Merciless Dragon

Pánta Rheî

My first single in 5 years, "Falling Star", from my new album TBA coming in 2025. For streaming and more, visit - linktr.ee/mitchelemms

I wrote this song as a tribute to the solitary moments we have in life where we're hit with the gravity and uncertainty of our hopes and dreams, and the unbelievable odds that we're here experiencing the drama of being alive.

If you've ever been a fan of what i do, I invite you to immerse yourself in this track and join me on this next chapter of my musical journey.

Credits:
released September 12, 2024
All lyrics, music, mixing and artwork by Mitchel Emms.
Mastered by Nick Burchall @ Audio Animals ltd.
Publishing by Molano Music / Downtown ltd.


LYRICS:

Hey Transformation
There is a stillness in the air
A confrontation
With all of the how, the why
and where

You're a soul struck out of time
You burn out into the night
You don't get what you deserve
Left waiting to be heard
You're a prisoner of desire
with futures set on fire
You don't know how near or far
You're like a falling star

It's just delusion
Well maybe for some but who's to say?
When all's illusion
You'll cling onto anything for change

You're a soul struck out of time
You burn out into the night
You don't get what you deserve
Left waiting to be heard
You're a prisoner of desire
with futures set on fire
You don't know how near or far
You're like a falling star

See the people on your screens
Living out their fantasies
While you're spinning out in space
Hanging on a twist of fate
In the cold periphery
Your life's a mystery
I don't know how near or far
But I see your falling star


Falling Star (Single)

My new single "Endless Mirror", from my new album TBA coming in 2025.  
For streaming and more, visit - https://linktr.ee/mitchelemms

Following my first release "Falling Star", this next single is one that sums up some of the feelings I've had about the world we live in, soundtracked by dynamic vocals, angular guitars, atmospheric synths and driving militant drums. I'm so proud to put this one out.

In a time where we are increasingly becoming disconnected from one another, it's a call to see the humanity inside each and everyone of us.

Put your headphones on, listen and look inside✌️x

All lyrics, music, artwork and video by Mitchel Emms
Mixed by Mitchel Emms
Mastered by Nick Burchall @ Audio Animals ltd.
Publishing by Molano Music / Downtown ltd.

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Lyrics:

A disappearing act is happening to ourselves
Our doors of perception turning into prison cells
It's all "part of the plan" as we all know
Just stay indoors...

Walking, talking, acting out this cosmic show
A depth of feeling lingers no one ever knows
Confused, reading the news that tells you how
to fear one another; "shut them out!"
Doomsday looming, all consuming
Aliens are on the loose...

Feeling lost between the midnight hours
You put your head up in the highest clouds
Free falling back to Earth when you come down

They tell the difference between wrong and right
But there's no difference between you and I
Reflecting all there is inside our lives
(Look Inside)
This endless mirror that we call our own
Is in the minds of everyone you know
So tell me what do you see when you look
(Look Inside)

Do you see a brighter day?
Do you see no other way?
To see the truth again
Reflect the love again

They tell the difference between wrong and right
But there's no difference between you and I
Reflecting all there is inside our lives
(Look Inside)
This endless mirror that we call our own
Is in the minds of everyone you know
So tell me what do you see when you look
(Look Inside)

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Instruments, pedals and gear used:
Aston Spirit Black Edition Microphone
Fender Player Plus Meteora
Reverend Six Gun HPP
Squier Jaguar Bass
Novation Mininova
Waldorf Blofeld
Line 6 Helix Stomp + Effects
Spaceman Saturn VI Boost
Electro Harmonix Crayon Overdrive
DSM Humboldt Silver Linings Distortion
Fender Reflecting Pool Delay + Reverb

Endless Mirror (Single)

My single "Lost In Inner Space", taken from my new album TBA coming in 2025.  For streaming socials and more, visit - https://linktr.ee/mitchelemms

In the whole of my time making music I don't think I've ever publicly put out a track quite like this one but with this release it's time for something different from me that isn't your usual affair of loud drums and guitars. This one came entirely from me alone in a room with a synth and some big feelings, all the way back in the pandemic times, now finally seeing the light of day.

