RATS WHISPER MURDER

Here in the tunnels
On the damp walls
Where the moss grows
and the chains rust
I haven’t seen my face
I haven’t heard my voice
All I feel is sick and cold

If I only knew what drives me
To prostitute myself, time and time again

Rats whisper murder
Cobwebs rip and spoil
Bent on a whim
That isn’t my own

Horned heroes
Give me the excuse I need
To feed my perversions
If only they knew…
If only I knew why…

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DIAMOND SPINE

I live amongst the pulse of the dead,
Deafening now, its throb, its lust
Willing me to power,
Willing me to power
I can live through tragedy
I can live through hate
I can live without kindness
The dead decide my fate
Every heartbeat
A steel-boot stomp
Every smile is vomit
Every smile is vomit.

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RIDING  THE BLADE

Is this what it takes for me to feel?
Exquisite disaster, orgasmic misery
Is this what it takes for me to scream?
To lose a part of me, to find nothing
Your face still so clear
Although fading with time
Memory is finite
The grief feels infinite

Mother, I’ve been riding the blade too long…
I may topple and fall this time.

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AVALANCHE

Downhill…
I am a distant memory
Falling away from myself
Avalanche…
My avalanche…
I tip my hat to the inertia
That speeds me ever down
Leave my thoughts behind
Crushing weight now a part of me
I gather fragments of you as well
I smother you, I hurt you
I make you all part of me.
Massive wave of insanity
My psychotic avalanche
Flesh tsunami
My final goodbye
My avalanche

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BOILING SEAS

In my veins
In my soul
In my lungs
Oceans tear and toil
Skin now sand
Blood becomes tide
Blood becomes tide
Strength of a planet
Fists like mountains
Pounding on the crust
Mouth spewing lava
Blood becomes tide

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PAINTERS ROPE

Under command
To paint the night
To summon the stars
But robbed of sight
Destined to wind this wheel
Tighter and tighter
It flexes like muscle
To lock like a fist

Stretch the Painters Rope
Heave the planets into place
Stretch the Painters Rope
Calculate Space

Controlled mayhem
Bought by my sins
My wasted life
Given meaning by toil

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LUNGS

Hands soiled with ash
I drift toward the roiling ocean
Whether my legs take me
Or some unknown instinct
I prepare to drink
To swallow the foaming filth
I let my lungs fill
To rid me of these cunts and slugs

The cold holds me tenderly
No thought given to struggle
Accept my fate without a fight
Azure sky turns to grey

Hands dig into sand
On my knees I watch the brine
Ready to take me

Hungry for my breath
My gods hold me buoyant
I dip and flow with the tide
Finally released, finally free
Finally me. Finally me.

The highly anticipated, long awaited and demonstrably classic album from Hateful Abandon has been completed. Recording finished Sunday 7 September. Two tracks are now available to hear on the Hateful Abandon Myspace Page.

Official Update:

Well, it’s finished. The final tracklist for “Famine (or Into the Bellies of Worms)” is as follows -

1. Rats Whisper Murder
2. Diamond Spine
3. Riding the Blade
4. Avalanche
5. Boiling Seas
6. Painters Rope
7. Lungs

Keep an eye out for release details in he coming weaks (sic).

Meanwhile, there are two new tracks for you to mull over.  The punk goth “Painters Rope” and epic lounge hit “Avalanche” will ensure that your summer dies the death that it’s so obviously been begging for.

May your shiver harvest be ever fruitful, until next time my demented friends…

V/M

Feast on!

Hateful Abandon expands its online presence with a new page here.

At this time you will find the two tracks that have been available on the official site for a while. Below these you will find two unreleased tracks from 2005. We did post these as mp3s a few years ago and after a thorough search through the old files found these and some old photos. Devil Meat and Rotten Harvest have been remembered by many that heard them originally, enjoy once again!

A recording date has been set with the real intention of completing the highly anticipated and long delayed debut album. More news soon.

Hateful Abandon have an official web presence:
http://hatefulabandon.todestrieb.co.uk

The HATEFUL ABANDON album is unlikely to be released as previously announced. A completely new recording is now being considered. More news when known.

The BASILISK side of the split with URFAUST will be released on CD by a new American label later this year, “One Wish to Snuff the Candle” is an amazing final recording (although already around a year old) for BASILISK.
Todestrieb will be releasing the demo compilation with “Blackened Royalty” and “Vintyrhell” with unreleased bonus tracks.