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This Ruined World

by Trials

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progdolphin Even though this project is no longer in motion, This Ruined World still remains an essential listen for modern metal lovers. It's an impressive blend of groove, thrash, soaring guitar leads, and hooks hooks hooks! FFO Gojira, Megadeth, Voivod, Strapping Young Lad, and many many more Favorite track: Digging My Own Grave.
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gwcon2006 Excellent Thrash outing from a great band.
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trainh13 Raw, unfiltered, and a hell of a ride, This Ruined World is a resounding cry of defiance in an increasingly stale thrash scene. Sporting riffs that will send you to the chiropractor and solos that leave you breathless, This Ruined World is a modern thrash classic. Favorite track: Disgraced and Erased.
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1.
I carve, my truth, into the flesh of swine your message so divine pales in comparison to mine Your face, on pixelated screen you think you speak for me speak for one side of everything Polarizer/paralyzer So corrosive So reviled follow close now The truth defiled You play victim, from safe within your home You cast so many stones Why can’t you leave these things alone? instead, you smile and place the blame an orchestrated game Nobody wins, nobody wins if no one plays Stigmatizer/Crucifier So corrosive So reviled follow close now The truth defiled It’s an execution without a trial now you’re branded The truth defiled (lead: "Gremlins II" by R. Bruchert) Accusations, well received Pay for transgressions ill-advised Fabrications, yet they believe Speak truth to power, as power lies and lies (lead: “Tango and Thrash” by R. Bruchert/M. Sugar) Polarizer/Crucifier So corrosive So reviled we hang on every word of The truth defiled
2.
I was one. A father’s son. Like his father before. Petitioning the deity. The threat of fire, the undisputed truth. Trust, in fear. In ignorance. Like our fathers before. Initiate, indoctrinate. See the serpent as it coils around the child. Rise when they rise. Fall when they fall. Say what they say, even if you don’t believe the word. It turns to dust. It ends with us. DAMN RIGHT. Let there be no other gods and masters (x2) And they shall teach their children (x2) (Lead: "Manger Zone" by R. Bruchert) We are ignorant and blind. Reality just a thorn in our sides. Lose the religion and you’ll be fine. Just open your eyes. Rise when they rise. Fall when they fall. Say what they say, even if you don’t believe a word. I don’t believe it. I never believed it. I don’t believe the word.
3.
The time has come, to bury this and I’m holding on for life can’t pry my hand, can’t understand I’m racing towards the end Just another pawn distracted, and taken from the game This tool of self destruction, and no one is saved All of the time spent, digging my own grave I have no name, my shackles gleam beneath fluorescent lights No stopping now, carry on somehow another shovel load Just another pawn extracted, it always ends the same Raise up the arms of suffering, that we may enslave All of the life spent, digging my own grave (Lead: "Beginner" by M. Sugar/"Nightmare Mode" by R. Bruchert) The slow decline, from watershed I will revive, and rise again My body begs me for release From this cold life there’s no relief Give me uncertainty and dread A shining example, of the darker days ahead All of the time, again and again all of the life digging my own grave.
4.
Punctuated with a single sound As the sentence comes to an end Close the door and shut the children’s eyes Through a maze of lies, one day they’ll realize Ruin. Compromise. Seen through your judging eyes. Forevermore…disgraced. (and erased) They recall like it was yesterday Yet in every way, deny Every document removes my name Yet the family’s shame, we’re one and the same Ruin. Compromise. Seen through your judging eyes. Forevermore…disgraced. When darkness comes, hide everything. Beneath this light, unflattering. But please, don’t let me die like this. (Lead: "Violent Lucidity" by M. Sugar)
5.
We can’t sleep. We can’t die. Until this is resolved. Believe me, we have tried. But the nightmare points and laughs. As hope fades, and deflates. The soul now paper-thin. The past is prologue, dead and gone. So bury this and move along. Reaching for the sun, so far to fall Trapped in this world I made, and I might lose it all In the blink of an eye, and all will be erased Give me a sign, that blood pumps through your veins we wait til the winter’s over, wait for the winter’s end we wait til the winter’s over, and then we rise again in the blink of an eye (Lead: "A Blaze in the Midwestern Sky" by M. Sugar) Reaching for the sun, how soon we learn The ones that fly too high, the ones who burn (Lead: "Ditka and His Embrace" by R. Bruchert) (Lead: "Anthems to the Welkin at Brunch" by M. Sugar) Will you say it out loud? Will you scream it from the mountain? Tell me everything I want to know and take me everywhere I need to go Tell me, was it real or just for show? In a world of lie I live and the way I choose, and damn the consequence
