BAND NAME: Slaves BC
GENRE: Unblack Metal / Sludge / Doom / Hardcore
STATUS: Changed name
(Active under new name, Úzkost)
(Active under new name, Úzkost)
LOCATION: USA (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Formed in December, 2010.
Decided to change their name around May 2020, and settled on "Úzkost" in June.
While their style has more or less remained the same over the years, their early material emphasizes the sludge and hardcore elements, while their newer material emphasizes the black metal elements.
Note: The Bandcamp releases used to be hosted at "slavesbc.bandcamp.com". The URL was changed to "uzkost-band.bandcamp.com" when they changed their name.
Contact:
slavesbc [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Decided to change their name around May 2020, and settled on "Úzkost" in June.
While their style has more or less remained the same over the years, their early material emphasizes the sludge and hardcore elements, while their newer material emphasizes the black metal elements.
Note: The Bandcamp releases used to be hosted at "slavesbc.bandcamp.com". The URL was changed to "uzkost-band.bandcamp.com" when they changed their name.
Contact:
slavesbc [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Lineup:
Joshua M. Thieler - Vocals, Drums
Sean Thomas Singer - Guitars, Vocals
Brandon Siple - Guitars, Bass
Adam Haller - Bass
Past members:
Adam Bailey - Vocals
Ricahrd E. Van Newkirk - Guitars
Jason R. Cantu - Bass
Brandon Baker - Drums
Sean Thomas Singer - Guitars, Vocals
Brandon Siple - Guitars, Bass
Adam Haller - Bass
Past members:
Adam Bailey - Vocals
Ricahrd E. Van Newkirk - Guitars
Jason R. Cantu - Bass
Brandon Baker - Drums
Links:
Discography:
This World Shall Pass Away (demo, 2011, Independent)
Format: Digital
About the different tracklists, Josh says:
"Basically, I released the first 6 songs we had available at the time. We had 15 total for that release. And I just added more to the existing release as we finished them"
FIRST TRACKLIST
1) Hide Us, O'Death 4:14
2) The 144,000 6:18
3) The Four Horsemen: Wild Hunt 4:10
4) White Cloud 2:14
5) The Man of Lawlessness 3:02
6) Lucifer Bound 4:45
NEXT TRACKLIST
1) Hide Us, O'Death 4:14
2) The Two Witnesses 4:00
3) Babylon, the Great Whore, Has Fallen 3:56
4) Believer's Response 7:19
5) The Four Horsemen: Wild Hunt 4:09
6) The Man of Lawlessness 3:02
7) Lucifer Bound 4:45
8) The 144,000 6:18
9) Cast Out 3:46
10) White Cloud 2:14
FINAL TRACKLIST
1) Hide Us, O'Death 4:14
2) The Two Witnesses 4:00
3) Babylon, the Great Whore, Has Fallen 3:56
4) Believer's Response 7:19
5) The Four Horsemen: Wild Hunt 4:09
6) The Man of Lawlessness 3:02
7) Lucifer Bound 4:45
8) The 144,000 6:18
9) Cast Out 3:46
10) White Cloud 2:14
11) To My Beloved Bride (demo version), track length unknown
12) Yahweh, track length unknown
13) Armageddon (demo version), track length unknown
14) The Last Song 12:00
15) (track title unknown), track length unknown
We Mean Nothing. (EP, 26 October, 2012, Independent)
Formats: CD (50 copies) and Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) Everything Is Meaningless
3:01, lyrics:
We will never have peace.
We will never be whole.
We will never have joy.
It will never be enough.
We will never have peace.
We will never be whole.
We will never have joy.
It will never be enough.
in this life
i have seen all things
under the sun
everything
is meaningless
a chasing after the wind
in this life
we mean nothing
2) Everything Under the Sun
5:07, lyrics:
Generations come, and generations pass.
Kingdoms conquer, and kingdoms fall.
Seasons come, and seasons go.
The sun rises in the east,
And the sun sets in the west.
The wind blows to the south
And makes its way back to the north
The rivers flow to the seas,
But the seas are never full.
We cut with our teeth,
But our stomachs are never full.
We drink are fill,
But never quench our thirst.
Our eyes search, but never find.
Our ears listen, but never hear.
Everything that is, has already been.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Our fathers are forgotten, and our
Children will not remember our names.
I have seen all things under the sun.
Everything is meaningless:
A chasing after the wind.
