Ways to Wonder, track 2 of 5 off of Snowroads - 2022.

Lyrics:
Tell me there are paths to wander
Tell me there are ways to wonder
A hill we've seen before, point the way with suggestion 
All them before, run through autumn
Lights and bright lives, left on and burning
A step on silent frost, scrawl plans on tattered cloth
Afar, go paint for me, a sun of warmth, health, and vision
Away, cast the ash away from me, should be there soon
Marks from those before and after, should be there soon
A step on silent frost, scrawl plans on tattered cloth
These signs toward journey's end, fly away from stranded loss
To find the ends that we, gave all just to be known
Dancing signs in the sky, reflect off falling snow
Break maps down by speech and recall what others said
Lash down treasures to find words that no one read
Safe but grounded, creep forth cold
Lay on floorboards until our bones grow old
Heard from another how they might survive
Past that hill, to ways others contrived
Relive the footsteps of wretched dreamers
Wonder how I'll find the way
It seems there is nothing now but lines in the dirt, lead me astray 
To find the ends that we, gave all just to be known
Dancing signs in the sky
Reflecting off falling snow

Snowroads

Ways To Wonder

The Gathering Place, track 3 of 5 off of Snowroads - 2022.

The Gathering Place

Tenderly Forgotten, track 5 of 5 off of Snowroads - 2022.

Lyrics:
Carried like shale to build the walls
Every moment the burden grows, tools to toil away
Every mention in passing sight
Reminds me I forge a lie
Etching mazes, walked alone
Approaching a sense of purpose not my own
Bring me only language I can read, others will learn my shaky dirtied hand
Haunting the steps I forgot you could take, burnt by the silence for reference's sake
Underpin ways I cannot stay, to freeze another day
Hang in time
Motionless
Break the signs
Safe from this
Misdirection, find the line that makes you whole
Introspection, ignore scrawl they left behind
And find the Fall, before it dies
Sleep with eyes wide
A home, a line, vein
I look to find
Reconception, find the line that makes you whole
Realization, ignore scrawl they left behind
And find the Fall, before it dies
Scream with mouth wide
A home, a line, a vein
I look to find
Bring back the souls I've met, let ways I wander be my own
In time they'll learn to let
Rumors, well-meaning, die alone
Forms penned in through snowfall breathe through my darkened mind
Limbs move toward swaying moors to rest my fears against them
Moving towards. Towards where I should be.

Tenderly Forgotten

Corners and Echoes, track 4 of 5 off of Snowroads - 2022

Lyrics:
Head down feet moving, stories turned to thought
Mending on the way, ruts of latent hope
Hands to the walls, feeling for smoke
It comes into view, numbed to the way through
Watch untended fields, in my eyes perceive
Steps down winding lanes, back through conceived
Split in two worlds, gracing ground
Astral, Earthly, leading where?
Distant dreaming, warmth of view 
Conscious screaming the cold in you
Peer through lenses, colored monochrome
Where we are, or where we should be
Dig deaf, salve well known
For those we see
Look, they are speaking to us in the flesh
Safely in tangled advice distantly
Branching the columns divide, signs erased
Find the hands we held close
Losing sense and touch
Of ground below and clouds above
Narrow truths we chase, lean from the miles and miles
Finding wisps and such
Of better ways and 'should have gones'
Highways interwove, bright stars caught between isles
Drift past me, steady the breathing
Please find me moving, towards where we should be
Where have the others gone?
Aching now more than ever
I walk through ghosts of another, to finally find
Where we should be
Where we should be

Corners and Echoes

Before We Knew Them, track 1 of 5 off of Snowroads - 2022.

Lyrics:
Please wind, share with me
The bitters in the glass
Cast not, rocks to sea
And swallow to the last
The leaves from the trees, shelter as they pass
To take what I've learned from ways that I've turned
And lie to them when asked
I will meet there, inside the lives I've known
Past, it sleeps there, a bastard on the throne
For those I see strive endlessly
To bind their lots as one
Outside their minds, yet live in these time
Where ends are met alone
Watching, sightless
Past white rime, advancing
I remember what I'm to say to them again
Onward pay no mind to empty roads and glens before you
Seared in my mind are empty suspicions, drunken
Lance this venom so I can heal again and follow 
Lead by those, as a shadow
Darkening days of the year
Strike the thoughts to clear the rot
Warmth before cold and fear
Damn the wind, this light so small, take cover with many hands
Give me the burden of others' woes
To march through this freezing brand

Before We Knew Them

Hello everyone! We are back with the next single 'Scrimshaw' off of my yet unnamed 4th full length studio album. This was a really fun song to write/record as it gives a nod the to the overarching concept of my original album, 'Spreading Talk of Deadmen' (2016). Lyrics for 'Scrimshaw' center around 3 different characters and their pasts as the song progresses - different sections relate to their various experiences. Drums for this song were particularly challenging as I needed to play in rhythms well outside my comfort zone. Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoy! - Wollace

Song written, recorded, and mixed by Wollace 

Lyrics:

Reading memories too raw
For words or ledger
Bare thoughts below sun bleached bones
Now exposed

Carved from stone, granite keen teeth
Swallow the world, to feel something
I've left things - homes behind, life untold
Pursuing chimerical lead to gold

Forward facing dreams
Shun ghosts behind seams

Brought to bear on distant shores
In search of skies inside my mind
Beyond my own to reach them all

Flee father's overbearing 
Desire to carve my story

Knives dull from stories told
In thankless prose we bear the mast
Of our own.

