First single from my upcoming EP 'Evolution is Optional'.

Inspired by my experiences with the Irish healthcare system, this track is very close to my heart and highlights a lot of my frustrations dealing with this system.

Too many fucking times I've seen people that need genuine help be turned away from getting the care they need. 

Lyrics:

I'm out of excuses yet again
Covered in bruises of my own making
Am I just fucked up in the head
Or is it that I'm playing dead

It seems I cannot break the spell
Feels like I'm locked up down in hell
You don't believe me, that's ok
Maybe I've just got myself to blame

Am I to blame?
Is it my shame?
Am I insane? 

I can never be like you
No matter how much you want me to
I don't wanna feel this way anymore

So diagnose me (x4)

It seems that I am here again
This self destructive dead end
Where hopes and dreams have turned to dust
And I'm someone you cannot trust

Have I brought this upon myself
Or was I too far gone to help
You don't believe me, that's ok
I'll try again another day

Am I to blame?
Is it my shame?
Am I insane? 

I can never be like you
No matter how much I might want to
I don't wanna feel this way anymore

So diagnose me (x4)

Diagnose Me

Re-uploaded because I wasn't happy with the original mix!

Lyrics:

Evolution
Not my Solution
Don't want to fracture the last fragment of my own delusions

Evolution
Is my exclusion
Stuck in my ways I never needed retribution

And I don't need you to tell me
What I am
If I can
If I'm making a plan
Cause I'm not the only one and you're too blind to see
That evolution never really suited me

And I'm tired of explaining to you who I am
All my plans
As if I am
As if you give a damn
But I'm not the only one
And you're a fool to believe
That evolution ever was a part of me

Oh Evolution (is optional) x 4
Is optional to me

Evolution
Not my Solution
Don't want to fracture the last fragment of my own delusions

Evolution
Is my exclusion
Stuck in my ways I never needed persecution

And I don't need you to tell me
What I am
If I can
If I'm making a plan
Cause I'm not the only one and you're too blind to see
That evolution never really suited me

Oh Evolution (is optional) x4

And I don't need you to tell me
What I am
If I can
If I'm making a plan
Cause I'm not the only one and you're too blind to see
That evolution never really suited me

And I'm tired of explaining to you who I am
All my plans
As if I am
As if you give a damn
But I'm not the only one
And you're a fool to believe
That evolution ever was a part of me

Oh Evolution.

Evolution Is Optional

Final Track off my soon to be released EP 'Evolution is Optional'.

Its taken me so long to get this track out. Got burnt out trying to finish it and eventually abandoned it altogether. But fuck it, it might be imperfect, incomplete, or whatever other reasons I tell myself to stop me progressing. So here it is, with all its imperfections, 'No Good'.

Spotify release and full EP release coming very soon! Thanks for checking out my track!

Lyrics:

Honestly
Is there hope for me
Or am I deluded in chasing this broken dream
Cause I'm so afraid
Every single day
That the choices I have made betray a better state of mind for me

And I know
I am not diseased
I'm just not designed for all the things I thought I'd be
And that's OK
I'm better off this way
Realizing everything is different always feels the fucking same
To me

Don't you know
That everything you see is just for show
And there's nothing that I'd rather do than live that perfect lie
But I try
I try so hard
All the time to make it by
But I cant live a life that's full of lies
The simple life 
Is fucking lies to me

I am not diseased
I'm just not designed for all the things I thought I'd be
And that's OK
I'm better off this way
Realizing everything is different always feels the fucking same
To me
X2

No Good

Everything is performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by me. **except for the drums, for which I took from YouTube at https://youtu.be/MiuxZZmolaU**

Got a whole new setup cause my laptop died, so wanted to cover this as a way to get familiar with everything and find my flow again. 

Vocals could be mixed better but like a fucking idiot I forgot to save my session and lost 2 hours of vocal takes/mixing, which I am NOT arsed redoing.

Hope you like it! 



Green Day - 86 - Cover

Originally by 'The Faint' 

All performance (excl. drums) and production done by The Panicked.

Thanks to Naman Sachdev @whackstudio on Fiverr for tracking the drums.

Dropkick the Punks

**Drums not by me, credit to "ken bullet drums" on YouTube, full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJhlFdKYfo **

Finally getting back into recording after a long time off and a move to another country. This is one of my favorites off of American Idiot. Everything was except the drums were recorded, mixed and mastered by me. Hope you enjoy it, I had a lot of fun making this one.

Give me Novacaine (Cover)

Pinhead Gunpowder - Losers Of The Year - Acoustic Cover

I used an isolated drum track by YouTuber OMFGrant for the drums (Link here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koeHha88nbM&feature=emb_title) 

Everything else is me! 

Really enjoyed doing this track, something a bit different! Hope it does the original justice!

The 1975 - People - Full Cover

Now streaming on Spotify! ---> https://open.spotify.com/album/7HQukbfNxYTp4MiBp2YD0W?si=A4VMJKf6QquGMO2errCMmA

Big thanks to Daniel Gallardo ---> fiverr.com/danieljgallardo
 for helping bring my shitty midi drums to life and my fantastically talented girlfriend for illustrating the cover art! (instagram.com/agnesbudka_art)

I've been working on this track on and off for the last few years and I have finally finished it after having all this free time during lockdown!

Writing, recording (except for drums), mixing and mastering were all done by me!!

 Thanks for checking my song out!!

Sick to Death

Decided to challenge myself to cover an entire song from bottom to top using only my own equipment, pretty happy with the result!

Some parts are a bit different to the original because I suck at certain things done in the original, but I gave it my best shot.

Overall it took me 5 days to complete.

**turns out it wasn't by The Network, but my a different band Viva Death.

Viva Death - Sound the Alarm - Full Cover

Now streaming on Spotify!!! https://open.spotify.com/album/1HU7YdW2CECizKxoeUbhLN

Everything is me, recorded the drums using superior drummer. 

Lyrics;

I see the truth behind your eyes
Burning inside, dying bright eyed
Can you decide whats best for life
When all you do is victimize
You cant explain and you cant undo
All of the things you put me through
I must escape this dark embrace
I cannot end up just like you

You try so hard to hide your lies
Take time to explain in your mind
I'm losing all my sense of self
Dragging me all the way to hell

In my mind
All the things you do
Controlling me, Controlling you
But I cannot take
What I am destined to break
If this was a mistake
I owe it all to you

You try so hard to hide your lies
Take time to explain in your mind
I'm losing all my sense of self
Dragging me all the way to hell

You try so hard to hide your lies
Take time to explain in your mind
I'm losing all my sense of self
Dragging me all the way to hell

(We try so hard)
(We try so hard to hide it)

We try so hard
We can't escape whats in our hell

Our Hell

The first song I ever learned on guitar. Tried to do this absolute classic justice.

Hope you enjoy!

The Panicked

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