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about
'Bleak' was written over 12 months to try and describe with sound, the experience of an anxiety attack. From the challenging and endless lows, to deafening self-deprecation and darkness, finally followed by a dizzying and lasting sense of hope.
lyrics
Your passion died with you
Past your prime so many years before
They'll learn you've lied, sooner than you know
You'll wake up old in a nursing home, paralysed by a television
Talking of good times, reminding them how impotent you are
In your last breath you'll see how little of yourself you gave away
You were a hack, your loyalty proved nothing, nothing, nothing
credits
released January 31, 2017
All music performed by Skullcave
Recorded and mixed by Ron Pollard at Studio Sleepwalker's Dread
Photography by Zac Gordon
Artwork & design by Liam Young
supported by 4 fans who also own “Bleak - Live at The Dread”
This is some great music for a morose, rainy day. Lush, sedate, bluesy, and with a certain apocalyptic flair, most evident on White Horses, which sounds very much like a psychedelic blues dirge.
I appreciate that the songs sometimes lose themselves along the way, giving way to some beautiful psych explorations. I also enjoy the vocals on this - they sometimes waver, but they fit the music so well. Smekermann
supported by 4 fans who also own “Bleak - Live at The Dread”
Legitimately sounds like an album from an alternative timeline where Massachusetts was the spiritual home of "secondwave" black metal instead of Norway. Fans of Old Man Gloom and Converge especially shouldn't overlook this unusually faceted gem. Ben Harris
The video for "Theurgist," from True Widow's forthcoming "Avvolgere," is as prismatic & hypnotic as the song it accompanies. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2016
A stoner-rock opera with dystopian themes, the Italian band's third LP fuses apocalyptic fury with psychedelic splendor. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 29, 2023
supported by 4 fans who also own “Bleak - Live at The Dread”
Tired Minds destroy it on this ridiculously badass record. Loom also has amazing variety inside the hardcore punk metal style which makes this record even more interesting. Darknight