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Offline Andre Gandra  
#1 Posted : 27 January 2013 02:52:39(UTC)
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This is the second studio album by rock singer Julia Volkova after her successful debut as a soloist who managed to put her in one of the most recognized voices of the world mainstream music market. The album is published and released by Chaos Records who Julia has signed a contract in the begging of 2012.

The album counts with the collaboration of Reported Failure’s leader Vin Peters who worked with Julia in every song of the album sometimes as a producers other times as a writer and composer, throughout the year Julia also received help from other singers like Abie Lena as a writer in two songs in the album and James Urie who ended up featuring as a male voice on the album’s first single. Longtime Julia Volkova’s manager Rick Bonadio worked as a producer in three songs in the album and helped Julia to write another one song in the album.

Most of the album was recorded in L.A. in October while Julia had a couple of free days from her touring, but she had started the works in the album officially in April of the same year ending the whole process in December of 2012 in London.
This is the first album by Julia to be conceptual. It tells a story of a girl who’s turned into a vampire and her struggles in love while she tries to live a regular life in her new condition. Julia said also that if her fans won’t like the concept story she created for the album, they’ll relate to the lyrics the same way once she tried to keep all of them as a general subject, so everyone is able to relate to them.


Released – January 25th
Recorded – April 2012 Los Angeles, October 2012 Los Angeles, December 2012 London
Label – Chaos Records
Producers – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova, James Urie, Rick Bonadio
Writers – Julia Volkova, Vin Peters, James Urie, Rick Bonadio, Abie Lena
Media – Physical CD, Digital, Stream
Genre – Post Grunge, Hard Rock, Folk, ElectroRock

Writing and Recording

While Julia was still touring, she started to write the first lyrics of what would become her second studio album. At first all the songs sounded like her previous work and they didn’t seem to follow a certain theme or concept, till Julia went to watch the last film of the Underworld vampire saga which inspired her to write the song ‘The Bite’. After she had written this song she showed to her manager and label’s executive and it was decided that she would make a conceptual album and the main theme of it would be vampire mythologies.

After this song, all of the other songs were written in a way to from a story of a young adult girl who’s turned into a vampire. Julia’s manager Rick Bonadio convinced Chaos Records representatives to hire Vin Peters as the producer of the album, claiming that the leader of Reported Failure was the creative person behind the acclaimed conceptual band released by his band last year.
For a couple of weeks they both worked separately on songs for the project and finally they get together in April of 2012 and after that date the official work on the album had begun. Later on the year they got together again in September and finally in December where both finalize the whole production on the album in London, where Julia lives since 2011.

Julia was helped by other songwriters like Abie Lena, who received several e-mails from Julia with some of the lyrics Julia had written for the album, Abie improved some of those lyrics in other to help Julia to completing her thoughts. James Urie wrote two songs in the album too, one of them was the single he featured on and the other one was another option of a featuring, but it was not necessary once his character in killed in the first song.

Rick Bonadio, who works with Julia since her soloist debut later in 2011 collaborated for the first time with her in the album, he helped to produce three songs and he also co-wrote another two songs.

Track List

1- Haunted
2- Tonight I gave up
3- The Bite featuring James Urie
4- Damned
5- Some things your cannot deny
6- Looking for you
7- Killing me from inside
8- How much I hate you
9- What if...
10- Suicide

Edited by user 14 February 2013 04:16:30(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

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#2 Posted : 27 January 2013 03:24:05(UTC)
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#3 Posted : 27 January 2013 03:27:01(UTC)
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#4 Posted : 28 January 2013 04:53:39(UTC)
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1- Haunted

Carly’s tales

This man just arrived in town, he barely leaves his home he barely see the sun’s light. I keep watching him through my window, I know he notices me sometimes, but I don’t care, he’s so charming and seductive and scary.
I can’t think about anything else anymore, Joseph, my best friend since I was a little girl said that I should beware of this man, I don’t know exactly what he mean by saying that, but I feel the insecurity when that man looks at me.
I’ve been living alone since my parents died longtime ago in a car accident, I lived my childhood with my grandparents, but they’re dead too, so I can say that I have no family anymore and I’m with 25 years old, I fear I’m becoming old and I have no one to share anything. Joseph stills try to date me despite I said him I don’t love him, but this new man who just arrived came to my house yesterday, it was midnight, his skin and his smile is so scary.
I’m feeling haunted, he’s watching me I’m sure of it and the worst sensation I could feel, I’m enjoying it!


