Name: Dreams of Elsewhere by Mike Dedrick
Duration: 6 min 42 s
Description: Hard-hitting riffs and emotive melodies. Separation from Soul is a cathartic, reflective exploration of loss.

PROGRAMMED MINDS

Vocals & Lyrics by Pasi @tapatorametal
Guitars/ Drums/ Synth/ Fx/ Mix/ Production by Me :)
Mastered by Marvin/ Tidestudio

This whole track was a lot of experimenting and about exploring new genres and approaches to create music. Now I can't even tell the genre so feel free to help me out by putting a label on it ;)
Thanks to Pasi for contributing vocals and writing the lyrics. Had a blast working with you!!

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Lyrics:

My life fades away, am I being replaced
Will I prevail or will I fail
Losing my ground, day after day
Can you hear, the sound of silence, my inner violence - waiting to find its passage out
Is this the endgame of my thoughts,
am I losing the weight of my f**kin words
This is the endgame of my presence and all
This is the endgame of my essence and all
 
Emptiness and void, my rightful joys,
leaving me wondering, the purpose and cause
The maze of life, not meant for all
Not meant for the ones, likely to fall
 
My essence keeps fading away
I won’t be contained
I can’t be replaced
 
Anger is here to stay
Am I destined to fade away - no, I won't be replaced
This cancelled time, my forthcoming joyless life - leaves me drifting
 
Programmed minds, leave humanity behind
The digits shall rule us all, the zeros the ones contain our thoughts
Trapped in this nightmare, created for all
What is left, the ghost in me or the ghost, in the machine
 
I gave my all, am I the one to fall
I gave my all,  who will listen my words
I gave my all, am I the one to fall
I gave my all, is there anyone who recalls
 
Don’t let my essence fade away, I can’t be replaced
I need to stay awake to find my way again
Or should I just, fade away

Programmed Minds

Featherdumb school, 1992
They’re scanning the scene and looking for you
To baptise you - but not for faith
In the basement destiny awaits

Baptism 
in the urinal
Just a
Idle threat?
Get ready 
for a fate
that is 
worse than death!

have no doubt that things will get messy
When dragged down below by Jon E or Jesse
Burned with a lighter, feels like you melt
Next they will whip your back with a belt

Baptism (demo)

Modes About Me - Catacombs
Album:
Happy Not Hateful

Guitar:
@themysteriousdecibel

Bass:
@thefunkykaiju

Producer:
tssrecording.com/

Lyrics:

Happy Not Hateful

Catacombs

On Dirty Ground

Vox : Screaming Jay Snider
Drums : Mateusz 'Mat' Melanowski
Guitars/ Bass/ Mix& Production : Chris Schlü

Written by Chris / Lyrics by Jay

Video by @overdrive_music
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJCtidcOGA5/

On Dirty Ground

All Music Composed and performed by: John Baker
All Leads Composed and performed by: Robert Quinn (Boblivion)
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by: John Baker

This is a track that I hope takes any old school metalhead back to the early 80's where it all began... Straight up in your face thrash metal exactly the way it is supposed to be. enjoy!!!

Hellfire

Half Ground

Hard-hitting riffs and emotive melodies. Separation from Soul is a cathartic, reflective exploration of loss.

Dreams of Elsewhere

[Verse]
Woke up late shoes untied
Coffee cold but I’m alive
Mirror cracked but I still shine

[Chorus]
It’s fuckin’ awesome yeah it is
No plan no map just what this is
Turn it up and let it fizz
It’s fuckin’ awesome

[Verse 2]
Broken clock still ticks loud
Lost my keys but found my crowd
Life’s a mess and I’m so proud

[Prechorus]
We got no script no rules
Just fools with broken jewels

[Chorus]
It’s fuckin’ awesome yeah it is
No plan no map just what this is
Turn it up and let it fizz
It’s fuckin’ awesome

[Bridge]
Dancing on a table falling through the floor
Breaking all the windows kicking down the door
We don’t care what’s next we just want more

Bandcamp

it´s F***in´Awesome

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html

Their...
Old age
Begets my youth
How I long 
For their end soon
I'm amazed you disapprove 
Of fate!

They knew...
Their end 
Begets renewal
It's a shame
That you've been duped
To think they should choose
Our fates!

[Chorus]
On and on
You played and sung
Your time's come and gone
So why won't you sing along
To the Outro of the theme song of your world?
Let go
It's our turn

Draft
Into a War
In the name of their views
Spreading their "facts"
Through their "news"
And frame their desperate coups
As great!

Induce
The spread of their abuse
Raytheon must be so amused
To pick and plan the rules
Of this Game! Yeah!

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

Vain 
The attempts pull apart the fuse
Fill the rancid old man's shoes
Always get to blame the jews
In the end

Accuse
Your neighbor using counterfeit clues
Push a narrative misconstrued
And hate! 
The ones who refuse
To obey

///////////2025

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Lyrics and Vocals by Oscar Lindberg.
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Chasing Dreams

A guy from Boston who likes to make prog metal music.

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