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"Dredging The Depths" the new 2 track single out today https://vampyrouss.bandcamp.com/album/dredging-the-depths

Vampyrouss - "Jagged Pieces" (2019) Lyrics: With moonlight as the only guide We wander side by side The silence growing deafening I dare not catch your eye The bluish hues surround us Casting shadows on our shame To mask our true expressions… Our journey has led us this far Into the murky dark unknown Casting out the doubts, we hide Together, never more alone Despite our best intentions Every effort remains in vain All the trampled, jagged pieces Can never fit back together again Time rolls ever on regardless of The shards left in our open wounds Winding on through all the noise And the silent ones gone far too soon Memories left, fading away A cruel mockery this mortal game So claim a draw whilst it’s there to breathe Then bury the regrets with the rest of me But until that day dawns it’s final rays We will close that tome on an empty page With moonlight as the only guide We wander side by side The silence growing deafening I dare not catch your eye The bluish hues surround us Casting shadows on our shame To mask our true expressions: Empty, shallow, grave We continue upon this path The far less travelled road Passing by the warning signs, still blind To the destination unknown In spite of our best efforts The outcome remains the same All the fractured, jagged pieces Left in the wake of our mistakes... So little left, traded away For a handful of scars, ancient runes Yet we still convince ourselves in the dead of the night All the lies that we wish would come true The brooding moonlight’s soothing light A spotlight on the scene Of the long dark night of the soulless Succumbing to the need The prose tinted glasses shattered Revealing the endgame Expressionless we walk away Empty, shallow, grave Every dead end diverted Still the sequence remains unbreached Passing by our past mistakes and ties All our vanquished hopes and dreams… Despite our best intentions Every effort remains in vain All the trampled, jagged pieces Can never fit back together again In spite of our best efforts The outcome remains the same All the fractured, jagged pieces Left in the wake of our mistakes... Lyrics & Music by Kazraine Maars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_nJvKHHzQ

Vampyrouss - "Truth Despoiler" (2019) Lyrics: It is never far away That stalking, ever creeping dread Embodied by the venomous Cretinous shadow which lies in wait... Peer into my eyes and ponder What goes on inside my mind How the cogs whir counter clockwise And lines are crossed, borders intertwined Where truth meets with pure malice My warped reality gestates Forgoing fact for fallacy The difference soon dissipates The rumour mill keeps churning Rotting from inside Listening intently For the bavardage it seeks They’ll never learn Or see through the disguise Lapping up all falsities The truth despoiler speaks It feeds upon attention That fiendish force of malevolence Engorging itself on tension It is he who tugs upon the thread... Hear me now willing fodder As I lay this long, plotted path of lies A trail that winds deep into the trees With the forest lost to those inside Wherein truth becomes obsolete My deceit is free to manifest Befouling all fact with fallacy For those ensnared within to ingest Don’t… look… into… its eyes Don’t… believe… the fables… the lies Watch... out… for the web… it weaves Choke it... deny it… the putrid air… it breathes... Lyrics & Music by Kazraine Maars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqYTMU1c6o

Vampyrouss - "Within Conspiring Minds" [Barely (A)Live Rehearsal] Lyrics: Secret sects are formed by the power craving kind Fleeing from their failings, finding comfort in denial This benighted growing swarm a cult of the blind leading the blind Flocking into further fantasy converting fools into their tribe… "Bow to the King, kiss the ring Bathe in a deeper meaning And thus become a God, the knowledge sought Was always yours for the taking You behold the truth, that so few knew Watch the layers peeling Follow and you will thrive, become the hive A faithful soldier in the making..." Throne to the wolves The howls of umbrageous obedience Now bowing to a different master Doused in a fresh coat of ignorance Unsustainable These tall tales, mere whispers on the wind Catching plausibility once in a while You start to see the mounting gaps in between You found out how the product is made Assessed the man behind the curtain And now, betrayed, with a reddened face You’re set free still you remain unchanged To save face with those who warned you away Unable to admit that you were deceived Now bound between a rock and a hard place You double down and bite the hand that feeds... ...YOU! Whilst each “revelation” turns to ash The congregation still bow to pray Hoping it wasn’t all completely for nought That the trust was not misplaced Yet even with the torch extinguished The facts seem unbearable to face The swollen sting of being swindled That plummeting fall from grace! Each time logic thwarts them and belittles their assertions This quicksand cult mentality provides perpetual motion The plague of paranoia spreads with no sign of decline Rearing minacious content within conspiring minds... Lyrics & Music by Kazraine Maars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugb8m9us6ns

