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Higher Roads Less Traveled

by Dirty Vicar

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1.
I DON’T FANCY MY CHANCES Another ugly night, some kind of hell redefined I split my tongue on your motor hum, but it’s all by design So come a little bit closer, I need to feel your disease You weren’t afraid when I called you over, you felt the beast in me I see you comin’ down the line Lookin’ like you’re some kind of prize I don’t fancy my chances But I know enough to take what’s mine I didn’t want your number I didn’t ask your name You didn’t have any questions but I’m so glad that you came, all the same And it’s a burning not to be touched Some sort of heaven aflame / insane And what you’re bleeding is what I’m needing But still I’ll watch you fall, all the same Another ugly night, hell redefined by your hand You split your tongue on this reptile scum; I serve at your command You tell me to come closer, unafraid of what lurks in me Coquettish smile as you beckon me over, clearly I’m not the only beast
2.
LIKE LEMMINGS Listen up, you rock ’n’ rollers, feeding signals to the noise the sky is falling, the end is calling Here’s another mind controller, the illusion you have no choice what you believe, how you’re deceived See them come, over cliffs they run Like lemmings, like lemmings From far and wide, mass suicide Like lemmings While humanity’s buried under the mass carnage of secret wars march you bastards, to your disaster Celebrate your savage blunders, you lick your wounds and beg for more humanity’s an overt disease Don’t ask why it’s time to die Like lemmings, like lemmings Show no fear, the end is near Like lemmings Another rumour with all the answers, raw nonsense to seize as truth head full of bullshit, you never got over it More chatter to feed the cancer, the stacks of bodies the final proof you think you knew it, you really blew it See them come, over cliffs they run Like lemmings, like lemmings From far and wide, mass suicide Like lemmings, like lemmings   Don’t ask why it’s time to die Like lemmings, like lemmings Have no fear, the end is near Like lemmings
3.
The Strain 04:25
THE STRAIN Normal stopped being normal, Madness encroaching every turn Cover your face as you walk by, a new set of lessons to learn This is how it is, This is how it’s going to be Now you will know, what it is to cope, As the paradigm shifts you from me  Breaking your brain ‘til it drives you insane This is the dawn of a new pain -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN Questions build upon questions -- but answers in shorter supply Try to go along, be the right from the wrong – but how many more have to die? This is how we live, Sights unlike we’ve ever seen A world shuttered in, no next of kin, dystopia bursts at the seam Breaking your heart as the world falls apart Chaos reigns -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN The weeks just bleed together, no discerning of one from the next Every town dreading sunup and sundown, Accursed crown breathes its hex This is how it ends, locked up in our cells Far from our friends, fearing the pestilent, on earth as it is in hell Breaking your soul, in a self-imposed hole Pointing our fingers in blame -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN
4.
OLD GUARD DIE HARD Oldschool soldiers in the metal army A rising force in the night Leather-denim legions of the inferno Blackclad and ready to fight OLD GUARD DIE HARD Heavy metal lifers all the way Backpatch wolf pack will always have my back The false gain no entry Light the torch to light the way Band of the steel-bearing hand Mastered the riddle of volume and power Rebellion our only command OLD GUARD DIE HARD Headbanging lifers to the end Fullbore hard core always hungry for more The false can fuck off back to their trend Pledge allegiance to the almighty Riff Forever sturm und fucking drang Outside of society, they’re waitin’ for you and me So bang the head that does not bang OLD GUARD DIE HARD
5.
UNTO THE FLAME Let it Burn! There is a place that has no name, paradise reclaimed This is an infernal invitation, for those who live their lives unchained So come all ye sinners Heretics and infidels untamed There is no light without a darkness Cast yourselves unto the flame Kneel down, to no gods before thee, cast not one pearl before the swine Give in to your basest nature, we’re goin’ down – it’s party time So call down deep upon your instinct Feel the rush of your true nature released Step thru the burning velvet curtain And exercise your inner beast This is an infernal invitation Come and live your life unchained

about

The follow-up to their debut Plague of Demons EP sees the team of Rob “Mule” Hughes (drums & guitars) and Harcött (vocals) expanding and solidifying their raw approach to classic metal. The tracks encompass everything from hard-driving rock in the vein of UFO to thrashing Voivodian dissonance, to the dystopian haze of Hawkwind.

