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Until The Darkness Takes Us

by Nathan Gray Collective

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drummerhitsharder Nathan and dan, I found you guys on accident and am consumed by your music. now it is on play in my car, in my house, and in my head. You have changed my life, more importantly my philosophy. I needed this so bad. I am a drummer who was once on top of the world touring the country on hard drive North America. This is an amazing gift. Your words cut me to the core and your melodies touch my soul. This is world class and I am forever grateful to the both of you. Favorite track: Dark Fire.
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crusbarsky This album is ALL I've been listening to since I discovered it 5 days ago. I am absolutely in love with it, and I thank you with all my heart for giving this to us. I saw one of your live streams the other night about how this album's music is dark, but the lyrics are very positive and uplifting, and how you'd hoped that came across. I'll tell you, it 100% does. There couldn't have been a better time in my life for this to find me/me to find it, in the midst of a major personal mentality shift- which at first scared the shit out of me. I'm 23, and it is to be expected to happen, as it does for all, multiple times throughout their lives. I am overwhelmingly happy and empowered, as I pick my own self up from my past and the things that weighed me down. This album is Gold, thank you again comrade.
-Chelsey Favorite track: Anthemic Hearts.
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1.
Faith drives the dying need of conquest and destiny Fear loves the company of corpses fed to vanity Battle cries apostasy banners raised to agony You’ll struggle better on your knees in front of altars built to fabled kings White light and savagery in a name that no one speaks Of right hand and pagan slaves screams rise that no one heeds Bow down now / Cry out for a reason to live / For a reason to die Holy holy god of mercy / In these killing fields your will is done Praise be to hollow dreams tough love and tyranny Sites aimed at dignity shots fired nothing left to see The path of righteousness paved with the sweet caress Of bodies burning to be blessed in the fetid lies confessed Holy holy god of mercy / In these killing fields your will is done Holy holy god of mercy / Thy name is born in heathen blood You better learn to kneel, beg, bleed, and die.
2.
In this room there is a presence in this tomb there is no light He’s not afraid of the monsters he’s afraid of what they hide There’s a wall to keep them in there’s a wall to keep you out It’s scratching just beyond his movements It’s scratching all the way back down There’s blood in the air it comes and it goes A frantic parade that nobody knows The darkness within the hatred without…It’s burning it’s way. If all we’ll ever be is broken all we’ll ever know Sweet malediction burning fire in blessed sin we come alive The wolves are howling at his doorstep he sings along to their delight She dances deep within his darkness her eyes ablaze the vibrant dawn His only key beyond damnation his only chance to be reborn There’s blood in the air it comes and it goes A frantic parade that nobody knows The darkness within the hatred without…It’s burning it’s way. If all we’ll ever be is broken, all we’ll ever know is misery These scars will live in infamy
3.
Skin 04:16
In this distant silence buried down for way too long You are writhing chaos, savage love, and higher law We are blood and invocation sinful pulsing vicious light Casting shadows on the walls to let the world come alive You got me out of my mind I got you out of your skin Breathing fire since the day it all began This altar screams of heaven in the presence of the damned This feral wisdom speaks of honor let’s dare to understand These walls are sublimation where we hide a dark romance With the knowledge we’ve acquired of the fires within I’ve got you out of your skin My mind keeps telling me stop before I go too far But my heart’s racing to taste the depth of who we are The flesh keeps calling me home above the stars of your light And I can’t leave it alone I think I’m losing this fight You got me out of my mind I got you out of your skin So let me in.
4.
Desire 05:01
Please let me touch the flame and burn just one more time and I’ll return A taste so sweet upon my lips I’ve led my life in simple praise and left myself to find your way But I’m growing restless anticipating fate I’ve been waiting for you / I’ve been searching for truth Did you give me desire just to watch me fall ‘cause this pull is much stronger than your mission call Yeah I’m so bored with the shame and I want it now…yeah I want it all Did you give me desire just to watch me fall Frustration grows in depths unreached this pushing pulling silent beast It’s locked away inside of me This cursed shell that drives decay is getting stronger every day And I’ve grown to love its wild embrace
5.
Damascus 02:54
Dear old friend this is the end this road begins and ends with death And I can’t wait here anymore As I’m called to justify defeat my heart is breaking here on my knees And every word falls silently ignored When in the stillness of the night I screamed your name No shining light no not a word you never came So I have come to lay these flowers at your grave And move on in my name Through these years I’ve lost control traded my life for nothing more Than fevered dreams of shame and doubt While I lay screaming bleeding please if you’re alive you’re still dead to me And I know I’m all alone so I will leave When in the stillness of the night I screamed your name No shining light no not a word you never came So I have come to lay these flowers at your grave And move on in my name
6.
Set Up 04:15
Yeah I was never quite good enough and I could never be the perfect one. I don’t care cause goddamit I’m the only one I trust I don’t need the lies you fear when I can smell the flames from here I don’t need selective love Doesn’t anyone else feel set up? Set up Don't you feel set up? Set up I won’t be tested on the terms you wrote when I can write them better note for note I am the son of dawn and I’ve been selling myself short for way too long In the temples of sure salvation through self-annihilation Count me out I’ve had enough Doesn’t anyone else feel set up? Set up Don't you feel set up? Set up I’ve given up on the taste of blood in the name of an ideal called love I’ve whispered holy sacrament And I’ve screamed my throat raw waiting for deliverance Your kingdom’s nothing but a hollow shell There’s nothing left inside to feed the crowds Just vultures gathered in their sacred nests defining heresy and holiness As we suffer for the sins they made up Am I the only one that sees the coming flood Doesn’t anyone else feel set up? Set up Don't you feel set up? Set up
7.
What will become of your legacy Starving masses full of your holy disease Give up for the kingdom yet unseen Give up your here and now for what may never be You’ll never see Sins of the father fault of a god that made it so We are the children you let go Isn’t everyone here sick to death of crimes passed down lie after lie Bowing down like slaves to be saved from on high Why be sheep when we can rise We are free we are wild This is the anthem of our hearts desire Took so long to see the truth Of all the pain and sorrow that leaves you unmoved Set us all up and blamed us well Gave us temptation and then damned us to hell You know very well With hearts aflame and wisdom engaged We are alive we are already saved With no masters no gods we are called to no one Free unafraid of an unfeeling father that raises his children to throw them away Supplicant fools with their eyes on the grave.
8.
At War 04:11
Blood flows from the throne room The beast feeds tonight I am hatred incarnate The dawn of new light No time for contrition Let the strong come alive Burn down the empire and take what's mine I've been to hell now let's go to war Just you and me let's settle the score I've been to hell now let's go to war Let’s go to war No more hiding in the shadows No more scraps from the floor I am my own salvation I am the God of war The blinders are lifted The king is a lie I am heresy rising as the angel of light I am the serpent uprising The destroyer of worlds Your dreams are empty delusions I am the first stone hurled
9.
Remains 04:27
With tongues of fire below the rising tide I stand defiant upon the funeral pyre Built with my own two hands to let the past catch fire Throw the ash to the air begin the age of iron So here I stand / Here I believe That I am free / Because I chose to be Stronger than death / Louder than shame Let it all burn away and rise from the remains Hymns of a native son reborn in Babylon Calculating steps to hide the damage done When there’s no hope or grace you learn to fight like hell When there’s no savior you learn to save yourself
10.
Memento Mori 04:21
From death comes new life 
Unto wisdom divine 
 The tree of knowledge is burning bright
 The serpent calls to arise
 Ignite sabbatic pyres 
Call familiars home 
The end comes to all alike
 To invoke the savage fight 
 And the walls come down 

