wow, very cool sonic thing goin down here

such a hypnotic track... was a joy to listen to!!!!

That youtube video is one of my favorite things.

https://larrycreature.bandcamp.com/album/quite-frightening


Youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8Z9Cqoc0c

Concrete hymn/After the fact

Despicable wretch as sulphate hex coats the throat to make a shrill yell

You can tell, everybody is dead Compared to select chosen few, view my sudden spew! as I attempt to avoid it like I use to you

Street lights cast iron shades as a stage to dance on after a few

When we come to know ourselves and forget helpless strangeness Just for a different view Why don’t I become you Hold my coat, the hex return my throat, try not to choke

Comfortable death Quivering hex Return home attempt rest, temptress

Staring at the same concrete We walked as strangers, helpless No more progress since and we’re happy less and less more or less Matters not when your all undone With chemical fun, we’ll come down tomorrow quick dying slowly If there’s a better way than this
Please show me

You don’t owe me, you don’t owe me it so I’ll go my separate way where I turn off alone not lonely
Comfortable death Quivering hex Return home attempt rest, temptress, temptress, attempt rest

Concrete Hymn Or After The Fact

THE HAWK OF THE LODGE

music, vocal fx & art by EnigmaCurry @enigmacurry
instrumental here: https://soundcloud.com/enigmacurry/manifest-v1
vocals by Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

Video

Myrcury | Manifest

This is from the recordings we did with our former chanteuse Julia back then. Credits and hugs! Cheers @user-20931549 & @bonetender

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2BtdGw9i8SoBFWUt5pgpSk

©The Journey Weavers 2021 All Rights Reserved

Trouble Maker

This will be a 6 song concept piece detailing the highlights of Vlad III (Vlad the Impaler) life. All songs are based in fact and with no fictional vampire references. This is the true story of the man behind the myth.

Musicians:
John Baker- All guitars 
Dark Number Nine- Vocals
Mathis- Lead Guitars
All music written by John Baker
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by John Baker

Vlad III or (Vlad Tepes) was born in 1431 in Sighisoara as the second of four brothers born into the noble family of Vlad II Dracul. After his father’s induction into the Order of the Dragon, created by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund for the defense of Christian Europe against the Ottoman Empire, Vlad moved to Târgoviște, Walachia, in 1436 where his father assumed leadership of the Wallachian Voivode. Throughout his younger days, Vlad and his brothers were highly educated and as they grew older were taught how to strategize and fight.

In 1442, the Ottomans called for a diplomatic meeting and invited Vlad Dracul. He saw an opportunity to educate his younger sons in the art of diplomacy so he brought Vlad III and Radu with him. But Dracul and his two sons were captured and held hostage by the Ottoman diplomats instead. The captors told him that he would be released — but he had to leave his sons. Dracul, believing it was the safest option for his family, agreed. Fortunately for Vlad III and his brother, during their time as hostages, the two princes received lessons in science, philosophy, and the art of war.

However, things were far worse back home. A coup orchestrated by local warlords — known as the boyar — overthrew Dracul. In 1447, he was killed in the swamps behind his home while his oldest son was tortured, blinded, and buried alive.

Vlad III was freed soon after his family’s death, and at this time he began to use the name Vlad Dracula, meaning son of the dragon.  His brother Radu swore allegiance to the Ottomans and stayed. Vlad swore vengeance on the ones responsible for his father and brother’s death and began his journey back home to claim the thrown.

Lyrics:
This is our land
My Father Prince of Wallachia
And here, it’s name, family, honor
And we fight to protect
And protect to fight

Let me tell you about my glorious upbringing
You shoulda seen me
Riding those Arabian horses,
Sword in hand at breakneck speeds
Speaking a few languages and a dead one
Science, the art of combat
Magnificent things

Our enemies keep movin' in and movin' in
Around our home

A choice made for a truce, an alliance
With the Ottoman
To keep our rightful throne

Sultan thought we betrayed the alliance
Sultan invited father and us down for a visit
Tricked like a deaf, dumb, blinded beggar
We got to the court
We were all imprisoned
Father set free, me and brother kept as bargains
But my father was in the order of the dragon
To defend against heretics
From Hungary comes the white knight
Who wanted help with the heretics
Father said yes...
Sultan was betrayed again...
For a crusade for Christianity…

