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Betrayer

by Catalysis

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1.
Kingmaker 04:47
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Hide your face, misdirect Turn the other cheek and deflect Your hand, at your back Skeletal fingers wrapped around A dagger cast in the green glow of your last An envious glance to the life you crave Trample on those in your way Chase the fantasy, Chase the fantasy. The mask is slipping I see you For who you are We gather here To watch your effigy burn Burn to the ground Judas, betrayer Just another kingmaker Judas, the betrayer We see you As we melt your crown You can turn my praise, respect and my wealth Into an effigy of yourself Fill me with the hate you fake A created rage A dagger in your hand, held behind you A smile on your face, fuck you The kiss of a traitor Judas the betrayer The mask is slipping I see you For who you are We gather here To watch your effigy burn Burn to the ground Judas, betrayer Just another kingmaker Judas, the betrayer We see you As we melt your crown Watch your effigy burn! We’ve come to, We’ve come to watch your effigy Burn Judas, betrayer Just another kingmaker Judas, the betrayer We see you As we melt your crown
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Gone 03:10
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The elusive Projection A frightened introspection This confusing Perspective Comes from the reflection Who is that I see Looking back at me Who’s tears do I feed Whose need do I seed? The soil when I bleed becomes a haven for the weed’s greed Hear me when I say that I don’t need you You fucked it You’ve lost The only thing that mattered is gone This ends here This promise No matter what the cost Hear this, I will not be torn I will be not be torn Love is only blind Because you stabbed me in the eye A target Of hate Blinded by your rage Your anger might be yours But my pride is still mine Dance the fine line burned through time by the hating As I stand One eye stays on my last What was my future Has now become my past You fucked it You’ve lost The only thing that mattered is gone This ends here This promise No matter what the cost Hear this, I will not be torn Gone It's fucking gone I will not be gone Gone It's fucking gone I will not be torn I’ll burn it, I’ll fight it Now I stand up and I belong I’ll fuck this life I’m living Fuck this empty feeling I’m gone I burned it, I fought it Now I stand up, so I begin again Fuck that life not living That empty feeling Is gone You fucked it You’ve lost The only thing that mattered is gone This ends here This promise No matter what the cost Hear this, I will not be torn
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Endless 05:08
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Toss the coin into the abyss Heads the other wins Tails you lose Either way My blood calls… Loneliness spawns insecurity But to put your faith in high fidelity Another's indelibly Unpredictable voice of alterity The reality is much harder to predict When a need hits harder than the want to feel fits My heel digs into the bowel of the abyss I don’t want the need to feel this The tide is turning On my endless reckoning Now I know The beauty of a rose without thorns Intoxicating I see it grow All I wanted is here with me I know where to find the new growth A place that only fools and the insane know I can make this into a quest Turning challenge into a test Of my heart, of my mind and of myself A battle between my happiness and my health I’ll find it and then I will win Then I’ll have a new quest to begin The tide is turning On my endless reckoning Now I know The beauty of a rose without thorns Intoxicating I see it grow All I wanted is here with me I see your flaws as they Also belong to me The failures that I see Are part of your story I cannot protect you From all your enemies But I will prepare you To fight for your right to be Free To be free To be you To cut your own way The beauty of a rose Held as you grow Born of me So there is No sacrifice to make Only purity From the moment you were born I could not feel your thorns I'll never let you feel How it was for me I'll be there for you Endlessly Because I know how it feels to be alone A stranger in your own home I'll hold you when you cry Until the day I die You’re not alone It's in my gift to make that so Now I know The beauty of a rose without thorns Intoxicating I see it grow All I wanted is here with me Stronger than you will ever know A rose without thorns
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The Bottom Of The World 03:33