 In this hidden light we burn
 We burn much brighter
 Hold it close and never let it go

 Align the dawn to darkness
 Against the rising tide
 Of dust howling out for salvation 
 To a silent empty sky
Ignite sabbatic pyres 
Call familiars home
 The end comes to all alike
 To invoke the savage fight 
And the walls come down
11.
I have found in death alone a life to call my own A vibrant coming home Beyond illusion our path becomes more human Our movements grow more restless Until the darkness takes us In absolution a final resting place There’s nothing left to fear the fire draws us near Before we disappear Beyond illusion our path becomes more human Our movements grow more restless Until the darkness takes us In absolution a final resting place in the stars once again Now I’m at peace at last Now I’m at peace with death In absolution our final resting place in the stars once again
12.
Jettison 04:18
Let the plague years burn in effigy We have earned our own reprieve Above the silent suffering Of these slaves who live to bleed Jettison cast away and start again Jettison we’re our own deliverance With my own hands I’ve forged these stones To build a path through the unknown With no more sins left to atone A vibrant dawn of flesh and bone I’ve come alive and I’m not letting it go The past is dead and I have found a new home I am unbound and rising up to my feet I am reborn I am finally free
13.
Dark Fire 04:26
We were banished by the sun Hopeful sinners prideful love We were savage and out of place But in their shadows we found our way Dark fire in your embrace Countless hours longing to taste Fallen angels on the run Lurid hunger wicked lust We are savage and out of place But in their shadows we found our way Dark fire in your embrace Countless hours longing to taste Let it be so, I will not let you go Dark fire in your embrace And I will not let you go I will not let you go Come hell or heaven, gods or men I release myself to love again And I will not let you go

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released March 3, 2017

NATHAN GRAY COLLECTIVE IS:
Nathan Gray
Daniel E. Smith

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY:
Nathan Gray & Daniel E. Smith

PRODUCED BY:
Nathan Gray & Daniel E. Smith

TRACKED & ENGINEERED BY:
Daniel E. Smith at Sounds Of Ideal Life

MIXED BY:
John Ferrara at Portrait Recording Studios

MASTERED BY:
Kevin Mattesky at Phantom Center Media

ART DIRECTION, DESIGN & LAYOUT BY:
Tom Bejgrowicz for Man Alive Creative

AUTOPSY THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY BY:
Tom Bejgrowicz for Man Alive Creative

CHURCH PHOTOGRAPHY BY:
Nick McNevich

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