6.
Smokestack, cancerous. Iron rusting. Daylight wasted. As it must be. The cage beckons like an empty friend Sleep terror then it starts again It gives nothing ‘cause it only lends Just takes until the bitter end A human being can live a long long time can’t we just get this over with? Painstaking, sidewinding, pulled by the strings Teeth sink into the hand that feeds With fear at my side, I’m beating the system to death. nstinct calls me. I ignore it. As the clock ticks, thoughts turn violent. A pale shadow of a dream untrue Some still believe it, but they’re dreaming too The horses run until they’re turned to glue I know precisely what I need to do A human being can live a long long time can’t we just get this over with? Painstaking, sidewinding, pulled by the strings Teeth sink into the hand that feeds with no other choice, I'm beating the system to death. (Lead: "Rot For Teacher" by R. Bruchert) Beat the system to death
7.
Where art thou now, failed messiah? The all-seeing eye has turned away The victims were tried and sentenced The guilty laughed and returned to their ways It’s an abomination, it is the final flaw they congregate in shadows, they hide behind the law (Lead: "Nightmare on Maxwell Street" by M. Sugar) With every prayer stolen they pave the way to hell your gods are all too human and yet you serve them well So many screams fall silent now they’re buried deep behind the law These chosen ones. They prey on sons. The crooked god left to do as he will. It’s an abomination, it is the final flaw they congregate in shadows, they hide behind the law
8.
Inheritance 05:00
Dying season comes again another winter, another name Those once endangered, safely under stones tomorrow might not come, tonight is growing cold Through tears of stone, they curse our names And no one looks behind the veil I’ve seen this all before, I know the ways life and limb, atrophied and pale We inherit the end we prepare to expire we claim the danger as our own. Pallbearers chase, into the grave. My generation gone, it goes on and on and on. (Lead: “Carrion, My Wayward Son” by R. Bruchert) This winter cuts through us again Another warning, another claimed We inherit the end we prepare to expire we claim the danger as our own. Until we’re safely under stone.
9.
Rotting slow, time burning all around us Better alone, hell is the rest of you You raised up false idols, we burned your temples down. And I wait. Suffer-this ruined world Forever-this ruined world Shelter below, strength in the number zero I’m letting go. Call out my name, it won’t matter at all. The dream of flight denied us, we meet as equals now. I can’t wait. Suffer-this ruined world Forever-this ruined world (Lead: "Self Terminate" by R. Bruchert) One final blinding vision, to leave this place will bring relief We were born imprisoned, with iron vines that choke belief And all we grow is poisoned. Our very nature is diseased. No salvation—not a chance in hell In this ruined world No salvation – trapped here with you in this ruined world. No salvation – it begins again. in this ruined world.

credits

released July 24, 2015

TRIALS is:
Ryan Bruchert - Guitars
Adam Kopecky - Drums
Usha Rajbhandari - Bass
Mark Sugar - Guitars & Vocals

Produced by Trials
Engineered by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording

Additional recording at Trials Mobile Facility
at various points between May 2014 – February 2015

Mixed by Quentin Poynter at Gunpoint Recording
Mastered by John Scripp at Massive Mastering

Cover artwork by Eva Bialecki for Black Coffee Projects
Layout & design by Mark Sugar

All music by Sugar/Kopecky/Rajbhandari/Bruchert, lyrics by Sugar. Copyright Control 2015

Massive gratitude to the following individuals: Pete Grossmann (and Greer too). Quentin Poynter. John Scripp. Eva Bialecki for the amazing artwork. Scott and Ryan at Clawhammer PR. Steve at DR Strings. All of the great bands who have shared the stage with us. All of our family and friends. Each other. Coffee. And of course, a heartfelt thanks to all of you out there who are holding this record in your hands.

If you were not thanked and feel like you should be, feel free to fill in your name. Thanks so much to ________________________. We couldn’t have done it without you.

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