Lyrics:

Your time is ending 
Two-thousand years 
So cry your pain 
Shed your tears 
And as you wander 
And wonder why 
Realize that you are nothing 
And drown in your lies

And as for us, we are endless 
And as for us, we are conscious 
And as for us, we are laid to rest 
And as for us, we are lifeless blessed

Don't try to change us with your preaching and your prayer 
Don't waste our time searching for your skyward stair 
Don't try to sway us or to cloud our vision 
Our path is laid and set, beware the revolition

Revolition

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Savage Psalm (instrumental)

Revolition (instrumental)

This is a demo of Tragic Dawn, the metal band I was in prior to forming the Lifeless Blessed project. I was the drummer for this band, and Tragic Dawn had a big influence on my approach to metal at the time.

The songs are pretty crappy quality, because it was basically just a tape recorder in the corner of the room while we played, but I hope you enjoy the music anyway!

Tragic Dawn - Spoken Intro by Paul

Tragic Dawn - Song 1

Tragic Dawn - Song 2

Tragic Dawn - Song 3 (As The Ashes Fell)

Tragic Dawn - Bonus 1

Tragic Dawn - Bonus 2

ABOUT LIFELESS BLESSED

Lifeless Blessed is a solo black metal project I started back in 2003. Basically, I wanted to write and record a black metal album, so I did.

Over time I had acquired a Squire electric guitar, a 100W Marshall half-stack (which would later be stolen out of my truck), a Yamaha electronic drum set (not that great, but it got the job done), a Yamaha Keyboard, a G3 iBook, and a MOTU 828MKII firewire recording interface. Add in some cables, tuners, picks, sticks, a borrowed microphone, lots of beer, and a few months of work and you get the Truths Untold EP.

Truths Untold is a five track EP that I recorded with the equipment above in my apartment bedroom (hence the electronic drums). All music and lyrics were written and performed by me.

The vocals you hear on the EP are actually the second round of vocals I tried. Originally, I had recorded more Black Metal style vocals (higher pitched, scratchy scream type; think Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir). However, the mic I had (before I borrowed one) made the vocals sound really bad and really soft. Therefore, I re-recorded the vocals Death Metal style (lower pitch, growl type; think Opeth). I ended up liking these better at the time, due to recording quality, though to this day still struggle between which style vocals I really want on the EP. For that reason, I actually made two discs of the EP: disc one with vocals, and disc two without.

Truths Untold was finished in 2004. Since then, I have begun working on new material, but due mostly to the fact that I didn't really like the drum sounds on the EP and even more so the fact that my half-stack got stolen out of my truck while transporting it to a gig I was playing with another band, I have postponed recording any more music. I have plans to eventually record a full album, and I have been working on new material over time, but we'll see if that ever really happens.

'Til then, enjoy the music. I appreciate the support and compliments, as well as constructive criticism.

ABOUT TRAGIC DAWN

I first got into metal at the end of high school. During my first two years of college, a couple of friends and I formed a trio metal band. We called ourselves Tragic Dawn. It took quite a while to settle on a name, but it was a fun process. The Tragic Dawn trio was:

Paul Kubezca (lead guitar)
Justin Scheldorf (rhythm guitar)
Brian Zwahr (drums)

We wrote and played mostly black metal style music. It was a lot of fun and we had some good times practicing and playing for friends and family in Paul's bedroom. We actually played live, once, at a now closed (and converted into a church) bar called Otto's in Brenham, TX. We played the only three songs we had written. For a mostly country-esque bar, we received a much better response that any of us had expected.

We never found a vocalist, so everything we did was instrumental. As time goes on, I've come to prefer it that way. Knowing that we have no vocals over our music forced us to make music that could be listened to on its own. 

After we had written and rehearsed our three main songs (and other snippets and ideas) we decided we should get them down onto tape, lest we forget them and/or they get lost to time. Therefore, we took a crappy little one-speaker tape player, put it in one corner of Paul's room, hit record, and played our songs from the other corner of the room in one take. Later, we added to the tape our other song ideas and such (which we called "bonus tracks"), but the original recordings was a short spoken introduction and the first three songs. We never got around to naming the songs (except for the third).

Speaking of the third song, during the process of adding the "bonus" tracks, the second half of the song (which completely changed styles and really completed the song) got erased. What we have left today is only the first half.

We all moved our separate ways, and the band naturally disbanded. Luckily, however, we still have copies of the music that is the legacy of Tragic Dawn.


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