“Kill the Light” is SYSTEM SYN’s latest and most synthpop-oriented album to date. Expertly mixed and mastered by Ted Phelps (Imperative Reaction), the album takes the listener on an emotionally engaging journey, showcasing Carney’s vocal and lyrical talents like never before. The songs of “Kill the Light” range from haunting and heartbreaking, to heavy-hitting club tracks, yet all retain the sound that is so uniquely SYSTEM SYN. "Kill the Light" also features backing vocals and guitar on selected tracks by SYSTEM SYN live members, Tash Cox and Scott Landes.
1 · Kill the Light
2 · Where Is the Love I Was Promised
3 · Everything Is Different Now
4 · Ashes in the Wind
5 · The Light Was a Lie
6 · Endless
7 · Goodbye Fellow Traveler
8 · We Hold This Time
9 · There Will Be No Sound
10 · The Muse
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lyrics
I was alive a thousand years before you were born
so every thought you think is yours just makes me bored
repeat the phrases favored puppets say
never mind that there will always be another way
don’t tell me you don’t know
I was born with the devil’s tongue in my mouth
they cut my horns so I grew them inside out
rooted inside burrowed straight into my brain
kept me alive while the whole world went insane
I don’t want to hear any more
shut up shut up
we’ll make you listen
I don’t want to live in fear anymore
too bad for you
that’s all we offer
I came to kill
all your free will
so pick a side
and I’ll decide whose blood you spill
say goodbye to those you love
if they disagree
fuck your reason fuck your empathy
see no evil and bow down to me
everyday we pull away
no ground below so we keep falling
calling out into the void
echos fail still we’re afraid to say
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know how to breathe anymore
and there’s no one left to show me
no reason to dream anymore
if no one cares to know me
alone we all descend
just ashes in the wind
credits
from Kill the Light,
released September 22, 2023
Written and Performed by Clint Carney
Guitar by Scott Landes
Mixed and Mastered by Ted Phelps
A stellar cast of artists put their own shadowy spins on recent Bestial Mouths material—toward the goth club floor or into pure noise. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2021
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I have been following VNV and attending their concerts for years. They are an amazing band, so prolific, well travelled, classy, and down to earth. Ronan is such a humble, amazing fellow. I'll never forget his taking a person's cellphone so he could give the person on the other end in hospital a front row experience. But this track, their music, is so moving. Lyrics are so well thought out, and their sound so consistently emotive over the years. Can't say enough good about VNV. realbibliodude