August 20th Show

Hey,

If you follow us at all you know we have a show coming up this Thursday August 20th!

Our definite set list is:

Angel of Fire
Sleeping Awake
One of Us
Mr. Motherfucker
Porcelain Face
Fratricide
Forgotten
Judgment Day
The Steel
The Dead Live On (Envious)

So come out and enjoy!

- Eric

Where the songs come from PT 3

The damned:



I was messing around with the riff for a while I couldn't figure out how to end it. Mike (our original guitarist) kept it nice and simple and that was how we went about it. I also wrote the lyrics for this one. Tim had entitled it "Ramen Noodles" which was supposed to be a song about the college experience. When Tim left I decided I wanted the words to be more about my college experience. I was listening to Manowar one day while walking down the halls at Manhattanville the song was actually "Dawn of Battle". I hated college and I used to put that song on to drown out the mass of idiocy that I thought flooded the hallways and saturated the air. If you need further explaining, get the song, put it on and walk through a place you hate.

I am the one
the one in your head
telling you to kill
I am the gun
the gun in your hand
whoa its such a thrill

"Whoa its such a thrill"... wtf? This line is actually a tribute to the W.A.S.P. album "Dying for the World"

Take the knife
give it a twist
unless you wanna
slit your wrists
you don't know who
or what I am
now your just
one of the damned

This chorus is basically my attitude towards a lot of the bleeding hearts who lurk in colleges. The ones who tell you that the soldiers fighting to keep them free are somehow robbing them of their civil rights. My attitude towards them is: If you don't support the war, at the very least support the troops. If you don't support the troops (regardless of their mission) kill yourself.

I am the dark
I am the storm
Demon Prince of Hell
I’ll take you down
Down to my home
I'll ring your mourning bell

I think the "I am the dark, I am the storm" is just really because those are things that people are afraid of. And then we have the AC/DC and GNR tribute with Hell and Bell (Hells Bells) and I'll take you down for "Paradise City" which is also funny because its the opposite of paradise and therefore transcends things all the way through the bible to Genesis which is the beginning and therefore we as human beings are the damned (Holy shit! Blame Owen just got all deep on your ass)

Then we have the final chorus:

Take the gun
Give it a spin
One shot to kill
One shot to win
Now you know
Who I am
Prince of Darkness
King of the Damned

Pretty badass! I mean, take the gun, give it a spin. That's a reference to playing Russian Roulette, but it also says to us that a person is the one who makes bad decisions, not society. When you do something dumb and die it's your own fault.

One shot to kill, one shot to win: My favorite lyric! AND I WROTE IT!!!!!

And then the narrator reveals himself to us.

This all happens in about 1:30.

Where the words came from, Pt ???

Greetings,

This is James, vocals, and I am going to totally rip off Eric and tell a little story about some of the lyrics to our songs. I can be a bit wordy, but I'm going to do my best to really get inside my own mind and relate the places where these words came from. First up: Porcelain Face, Never Coming Back, and Seeing In The Darkness. After my ramblings, the lyrics will be posted. If there is any request for lyrics, songs, etc...leave a comment or let us know on Twitter, which is www.Twitter.com/BlameOwen. So, Grab a beer and enjoy!


Porcelain Face
The lyrics for this song came about from one word, ossuary. I was in a religion class and the prof., a Jesuit priest, was explaining how in Jesus' time, there was only one burial place. It was a slab of stone for the dead body, and a box to place the bones in when someone else died. So the chorus is about seeing someone shatter and then placing their bones in a box. The verses are about slowly going insane, and seeing that the person who is shattering is yourself.

Never Coming Back
This song is about a plane crash! Yes, it really is. When I wrote the lyrics I was just starting to get sucked into the mythology of Lost, and that was the basis of the direction I was going in. Then, I was stuck on a line from a song, "Rusty casket, empty funeral." That's where the second verse came from. The other verses come from feeling the despair of the reality that they were never coming back.

