Song from the album WETWIRED (2004)


LYRICS:
Please tell me now a valid reason
Not to leave it all behind
Your lies ablazed
The pools of pain
Drilled a hole in the soul 
I had

I thought that 
I could have been strong
There’s no more reason
To fight the pain
That’s the sign I’ve searched for
I need no more

The surgeon cuts his damned way
(To) the place where I hold the pain
(To) put inside this tired mind
A new reason to be

The things now fit to place
Blood and wires
Is all I see

New things improving me
Choices, voices
Then you

Tell me I’m on the wrong side
Change me so I’ll fit it all
Rejecting all of the things I had
The scalpel cutting deep.

Now I tell you the only reason
For I am still here
A selfish death to kill the pain
Kills your body and your soul

The scalpel has cut the place
New reality now to face
Running through streams of spikes
Running away

The things now fit to place
Blood and wires
Is all I see

New things improving me
Choices, voices
Then you

Tell me I’m on the wrong side
Change me so I’ll fit it all
Rejecting all of the things I had
The scalpel cutting deep.

My Choice
	  
CHOICE
WETWIRED
EMBRACE
THE PAIN

Now I got this new sight
I’m the truth between the lies
There’s a place, now is far

Wetwired

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Song from the album WETWIRED (2004)

LYRICS:
I was filling an empty life with empty lies
Closed inside my fortified self
I sarched on the floor a reason for my own fall
And getting up was just beyond my strenght

There is a day that I recall
Eyes with no life inside
My mirror watching me
Tryed to recover means to life
Fear was then like a nameless friend

Don't rely on eternal world or kingdom
'Cause when you die you will have no time
You will be no more
So believe in the words you feel
from this hellish thing
I'm giving you the form that you need
…that you need!

Weirdest thoughts I never knew
Kind of new dimesion
Feeling now, giving strenght to the
entity I am

Forever forever you'll be
However you may lose your grasp
Forever forever you'll stay
And never forget your last day

Loosened from the bonds you had in that world
Free from my mortal thoughts
You are no more… but still you stay
Clusters of files now form my brain
No chance to recover
No way to get over
Remember of the life you didn't love
But I want it back…
…somehow

Forever forever I'll be
However I'm loosing my grasp
Forever forever I'll stay
And never forget my last day

Chrome

Song from the album WETWIRED (2004)

LYRICS:
One crash inside my blaze,
a feel that I can’t ignore 
like trapped into this core.
The new strange sound of my voice
these hands, these eyes, are they mine?
Upgrading inside the life…

Ethereal sea,
bring me to my desires.
Electron winds,
give strength to my cold fire
fly high

All my life, was out of shape
finding patterns to compare,
(now) they will die 
while I can shine

All the noise resounding here
It’s like unwritten harmony.
What you gave me
it’s more than life…
…a chance.

Won’t choose the sidewalk of time
Recalling what’s real,
Extending wings in all my deeds

Ethereal sea,
bring me to my desires.
Electron winds,
give strength to my cold fire…
…fly high.

All my life, was out of shape
finding patterns to compare,
(now) they will die 
while I am here.

All the noise resounding here
It’s like unwritten harmony.
I’ll fly alone, outstanding
inside my world.

Thousand voices inside,
calling my name.
Catch me, shape me…
…what will be now?

What you gave me
it’s more than life...
...a chance

What they told me was to obey
to a pattern in the flesh,
just reflections in the noise
that actions can create.
Now the voice inside of me
it’s like a form without a name
so It’s the time to shape it!

...a new gestalt


A New Gestalt

Song from the album WETWIRED (2004)

LYRICS:
New
The substance and the shape
The only remains of me
Is what I recall
New thoughts new dreams
New life forever

Just
Few traces left to show
What I used to be for the world
Don’t think I’m still there
Take a look at me… you’ll learn…

But some times
(I) recall what’s left behind
It happens just few times
To see the loss is vast
But when
There is one single choice
You can’t make mistakes
My decision then was right

I’m the nail in the cross
My fear will have no voice
I’m the shape of your pain
So watch me now!

