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Shooting Blanks & Pills

by Cowards

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1.
I Retreat In Myself But Not Away From You I'll it Amidst You All I'll Sit And Watch You Fall And I'll Send To Know For Whom The Bell Tolls And His Name That Sat On Him Is Not For You To Know And His Name That Sat On Him But I Followed With Him I Am This Island You Wish Wouldn't ExistNeither Brother Nor Son Father To Your Tears To Your Strife Friend To Your Fears And His Name That Sat On Him Is Not For You To Know And His Name That Sat On Him But I Followed With Him Hoarse From The Get Go Washed Away Clean The Great Whore Calls My Name In Her Wet Dreams In Her Wet Dreams I'll Stand There And Sow You, Ripe
2.
Last Card 06:35
Just Like A Broken Mirror With Only So Much Shards That Care I've Seen You Complete Then And Watched You Decay No Use For You But To Bleed The Weak I've Been Here Before Trust In Me No More No Need For Me But To Bleed Your Wreck I've Been Here Before Trust Me, No More Just Like The Wretched Wound Inside My Mouth I Will Cut My Tongue So I Don't Go South Trust In Me When I Say I'll Remember You To Your Last Shard Still No Trust In You When You Pray But I Know It's Your Last Card No Use For You But To Bleed The Weak I've Been Here Before Trust In Me No More No Need For Me But To Bleed Your Wreck I've Been Here Before I've Been Here Before I've Bled The Whore Of Malice And Men, Cowardice And Shame The Song Remains The Same, But In A Crackhead's Den Fuck You And Your Pain I Understand But Deny Your Right To Complain, I Use And Abuse But I I Hold My Ground, Deeper And Deeper Deeper And Deeper Still Just As Tall As You've Made Me When You Fall I'm Free Pay Your Fare, Let Me In Only As Tall As You Let Me Be Can't Spare You A Grin When You Fall I'm Free
3.
Scarce 09:21
This Delusionnal Peace You've Built Around You Based On Praise, Cocks Knee Deep In Your Mouth You Suck It Up, Swallow It All, Smile A Bit And Look Around You Well I Won't Partake In That Carnival Relentless 69 Against Your Wall I Won't Rise Above This Is Not About Your God This Is All About You About You All, About Your Fall So Shallow When You Pray Shooting Blanks And Pills Soothings Skanks, To This Day So Shallow When You Pray Boycott The Race Why Can't You Speak? Have You Lost Your Pace? Why Not Let The Meek? Why Not Let The Meek Make Themselves More Scarce? My Choice Is Nothingness... My Choice Is Nothingness You'd See It To Be Rich (My Choice Is Nothingness) Be It Only From Your Ditch I Don't Care For The Voice Of The Voiceless I'll Make My Own And Be Complete Boycott The Race Why Can't You Speak? Have You Lost Your Pace? Why Not Let The Meek? Why Not Let The Meek Make Themselves More Scarce?
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Vices & Hate 05:32
Brothers, Comrades In Arms? A Two Cents Masquerade Sold Out Parade Screw Your Erection I Hate Your Tolerance Levelling Down At A Glance Happiness Is A Cold Grin A Hard Smile, A Closed Face This Warm Place You Can't Defile Your Laughs, Your Smiles, Can Only Stall Your Pains, Your Griefs Make Me Harder The Haves Versus The Have Nots Fuck You All If You Don't Have Shit Fuck You All Just Come On And Get It I'm Not Gonna Cry When I Have It All The Looks, The Cash Vices And Hate You Think I Care Now Watch Me Cruise Through Life I Never Paid My Dues You Think I Care Now Watch Me Cruise You Stink Like So Many Morning Dues I Hear You Call See Me Stall Pretend I Care I Hear You All See Me Stall I Hear You All Wait For My Fall I Won't Pay You For This Fare I Ain't In For No Fairy Tale Seems I Should Be Paying For You It's Not Like Me To Be A Hero See My Mind And Eyes Get See My Mind And Eyes Get Narrow
5.
Despise The Crowd But Love The One I Can Only Give So Much Withdrawn From Providence No Ghost, No Soul, No Pain I Have No Enemy Within My Enemy Is You Your Life, Your Thoughts Your Loved Ones Too I Had A Dream You Were Not There To Share In The Confederacy Of Ruined Lives Blind To The World Yeah The Choice Is Bold Arrogant, Unseen Blind To The World Embrace Your Spleen Sarcasm, Bitterness Last Resort Of The Impotent For Patience I Could Care Less Butt Fuck The Tolerant I Had A Dream You Were Not There To Share Your Quest, Truth Be Told Will Make You Like The Worms The Less You Are The More I Am I Bless Your War The WhoreDeceased Butt Fuck The Tolerant
6.
I See Your Failures Trust Me It Ain't No Lure Don't Need No Faith Should You Be A Wraith So It Seems I Fell Not Even A Broken Ladder Out Of This Quarrel And Yet You Hoped And Here You Hoped I Was Better Saviour's Reasoning Take You All Under My Wing Make You Fall, All In A Fling Lost My Wits, Won't Fit In Take You All Under My Wing Take You All Under The Soul Of The Elder In The Temple Of A Man Against My Temple You Linger Grand Failure I'm Your Man My Eyes Can't Deny I'm Fucked I'm Down I'm Passing By Saviour's Reasoning Take You All Under My Wing Make You Fall, All In A Fling Lost My Wits, Won't Fit In Take You All Under My Wing Take You All Under Here You Are Waiting In For The Long Run Wrong Turn After Wrong Turn Here I Am Waiting In For My Homerun Wrong Turn After Wrong Turn Grand Failure I'm Your Man