3) Armageddon
3:54, lyrics unknown
3:01, lyrics:
We will never have peace.
We will never be whole.
We will never have joy.
It will never be enough.
We will never have peace.
We will never be whole.
We will never have joy.
It will never be enough.
in this life
i have seen all things
under the sun
everything
is meaningless
a chasing after the wind
in this life
we mean nothing
2) Everything Under the Sun
5:07, lyrics:
Generations come, and generations pass.
Kingdoms conquer, and kingdoms fall.
Seasons come, and seasons go.
The sun rises in the east,
And the sun sets in the west.
The wind blows to the south
And makes its way back to the north
The rivers flow to the seas,
But the seas are never full.
We cut with our teeth,
But our stomachs are never full.
We drink are fill,
But never quench our thirst.
Our eyes search, but never find.
Our ears listen, but never hear.
Everything that is, has already been.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Our fathers are forgotten, and our
Children will not remember our names.
I have seen all things under the sun.
Everything is meaningless:
A chasing after the wind.
3) Armageddon
3:54, lyrics unknown
Place Axe to Root / Indecision (split)
11 April, 2013, Independent, Vinyl (7'', 300 copies) and Bandcamp
9 October, 2017, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
Split with Cousin Sleaze.
For the vinyl, there are 100 black copies, 100 white, and 100 clear.
Also on the vinyl, Slaves BC's song is on Side A.
1) Slaves BC - To My Beloved Bride (Bandcamp version only!)
2:45, lyrics unknown
2) Slaves BC - Place Axe to Root
11 April, 2013, Independent, Vinyl (7'', 300 copies) and Bandcamp
9 October, 2017, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
Split with Cousin Sleaze.
For the vinyl, there are 100 black copies, 100 white, and 100 clear.
Also on the vinyl, Slaves BC's song is on Side A.
1) Slaves BC - To My Beloved Bride (Bandcamp version only!)
2:45, lyrics unknown
2) Slaves BC - Place Axe to Root
3:53, lyrics:
The greatest blasphemy
On the face
Of this earth
Is the church.
We condemn in hatred
Instead of speaking in love.
We point out the speck
In our brother's eye;
Ignoring the plank in our own.
We take money
To build bigger buildings
Instead of feeding the hungry.
There is no Christ
In the pulpit,
But the spirit
Of the antichrist
Shouts down on
Every congregation.
There is no Christ
In the pulpit.
Keep your claws
Out of their heads.
Tie the millstone
Around your neck.
Keep your claws
Out of their heads.
Tie the millstone
Around your neck.
Tear away
The lamb's skin.
Expose the wolf
That hides within.
Tear away
The lamb's skin.
Expose the wolf
That hides within.
(Sample)
"Our God is a consuming fire, there’s holiness about God. If you could go into the presence of God unsaved, He would literally annihilate you. You’d rather be in hell in a heartbeat than to come before a holy God - thrice holy. Holy, holy, holy. Yeah, walk into the presence of God without the blood covering your soul, you'd scream for Hell, you'd beg for Hell, you'd cry for Hell. And yet I firmly believe that Hell burns because of the holiness of God."
(Pastor Charles Lawson)
On the face
Of this earth
Is the church.
We condemn in hatred
Instead of speaking in love.
We point out the speck
In our brother's eye;
Ignoring the plank in our own.
We take money
To build bigger buildings
Instead of feeding the hungry.
There is no Christ
In the pulpit,
But the spirit
Of the antichrist
Shouts down on
Every congregation.
There is no Christ
In the pulpit.
Keep your claws
Out of their heads.
Tie the millstone
Around your neck.
Keep your claws
Out of their heads.
Tie the millstone
Around your neck.
Tear away
The lamb's skin.
Expose the wolf
That hides within.
Tear away
The lamb's skin.
Expose the wolf
That hides within.
(Sample)
"Our God is a consuming fire, there’s holiness about God. If you could go into the presence of God unsaved, He would literally annihilate you. You’d rather be in hell in a heartbeat than to come before a holy God - thrice holy. Holy, holy, holy. Yeah, walk into the presence of God without the blood covering your soul, you'd scream for Hell, you'd beg for Hell, you'd cry for Hell. And yet I firmly believe that Hell burns because of the holiness of God."
