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Formed: 1997
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As simply as the words slip off the lips of an imperative rock critic, their force can send shivers of dread down the spine of any aspiring musician, circulate waves of disapproval amongst listeners, and ultimately set the tone for a band’s future as they know it. It’s called the “Sophomore Slump,” and in the uncertain world of the music industry, it can become the definitive moment in a band’s career; A moment that can either unravel to an untimely demise for a group, or if conquered, prove not only a maturity or growth in their sound, but a promise for success to come.
Dead Poetic has assertively opted for the latter. As the quintet prepares for the follow-up release to their debut album, “Four Wall Blackmail,” with their astoundingly more mature work entitled, “New Medicines,” the band has no chance of being caught in the depths of any slump at all. Instead, their straightforward hard rock stylings are sure to encompass listeners with their energy and colossal sound, and leave any doubts of sophomore success in their past.
“I think that ‘New Medicines’ is the type of album that we wanted to create for our first album, but we weren’t there musically yet,” explains guitarist, Zach Miles. Lead vocalist Brandon Rike expands, “I also think it’s an example of a band with a lot of potential, still trying to find their niche. This record completely blows the other record away, in our opinion. This record shows a confident band that has found their niche.”
Not that their previous effort need be discredited. Released in June 2002, “Four Wall Blackmail,” recorded by the band just out of high school, has garnered not only an instant fan base, but critical acclaim for their single “August Winterman,” which received MTV2 attention with the release of its video. And with that success grew touring opportunities with some of their most prominent influences like Zao, Stavesacre and Project 86.
Still, with “New Medicines,” starts a fresh beginning. With their foundation built strongly from their previous achievements, Dead Poetic has ventured to evolve as well. Adding an additional member, guitarist Todd Osborn has not only pushed them creatively, but improved the depth of their sound as well. The band previously being penned in the hardcore genre is now breaking free with a true defining of their sound: full-blown, guitar-driven rock masterpieces.
“We’ve never felt comfortable anywhere in the ‘hardcore’ genre,” Rike says. “It was more of a genre people threw us into based on our record label and the shows we played. We’re all lovers of good, heavy rock-n-roll. We grew up on Nirvana, Helmet and Green Day. We have no desire to be labeled anything other than hard rock-n-roll.”
But one label they should be ready to take is that of a promising, up and coming band with a new found confidence and determination for their future. Effortlessly leaping over any hurdle so many bands falter on in their second release, Dead Poetic is proving that in searching for the prescription for the Sophomore Slump, “New Medicines” is the cure so many bands look for, but aren’t lucky enough to find.
-Amanda MacKinnon
(Tooth and Nail Records)
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New Medicines
"Taste The Red Hands"
Let it burn in your eyes. Your cover is blown
this time.
And you knew this was gonna happen, you could
taste the red hands.
And like the flies, you'll eat the worst
of everything.
And you knew this was gonna happen, you could
taste the red hands.
But you needed this.
There's a glossary of dirty words for
people just like you.
And only for people like you, I reserve the
words:
Backstabbers and money whores, and dirty
rotten millionaires
that always wanted more.
Pull the wool on my eyes, like a crooked,
burnt-out saint.
I believed and soaked in every word you said,
always tasting red hands.
But the fight never ended and we're all
here.
Singing loud for revolution, and sitting
battles out.
But you needed this.
There's a glossary of dirty words for
people just like you.
And only for people like you, I reserve the
words:
Backstabbers and money whores, and dirty
rotten millionaires
that always wanted more.
And it's sick outside, but I'm trying
to keep you alive.
And all fingers are pointing right at you.
But I burned this down for you.
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"The Dreamclub Murders"
So after all, you needed more than a
death-threat fall.
You needed more, and I let you fall.
Into the coffin with your floor-dropped jaw.
And I remember you aspiration, your dream to
fit in.
But it's gone, and they're here.
So let's kill these felons now.
But I remember you, you'll go, you'll
find a way back home.
But I remember you, when you stand there,
You stand with your eyes closed.
And I feel, tonight, that I let you die.
But you could have lived forever, it took
smiles to keep you alive.
But heroes die, and so did mine.
But you go, and I stay, will it keep you at
peace now.
But I remember you, you'll go, you'll
find a way back home.
But I remember you, when you stand there,
You stand with your eyes closed.
And I'll dig you out, and I'll sit you
up.
For the fools to find you, the fools breathe
into you.
So sleep child no one can touch you now.
