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Batboner

by Batboner

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1.
TRIPPING SPACE COUNTLESS TIMES
 THROUGH VOIDS THAT FIX YOUR WORTHLESS GRIMES 
SANDING DOWN RIGHT THROUGH YOUR LIVES 
MASSING MINDS INTO THE HIVE LOVE IS PAID AND NEVER REAL
 ONLY PRIVILEGED KISS THE SEAL
 CUT YOUR LIFELINE BLISS CHARADE 
PUT YOUR MISERY ON PARADE BREATH IN SULFUR KNOW IT’S FINE
 THE EYES THAT SEE NO LONGER MINE SLIDING ON THE WAVES OF WOE
 DARKNESS MASSING MINDLESS SHOW
N ON DESCRIPTIVE VISION BLEAK
 PULLING WASTE TO THAT YOU SEEK SOUNDS OF SIRENS BREACH YOUR SKIN 
ROLL YOUR SKULL FROM DEEP WITHIN 
REACH OUT FAR AND HOPE YOU’RE GOOD 
LIFE IS GONE MISUNDERSTOOD BLESS THE HEAD STUCK DOWN THE WELL 
IN POSSESSION IT RINGS THE BELL
 THE EYES SEES ALL, THE NONE AND ME
 WITH SHATTERED PARTS OF MEMORY YOUR THOUGHTS POSSESSING THAT SHALL PASS
 EMBRACE THE ABYSS AND FOLLOW MASS
2.
Ikon 04:51
TAPPING INTO REALMS AROUND US 
WHERE EVERYONE'S TOO BLIND TO SEE
 THE BURNING STAKES THAT'S STUCK INSIDE US DEEP IN SELFLESS MISERY
 THIS WRETCHED WORLD SO FAR APART
 ALL WE WISHED FOR IT TO BE
 TURNED YOUR BACKS SO BLIND AGAINST IT IGNORING WISHES TO BE FREE HOW’S YOUR DEPRESSION?
 LIKE IT'S TIME TO BE
 GONE FROM ALL AND LOST OF NOTHING WRITING YOUR SERENITY OBSESSED BY EVERYTHING WE WANTED IT TO BE THE CHRONIC WAYS OF DESPERATION
 THAT WE'RE NEVER MEANT TO SEE ENDLESS MINDS AND CHOICES SPENT FOR A WORLD THAT'S NEVER MEANT TO BE DROWNED IN SOLITARY COMFORTS 
YOUR HEART IS BENT AND LOST TO ME LOST IN LUXURY OF CHOICES
 SPOILED BEYOND YOUR SILLY DREAMS STUCK IN NOISE FROM ENDLESS VOICES NO ONE THERE TO HEAR YOUR SCREAMS AS WE’RE ALL DEPRESSED 
DEATH BECOMES OUR SLEEPING REST WE WISH FOR DAYLIGHT LOST
 CAUSE’ LIFE IS JUST A JEST WHEN YOUR LIFE GOES DOWN THE WISHING WELL AND YOUR FIND YOURSELF WITHIN THIS HELL
 TO THE BLISSFUL SHADE THAT'S LOST TO ME
3.
Boogie Bat 04:20
LOST TO ATONE
 SLIGHTLY DEAD WITH LIFE IN TOW
 THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO SHOW 
VAPOURS FROM THE DEAD BELOW
 AND NOWHERE ELSE TO GO
 CAUSE WE'RE STUCK LIKE A WHEEL IN SNOW WHEN THE LAUGHTER STARTS TO GLOW
 AND THE SILENCE LEFT OUR HEADS TO BLOW AND WE DANCE LIKE BATS THROUGH THE NIGHT INTO WHAT IS LEFT OF TRUE DELIGHT
 THE SOUND RISE, AND GIVES INTO FRIGHT 
THEN HOLLOW LIVES SHINES BLACK AND BRIGHT VOICES GONE TO SLEEP
 WITH THE SERPENTS LEFT TO WEEP AND SHINING FROM THE DEEP THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO REAP TAKE A FAITHFUL LEAP 
INTO THE COIL OF MISBELIEF
 AND WHERE THE SUNLIGHT SEEP LIFE BECOMES SO CURIOUS TO KEEP
4.
Chrysalis 04:35
DARKNESS PIERCE RIGHT THROUGH THE VEIL AS DAYLIGHT TURNS AWAY SHIVERING MISTS COMES DANCING IN, SEDUCING ME TO STAY MIDNIGHT SNOW ENCHANTS MY LIFE AND LURES IT FAR AWAY
FADING OUT TO WONDERLAND, WHERE I’LL SEE YOU BRIGHT AS DAY AS THE CANDY SHOP’S BURNT TO THE GROUND AND DECAYING FAIRIES PAVE THE WAY I’M SINGING TO THE SOUND THAT TAKES ME FAR AWAY 
I CLOSE MY EYE, AND FACES CHANGE LIKE NIGHT TO DAY FALLING SNOW REFLECTS A LIFE, THAT’S FALLING FAR FROM GRACE THE TREMORS FROM THE INSIDES BEATS TO FADING PACE I STARE INTO ABYSS, IT REFLECTS ON WHO WE ARE 
I WAVE AND SMILE, IT WAVES BACK TOO THEN REACH OUT FROM AFAR IT DRAGS ME OFF TO EVERYTHING, WHERE I’M SUPPOSED TO BE THROUGH THE GATE OF FROZEN MIST WHICH ONLY DEATH CAN SEE I LAY IN WAIT ENTWINED BY STARS, FOR YOU TO CALL MY NAME
THE PATHWAY THAT WE’RE CROSSING THROUGH, WILL NEVER BE THE SAME THE SCARS ENGRAVED FROM JOURNEYS PAST CREATED WHO WE ARE AND EVEN FROM THE LASTING VOID WE’LL NEVER BE AFAR EMBRACED BY COUNTLESS CRYSTALS, I WANDER FAR AWAY 
