[Intro - Performance Notes]
(Down-tuned guitars: Drop C. Palm-muted chug on verses. Gated reverb snare. 16-bar solo after 2nd chorus. Vocal roles: [low gritty] = low, rasped clean; [push/scream] = saturated distortion scream; [wide clean] = anthemic double; last line chorus = [gang vocal].
[Verse 1] [low, gritty]
Rusted iron beneath my skin
Smoke-lung roars — I breathe it in
Glass teeth break under my boots
Cold salt blood, the well's in roots
[Pre-Chorus] [push/scream build]
Hear the fissure — walls give way [push/scream]
Bones of thunder start to fray [push/scream]
Night convulses, pulls the thread [push/scream]
We bite the dark — we claw ahead [push/scream]
[Chorus] [wide clean — clean double on lines 1-2, last line gang vocal]
We stand in the Abyss — fists to the sky [wide clean / clean double]
Drums crash, strings bleed — we never die [wide clean / clean double]
Iron hearts pound the drum of war [wide clean]
Raise your voice — make the dark bow down [gang vocal]
[Verse 2] [low, gritty]
Shrapnel dreams on fractured floors
Locked jaws spit out sharpened words
Tongue of ash, a canyon cry
We spit the night — we learn to fly
[Pre-Chorus] [push/scream build]
Feel the tremor, break the line [push/scream]
Tear the silence, seize our time [push/scream]
Scar the dusk with sharpened fire [push/scream]
Light the fuse of our desire [push/scream]
[Chorus] [wide clean — clean double on lines 1-2, last line gang vocal]
We stand in the Abyss — fists to the sky [wide clean / clean double]
Drums crash, strings bleed — we never die [wide clean / clean double]
Iron hearts pound the drum of war [wide clean]
Raise your voice — make the dark bow down [gang vocal]
[Guitar Solo] (16-bar guitar solo — harmonized lead, melodic shredding then divebombs; heavy wah and pinch harmonics; build back into chorus)
[Bridge] [alternating: line 1 low gritty, line 2 scream, line 3 clean double]
Razor wind — it carves a name [low, gritty]
Scream the bone from out this frame [push/scream]
We burn the map, we blaze the claim [wide clean / clean double]
[Breakdown] [low, stop—palm-muted, syncopated]
Chug. Chug. Stop. — (beat drops) [spoken, low gritty]
Echoes hit — a fist to the gut [spoken / growled]
Chug. Chug. Go — unleash the flood [sudden full-band hit]
[Final Chorus] [wide clean with gang vocal repetition]
We stand in the Abyss — fists to the sky [wide clean / clean double]
Drums crash, strings bleed — we never die [wide clean / clean double]
Iron hearts pound the drum of war [wide clean]
Raise your voice — make the dark bow down [gang vocal x4, stacked harmonies]
[Outro] [wide clean fading to low gritty]
Echoes crack — they do not sleep [wide clean]
Ash to ash — the vows we keep [low, gritty]
This storm will carve our names in stone
We walk the dark — we call it home
[Performance & Production Notes — quick checklist]
- Guitars: Dow