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LYRICS:

I've lost my tether
now and forever
not knowing whether
I'll ever get to see
your smile again

The memories open
coloured and broken
Everything I've been
is fading and drifting out
further away

There's no turning back now
the fictions fact
and I can't do this alone

Can't find me I'm light years out of view
Lost in the darkness I can't find you
You're a transmission that wont come through
and I've lost my tether
now and forever
I'm lost in inner space

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Credits:

Mitchel Emms - "Lost In Inner Space"
All lyrics, music, artwork and video by Mitchel Emms.
Mastered by Nick Burchall @ Audio Animals ltd.
Publishing by Molano Music / Downtown ltd.

Lost In Inner Space (Single)

Decided to revisit one of my favourite songs, "Message From The Water" from my first solo album "Vertigo At History's Edge" (2019) and make a performance video of it. As it was a song originally written and produced with guitars in mind, I thought it'd be fun to do an alternative version of it with my synth / keys setup while also performing it live in one take.

This song has always meant a lot to me, while simple lyrically it's about depression and the ways in which you, I or the people we love and know can isolate themselves and disappear from our lives without us knowing, knee deep in the depths of their own situation yet yearning for connection. It's a topic I write about a lot but it was super poignant at the time I wrote it.

You can check out the original version on all streaming platforms, featuring on my album "Vertigo At History's Edge".

LYRICS:

A message from the water;
Hi, I'm here
I'm underneath
I know I was to call you the other day
sometime last week
with all this fake it till you make it
I have lost my will to take it

So have a smile from me
So have a kiss from me
So have a smile, from me
and have some time away from me

A message from the water;
Wish you were here, the water's clear
cause I'm down here in a world of my own

So have a smile from me
So have a kiss from me
So have a smile, from me
and have some time away from me

CREDITS:
released January 15, 2025
Lyrics, Music, Production,
Recording, Mixing & by Mitchel Emms
Publishing by Molano Music Ltd 

Message From The Water (Keys Version)

Rivers Of Ice was one of the first songs I released as a solo artist, all the way back in 2018 when I was in the initial stages of making what would become my first solo album. When I made this song I really felt I'd started to find my voice as an artist and was thrilled when I finished it. I thought it'd be really cool all these years later to revisit it and record a stripped back version of it with my synth / keys setup plus some improvised guitar playing.

This song was inspired by psychedelic experiences after a lifetime of being in the music industry from a young age. While this song has a personal meaning to me, it's written as song for anyone and one of defiance; to take a chance on love and living.

LYRICS:

You're a disguise, you're a river of ice again
remember how the water used to flow
out from your heart and into our lives
but all along was a song that you had to sing along
A sweet melody was your only friend
your fake friends knew the words
pushed the buttons till it hurt
hands were tied again and you froze away to the void
but you're beautiful and you could start again
fall in love again with yourself

Your soul suicide changed nobodies minds
as you tried to fill the void on your own
What were you searching for, what were you trying to find?
As you froze every burning bridge behind

but you're beautiful and you can start again
fall in love again with yourself
you're in disguise
you're a river of ice again
frozen underneath to the self
Tell me why
can't you give another try
you could start again
win the war against yourself

You've been disguised
you're river of ice again
flow it underneath to the self

you're beautiful and you can start again
fall in love again with yourself
you're in disguise, a river of ice again
frozen underneath to the self

Oh, tell me why
tell me why
can't you give another try
you could start again
win the war against yourself
you've been disguised
under rivers of ice again
flow it underneath to the self

CREDITS:
released January 25, 2025
All music, lyrics & artwork by Mitchel Emms
Recorded and mixed by Mitchel Emms

Rivers Of Ice (Keys + Guitar Version)

08 Deny

My new single "DREAMING AWAKE" is out now today on all platforms! From my upcoming album "Euphoric Melancholy".

This was the starting point of my album, when in the winter of 2020 an existential music jam i recorded became this track and kicked off my belief in making my own music again, after a period of writers block following my first album "Vertigo At History's Edge".

I wanted to push the boundaries of what I was capable of as a musician and this track became a 9 minute epic full of shifts in texture and mood with big instrumental moments, again with myself playing and singing every part and mixing every second.

I also wrote this facing the end of my 20s and it was about that reckoning with the inevitable passing of time, and the power that realization gives us to risk it all and take a chance on ourselves and the things we believe in; to rage against the dying of the light.

This song, as well as all of the others on Euphoric Melancholy, are a kind of emotional cartography of the journey I went on to become who I am today.

Euphoric Melancholy - out 26th September 2025!

08 Deny

Maniac Saint

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