Kill Or Be Killed

Meteora

Don't Stay

Time For Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road

Burn

Papercuts

Faint

Not knowing
If asleep or awake
Not knowing
If this is a dream
Then understanding
What this all means
There was a light in the sky
Brighter than the sun
Then a sound and a burning heat
Then a silence so complete
Then I looked down to see
There was a shadow of me
And the truth plain to see
Was that the shadow of me
Was exactly the same
As the shadow with my name

I am the shadow
And now you know
I am the shadow
In the darkness I grow
I am the shadow
That devours the night

Fear me and what I've become
Heed me, time to turn and run
I am the fight in the dog
I am the righteous and the strong
I am the sting in the scorpions tail
I am the wind in the Dutchman's sail

I am the shadow
Now you know
I am the shadow
Fear me and what I've become
Heed me, time to turn and run
I am the fight in the dog
I am the righteous and the strong
I am the sting in the scorpions tail
I am the wind in the Dutchman's sail
I am the shadow
Now you know
I am the shadow

I Am The Shadow

Experimented with some word play and a more moody bassy sound. Song is meant to reflect living life without regret.

Lyrics

Ohhhhh woahhh
When the hands of time stand still
What does this entropy fill
Will chaos reign
Do we begin again
As the hands tick slowly in reverse
Living backwards is so perverse
Seeing yourself as you were
No past to which you can refer
When your reflection
Is facing
The other direction

Yeahhhhh
Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

Aaahhhhhh
Life lived in reverse
For lost youth we thirst
When winning is losing
And the future comes first
When there is no choosing
The road that we travel
When we begin to unravel
Life lived in reverse
A cosmic curse
Devoid of hope
We dangle the rope
Hooked over a beam
Only to remove our head from the noose
And set our descent to hell loose

Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

Ohhh Yeahhhhh
So now yesterday is cursed
To be more perverse
When tomorrow
Doesn't follow
Instead we are lead
To turn our head
And march back to where we started
No future to be bartered

Ohhhhh
Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

One thing though is certain
We have the hope of the final curtain
Being drawn when we reach our birth
And we leave this lonely earth
As we had begun
Screaming at the top of our lungs

Reverse In Life

The Only Hope for Me Is You

Say You'll Haunt Me

sugar honey ice & tea

CREDITS:
Mark Saunders © 2025
Album & other Art all created by Madeleine Saunders © 2025 (https://www.instagram.com/inkyb_aby)

A huge Thank You and so much gratitude I owe to my friend Matt Cahill of PRS Records for guidance, advice and all your time and expertise you gave me and for mastering some of the Tracks, thanks Bro.

Thanks to Christos Kouzinos for all your help with the drums, drum patterns and beats.

Thanks to Don Naley for all your much needed guidance and help with Guitar, Samples and Loops, Chord Progressions, Synthesizer and a load of other shit too numerous to mention.

Thanks Greg Hamlin (Legend) for bailing me out and providing vocals (both Lead and Backing) on a load of tracks as well as some Guitar stuff.

All of the The TAU Project tracks were created using a mixture of DAW’s and a multitude of Plugins (Reason, Audacity, Waveform, MeldaProduction, Cakewalk, Reaper, Voicemod, Overloud, Graillion, AVS Audio Converter, Surge XT and Vital) as well as real time electric guitar, drums, keyboard/synth, various royalty free samples and loops. Some AI was also used in the pre and post production and creation of these tracks, in particular with synthesizer and some sound layering.
Last but not least thank you to the Four Angels that provide me with Love, Support, Inspiration and Encouragement every single day, Lauren, Madeleine, Mackenzie and Ruby.

The Tau Project was really just a bit of fun to begin with but has wound up being a bit more than that, it’s also been very cathartic, and to be honest a hell of a long time in the making. Some of the lyrics to these tracks were written when I was in my late teen’s right up until present. 
There is a mixture of styles and genres so that it may seem a bit schizophrenic but it was deliberate. I was attempting to pay homage and respect to my musical influences throughout the years from the 70’s and 80’s NWOBHM, The Hair Metal years, Hard Rock and Rock influences, Punk, Hardcore, Nu Metal, Grunge, Blues and probably some other influences in there I’ve missed. Hopefully it isn’t too disheveled and crappy and seen for what it is.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have, and if not don’t complain to me I didn’t force you to listen.
ALL METAL ALL THE TIME UNTIL THE DAY I DIE

Reverse In Life

The Tau Project

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