Re-Extended 11

Okay, this is special. Another older one that I've recently rediscovered, but I think it's worth sharing. Hope you like it!

Incantation

Androids Dreams

Hyperion

Kombat

Track By Combstead
Guitar, Lyrics and Vocals by Robert Grigg

In Your Arms - Combstead & Robert Grigg

Be there

Recorded @ Audioriver Festival 30.07.2023

Chupax pres. Poltrax @ Audioriver Festival 2023

'CHAINS OF HADES.' is a raw, genre-bending dive into neurodivergence, inner torment, and catharsis. Blending industrial grit, glitchy hyperfocus, and unfiltered emotion, the album explores the cycles of burnout, identity, and survival through the lens of autism and anxiety. Written, produced, and recorded independently (sometimes on hacked consoles) it’s both a breakdown and a breakthrough.

SILENT SCREAMS.

Just run away

No reason why

🔥🍬 CANDY HEAT ALERT! 🍬🔥

Mein neues Set von der Candy After Party im LEGAL vom 14.06.2025 ist draußen – und glaubt mir, der Laden war heißer als ein Avocado-Toast auf'm Vulkan! 🥵🥑

Danke an die Escon Crew für das tolle Open Air und die große Mühe immer wieder besondere Locations zu finden, damit die Bounce-Kultur in der Stadt bleibt. 
Vielen Dank auch ans LEGAL für die Schweißperlen-Location mit Stil! 💦💃

Von Bouncy über Hot & Sexy – das Set ist ein süß-scharfer Ritt durch glitzernde Basslines und schmelzende Grooves. 🍭🪩

Und natürlich: Big Love an Avocado – es war pure Magie, den Hexenkessel an dich zu übergeben! 💚🔥


#StevieD #CandyAfterParty #Escon #bounce #LEGALClub #EsconCrew #Techno

Stevie-D @ Candy Open Air After Party | Legal | Munich 14.06.2025

After the conferences come the holidays.

Academics always look forward to the holidays.
They mark their calendars.
They count the days.

Finally—a chance to get some real work done.

No students.
No admin.
Just pure, blissful research.

It never works out that way.

Families expect visits.
Or worse:
relaxation.

Visiting home is its own kind of reckoning—
a reminder of how far you’ve moved
from where you started.

During her visit, Kate’s mother asks, right on schedule:
“So when do you finish school, dear?”

Kate tries:
“Mum, I’m an associate professor.”

“So... you’re a teacher then?”

“Sometimes. Mostly research.”

“Oh. Research for your thesis?”

Kate gives up somewhere around the second glass of wine.

The first band meeting after the holidays
is for licking wounds.
Ava doesn’t say much.
But when pressed, offers:
“Back home, people don’t understand
what I’m doing with my life.”

None of it is cruel.
Just distant.

Just a little lonely.

Somewhere in all the clinking cutlery
and misunderstood answers,
they each feel it—

That quiet, untouchable thing.

This is Test 7.

The reason they left.
The reason they stayed away.
The reason they can never quite go back.

Song: Smalltown Homecoming

These old streets feel small and tight
Sky's the same but something's light
Houses lean, a little worn
Under roofs that shield from scorn

Faces weathered, shadows deep
Living lives in quiet sleep
They're content with what they know
Never tried, just let it go

Homecoming, where time stands still
Every dream's a little hill
You and I, we felt the strain
So I left without a name

Main street's got the same old signs
Shops that close before it's nine
Same old park where children play
Games that never changed a day

People talk, but words are slow
Building lives on what they know
No need to dream, no need to roam
When these small-town lines are home

Homecoming, where time stands still
Every dream's a little hill
You and I, we felt the strain
So I left without a name

There's the house where Mom and Dad still reside
Toto's gone, but his love never died
There's the tree where love first bloomed
The same tree where my heart broke too

There's the barn where bullies would chase
Hid from their taunts, never felt safe
There's the bus stop where I once stood
With my suitcase, leaving for good

Homecoming, where time stands still
Every dream's a little hill
You and I, we felt the strain
So I left without a name

It's good to see, it's good to know
That there's nothing here to show
I'll leave again for the world so wide
Where I matter, where I found my pride

Test 7: Why Did You Leave? (Smalltown Homecoming)

Release Date: 20 June 2025

https://www.beatport.com/release/phoenix/5102559?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share&utm_content=release

Teaser: Rolasoul Phoenix - Hernan Cattaneo & Mercurio Phoenix Remix

For Daniel - We miss you.

Immerse yourself in the evocative world of "These Scars Don't Bleed," a cinematic prog-metal ballad that weaves traditional Irish and Scottish melodies into a tapestry of deep emotion and haunting beauty. This track explores themes of inner turmoil and resilience, capturing the essence of scars that linger beneath the surface. With soulful flute melodies, powerful vocals, and a rich orchestral backdrop, this song takes you on a journey through melancholy and strength. Perfect for those who appreciate a blend of deep lyrical themes and powerful musical expression.

