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A jagged blast of punk energy aimed straight at performative suffering. “You’re Not the Victim” calls out the people who weaponize their own misery while ignoring the wreckage around them. Sharp guitars, frantic drums, and a narrator who smiles through disasters he didn’t cause.

Get this song on all streaming platforms and/or see the lyrics at
https://mrgoodemployee.com/youre-not-the-victim/

You're Not the Victim

Starlight on My Face (Music & Lyrics C. Karlheim)

A song idea originated from our 1997-era forged into an all new original song by KS / 97

Karli: Drums, Bass & Vocals
Chris: Guitars

Produced and mixed by Chris, mastered by Tidestudio. Drums, Bass and Vocals Recorded at Horst Sound Studios Brake/Bielefeld by C. Karlheim, Guitars recorded at SHQ Studios by C. Schlüter for ETH-Productions. Cover-Artwork by C. Karlheim and C. Schlüter. Photo by J. "The Eye" Koch. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting is strictly prohibited.

Starlight on My Face

Todd Bulik, (Valley Forge Audio) My awesome childhood friend produced this entire track for me. He did mixing, mastering, guitar solos, melodies, and backing vocals. 
I'm am SO thankful for the time and effort he put into this track. I thought my Destiny was shitty demo's only haha!

He's a killer guitarist, Singer, and songwriter. Check out his One man Band "Under the Sword" Please DM him if you're interested in Recording, mixing/mastering or need guitar session work.

Link:
https://soundcloud.com/todd-bulik

Thank you!!!

Legacy (Featuring Todd of Under The Sword)

One Step Closer Demo

“Theater of War” is a scream from the inside: a raw, distorted anthem about internal chaos, emotional exhaustion, and the quiet violence of modern life.

It’s about the pressure to shut up, smile, and fall in line. The kind of burnout that doesn’t come from working hard but from pretending you’re fine when you’re not. We wrote it for the people who are still thinking, still feeling, still resisting in a world that rewards obedience over authenticity.

Theater of War

Howdy everybody! And Happy Easter!

We rarely give a preface to our songs 'cause we wanna leave everything up to interpretation as much as possible, but @thebeautifuldark inspired us to be more communicative. And so, we're back to Blues! No matter how far into Punk or Metal we go, good old Loud, Electric, Heavy Blues always pulls us back. This time around got @tezcatreal to give thanks for the Blues pivot. His crazy Hard Rock/Blues songs were a big inspiration for the overall theme. Check out both of them to listen music that is actually good!

So, a Blues Metal song about a blue sea, a sailor with the "blues", blue thunder clouds and an indescribable blue embodiment of all of those things (think Cthulhu) seemed like the most layers of one color we could stack up in under 5 minutes. 
Now what all that actually means, it's up to you to decide. We know what it means to us. 

Cover art by Ivan Aivazovsky is better than anything we could make. 

Enough blabbering:

Shades of Blue

We're out a-sailing
Miss my town, the waves they
Push us away into...
A storm at the edge of the earth
Reeling us

Pay no mind
Got Rum
And playing Dice all night, yeah...
Yeah!
Got the fish in the line!
Thunder, like drum
Scratching through the sky, yeah...
But we don't pay no mind...

Silence
Creeps slowly
And the waves seem so cozy
All of the sudden...
The Sea knows me
It could take us in its embrace
And swallow us whole

Yet!
We pay no mind, yeah...
Sailing through the night, yeah...
She'll take us for a ride
I'll awake 
Capsized
Holding for dear life, yeah...
We shouldn't have been so blind

[Solo]

Shades of Blue devour me
In a ship so alone
Lost at Sea, the mighty reef
It calls, Siren's calls

[Solo]

Waves of Blue are dragging me
Into a shadow from below
Shape uncanny surfacing
Beyond what I could show

[Solo]

These...
Chains of Blue, they weigh on me
Pulling down to the jaws
Of the Abyss of my beliefs
In this Sea, where I belong 

///////////APRIL 2025

Shades of Blue

Chris and Karli met the first time in 1997 at the age of 16, when they formed their first band with friends. After some years they disbanded and moved on to new bands and musical projects. Now after 20-something years Karli and Chris met again. At an age where nothing really matters anymore they decided to start to listen to some old tapes and reels. Getting back to the vibes of the summer of '97 they decided to re-visit some of the old songs. 1000 CRIES is the first song - an forgotten demo recording from that aera - Chris and Karli re-wrote and re-recorded. Soon after starting to work on the old songs they opted to take the project further and also record new stuff. 

The plans are made, the sun is set, the beer is cold, new music soon will emerge - here.