(Pastor Charles Lawson)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
5) Slaves BC - Everything Is Meaningless 3:01, see below for lyrics
The Wolf You Feed//Eye of the Storm Single Release (split, 2014, Veritas Vinyl)
Format: Digital
Promotional single for the "Cursed Breath//Innocent Blood" split. Contained one track from each of the bands on the split.
1) Slaves BC - The Wolf You Feed 4:40, see below for lyrics
Cursed Breath // Innocent Blood (split)
4 August, 2014, Veritas Vinyl, Bandcamp
4 August, 2014, Veritas Vinyl, Vinyl (12'', 350 copies)
6 August, 2014, Independent, Bandcamp
8 October, 2017, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
Split with Grace and Thieves.
For the vinyl, there are 30 silver copies, 40 purple, 60 red, 70 white, 70 blue, 70 green, and 10 black test press copies. At the time of writing (April 2020), gray, purple, and black are sold out.
Slaves BC's songs are on Side A.
1) Slaves BC - The Wolf You Feed
4:40, lyrics:
I dread the break of day
the light that burns
through the shadows
that enshroud my shame
better is the darkness
that I may find peace
with my sin.
I pray the moon
hold its place
in the sky
to hold the sun and its light
to shine elsewhere
I wish to hide in a hole
where no light burns
would there was a darkness
that would not retreat
and uncover my deeds.
I long to dwell forever in darkness
to never bring my shame to light
turn Your face from mine
that I may not suffer its light.
Your searing light
that pierces my heart
I curse the dark
for abandoning me
leaving me naked
to face You alone.
Damn Your light. Leave me to my sin.
2) Slaves BC - Through Broken Teeth
1:51, lyrics:
I don't remember the fall.
All is pain.
Weary so weary of such hurt.
Take me away from here.
Press your elixir
Between my torn lips
And broken teeth.
Slip your needle
Through my skin.
Take me away from here.
We were promised rest.
My mouth tasted
of milk and honey.
Don't shake me.
Don't wake me.
We were almost home.
We were almost home.
My eyes opened to tortuous pain
Blood and gravel are all I taste.
We were almost home.
We were almost home.
3) Slaves BC - Two Witnesses
3:47, lyrics:
We are a testament to the Most High
We are two lampstands - two olive trees
Do what you will
We are a testament to the Most High
We stand to testify the glory of I Am
Do what you will
We will pierce your hearts with the words of our lips
We will shut the sky and turn the waters into blood
Fire will consume your heathen flesh
for your lawlessness and rebellion
Your weapons cannot touch us until our God allows it
We will prophesy and witness until our testimony is fulfilled
And on that day, you will celebrate at the sight of our corpses
But the glory will be unto God
He will raise us up from the grave before the world to see
The glory belongs to Him
You will fall
For no one can stand before His might
4) Slaves BC - Hide Us, O'Death
4:33, lyrics:
When will this end?
The one who sits on the throne has stored His wrath
for all time, to release on us now
He has changed the very face of the earth
with earthquakes, hail, blood and fire
He hurled the stars to the earth
and unleashed demons and angels alike
He released the beasts of Apollyon
from their place in the abyss
As we hide in our own filth
We ask, "Where is the beast now?"
We cower in darkness, gnawing at our tongues
tearing our flesh in fear
Rescue us, O Death
from the face of He who sits on the throne
Steal us away from His judgment
We will curse Him to our last breath
He will not have our souls
As one defiant voice, we scream
"Unseat the tyrant from His throne"
Declare war on the kingdom of heaven
The Punks Who Stole Christmas (compilation, 28 November, 2014, Veritas Vinyl)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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Format: Digital / Bandcamp
1) Slaves BC - Suzy Snowflake
2:55, lyrics:
Whee! Look who's comin'!
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow-white gown
Tap, tap, tappin' at your windowpane
To tell you she's in town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Soon you will hear her say
Come out ev'ryone and play with me
I haven't long to stay
If you want to make a snowman
I'll help you make one, one, two, three
If you want to take a sleigh ride
Whee! The ride's on me
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumblin' down
Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow-white gown
Tap, tap, tappin' at your windowpane
To tell you she's in town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Soon you will hear her say
Come out ev'ryone and play with me
I haven't long to stay
If you want to make a snowman
I'll help you make one, one, two, three
If you want to take a sleigh ride
Whee! The ride's on me
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumblin' down
Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
2:55, lyrics:
Whee! Look who's comin'!