Battle lost, men defeated, blood and debris
White Knight tried to salvage the honor left
Do you know what that White Knight did?
He tried to seize Wallachia
Noblemen killed my father, mother and older brother

I’m still captive in the Ottoman Empire
Sometimes in a dungeon, sometimes tortured
From my window
All I see are executions
My brother took lovers, sided with the Sultan
This happened because
the Ottoman can bargain
It’s still about the land
But it’s all about revenge
I am diamond hard
Will let everyone trust me
And let the Ottoman
Keep teaching me, teaching me
Magnificent things

© 2021 Dark Number Nine

1. Vlad The Young Prince And The Great Deception

All music by: John Baker
All Lyrics written and performed by: Dark Number Nine
All Lead guitar performed by Mathis

In 1460, Mehmed sent envoys to Vlad to urge him to pay the delayed jizya or (tribute). Vlad provoked Mehmed by having the envoys killed. Vlad Țepeș had not paid the annual tribute of 10,000 ducats since 1459. In addition to this, Mehmed asked him for 1000 boys that were to be trained as janissaries or (elite infantry men). Vlad refused the demand, and the Turks crossed the Danube and started to do their own recruiting, to which Vlad reacted by capturing the Turks and impaling them. 
 
The sultan sent Hamza Bey to stage a diplomatic meeting with Vlad at Giurgiu, but with orders to ambush him there; and thereafter, take him to Constantinople. Vlad was forewarned about the ambush and set an ambush of his own. Hamza brought with him 1,000 cavalry and when passing through a narrow pass north of Giurgiu, Vlad launched a surprise-attack killing the entire expedition-force. Hamza Bey was captured and in his next move, he went on a campaign to slaughter enemy soldiers and population that might have sympathized with the Turks; first in southern Wallachia, then, in Bulgaria, and in two weeks they killed over 23,000 Turks.

Mehmed sent messengers in all directions to assemble an army, 'in which in numbers and armaments must have been equal to that which he had employed on the siege of Constantinople. On April 26 or May 17, 1462, the sultan moved with his army from Constantinople with the objective of conquering Wallachia and annexing the land to his empire. 

The Turks first tried to disembark at Vidin, but were pushed back by an archery attack. On June 4, a contingent of infantry landed in the night, at Turnu Severin, where 300 of them died from Wallachian attacks. The Ottoman army did managed to advance, but Vlad instituted a policy of scorched earth, poisoned waters, and also created marshes by diverting the waters of small rivers. Traps were created by the digging of pits, and then covered with timber and leaves. The population and animals were evacuated to the mountains and as Mehmed advanced for seven days, his army suffered from fatigue as he found no man, nor any significant animal, and nothing to eat or drink.

The Turks advance towards Târgoviște, after failing to capture the fortress of Bucharest and the fortified island of Snagov. On June 17, when the Turks camped south of the capital, Vlad launched his famous night attack with possibly only 7 to 10,000 horsemen. The skirmish started after sun down and  would last until four in the morning and would cause great confusion in the Ottoman camp. The Wallachians launched not one, but several attacks and during that night the sultan abandoned the camp and fled in a shameful manner. He would have continued had he not been reprimanded by his friends and brought back, almost against his will.

Mehmed next decided to besiege the capital, and for half an hour, the army marched on a road that was bordered by some 20,000 impaled corpses of Turks, woman, children and Hamza Bey who was impaled on the highest stake. On the following day (June 22), Mehmed had had enough and the Turks retreated.

3. Forest Of The Impaled

production, mastering & artwork by The Magnetic Dog Sisters @themagneticdogsisters
lyrics & vocals by Mariam Zohra D : Myrh
original instrumental A Bar Down One Side
https://soundcloud.com/themagneticdogsisters/a-bar-down-one-side?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

THE DEVIL INSIDE
_____________________

The devil inside you!

When I cut everything up
When I cut everything up

the devil inside

when I can't take anything else,
I reap uknown!
I reap unknown,
right into me!