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Tauche ein in die eindringliche Welt von "These Scars Don't Bleed", einer filmischen Prog-Metal-Ballade, die traditionelle irische und schottische Melodien zu einem Teppich tiefer Emotionen und bezaubernder Schönheit verwebt. Dieser Track erkundet Themen innerer Unruhen und Widerstandsfähigkeit und fängt das Wesen von Narben ein, die unter der Oberfläche verweilen. Mit seelenvollen Flötenmelodien, kraftvollen Vocals und einem reichen orchestralen Hintergrund nimmt dich dieses Lied mit auf eine Reise durch Melancholie und Stärke. Perfekt für alle, die eine Mischung aus tiefgründigen Texten und kraftvollem musikalischem Ausdruck schätzen.

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lyrics:

Intro:
Hush now, don’t you cry...
The monsters love...
When you try...

Verse 1:
I polish the silver to hide the cracks,
While the china dolls stare from the shelf.
Their porcelain smiles never warned me –
That sanity hangs...
By a thread...
Of its own.

Pre-Chorus:
The wallpaper peels...
In the shape of your laugh –
And the clocks all run...
Backwards.

Chorus:
THESE SCARS DON’T BLEED –
They breathe through the night!
Every "I’m fine" just feeds the lie –
While the cracks...
Multiply.

Verse 2:
The mailman brings bills, never ghosts –
But the hallway still echoes...
Your last...
Goodbye.

Bridge:
We’re all just ghosts...
Feeding ghosts...
In a house...
Built on silence...

Final Chorus:
THESE SCARS DON’T HEAL –
They sing in the dark!
Every "I’ve moved on" just draws the map...
Of where the knives...
Still are.

These Scars Don't Bleed

LosingIT

Introduction and Lyrics in English:

The ghost forest really does exist on the German Baltic coast. Over the centuries, the beech, oak and ash trees have taken on bizarre shapes due to the Baltic wind and the many storms. To me, they look like bent, crooked figures that seem to be on the run from the recurring storms. 
As almost all the trees have only one crown and are completely bare underneath, they also give me the impression that they have shut themselves off from the fury of the storms and withdrawn into themselves.
In my imagination, the storms stand for the inner ghosts or demons that more or less haunt everyone rarely, sometimes often or always at night.  
For me, the trees in turn symbolize the sometimes panic-like fears and the need to flee when the inner ghosts appear.   
At the same time, in my mind the trees also stand for the great achievement of some people who nevertheless live and continue to live under the impression of permanent demonic inner storms: Admittedly somehow crooked, slanted and crooked; but nevertheless in a marvelous way peculiar, unmistakable and original.
This is the background against which the song ""Ghostly Forest"" was created.

Ghostly forest

Every night you are there
Like a fool tormenting me with relish
Like a sneering clown
You force me to look into my abyss

Mmh

Fall deep, almost unbearable these soul wounds
Give me this one shot that pulls me out of the tunnel of pain
aah

You tell me dark things
Accuse me, expose me, make me small
You put me before the last judgement
Spit brazenly in my scarred face

You give me the feeling
That all I want is to die, to be dead
Oooh
Seemingly salvation, consolation

No! Get up!
Get to your feet!
At the bottom
You're still healthy,

I was 
In the ghostly forest
I lost my way there,
I still find the gap
Which leads me to my Yes! to life
Leads me to life!

You never leave me in peace
Give me new blisters every night

When I think I've banished you now,
You come prancing in from the left

Not one tired night 
I woke up without your fearful bite
Behind windows, doors, cupboards you sit 
Always ready for the nightmare leap

This morning
my deepest soul centre would have almost
faded before you

You were on the verge of destroying my core
Dishonouring my dignity beyond repair

A deflated moment
Who knows only silence, rigor mortis
Oooh
Already thought I'd never return

No! Get up!
Get to your feet!
At the bottom
You're still healthy,

I was 
In the ghostly forest
I lost my way there,
I still find the gap
Which leads me to my Yes! to life
Leads me to life!

Gespensterwald (Ghostly Forest)

So lost in song
Photos hang a little wrong
Still can’t tell what’s mine
Still waiting for the right time

It feels so wrong
Lost when the world feels small 
Content when it takes so long
Til faces line the walls

In my defense
It’s led to so many rooms
It makes no sense
I’m navigating by the moon 
Roaming a house I rent 
It separates in two
But I’m not here to stay
I’ll downsize one day 

With light from somewhere high 
Here 10,000 times 
I’ve drawn mandalas in the sky 
Your name burned in my eyes 

In my defense
It’s led to so many rooms
Yet here I am
Navigating by the moon 
Roaming a house I rent 
It separates in two
But I’m not here to stay
I’ll downsize one day

Lost
And clocks don’t keep the time
I’ve got nowhere in mind 
Peer through stained glass walls
Dreams live in these halls

Re-Extended 11

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