Seeing In the Darkness
The current lyrics are acutally the second version of this song. The original lyrics were kind of cool with a realllly lame chorus. I was obssesed with contraditions at the time and it was about the living die no more, and the blind see no more, not good. So I changed the chorus, and then just rewrote the whole thing.
This song actually ties into the first song I ever wrote, back when I was 15. It was called "Kill Me If I Say Please?" The song is fucked up, basically me seeing my own death, but I really liked the idea of someone saying kill me, please. That line became the basis of the chorus. The verses came from me listening to Mudvayne's "World So Cold" a lot, and writing down what I felt after.

So, there are the first three of the songs, many more to come! As promised, here are the lyircs:


Porcelain Face
Staring at your porcelain face
So pristine and beautiful
But this is really not your place
Bow down and be dutytiful
Watching as your porcelain face
Shatters it's not that scary
Now its time to know your place
Put you in the ossuary

You try so hard to be perfect
But you failed and now I am right

Staring at your porcelain face
So pristine and beautiful
But this is really not your place
Bow down and be dutytiful
Watching as your porcelain face
Shatters it's not that scary
Now its time to know your place
Put you in the ossuary

It's so easy to end it all
Slit your wrists and take the fall

Staring at your porcelain face
So pristine and beautiful
But this is really not your place
Bow down and be dutytiful
Watching as your porcelain face
Shatters it's not that scary
Now its time to know your place
Put you in the ossuary

I Am not sane My heads not right
No jail, no locks, two words: bone box
　
Staring at my porcelain face
So pristine and beautiful
But this is really not my place to
Bow down and be dutytiful
Watching as my porcelain face
Shatters it's Oh so scary
Now its time to know my place
Put me in the ossuary
There is a war inside my head

Who will win it won't be pretty
Now I am stone cold dead
Man, it feels pretty shitty
No more pain my fucked up head
No more chains, no more locks
No more feeling in my life
My life is the bone box



Never Coming Back

727 plane went down
1300 hours it hit the ground
Bones broken, blood splattered
But still we live on

Please help us we’re not faking
Please help us, we want to live
We’ve given all we have to give

They buried empty coffins
Tears now flow more often
We’ve All but been forgotten
But We’re still alive!

Why did this happen to us?
Please help us we survived
Please help us we’re alive

Never coming back (x4)

Take this life
I don’t need it anyway
It’s fucked up
Can you please make it go away
We’ve lost the will to live
Now we know the chilling fact
We’re never coming back



Seeing In The Darkness

Don’t run and hide
Face the knowledge inside
Safe, calm and lightless
Seeing the Darkness

Would you kill me if I said Please?
Will you put me down on my knees
Blow my brains, out the back of my head
Make me lifeless, Make me dead
Send me to that place so calm and lifeless
Send me home, Seeing in the Darkness

The dream is dead
Blood pours from my head
There is no silence
There’s only violence

Would you kill me if I said Please?
Will you put me down on my knees
Blow my brains, out the back of my head
Make me lifeless, Make me dead
Send me to that place so calm and lifeless
Send me home, Seeing in the Darkness

Please use the gun
Please use just one
Please make it quick
PLEASE!

Would you kill me if I said Please?
Will you put me down on my knees
Blow my brains, out the back of my head
Make me lifeless, Make me dead
Send me to that place so calm and lifeless
Send me home, Seeing in the Darkness

Possible Set List For Next Show

Angel of Fire
Sleeping Awake
One of Us
Mr. Motherfucker
Porcelain Face
Forgotten
Judgment Day
The Steel
Roses
The Dead Live On (Envious)

Awesome Local Band

Hey everybody!

I figure that instead of a Blame Owen update I'd give a shout out to an awesome local band, maybe put up a video or two I'll see as I go along.

NO REMISSION:

Probably the best local act I've seen. High energy, complex arrangement meet in a whirlwind of musical anarchy to create a unique atmosphere; one that I would assume a Wyoming farmer experiences as a class F5 tornado rips through his home.