Ain't gonna take it no mo'

Bettah watch yourself watch yourself now

ain't gonna take it no mo
ain't gonna let it!
ain't gonna let it no mo!

it's comin down!
ain't gonna let it inside me!

Throw it right back at you!

Send in the devil out of you right into me!

Yeah yeah!
yeah yeah!

Like I , Like I done!

Devil inside you!
If you don't watch it, if you don't watch yourself!

Bandcamp

Devil Inside | Myrh & The Magnetic Dog Sisters

watch us perform Drugstore Kisses and other songs here: youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg   on In The Attic With Piper, a show hosted by Puppet Princess Piper! we sit down for a brief interview, play songs, sacrifice another puppet to the devil.... the usual.


i’m putting on a show 
for the tawdry chemist 
he knows just what to do
you play it all off
but you couldn’t care less
as long as i keep coming through

i take it all off
for the vicodin cowboys
take it all off
gonna make some big noise
take it all off 
for the vicodin cowboys
you know how i do
when i do it for you

i’m getting real lost
in your drugstore kisses
you know i’m gonna
stay the night
and even if this world
gets a little bit vicious 
i know it’s gonna be alright

i take it all off
for the vicodin cowboys
take it all off
gonna spread some big joy
take it all off 
for the vicodin cowboys
you know what i’ll do
when i do it for you

i don’t beleive in phantoms
i don’t believe that you’ll be 
coming back to me
i don’t believe in the anthems
of them carny code priests
who say they see right through me
i don’t believe in your drugstore kisses
i don’t believe in forbidden wishes
i don’t believe in some lucky star
or the way you strum that tin guitar
i don’t believe in the vicodin cowboys
i don’t believe in the vicodin cowboys

i’m putting on a show
for the tawdry chemist
he knows just what to do
you play it all off but you couldn’t 
care less
as long as i keep coming through
and i keep coming through

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

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drugstore kisses (WATCH the Caves perform this song! link in Description)

Happy Winter Solstice! xx
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Zx3clsPfc

Breathe.
Don’t you know when the river’s out
It’s not a place you want to be around, oh no
Close your eyes so you cannot see
It’s not a place where you want to be right now
Things have been rough on you
Things have been rough on you
I know
Things been bad for me too
Things been bad for me too
Oh I know

Liars and thieves and treacheries
Counter-intuitive conspiracies
Oh I know
Sinking ships with this broken glass
‘Cos baby don’t you know nothing evers gonna last
Oh I know
Things have been rough on you
Things have been rough on you
Oh I know
Things been bad for me too
Things been bad for me too
Oh I know

Breathe darling
Don’t let go
Breathe darling 
Don’t let go

Breathe ©steph sweet 2020 All Rights Reserved

Breathe

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NEW SONGS COMING THIS SUMMER! It's 2023 and time to get back down to th' cave. Stay Tuned!

DOOMY GLOOMY LOVE SONGS! 13 new tracks by Secret Caves, on Bandcamp and Spotify NOWNOWNOW! 

Also!  "PLAGUE CITY DEMOS: songs by Carrie & Scott", 23 tunes recorded by C & S from the Caves between September 2020 and May 2021, with a rogue's gallery of special guests...  visit https://youtu.be/LNdZZz-NoQ4 for a preview! or go download all the songs ---  https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com

Another video, for the song "Hangman!" is waiting for you here: https://youtu.be/ABMjhy3c8xI

meanwhile, come visit our instagram, won't you? https://www.instagram.com/secretcavesband/

also, check us out on video here: Secret Caves perform on IN THE ATTIC WITH PIPER: https://youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg   stop in and see Secret Caves playing songs, sitting down for an interview, and cavorting with puppets, the devil, etc...   "In The Attic..." is a delightful talk show hosted by Piper, a true Princess among puppets (she even has the tiara to prove it, as you'll soon see!)... 

and! our EP  "tell the devil i can't be late" is free free free on Bandcamp! https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/album/tell-the-devil-i-cant-be-late-ep
6 new songs, go get 'em and play them LOUD, friends! 

All the tears in the world can't stop us laughing, dammit.  We want to wrap you up in mellow doom and give you delirious kisses as the city burns.

drugstore kisses (WATCH the Caves perform this song! link in Description)

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