Oceano-Dead Planet

Metal/Death Metal/Metalcore/Industrial-Tinged Metal.

Official YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Hauntshade

Official Releases:
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCW9qc5B5KDyRQn5qZwvdcXw
Apple Music / iTunes: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/hauntshade/1817374824
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/68cnPaXWK276LYnYQgBfOB
Bandcamp: https://hauntshade.bandcamp.com

Lyrics written by me.
Music created with the help of AI.


Relentless

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Shattered Illusions

walking time bomb

Hellhole

Hollow Prophet "Black Communion"

Intravenously

You've been deceived by the holy see
Imprisoned by your convictions, blinded by superstition
Cover your sins with iron chains and royal armour of shame
Imprisoned by your convictions blinded by superstition

Unbelief is what will lead to your eternal extinction
Embrace your surroundings and uncover the true meaning of fear
Enter the interstice and witness the crimson eyes that terrorize
From this moment this will be your world, a realm between the transient and the dead

The bearer of light dwells in the deep darkness

Your attempt to break free is futile as you're mounted by this hideous beast
It's saliva touches your cheek while you shriek in agony
Your scream serves as a reminder of that day

Do not pray
If you pray you hands will close together
You will not be able to survive the night

So I lose control over every ounce of remaining restraint
The swing of my blade decapitates
Born of bloodshed, strengthened to kill
They won't live to see the daybreak

You've been deceived by the holy see
Imprisoned by your convictions, blinded by superstition
Cover your sins with iron chains and royal armour of shame
Imprisoned by your convictions blinded by superstition

Intravenously

Splutter