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Rise (Deluxe Edition)

by Cryxus

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Hondalover
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Hondalover Very good album. It's the best album I have found on this site so far. Great vocals and the electronics and guitars mesh well together. It has a great concept that almost rivals industrial greats like the Downward Spiral and Antichrist Superstar Favorite track: Let Me Be.
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Morts Industrial rock that is really hard to place next to any other bands for comparison. Perhaps there are elements of Nine Inch Nails in there, I also hear a little C-Tec and Project Pitchfork, but even those are only fleeting moments. If you like edgy industrial with a touch of aggression it's worth giving Cryxus a go. Dark and unique, but very cool! Favorite track: Alive.
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Fahrenheight Nova I've yet to find an industrial album in recent memory that's more varied and large-scale sounding than Cryxus's "Rise". The vocals do remind me a bit of Reznor, and the instrumentation brings Carfax Abbey to mind, though I find Cryxus to exude a more thematic, percussive and powerful approach. If you dig hard-hitting industrial at all that oozes high class production and songs full of variety, buy it. Plus, gotta love the wicked cool cover art. Favorite track: Alive.
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1.
Rise 03:59
Verse 1 They have provoked us… Pestered until we bleed out The burning impatience Deadly; noxious to breathe. They tell you what you’ve got to do to Accommodate the propaganda Stay calm, hold still, they will Take care of you Chorus Rise up Don’t give in to their lies. You must rise up The hate is building inside us. It’s time, c’mon mother fuckers Rise Verse 2 We have been broken Machines are controlling us Watching us, stalking us Brother say would you Just stand and salute You could service Our purposes... FUCK what they say. They are a cancer. Convert the mind, Pervert the answer Never obey; never give in Enough of the suffering Chorus Now is the time to rise up, Don’t give in to their lies. You must rise up The hate is building inside us. C’mon mother fuckers Rise Ending Chorus Rise up Don’t give in to their lies. You must rise up The hate is building inside us. C’mon mother fuckers Rise up Don't give in to their lies. You must rise up The hate is building inside us. Now is the time to Rise! Rise! Rise! Now is the time to rise.
2.
Alive 03:13
Verse 1: Scratching walls in a prison cell Is not what I imagined When you beckoned me here My darling, I come running Chorus: My blood, you want it My god, you stole it I can’t escape the pain But I swear You’ll never take me alive Verse 2: I’ll find a way to kill the poison All the noise is drowning out The caution I ignored to be the hero If you want to see what I am made of I’ll be glad to show you If you want to bend me till I break Let’s see if you can take me Chorus: My blood, you want it My god, you stole it I can’t escape the pain But I swear You’ll never take me alive I know that look in your eyes You’ll never take me You’ll never take me
3.
Leviathan 04:30
Verse 1 Heaven didn’t make this beast, And I don’t know what did. I can feel the earth beneath me, trembling. Brace yourselves; the worst is yet to follow. Behemoth comes; it’s all but over. Eradicate the ones that have the courage left to stand Eyes up, reach for Reach for the heavens, blinded. Chorus Now we pay for all the sin Helpless when the Gates of Hell are open God has forsaken us again Left us at the mercy of Leviathan Verse 2 We seem to break like fragile dolls, made of clay. Sinning wasn’t worth the overwhelming pain. I just want to wake up; is this all a dream? This must be a dream… Someone shake me Bridge No where to run (The gods could stop the madness but they don’t) No where to hide (We’re hiding out in fear of what will come) God won’t save us now Chorus Now we pay for all the sin Helpless when the Gates of Hell are open God has forsaken us again Left us at the mercy of Leviathan No where to run No where to hide Left us at the mercy of Leviathan
4.
Verse 1 I am an outline of a man A hollow shell left in the sand I march along with all the other Duplicated lookalikes Follow, Conform! That is the plan Chorus 1 Left, right, left Right, left, right Stay in line Leave your identity behind! Verse 2 I am a skeleton, I’ve no marks upon my skin Like immaculate canvas, Untouched by the creator. No beauty, no defining marks of any kind Inciting apathy and obedience Is my call, and I’m complying. Chorus 2 Left, right, left Right, left, right Stay in line Leave your identity behind! Verse 3 I see The Leader, standing tall. Somehow, He claims to know us all. Everyone else seems to agree, That He looks just like you and me… Chorus 3 Left, right, left Right, left, right Stay in line Leave your identity Left, right, left Right, left, right Stay in line Leave your identity Left, right, left Right, left, right Left, right, left Right, left, right
5.
Save Some 04:45
Verse 1 I’m a firm believer In nothing at all Who you callin’ deceiver So I’m a little bit unpredictable I don’t really care Whatchya gonna do about it If you got something to say, Then say it. I’m on pins and needles Evil like the sins of all the saints You must admit There’s something wrong Yeah there is something strange Call it what you want Never really got that far myself Maybe after all Every time you said you couldn’t help Said you were the victim Said you’re out of luck Save it for the sermon, man… I don’t give a ____. Chorus WAKE UP! ‘Cuz you gotta look good For killin’ the enemy SAVE SOME For the rest of us too I’m way ahead of you Yeah I’m way ahead of you Verse 2 Waiting, patiently poised in Paradox, an open box Of hand grenades for toys Saying grace for the boys In standard issue green Could someone please Cut out the noise? I can see How you could be so Overcome with Guilty grief Silently you watch yourself Watch yourself bleed Sever any ties anything That binds you to the other