THE MULE THANKS:
Kyle—you rule! Everyone on Kyle’s list below, especially Jenn Farrell for her love and support. Jeff Younger for showing me how to do it. Kevin Stewart-Panko and METALHEAD Magazine. JLS. Spock and JR (Café Flesh). Paul J Hermann. My record collection.

HARCÖTT THANKS:
Mule most of all, but otherwise in no order: HARCÖTTs et al., Mistah Cline, Shockk, JB, Smash, Em Støy, Rob Snopek, Erica Natalie, Sonny Dean, Donna Mabbett, Cecil English, Paul Hajdu, Kevin Thomas, Keith Durocher & VAMPIRE TATTOO, Yuka Tsuruga, Alex Minshull, Andrea Dashwood, Jenn Farrell, Chris Read, Sonia West, Sara Lovering, Stacy Wakeling, Dayna Jones, Guz & Heather, Karl Duda, Sheldon Byer, Jayme Black, Benny Kemp, Döug Camp, THE BOYS, Cam Mesmer, Steve Machine Ricardo, Naomi Nash, Abelardo Mayoral-Fierros, Justin Norton, Al Dawson, Gene A. Gaona, Ferdy Belland, J.R. Preston & Cass Clark, Adrien & Stacey Begrand, Lord of Depression, Jon LaBar, Ricktor Ravensbrück, Hailey Nguyen, Kittie Walters Farmer, Jin Sol Kim, Mina Lawi, Jiyeon Ham, Saqib Bhatti, Sara Sutler-Cohen & THE WHIZBANGER SHOW, Ian Hardacre & POWERCHORD, Phil Howlett, David Herrera, Jeff Tandy, Dan Lawson, Jake Thomas, Keith Lloyd, Peter Davyduck, Darryl Gallant, Adam Sewell, Chris Rowella, Taiya Marie, Oke Chornick, Mickie Takahashi & METAL MUTHA’S+, Megumi Sato, Tubaki Takamine, Sandy Hyde, Lav Nandlall, Ryan Dusseau, Luke Meat, Gary Chiba, Gitta Ziercke & Earl Anonby & BUTTHOLE DITCH, Kent Basky, Kirk Brown, Orne Crombie, Janine Pham, Derek Carr, Keith Clark, Caitlin Delaplace, Sarah Keppler, Arturs Feists, Bob Hanham, Jem Tung, Linda Koyabu, Joanne Prokopchuk, Nat Kaos & RAGE CAGE, UNSILENT STORMS, Rudolf Schütz & RUBBER AXE, Angela ART OF GRIMMUZA, Drew Z., Fuckin’ Dan Maniac Nield (NOTHING CHANGES) , Kyle Bolton, Adam Rollick, Sarah Lindsay, GoP, Rod Grim, Jeanette Benz, PANDORA’S BOX, Wendy13, Brian Langley, Serena Gearey, Bruce McKiel, Maggie Riches, Clay Cott, Doug Diggs, Arash Khoseronejad, Juan Mancha, Adam Ferris, Norm McEwan, Thomas Proskow, Chris McKenzie (GLORIS & CHONGO & JOEY KNIFEHEAD), T-Dawgg, MujiMalo & T, Jay Highlander & KAOS KVLT, Emily Nattfödd, Darin Wall, Rohit Kambo, Hailee Stewart, Ms. Grace, & the higher road less traveled. I know I probably forgot a shit-ton of people, so sorry in advance.

This Cadillac, as ever, is for Owey Ramone, Nixer, Geefy & Jujy.

I dedicate OLD GUARD DIE HARD to my dearest friends - I love you, you know who you are.

Trust your instinct.
Step thru the burning velvet curtain.
k×h×

credits

released May 28, 2021

Mule: Music, Recording, Mix
Harcött: Vox, Lyrics (except "Like Lemmings" by Mule/Harcött)
Mastered by JLS
Cover by Mule/Harcött
Christ icon image from a headstone in Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Taken from a photo by E.N. Used with permission and sincerest thanks.

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