The Dark Horde is a collective of internationally recognised musicians, vocalists and actors from Melbourne, Australia. Together they have created The Calling, a concept album written and directed by Andrew "Brewin" Drage.
The Calling is a musical narrative experience featuring a supernatural horror story set to an "eighties heavy metal" soundtrack. It is the prequel to Brewin's award-winning horror novel The Dark Horde, set in south-eastern Australia in 1989.
Puppet is the eighth track from The Calling album.
lyrics
(Hanny/Logan/Lee/Brewin)
DARKENED ROOM – GROWING DARKER
LIGHT FADES – SHADOWS MERGE
EVIL LURKS, CREEPING CLOSER
A SUDDEN CHILL GRIPS MY SOUL
AM I CONSCIOUS? ALL IS DIZZY
WHERE IS BODY? MIND IS BENDING
SOMETHING IS CALLING – OVERWHELMING
FALLING INTO DARKNESS – NEVER-ENDING
I recall chanting one fateful night for many semiconscious hours,
when I was startled awake by a sharp crack in front of me.
Before me stretched a black void with depths beyond comprehension.
A nauseating stench fell over me and I saw that
within the nebulous darkness was a pair of eyes: red convex slits.
They were a short distance away and staring directly at me,
my mind naked before their gaze…
My God, what had I done?
YOUR PUPPET STRINGS I PULL LIKE REINS
I SUCK THE LIFE THAT FLOWS THROUGH YOUR VEINS
I POISON YOUR MIND WITH CONFUSION AND HATE
EVER-PRESENT, I CONTROL YOUR FATE
OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THAT I AM MASTER
RUNNING FROM ME WILL ONLY BRING YOU FASTER
(Solo: Hanny)
WITH VICIOUS LIES, I DRUG, DECEIVE AND TAUNT YOU
YOU’LL NOT FIND TRUTH: ONLY I KNOW WHAT IS TRUE
FOR AT THE END OF IT ALL, AT A TIME YOU’LL NOT SEE
THERE’LL BE NOTHING LEFT, ONLY DEATH, ONLY ME
(Solo: Hanny)
That hellish window unto nightmare closed then,
taking with it that infernal gaze.
I did not feel the relief of safety, only the weight of imminent death.
But I was to be granted no such liberty,
for only the cold and miserable solitude remained now,
as unchanging as my fate.
credits
from The Calling,
released October 29, 2021
* Music composed by Hanny Mohamed (Black Majesty) and Logan Jacobs
* Concept and lyrics by Brewin
* Main vocals by Danny Cecati (Wicked Smile, ex-Pegazus, ex-Eyefear)
* Narrated by Kevin Powe
* Demonic vocals by Shaun Farrugia (In Malice's Wake)
* Mixed by Ricardo Borges and Mastered by Jens Bogren (both at Fascination Street Studios)
* Artwork by Aldo Requena (Hammerblaze)
The Dark Horde is a collective of internationally recognised musicians, vocalists and actors from Melbourne, Australia.
Together they have created The Calling, a concept album written and directed by Andrew "Brewin" Drage.
The Calling is a supernatural horror story set to an "eighties heavy metal" soundtrack, and is the prequel to Brewin's horror novel The Dark Horde....more
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