I STARE OUT TO THE ENDLESS SPACE WHERE GLIMMERS PAINT THE WAY AS I’M FADING OUT TO WONDERLAND WHERE I’LL SEE YOU BRIGHT AS DAY SLEEPWALK THROUGH THE MISTY GATES WHERE SUNLIGHT NEVER STAY
5.
Circles 03:35
FEELING NUMB, AND PULLING THROUGH THE DAYS OF PAIN THIS TURNED OUT TO PROLONGING DEATH, WE FEEL CONTENT THROUGH OUR LIVES, OUR MIND ABSENT JOYS EXISTING NEXT TO NONE SHINING THROUGH TILL WE ARE DONE AN ENDLESS MARCH UNJUSTIFIED 
IN THE END WE’RE CRUCIFIED... AGAIN WE CAN’T FORFEIT
 WE PAID THE COST WE FEEL CONTENT OUR DREAMS ARE LOST PROMISES AND BROKEN SHARDS 
OUR HANDS ARE FULL OF FOOLISH CARDS AT THE NIGHT’S END A LIGHT APPEARS THAT GRANTS RELIEF FROM ALL OUR FEARS REPLAY THROUGH, THE DAYS OF PAST WITH THIS, OUR SUNRISE, IS OUR LAST
 WE SINK OUR HEADS IN MYSTERY
 AND EAT THE SEEDS OF MISERY...AGAIN! THE LIGHTS ARE STILL DEEP 
IN THE FADE ALL IN SIGHT FOR US TO TAKE TO CHANGE REALITIES WE MADE 
FROM THE WAYS THAT MADE US WEEP AND THIS PAIN WE CAN NOT REAP
6.
Lala Land 03:50
AS WE LEAVE THEM BE TO THE BITTER END WE STOP TO CARE, STOP TO PRETEND 
LET'S CLOSE OUR EYES TO THIS WORLD FORLORN AND SING OUT TO THIS PLACE IN SCORN THEN FROM THE DEBTS THE LIGHTS WILL GLOW AND ASHES RAIN LIKE SUMMER SNOW WE LAUGH AND SING UNTIL WE DISAPPEAR THEN SAY GOODBYE TO THE NOTHING HERE THERE ́S NOTHING HERE.. WALKING THROUGH THE NOTHINGNESS WITH CONTENT MINDS, CARING LESS INTO THE VOID WE FALL APART 
WHILE WAITING FOR THE NEW TO START OPEN UP YOUR EYES, TO THE MOURNING SKIES AND SEE YOURSELF WHERE YOU LIE
 WAKE UP TO THIS WORLD, IN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WHERE YOU LEFT YOURSELF BEHIND
7.
Dysphoria 02:04
LOST WITHOUT A DATE, YOU'RE BROKE, ALONE, YOU MASTURBATE
YOUR KITTY CAT'S IGNORING YOU AND TIME IS GROWING LATE GET YOUR FROCK ON ENJOY YOUR SORROW CEASE THE HOPEFUL UNTIL THE MORROW GENITALS CONFUSING AND SEX IS SO PROFOUND IMAGINATION’S GENDERLESS, THOUGH EQUALITY'S NOT FOUND YOU’RE STUCK IN ALL THE NOISE OF YOUR WORLD IN SOLITUDE AND JUMPING ON THE LIFE TRAIN IS SCREWING WITH YOUR MOOD
8.
EACH DROP OF CRYSTAL FLESH FALLING ON THE GROUND FADING TO THE PAVEMENT EYES BEHIND US ALL IN THE NIGHTTIME. SHUTTER FLASHES, GLASS IN SPLIT SECONDS DEPICTING THOSE THAT NEVER WERE HERE AT ALL THE HEAVY SMELL FROM THE TOMB SING SONGS JUST FOR ME RELEASING FUMES FROM TALES BEYOND THE RUSTY NAILS THE DRUG-STAINED VEIL INDULGED IN FLESH AND DEBAUCHERY NO WHITE KNIGHT PAST THIS POINT OF BAT-BLACK WELL OF SINSWEET AND DELIGHT THE KEY STUNG ROUND MY NECK YOUR PAYMENT IN CHECK BLOOD LUSTS, THEN COMBUSTS TO TREASURES LONG FORGOTTEN THE ANCIENTS RISE AGAIN TO REVEAL THE PAIN OF X 69 CENTURIES SHADING AGAIN OVER THE ETERNAL NIGHT SHARDS OF A STAINFUL SPINE PIERCE THROUGH US THIS EVENING, DRESSED IN GREEN VEIL
 OPENING UP FOR A FUTURE FOR THE PAST ROTTED OUT OF REALITY STAIRWAYS CROSSING AT POINT BLANK
9.
COME DOWN FROM THAT WALL I SEE WHERE YOU’RE GAZING FROM
 STEP DOWN FROM THE BRICKS FORMING FROM YOUR SIDE TO SIDE
 THE EYE, SO BRIGHT SHINES THE FUTURE FROM BELOW IN MIND, IN SIGHT HERE’S YOUR TICKET TO BESTOW JUMP TO THE MOON IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 SHACKLES OF ANGST FADING TO DELIGHT 
FAIRIES SOARING, LOST IN SIGHT 
CREEPING UP FROM THE CRACKS UP IN SMOKE TONIGHT SUSPEND YOUR MIND INTO NEW HEIGHTS LICK THE EYEBALL UNDER CRIMSON LIGHTS BAGGED AND TAGGED, STRAP YOURSELF IN OFF TO A JOURNEY FROM WITHIN LIKE CRYSTALS SPLITTING THROUGH CATCH THE TRAIN TILL TOMORROW
 NO MIND LEFT TONIGHT REMNANTS ALL OF SORROW

