The Rising Tide

by The Five Hundred

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2020. The year people are literally dying to forget. But as humanity struggles to cope with the effects of this pandemic, the fact remains that we’re teetering upon the precipice of something far, far worse. Never a band to shy away from the inconvenient truth, The Rising Tide is the second single to be released from The Five Hundred’s upcoming sophomore album, via Long Branch Records. And as this sonic monster-in-the-making begins its long sweep towards our proverbial ragged shores, guitarist Mark Byrne is ready to drag the waters - and reveal the inspiration behind the track.

“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 losing our shit at 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.

It’s not as bad as you think – it’s much, MUCH worse. Up until now, the scientific, political and even public discourse has focused on increasing temperatures – degrees Celsius. In the next few years, we will talk about it in terms of meters of sea level rise. Life as we know it, will not be the same, and we are just letting it play out in front of our very own eyes. That depresses me beyond belief, so I had to write about it.

We are sinking in a deep blue hell. Many of the people and places we know and love, will be dragged out to the sea. Sit back and enjoy the horror show, because it’s your apocalypse, and you fucking paid for it. Hop on for the ride.”

lyrics

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

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released October 30, 2020
P&C 2020 Long Branch Records, a division of SPV GmbH

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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

discography

A World On Fire

Jul 2021
The Rising Tide

Oct 2020
Black Dogs

May 2020
Bleed Red

Aug 2018
The Veil

Apr 2017
Winters

Nov 2015

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