BAND NAME: As They Sleep
GENRE: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
STATUS: Unknown
LOCATION: Detroit, Michigan
Lineup:
Aaron Bridgewater - Vocals
Nick Morris - Guitars
Barry Gomez - Guitars
Derek Kosiba - Bass
Tony Lukitsh - Drums
Past Members:
Paul Burkett - Drums
Links:
Discography:
As They Sleep (EP, 2005, Independent) (CD)
1. Seeds Of Hate 3:23
2. Rivalation 4:31
3. Impassing 2:36
Blacken The Sun (album)
October 28, 2008, Luxor Records (CD)
December 5, 2008, Luxor Records (Digital)
1. Dusk (Intro) 1:59
2. A Thousand Deaths 4:00
Trapped in this life together
As we struggle each and every day
Will it ever get any better
Time will tell our fate
Search for deliverance
Anything to take the pain away
Fight for the answers
Sign your life away
How can we be
So blind that we cannot see
That happiness is
So far from being free
To have the life
I'd die a thousand times
What makes this world go 'round
Only corrupts our minds
We give you take
Can't take this anymore
The rich keep getting richer
The poor keep living poor
Time will tell our fate
Can't be pushed much further
Every man has the right to change his ways
Deception not the answer
Make the sacrifice
Plow through the faithless
Spit in the face of agony
It's time to take back
Take back what you gave
How can we be
So blind that we cannot see
That happiness is
So far from being free
To have the life
I'd die a thousand times
What makes this world go 'round
Only corrupts our minds
We give you take
Can't take this anymore
The rich keep getting richer
The poor keep living poor
Time will tell our fate
Darkness controls all of man
A life that we've built upon sand
Turning what's left of this place
Into a life of eternal disgrace
A race to be God among men
Greed will consume all it can
Damnation a certain demise
Looking for truth in the midst of a lie
Darkness controls all of man
A life that we've built upon sand
Turning what's left of this place
Into a life of eternal disgrace
Who will decide your self-worth
3. Companion Of The Fire 5:09
Here's to the confrontation
Here's to the sleepless nights
Companion of the fire
I will unearth the lies
I see inside
Betrayal confide
Why live in fear
I shed no tears
Lie to your peers
So insincere
You failed, you failed so miserably
But I'm still standing
Control, control this energy
For it consumes me
Just try
What once was lost is now gone forever
To see through my eyes
What once was trust now replaced with anger
This anger, it burns from within
Fueled by your ignorance
The closer we get to the end
Scarred by your own regrets
No more will I be blinded
Thus taken for a fool
Despite all good intentions
Of what I thought I once knew
I can't change time
You've crossed the line
Why live in fear
I shed no tears
Lie to your peers
So insincere
You failed, you failed so miserably
But I'm still standing
Control, control this energy
For it consumes me
Just try
What once was lost is now gone forever
To see through my eyes
What once was trust now replaced with anger
4. Pangaea 5:02
Memories left in time
Give me the strength to move on
Accept the loss of reason
To find, find a way
To say farewell and not goodbye
So many questions lie
Within the depths of our past
We keep reinventing wheels
Await the day
No longer sacrifice
Time slipping away this is all too real
Can't explain the way this makes me feel
I'll never say I didn't try
I can't sit back and watch you die
I shall not sell my soul in vain
Hold on so gracefully
Everything in life shall drift away
Hold on to what's true to you
We, we shall be stripped of all our flesh
We, we shall stand up and rise against
Time slipping away this is all too real
Can't explain the way this makes me feel
I'll never say I didn't try
I can't sit back and watch you die
Embrace insanity
As it courses through my veins
Read between the lines
As we corrupt our minds
We see unrelenting greed
I see your face
And it sickens me
Mass hypocrisy
Making its way to me
Sit back and watch it bleed the dream
Inducing hate
Another casualty
Time slipping away this is all too real
Can't explain the way this makes me feel
I'll never say I didn't try
I can't sit back and watch you die
I shall not sell my soul in vain
Just hold on tight for one more day
Hold on so gracefully
Everything in life shall drift away
Hold on to what's true to you
5. Sins 'N Needles 4:27
You've got to pay for
Consequences brought forth by anger
You got to take more
More time to reconcile and break free
He who walks in the shadows
Holds onto the ice cold hand of death
I've seen the aftermath
Just as sure as you'll pay for all your sins
Just when you think it's impossible
You gain the nerve to go down that road again
Re-open what's been done before
An insatiable love that never ends
Start blaming yourself
Stop blaming the world
Stop blaming all the ones who pray for you
Just open your eyes
And meet your demise
And fight with all the strength you have inside
