New Englands Extreme Metal Crew ESCUELA GRIND veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2024 ihre neue EP mit dem Titel „DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL“, wobei ein Track auch mit der Mitarbeit von Napalm Death Growler Barney geadelt wird. Damit komplettieren ESCUELA GRIND ihre Trilogie, zu der auch die beiden 2020 veröffentlichten „PPOOWWEERRVVIIOOLLEENNCCEE“ und „GGRRIINNDDCCOORREE“ EPs gehören.
Mit der Ankündigung, lässt die Band auch ihr Livemittschnitt-Video zum Track `Ball and Chain` von der Leine, der eindrucksvoll die brutale Marschrichtung demonstriert.
Frontröhre Katerina Economou erzählt:
„Finishing this trilogy has been years in the works. We are so excited to release these songs as they are perhaps the best reflection of our live performance. The stage has honed these hectic songs to perfection. Originally we were going to have three songs on this EP, but we wanted to create another track that had a huge buildup. This eventually developed into this brutal song, „Ball and Chain“, that marks the point in our live shows where we have a wall of death every night. Lyrically, it references death metal tropes of murder and revenge, but with a decidedly feminine angle.“
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Lyrics:
Your prisoner, Blinded by faith
Insecure and naive, Until you
Gutted me out
Thought that you could play with me
Savor all the pain, My ball and chain…
Bring me life
Resuscitate
Your deceit breeds a torture
Snuffed my light
Yet ignite anew
Illicit pleasure
Kill you, Maim you, Bleed you
Sawing down lengthwise
Through bone and cries
Endure the severance
To please my suffering
Peeling back your eyes
For one last chance recognize
Biting ankle tines
That intertwine
Snapping the tendon
To free me from aching
You, your throne of lies
Will seal your fate for tonight
Blood’s not enough
Five liters
Cannot represent the pain of
Truth, what it holds
Self-control
Kill you, Maim you, Bleed you
Ball and Chain
Kill you, Maim you, Bleed you
Don’t waste the suffering
Puncturing, Smothering, Guzzling
Drink from your injury
Drown in me, Sputtering misery
Taste your hypocrisy
Make you bleed, Genital mockery
Don’t waste the suffering
Savor all the pain
My ball and chain