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Lyrics:
dagger in the warm straw
red ray of old light slipping through the veil
the moon grey presence
has been moaning for the dawn
the silver face is grinning in the bale
pine catacomb
high place for death
for silence on the windy alp
i hear the knocking of an axe
red ray of old light arcs upon the swinging stroke
the angel is unleashed outside the apse
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Lyrics:
As I venture where the sound has led
I rest my bones on the frosty earthen bed
It numbs my eyes so I won't have to know
I've not the strength to survive where you go
But a shell still floats upon the wind
When you breath my name
Please look beyond me
As you hang underneath
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Lyrics:
The sun sleeps at night
The moon rises high
Falling in a trance in time
We're one with the stars
But yet we are so far
Falling in a trance tonight
At night the moon is free
It's shining like the sea
It's taking over me tonight
The moon rises high
The sun sleeps at night
Falling in a trance in time
At night the moon is free
It's shining like the sea
It's taking over me
Tonight
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Lyrics:
El dolor de qui no arriba mai, a ser i entendre
s’escriu al cos, malmet el cor
cau com cendra, la infància esguerra
trémer d’ànsia, estrènyer l’ànima
Hi ha un clam de nou encès
sense veu, l’espectre atia flames
hi ha un clam i és ben encès
Cruel, punyent
erm, intent d’un xic dement
ferm, un verb que l’esma empeny
i el seny de nou present
Lliurarem de pors el cel, de fum el vent
herois d’un nou temps, llliures
L’esperit, reixit de goig n'és tip
foscor i delit, estrènye’l fort omple el pit
Forgem un nou nom, il•luminem, refem el món
un esclat imminent, un goig intens
fa viure grans moments
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Lyrics:
An outer wall is torn down
An inner fire is quenched to ash
The smoldering yearnings shadow the sky
and deep within adversaries of ecstasy clash
Sanguine seas surround the trenches
There is a sound that drowns it all out
A phoenix’s song to lull the war
Senses sifted through ashy hands
Listen as the clamour’s tongue is cut
Hush and slip through the unending rift
Reduced to an ember
A life deprived of will
Drained to an empty shell
Like nights bereft of dreams,
passion devoid of vehemence
and tension without relief
Eager are those still in blossom
Not those whose faces bliss once adorned
Whose eyes saw a plague cast its shadow
and in time were broken and left forlorn
Once chosen, now destined to wither
Bearing the burden of death
in a procession of the blind
Towards the steepest of cliffsides,
chasing the lost and divine,
looming in the distance enshrined
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Lyrics:
For worse or for better
My armor’s long been shattered
I will not sacrifice it all
I will not cover the evidence
It’s the same in the eyes of the world
In the eyes of a stone cold universe
This is my home
I will not leave the corridor lights on at night
I will lock the door and close the blinds
So when the dark gets a hold of me
I can look it
Straight in the eye
I will not sacrifice it all
In the eyes of a world so cold
This is my home
I will not hide
In the dark forever
For worse or for better
My armor’s long been shattered
Come vigor
Come valor
We’ll fight the fear together
I will not look away
I will not comfort the enemy
It’s the same in the eyes of the world
It’s the same to all but my sanity
This is our home
I will not leave the corridor lights on at night
I will not give in this time, not I
And if the fear gets a hold of me
I can look it straight in the eye
This is our home
I will not hide in the dark forever
For worse or for better
My armor’s long been shattered
Come vigor
Come valor
We’ll fight the fear together
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Lyrics:
in de lus van deze stofgracht maalt een mens in't zonder meer
langs de minne van de onmacht muitend tot spaarzame momenten van besef
omringd door al dat is gegeven in de stroeve stroming naar het eind
en in alles is een eigen sprekend zij het vrij en voor zichzelf
doch deint het mee in de golfslag van het massieve zeebaren zijn;
thans de textuur van een schijnhuid die de woeste werkelijkheid omvat
maar nee u zal bezitten; u zal inlijven bij uw rijk en raad
rovend, varend, versmaadt u eigenheid en bijzijn als de laatste veste van het werkelijke ander;
het onbekende, volbloed vaandel van dat wat niet buigen wil
niet breken kan, niet zal zwichten onder de klauw van het objectieve
en dat, dat is wat er snijdt
want hier prijkt het enige dat anders is
het enige dat nooit sterft
dat waar naam noch veeg of vaag neologisme ooit grip op krijgt
hier in de opening tussen woudreus en wilgentak, op de vlakte vanwaar ieder steeds staart in de leegte
in de schaduw van het stergewelf waaronder alles neigt en ook alles weer tot niet keert