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow-white gown
Tap, tap, tappin' at your windowpane
To tell you she's in town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Soon you will hear her say
Come out ev'ryone and play with me
I haven't long to stay
If you want to make a snowman
I'll help you make one, one, two, three
If you want to take a sleigh ride
Whee! The ride's on me
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumblin' down
Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow-white gown
Tap, tap, tappin' at your windowpane
To tell you she's in town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Soon you will hear her say
Come out ev'ryone and play with me
I haven't long to stay
If you want to make a snowman
I'll help you make one, one, two, three
If you want to take a sleigh ride
Whee! The ride's on me
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumblin' down
Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
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The 144,000 (single, 1 February, 2015, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) The 144,000
7:10, lyrics unknown
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Lucifer Bound (single, 5 April, 2015, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) Lucifer Bound
3:19, lyrics unknown
All Is Dust and I Am Nothing (album)
16 February, 2016, Veritas Vinyl, Bandcamp
16 February, 2016, Veritas Vinyl, Vinyl (12'', 355 copies)
15 February, 2016, Independent, Bandcamp
8 October, 2017, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
A concept album about the book of Ecclesiastes.
For the vinyl, there are 100 black, 125 silver/gray, 50 red with black splatters, 30 "Coke bottle", 25 clear with gray/blue/black splatters, and 25 green with white splatters. At the time of writing (April 2020), green and clear are sold out.
1) God Has Turned His Back
3:06, lyrics:
The wicked and the righteous
Walk above the earth for a time,
and the wicked and righteous
Will forever remain in the earth.
You have claimed the role of the righteous
But you speak the words of a fool.
Your words before others are perceived as wise
But your curses in the dark claim will your soul.
Everything you do is for your gain.
The reception of your Sunday morning boasting
Is the only glory that will come of it.
God has turned His back on you.
He has closed His ears to your shouted prayers before men.
Your store houses are not found in heaven
but in your own pride and wickedness.
You reject the blessings of God
For the praise of man.
Your words mean nothing.
Your actions are meaningless.
You've lived for yourself.
This life is but an instant
and you've been living a lie.
Enjoy your Sunday mornings,
Nothing awaits you but the grave of the wicked.
2) Crawling Through Nothing to Nothing
5:38, lyrics:
Death waits at the end of this weathered path
onto which we all crawled screaming and naked from the womb
Between the sun and our bodies, the only change
is time and chance - plague roulettes to rain upon us all
Here we slave ragged for the same ground
showered with the blood of righteous men
Better is sorrow than laughter for the heart
and the day of death than the day of birth
Come now, I said to myself, to find out what has worth
all proved meaningless
And when every concubine was spent, and every drop of wine was poured
Death still hadn't moved
One sweeping view of / the works of my hands
and everything I / had toiled to achieve
The only thing that / stared back at me was
the wind that I had / spent my life chasing
We pass through this life like a shadow
(This too is meaningless)
City of the buried dead
(This too is meaningless)
We sip from wisdom's row
(This too is meaningless)
Woe to us who drink the song of fools
(This too is meaningless)
Wisdom comes chained to sorrow
Knowledge is sewn to grief
Renamed solace / laughter is madness
Bored of bodies / pleasure is empty
Wealth and wisdom / our gains are nothing
For the future / remembers no one
Time by time we crawl and crawl and every man is dead and buried
Crime by crime and song by song our deeds are gone, our lives forgotten
3) Dust
4:04, lyrics:
This life is ash
Dust to dust
breathe in decay
breathe out death
dust to dust
from dust we came.
to dust we return.
everything is meaningless.
meaningless.
dust to dust.
dust.
cursed to toil in dust.
breath in.
this world grinds our bones.
blood. sweat. tears.
leave no trace.
grasp at the air
as it escapes your lungs
dust to dust.
4) All Find Their Way to the Grave
4:49, lyrics:
I have studied the ways of God and Man
Good people die and their murderers go unpunished
Children born hungry when others eat till they die
I saw the tears of the oppressed and no one to comfort them
You plant a seed
Another sows the harvest
You plant a seed
And leave the mother
You grew up without a father and left your sons to do the same
You work all your life but have no one to care for.
A man may work till he dies but another takes without lifting a finger
Life is meaningless.
It's better to be buried under the earth than to toil above the earth.
It's even better for those that were never born
That never felt sweat on their brow
That never felt tears sting their eyes
That never knew the evil that grows under the sun
All who walk and ever walked on this earth are destined to the same fate.
