Dystopia Wetlands EP

SONG ORDER AND OVERVIEW

1. Intro: Into Hell
warning, threatening, the doom, soundscape with hits

2. Icicle
synth hymne, cry-pop, about loss

3. Eat my Anger
bass & big drums, rhythm & melody, challenging / ‘trotzig’ / angry, with emo-end

4. Softly dream
synth appegiator, interwoven melodies, airy, a bit playful and hopeful, a bit tender and inviting / seducing

5. Dangerous Thoughts
energy, herausfordernd clear confident, serpenty instrumentals, layered vocals, energetic drums

6. Outro: Into Swamp
more soundscape, growing into ground, simple melodic words

LIVE ARRANGEMENT IDEAS

Benni & Leander & Tom: Edit edit edit. You can find some ideas HERE

INSIGHT INTO SONGS

Quick rough compilation of a room recording from our show in a big empty warehouse (Cank) in Berlin in Sep 2024.
Please note: the room was too big for the wireless mic, so there are some lapses.

CREATURE GAMECARDS

LYRICS

Our Hell

This hell
Is a hell of our own making
When you’re running from that kind of hell
You run out of places to run

Icicle

Where are you going?
My eyes flow
like an open wound
I wonder will this pain
be me now
forever, grow through

my skin, traces on my flesh
Shade my eyes
They look so strange
like of a deep-diving whale

I’m scared
I lost what will never live on
You broke that will never grow again
We left where we’ll not be back
Icicles (break) in me

How many tears would you shed
if I’d go
forever, oh pain hurts

My thoughts burn holes in my head
Do I give up
I can’t express, insecure

Bare heat traces my sleep (here it gets a bit angry) (2nd vocals)
It occupies my face
like sticky sap
growing into metal spikes

Sadness splashes, with force
Blows all around
Evaporate
Me into the clouds (To then get vulnerable)

I’m scared
I lost what will never live on
You broke that will never grow again
We left where we’ll not be back (special melody)
Icicles in me

(2x break)

I mutate
I let go
Float with the mist
into the forest

I mutate
I let go
Float with the mist
into the wetlands

I mutate
I let go
Float with the mist
Into the long

I mutate
I let go,
Float with the mist,
Into the long night

Dream Soft

Your limits are pain
Heavy under affect
Leaving the web (decay)

Somewhere I wanted to be held
Alone, faint, you disappoint
Out of place without you
Now adventurous for out there, go far away

Last human desires
Instrumental (3 times highest note)
human fears
Off you go, spill into futures (Motiv repeat)
(futures could be 1 note down)

What we do
with all the love we feel
What we do
With all the love we feel
Dream with me
while the lands hold me patiently
Dream (dream on beat 1) in darkness
(ness on beat 1 of new chord)

Not enough and too much
For all with you
I care to slowly (break & up) unfold

I birth my horizons
Venus to devour
Together we sparkle
sensually (seeee (longer)

Last human desires
INSTRUMENTAL melody (only once down to up)
human fears (fears down in melody)
Off you go, spill into futures

What we do
with all the love we feel
What we do
With all the love we feel
Dream with me
while the lands hold me patiently
Dream (dream on beat 1) in darkness
(ness on beat 1 of new chord)

Off you go, spill into futures

Into Swamp

1: Intro
2: CHORALS, reverbyyyyyyyyy

My earth body
spreads into the cosmos

Weaving through endings
Into magic forests

Sky, into your portal
Others there, I’m here
No need for control
I’m not going, I’m dissolving
Oh

crumbling, shaking
vibrating

Through shelled bodies
Dirt into my veins

From glaciers to sea
For tentacles to reach
Grow beyond, grow stronger
Shake us, storms, chirp us home
Oh

break cause harmony change
3: Fluffy Evelation (soft vibrato airy) very wet
Under layers of leaves
I lie with seasons
become a source (high)
prevail XX(LEA)
weed spreads over (high)
Our passion and the landscape (liv hold the note)
Speak in ways

(not much break)
4: ECHOMELODY (in Boden flowed) warm
Ivy take my thinking
Spirits, devour them
Fill me, Fungi destroy
Rocks, scratch me

My sweat becomes dew
Stars, whisper into me
Kiss me horny
cocooning flower

(little break)
5: CALLING MELODY nearly only voice (formant shifted)
Roots intrude me, sting me
Mist, I eat you
Infuse me
Caress
Breath me
Lure me
Love me
Touch me snails
Teach me
(No breath)
love of savage creatures
Dream with me full moon
our glow, now or never

(break cool)
6: Challenge (formant shifted)
Your grasp
Grab me
with claws
The icy lick
Give space
and time
Move on
Nature, take me back
Where I belong

7: SINK 4x
I sink
so soft
I rot
so tender