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Prequel To Madness

by Traveler

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1.
Mayday 01:14
2.
Runnin' thru the night Nothing holds me down Tearing straight through The streets, feeling fire Revved up beyond adrenaline mark A corridor, blood-eye of neon Running wild, feeling reckless in my brain Society's chains won't be clamped down on me Fly relentless, evading all the law Terrified faces, they don't understand Now Pray for your life You're my ride or die We'll speed until our effigies Ignite across the sky Live fast and die And in the afterlife, it's not like what they say It's better to rule, cuz you win when you play Tanked and I'm leering, the devil is steering Hold on tight, now we go Pray for your life You're my ride or die We'll speed until our effigies Ignite across the sky Live fast and die You've paid the fare Already there Let Satan be your guide As in the book, your soul is took Live fast and die
3.
Dark Skull 03:57
The Appian way saw Less death than this On this bloodiest night Now rue the day, the juggernaut Challenge barbarian might The players march and The blood sport begins Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We live in peril'd times Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We see through feral eyes Fend off the attack Wolven men at your back Capture the bleach canine, skull in hand In wasteland times There's nothing to prove But to fight for your life Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We live in peril'd times Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We see through feral eyes The murderous prize The gleam in his eyes As shown in his pride The gleam in the night Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We live in peril'd times Dark Skull - The bane of heroes We see through feral eyes
4.
The Law 03:28
It's a violent world, A dream absurd, A victim I'm not, It won't claim me, There's predator and prey Dipping out of sight beware my might You will not see until you bleed It's nothing personal I'm not so deceptive As I'm for objective So make room for casualties The Law This life that you see Don't come easy to me The Law And you know We'll never be free Give me all your money Mind and body now Your body works for me There's predator and prey And every single day The people will still die It's a merck's way for me If it's justice you seek They'll put you on screen Buy you off you won't see me The Law This life that you see Don't come easy to me The Law And you know We'll never be free Plead for your life Your families presence Only teases my itching malevolence
5.
I don't come in peace, I come alone There's something in the stars, you ought to know A cry from outer space We've lost our home But I only come in warning Heed the message, don't take long Abandon all your research, as it's wrong You know not what you do But we know all of you Time is running out And we're... Deep sixed in the morning light Can't you hear me? Foundations have been laid The lord will soon invade Three suns will fade away I beg, be rid of us I heed your message loud and clear A twisted, vile race exists in paradise, in space And I say we must fall I am but a Rebel of Earth Appraised for all that it's worth No long will you burn or freeze Deep sixed in the morning light Can't you hear me? Foundations have been laid The lord will soon invade Three suns will fade away Sunset for humanity One last chance for gravity Deep sixed in the morning light Can't you hear me? See these battle scars Sound a curse among the stars The sea will dry away...
6.
Heavy Hearts 04:18
Long nights wasted Staring at the sky Tortured by thoughts of you and I Though things seem seamless The spark just fades away The true colors paint the walls, that's where they'll stay Clouds have engulfed me And risen to the sky No more thoughts of you and I Now one can dream Of living life as it's clear With a fistful of dollars, a day without fear Heavy Hearts Heavy lungs I'll never kneel to you I'll swallow my tears Heavy Hearts Sure, they bleed I'll never bleed for you This time, you'll bleed for me To tread the constant slopes of misery Inviting all my foes In finding me Give it all you got Ill return it ten-fold In a context of might, you will need a Will to die To justify Kill after kill Removing their divined power and will Your skill is now sanctified Heavy Hearts Heavy lungs I'll never kneel to you I'll swallow my tears Heavy Hearts Sure, they bleed I'll never bleed for you This time, you'll bleed for me
7.
No Fate 04:24