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Gathering parisians with an already strong pedigree in dark and heavy music, COWARDS regurgitates gutter hardcore, unhealthy sludge/doom and nauseous black metal in "Shooting Blanks And Pills", their deeply raw and anxiogenic debut release. Only six months were needed to give birth to this full-length, monstrosity with a desperate urban feeling, bridge between the knife-in-the-heart crudeness of Eyehategod or Kickback and the majestic darkness of bands like Deathspell Omega or Thou. With a sound carrying smells of pissy streets and the dry blood you get for a sidelong glance, producer Francis Caste have perfectly catched the gist of these 38 minutes, recreating this forced apnea in a bile tank with a no frills approach.

Cowards features current and ex-members of Sickbag, Death Mercedes, Hangman's Chair, Eibon, Glorior Belli, Dacast, Colossus of Destiny…

"Shooting Blanks And Pills" will be released on 12" vinyl and free download during june, a first track will be posted soon. Artwork and logo by Fortifem - folio.fortifem.fr
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Conglomérat de parisiens au pedigree déjà bien chargé en matière de musiques lourdes et sales, COWARDS régurgite hardcore de caniveau, sludge/doom insalubre et black nauséeux dans un premier album des plus cru et anxiogène. A peine six mois d'existence leur auront suffit pour enfanter ce "Shooting Blanks And Pills", monstruosité à l'atmosphère désespérément urbaine, passerelle entre la crudité cutter-dans-le-coeur d'un Eyehategod ou d'un Kickback et la noirceur majestueuse des Deathspell Omega et autres Thou. 38 minutes aux effluves fleurant aussi bien les ruelles pisseuses que le sang séché récolté pour un regard de travers, et à l'essence parfaitement capturée par Francis Caste, qui restitue ici sans artifices cette apnée forcée dans une cuve à fiel.
Avec des membres/ex-membres de Sickbag, Death Mercedes, Hangman's Chair, Eibon, Glorior Belli, Dacast, Colossus of Destiny…

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released June 30, 2012

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Cowards Paris, France

Parisian quintet COWARDS have become an unrelenting force since their inception in 2012, imposing their ruthless blend of metallic hardcore and sludge over a couple of 12" releases and stages all across Europe. Only getting stronger and stronger as time passes by, the band now returns with their second album «Rise To Infamy». These ten tracks stand up as their most cohesive work... ... more

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