you Sacrifice the lives of another Million men a point to prove To everyone who’s watching Waiting for the chance To strike, proceed with caution There’s a devil at the dance The devil’s dance is dirty Dark, different indeed And if you wanna see it there’s a warning you should heed Terror is a troubled man Fear is what he feeds Serve it up with stories there’s A sea of hungry mouths to feed Chorus WAKE UP! ‘Cuz you gotta look good For killin’ the enemy SAVE SOME For the rest of us too I’m way ahead of you Breakdown Say-Say-Say it, well then say it Say-Say-Say it S-Say it Final Chorus WAKE UP! ‘Cuz you gotta look good For killin’ the enemy SAVE SOME For the rest of us too I’m way ahead of you WAKE UP! ‘Cuz you gotta look good For killin’ the enemy SAVE SOME For the rest of us too I’m way ahead of you I’m way ahead of you I’m way ahead of you WAKE UP! I’m way ahead of you SAVE SOME I’m way ahead of you I’m way ahead of you I’m way ahead of you
6.
Verse 1 All around, they listen for you To miss a beat and break the ranks Paranoia never could do (anything at all) Anything but keep you sane Chorus Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt You better get a hold of yourself They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love You gotta listen to the lies they sell Get a hold of yourself Get a hold of yourself Verse 2 Collect the proper information With just one search of your last name You made it all possible You made them unstoppable Wrote a blank check And signed your name Oh, Sell me on the bullets Sell me on the blood Tell me it’s a necessary evil And I should Fall in line behind the blind And kindly shut my mouth And tell everyone under the sun Exactly what it’s all about Chorus 2 Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt You better get a hold of yourself They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love You gotta listen to the lies they sell Keep it coming, over every quiet home Satellites gonna watch you sleep Smile pretty and wave your broken bones Living isn’t everything it seems Bridge Sell me on the bullets Sell me on the blood Sell me on the silver lining Play off of my love for buying Scramble the message And pull the fucking plug Final Chorus Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt You better get a hold of yourself They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love You gotta listen to the lies they sell Keep it coming, over every quiet home Satellites gonna watch you sleep Smile pretty and wave your broken bones Living isn’t everything it seems Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt You better get a hold of yourself They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love You gotta listen to the lies they sell Keep it coming, over every quiet home Satellites gonna watch you sleep Smile pretty and wave your broken bones Living isn’t everything it seems Get a hold of yourself Get a hold of yourself
7.
Let Me Be 04:33
Verse 1 We are all as good as dead They call us parasites and viruses They don’t know what we can be Stand up and arm yourselves and join with me Join with me Tag I don’t want to be part of a future I don’t want to be part of the scheme If all you want to do is try to make me Believe in everything that you believe in Chorus Let me be, yeah Just let me be Let me be, yeah Just let me be Verse 2 We’re above them, they don’t know. We watch them play; they come and go. They call us ignorant and say Shut up and harm yourself just go away Tag I don’t want to be part of a future I don’t want to be part of the scheme If all you want to do is try to make me Believe in everything that you believe in Chorus Let me be, Just let me be. Let me be, Just let me be. Outtro We are all as good as dead They call us parasites and viruses.
8.
Nemesis 04:36
You are the only one I could never best My perfect opposite My nemesis We fight like titans Tear the world to little bits But I cannot overcome My nemesis So you sold me down the river Mmmm You betrayed me and delivered Me to my enemies oh I will make you suffer I will make you beg for death But you’ll make me work for it, mmmm I will make you suffer I will make you beg for death But you’ll make me work for it My nemesis, mmm My nemesis, mmm My nemesis ------------------------ We fight like titans Tear the world to little bits My perfect opposite My nemesis You are the only one That I could never best I cannot overcome My nemesis We fight like titans Turn the whole world into shit You’re closer to the only God that I worship Come forth my brother Let me see what I can do To destroy the very fucking thought And trace of you My nemesis So you sold me down the river Mmmm So you sold me down the river Mmmm
9.
Verse They took you away from me And now I’ll do anything at all Just to find you and hold you Closer than before I don’t think you had a clue They were coming for you But if there’s anything that I can do Chorus I will try to save you But you have to tell me how I can feel you fading You’re waiting, time is running out Verse They took you away from me And now I’ll do anything at all Just to find you and hold you Closer (Chorus)
10.
Chorus Send the message I’m coming for you Send the message I’m coming for you Verse 1 Send the message I’m coming for you I got my .45 revolver Aiming through The back of your head, honey So you better be true With every word, It might be the Very last thing you do Chorus Send the message I’m coming for you Send the message I’m coming for you Verse 2 I sent the message I don’t know what it said I should be locked up For all the shit in my head I know it’s got something To do with you But for the life of me, I don’t think I ever knew Bridge Ten thousand words in my head I’ve got Ten thousand words in my head Ten thousand words in my head I’ve got Ten thousand fucking words in my head Chorus Send the message I’m coming for you Yeah, send the message I’m gunning for you Yeah, send the message I’m coming for you Yeah, send the message I’m gunning for you, you, you, you Send the message Send the message
11.
The Fall 05:50