No one can hurt you now. Not here.
Anymore.
| hellz_hunny | "New Medicines"
These are the words that tear you apart.
And these are the words that take you away.
And these are just words they'll tear you
apart.
When no one here will say what needs to say.
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it.
It's this air and time that's bringing
me home again.
A lame attempt at playing the part again
now.
In a place you don't know.
And this stance as sturdy as leaves in a
storm.
The premise and motive fueling blank faces.
The fool in a place you don't know.
In this place, you don't
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over
again.
These are the words that tore me apart.
And these are the words that'll take me
away.
I'm not in the business of faking to
please vain opposers.
A dead legion of new, cloned followers.
You're cornered in a place you don't
know.
In this world, you don't.
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over
again.
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"Vanus Empty"
It's a deep, red wound. Enough to stare.
It's a beautiful rose and everyone's
aware
You squeeze it tight enough to bleed.
But suicide is something we'd rather not
mention here.
In our beautiful world of saving face.
So Vanity's got this new gun that she
wants to try on you.
And as we stand here waiting for the sound..
Get me out of this hell before I'm sucked
in.
But you're the beautiful one.
And everyone is painted on, singing scripted
songs.
And your seizure-like finger is dead on the
trigger.
And then, it's all blown away. With you or
us all.
And they had you in their targets.
They're smiling with you in their
targets.
So Vanity's got this new gun that she
wants to try on you.
And as we stand here waiting for the sound..
So Vanity's got this new gun that she
wants to try on you.
And no one says a word from there on out.
But I knew she was beautiful, you're the
ones with the flaws.
Oh I knew she was beautiful she should of had
this all.
You're killing your heroes, you're
killing them one by one.
But I knew she was beautiful, something
here's got to die.
So Vanity's got this new gun that she
wants to try on you.
And as we stand here waiting for the sound..
So Vanity's got this new gun that she
wants to try on you.
And no one says a word from there on
out.
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"Bury The Difference"
Bury all the differences between us. When I
still can't find the air,
You keep the toxins flowing for me,
And I'll bury all the differences between
us.
And I still can't help but care for moving
mountains,
But your, your head's held high again.
You will find me out. You will find
everything.
We all, we just battle ourselves. We just
battle ourselves again.
Bury all the differences between us, that
same mechanic sound.
That keeps on ringing for days and days.
And you're standing like a clueless titan
falls.
And everything around falls right down on
you.
With your head held high again.
You will find me out. You will find
everything.
We all, we just battle ourselves. We just
battle ourselves again.
And there's a storm cloud waiting over,
On the land that's sinking at the,
At the bottom of these buildings again.
With your head held high again.
You will find me out. You will find
everything.
We all, we just battle ourselves. We just
battle ourselves again.
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"Molotov"
With my back to the wall you've somehow
pinned me up against.
Fingernails in the palms of these tightly
clenched fists.
And I'm somewhere in between a held tongue
and a curse.
Or I could keep it inside, and hide it.
In hopes my avoidance will cure it.
But there's no time for this.
Or I could keep it inside, and hide it.
In hopes my avoidance will cure it.
But there's no time for this again.
So light it up and let it fly away.
A Molotov Cocktail, my dreams symbolized in
flames.
Put your back to them all, I swear they're
not getting you there.
A blueprint for the outside, when it's
cold out there.
It's not clear, but I refuse to breathe
from these machines again.
You all depend on the filters that keep you
away
From the pain when you cry, and the praises
you sang.
It's not real so I refuse to breathe from
these machines again.
So light it up and let it fly away.
A Molotov Cocktail, my dreams symbolized in
flames.
And I won't ask a lot from you, I just
pray that the masks will come unglued.
And we're not yours, we'll be with you
soon.
I hope we can be with you soon.
So light it up and let it fly away.
A Molotov Cocktail, my dreams symbolized in
flames.
And I won't ask a lot from you, I just
pray that the masks will come unglued.
And we're not yours, we'll be with you
soon.
And this routine feels like a knife, entering
my back then down my spine.
I've withstood the sting for long enough,
and I'm prepared to discard it.
So light it up and let it go away. So light
it up and let it fly away.
Fly away.
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"Glass In The Trees"
I don't want to come back here, to this
place.
It's a cold that only comes from blaming
yourself for two decades wasted.
And I don't want to come back here, to
this place.
When it all just repeats in my head again,
and I cannot stop it.
And the glass in the trees, and all you left
here,
Reflects everything that I missed.