Vampyrouss - "The Ripper's Ruby Kiss" [Barely (A)Live Rehearsal] Lyrics: The wind has blown so cold since her demise Howling through winter skies Hanging onto the thin threads left inside He yearns to give her life In the corners of his study (and his mind) The answers he will find Chasing dragons in excess he pines For her... He adores her dress and slowly drifts away As a profound change and altered state he takes Stalking in the night long shadows pave For her safe passage to the prey Unwitting "poor hoars" reeking of high pay Who would miss them in any case? In dark corners kept for sinful embrace Each night his knife inscribes His signature, a gothic font engraved In them... He discards the dress and dons a mask of pain Shocked and in awe as his heart begins to race Locked away he swears to wrong his rites Each a blood drenched sacrifice With a potion to bring them back to spite And free him of the guilt knotting inside In the corners of his study (and his mind) The answers he will find To unlock the secret formula of life For them... He abhors the dress with vehement disdain Yet the Ripper's ruby kiss will rise to strike again! At the toll of twelve he slips into attire (Dressed to kill) Fully risen and peaked, brimming desire Veiled by cheap frills This femme fatale prances deep into the night Unaware of the crowd behind Assembling on the horizon with vengeance on their minds For him... They cast his husk upon a stake then spark a flame Engulfed in fire, ablaze, the Ripper's ruby kiss is tamed Lyrics by Kazraine Maars. Music by Azrael Gexen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTvaltNCcU

Vampyrouss - "All Roads Lead To You" [Barely (A)Live Rehearsal] Lyrics: The burden of days and the sprawling nights In the silence of solitude there is no place to hide From the past and its sins, the reflections within The ravaging tides of time leave me gnarled, indistinct The tolling bells of years gone by Echo in the distance every chime A shrill reminder of those once dulcet tones Such goodness wrenched away from these fragile bones But how the beaten organ can still sputter a pulse For those moments in the sun, the thrill of the hunt Oh spare me from nostalgia and her accursed front Which may rend me man again for a taste of this spell that is spun Around the cobwebbed coves of the darkest side Midst the dank dungeon dregs of a derelict mind Which sheathe my feats from the driving gale Make swift my end like those I once assailed Prey, we come closer with every breath Brought slowly back together by encroaching death The lurker in the shadows, sole victor of this game Set in motion by vengeance now recalled as shame The scapegoat still bleats I grind my jagged hooves Head hung low, drunk with power, bemused A mere pawn led to march in this terrible war Revenge a crueller mistress than ever accredited for... This hall of shame bears down on me As it crumbles from the inside out I can barely breathe It all begins to tumble down The edges blur And then the pain subsides I succumb to a sedated numbness Until the next time I choose to close my weary eyes The arrows turned, the swords repel I throw the flag And set sail for the end In flames I swear this sinking ship Will be dashed to the depths And never found Torture artist not my chosen nom de plume But this sordid desolation of my creation Holds to this unspeakable truth There is no place to flee, no haven There are no more roads to roam When all the paths inevitably Still lead back to You The musings of a madman on the edge Still reeling from the feeding of the basest needs My curse, this lover's pledge And so it ends, this embittered tale All the dragons slain, the piper paid Now doomed I walk alone On this scorched earth… Lyrics by Kazraine Maars. Music by Azrael Gexen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vK9sWKgi4

Vampyrouss - "Reptile (The Church Cover)" [Barely (A)Live Rehearsal] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8kIF15rKhA

Vampyrouss - "Eyes Like Autumn" [Barely (A)Live Rehearsal] Lyrics: Once upon a time There lived a worthless wretch A social cactus spines unkempt And in this thorny heart Where the final throb resigns Every flower wilts and dies Through late September skies And all the endless rain I never dreamt those fallen leaves Would ever match your eyes again I can never take my word back I will stand and fall by your side This is not a choice that I made Something keeps me lost within your eyes Your golden eyes Your eyes like Autumn In the coldness of the night The words I dare not speak Are far too much for me to keep But with the morning light They're unveiled for you to see Et le mien seul â se sentir Through long October nights Where I would count the days Until I could catch a glimpse Of your magnificence again They'll always haunt me Your eyes like Autumn Memories from those years gone by Every day that we lost brought a sleepless night We glimpsed into a brave new world Frightened to see its tail unfurl The first embrace it burnt like fire My shivering frame dialogue unrequired Just smile and sigh and let it all pass The night is still young so raise your glass... Lyrics by Kazraine Maars. Music by Paul Butterworth. https://youtu.be/eTBLSwUxmbA