about

Recorded at Øveriet, Oslo, between November 2017 and April 2019.

After more or less 10 years as a band, Batboner releases its debut album. The band has released several EPs and singles on their own during the many incarnations of the band, but this is the first album. It features songs written in the beginning as well as songs written right up to the recording of the album, and showcases the entire spectrum of the band. From surf, to goth to punk and with a slightly progressive twist, but always with deathrock as the main building block. This is why the record is self titled. It IS Batboner. On Batboner the songs have been produced to be their best self. Entities on their own, yet they form a cohesive whole. This is a new sound for deathrock.

The lyric material comes from a place of catharsis, dream fragments, painful memories and situations from a personal aspect. Which in return are shaped from a wall of ramblings into lyrical format, cutting it down it to the core. They are not necessarily telling a story, but rather a state of mind which contrasts the visually playful and colorful aspect of the band.

credits

released July 31, 2020

All music performed by Batboner.
Engineered, produced and mixed by YodAmygdala at eSOUNDteric (esoundteric.com)
Mastered by Pavel Cajthaml (Das Funus)
Cover art by Madelén Foss Illustration (instagram.com/madelen.foss)
Live photographs by Hans Kvernsjøli (instagram.com/kvernsjolihans).
Band photographs by Anja Regine Oddmarsdatter Schönhaug (instagram.com/anjalogue).
All songs written by Floyd and Yod Amygdala, except 3 written by Dr. Love, Floyd and Yod Amygdala.
Lyrics by Floyd.
Additional background vocals on 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 by Yod Amygdala.

Released by Danse Macabre Records

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Batboner Oslo, Norway

Batboner is:

Floyd
Dr. Love
Yod Amygdala
Zonetripper


Former members:
Yap Papaya
Isi
Daniel Bakken
Stian Wold
Thomas Svendsen
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