Will, and Kurt are probably two of the most talented guitarists I've seen/heard. Dan and Greg are one of the best rhythm sections I have seen locally in a long time and they have great fan support. These things together make for one hell of a show.

If you get a chance, go see them now for the $10 cover charge at Mr. D's or one of the other bars.

Their album will be coming out soon and I for one am looking forward to it.

Guys, if you read this... Finish it already!

"The Dead Live On, Envious"

In the veil of darkness

In a driving rain
I took your life
I took your pain

Your life is over
Our time is done
And all I left you
Is a loaded gun

The dead live on
Envious
Of the life that I have
Of the life they miss

The story of us is fucked
A tale so tragic
The night I saw you
It tore the fabric

I knew, right then and there
You weren't the one
I had to end your life
With a loaded gun

Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
You will never understand

The night I killed you
Blew your head in half
The ground soaked the blood
In revenge, I Laugh

Buried your body
Six feet deep
Put your blood in a vial
In peace I sleep

Now I Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
I can not understand

Now my life is fucked
Thin air I fought
I know you're still here
And it's me you haunt

I can't take this
I can't be the one
You will kill me
My life is done

Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With my death on my hands
Now I can understand

Run, Run Far Away
Now I have
My hell to pay
With our deaths on my hands
Finally I understand

My body cold
My soul is free
Death has come over me
The Dead Live On
Envious
Of the life I had
The life I miss

- James Allen

The Dead Live On, Envious

As of today we have a brand new song: "The Dead Live On, Envious". The music as well as lyrics for this song were inspired by the short story of the same name written by horror author Keith Zuccarelli. You can find the story in his first published collection entitled "Tales of the Broken".

The story itself is actually quite a tragic one, but we won't dive into that now. That's for the sewing circle to discuss:Anyways...

The song is off the hook! I'll have the lyrics posted up soon! The idea for the music can be found on youtube or... RIGHT HERE!!


I hope everyone enjoys it!

Peace,
- Eric

Where the songs came from pt. 2

Well, I did promise to try and update daily.

Here we go!

Seeing in the Darkness:
I wrote "seeing in the darkness" while I was in a little known (and far less impressive) band called scepter, or maybe we were specter. I don't know, it doesn't matter. My older brother, the front man for the band wanted me to write a song that was actually good. I did not do that. Instead I wrote a terrible piece of dog shit that was actually two very different songs smashed into each other and offered up as art. We never played it... Thank God. It was terrible, the guitar line rambled around, the drums were out of time and the bass played all of like five notes. It did however have this one really good riff.

When I went back and reworked the song a few years later, I threw out five minutes of so called "music" and was left with this very short riff. The part of the song where Allen sings "Would you kill me if I said please?", that riff... yup yup yup, that's the one. I kept that, took the main riff out of another song that I figured we would never ever play and it worked. Originally it was meant for two guitars, bass and drums, but I think the piano makes it sound downright haunting.


Fratricide:
Fratricide was written about a news story that hit very close to home. A local man shot his brother to death. Their father was a coworker of my father's and I was very sad for him. I took a riff that I had been messing around with for a few weeks and in the blind anger, frustration, fear and rage that come with hearing about a situation such as this, I fired off this song. It has not been changed from the original concept.


Angel of Fire:
Right now, our most popular song. The song we play as a closer was actually, originally, a love song. Once upon a time I was very very drunk and I was watching a movie (probably Lord of the Rings) and I decided that the most romantically tragic situation for lovers mathematically is the "Trapezoid" so I wrote a song about it.

The lyrics were a love song from one of the parallel lines to the other. He was sad because she always ran next to him, but they would never cross paths. Meanwhile their counterparts would intersect and at one point they would become one. This actually kind of made me sad thinking about it, so I wrote a song. I was very synth heavy and actually not quite bad.

