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A World On Fire

by The Five Hundred

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1.
Black Dogs 03:30
BLACK DOGS In this rotting century of hate Your troubled mind My troubled mind Our troubled minds This world is full of suffering The misery is taking me under Now it’s spreading And swallows everything Standing here alone on the edge Descending into the darkness Standing here alone on the edge Descending into the darkness The voices are deceiving This isn’t me I’m sinking In a rotting century of hate Estrangement from reality Fading away into nothing I didn’t want to feel Or remember Standing here alone on the edge Descending into the darkness Standing here alone on the edge Descending into the darkness Demons are calling me They dig in their nails And pull me away Demons are calling me All I see is the end Just a way to escape I don’t eat I won’t sleep for days, I didn’t want to feel. I didn’t want to dream, In this rotting century. I didn’t want to remember anything, anymore I didn’t want to be a part of it This rotting century of hate Demons and black dogs A torture without mercy The coldest darkest place Demons and black dogs A torture without mercy The coldest, darkest, place
2.
The Rising Tide The darkness falls on roofs and walls Sea in the night it calls Crashing waves, cold white hands, feet in the sand Fear grips me round my throat I scrawl my suicide note Dark visions of my demise The waves drag me out to the sea I tread the water, till I finally drown I’m sinking in my deep blue hell I tread the water, till I drown Can’t stem the rising tide I exhale I lost you to the ocean blue After all we’ve been through Stare into the abyss There must be something more Fear grips me round my throat I scrawl my suicide note Dark visions of my demise The waves, drag me out to the sea I tread the water, till I finally drown I’m sinking in my deep blue hell I tread the water, till I drown Can’t stem the rising tide I exhale, as the darkness falls As the darkness falls The water fills my lungs As the darkness falls Visions of our demise Visions of our demise I tread the water, till I finally drown I’m sinking in my deep blue hell I tread the water, till I drown Can’t stem the rising tide I exhale
3.
Our Demise 04:05
OUR DEMISE Millions of mouthless dead Empty words ring through my head How the fuck will they ever know When blind eyes don’t see the tears flow With dark thoughts Of shame and malice Smile at them from the door With a poisoned chalice Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise Sing sorrow, immortal spheres A glory that shines upon our tears Out of mind, out of sight A rage that burns long into the night Let them paint our graves In white and red We screamed to be free When the cowards fled This is our war, we’ll never tire Our armies march, to their darkest day Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise Wide-eyed and helpless My cradle, my fortress Wide-eyed and helpless My cradle, my fortress Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise Show me a sign of life Is anyone left alive? We’ve seen the darkness of our demise
4.
The Warmth 03:53
THE WARMTH My dying child A fragment of a tragic mind The people cried We lost our way Don’t save our souls Fuck humankind Desensitised by genocide Nothing feels right How do we feel this hole? Your broken mind You’re lost inside I see the signs You’re lost inside When chaos burns like a flame We fall in love with the warmth I sit and watch it burn away We fall in love with the warmth Her stomach turns Like a fault line ripping through the land The embers fill the earth We stand and watch it glow Fuck humankind Desensitised by genocide Nothing feels right How do we fill this hole? We’re out of time Why can’t we find Our holy shrine Our blood red lines When chaos burns like a flame We fall in love with the warmth I sit and watch it burn away We fall in love with the warmth I sit and watch, it burn away We fall in love with the warmth We saw the end of days When worlds were torn apart We saw the end of days When worlds were torn apart There’s nothing left Nothing I remember Nothing I call home There’s nothing left Nothing I remember Nothing I call home When chaos burns like a flame We fall in love with the warmth I sit and watch it burn away We fall in love with the warmth I sit and watch, it burn away We fall in love with the warmth
5.
WALLS OF JERICHO You are bound helpless By a knotted tongue When death comes knocking Don’t you come crawling No mercy for your kind You had your warning The Walls of Jericho are falling This is your final fucking calling I love just how far you’d go To make what you want yours Go lose yourself in this world Your time’s run out A life so reckless Without a conscience A monster tormenting my heart and soul The Walls of Jericho are falling They won’t hear their names cry I love just how far you’d go To make what you want yours Go lose yourself in this world Your time’s run out Rot in your grave You can't be saved, you've sealed your fate There's no escape, ruined by the life you've chased A life of violence Mistakes degrade The shame of regret The Walls of Jericho are falling This is your final fucking calling I love just how far you’d go To make what you want yours Go lose yourself in this world Your time’s run out
6.
YOUR APOCALYPSE Black clouds gather, it's now time to face our fear Pierced through the heart with a burning spear You can’t run from me, there’s no place to hide Here’s your apocalypse Jump on! Jump on for the ride Eyes I dare not meet In Death’s dream kingdom no one hears your screams Eyes I dare not meet The supplication of a dead man’s hand Begging for mercy across the Earth’s scorched land A grave to bury all our shame inside Oceans on fire and giants collide Here’s your apocalypse Jump on! Jump on for the ride Eyes I dare not meet In Death’s dream kingdom no one hears your screams Eyes I dare not meet The supplication of a dead man’s hand There will be no heaven There will be no hell There will be no Zion The march of folly is led by titans The howling wind, the bleeding siren A grave to bury all our shame inside The planet shakes, the canyons widen Eyes I dare not meet In Death’s dream kingdom no one hears your screams Eyes I dare not meet The supplication of a dead man’s hand There will be no heaven There will be no hell There will be no Zion
7.
With Scars 04:16
WITH SCARS All that you take from me Is the life I’ll never have again As you watch it slip away There’s nothing left to keep you here I have watched the divide Between you and I Growing wider and wider It’s getting harder to breathe With scars and anguish There’ll be no sacrifice I have nothing to offer you As you watch it slip away There’s nothing left to keep you here Keep you here To keep you here We’ve taken for granted Walk with chest held high In the shadows of castles Never stopped to ask why With scars and anguish There’ll be no sacrifice I have nothing to offer you With scars and anguish There’ll be no sacrifice I have nothing to offer you I have watched the divide Between you and I Growing wider and wider It’s getting harder to breathe Slip down through the cracks of time With scars and anguish There’ll be no sacrifice I have nothing to offer you Slip down through the cracks of time
8.
Our Curse 04:11
OUR CURSE Take your soul from out of the red and black tongues Scream for salvation at the top of our lungs And how fire runs, far as the sea Is this the end for you and me? This world will pass away And collapse into decay I possessed the kingdom of a hundred worlds We thought we were the blessing (Wake up) Wake up to our curse I have a furnace for you in my mouth, We have five hundred souls in our crowd A force as fierce as a mushroom cloud Our hatred for you is as pure as it is loud This world will pass away And collapse into decay I possessed the kingdom of a hundred worlds We thought we were the blessing (Wake up) Wake up to our curse Now at our lowest, the wind is burning Heads spinning Don’t you find the noise disturbing? Life confined Behind the veil of burning silence bound Send them to hell, unleash the hounds The fear that you peddle comes back around No peace, no love, no empathy, no sound This world will pass away And collapse into decay I possessed the kingdom of a hundred worlds We thought we were the blessing (Wake up) Wake up to our curse
9.
Agony 04:20
AGONY Let's get it set straight There’s really no more time You held my feet up to the flame And watched the lies just bleed out The memory of you Emerges from the night around me White knuckled, oh so desperately I hold on to you The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me Wrap me in your sweet embrace When I’m lost and alone My darkest hours Lead me to a place of suffering I hold onto a memory Just don’t forget me When I’m gone White knuckled, oh so desperately I hold on to you Am I the architect Of my own destruction? Am I the architect Of my own destruction? The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me My darkest hours Lead me to a place of suffering Suffering The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me The ceaseless agony Pushing me back And pulling me Relentless tragedy Tearing the life Out of me
10.
A WORLD ON FIRE We’ve lost ourselves In a storm of what ifs We are at war with one another With our hearts against minds There is no escape We screamed for redemption Look at the mess we made We weeped into the ocean And breathed in the flames Hope is not for the wise And fear is just for fools When the gift of chaos lurks Well its wasted on those who refuse to learn Once again The glow returns So now the fallen city will burn We screamed for redemption Look at the mess we made We weep into the oceans And breathe in the flames Our world is on fire Our world is on fire Watch it burn When forests turn to black ash And acid rains from iron clouds Our world is on fire Our world is gone so fast Our world is on fire Our world It never stood a chance We breathe in the flames We screamed for redemption Look at the mess we made We weep into the oceans And breathe in the flames