onder bogen van de tijd tot de laatste bevende naakte emanatie
voert betekenis een schijndans op boven de afgrond
in de ogen van de vader
lacht een echo van de dood
en de menigte lakende
levende
levende lakende
levende
in de ogen van de vader
lacht een echo van de dood
levende lakende
levende dood
in het eigen van de ander
daagt een echo van de dood
als een ongezouten zekerheid
als een punt als een mes in het machinale zijnde
in het eigen van de ander
daagt een echo van de dood
levende lakende
levende dood
levende lavende
levende dood
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Lyrics:
I'd misplaced my memories
The spark that made me lonely in the crowd
My nature was on hold
Hidden in myself, embers glowing
Spirit tamed and cowed
Will wary to unfold
I see it clearly now
Through my soul a feral streak runs
And this I swear: I'll be burning brighter
Never again will I forget what I am
Hold tight
Never let them drag you back in line
Survivor, rebel, liberator:
I reclaim the brightness of the sun
And the power of my savage, boundless heart
In your eyes I'll flare
Resound in you until the day I die
The stars are mine to own
You'll see me clearly now
Through my soul a feral streak runs
And this I swear: I will walk on fire
My steps will be momentous
You will know me for who I am
Hold tight
Never let them back into your mind
Make sure those voices drown
We know who we are and where we belong
The stars are ours to own
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Lyrics:
De rivier brengt ziektes de wereld in
Een giftige ader dringt de oevers in
Schuimvlokken als wolken
Een doorzichtige adem breekt zichtbare banken
En sjouwt de modder voort
Het water brengt ziektes tot diep in het land
Hulpeloosheid op bedorven gezichten
Een bevroren mimiek op een verzopen gelaat
In de nattigheid wachten tot je reis verdergaat
Vormen van herkenbaarheid grijpen je vast
De groen blauwe kleur en de greinige vorm
Laat je denken aan een gevoel in mineur
Nu begint het herdenken
De rivier brengt ziektes de wereld in
De groenblauwe kleur en de greinige vorm
Een gevulde adem breekt je bevroren mimiek
In de nattigheid wachten tot de droogte terugkeert
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Lyrics:
Touch your God, do not be a afraid
My servants, I come to you with my mercy,
do not fear Me...
People chose to be slaves
Those who are unaware
They drank from the cup of humiliation.
The light of darkness
to the path of death guide them
How long will this be?
The idiocy of minds was inherited by generations
They drank from the cup of humiliation
The idiocy of minds was inherited by generations
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Lyrics:
Come inside, you know it's time
Slip behind the veil
Take a seat, it's all for you
Baby, just inhale
All that you dreamt of since you were a boy
Standing before you, dancing around you
Enjoy
Lady Madonna, Helen of Troy
She's Cleopatra
Deadly Delilah decoy
Blinding beauty tastes so sweet
Smell of gasoline
Hold on tight, swallow your tongue
Honey dripping queen
All of your nightmares since you were a boy
Standing before you, coiling around you
Enjoy
Lady Madonna, Helen of Troy
She's Cleopatra
She's your Medusa
Destroy
Is it a push or a dive
She'll stick your head in the beehive
And you'll take anything just to feel alive
All that you dreamt of since you were a boy
Standing before you, dancing around you
Enjoy
Lady Madonna
Helen of Troy
She's Cleopatra
She's your Medusa
Destroy
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Lyrics:
I'll never change
And you're still the same
Always searching for more
Always digging to the core
I am so tired
Of everyone that's breathing down my neck
Maybe you shouldn't be like that
There is so little room
To take a step aside
All I wanna do
Is pretend that we're alike
Searching for flaws
Never good enough
Stop keeping this alive
But for now please be quiet for a sec
Eeeh/Eeh
Aah/Aah
I'll never change
And you're still exactly the same
Always searching for more
Always digging to the core
I am so tired
Of everyone that's breathing down my neck
Maybe you shouldn't be like that
What are you gonna do
When everything is done
To understand it more
Please be silent for just once
There is so little room
To understand my thoughts
What are you gonna do
Keep pretending that you're God
Ready
Are you ready
Why are you running
I am standing over here
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Lyrics:
Is now the world in chaos?
No hope for those who seek
So many of us ploughing on, for nothing
It’s ashes what we reap
Is now the world in chaos?
No hope for those who seek
The ones who died and suffered
Or kept alive as cocoons of void
Preyed upon by others
How did their death bring you hope?
The ones who died and suffered
Or kept alive, cocoons of void
Necrologies, necrologies
You hunted, gunned and broken
Forsaken, raped, betrayed, unspoken
Wronged, suppressed, muted, ill-gotten
Cut and hanged, hurt and forgotten
We have the knowledge and the might
How can you not see?