So where then did "Angel of Fire" come from? Well, I got drunk one morning it was a saturday and I had been up writing music all night. I had opened my last bottle of colt 45 and sat staring at the T.V. I had been writing for ten hours straight and nothing was going right so I decided to flip through some of my old stuff and see what I could use. I found "Trapezoid" and realized that one little riff in there was pretty cool, so I ripped it out and stuck it down on paper. Then I went into another one of my songs "Terminality" and stole the verse/chorus chords and made those the verse/chorus of my latest Frankenstein song. It actually worked and from there I sat down, put in the drums, recorded them from guitar pro into cubase, played the three original guitar parts and the bass part and the rest is history.


Next time we'll learn about the Drop D song: Never Coming Back, The Damned, and Why is Everybody Dead?

Where the songs came from pt. 1

I figure I might as well shed some light on the creative process and where my songs come from. Usually when people ask me I just say something stupid like "I take a bottle of colt 45 and go from there." That is a bullshit answer that I use either to hide behind when I feel like I wrote a song that was too simple or when I don't feel like explaining all the emotion behind the music. I don't write lyrics often because for me the story is the music itself. So here we go...

"Judgment Day"
This song was actually written during a sound check for a show we played when I was in high school. There was this really pretentious "prog rock" band warming up and Mark, Mike and I decided we should mess with them, so I offered up a riff that I had been messing around with and we jammed on it unplugged in the lunch room at Fordham Prep. Then we took the stage and blew them away. We should have played it at the show, but we didn't. Allen wrote lyrics for it and called them "Black Hearts and Tyranny" That was all well and good, but way to Emo and it didn't feel right, we were playing this like ominous song and the lyrics were about a break up or something. So when the band and Allen split for a while we called it Judgment Day to get as far away from that old idea. Tim wrote the lyrics as they are now and everything has worked out pretty well since.

"The Steel"
This song has actually been around since about 2003 or so. Around then I was really into Manowar. So I wanted to write basically a tribute to "Warriors of the World". The steel was my horrible attempt at that. The original song was like 100 bpm with a galloping bass, a straight 1,2 beat drum track and a really really boring guitar. However it was the first time that I wrote solos. They were really really bad. When Mark came into his own as a drummer we went back to "The Steel" and reworked it a little. At first he did the running cymbal throughout the song, but we got rid of that, used it only during the verses and in the choruses (to give mark a break) we put a breakdown sort of double bass line that is really fun to play on the bass as well.


"Sleeping Awake"
In high school I was really into writing these tributes to my favorite songs. My family took a trip across country, and in a hotel room in New Mexico I saw for the first time Jerry Cantrell's video for "Anger Rising". I wanted to harness the anger and power of that main riff. So when we got back I sat down with my guitar and jammed out this riff that was pretty close. Then I added these other parts which to me sounded pretty good. It was the first time I had come up with a drum part that used quintuplets. It was awesome (or at least I thought so). I even wrote lyrics. They were about not being able to sleep and because of that the protagonist of the song was speaking to demons and seeing things that were destroying the world... So when my computer died I didn't have backups of the shitty lyrics, which is probably for the best. So I sent it off to Tim for lyrics. Tim's very into politics and such so he came up with this apocalyptic song that works. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED... I love that line. It captures the essence of the song.


That's enough for today. I'll let it all soak in... Coming up next... Seeing in the Darkness, Fratricide, and Angel of Fire.

- Eric

New Shit

The lyrics for one of our two new songs:

"Roses"

no longer will i take your shit
i'm not your fucking slave
I bust my ass day in day out
i dig my fucking in grave

I burn my candle ever faster
fire on both ends
you stab my back and slit my wrists
and call yourselves my friends

while you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit

this fucking shit has got to stop
before i go insane
theres got to be a better way
than a bullet to the brain

no longer will i do this shit
i'm not your fucking slave
i'm worn and tired broke and beaten
lying in my grave

While you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit

- Eric