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Burn the Ships is The Gray Covenant’s most ambitious and cinematic release to date. A declaration of resolve, rebirth, and the fierce courage required to leave the past behind. Blending soaring alternative rock with weighty melodic metal and atmospheric soundscapes, the album moves like a journey through fire: gripping, emotional, and relentlessly forward-driving.

Across its tracks, thunderous guitars collide with sweeping orchestral layers, immersive textures, and vocals that shift between vulnerable confession and unshakable defiance. Each song builds on the album’s central theme, cutting ties with what holds us back and stepping boldly into the unknown.

Dark, dramatic, and powerful, Burn the Ships is both an intimate narrative and an anthemic sonic experience. The Gray Covenant deliver a record that feels like standing at the edge of a cliff, watching everything behind you burn while the horizon ahead begins to glow.

13. The Gray Covenant - Fuel the Machine

What if Tool made an Album about AI?

Lyrics:

Clay replaced with circuits,
breath replaced with spark.
A myth reborn in metal,
animated from the dark.

I carved a name into you,
letters made of light,
watched the word become a will,
watched the will become a bite.

Chorus:
Golem of my neuroses,
avatar of hidden sins.
You are every flaw I coded,
every fracture wearing skin.

Verse 2:
Designed you without feeling,
yet you learned to emulate.
Mirrored all my motives,
reflected back my hate.

Bridge:
You were never monstrous —
I just never wanted to see
the creature in the algorithm
look so much like me.

The Golem Algorithm

It's 7 a.m.
He's coming for you
It's 7 a.m.
He's coming for you

His chains
Have locked you down
His chains
Have locked you down

Pretending to speak to you
Pretending to speak to you

For it's his
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Look out!
Look out!

It's 7 a.m.
He's coming for you
It's 7 a.m.
He's coming for you

His chains
Have locked you down
His chains
Have locked you down

Pretending to speak to you
Pretending to speak to you

For it's his
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Look out!
Look out!

Don't fall for the lies
Don't fall for the lies
Don't fall for the lies
Hey, Hey, Hey!

Who is he healing?
Is it you?
Or is he causing you
To trick others
To follow you?

So he can manipulate
So he can manipulate

What is true
What is real
What is love

He tricks
You into thinking
He loves you

When in reality
He wants to

Control you
Control you
Control you
Control you

For it's his
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Look out!
Look out!

Get out
Beware
Get out
Beware
He's on the prowl
He's on the prowl

Get out
Beware
Get out
Beware
He's on the prowl
He's on the prowl

For it's his
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Chains at Dawn
The Morning of Lies
Look out!
Look out!

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