Tales of Othertime

The Serpent's Stone

Nocturnal Will

Utmed Gyllbergens Stig

Irjala

[Verse 1]
Cold white buzz in a locked up room,
Teeth on edge, taste of blood and gloom.
Tongues spit fire while they smile polite,
Every word lands hard like a fist in the night.
Clock hands twitch like they’re ready to snap,
Pressure piling up in a loaded trap.
This ain’t romance, it’s a system grind,
Brutality within animosity in my mind.

[Pre‑Chorus]
I’m chewing through the gag while I swallow the doubt,
Begging something in the dark to keep me from lashing out.

[Chorus]
Brutality within animosity,
I’m burning in this fucked velocity.
Keep me from lashing the fuck out,
Before I turn this place inside out.

Deep rage screaming, I’m ready to break,
Heart like thunder, hands start to quake.
Hold me down when I’m drowning in doubt,
Please, keep me from lashing the fuck out.

[Verse 2]
Jaw so tight that the bones might pop,
Thoughts ramp up but I choke the drop.
Every little slight is a drum in my chest,
Every false laugh puts my calm to the test.
Crowd full of faces that don’t give a damn,
Whole room buzzing like a live wire jam.
This ain’t some heartbreak crying for clout,
It’s a war in my skull just to not lash out.

[Pre‑Chorus 2]
I’m chewing through the gag while I swallow the doubt,
Begging something in the dark to keep me from lashing out.

[Chorus]
Brutality within animosity,
I’m burning in this fucked velocity.
Keep me from lashing the fuck out,
Before I turn this place inside out.

Deep rage screaming, I’m ready to break,
Heart like thunder, hands start to quake.
Hold me down when I’m drowning in doubt,
Please, keep me from lashing the fuck out.

[Breakdown 1]
Count back from ten…
Nine… eight…
Feel the pulse climb.
I’m one thought from hate.

[DROP]
I CAN FEEL THE ROOM TILT,
FURY DRAGGING LIKE A GUILT.
IF I LET THIS ANGER SHOUT,
EVERY FUCKIN’ WALL COMES OUT.

BITE. MY. TONGUE.
TASTE. THE. RUST.
CHAIN. THESE. HANDS.
FIGHT. THE. LUST.

[Post‑Breakdown]
Hold my breath till the storm rolls by,
Blink back fire from a loaded eye.
Every second that I don’t black out
Is another little miracle of not lashing out.

[Verse 3]
Voices crowd in like a closing fist,
Thoughts spin out in a red‑fog twist.
World keeps poking at the thinnest skin,
One hard shove and the rage pours in.
I’m not your martyr, not your pet warhead,
Just a soul trying not to paint this red.
Brutality within animosity, loud,
But I’m begging for a hand to pull me out this cloud.

[Pre‑Chorus 3]
Breathing in fire while I’m choking it down,
Pray I don’t flip this fucking town.

[Final Chorus]
Brutality within animosity,
I’m drowning in this fucked velocity.
Keep me from lashing the fuck out,
Before I turn this place inside out.

Deep rage screaming, I’m ready to break,
Heart like thunder, hands start to quake.
Hold me down when I’m drowning in doubt,
Please, keep me from lashing the fuck out.

[Final Breakdown 2]
One more word… and I split in two.
[Roar] HOLD ME BACK… BEFORE I DO.


BRUTALITY
INSIDE
EVERY
THOUGHT.
ANIMOSITY
GRINDS
ME
DOWN
TO
KNOTS.


IF I LET IT ALL POUR OUT,
THERE’S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS SHOUT.

[Outro]
If you see me on the edge tonight,
Pull me back from the burning light.
Brutality within animosity, loud, no doubt…
But I’m still here begging:
Keep me from lashing the fuck out.

Brutality Within Animosity

I Am the Void is basically about hitting the absolute bottom mentally and trying to figure out if there’s still a way back from that place. It’s a pretty introspective record about depression, anxiety, addiction, self-destruction and that constant fight inside your own head.

A lot of the songs deal with things like alcohol abuse, pills, isolation, anger and the feeling that the world just keeps demanding more from you even when you’ve already given everything you had. But it’s also about that tiny moment where you start asking yourself if things could be different — if there’s maybe still a way to live without destroying yourself in the process.
Musically the whole thing sits somewhere between deathcore, noise, grind, metalcore and aggressive rap, so it gets really chaotic and heavy at times, but that kind of fits the theme. The album is basically a slow mental collapse… and maybe the first small step out of it.

So yeah.
It’s dark. Pretty raw.
But it’s honest.

Irjala

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