Verse 1 Thirty thousand shields and swords All glistening in Diana’s sweet light Await the order to destroy The very breath of life And just before the Great Apollo Lifts the veil of night We rise up and deliver A fatal strike to end the tyranny We cut like knives on naked skin We cut them Chorus 1 Rise up and follow me Over the sea of enemies They will never take away our home I will not fall alone Verse 2 Vulcan, forge the steel we need To cut apart an army; That we meet them at the Gates of Hell, Fight the beast and live to tell Is nothing short of you to do. Pluto waits to welcome you, That die before the dawn today. I’ll be quickly on my way with Coins over both my eyes That should come as no surprise, Overcome by Roman greed Death will come, but first we bleed Final Chorus Rise up and follow me over the Endless sea of enemies They will not take our freedom Rise up with metal and bone Some fall so far from home But they will not fall alone Rise up and follow me over the Endless sea of enemies They will not take our freedom Rise up with metal and bone Some fall so far from home But they will not fall alone Rise up and follow me over the Endless sea of enemies They will not take our freedom Rise up with metal and bone Some fall so far from home But they will not fall alone
12.
Verse 1: You might say I’m addicted I’d rather think that my “existence is contingent” Compromise my innocence to fill My cup to the brim and I’ll over flow it Just to feel my inhibitions lower as I feel the hunger grow and that’s why Chorus: This is my obsession Running through my hollow bones like Eloquent aggression seizing my whole mind Violent reaction The cannibal must taste the blood to Find the satisfaction and drink it down like wine Verse 2: Run and tell the other ghouls in the ghost yard Somebody found my skeleton Decompose when all the little devils Turn around and take control Now a shotgun pointed at my head Makes me kind of sentimental And I’ve always had a thing For the taste of gun metal If I hold my breath long enough Maybe I can see the sun shine Right through the body bag Love it when the rush Hit the vein, indulgence is a bitch With a gold-plated brain And a cold dead kiss [Chorus] Final chorus: This is my obsession (this is my obsession) Running through my hollow bones Like eloquent aggression Infects my mind and I might have a Violent reaction The cannibal must taste the blood to Find the satisfaction And drink it down like wine
13.
Chorus Take me to the bottom of hell and leave Me and my demons got a story to tell I know there’s a way to get up out of the grave But I got no soul left to sell Something strange, maybe deranged, is lurking here Zombified, it died, and heaven denied salvation And now it’s coming back with a vengeance Flesh rotten, no one ever forgot the lifeless look in its eyes In the eleventh hour, the creature devoured our sanity Humanity’s no longer alive Tag You feel it creeping in now Thoughts all turn to sin now The hunger, hate, and death await Reanimate me now (2x) Chorus: Take me to the bottom of hell and leave Me and my demons got a story to tell I know there’s a way to get up out of the grave But I got no soul left to sell Zombify me, zombify Zombify me, zombify Bridge Do you feel that? It’s happening… Oh god…. (Chorus) Zombify me, zombify Zombify me, zombify
14.
Verse 1 If you have to ask yourself Do I have a soul? Then you don’t really belong here You better find your way back home We don’t take too kindly To your demons in these parts Preacher man come fast you can Deliver us from the devil and oh my god I’m singing Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Do you have a soul? Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Do you have a soul? Verse 2 Oh, you’re in a bad situation Ready rifles! Emanating from a poor boy’s mouth Is a beggin’ for a salvation And a oh, no What am I doin’ in here I think I took a wrong turn Down the back road Right out the door What’s left of it is something truly terrifying Trick a bloody puddle on the floor and You’re looking pale white like you might just have seen a ghost Tag You might have seen an apparition Standing in the door Or was it God coming to you With a warning to deliver you To settle the score Final Chorus Oh, Raise your rifles Soldiers, sons We don’t speak to the devil Till we get the guns Over my dead body Are you leavin’ here Never let them see the fleeting Fear in the eyes Is your disguise hollow Oh no, they see you Go and hide under cover of a Another secret and Wonder what your soul looks like
15.
Verse 1: Silent rage, disengaged Fire on an empty page Quiet still ignorance is bliss until the fire spreads and singes all the hairs off of your face No remorse Oh, but of course That’s the way the burning goes impetuous force The taste of smoke Is only harsh until you choke Then welcome suffocation Awful nice of you to show And everything around you starts to go Chorus 1: Kerosene ignites the evidence But it leaves a mark for all to see I take my chances but it makes no sense at all to watch the world around you burn and fall to watch the world around you burn and fall Verse 2: We watch the savage spit and curse The ground he ravaged It reminds us all how fragile we forgot We always were You cry, and I try to explain exactly why This bastard took our home and broke our bones And made us all suffer But I find that I am at a loss for words Yes it seems that I am at a loss for words Chorus 2: Kerosene ignites the evidence, But it leaves a mark for all to see. I take my chances But it makes no sense at all To watch the world around you burn and fall You watch the world around you burn and fall You watch the whole world burn And fall. Chorus 3: Kerosene ignites the evidence, But it left a scar across my arms and I can’t feel anything so it makes perfect sense to me to blame it all on inhumanity and stand aside as fire climbs the walls so I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall so I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall Oh yes I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall I’m gonna watch the world around me burn and fall I wanna watch the world around me burn and fall I wanna the whole world burn…