Rich/poor/wise/foolish/righteous/unrighteous
All find their way to the grave.
5) Everything Is Meaningless
3:01, lyrics:
We will never have peace
We will never find joy
We will never find rest
We will never be enough
In this life, I have seen all things under the sun
Everything is meaningless
Like chasing after the wind
In this life, we mean nothing
Ash to ash, dust to dust
Nothing is new under the sun
Everything is meaningless
A chasing after the wind
6) Everything Under the Sun
5:07, lyrics:
Generations come and generations pass
Kingdoms conquer and kingdoms fall
Seasons come and seasons go
The sun rises to the east and the sun sets to the west
The wind blows to the south then makes its way back to the north
The rivers flow to the seas, but the seas are never full
We cut with our teeth, but our stomachs are never full
We drink our fill, but never quench our thirst
Generations come and generations pass
Kingdoms come and kingdoms fall
Our eyes seek but never find
Our ears listen but never hear
We cut with our teeth, but our stomachs are never full
We drink our fill, but never quench our thirst
We will never have joy
We will never have peace
We will never find rest
We will never be enough
In this life I have seen all things under the sun
Everything is meaningless - chasing after the wind
We mean nothing
7) Nothing Remains but Death
3:38, lyrics:
The light of my youth is fading from my eyes.
The sun grows dark as we sink nearer to the ground
My bones are bent.
My hands are twisted
Meat has lost its taste
wine has lost its warmth
I have watched the sun and moon dance across the sky it seems endlessly,
But they have danced before I came and they will continue for a time after I am gone.
My home crumbles around me
Those that I have known wait for me in the ground
Nothing I have done, owned, seen, or learned will add even a day to my life
I have done all there was to do
Nothing remains but death.
I've spent my life chasing at the wind always it slipped through my fingers
I've spent my life chasing at the wind and now I cannot catch even my breath.
8) There Is Nothing for Me Here
4:08, lyrics:
Why did You put me here?
Why was I created?
Why give me life if only to take it back?
There is nothing for me here.
Why would You make me if nothing
I do will bring me rest or peace or joy?
Why would You put me here just to suffer and fade away?
Why must I pour out my blood and spill my tears
Why must I scratch at the dust and grasp at the wind?
How could You be so cruel?
Why did You put me here?
Everything is meaningless
And I am nothing.
9) Why Are We Here?
4:45, lyrics:
Why are we here?
If we walk the earth that covers our forefathers
When we are spending their money and our sons will spend ours.
We are breathing the same air and chasing the same wind as those beneath the ground.
Every step takes us closer to lying next to them in the soil.
Nothing we do changes our fate.
Moth and rust take the work of our hands
And the grave awaits us patiently.
When there is nothing left God remains on the throne
Enjoy what you have.
Eat, drink, love, toil.
Think of God while you are young.
Seek Him out.
Fix your eyes to Heaven.
Run towards those gates.
All has been gained
All has been lost
All has been read
All has been burned
All has been drunk
All has been revealed
All has been buried.
The wind still blows
The sun still sets
God remains on the throne.
Ritual, Volume III (compilation, 30 April, 2016, Death of a Modernist)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
30) Slaves BC - Nothing Remains but Death 3:38, see above for lyrics
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Wither (single)
14 November, 2017, Independent, Bandcamp
14 November, 2017, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
1) Wither
9:19, lyrics unknown
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Lo, and I Am Burning (album)
16 March, 2018, Independent, Bandcamp
16 March, 2018, The Fear and the Void Records, Vinyl (12'', 180 gram, 264 copies)
16 March, 2018, The Fear and the Void Records, Bandcamp
For the vinyl, there are 53 black copies, 75 brown copies, and 136 clear copies with opaque black center and green/blue splatters.
This album was re-released under [Úzkost]. See that page for more info.
1) Lo
3:53, lyrics:
Cleanse my soul
Purify my heart
Leave no trace
Of what is displeasing to you
Leave no trace
Burn it out
Put me to the fire
It seems that there’ll be nothing left
For I am burning
I am burning
You’ve put me on the coals
Pull the impurities out
Will there be nothing left
For I am burning
You put me in the fire
Cleanse my soul
You’ve put me to the fire
And I am burning
Leave no trace
Burn it out
Put me to the fire
It seems that there’ll be nothing left
For I am burning
I am burning
You put me in the fire
Cleanse my soul
You’ve put me to the fire
And I am burning
I am burning
2) We Are All God's Fault
2:46, lyrics:
Every day
I feel more fucked
Than the day before
but Jesus saves.