Changed
To just remain my self
Blurred images of me
Hold by a mirror
With the surfaces
stained by my past

Streams of data
Kind of sperm
Scattering out of me
Fecund what they meet
Give a birth to a new life

But some times
(I) recall what’s left behind

It happens just few times
To see the loss is vast
But when
There is one single choice
You can’t make mistakes
My decision then was right

Missing link in the chain
Numeric thinking mass
The new shape of your pain

So watch me now!

When all the words are said
When all the dreams are dead
When the present is pain
There is only one left thing…
…the truth…
…use the truth
use the truth
USE THE TRUTH !

But some times
(I) recall what’s left behind
It happens just few times
To see the loss is vast
But when
There is one single choice
You can’t make mistakes
My decision then was right

I’m the nail in the cross
My fear will have no voice
I’m the shape of your pain
Watch me now…
Missing link in the chain
Numeric thinking mass
The new shape of your pain
So watch me…
…now!


Watch Me Now

Song from the album WETWIRED (2004)

LYRICS:
When I started
I was just going away…
...fallen angel in the net
My thoughts are now
freely roaming around
I possess a different mind

Free to feel electric dreams
wasted body no more mine
Now I know the meaning of my being
be the one who made the choice

From the world departed
a few steps away…
…I'm not living day by day
My organic form
is now superseded
I'm a brand new form of life

Lonely
I've no more gone astray
Sadness
Is now for me an empty word
I am breaking
All the oppressing chains
Free to be
What I wished to

I'm living alone…

Somewhere there's a place
with the colors of your soul…
…someone may have found
and left a sign

Who is torn inside
has the will to climb
over… the walls of time

Now come what may
I see the light… again

Surrender to new life
where of life there's no more trace
numbers… breeding a new race

Shadows deep inside me
were tiring my will to be
I felt like a nameless sign

Now come what may
I see the light… again!

No more crying…
…no more crying…
…no more crying…
…crying…
…crying…
…crying!

Lonely
I've no more gone astray
Sadness
Is now for me an empty word
I am breaking
All the oppressing chains
Free to be
What I wished to
I am lonely
I've no more gone astray
Sadness
Is now for me an empty word
I am breaking
All the oppressing chains
Free to be
What I wished to

Eternal Unlife

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
In my night,
There’s a sudden clattering
A brand new voice,
Coming up the stairs to find me
Wakes me and pours on me
Some daylight
Burning through my sleepy eyes
But warming
Warming up all my frozen feelings

There is no rest
‘cause now the call is loud
My reason flooded
By your face

Fire grows inside my dried neglected heart
Breaks my shell

Now the light
Throws some shades behind
Just a brush stroke of night
Still endless pit to fall without end
(There was) No lack of fear
In my endless nights
Like an illness you can't cut out
She made it end
And still I’m sad
I can’t tell you why

There is no chance
My foresight disbanded
My reason fooled again

Shield me
Help me

You own me
(You’re) The first thought at dawn
(You’re) The last thought at night
You’ll never, never let me drift away

Hold me
Save me

I plead you
Let me have some peace
Let me taste full love
Let me see the closure of my void

A Sudden Reawakening

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
Walk
Now to reach your home
Will she wait for you?
Wait
Till the end of night
Until you bend down

All (my) mistakes
Every dream
Could all this be wrong?
I can’t breathe now
As I need you
I can’t live...no more

Victimize
Play your part
Could all this be right?
Can’t you feel this
Strain that tears
The remains of us?

So many thorns tied
Around my white limbs
You’ll never trust me

Empty dreams
Fragile hopes
See what we are all just living for
Climbing over
What we trust
Just a step to fall

Time after time
all the words, all your lies
sound in my ears
piercing me

Tied to a dream we should reach out
a new form to let us be
clouding fear is all I perceive
I’m standing here but I sink

Losing the world I belong to
I can’t stand or walk no more
Would you fly with me, or just flee
Fearing the thing inside of me

Don’t you see this?
Won’t you be with me?

No, don’t tell me
That now all is fine...

Will you let me
Crumble from the sky?