about

The Rise album tells the story of an uprising. Many of the songs are based in the intricate folds of history, specifically examining the tale of Crixus – a leader of the Third Servile Revolution alongside Spartacus and Oenomaus. Crixus was an ex-gladiator unparalleled in combat; a brave, fierce warrior who’s legion of Elite Gladiators turned the tide of many battles for the rebellion. He fought in honor of the weak: the slaves and servants who did not possess the means or the strength to stand up and fight for themselves. His example inspired us to create this project we call "Cryxus", in honor of him and his revolution against the Republic. Crixus and his army of 30,000 men fought and died in battle at Mount Garganus in the spring of 72BC. After his death, Spartacus honored this sacrifice in the way of Roman Aristocracy – with Funeral Games, at which 300 Roman prisoners-of-war were forced to fight to the death like gladiators.

The album begins with the acrimonious title track, "Rise", which sets the stage of the uprising and issues a call to arms for those who feel oppressed.

“Alive” plummets you into the depths of a war prison; walls scratched and covered with the blood of the poor souls unfortunate enough to find themselves bound by shackles in the darkness. The track reflects not on despair or self-pity, but instead serves as a proclamation that the rising heat gives way to a boil beneath the surface of the water.

In “Leviathan”, the perspective changes, segueing the listener out of the cold prison cell and into the face of imminent danger and death.

“The Faceless Army: I” is an instrumental prologue to the entrance of a massive rebel army that leaves nothing but destruction and utter devastation in its wake. Just as the nightmare seems to have ended, the army returns in part II, which thrusts you into the armor of a faceless soldier, marching amongst scores of his mindless brethren; there is a blatant inner turmoil growing within the soldier, causing him to shift his focus away from his trusted leader and examine himself and his surroundings.

“Save Some” again turns the tables, putting the spotlight on a faithful follower of the army; this is a soldier who wants only to pillage and plunder, with no regard for God, or any man.

“Airwaves Gone Corrupt” is a cautionary message, warning the recipient of an all-seeing, ever-present authority that is watching every move they make.

“Let Me Be” takes yet another unique perspective, shifting the outlook to a distraught victim of oppression at the hands of the Republic.

With “Nemesis”, we return to the battlefield, as we witness a grappling match between colossal enemies; each of these men is hell-bent on the destruction of his adversary, disregarding all life without mercy.

“Time Is Running Out” is a song of desperation sung by a victim of the ruthless Republic agenda who has just lost the one they love most in the world. This character’s story is continued with “Send the Message”, a depraved oath of vengeance against those that have crushed his world.

The album ends with “The Fall”, which is the story of Crixus’ demise; the track describes the army, awaiting the order to attack, and Crixus, who fought with the understanding that any battle may be his last but that he would not fall alone.

This project has given us the unique opportunity to breath new life into this all but lost tale of rage & rebellion, sorrow & sacrifice. While the story of Crixus and his 30,000 warrior rebels is archaic in nature, we believe there is much to be learned in surveying the bloodshed. We trust that you will find yourself somewhere in the story, as we did. When you do, know that you are not alone… instead, join with us, and together we will rise.

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released October 31, 2012

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Cryxus Murfreesboro, Tennessee

American Industrial/Electronic Rock Experimental Project formed in 2011. Similar to Nine Inch Nails, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Marilyn Manson.

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