The Center That Cannot Hold

by Replacire

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rvss.eel This is the follow up to my favorite death metal album of 2017. The vocalist has changed, and while I think he is a death metal elite, I don't like his style as much for this band. In place of clinical brutality is a looser aggression. The band, however, has also shifted in the same direction, so it meshes. There is precision and wild abandon here, at a level few could match, but there is also less killer death metal groove, which Replacire do oh so well. This is still great. The center holds. Favorite track: Living Hell.

Camel Potent tech death from one of the most unique acts in the scene. Favorite track: The Center That Cannot Hold.

Patrizio666 all of these songs are 🔥, what a triumphant return

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1.	Bloody-Tongued And Screaming 04:24	lyrics	buy track
I spurn to quench the thirst of our fathers Squeezing blood On the years of myriads through clenching fists I stand in the mire As I drain them of all that is left in me My eyes on the stars I sharpen my focus, reaping Bloody-tongued and screaming Grasping by the throat as I will And drinking its life I let it all go I watch as it sinks to the depths Fall beneath, all gone Miles of oceans above Strike with lance and sword Pierce with arrow Let spill the blood of the sun I spurn to quench the thirst of our fathers Squeezing blood On the years of myriads through clenching fists And hope no more The bones show through your flesh Silently dredging the silt Withered hands grasp for peace in life Cause only fever and strife You all dance on the knife On the knife All hope lies crimson on the hill Sinking Standing tall on the heap A bitter gnashing of teeth Steady crawl upwards over the hill Of years of flesh Nothing left in the end, you fall Nothing left in the end In the end Piercing eyes gaze from a throne of death Of those that roll in their graves Their graves Sole awareness comes Watch the future run Can you see it burn Watch it all burn see it all return to dust x2 As I drain them of all that is left in me My eyes on the stars I sharpen my focus, reaping Bloody-tongued and screaming I spurn to quench the thirst of our fathers Squeezing blood
2.	The Center That Cannot Hold 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Something feels amiss I've been gray in my headspace I’m not sure what it is Life has become a black abyss I’ve driven myself too far gone Let me be to go it alone Life has gone from me so just leave me All thoughts are mire it's killed all desire Life has gone from me so just leave me Just leave me bleeding in the dirt Only the turning and churning Life has gone from me so just leave me Just leave me bleeding in the dirt Cut my wrists and let me bleed it out As I’ve come to lack all conviction I Bodies and all things coming apart The center that cannot hold I don’t know what I am or who I am Or what I should be, or what I could be Or what I was the suicidal thoughts were Gone for awhile but now when I drive through the tunnel with my shades on I wonder what the walls taste like I know how to get there, but it doesn’t mean I want to go Life has gone from me so just leave me Just leave me bleeding in the dirt Only the turning and churning Time to see and time to bleed Time to kill a memory Cut me off and leave me dry Let’s just stop living a lie Visions of a blood dimmed tide Hopelessness in every atom Cut my wrists and let me bleed it out The bliss thats frozen Upon their lost souls All night terror comes to my sight I measure rot Kill your emotions, rest your head With the dead that walk beside you Deep inside your trust that breaks so easily And ignore the signs that keep you safe You can have and you can want You can tease and you can taunt with your gaunt face and broken chest Know just how fucked it all really is
3.	Living Hell 02:58	lyrics	buy track
Bring forth The shadow of night Black caress Lingering invisibility The choke of life’s paralyzing caress Great black loom of love’s uncertain doom Cold sweat on the bed sheets Strike with precision In the wake of suicide All meaning is lost but still we stride Face up in the absence of rest A cry, a choke, a slither And with endless, radiant minds You reached out to me for the first time The crescent moonlight and the hollow heart Life force held ransom The swelling of eyes before we depart A scar is left for you in my domain Leave me catch-all net for pain Leave me be Leave me I am made from hell Living hell In the wake of suicide All meaning is lost but still we stride Face up in the absence of rest Cry, choke, slither And with endless, radiant minds You reached out to me for the first time Living hell Strike me down
4.	A Fine Manipulation 04:21	lyrics	buy track
I am the crown of the tyrant I grasp every facet of life I am the armor of power A cloak of will to reorder all life Raptured beast of agony The eye and the storm Restless incurably I need the war It came to me in a vision All round and unblinking eyes I have no fear this time I impose all i am Death entwined, rage inside Blackened sky, life enclosed, submit No fear this time Behold the god of your fathers The horn reaped from the scourge of your ways Alive in the grace of your mothers A line written in the end of your days I am your lord god Who’s to speak of this emptiness A fine manipulation Bleed my soul, bleed it fully dry Tear my heart from the earth Break the chains of my former self This I give unto you I am the reincarnation You will fall prostrate for all my glorious gifts My sacrifice You shall pay me all that thou owest So much fear this time Fall to your knees Walk the line And leave the ashes in your wake I am not the one to blame And you are not the one in chains Who’s to speak of this emptiness A fine manipulation It came to me in a vision All round and unblinking eyes I have no fear this time I impose all I am Death entwined, rage inside Blackened sky, life enclosed, submit No fear this time I am god, your soul aflame I am god, your shield of lies
5.	The Helix Unravels 03:02	lyrics	buy track
How could we have known All those years We swore that nothing would tear us apart Swear to me Say that we will see this through Shake the failure from your eyes We are barren Rotted through Unknown to me, my mind The helix unravels All those years we have been staring at the surface Rotted through How could we have known what to prepare for Dance of cold collapse If I die, I die We swore that nothing would tear us The helix unravels All those years we have been staring at the surface Rotted through How could we have known what to prepare for When the dna unravels The footfalls muted by the cracking of the bone Oh the wretched trembling The burdens fall, over and over again DNA unravels, burdens fall over again Endless despair A light long gone out that always was there Burning the book, chaos in the air Light the match, swallow the ash It’s not fair The helix unravels All those years we have been staring at the surface Rotted through How could we have known what to prepare for When the dna unravels Swear to me that we will make this right All things move towards the light And to their end
6.	Drag Yourself Along The Earth 03:39	lyrics	buy track
