Astralnaut's 3rd studio endeavor, Thieve's, Beggars and Swine, released 14th of May 2014 was written enitrely by Astralnaut.
Recorded by Alan Hanlon (Hi-Tone Studios), Clark Phillips and the various able bodied members of the band.
Mixed and mastered by Astralnaut and Clark Phillips )Great Northern Productions) between the months of February and May this year. 2014.

Astralnaut are an independednt and self-published collective of hallions with love for all things heavy and groovy. All support given to the band comes greatly welcomed and appreciated. Keep 'er lit! 

1. Ego Eccentric
2. Mac Tire
3. Neopium
4. Utopian Dawn
5.Dethroned

Astralnaut would like to thank everyone who has supported us. Special thanks to Alan Hanlon, Clark Phillips, W. Ralph Walters, Joe Balmer, Lemmy Crossan, Matt Casciani, Frank Arthurs, our families, friends and Nobelaner beer, for their cheap amber refreshment!

Ego Eccentric
Paranoid by my mounting despair
My blues they will fade but your reputation cannot be repaired
Its on my neck the noose it tightens
Views of the past hide truth, try to distort, only enlighten

Placed my trust not that’s decayed 
Betrayal holds a message wash my blues away
I feel the stab in the back it rips in to my soul 
For far too long now, benefit of doubt has taken its toll

Repent then deny, consumed by the lie
With the egos of fools they will never rule my mind again
Scathe then defend, don’t mean to offend
With the egos of fools I will never wasted my time again

Along with truth and honesty
The thin line between
Your image and thought
So easily bought
What you long most
See slipping then lost
Delusion or fact
Which is it I lack?
Don’t misquote
Don’t emote
Don’t provoke
Don’t slit my throat
To protect and serve to destroy then deserve
Pervert to preserve and create
To have sealed your own fate
For identity and trait
All you breed is fear and hate

You’ve not long now
Mac Tíre
For years I roamed 
A son of the land
and not in fear
but admiration of the man 
wild and free
our methods held acclaim
the hunter never knowing
to late as extinction came

Saw the woods
victim of the past
hunted to the end
persecuted to the last

then through the trees
came the flames
now alone left 
without a name
and in my home
now I’m hunted
demonised by mistruths and lies
my family, my home, devastated, devastated!

I stalk the land
feared and hated by this new clan
consuming the dead
death stalking fear ends with bloodshed 
and when you know the face of human kind
you’ll know it’s not the first time

I stalk the land
feared and hated by this new clan
consuming the dead
those thoughts and fears dwelled in your head
and when you know the face of human kind
you’ll know it’s not the last time

Neopium
Baptise the vapid and the blind
Feed sensationalism with extra flesh to deify
With this new faith blindly live your life
a new schedule of smoke screens to gratify 

Martyr the innocence the deviant
perpetual witch hunt to tantalise
the next false prophet to worship and idealize
and knowing not that the next dose it ties you down
it takes a hold and before long you have found
that it  feels like home

Time waits 
for no man
dislocate / indoctrinate
the box rules / your mind rules
paradigm 
your will is not thine

The new opium
flows in your veins
occupies your hours
occupies your thoughts your brain yeah

Ooh child
Your delight
Will feel mundane
tonight
Oooh child

oh yeah
acceptance of a lesser art
Oh yeah
words for the sake of it
oh yeah
these thoughts so asinine
brings the domination of human kind

I can’t see
wood for trees
this can’t be
the true disease 

it  feels like home
screaming human drone!
And it feel like, monkey see, monkey do
your a human clone!

Utopian dawn
Dark mist have been found
The same arch leads to hallowed ground
the awakening the likes which will astound
the new blood made of elements and sound

Cast elevated and reborn
Deception is an art form
to be torn apart but reform
and to reap what has been sown
A new day
A new dawn,
a man of god once told me
to the same way we’ve sworn

Displaced my mind on a higher plane 
the earth unknown
Now the sky, the stars, they melt and breakaway
Earth roam

I found my way to the island
Once the earth I had roamed
and from the air, 
arc of the sphere, now faraway!

There are many lost tribes you will know it
the lost social consciousness you can’t condone it
not just for pride 
not for any who died 
but in yourself a surging tide
become the change you would arrange
before you were born you’re soul was torn
to weather the storm you have sworn
to yourself belong
in this utopian dawn 

Dethroned
Funny how the symptoms are the same, 
feeling vulnerable, need someone to blame
was it through spite? That you joined the fight
or trauma so bad, that you ignore your sight

something that clings, makes you feel sane
these problems unheard, will remain arcane
an en masse hoodwink? Or conviction, to freely think?
For the noble cause, takes us to the brink

Dethroned
Do you like it
Disowned
How do you like it?