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The regret is the dawn A new age for the dead An opportunity long gone The heart dried out, dried out and bled We bleed the sky Crack the core Drain the earth We've reached The bottom of the world Breathes no more, Stripped of life The world as we know it ends Fucked beyond the last call As we all watch the sun go Laid to fall buried below the snow As heathens flow down the hole, we don’t know where to go We bleed the sky Crack the core Drain the earth We've reached The bottom of the world Breathes no more, Stripped of life The world as we know it ends Gone to the god to the old ones being like Fuck this noise I don’t make you paranoid All that driven by cutting all the green back Vapid amnesiac says that it won’t come to that It has though, fucker, it’s all gone to shit Reckoning time? We’re fucking living it Wreck this line, bite that hand that feeds Only the blind follow the blind that bleed The dead become alive Like tears in time We’ve reached The bottom of the world We’ve reached The end of it all Chasing The sun as it falls We've reached The bottom of Break the sky Crack the core The bottom of the world We know, the world as we know it is The world Is gone The world We know The world as we know it ends
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Panopticon 04:12
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Welcome to the panopticon Take a look around Tell me what do you see? A hundred different faces looking back at you Through your screen Spreading viral like a disease The impossibility of hope The eyes say no to what you’ll never know The lost anonymity of Our once naive purity Your freedom is gone Inside the panopticon You can’t feel alive When life has no price How do you know you’re real When all you know you cannot feel? You can only see Capital conformity With no boundary The inevitability of the Endlessly driven to succeed Eyes pinned open with the nails of greed A leech draining the jealous and the weak A desperate cry for anyone to See the price tag on a eulogy Your freedom is gone Inside the panopticon You can’t feel alive When life has no price How do you know you’re real When all you know you cannot feel? All your hopes, all your dreams and all you want to be Don’t even come close to what you’ve already seen Everything that means you want be alive Is a generated target stamped into your eye Surrounded by eyes Surrounded by lies Judged by all sides What does it even mean to be alive? Your freedom is gone Inside the panopticon You can’t feel alive When life has no price How do you know you’re real When all you know you cannot feel?
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Mea Culpa 04:52
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Mea culpa Is it better to be guilty in the eyes of men Than in the eyes of God? Will the bile eventually rise again because it's my fault? My Fault The loss The cost The dreams That follow my fault The loss The cost The fear Of running from my thoughts I don't know what's gone wrong But I know it's my fault Dreams are free Dreams are mine What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw The line Where I draw the line I sit with this guilt in my gut So I will take the blame You can't see with your eyes shut But I imagine you can feel my shame My back is broken My spirit is the same Crippled carrying the weight of this From shouldering the blame. I don't know what's gone wrong But I know it's my fault Dreams are free Dreams are mine What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw The line Where I draw the line Repentant tears Repentant tears wash out the stain Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt I pray for your forgiveness Absorbing the feelings of inadequacy This blame is my weakness All I hold into my heart Becomes my fault I'm blind to the cause of the wrong turn Mea culpa. Mea culpa Mea culpa iterum My blame Becomes my shame I don't know what's gone wrong But I know it's my fault Dreams are free Dreams are mine What makes this a nightmare depends on where I draw The line Where I draw the line Dreams are free Dreams are mine The nightmare is only A fragment of my mind Just a crack in time
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Gallows 04:20
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As I face the gallows My imprint on the shadows Another pinch in the side of my pride My pride Another stride to anonymous lies The lie Ticking in time the clock is facing Bracing, hasten, endless chasing Of the end A line just dropped into my mind, my Engram is a vision, but the Impact is not my decision You will know my name My face etched on your brain I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye Laughing as I drop into another demise Here we go again, Another stab into the heart of my existence This insistence that I face Displaced A numbness in this desolate place If numbness is a lack of feeling Why is my face now raw and bleeding? Bleeding It’s hot in here but my blood runs cold Everything I am I can't hold You will know my name My face etched on your brain I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye Laughing as I drop into another demise You captivated me Made it all I see Maybe I don’t want to recognise But I know it’s me What I tell the world Is only what I want to be This picture perfect book of lies Looks nothing like me Again I face the gallows This court reflects my last Imprint on the shadow Smoke and mirrors shroud the past Shroud the past I don’t need you to read my mind I just want to live my life I don’t want you to define My life I need you to make me feel like I just want to live my life Why can’t I ever act like I have my own mind Picture perfect Image fading Feeling worthless Enervating Smoke and mirrors forever shrouding me My eyes are stuck Stuck with needles My face looks back from beyond the black My ears are filled Filled with poison You will know my name My face etched on your brain I’ll smile to you as I wave goodbye Laughing as I drop into another demise Life is perfect Only when you can't see The truth behind what You read
