Finished adding all of the lyrics to ToRights.

You can find the album’s download page [here].

Most recent DeathBoy track on the burner.

DeathBoy – Sundaywild

I wrote half of this on a plane and the Tube, using my iPhone with BeatMaker. If you want to make music out of pre-prepared loops, it’s great. If you want to make proper music, you’re going to have to put some work into it. It’s not a composition tool, it’s a loop tool.

It’s great to let people make music, but when you tell people they’re making music by letting them stick blocks together, you’re just giving them a Lego creative process. It’s good if they then go on to demand more, but it does lead to a lot of tracks-by-numbers.

Anyhoo, it did let me make a drum and bass loop or two to drop some filth over.

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introverted and obscene
she covers scars in neoprene
never quite a beauty queen
she walks the world half in a dream

overwhelmed and quite erratic
she finds the message in the static
always strangely in demand
she only wants to hold your fucking hand

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all the time I tried to be
a better human than you see
the creature that i have become
I tried so hard but I am weak

I hate the thing I turned into
I hated me, now I hate you
I am the missing operand
I only wanted to hold your fucking hand

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pretty little girls in a pretty little world
singing along to the same recycled
popular sensibilities
nothing that she could connect to

sugar and spice and all things right and
wrong and nobody ever took the time
to ask if this was how
she wanted her own universe to be

Hello, fuckholes!

It just occurred to me that now I have a comments-driven site, I can actually ask questions:

What do you fuckers WANT out of DeathBoy?

If you’re outside of the UK, we probably can’t come and play your hometown. Sorry, we’d love to. That’s the most common question I’ve had asked of me. We’ll try.

Other than that, is there something you fuckers WANT?

A CD containing some specific tracks?

To be able to buy the CD in a given country that we don’t cover?

Artwork / lyrics for something?

For me to set fire to my penis live, on TV, while chugging a bottle of vodka and screaming ALLAH IS LORD?

If there’s something we don’t provide, or a question you’d like the answer to, make a comment.

I will attempt to reply without saying things about your mom*.

* I will probably say thing about your mom.

Fuck me, am I hungover.

I’m about to have a stab at uploading lyrics for a bunch more songs – while I’m fucking about in the archives, if anyone has particular requests for lyrics for a song they’d like to see featured, drop me a comment, I’ll make sure I get to them sooner, rather than later.

there’s a lot to do… I need to stop writing stuff.

Righto, fuckos!

I’m trying to get used the fact that I normally update my livejournal when I have something to say, but frankly (particularly when it’s about the music), this is the place I should be doing things.

The main reason is: I’m still getting used to having a fucking blogging platform on my fucking website.

So, here you go (and if you don’t like, feel free to fuck yourself):

The latest track so far is the remarkably chilled “Inspiration“, from the work-in-progress album “CogRock“.

This album’s got a few blinders on it like the grimy, low-down trip-hop of “Buddhabox” and the stadium-industrial, anthemic “Safety in Numbness“. If you like how they’re sounding, check out the work-in-progress directory and let us know what you think.

The instrumentation for “Inspiration” came together while I was chilling and drinking on the balcony of my wife’s place in deepest Michigan. God bless laptops and the ability to put down a musical sketch with minimal equipment and software.

I probably need to round out the vocals and the growl on this and flesh out the instrumentation, but bare as it is, I quite like it. As ever, it’s not “finished”, it’s a demo track. If you don’t like it, I’ve got a bag of cocks you’re welcome to suck right here.

In terms of the direction, I’m not irrevocably moving toward writing chill-out-angst, but I do reckon I’ve done the whole aggression thing inside out for now, so I’m exploring my big love of bands like Massive Attack andthe Orb.  When something makes me absolutely FUCKING FURIOUS, you get tracks like MachineGun or Cheap Shot.

When I’m feeling bleak and misanthropic and spiteful, you get something a bit more brooding, a slower burn.

I’m painfully aware that this will get us reviews where some cunt reads the name “DeathBoy” then listens to a bunch of low-tempo, seething little numbers and decides that we’re cunts.

That’s because a good swathe of music hacks form their first impressions on the name and the press shots, decide what they expect the band to sound like before they play the CD and then take out their disappointment that musicians in reality aren’t an exact reflection of their own piss-poor internal stereotypes by the music-press equivalent of a cry for help.

Fortunately, we are much the Millwall of the industrial scene: nobody likes us and we don’t care.

All of which is a tellingly verbose way of saying that I’m going to continue to make music the way I fucking want to, but know that some of youz won’t like that.

Obviously, it’s nice to be recognised, and I’ve been a twat for getting angry at favourite bands that have changed tack for an album or two when I wanted more of the glorious same, but that gets painfully dull from the artist perspective and I am, if nothing, hideously self-involved.

Right. Enough shite.

I do read this shit, and I get a fucking ENORMOUS amount of spam comments, so it really would cheer me up if someone had something to say other than to offer me pills to make my cock bigger, so please feel free to comment. I will, in the fullness of time, reply. PROMISE.

End of line.