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Therapy

from The Calling by The Dark Horde

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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.

Therapy is the fifth track from The Calling album.

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(Hanny/Logan/Brewin)

I was trapped alone in a world of nightmares,
under constant assault from a force no one could see or believe.
With time, the cancerous visions grew only stronger
and my parents grew evermore frantic in their attempts to find a cure.

After many doctors and counsellors, my parents finally found one they liked:
a psychiatrist named Bernard Russell.
I was not yet ten when he gave his damning assessment…

Bernard: “Henry is suffering from temporary psychosis of a type that is treatable and not uncommon in boys his age. Nightmares and the fear of the dark occur in most children and have been known to be so intense that they result in delusions and even hallucinations.

“They are merely the product of the hormonal imbalance of puberty, of an over-active imagination… But he will be cured and in the years to come he’ll look back on these days with humour and think how silly he’d been!

“Fear not. This psychosis will come to pass.”

I was to receive therapy and medication,
and for a few, mostly happy years, the treatment seemed successful.
But always below the surface, dark forces gathered,
revealing themselves in occasional “fits of madness”.

My doctor was intrigued and sought to uncover what was best left alone.
He put me under hypnosis, forever altering my life.
I was only thirteen.

credits

from The Calling, released October 29, 2021
* Music composed by Hanny Mohamed (Black Majesty) and Logan Jacobs
* Concept and lyrics by Brewin
* Narrated by Kevin Powe
* Bernard Russell, Psychiatrist played by Andrew Carolane
* Mixed by Ricardo Borges and Mastered by Jens Bogren (both at Fascination Street Studios)
* Artwork by Aldo Requena (Hammerblaze)

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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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