Lyrics

Scratching bones and skin
Haunting all my pleasant dreams
I can’t sleep

Who are you?
From the tombs
The one to judge
It’s the one with grudge
I may be crazy

Ooh, Let it go
Ooh, The pain slow
Crawling inside my skin
Making my heart bleed
And I have no air to scream
Can you bless me with your mercy?
Ooh let me go

Resembling to what is lost
I’m alone I have no plot
Ghosts from past, tastes of regrets
And don’t let them get inside my head

Ooh, Let it go
Ooh, The pain slow
Crawling inside my skin
Making my heart bleed
And I have no air to scream
Can you bless me with your mercy?
Ooh let me go

Ooh, Let it go
Ooh, The pain slow
Crawling inside my skin
Making my heart bleed
And I have no air to scream
Can you bless me with your mercy?
Ooh let me go


Technical Information

Recorded – December 2012, UK
Genre – Piano Rock, dream pop
Length – 3:37
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, Rick Bonadio
Producer – Rick Bonadio, Vin Peters

Sound and Lyrics

The song is a piano and drum upbeat ballad; it has a piano riff which is played over a loud drum sequence. The songs also bear lots of electronic sounds such as distorted strings and vocals. It’s spooky and a little innocent, Julia voice is high and thin, her husky sound is not presented here. The drums are much elaborated with tambour and addition of electronic percussion. It was produced mainly by Rick Bonadio who did the piano and the strings and also produced Julia’s Vocals, Vin Peters worked on the drums and other sounds of the song, once he took part in the executive production of the album, everything has his touch.
Lyrics were written by Julia with the help of Rick, it was the last song written for the album and it was exclusively written to name the album like Julia said before. The lyrics sort of resumes the feeling and sensations the main character of the album feels. But the main general theme of the song is the fear and the simply feeling of being haunted for any reason you might have to feel haunted.
The track opens the album and introduces the dark theme of the project, here the listener will feel Julia’s intentions and objectives with this album. Also her evolution as a singer and songwriter and the perfect couple she made beside Vin Peters musically speaking.

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#5 Posted : 29 January 2013 21:25:16(UTC)
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2- Tonigh I Gave Up

Carly’s Tales

‘I find out that the mysterious man living in the big manor at my street corner is called Marcio, I heard one of the innumerous girls who enter that creepy house call him by that. This morning I went to the supermarket at night and he was there, I could perceive that he was smiling to me, his teeth are so white and his eyes are so seductive, I can’t resist him, but he’s not a trustful man, he hides something and I’m feeling everyday more tempted a I go under this mystery.
Recently on local news there have been strange animals attacking people and draining people’s blood, it’s creepy, people describe these animals like big bats but with human facial expressions, isn’t that weird? It all started after Marcio moved to town, but it can’t be him, well at least not alone, is he a vampire or something?
Joseph told me today that I should beware of my curiosity that somethings are not meant to be discover, well I disagree with him and he’s irritating me with his overprotection, I just want to feel liberated to do whatever I want to do and If I want to gave up for Marcio’s irresistible smile, it’s all my choice.'


Lyrics

Creeping inside my mind
Taking my ability, I'm terrified
I have no strength to fight against this wish

Drowning me into the mud
I feel so small, closer to your dust
I've become numb of your lies
Your soft and sweet lies
They made me realize
Your lies
Well honey, I give up
I'll give you all the things you want
Tonight I give up
And nothing will save me from the devil's harm
And in every breath I take with my lungs
Just to say I give up

Burning inside my soul
It’s all the negativity I absorbed
From your tempting lies

Drowning into the mud
I feel so small closer to your lust
I've become numb of your lies
Your soft and sweet lies
They made me realize
Your lies
Well honey, I give up
I'll give you all the things you want
Tonight I give up
And nothing will save me from the devil's harm
And in every breath I take with my lungs
Just to say I give up


Your evil smile seducing me
Your piercing eyes looking at me (tonight I gave up)
Your hands comforting me, touching my skin (tonight I gave up)
Your warming voice deceiving me
Well honey, I gave up


And in every breath I take with my lungs (creeping in my mind)
I take with my lungs (creeping in my mind)
I take with my lungs (creeping in my mind)
Just to say I give up


Technical Content

Recorded
- October 2012; (Los Angeles)
Genre – Alternative Rock, post-grunge, hard rock
Length – 3:54
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova and Vin Peters
Producer – Vin Peters

Sound and Lyrics

The track is heavily influenced by post-grunge genre very known by its producer Vin Peters, it has strong and distorted guitar riffs, fast drums and loud bass also there are several electronic elements on it such distorted violins, the verses of the song are slower and lower compared to its chorus, where all the instruments comes together to deliver the most hard rock sound Julia ever sung on her entire career.
There’s a bridge and a break down moment in the song where the violins and a low key guitar followed with Julia’s sick, husky and lazy vocals, she’s sounding intolerant and frightened the same time, making the song unique piece of sensations for its listeners.
Lyrically it has two different meanings, the first one seeing by a general human being, it’s about our incapability to deny a temptation, when someone’s is whipping you to make something you’ll probably regret later but you can’t deny you want that so much.
Following the timeline story of Carly’s presented in the firsts ingle of the album, this song is the exactly moment where Carly meets the Vampire Marcio and finally we can understand why she didn’t refuse his seduction and she has turned in a vampire.

