Lineup:
Andrew Rankine - Drums
James Macdonald - Guitar
Gregor Meldrum - Vocals
Blair Mcfarlane - Bass
Radovan Zubek - Guitar (not on this recording)
Rhythm guitar recorded by our previous member Andy Willis.
Music by Tower of Flies
Lyrics by Stuart Hall
Recorded DIY at The Black Cave
Produced, mixed and mastered by Andrew Rankine
Drums recorded at Napier University by Sheenagh Murray and Alex Templeman
Additional vocals on 'War in the Cradle of Man' by Ross Necro and James Macdonald
My boots weighed down in sinking mud
My mouth tastes sweat and blood
Head low, I wait to go over top
Does this cycle ever stop?
I’ve seen my friends just disappear
I’ve seen them fade away
The ottomans just hold their line
We can’t make the push today
How long will this go on? How long will we fall?
The summer sun, the rotting flesh
The scorching waste, the smell of death
The endless days, the sleepless night
The ashen mouths, the futility
No words to keep me sane from home
No solace degraded, I am alone
I waste till I am skin and bone
I forgot the life that I have known
My fingers twitch, my nerve is shot
Try to recall the faces that I’ve lost
How long have I been in this spot?
My sacrifice accounts for naught
This stalemate never seems to fade
The bosporus just beyond the gate
Churchill was wrong about the facts
We’re broken through repeat attacks
Flies buzz around my lips and eyes
Dysentery a putrid fucking blight
Beg for winter, to fill the sky with night
How long will this go on? How long will we fall?
They land in Hell, land at Kum Kale
But not to fight, ordered to die
The death is crazed, we are replaced
There is not haste to evacuate
Endless gifts lie in no man’s land
Cigarettes and meat by the can
Someone must have another plan
We go on losing, man by man
How long will this go on? How long will we fall? How long will this go on? x4
One three, zero seven eight four
All these souls that are no more - x2
Blackened death metal riffs and Lovecraftian horror go hand-in-hand on the Seattle brutalists' ferocious eight-track epic. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 6, 2023