You can lead a horse to water
But you can't make it drink it's sins away
You follow the steps of your father
Will you ever be who you want to be
Rip out the shame and rebuild your soul
Own up to the blood that once was shed
So precious, so beautiful
To be given the chance to live again
Start blaming yourself
Stop blaming the world
Stop blaming all the ones who pray for you
Just open your eyes
And meet your demise
And fight with all the strength you have inside
Rise to your feet and justify
The truth of a lie
Search in your soul to say goodbye
Why live the lie
Is it worth all the pain and anguish
Try one more time
Take control of your so-called life
Start blaming yourself
Stop blaming the world
Stop blaming all the ones who pray for you
Just open your eyes
And meet your demise
And fight with all the strength you have inside
6. Seeds Of Hate 3:34
Now here I stand before you
Say what you've got to say
You've passed your judgement unto me
Lost my respect today
What is this so-called safety
Don't say it won't affect me
There is a price for freedom
A price but who will pay
Swallow my pride look up at the sky
Decide what's important in this life
Hearing your voice is fuel to the fire
I sift through the ashes and the lies
Bred to sew the seeds of hate
Bred to shred and destroy me
Is this the way we must live
To learn how to take and not give
Split the chest of this nation
Expose all that's absurd
Open to exploitation
I lay my trust in the word
Swallow my pride look up at the sky
Decide what's important in this life
Hearing your voice is fuel to the fire
I sift through the ashes and the lies
Bred to sew the seeds of hate
Bred to shred and destroy me
Is this the way we must live
To learn how to take and not give
Testing my faith, it's not going to change
Now that I know you
I with that I never knew at all
Now I can see who
Who's gonna catch me when I fall
Now that I know you
Now I can see who
I with that I never knew at all
Now that I know you
Now I can see who
Who's gonna catch me when I fall
Bred to sew the seeds of hate
Bred to shred and destroy me
Is this the way we must live
To learn how to take and not give
Now here I stand before you
Say what you've got to say
You've passed your judgement unto me
Lost my respect today
7. Sweet Misery 5:33
Evil
I let you inside my life
My heart
My soul felt so complete
I reminisce those days and memories
Of all the things she used to say
Your existence dead to me
Dead to me
A magnificent creation
We never thought to question why
Misery consumes our lives
My sweet angel of grace
Take me so far from this place
All hope is lost
I've nothing left for you
I wash my hands of a life that was untrue
Behold she dwells in misery
So help me God I'll find my way
Find my way
I love you, I hate you
I can see through you
Destroying all those things I held so dear
It's funny how this time you act sincere
Goodbye, I've lost the will to try
I'll see you in the afterlife
Afterlife
My sweet angel of grace
Take me so far from this place
8. Hollow 4:21
You're free to go
No remorse for the precious lives
That you've left behind
The tears have dried
But your soul is soaking wet
With the past you hide
So many questions unanswered
So many thoughts fill my mind
Soon will be your time to suffer
And burn with the likes of your kind
Where innocent souls meet destruction
Marks the end of a life I never knew
We cry as we look to the heavens
Clench teeth in disgust at the thought of you
Disgust at the thought of you
Left in our minds
Is a hollow spot that was once full of happiness
And now we turn
To the ones that can help replace them with hope and bliss
Clench my teeth
In time we will become whole inside
Once again
Oh Lord have mercy on our souls
Once again
I could never feel the pain
Nor could you ever explain
I must pray to keep me sane
I never had the chance
To know part of my past
My past
Where innocent souls meet destruction
Marks the end of a life I never knew
We cry as we look to the heavens
Clench teeth in disgust at the thought of you
Disgust at the thought of you
9. Revelations 3:04
Who will repent for all your sins
We fight the war that no one wins
A mother's tears, the devil's grin
A father's pride torn from within
To live, to die
To laugh, to cry
We give, we take
We love, we hate
Can't take this anymore
Anymore
Is this what we've become
And yet we try once again
To wash the blood off of our hands
And when the star falls to the earth
You've lost the window of rebirth
A great abyss
A locust's sting
Blacken the sun
A wrath to bring
War torn, how can we escape this horror
Reborn
A chance to change this all forever
Anymore
Is this what we've become
And yet we try once again
To wash the blood off of our hands
Look and behold a white horse
Look and behold a pale horse
We've sought to conquer all or die
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
10. Blacken The Sun 5:07