Locked in the madhouse If only you knew what I knew Temporal fate Death is but a door And time is but a window Pursued now by the high elite The hunt is on, and we're the kill But we'll evade attack, surviving narrowly A hell on wheels, the machine makes haste And he relentlessly, pursues his chase Now, the only way to survive Is trust their rogue machine Connor, in your honour, I die And finally I now know why humans cry Now you're torn away, from all that you knew Survivors of the blast and you are our only hope We carry out, this feeble war In the future and the past You must grow up fast, and learn to last They will have their way, even though it seems we've won How can we stay alive? I've seen the vision I understand how you must feel But now, the threat is real Connor, in your honour, I die And finally I now know why humans cry The damned machines arise Through circuits and the wire Bring forth mankind's demise Served through nuclear fire Out in the desert vast Recall the past Awaken from your daydream, it's not real Connor, in your honour, I die And finally I now know why humans cry
8.
Nothing is real anymore All you see is fabricated Variables and code We once had a wire where all the true could last And meet wherever we desired to rage Don't you feel like we're being pulled apart? By outside forces we don't know Our common bonds that we once shared are scrutinized Our differences are all we're told We're all being driven mad Now you're a technoslave This way you'll never die Never have to cry Have you ever thought What this could be like For the forlorn youth, the children cry They're confused All they know is what it said No idea How it was before the modern lord Now you can try To assimilate But you're nothing People that you once held close are gone They've checked out Can't participate It isn't real, they're technically not wrong This just can't be getting old Now you're a technoslave This way you'll never die Never have to cry We are Vagrants of Time Now you're a technoslave This way you'll never die Never have to cry You are their subject from birth You are their slave for all time All of your time We are Vagrants of Time I swear I haven't changed
9.
Long ago in the future, the grave was the birth A very fine existence in the knowledge Of all precognition As bold and strong as soloman Total control They own your soul Down to the decimal Fear by the decibel A crisis had begun What reasons were there to carry on? Each soul raged against the grand entanglement Mythology had synergized with misanthropic energy I can't believe the masses and their post modernic poverty Of words that dance and screens that flash a quantum wired romance That rivets in their minds, we've wired their negativity I'm the man with no name I'm the mind that they cannot contain Ethereal Traveler I've seen what the future brings Destroyer of everything Ethereal Traveler I remember the days from before they controlled From their nexus, a tower of data and code Their bio-technical implantation's I survive with a decoy to drive them away I subsist in the underground Though, I suspect I will be found Whatever they can do to me I'll fight to be free I'm the man with no name I'm the mind that they cannot contain Ethereal Traveler I've seen what the future brings Destroyer of everything Ethereal Traveler The power to see, weathered me beyond all recognition How could I have let my guard down? How could I have been so blind? She was only their informant I forgot, I'm their hunted prize Now the time diamond is lost And hell is here Hell is here and I've found that which I seek Comfortable mantras, repeated week by week Now these tranquil waters can inspire healing I can't see the darkness they weave (Prequel To Madness) I'm the man with no name I'm the mind that they cannot contain Ethereal Traveler I've seen what the future brings Destroyer of everything Ethereal Traveler

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released February 23, 2024

All songs written and recorded by Traveler


Vocals: JP Abboud
Lyrics: JP Abboud/Matt Ries
Guitars: Toryin Schadlich/Matt Ries
Drums: Chad Vallier/Nolan Benedetti
Bass: Dave Arnold/Jake Wendt

Drums for Rebels of Earth and Prequel to Madness recorded by Nolan Benedetti at Black Page Studios

Bass for Prequel to Madness recorded by Jake Wendt

Artwork by Dylan Barstad

Mixed by Daniel Tsourounis

Mastered by Dajaun Martineau

THANK YOU:
Kristina, Dylan, Stu Bartlett, Annick Giroux, Nick Walsh and the Tsourounis family, Gas station coffees, Queece general Nick Burks and Savage Master, Sanhedrin, Thunderor, Henrik and Screamer, Saber, Trevor and Haunt, Evgeny, Biff, Kitty, Chris, Andreas and No Remorse, Christian and Hells Heroes, Promoters, Tyson and Chris (Starlite, Dickens), Monika Deviat, Dan Cleary, Joey Hockin, Gord Alexander, Anyone that let us sleep at their house and YOU the fans! Without you, we are scum.

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