Set the World on Fire is a high energy song to make you jump on the dance floor like there's no tomorrows.

Set the World on Fire

When Mirrors Bleed is the debut full-length from Echoes in Glass – a cinematic alt-metal / melodic metalcore record about what happens when you finally stop hiding from the person in the mirror. Across twelve tracks, the band tears into trauma, shame, generational fallout and fractured relationships, then drags the pieces into the light to see what’s left. It’s heavy, melodic, and brutally honest: big choruses, haunted verses, screamed confessions and quiet moments where the room suddenly feels way too real.

From the first spark of hope in “Splinters of Sunrise” and the self-confrontation of “When Mirrors Bleed”, through the defiant bite of “Paper Skin, Iron Teeth” and “Burn the Halo”, the haunted grief of “Gravity of Your Ghost”, “Stitches in the Silence” and “Ink in My Lungs”, to the widescreen collapse of “Cold Kingdoms Collapse” and the post-apocalyptic ache of “Letters from the Fallout”, the album keeps circling one question: who are you when the coping mechanisms fall apart? Closer “When the Echoes End” doesn’t pretend to have a neat answer—but it leaves the door open for healing after the noise.

This is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were breaking in private while the world only saw their highlight reel. Turn it up, let it crack the glass, and see what spills out when the mirrors bleed.

Letters from the Fallout

When Mirrors Bleed

Children of the Aftermath

Gravity of Your Ghost

Splinters of Sunrise

Ink in My Lungs

Paper Skin, Iron Teeth

Burn the Halo

Ever Shadow

When the Echoes End

each part of each song was recorded in basically one or two passes of improvisation in an attempt to capture a mood and express the feelings that Butch was feeling at the time...  there isn't much virtuosity or anything rare here, just pure raw emotion drawn from the moment; and a hope that it strikes a chord with someone somewhere... Butch thanks you truly for taking the time listen.

Chapter 5: No Hope

Don't Know

Scourge of Suburbia

Hazy

Class ‘A’ Love  (Song 727)  ft. SUNO

Out of Reach (Live at the King Billy)

Alien (Live at the King Billy)

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https://the-lost-connection.com  is the place to learn about me and my history.  Although I am just a Warehouse Picker, I am also a songwriter/keyboard player (IPI.  1069682323).  I have written over 1000 song lyrics since 1989 and have released 12 albums.  My productions have never been good enough to promote and I'm happy being an unknown artist, writing and recording music for pleasure rather than as a professional.  In April of 2017 I created my own website.  If you are interested in my songs then please save and stream on internet streaming sites, such as YT Music and Spotify.   If you like my words then check out my book ‘The Words Behind The Music Volume One: Lost In Reality’.  There will be a 2nd book within the next year, The Other Ones Before (Then After).
 
I released my first album, 'Lost Property' in December 2019. In the following months I released 5 Best Of albums.  They contained 87 tracks which I'd recorded between 2011 -2019.  In March I decided to release another album of songs which I'd recorded on tape (1994 - 1998) although 'Love Music' was updated in 2018 and the poem , Arrival... In Due Time', was recorded to complete the 'Reality In Dreamland' story not long before the album release.  

'2020 Vision' was the last album release of 2020.  This contains the single 'Voluntary Redundancy' which is very significant in regard to the album and the year in general. 

The next album release was  'New Lost World 19-20-21' (released on 1-9-2021 and features songs recorded in that 3 year period) which does feature one song that was re-written in a collaborative format.  Many of the songs were recorded (or re-recorded) during my year break after redundancy.

Soon after my 9th album, I released 'The Lost & Found History', which was a duo that never had enough time to get ideas up and running, but the brief recording moments occurred and this album shows the results.  The recordings were done between 1999 - 2013, but a couple of the tracks were initially just music.  Lyrics were added and, in 2021, the vocals were added to complete the songs.  Other songs were meant to recorded but we never found the time.  

Progress was made during the COVID years and 'Whatever Happened' is an album that reveals the results of attending a sync-writing course for 6 months; writing to briefs and collaborating.  It is mixed with personal, poignant and humorous songs.  it features lyrics from as far back as 1990. Before the release of the album 2 singles were promoted on Spotify: Won't Stop' and 'I Am Just Me'.  I am glad to reveal that the album will contain another version of 'Won't Stop' but called 'We Won't Stop' featuring Tim (the other half of The Lost & Found') on guitar and vocals (and co-writer of the music).

I may promote 'Voluntary Redundancy' from 2020 as I never gave it much exposure when first released.

Prior to focusing on my website and my  own releases I was in a heavy rock band...

At the beginning of 2013 I became the keyboard player with Innovator.    At the beginning of 2015, 'Time Is Running Out' but the first album was recorded before I joined the band.  'Spare Time' I introduced to the band and it was modified into an Innovator collaboration.  The song has been pre-recorded in it's original musical format , but lyrics amended since 2009 and is on '2020 Vision'.  A single was released on DistroKid in January 2016 for which I had a very big influence, called 'Southern Lady'.  It was a variation of a piece of music called 'The Lost And Found' recorded as a song many years before, but never released (as vocals not added until more recent years).  On this SoundCloud site I have deleted all the Innovator songs as I left the band in June 2017.  ‘Trapped Behind The Looking Glass’ was the 3rd album whi ch was released in August 2018,  on which I played on 6 of the songs and did backing vocals on ‘Dogs Of War’ (the deep chorus vocals).

Northampton Grunge / Alternative Band 😎

Echoes in Glass blends cinematic alt-metal and melodic metalcore into songs that feel like horror films, heartbreak letters and battle cries all at once. Crushing riffs, massive choruses, and raw lyrics about trauma, regret, and rebuilding yourself after the wreckage. Heavy enough to scream to, melodic enough to tattoo on your brain.

Butch is a geographical impossibility, a sound forged in the grit of New York, the deep soul of New Orleans, and the stark reality of Baltimore. His musical history is a graveyard of projects—a trail of various bands marked by both fleeting success and definitive failure. This past has driven him into isolation, where the musician now operates almost entirely alone.

Recording under the moniker Butch Against The Machine, he has fully embraced a process defined by raw impulse. His workflow is one of pure, unedited improvisation, capturing the material directly as it spills out. The constraint of not being able to sing is transformed into an act of creative desperation: he struggles to physically manifest the multitude of fragmented, distinct voices he hears echoing in his own head.

Butch is not merely an artist; he is a vehicle for a highly disturbed, uncompromising vision, delivering music that is as unsettling and complex as the man himself.

Snowthern Groove Metal from the Northern part of North America.

New tracks tagged #Heavy Rock