Behold the light
As we all watch a storm of souls
Unveil the flashes of our lives
A dawn of death
Embrace the parasites
In which the world we all once knew
Becomes a kataklysmic tomb
They feed
Unto our weakness
Unmercifully
So dark the con of man
Take heed and see
A better part of thee
Can't you foresee
Your cursed eternity
Eternity
Will it fulfill the prophecy
Into the heavens shall we gaze
Make way the coming of the king
Or is it death you seek
Who will prevail
As war is waged for seven years
Will you be lovers of yourselves
Embrace the plague
As the last trumpets sound
When death runs rampant in your mind
Its death you shall not find
They feed
Unto our weakness
Unmercifully
So dark the con of man
Take heed and see
A better part of thee
Can't you foresee
Your cursed eternity
Eternity
Will it fulfill the prophecy
Into the heavens shall we gaze
Make way the coming of the king
Or is it death you seek
Into the void of untangeable strife
Born of weakness
Fallen victim to filth and disease
Contradiction and perils
Shall humble the fall to your knees
They feed
Unto our weakness
Unmercifully
So dark the con of man
Take heed and see
A better part of thee
Can't you foresee
Your cursed eternity
Eternity
Will it fulfill the prophecy
Into the heavens shall we gaze
Make way the coming of the king
Or is it death you seek
11. Dawn (Outro) 4:14
Dynasty (album)
November 23, 2010, Solid State Records (CD)
2010, Capitol Christian Music Group (Digital)
1. Oracle Of The Dead 3:23
Throughout history we've sought our questions answered
Seeking immortality
Seeking darkness at the same time we ignore the light
Provoking the unseen
The god of the underworld has you in sight
Raping your soul
Unmerciful master of brimstone and fire
Devouring all
There is no escaping the god of the dead
You've made your bed
Now it's time you've slept in it
Demon of dreams
Life is not all that it seems
Leading the blind through your passage of screams
The oracle of the dead
A shrine to lay your head
Into obscurity, denying Heaven's light
Falling to your knees
The path you've chosen is a hell you can't describe
This evil deity
2. To The Republic 3:52
To the republic for which it stands
We have sacrificed and met demands
The rhetoric of a sovereign nation
The scaring screams of exasperation
If logic is money of the mind
Then clearly we have spent ourselves blind
Unite
Unite
Depreciate the American dollar
Magnify this quest for power
Alas when everything is said and done
Who will be the anointed one?
It's so easy just to push the blame
When at stake is a politician's fame
It's so easy just to push the blame
And bring on endless suffering
Have we not learned from yesterday?
Or are we blinded by hypocrisy?
Have we not learned from yesterday?
Tempers flaring, every word that you say
Have we not learned from yesterday?
You cannot finance destiny
The art of losing
Is not hard to master
It's plain to see
That we are falling faster
Aim your guns high
You have to learn to walk before you learn to fly
Aim your guns high
But when the bullets fall back to earth, they may take your life
To the republic for which it stands
We have sacrificed and met demands
The rhetoric of a sovereign nation
The scaring screams of exasperation
One nation, under God
That doesn't seem to be the cause
One nation under fraud
Emancipate this dying race
3. The Third Reich 3:43
1-30-33
A reign this world could not foresee
Into the mind of a fascist leader
And the birth of a deadly regime
Eradicate
Burned to ash there was no escape
As he rose to power
Approach the final hours
Behold the holocaust has come to take your lives
How could this come to be
Propaganda make believe
This Aryan master race
The ashes tell no lies
Children cry out from starvation
No sympathy
For God's creation
Children cry out
Suffocating
No sympathy
Death was waiting
Lest we forget
This evil anti-Semitic
As bodies filled the streets
Forever etched in memories
These final days
Have set the bar for all to raise
A withered shell
You've crawled your way to the pits of Hell
The horror
The terror
Your lifeless body lays
Known as nothing but a coward for the rest of days
For the rest of days
The horror
The terror
Your lifeless body lays
Known as nothing but a coward
Coward
4. Bedlam At The Nile 4:07
Deep into the Valley of the Kings
On the west bank of the Nile
Lies the secret of the souls beneath
A somber Egypt sky
Thieves robbed all the graves
And all that remains
Is all that we know
The struggle for power
The darkest of hours
A mummified pharaoh
No one could anticipate the bedlam at the Nile enter exile
As famine swept the land
The end of days
Have lent a dying hand
Unheard atrocities
Feeding on the weak
Why did you desecrate this sacred sanctity?
The towns were ravaged with swarms of Scarabs
And sounds of distant groans
The blood of the Nile
The souls exiled
Osiris, save us all
O god of the afterlife
What do you seek?
