would walk this empty path? Who would walk this path alone? Who would walk this path? Alone I walk this empty path

about

"Everything has a freedom to it that is an absolute joy... Throughout the record there is a virtuoso quality to the lead guitars... the throat splitting unclean vocals [are] absolutely Monstrous with a capital M."
- Metal Noise

"The EP is the band displaying themselves in their raw form. Hanging on the intricate guitar work of Martin... The tracks are raw and show a band that craft tracks in which multiple ideas and textures clash into a coherent heavy metal vein. Something that sees these guys stand apart from their metal genre counterparts."
- Backseat Mafia

"The lean three-piece sound comfortable delving into complex musicianship and refuse to settle into a comfortable songcraft, with tracks successfully threading multiple ideas together.
Thrash has always been an understatedly broad church, but this EP is reminiscent of a mid-80s sound, as death metal slowly oozed out from other developments."
- NE Volume

credits

released July 4, 2022

All Music and Lyrics by Martin Elliott

Martin: Guitar & Vocals
Ross: Bass & Vocals
Alex: Drums

All lead vocals by Martin except "The Bringers of Despair", lead vocal by Ross

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Neil Combstock at Rocking Horse Studios, Durham UK

This EP is dedicated to the memory of Rebecca Sutherby... hope you love it, Becky.

Photo by Rene Asmussen

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Mortal Chains Durham, UK

Thrash 'n' Death influenced metal shenanigans from the North East of England

Martin Elliott: Guitar & Vocals

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