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Intense and intensely personal, "The Dead Ones" marks The Last Ten Seconds of Life’s Metal Blade label debut. For the 10 original tracks of pulverizing deathcore produced by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland of Pennsylvania’s Atrium Audio, the band focused on “the guitar/bass/drum tones as well as the mix/master to achieve a super-thick sonic output and ‘rolling-tank’-like feel,” guitarist Wyatt McLaughlin explains.
Directed by Jake Lepley & Tyler Beam
Camera operation by Jake Lepley, Eric Bluebaum, Tyler Beam
"The Dead Ones" was recorded/mixed/mastered by Atrium Audio
With the singles “The Dead Ones,” “Make It to Heaven,” and “Rat Trap,” TLTSOL have once again “reasserted their position as innovators and leaders in the deathcore genre…crafting an experience that challenges and captivates their audience,” as Knotfest raved about the lineup.
Four stellar guests are featured on the album—"Make It to Heaven” has David Simonich of Signs of the Swarm; Nate Johnson, ex-Fit For an Autopsy, appears on “Rat Trap;” “Dollar to a Dime” has Alan Grnja of Distant; and “XXXXXXXXXX” features original TLTSOL vocalist Storm Strope.
In creating The Dead Ones, “everyone took what we learned from the past two releases and assembled what we thought would bring out the best of us from song structure, tonality of instruments, the mix/master, and the lyrical themes,” furthers McLaughlin. The end result reflects a more personal and human experience rather than the philosophical and fictional approach used on NNG.
The first single, “The Dead Ones,” is specifically about how the actions of humanity can take an individual’s actual innate humanity away. “Dealing with these emotions can make you want to reach out to people who bring you comfort or peace and be a vessel to speak to them again,” McLaughlin says. “It invokes the physical scene of a seance and connecting with those, but questions if good is only a temporary veil for evil and warns about what lines might be crossed looking into the void.”
"The Dead Ones" was recorded with a six-string baritone Viper from ESP-LTD tuned to Drop F, the same tuning used on the band's 2012 "Warpath" EP. To elevate the intensity, the band also used an Earthquaker Devices Sunn O))) and Keeley Octa Psi drop tune pedal on certain sections.
Lineup:
Tyler Beam - Vocals
Dylan Potts - Drums
Andrew Petway - Bass
Wyatt McLaughlin - Guitar/Synthesizer
LYRICS:
Out of all the rats I've trapped
You're by far the most bitch made one of the pack
Fist to face
You can fuckin' count on that after everything i gave
Your first move was backstab
Sewer rat
Sewer rat
Bloodbath
Judas from the start
We will never be the same
Sewer rat
Sewer rat
Bloodbath
Grab you by the tail and send you straight to hell
Boom, boom, boom
With that thunder crack
All that lightnin' crashin' down as you take your last breath
No rest for the wicked no hope for you
Sewer rat
Sewer rat
Bloodbath
Judas from the start
We will never be the same
Sewer rat
Sewer rat
Nowhere to hide
You're stuck in the trap
Six feet deep in your lies
Out of all the rats I've trapped the most bitch made that's a fact
Out of all the rats I've trapped
I can't wait to cut you down
Your soul is black
Strung out
Rotten in the center
You won't live
You wont get out
You'll be cut down
Cast out
Banished for forever
You won't live
You won't get out
No way out
Of all the rats I've trapped
I can not wait to cut you down
We got a rat in the house and it's time to flush him out
Bloodbath
You judas
Limb from limb
Dismembered slowly
Leave no paper trail or body
Fuck your life and all you love the time has come to send you straight to hell
Grab you by the tail
So I can drive the nails
Beyond the pale