See me never more I became what you implore Sinking faster, gasping for air I hated the way that you were Scream for their souls Gasping for air, fading, sinking faster now Fading, darker Heart of poison Shatter my hope I hated the way that you were Scream for their souls I want to be free of your courageous endeavors Lash out and strike your pose I want to be free of your unending suicide Leave me to waste in tears From the cradle to the ring around my neck I grasp With these bleeding hands And pull myself along the earth Biting back against the agony And screaming I become the forge You are no more, you are the source Heart of poison I hated the way that you were Fading, darker Speaking faster now Shatter my hope and scream I become the forge Collect the bones, virtue fading in crimson tones I want to be free of your courageous endeavors Lash out and strike your pose I want to be free of your unending suicide Leave me to waste in tears Collect the bones The virtue fades in crimson tones Drag yourself along the earth Take the rope where there’s no sound
7.	Inglorious Impunity 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Cover up the rottenness and reap and sow there's no defense and rip the chord and fall to your regret Imploding inwards, a boundless fire Flesh like iron spears of hate Embrace the turbulence within Catharsis for the rottenness I breathe and it sparks the fire Drink the pain divine It thrives, no more will it die It thrives, no more will it A ruinous plague upon the earth Malevolent lies from a cancerous mouth Cowering in your temple of deceit Amassing misery at your delight It gives you power of a kind Forthright you are not False virtuous legacy Inglorious impunity Complacent in your life Inglorious impunity Rapturous insanity Whispered lies Cosmos despised A ruinous plague upon the earth Malevolent lies from a cancerous mouth Cowering in your temple of deceit Amassing misery at your delight A culture of cowards The fertile seeds of the low Heralding the dawn of the writhing parasite Beckoning a kingdom of falsehood Where the embodiment of the lie A kingdom of falsehood The embodiment of the lie It thrives No more will it die It writhes No more will it A ruinous plague upon the earth Malevolent lies from a cancerous mouth Cowering in your temple of deceit Amassing misery at your delight Inglorious impunity Rapturous insanity Whispered lies Cosmos despised Rats and worms Treacherous wretch Lecherous coward Behold the god of the feeble-minded Consequence will rain upon you Scourge In you and those that defend you manifest a world where worms and rats thrives Where the embodiment of the lie, it thrives, no more will it die
8.	The Ghost In The Mirror 03:57	lyrics	buy track
I am of the center All is my perspective within Conjuring of power raw I draw on myself Fire of self destruction Piercing inhalation Maximum and minimum, I impose Ancient I will burn I am life-giving I am life-taking I am creation I am destruction I am the ghost in the mirror A mere glimpse of the radiant light The lingering on the cusp of the shadows I am ending Dust and silent echoes Tyrant Preaching chaos, unfolding darkness Tyrant You breathe the famine and cry out All will be fire, all will be death All will be void I am of the center When I perish And perish I will Dead will become the day and dead will become the night You are not as they intended None could have ever conceived I am the ghost in the mirror A mere glimpse of the radiant light The lingering on the cusp of the shadows I am ending I evolve with my course I dissolve at the source I resolve it with force Rise to collapse Bend ‘til it snaps I am life-giving I am life-taking I am ending Tyrant Ending Time waits for no one Begins and ends in one breath Future becomes past Haunted present never comes They speak to you in your tongue Forever returning We have met before
9.	Hoard The Trauma Like Wealth 04:20	lyrics	buy track
A rigid, blanketed and forlorn glance An apocalypse for those who envy A raging sea for those who try Crisis averted Let’s just regress Hoard the trauma like wealth Wear it like the armor Your dark eyes, once radiant and full Now simply openings for rivers of blood And like a vampire, I drink your tears Buried guilt rots and poisons within Crisis averted Let’s just regress Hoard the trauma like wealth Wear it like the armor and the crown Crisis averted Let’s just regress Hoard the trauma like wealth Wear it like the armor Future boils Living statues I must create In the fury and confusion of competing interests Possessed by a vision We rush in ecstasy I am the one who will manifest all of this confusion This body’s a vessel, a curse upon the lives of men Fury and confusion of competing interests The gods of charisma at the head We rush in ecstasy with the tide of longing We spit and gnash and hurl and tear asunder A curse upon the lives of men We envelop in the red of the blood A germinated seed To burst forth the ensnaring sinew Collapsed breath in the devil’s fury Crisis averted Let’s just regress Hoard the trauma like wealth Wear it like the armor Future boils Living statues I must create
10.	Transfixed On The Work 03:28	lyrics	buy track
The cacophonous scourge of alienated being Transfixed on the work We are driven onward All emotions gone Only the gray and stalwart march remains I don't want you to feel it I can’t truly believe it It’s far too much Leaving the casket open No one cares there’s no love lost Never ceasing, a race to our demise Endless lifetimes forgotten Every goal, love and dream Forgotten A path, for once, certain Why can you not recall the heart of days now long past I don't want you to feel it I can’t truly believe it It’s far too much Leaving the casket open No one cares there’s no love lost There will be none left Our necks in the slave’s ring No days in the sun No laughter, no love You don’t fear my death Digging Reminds you of my own blood Drifting out, replaced Swarm within a hive of flesh Exposed inside and out Imperfection within and without, don’t blink Every goal, love and dream Why can you not recall the Surreality, a parallel world Mind out of body, heart out of mind Soul left for dead, long ago Transfixed on the work I don't want you to feel it I can’t truly believe it It’s far too much Leaving the casket open No one cares there’s no love lost
11.	Uncontrolled And Unfulfilled 06:41	lyrics	buy track
Come with me I’ll lead you to a better place Where time stands still, you’re lost within a haze Tears all falling, you’re floating face down Mouths now cold, you’ve been replaced Buried regrets in you echo Down Reach out to your dying flame Tears now falling down Uncontrolled And unfulfilled My disgust is up to the hilt Blanketed in pain Shrouded in impulse Down, all the way down Fear Buried regrets in you echo Convolute the reason to live Withered focus Race to your death Reinvent lies to feed to yourself Complicate, dream of me Lose it all Rise to fall and lose it all Break the wall Rise to fall Come with me to a better place Time stands still You’re lost within a haze Convolute the reason to live Withered focus Race to your death Reach out to your dying flame Tears now falling Ember smoke, nowhere to turn Taste your misery Now Uncontrolled and unfulfilled My disgust is up to the hilt Blanketed in pain Shrouded in impulse The fear never clears away Erase the fear Hide your impulse Drag me down to hell As if you were not already there Come with me to a better a place Time stands still You’re lost within a haze Reclaim focus Buried regrets