Every day
We stray
Farther from God’s light.
We are all
God’s fault.
He put us here
If everything
Is from God
Then what of our sin?
He gave us
The choice
Then took the blame
He is the
Only One
That I'm still here for.
Everything is fucked,
But Jesus saves
3) Lightbearer
4:47, lyrics:
Clawing at my mind with greasy black fingers
Breathing brimstone into my lungs
Making a place for hell in my heart
Whispering just what I want to hear
Leading me where I want to go
I make it so easy
The sin is already there
I make it so easy
I was born
With the putridity
In my soul
The lie you tell
Is what I want
Is what I need.
In the darkest
moments of my life
you were there for me.
I cannot tell
Your voice from mine
Because I’m sick.
Born into this world
Ravaged with disease
This curse is mine.
Every day I claim it as my own.
I'm not the one who started this decay but
I daily make it my own.
This curse is mine
Satan is alive, and he’s coming for you.
He comes to steal,
Kill, and destroy
to keep you from God.
You are convinced
That he wants you.
He does. He wants to rape your soul.
A bearer of light,
He brings darkness
To cloud your vision.
You see him
As the god
Of knowledge,
But he is the master of deception.
O, Lucifer
Get behind me
I belong not to you.
Old Serpent,
Place your head
Beneath my heel.
4) Glory
00:45, lyrics:
Is it so wrong to think?
If to be absent the body
Is to be with God,
Can I just take my life?
I want to die.
Hide me beneath your wings.
I want to die.
I’ll fly away.
Oh, glory, I want to die.
5) XLV
4:46, lyrics:
God, it's so hard to see Your plan on days like today.
It's hard to stand for the least of these when the people who claim Your name are the ones against them.
Were you not lost?
Were you not once dead?
Were you not blind?
Were you cursed in sin?
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
Why are the people carrying your name
The ones acting in hatred. Walk in grace.
The healthy do not need to be healed
Forgiveness is not for the blameless
Have you forgotten?
We’re called to love
Have you forgotten?
All have sinned.
We are to clothe the naked.
We are to welcome the outcast.
We are to love the unloved:
To give hope to the hopeless
To those who extend grace
Much grace will be given.
Keep His name out of your mouth.
He is not the God of hatred.
You are not doing His work.
You do not speak for Him,
And on your last day
He will not speak for you.
6) I Looked upon the Face of God and My Body Turned as Ash
4:33, lyrics:
Burn me alive.
Set this vile
Body aflame.
We don't always
get what we deserve
in death.
So burn me alive.
Burn me alive.
Place your heart
Before God.
Find the shit.
Burn it out.
I am constantly crushed
Under the weight of
My own failure.
My existence
Is a blasphemy
Strike me from the record.
Wipe my foot prints
From the earth.
Burn these flapping lips, this hateful tongue,
These blackened lungs,
This poisoned liver,
This clogged heart,
These thieving fingers,
These clenched fists,
Cowardly feet,
And whoring dick.
I am a plague To this world.
Every touch brings misery.
Every breath is a curse.
Let no memory of me remain.
May it be so.
Place your heart
Before God.
Find the shit.
Burn it out.
Reveal Your face that I
May finally be damned.
I will call down my dark
And my cold and be damned.
7) Honor Thy Father and Mother
5:25, lyrics:
There are so many things
I wished the courage to say.
29 years, I have been silent.
29 years, I’ve tried to forgive.
Much of what was done
My mind won’t let me remember.
Much of what was done
I will never forget.
I’ve struggled to come to terms
With the fact that I was abused.
My mind, my body, my soul:
You violated me in every way.
You passed your curse to me.
I am a failure.
I am not a man.
I will never be loved.
I will never find grace.
I will never be better.
I will always be nothing.
I ruined your life.
I should never have been born.
You were to
Teach me to love.
You showed me how
To grow hate in my heart.
You were to
Inspire hope
within me.
Through you,
I came to know despair.
You were to
help me grow strong.
You exploited my
Every weakness.
You were to
Show me the path
To walk in faith.
Every word and action was hypocrisy.
You never wanted to be my father and mother.