Dust obscures and blinds
was it from the start 
you were so inclined

now without shame won’t feel alone
the glory of war, the king upon his throne
and remember the dead, for they gave all, fought and they bled
as we trample this path, scream transgression, you’ve screamed your last

tell us of, the great celebration
the pretext to war, justification for obliteration
but maybe its I
who with shrouded eyes
but the way I see
these limbs belong to me
fight for the truth
fight for preachers and suits
fight for empire
Fight for the noose

These are the bombs that kings built
These are the sons that dictators killed
These are the memories that glorification misrepresented
war is still hell, but the oppositions been buried 


UTOPIAN DAWN

NEOPIUM

MAC TIRE

EGO ECCENTRIC

DETHRONED

      Astralnaut are,

    Thomas Mallon - Vocals
    Gaz Treanor - Lead Guitar
    JonJoe Harrison - Bass Guitar + Backing Vocals
    Stephen Todd - Drums
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    Keady / Belfast / Richhill / Ballygawley
   
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    BIO:

    Astralnaut, formed in the latter half of 2011, are a hard rock band from Co. Armagh, Ireland.
    The band have gigged ferociously over Ireland with 80 plus dates racked up in the past year and a half, touring 8 counties in 8 days during October 2013 to promote their release ‘In The Gaze Of The Gods’, alongside their debut release ‘Back to the Bog’. They have shared stages with Red Fang (America), Black Magician (England), Rising (Denmark), Trecker (Germany), plus many great bands from the same isle, such as a Slomatics, War Iron and Bad Boat to name a few. Astralnaut released their third studio endeavor during May 2014, entitled 'Thieves, Beggars and Swine' a 5 track EP of stoner rock and has been well received on the local scene and beyond.


    DISCOGRAPHY:

    'Back To The Bog' (EP) -- May 2012

    'Emerald Lord Of Pleasure' (SINGLE) -- December 2012

    'In The Gaze Of The Gods' (EP) -- April 2013

    'Thieves, Beggars and Swine' (EP) -- May 2014

    COMPILATIONS:

    Bong Hits from the Astral Basement Vol 1 -- Jan 2013
    Released by Heavy Planet
    www.heavyplanet.net
    http://heavyplanet.bandcamp.com/

    Volume 1 -- May 2013
    Released by Grip Of Delusion
    www.gripofdelusion.com

    Supporting The Scene Vol 1 -- August 2013
    Released by Sounds Good
    www.soundsgooduk.bandcamp.com

    Bong Hits from the Astral Basement Vol 2 -- Jan 2014
    Released by Heavy Planet
    www.heavyplanet.net
    http://heavyplanet.bandcamp.com/

    SYS Records Vol2 'Warzone Compilation' -- Feb 2014
    Released by Savour Your Scene Records
    http://savouryourscenerecords.bandcamp.com/

    The Sludgelord - Paralysis Compilation Vol II -- Feb 2015
    https://thesludgelord.bandcamp.com/

ASTRALNAUT - PARASITIC - 2015

Weed priest are,
Brother Adam - Guitars/Vocals,
Brother Ragas - Bass,
Brother S. Sullivan - Guitars,
Brother M. Sullivan - Drums.



Adam (guitar, vocals), Ragas (bass) and Adrian (drums) were brought together by the love of classic Black Sabbath sound, seventies psychedelic rock, doom/sludge metal and their interest in occultism in 2009.

After the release of a demo CD in 2011 the trio started working on the debut album. It took over 2 years of hard work and lots of experimenting. The result in reviewer's BornAgain Nihilist's words is “somewhere between the bellicose slo-mo bombast of Sleep at their best, the queasy atmospherics of prime Electric Wizard, riffs that pull like tectonic plates shifting, a ritual of hellish stoner vibes and devilishly dark grooves”.
The album was officially released through an independent label HexenHaus Records on the full moon night of the 25th of February 2013.

The original video for Final Spell song (shot in Edenvale (Co.Clare)): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx-UhDGvJpo

In 2014 due to the curse of S.W.W.S, Adrian parted ways with the band. He was soon replaced by Michael Sullivan of the infamous Sullivan Brothers of Connemara. To increase the heaviness of the band brother Sean was also called to join the parish of Weed Priest thus making it a quartet.