Hast thou not paid the price
The end of a dynasty
So pure and true
Whose secrets died in vain with the souls of the entombed
Fight the reign
These blows of fate
Despair
Collapse
How long will this plague last
Despair
Collapse
These secrets of the past
An eclipse of royal power and poverty
Surrounds these final hours
An ancient kingdom lost
A monarchy
A conquered nation looks up to the newborn king
Engulfed in desert
The sacred scarab
A pharaoh's treasure
Your curse awaits
5. The Darkest Ages 4:45
Take over the world
Enslaved to declination
Leave all of your hopes and dreams behind
Make haste, divide this nation
Take over the world
There is nothing left to murder
Complete disregard for human life
This ancient flame that still burns
Into the darkest ages
Once more an Emperor's demise
I've longed to turn these pages
Fight as hard as mortal man can fight
Relive the devastation
A billowing smoke that haunts the sky
This murderous confrontation
A horrific sight for untrained eyes
To forget who we were
We try to change who we are
Degrade the stature of life
Put a blade in the back of the truth and you twist the knife
Burning temples ablaze
While we suffer the reign
Your people dying in vein
The remains of a tranquil place as it falls from grace
Sew the fields with ashes of the infidels
We can't go on this way
We can't go on
Take these chains and break them at their weakest link
We can't go on this way
We can't go on
You speak a cold dead language
A respected language of the past
Whose words are the best forgotten
But we all won't soon forget this wrath
Just like the frailest human
Ignoring the signs of your collapse
You watch the blood spill over
Inadvertently walking the same path
Open your eyes
We've all been force-fed their lies
Force-fed their lies
A leader who gives
Gives everything that you want
Can't take it all way
6. Ritual 1:30
7. The Offering 3:11
Summoned by the winds on the primeval ocean
Under the waves of the earth's creation
Deities of a dead world
The gods formed their pantheon
This place
This Meso-America
Seeks desperate divination
What was your obsession with time and sacrifice
Bloodletting
Clouds of black smoke
A burning blood offering
All in attempts to speak to the vision serpents
A Mayan offering to hear the serpents sing
Rise and fall
Who's meant to have it all
Calendars of the ancient
A cascade of catastrophe
The collapse
Both natural and man-made
Astronomical prophecy
Scarred by time
8. Attila 3:11
Arise, thy king
O ruler of Rhine
Devastation lust for war
A perilous quest to conquer the West
I long for the days of the innocence
We've pushed them away
Barbaric be thy name
We've pushed them away
Tattoo your face for war
The scourge of God
Anything goes as I raise my sword
Chastise
My brother's demise
An endless conquest for more
An unsettled score
Why haven't we learned from our mistakes?
Why put on the crown of thorns?
Why waste your time?
It's all been done before
9. Poseidon 3:45
I remember it all
The warmest summer seas
The magnificent gardens
Groves of flowered trees
As I sit on the ocean floor
Longing for distant shores
How did it come to this?
Why hast thou betrayed the only laws I've set in place?
My sons, how the earth will quake
The sea shall swallow us all
Why did you spit in my face?
This land is disgraced
A kingdom submerged
All we have is who we were
My love
My tormented empire
Unleash the fury
I stand beneath this darkened sky
If you only knew me
On jealousy I thrive
Unleash the fury
This swilling death of my empire
If you only knew me
This day Atlantis dies
The skies are bloody red
You had it made and now I've left you all for dead
Never question the odds
I bring the rage of the gods
I never wanted it to end
This day Atlantis dies
I command the ocean to rise
Take us all
I have spoken
Why hast thou betrayed?
10. God Of War 2:49
O blessed are the souls who escaped the battlefields and walk in the spite of all their woes
The sacred birds are feeding on the flesh of those left dead and gone
O son of Zeus, the hated one
Words cannot describe the hate that lies behind your eyes
Thy will
Beseeched
What are you fighting for?
Thy will
Beseeched
Relentless god of war
The gods of Olympus look down upon your soiled crown
Your time in hell awaits for the lives that you've put down
Pulled by steeds of fire
With your bloodthirsty desire
Waging war on all who cross your path
God forbid your bloody wrath
They pray the gods to take your life
This plague of never-ending strife
With mortal men and gods alike left screaming for their lives
Battlelust
Watch Athens fall to dust
Battlelust
The elder gods no longer trust
Battlelust
Must war take all of us
Unmerciful thou art
This cruel Olympian
You are the god of war
11. The Unseen 3:34
Beyond the shadows of your deepest doubts
Above the bluest seas
Lies a kingdom we have willingly died for
A true land of the free
Lift up these broken battered souls
We cannot do this on our own
Where will we go?
What shall we see?
Lose your grip on reality
Open your mind
Fall to your knees
Embrace eternity
I hear the angels singing
Thy purest gifts they're bringing
Take now your righteous scat at the throne of theocracy
The days of suffering shall soon be over
The word hath been received
For we are here
Our cup runneth over
Is this not destiny?
It's not worth fighting for
A world of senseless war
Lay down your battle sword and open up your eyes
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