I never wanted to be your son.
I will never tell,
But you should already know.
8) When Her Prayers Are Silenced
2:31, lyrics:
My dearest heart:
I don't want to know what it’s like
To live in a world that
Doesn't have you intervening for it.
I don't want to
Live a life
That isn't covered
By your prayers.
My whole life,
You have been
Before your Creator
Speaking on my behalf.
What kind of life will I lead?
What kind of man will I become?
Where would I have been if "life had happened",
Or you were too tired or too angry
To daily get on your knees and cry out for me?
I am the man I am because of you.
All the good in me was from you.
I learned how to live a life of grace and love
Because of who you were.
Who you were.
You taught me how to love my neighbor and love our God.
You pulled me from darkness and bathed me in light.
You were the brightest flame in my life.
Your strength seemed limitless. your joy infectious.
Who can take your place?
What will this world be?
What kind of life will I lead?
What kind of man will I become?
Where would I have been if "life had happened",
Or you were too tired or too angry
To daily get on your knees and cry out for me?
I am the man I am because of you.
All the good in me was from you.
Through you I learned how to live a life of grace and love.
9) Unclean
7:29, lyrics:
I’ve failed you
Every single day.
I daily nail you
To that tree.
When I try to do
What I want to
What I know I should
I don’t.
When I try to do
What I don’t want to
What I shouldn’t
I do.
I claim your name
In the same breath
I curse it.
I beg forgiveness
While plotting my sin.
I carve your words
And face into my arms
While the devil
Is carving out
His place in my heart.
I could say
The devil made me do it,
But I called Lucifer in.
You stand at my door and knock,
But Satan is already here.
Faye looks down
Kneeling at the feet
Of her Savior
Watching the boy she spent
A lifetime praying for
Wallow in his own filth
Watching her hopes undone
Hearing me twist
Her prayers to blasphemy.
You lived on your knees
To give me strength to stand,
But this life is my own.
These choices were mine.
You haven’t failed me.
I’ve failed you both.
This body’s unclean.
This body is weak.
Christian Alliance for Orphans Benefit Compilation (Volume 2) (compilation, 1 May, 2018, Thumper Punk Records + Love Your Enemies Records)
Formats: CD and Bandcamp
Buy the CD + Stream/Download (OFFICIAL)
All sales from this go to the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO). They sponsor joint initiatives that "inspire and equip Christians to live out effectively the Bible’s call to care for orphans and vulnerable children." More info about them can be found [here].
The version of "Least of these" on this compilation is a different mix from the "single" version. Scroll down 2 releases for the other version.
1) Slaves BC - Least of These 3:10
Mihpares (single)
18 February, 2019, Independent, Bandcamp
18 February, 2019, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
The title is "seraphim" backwards.
1) Mihpares
5:19, lyrics unknown
To view the original 4100x4100 res, click [here].
Least of These (single)
26 March, 2019, Independent, Bandcamp
26 March, 2019, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
Least of These (single)
26 March, 2019, Independent, Bandcamp
26 March, 2019, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
1) Least of These
3:33, lyrics unknown
3:33, lyrics unknown
This image has been resized.
To view the original 5760x5760 res, click [here].
300 Dead Rapist Priests Floating at the Bottom of the Ocean (single)
6 May, 2019, Independent, Bandcamp
6 May, 2019, The Fear and the Void Recordings, Bandcamp
Written in response to news that over 300 priests in Pennsylvania (USA) committed child sex crimes.
"The grand jury said it reviewed a half-million pages of internal church documents and 'secret archives' that were readily available to bishops. It found credible allegations by more than 1,000 victims, but it added, 'We believe that the real number ... is in the thousands.' "
1) 300 Dead Rapist Priests Floating at the Bottom of the Ocean
15:27, lyrics unknown
To view the original 2048x2048 res, click [here].
Third Temple (single, 18 March, 2020, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
"With the global pandemic we are now facing, a lot of people are losing their jobs and are really struggling financially. [. . .] For the foreseeable future, any money paid for this track and all other releases by Slaves BC will go to friends in need."
1) Third Temple
4:11, lyrics unknown
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The rest of the lyrics.
IMAGES:
A better version of the third, symmetrical logo.
Miscellaneous stuff:
Left: Alternate logo / sigil
Right: The original artwork for "300 Dead..." had additional punctuation. "300 Dead, Rapist Priests:"
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