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The idea behind Replacire’s third album was simple. Write some straight-ahead chuggers to feed the mosh pit the next time these bearded whiz kids went on tour.
Of course, like any band that’s worth its weight in colored sands, Replacire deviated from that initial thought pattern. After disappearing down a seven-year rabbit hole, they emerged with more mind-bending tech-death workouts. The title track ties your brain into a pretzel with knotted syncopated percussion and glitchy finger taps.
It wasn’t always so easy. But despite countless Zoom calls, bouts with sleep paralysis and one near trip to the hospital, the Boston band stay strong on The Center That Cannot Hold. “I impose all I am / Death entwined, rage inside / Blackened sky” new vocalist James Dorton roars, as if raising the weight of the world high above his shoulders.
On The Center That Cannot Hold, Replacire flex all of their muscles.

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released June 21, 2024

Recorded at Ugly Duck Studios
Produced and Engineered by Eric Alper
Mixed and Mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios

Cover Artwork by Andrew Tremblay

Replacire is:
Eric Alper - Guitars
Kee Poh Hock - Guitars
Zak Baskin - Bass
Joey Ferretti - Drums
James Dorton - Vocals

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Replacire Boston, Massachusetts

REPLACIRE is the brainchild of guitarist Eric Alper, who founded the band in 2010. The American tech metal prodigies hailing from Boston, Massachusetts self-released their debut full-length 'The Human Burden' in 2012. The album's unique and wide-ranging material was an ambitious statement of intent that quickly established the New Englanders as a must-follow heavy act in their corner of the US. ... more

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