Tied to a dream we should reach out
A new form to let us be
Clouding fear is all I perceive
I’m standing here but I sink

Losing the world I belong to
I can’t stand or walk no more
Would you fly with me, or just flee
Fearing the things, fearing what we can give

Can we live our life
Can we live
Living all without
Any hope

Fragile Hopes

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
I – TABULA RASA

Scream aloud
The way that I harmed you
Show me how you’re feeling
Without me
And I lay down
Counting the tears
licking only memories
I can’t live

Please save for me
Now all the things
You didn’t give… me
Please bury me
With all our dreams...
Pathetic hopes

I gave my soul
You gave only coldness
I feel injured
I long to erase my feelings

Break the nerves in me
Kill my weakness

I won’t need you
(I’ll) Never crave your touch
Anymore

I won’t need you
No more turning back
It’s too late
To heal these wounds

Forged sorrow
(I) don’t believe your act
Dreams that grew behind you
Turned to stone
Help yourself with
All that I wished,
Everything you didn’t
Share with me

So can’t you see
This winding path
Entrapping me
Spite grows inside
(Now) I feed myself
With unknown banes

I gave my soul
You gave only coldness
I feel injured
I long to erase my feelings

Break the nerves in me
Kill my weakness

I won’t need you
(I’ll) Never crave your touch
It’s too late
To heal these wounds


II – ILLUSION FOR A NEW MIND

Now
That I'm a projection
I can hide
>From the things I can’t foresee

No dreams inside my head

And no grief for your lost love ‘cause when you close your eyes
The world goes on to be
It’s just you that
Cannot see

I go back in time
To when I didn’t feel at all
Now I can deny
All the love you had from me
Healing all my wounds
With my woven pain
This time I’m dripping blood for real

You lied (to) me
I know that look
Contemn me

The silence holds the storm

Silence comes
To fill the void
The scars are gone, are mended
And the cries,
The shouting nights between us
Are now over
My control is my pride...


III – FAILURE IN REINVENTING MYSELF

I cannot fight
My rage
The treason burns under my skin

I cannot soothe
The ache
The struggle grown inside of me

I want to taste
Your sorrow
The same you drove inside my life

I want to kill
The pain
That you gave out

You try to tame me
And what you say
Is like a whip beating my face
I plead
But you are crazed

Who will demand
For your offence
I’ll never trust some else to try
I will,
I’ll have my vengeance

I can’t lead my life to rest
She won’t sing the words for me
Of tender lullabies
My dreams are so deranged

I cannot fight
my rage
The treason burns below my skin

I want to kill
the pain
That you gave out

Treason burns through my skin 

Soul Forgery

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
What I can recall
Is the pain from those cold words
And all my dreams turned into grief
And you, you knew I'd rather die

Now, inside my dream your lips are still
Your eyes so kind
no spite behind
in death you're lovely once again

Now speak to me tell me what is love
The love you killed without a reason You can't have forgotten this
Now feed my hate pour salt in my wounds

Now
There is no life
There is no hope, no reason

You were so distant
You gave me lies and sorrow
You walked away
Confirming all I've thought
You gave me coldness
I'd like you stiff and mealy
I want to have you cold, in glass
And exposed for me
I can't fulfil my dream
I'm lost inside my wish
I know who told you lies who darkened your vision
I can't obliterate
The struggle in my head
Through pains and penalties he'll pay all his dues

And Then Nothing Remains

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
(The) Hour Is coming
In which you'll hear the voice
You'll be judged
(And) for your sins condemned
I see the inner features behind the handsome light
She was mine...
Ancient Serpent
who leads the world astray
I'll stretch my hand
and strike his flesh and bones

He's the liar
She's a vessel
He speaks through her
His the words
Her the mouth
My hell on earth

Where fire never shall be quenched
Where worms never die
I'll take you who stole my loving
I'll take you who lied

If your hands offended me
I'll cut away those evil things
If your eye offended me
I'll pluck it out your the pain shall be

I am gonna read aloud
The words of prophecies
You are gonna hear the words because your time is near

Written on your flesh
The law shall be
You who steals the souls and feeds on dreams

Ancient Serpent
who leads the world astray
I'll stretch my hand
and strike his flesh and bones

He's the liar
She's a vessel
He speaks through her
His the words
Her the mouth
My hell on earth

You Serpent!
You spread of Vipers!
You cannot escape the damnation of hell

He Devoured My Dreams

Song from the album EVOL (2008)

LYRICS:
These tears that clung to me
Cannot wash the sadness
This void that fills my brain
Omen of close darkness
Let me be in a different place
Let me run away

So, you were there
My old nemesis
Lying on the ground
With only a few
Chances to live
In your eyes my reflection
Never seen before
Showing a face I didn’t know

I can’t go that way
There are shadows that crawl
Up to me
Where to run
Where to flee
There’s nothing left for me
Sneering life mocking me
Now I’ve lost all my games and self-esteem.
In my heart
In my soul
(There’s) nothing to seize this time
But pain

Run away
From those scary eyes If you think you can
But if you turn back
The beast runs with you
Can’t outrun that...