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As the world closed its frontiers, boarded up their cities, and locked themselves inside, The Five Hundred closed themselves off from the rest of society for 6 months to write their follow up to the hugely successful and critically acclaimed debut, Bleed Red.
The album focuses on a morbid theme of environmental devastation, rising sea levels, climate disaster, and the ensuing loss of entire ecosystems, cities and millions of human lives. A subject that is particularly close to their hearts, guitarist & lyricist Mark Byrne passionately talks about the band’s inspiration behind the album…
“The environmental catastrophe that is headed our way will cause more deaths than COVID-19 and the solution will be far more complicated than a simple vaccine. We are all lost our shit during this pandemic, but what’s coming next is so fucked up, we won’t know what hit us. We are simply not ready for this. We normally revel in ambiguity, and believe in leaving room for interpretation. Spoon feeding our listeners has never really been our style, but for this record we felt the need to be blunt and direct.”

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released July 30, 2021

Andy Crawford - Bass, Paul Doughty - Guitars, Kelsey James - Drums, Mark Byrne - Guitars, John Woods-Eley - Vocals

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The Five Hundred Nottingham, UK

The Five Hundred are a five-man musical wrecking machine dedicated to pulverising eardrums and rattling bones across the metal landscape. Dealing in an array of down-tuned riffs and barbed hooks, the UK/Gibraltarian quintet unleash an avalanche of crushing groove and belligerent aggression, broken up by some searing leads, haunting vocal melodies and devastating, earth-shaking breakdowns. ... more

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