And the pavement is still warm from the
tires.
I can still feel the fright that the night
brings.
Every song that you'd sing.
And I won't ever come back here to this
place.
All I ever do is picture you smiling, and
then picture you leaving.
And the glass in the trees, and all you left
here,
Reflects everything that I missed.
Slow down.
I'll try and make it up to you.
They've cut down the trees to try to
forget you.
But I took a vow to never forget you.
If you're still here, then we're
waiting.
We'll wait for you to come back home to
the broken little foes.
Until the guilt grows and grows.
When the time that's wasted comes back to
haunt me.
And I'll deserve every bit. because I'm
not spiritual yet.
I'm just reading the lines they gave me
from the pulpit.
And it's not fading off, we remember the
years.
As we sift through the laughter to find all
the tears.
And I'm not worthy of grievance, I did
nothing to prevent this.
And standing at your grave, I could have
caused this.
| hellz_hunny |
"Dimmer Light"
There's a dimmer light in this room
tonight.
And you'll be the last one to know when
it's off.
So with this dimmer light in my room tonight,
I wonder if we're gonna make it at all.
And there's a brighter sky to this
dreadful night.
And you and me are the first to watch it
fade.
So with this brighter sky from my room
tonight,
I feel, down here, a little more betrayed.
How do I get back to where I was, when you
were smiling.
You were smiling.
You were smiling baby.
Now there's a tempt to die under this
heartless sky.
We'll bid farewell without an ear to hear
me,
A tempt to die, and not put up a fight.
Cause no one ever wanted to end this early.
How do I get back to where I was, when you
were smiling.
You were smiling.
You were smiling baby.
So there's that bright light, the one that
leaded me here.
The one that's screaming to be noticed.
The one responsible for all of this.
So I'll take this other road, after I get
up from my knees.
Because I'm sick of being lied to.
And I'm afraid of where the other one
leads.
You were smiling baby.
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"Hostages"
Ten frozen memories lost into your pool of
interrupted thought.
I could have reminisced for hours.
But right now you are all I get to remember.
I'm waiting for something to get through
to you.
I'm waiting to see a truer side of you,
and we're...
Let's make this quick. I'll bother you,
you'll tear it away.
Cut broken enemies off, into your pit of
non-valuable losses.
Could have stayed and dreamt for days,
But the sight must be far worse than the
taste.
And I'm waiting for something to get
through to you.
And I'm waiting to burn compassion into
you. and we're..
We don't even know if we're to blame
for all of this,
We don't even know if we're in the
clear, the clear.
We don't even know if we should bank on
any of this
And we don't even know if we'll go,
So let's make this quick. I'll bother
you, you'll tear it away.
This isn't happening, leave me with
myself.
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Modern Morbid Prophecies"
Do we have the time to lay the line between
true life, and you in mine.
I want to reel it back before the day when
simplicity was washed away.
Like modern morbid prophecies fulfilled.
Like biting on these bitter tasting pills.
And we're just heroes, And we're just
heroes.
For the day.
There's a silent urge to leave this cloud
when all I want is to hear the sound,
Of your voice devoid of the constant noise,
the only sound to fill this void.
And do you want this. And do you still need
this.
Like modern morbid prophecies fulfilled.
Like biting on these bitter tasting pills.
And we're just heroes, And we're just
heroes.
They all won't love me, she won't let
me forget.
Like modern morbid prophecies fulfilled.
Like biting on these bitter tasting pills.
And we're just heroes, And we're just
heroes.
Don't make me choose, I'll choose you
and this will all be over.
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Other Songs:
"Take This Breath"
Take this breath for me because
I cannot bear to do it alone
Pray this prayer for me because
I have no strength to go on
You wont understand me
And I wont I understand completely
You don't know what its like
To die inside so completely
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
Battered bruised and unclothed in self pity
But I cannot change this city
Downtrodden upon like an insect infect
I know so much I haven't realized yet
[x2]
I can't go on no I've tried and tried
take this breath God dry my eyes [x4]
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
I can't go on no I've tried and tried
take this breath God dry my eyes [x4]
So I can't go on lord I told you I
couldn't
But you love me, you bless me
Standing here I've died inside
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
Take this breath for me (Take this breath for
me)
Take this breath for me (and hold me close
and hold me close)
Call it what you will but you lie and I've
died
Call it what you need because you want my
life
Call it what you will but you lie and I've
died
Call it what you need what you want is in
front of you
Call it what you will call it what you need
It's you.
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