Bloodlight, by Gorecommander

Bloodlight

by Gorecommander

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1.	Meat and Greed 04:14	lyrics	buy track
Up top, a celebration Frolicking in the halls Centered, always waiting Diabolical Down low, ruined Backs against the wall All together in a deathgrip They will fall It's built of meat Meat and greed This tower Footmeat to be trampled Gory foundation A midriff of broken bodies and brains Ground beyond recognition And at the top of the tower... It's built of meat Meat and greed This tower And at the top of the tower Carnivore cannibals rip and tear and devour It's built of meat Meat and greed This tower Footmeat gave in Midriff bare and rent Foodchained and hopless Waiting for the end It's built of meat
2.	Bloodlight 05:20	lyrics	buy track
Naked and tied up Dragged at a snail's pace Through thick clotting blood Watched by stern eyes Bathed in bloodlight And the light shines upon her And the light shines through her Coated red as bloodlight Follows, stoic and true Moves at her own pace Luminiscence from these Lophiiformes Luminiscent, and she's Bathed in bloodlight And the light shines upon her And the light shines through her Coated red as bloodlight upon her Confined to a safe place Ugliness rears it's head Lost in a broken space Rays of bloodlight through the cracks Know her light beneath this light Streaks of red twirl inside Know her light beneath her light Streaks of red twirl inside Know her light beneath this light Streaks of red swirl inside Know her light beneath this light Streaks of red grow inside
3.	Cursed! 01:06		buy track
4.	First of the Dead 03:58	lyrics	buy track
First of the dead Forgotten in his grave No annual wakes To mourn his passing away A peasent's grave Far from the pyramids of his relatives Is this a curse from the first of the dead? Winds of time upon a name Carry him away Deep within salted earth Little bones glow faintly A cavern-black mausoleum A faint, red glow Is the heartbeat of the curse Here comes the curse of the first of the dead We have not yet seen the worst of the curse All this is a curse from the first of the dead The wind of time takes a name And carries it
5.	Eternal December 07:25	lyrics	buy track
Seconds and days and years and eons Painfully clawing A perpetual state Empty halls faintly lit by memories The curtain has fallen a long time ago Eternal December for you You're still on your seat Outside the rain turned to snow December set in All else is gone Eternal December for you Seconds and days and years and eons...
6.	No Love Left 02:17	lyrics	buy track
Once on the horizon Not there anymore Once a valid future Now those doors are locked And there's No love left Just regret A glimpse of the future Far too soon Opened and dissected and entombed Now, no need to worry All is gone It's forever buried and undone Never a horizon Doors are locked forever And there's No love left Just regret
7.	Nothing but Glass 04:06	lyrics	buy track
My crimson bond forged in pale blue With all of you Squinting I gazed these golden rays Of golden days Surrounded by a bond as one My only one, a lonely one And so it was for all I knew I lived in you, I was of you I see through you The bond is brittle rays of gold Devoid of light, devoid of love Born in shadow Grown into light There are many tales that could be told of their defeat I could stay but I will leave Nothing but glass and imitations of love Glass and kitsch imitations of love If broken cannot be mended whole Nothing but glass and imitations Born in shadow Grown into light There are many tales that could be told of their defeat I could stay but I will leave There are many tales that could be told of their defeat There are many times I tried to show you their deceit There are many tales that could be told of their defeat I should stay, but...
8.	Sky Black 04:58	lyrics	buy track
There's a black-skied cavern With a crystal inside And a red pulsating light Then on ground level Fog-white as heaven That pulse, that lifeline was severed Skin, sky Ghost-white Skin, eyes LIfelines Pulse light as a feather Lifeline was severed Unspooled and untethered Crystalline light Carried inside
9.	Sanskrit 04:37	lyrics	buy track
Older than Sanskrit Older than the dirt in the ditch Older than good times Older than the sand on a beach It is the blood that spells It is the blood that binds Sometimes a living hell Others the best of times It is the blood that feeds It is the blood that heals Sometimes agains my will Others toward an ill Older than the sacrificial lamb In the cavernous crystal hall It's older than dirt, thicker than water We still hear it's calls' reverb Older than the love in your eyes Older than the stars in the sky It is the blood that spells It is the blood that binds Sometimes a living hell Others the best of times It is the blood that feeds It is the blood that heals Sometimes agains my will Others toward an ill It is the blood that speaks A silken baritone It is the mind that reels And it's the frozen bone It is the blood that soars It is the blood that calls Sometimes it's everything Others it's nothing at all

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"Bloodlight" started as a misfired black metal side project, but since I couldn't do black metal vocals if my life depended on it I dropped the idea and decided to turn the ideas I had into the next regular Gorecommander release.

Some songs still carry remnants of the initial idea, but all-in all it resulted in a melodic, grungy, heavy metal/rock album with some electronic stuff, a few blastbeats (which I love) and quiet moments here and there.

The concept behind "Bloodlight" is based on my grandmother's firstborn son who died from pneumonia as a small child about 80 years ago. It's a personal, but also highly fictionalized reflection on some other following events and developments from my family's history, set against the backdrop of the cruel world we live in ( "Meat and Greed") and twisted into cryptic sort-of-horror lyrics. It was a lot of fun to write and came very easily.

The album title itself was the trigger for the concept; I stumbled upon the word in the lyrics of "Nite Flights" by the Walker Brothers which I listened to in the early stages of writing. It just hit a nerve and set me on the path.

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released November 25, 2023

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Gorecommander Germany

Gorecommander is a musical one man army, family man and corporate office job-haver.

Moving from no- budget to low-budget in recent years, it's still a hobby project.

Genre-wise Gorecommander alternates between an idiosyncratic style of metal with electronic splinkles ("Bloodlight") and an electronica-heavy form of dark alternative ("Everything Is My Delusion") in the vein of Depeche Mode. ... more

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