This NIN cover is delivered in on the chariot of The Cure classic, Fascination Street, which defined the genre Darkwave. Hurt exposes the pain of losing a loved one and how to continue living on with purpose.

I 
Hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know 
Goes away in the end
And you can have it all 
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I 
Wear this crown of thorns 
Upon my liar’s chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else 
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know 
Goes away in the end
And you can have it all 
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again 
A million miles away
I would keep myself 
I would find a way

Engineered, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by: 
Pete Mills at Shadow Zone Sound
Written by Trent Reznor
Bass, Guitar, Synth, Vocals: Pete Mills
Drums: Shawn Mrazek
Additional Production: Ellen Hawk

Darkness

Hurt

To reconcile heartache by kissing the living dead after a broken heart beats Cold. With an adrenalin rush of chill “Cold” turns a dire situation into a dark sonic manifesto.

I watched as you froze
Chilled me to the bone
And your lips kissed 
Cold, so cold, so cold
So cold
So cold

Death by a thousand cuts
You keep telling me its not enough
Hanging on 
Gimme more 
Begging me 
From the floor 
Oh no, don’t stop it’s so cold

You betrayed what I thought was trust
Getting off on all the ways you suffer
Need a hit 
Gotta fix
Down below 
There’s a storm so cold

I watched as you froze
Chilled me to the bone
And your lips kissed 
Cold, so cold, so cold
So cold
You turned me into stone
As the lights are dimming low
Now my lips kiss 
Cold, so cold, so cold
So cold
So cold

Secret and malevolent
Coquettish in your wicked sin 
Gotta break 
From the cold
Too escape 
From your hold on me, can’t breathe I’m so cold

Blinded by this twisted fate 
Drowning deep into the void we made
Like a fist 
Through the glass
One more kiss 
Make it last so cold

I watched as you froze
Chilled me to the bone
And your lips kissed 
Cold, so cold, so cold 
So cold
You turned me into stone
As the lights are dimming low
Now my lips kiss 
Cold, so cold, so cold 
So cold
So cold


A thousand cuts
A thousand cuts
A thousand cuts 
Death by a thousand cuts 
I turned to stone, chilled to the bone 
I crumbled into dust
The lights dim low and the curtains close
Our death by a thousand cuts

I watched as you froze
Chilled me to the bone
And your lips kissed 
Cold, so cold, so cold 
So cold
You turned me into stone
As the lights are dimming low
Now my lips kiss 
Cold, so cold, so cold 
So cold
So cold

Engineered, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by: 
Pete Mills at Shadow Zone Sound
Written by Pete Mills & Bryn McCutcheon
Bass, Guitar, Synth, Vocals: Pete Mills
Drums: Shawn Mrazek
Additional Production: Ellen Hawk

Cold

Produced and written by Drew Davies, recorded worldwide. 

Drew Davies - Vocals, Synthesizers and Rhythm Guitar
Chris Haddleton - Lead Guitar
Dion Palumbo - Bass Guitar
Andrei Ilie - Drums

Mixed by Danny Woodward at Whitewood Recordings - BC Camplight, Ladytron, Circa Waves.                                                                        

Mastered by Graeme Lynch at 209 Mastering - Circa Waves, The Coral, Ladytron, AMS Neve, Marshall Records.

The Comeback

Beginning with an inspired horror movie motif Creeper is a desperate cry for help. When the conscious mind drifts into sleep the body becomes hostage to night terrors. Creeper describes fear and subconscious suppression running rampant at bedtime.

Nighttime, I can’t sleep now 
Its shivering down my spine
Come and save me my sweet baby
Cause I’m screaming out my eyes
Shattered glass glistening like chimes
This melody’s infecting my mind
As the sirens scream for the death of me
I’m paralyzed by brutality

Night terror creeper
Terrorizing me
All I wanted was a lullaby
Night terror creeper
Terrorizing me
Every time I go to sleep at night
You keep creeping keep creeping
My night terror creeper, night terror creeper
Creeping, you keep creeping
My night terror creeper, night terror creeper

Clandestine, you’re in disguise
My transmission terminates
Down on my luck, you don’t give a fuck
As my vitals disintegrate
No one knows what you do to me
Your torturing is in secrecy
This breath of pain living in my lungs
Is stronger than the fear of God

Written by: Pete Mills
Vocals, bass, guitar, synth, drums: Pete Mills
Engineered, produced, mixed, mastered: Pete Mills
Additional production: Ellen Hawk
Mix consultant: Anthony “FU” Valcic
Recorded, mixed, mastered: Shadow Zone Sound
Label: Young & Cold Records, Shadow Zone Records

Nowhere

Creeper

Fearlessly facing demons gave birth to this juggernaut of a song. Evil touches upon all that is dark inside the soul to then find solace in the beauty of its demise.

Evil so beautiful to me
Cause evil destroys all I see

Gasoline drips down the cement
A lighter ignites all I lament
Anorexic thoughts need to be fed
In a world of hate I’ve got no regrets right now

Evil so beautiful to me
Cause evil destroys all I see

The bombs will blow over my head
I don’t mind if this is the end
The barbed wire cuts the sky rains red
A switchblade fight reflecting the night right now

Evil so beautiful to me
Cause evil destroys all I see

Evil so beautiful to me
Evil destroys all I see

Written by: Pete Mills
Vocals, bass, guitar, synth, drums: Pete Mills
Engineered, produced, mixed, mastered: Pete Mills
Additional production: Ellen Hawk
Mix consultant: Anthony “FU” Valcic
Recorded, mixed, mastered: Shadow Zone Sound
Label: Young & Cold Records, Shadow Zone Records

Evil

All that's holy
Pure and born free
Ends in curses
Tears and hearses
We all know this 
And we won't miss
All your drama
And your bullshit
Beg for money
Always guilt free
You won't get a single thing from me
For free

Get out
We owe you nothing 
We all fall down

Get Out

2024 Scheitan album "Songs for the gothic people".

The Last Time

War Candy

Tiamat - Sympathy for the Devil (cover rolling stones)

Fresh off the interstellar triumph of his August 2018 debut, VAN, Nashville's own Corinthian Leathers returns with another shimmering slab of homegrown electro-folk rock.

Recommended If You Like: Concept-less concept albums. "Old, Weird America." B&W psychedelia.

The digital download of COTILLION on Bandcamp is free and will remain so forever. All gratuitous proceeds go to the Save the Children Fund.
credits
released September 16, 2018

All songs written, arranged, performed, and mixed by Corinthian Leathers. Recorded at home using a Zoom MRS-8, November 2016 to August 2018.

Corinthian Leathers plays a Sierra Alpine acoustic/electric guitar and a Yamaha YTR-4325S trumpet.

Martin Brady: Pianos on "One More Curtain"

All songs mastered by Kyle Pickard.

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All rights reserved.

Cotillion

Crash and Burn

Written by Andrew Gill Beck and Jamie Macdonald.  Art by Moriah Good.

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Corinthian Leathers is a songwriter and home recording enthusiast in Nashville, Tennessee. Follow me I'll follow back.

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