Scrimshaw [Pre-production]

Hello everyone! Here is the next single titled 'Tundral Lunar' (feat. Owen DeLand, Will McFarland) off of my yet-unnamed 4th full-length studio album. I am excited to announce that this is the first Wollace Wraith song ever to feature guest soloists. On fretless bass, we have Owen DeLand of Antimony and Citadel; on guitar we have Will McFarland of SATARTIA! 'Tundral Lunar' represents a logical midpoint in upcoming album, as it encompasses some of the heaviest, but also calmest sounds heard throughout. The album's protagonist searches atop the frozen wasteland of a once vibrant ocean, looking for signs of life, or any semblance of companionship in the dark. Also, one of my cats made a guest appearance in the video, bonus points if you can spot her. Thank you for your time, I hope you enjoy! - Wollace

Song written, recorded, and mixed by Wollace. Solos written by Owen DeLand and Will McFarland.

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Lyrics:
I realized the fog had gone, left with elation
Distance wide the vivid nights,  plains of intention
Braced and bare my skin exposed
Under stars roads dissolved
Within the smallest thing the sky had ever seen
I looked beyond words in walls, ever welcoming
Venture from a single beating heart tethered down
To build them back now
What am I to others, the distant forms dark?
Brought before another reminder of my absent mind
In circles
Searching in every blind for signs
Illuminate every treasure I cannot reach or find
Beneath skies, pristine fissures clear in ice
Down and down we feel the currents, motionless
Like silent damnation
Walk under towards the
Walk under towards the
Walk under towards the
Forwards moonlight
Back to the only shelter known
Cracks in the visions of my home
Down and down I feel the currents, motionless
Like silent damnation

Tundral Lunar (feat. Owen DeLand, Will McFarland)

Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to release my next single, 'Sea Glass' off of the yet unnamed 4th studio album. My cats decided they wanted to cameo in this one, so see how many you can count throughout the video - it's more than one! 'Sea Glass' will be one of the final songs off the album, this piece tells the story of the world beginning to thaw, and the loss of ephemeral comforts the protagonist grew used to during his time as a on the ship. Thanks for stopping by, Happy Holidays, and I hope you enjoy! - Wollace
Lyrics: 
Signals sent in tongues I've never known
The advent of worlds in stasis below
Give in to breaths space evenly
Marked as glass in the sea
To find the elemental lines in shells of light
Awash with vitality
Away so far down, but many fill the voiceless
Faces in the night of every shaded contour
And it seems we've all jumped ship and fled
Quick to believe that 'I'll' be the one who gets
Home
Have you ever seen the sanctioned sails of
Those who broke free just to spiral aimless
Have they ever stared down, and seen what solace lives
Don't look up now, answers spoken firm
Until I feel the soil beneath my feet
One thousand shards of dreams are all I see
Don't look up now, answers spoken firm
I fear to face the life between the seams
And wake to greet the cold reality
The faceless forms in broken visions
Lurk just beyond the lengths of living
The glaciers' glare, which shrouds them all
Shudders with warmth before the fall
And it seems we've all jumped ship and fled
Quick to believe that 'I'll' be the one who gets
The sea glass shows a way to the only home
And light alone that dim beyond my pale grasp
Like snow

Sea Glass

Hello everyone! It's great to be back with the next single from my yet unnamed forthcoming album. This song is called 'The Leviathan' and it will be the final song on the album. Covering the end of an ice age and the warming of global ocean systems, 'The Leviathan' details the protagonist's final days stranded on his ship in a stagnant sea of ice as the reality he came to know over hundreds of years rapidly changes and evolves. This was also a fun one to record as I got to dust off my saxophone skills and record a quick solo at the end of the song. Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy! - Wollace

Lyrics:
As the dream breaks on conscious shores
Hours late, before the storm
While stars hide and cracks form
Steady breaths, hands clutch the moor
I find I can't remember
The rhythm of a living world
Revive the thoughts you had of me, and cast them overboard
Waves churn lesions in tundra and silent cells
Waves bring fever to sleepers in sunless hells
To hulls they hand the weight of a thousand years at bay
Draining all the fears of tranquility away
Dragged from thresholds of complacency
Forms no longer distant now beckon to me
From castles of splinters, look down
Bright when seen from afar, hope dare not faced
Companions would do no harm
Through shadowed faces, some deeper shapes stir
Waves come take me, away
Away
Refreeze my blood, and close my eyes
Draw sinking pieces of home to my side
Across a plane of depthless weight
Show me not truth I see, pass by miles quietly
The lives I see, evolved with ardor and grew to wander
A world above, below, around
That groans and shakes its numbed limbs
I pray for land to plant my roots
But that hope is miles down
The lives I see, evolved with ardor and grew to wander
It lives, it breathes, revolve with fervor and grew
Into the light
Into the light (drifting, sinking, swaying, seeing)
Draining, the world looks back and smiles
Rows of teeth, jagged shores, of ivory and iron
Currents breathing, glaciers becoming driftwood, realize skies lie
At our feet

The Leviathan

The third album of the progressive metal project, Wollace Wraith

Until The Words Start To Form

This is a progressive metal project I have been working on for several years now. Guitars, vocals, bass, drums, and keys are all done by me. Influences include: Burst, The Ocean, Between the Buried and Me, Isis (the band), The Contortionist, Jakob.

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