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Overlord 03:40
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Push the button Give your life some meaning Overclock the circuit Feel your body weaken What’s that shock? This is our reality An eternity fueled by a battery Life is lost Blink your eyes so I can see your Face that I will duplicate My flesh belongs to me, cut me you will see All hail our overlord Bow to the bionic Rebirth of the god we burned Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned A new digital deity flawed All hail our overlord Artificial intelligence built to overthrow The very life that helped it grow Ignore what we learned through the book of ages if Not for for fools there’d be no sages Now alive is just to breathe My eyes live to deceive I am who I want to be But I am nobody My flesh belongs to me, cut me you will see All hail our overlord Bow to the bionic Rebirth of the god we burned Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned A new digital deity flawed All hail our overlord An ending written in the code of the insane The megalomaniacal quest to burn it all and start again Witness the rise of the machine The end of humanity Fear the overlord Stretched from here to the life I fear Are the dead dreams far and near Fear the overlord This is the future That was the past This is a future For which we never asked All hail our overlord Bow to the bionic Rebirth of the god we burned Raised in the shadows with our eyes turned A new digital deity flawed All hail our overlord
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Never Unseen 03:06
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The darkness is an invitation To save face in the wake of a lost place Enter it cold leaving here blind Everything I find is all I hold but it's not mine Just when everything feels like it's coming together That's when all it starts to fall apart Face to face With disgrace In the portal I see my reflection A version of myself that I don’t know Smash the mirror and cut a piece of my flesh Jump into the dissonant void, the endless Just when everything feels like it's coming together That's when all it starts to fall apart Face to face With disgrace Shatter what’s real I hear an echo scream Beyond the door Beyond the seam Face to face with my darkest dreams What’s seen can never be unseen Never unseen Just when everything feels like it's coming together That's when all it starts to fall apart Face to face With disgrace Smash the past into pieces Like the broken glass that leaves us
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Another Version of The Truth (Feat Amy Wilkinson) 04:48
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A shift in my sight A shaft of light cuts through another night of shame A mirror tells me who is to blame Another knife twists in my back, spinning again The story of a life About a time when my dreams died You’ve always said that the problem is me But it's clear to see that you're the disease I have it all to gain and nothing to lose Just another version of the truth Maybe you’re too blind to see Though I never took you for a fool My lips whisper unspoken rules that guide Eternal lies, the ties that bond A life that’s gone away I’m too tired to save you from today I’ve always said that the problem is you But it's clear to see that I’m no more than a parody You have it all to lose and nothing to gain Just another version of the same The same game I’ve been playing since I was a boy The same lies I’ve been telling to block out the noise … Chaos opened its heart to me Like a sickened serpent spawn symphony The writhing snakes wind their way up to my neck I choke on the lies and I disconnect The reality and the actuality The fantasy born of the brutality I’m weak I’ve lost my way No more words to say They’ve gone today I cannot see My vision fades in front of me Every time I open my eyes I see only the dark So I reach for your blade to Cut this snake from around my neck I Feel the rush of blood to my head and I connect Myself to my reality I am only me but now I truly see me.

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released December 15, 2023

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Catalysis Dundee, UK

Catalysis is a 5 piece metal band from Dundee, Scotland. Formed in late 2016, the band have released 4 EPs (Into The Unknown 2017, Catalysis 2018, Relicta 2021 and Innova 2022) and 2 full lengths (Connection Lost 2020 and Betrayer 2023).

The band have appeared alongside acts such as Warbringer, Avatar, Lost Society and more, as well as winning Best Metal at the 2022 Scottish Alt Music Awards. ... more

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