To reflect on former drummer Adrian's contribution to the early deeds of the band, on Lughnasadh 2014 Weed Priest have released a 3 song EP entitled "Worship" that was recorded back in 2010-2013.

The band is very active with gigs and have shared stage with likes of Church Of Misery, Wounded Kings, Meth Drinker, Hooded Priest, Hell, Gorilla Mansoon, Hour of 13, Slomatics, War Iron and many more.

Weed Priest are currently working on their next full length. In the meanwhile - a split single with Astralnaut is out on 28th February 2015.

All merch available at:
http://weedpriest.bigcartel.com/
http://weedpriest.bandcamp.com/

WEEDPRIEST - GRAVEYARD PLANET - 2015

The Hallion 

You wont seem ignorant I haven’t seen that at all 

Beg for deliverance witness the fall 

For I'm your only God the hallion who will reign 
I give you death to rebuild saviour in his name 

Drowning in oceans filled with dreams 

Through a drink filled land, we breathe the seed 
Rule with bottle in hand, the creed, we bleed 
Become the hallion who reigns in vein 

You wont seem petulant I haven’t seen that at all 

King of indulgence bound by the thrall 

For now you play the slave the hallion is your name 
For you own righteousness dishonour holds the same 

Drowning in oceans filled with dreams 

Through a drink filled land, we breathe the seed 
Rule with bottle in hand, the creed, we bleed 
Become the hallion who reigns in vein 

The first convention of the hallionati 
brought waves of cosmic debris 
A dark lesson in self preservation 
a masterclass of debauchery 

Through a drink filled land, we breathe the seed 
Rule with bottle in hand the creed we bleed 
Save your wit now left in tatters 
The poison so sweetly laced 
As destruction rained from the rafters you temperance laid to waste 

Well I'm still man, the hallion is my name 
We will drink this whole land dry and belligerence will reign.
credits
from In the Gaze of the Gods EP, released 13 April 2013

THE HALLION

The Oath 

Blood sacrifice I wanna know, how does it feel to be this low 
A blessed curse, for stardom's hearse 
drive to infinity, live in infamy yeah! 

Blood sacrifice, begin the show, rip it up and watch it flow 
Warrior fold, a hero bold 
Holy debauchery, toasted eternity yeah! 

Gods who float in outer space, I live as master of this race 
I'm trapped in the story, locked in the memories 
To rule the kingdom, to sit on the throne 
It would not pervert me, for it is homegrown 

Let it rock let it ride, golden grass of the gods let it rise 
Let it rise
credits
from In the Gaze of the Gods EP, released 13 April 2013

THE OATH

Urban Brawl 

The beast awakens, raises his head 

He wont seem evil but hes sealed your fate 

Its a numbers game that you could lose it makes you hard it makes you choose 
For your number one get the fuck out my way 
Don’t ask for forgiveness, consumed in the fray 
Whoa! Im still earthbound, whoa! Long way to the underground 

He’s braved it all, you're push and fall 
Never learned this place, you could be floating in outer space 

Whoa! Im still earthbound, whoa! Long way to the underground 

A life filled with dread, should have stayed in bed 
Bright light and contact, something human nature never lacked 

Whoa! No friends to be found, whoa! A new king is crowned 
Whoa! Im still earthbound, whoa! Long way to the underground 

Cowering in the streets, afraid of who you might meet 
We don’t feel oppressed, living in satans nest 

Swimming in this disease, drowning in these alleys, living on your knees 

Survival of the fit, consumed whole by the fucking pit 
Gotta climb to the top or left screaming ‘please, please stop!’ 

Swimming in this disease, drowning in these alleys, living on your knees 

Raised in a cesspool, you'd eat your own kind, for a lesser evil or a lesser crime but I don’t blame you for I know I do the same, its dog eat dog but theres only you to blame!
credits
from In the Gaze of the Gods EP, released 13 April 2013

URBAN BRAWL

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ASTRALNAUT - Astralnaut formed in the later half of 2011, the day after Halloween. Connections were made instantly with the members and to date they have been gigging ferociously up and down the country promoting their first EP ‘Back To The Bog’ and their first single 'Emerald Lord of Pleasure'. With the imminent unearthing of their second E.P and many plans for the future, Astralnaut have no time to slack and don’t plan on it. It‘s exciting times musically in Ireland (and indeed the world) and we are honored to be a part of it…


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