We’ve watched their bloodied bones
Turn into misery
Praised be to those
whose lives you took before
May their stories never be forgotten
And be told forevermore
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Lyrics:
We have beheld the age when the cosmic sea was filled
We have transcribed the formation of constellations
Eyes coalesce into oneness
With each generation, expanding
We have become the archetypes of existence
We have understood the purpose of ourselves
Visions blessed with permanence
Accursed everlasting sentience
What has been seen must never be forgotten
The wisdom of eternity we carry
Into the furthest reaches of the cosmos
Far away from our faded, dying suns
Immortal
memories
embraced
by time
We have beheld the birth of our binary suns
We have counted the days before their failing light
The tide of life has risen
And so too must it fall
We have unveiled the harrowing end of our world
We have foreseen the devouring of our galaxy
And when the light has gone
So too will be our memories
What has been seen must never be forgotten
The wisdom of eternity we carry
Into the furthest reaches of the cosmos
Far away from our faded, dying suns
Immortal
memories
embraced
by time
We send our minds into the waves of the cosmic sea
Our bodies remain to return to the void
As one we defined the purpose of our own existence
And we will find what lies beyond this dying world
Immortal memories embraced by time…
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Lyrics:
The deluge rages
The water pours slowly on the windscreen
as a clot of blood
A shapeless mud that exacerbates my movements
A choking voice on the phone
tells the arrival of a dimension of sorrow
Finally i can admire it the design
of an open head on the tread
[ I see the stars bleeding
their incessant flow swallows my gaze
my empty white eyes meet each other
I see the stars crumbling
my frail and tired legs
will rest, will rot ]
And now the wooden raft
cuts through the pond among the water lilies
Above,
the dead body,
the incense on the hands,
the butterflies on his wounds, on his griefs
It has never been so resplendent
She has never been so beautiful
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Lyrics:
black tower
bitter angel
diminishing force
blossoming mind
black tower
stinging stone
fuel stored backward in the black room
white rictus gleamed across the air gap
the day crawled across the cold stone ceiling
upside down green canyon reeling
black tower
bitter angel
diminishing force
blossoming mind
black tower
arrow holes
marble tank
eye hole black
bitter angel
crawling day
marble eyes
not peering back
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Lyrics:
A weathered sandstone
Marks the trailhead
Too burdensome by far
To be borne alone
Set by many hands
Many years ago
This centuried inheritance
Mystery’s whispers on the wind
Any wisdom worth its eminence
Will turn to dust at the brazen word
I guard time for the thread emerald
Against these brazen acquisitive times
All around me, the perennial
Trappings of anxious minds
I keep time with the pulse emerald
Amidst these towering pines
As I walk I dream lyrical
I see and I see just beyond
I guard time for the thread emerald
Against these brazen acquisitive times
I keep time with the pulse emerald
Amidst these towering pines
All along now, on my journey
Introspective mistwise turnings
Not from anger or sorrow
But in wonder at the sandstone
And I wonder at
The planters of these towering hemlock
And I wonder at
Who placed this stone
And I wonder at
Gifts bestowed upon a century later
And what many forms my gratitude might take
A weathered sandstone
Marks the trailhead
Too burdensome by far
To be borne alone
It was set by many hands
Many years ago
The path bursts out of the trees
Into a vast sweeping valley beneath
On this day the welkin sings
Its words clouded, fresh in the wind
Experienced rather than heard
And understood all the more deeply
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To The Teeth started as a personal playlist on Spotify in 2015 to keep track of new heavy music coming out. As soon as I opened it up to others it quickly gained followers - the internet is an overwhelming source. I started the yearly calculated ‘List of Lists’, to see how big and small publications weighed the year, and I started to take curating more seriously, almost religiously searching for the good fresh stuff. Big names, new bands, full on extreme stuff, folky heavy-adjecent songs, pristine production, raw stuff, melodic, scorching, progressive, knuckle-dragging, intense, slow-burning, beautiful, repelling, awe-inspiring, scary, heavy music in all its forms. And better than the official playlists, I think..
To celebrate there’s more than 6.666 followers (I won’t turn down a good cliché) for the playlist and 666 subscribers for the newsletter, I made this compilation: The Taste of Teeth. I called on some of my favourite underground bands to reflect heavy music at this moment, in a way, and the past years of To The Teeth. Some of the acts put together mindblowing completely new stuff, others were so kind to contribute with some stone cold To The Teeth classics. It's very varied, from the raw and heavy to the beautifully compelling - some are both. Metal is like life itself.
- Peter van der Ploeg