I can’t go that way
There are shadows that crawl
Up to me
Where to run
Where to flee
There’s nothing left for me
A lonely run from here
I flee through the night
Burying me
In my heart
In my soul
I can’t forsake all this
Can’t forsake all this

Leave your hate behind you to conceal
The beast inside an
empty place of darkness
You can’t fight forever
(but) I can’t tear
An inner part of me

...I’m falling down
I’m falling down... down
Leave no trace!

Leave your hate behind you to conceal
The beast inside an
empty place of darkness
You can’t fight forever
(but) I can’t tear
An inner part of me

I’m falling DOWN

Away

ICYCORE is a metal progressive band from Italy which released an Ep and 2 full-length albums.

DISCOGRAPHY:
Altered Feelings (1998)
Wetwired (2004)
Evol (2008)

Icycore history began in 1998 at the technical University of Pisa, where guitar player Tiziano Romano and drummer Alessandro Bracaloni found out that they both were fans of bands like Megadeth, Dream Theater, Queensryche and Eldritch. Together with Lisa Oliviero, at the bass, they founded the core of the band.
Shortly after the band had been established, the guys began searching for a singer. During the auditions, they did not only find the brilliant voice of Valerio Voliani, but a great second guitar player, too: Davide Alberti.
An old schoolmate of Lisa´s who had helped out at the keyboard (Andrea Petracco) was replaced by Andrea Baroni and so, the band´s line-up was complete.

Shortly thereafter, in 1999, ICYCORE released the demo-CD Altered Feelings, which immediately caused a big sensation in the scene. The media reaction was great, and the first interviews and gigs followed.
Underground Symphony Records were immediately willing to pay for the recording of the debut album "Wetwired", and the experienced musicians recorded in the summer of 2001 the twelve album compositions in about record time, and waited for the release.

Time went by - but due to various problems Underground Symphony Records had to procrastinate the release again and again. In the meantime, ICYCORE played a lot of shows in Italy, among others as opener for Eldritch.
Unfortunately, Davide Alberti had to leave the band due to professional reasons, but ICYCORE  quickly found a more than equally matched substitute: Francesco Caprina.
Because the cooperation problems with Underground Symphony had become insurmountable, finally Limb Music Products acquired the rights for "Wetwired", and published the album worldwide on May 2004.
Wetwired is a concept album with a cyberpunk sensational background, but at the same time full of melody and introspective moments. It won high praise of the public and the critics, and it was hailed as one of the best debutant albums of 2004.

After the release of the album, the band devoted themselves to the promotion of the album with some gigs, and at the same time they started to write new material, reflecting their own musical and personal evolution.
Quickly a new concept album, called Evol, took form: a story about love and its exact opposite, a story about a man that has to reckon with all his deliriums and his obsessions, and which unfolds, surprisingly, all that happened before Wetwired.

After the writing up of the vocal lines, in May 2006, Valerio Voliani, the singer, made up his mind to leave the band to devote himself to another musical project, and caused the putting off of the forthcoming recording.
This event had a strong impact on ICYCORE, but they did not still lose heart and soon started searching for a replacement who well could fit in with the style of the new album.

The band finally found out that the versatile and powerful voice of Titta Tani (DGM, Astra, Claudio Simonetti), was the perfect voice for Evol. The recording started in March 2007 and in June, same year, at last ICYCORE completed the mixing and mastering of their new effort.
Unfortunately the album will be released in 2008 only as mp3 on all the digital stores like iTunes and Amazon.

In 2010, for personal band members problems, Icycore ceased its activity as a band, and only remained active to promote its already released albums.

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