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#6 Posted : 29 January 2013 21:55:26(UTC)
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#7 Posted : 30 January 2013 02:52:06(UTC)
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3- The Bite featuring James Urie

Carly’s Tales

‘One of my friends from work gave a party in her house, a lot of people were there including my boss, that jerk, can you believe that he tried to had sex with me in the bathroom of the office last week? He asked if I wanted a better post in the enterprise, that stink pig! Anyway, Joseph was there too, he was a pain in the ass too, lately he’s so boring saying that I’m not the same, that I changed that he can’t re cognize me anymore, why didn’t he leave me alone? But then I saw him alone, wearing jeans and a back jacket, he was so handsome, so tempting, I couldn’t stop looking at him, when he approached me.
He said a couple of stupid things, asked me about what was I thinking about the party and how much he likes parties, he’s such a player, his eyes are so blue that I can even say they change to red in one time, maybe it’s the reflection of the light, well and thinking about the reflection, I couldn’t see his reflection in the glass door, maybe it’s too dark to see.
Well when I got home from that party, I felt like someone was following me, at first I could see the person silhouette, I tried to walk faster. I entered my room and he was there, I knew he was different, he was completely naked, I couldn’t stop looking to his chest, so handsome, his skin so soft, he came near me and started to undress me, it was so smooth and dedicated I felt like I was entering heaven till he grabbed my neck and bite me.
I woke next day with the sun burning half of my hand, the curtains of my bedroom was almost close, I was cold, something was different, I could hear sounds better, I could see better too, I could even smell better, I got up from the floor, walked to my bathroom and I stared the mirror for a couple of minutes, there was nothing there.
Desperate I waited till the night comes so I could go to Marcio’s house, when I got there he was with a bunch of other female vampires, he said if I wanted to join him, if I wanted to become one of his fun toys, how dare him, how stupid I was too. I filled my heart with anger and hate, he started laugh of me as I started to walk in his direction, the only thing I remember is that I left that house with Marcio’s head in my hands and Joseph was outside waiting for me.
That moment Joseph looked at me with fear in his eyes, I felt the thirst, I could easily drink Joseph’s blood till he’d be drained, I choose to fly away.'


Lyrics

(Julia Volkova)
I was looking in the mirror,
just to find your reflection in the moonlight
Everything gets better when,
the sun is gone and we're into the night
The taste of my blood in your mouth still excites me much
Yeah
I scratch your back hard
and you hold my neck
You turned me cold heart
and I don't regret

Baby now we can live together forever.
Once you cursed my life
You had my soul that night

Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't scape, 'cause now you're mine.
You're a vampire,
who cursed me by your bite,
My soul belongs to your life.
Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't scape, 'cause now you're mine.
You're a vampire,
who cursed me throught your bite,
My soul belongs to your life
belongs to my soul.
My soul belongs to your life
belongs to my soul.


(James Urie)
I was walking in the midnight when I saw you coming with your white dress
Whetted my desire the smell of your blood
Bite your neck was my only choice

Baby I'm sorry we won't live together forever.
Now you have a cursed life
You'll live forever at night

Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't stay, 'cause you're not mine.
You're a new vampire,
who's cursed by my bite,
Your soul belongs to your life.
Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't stay, 'cause you're not mine.
You're a new vampire,
who's cursed by my bite,
Your soul belongs to your life.
belongs to your soul.
My soul belongs to your life
belongs to your soul.

(Julia Volkova)
The taste of my blood in your mouth still excites me much
Yeah
I scratch your back hard
and you hold my neck
You turned me cold heart
and I have no regret

(James Urie)
Baby I'm sorry we won't live together forever.
Now you have a cursed life
You'll live forever at night

(Together)
Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't stay, 'cause you're not mine.
You're a new vampire,
who's cursed by my bite,
Your soul belongs to your life.
Don't go,
Fucking my life,
Don't scape, 'cause now you're mine.
You're a vampire,
who cursed me with your bite,
My soul belongs to your life
belongs to my soul.
Your soul belongs to your life.
belongs to your soul.


Technical Content

Recorded - October 2012; (Los Angeles)
Genre - New wave, synthpop, post-punk revival, gothic rock
Length – 5:06
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, James Urie, Vin Peters
Producer – Julia Volkova, Vin Peters

Sound and Writing

This was the first song Julia wrote with the intentions of make this album a concept album. First she went to watch Underworld’s last movie released, then she join Vin Peters in the studio and they both started out the concept of the album with this particular song. It differs in a hundred ways sonically from Julia’s previous work.
The track has influences of new wave, synthpop and gothic rock but the predominantly sound of it it’s the post-punk revival which is more appealing to mainstream radios than punk itself. There are several electronic sounds and also ambient sounds in the song prominent of its synthpop influence.
Electric guitar riffs and drums are the main structure of the song, Julia’s husky and sexy vocals combined with James rock and roll singing style makes it even more sexy and suggestive than any other song in the album.
James helped Julia and Vin to write the song too, lyrics are about a couple of vampires breaking up their relationship but one of them still wants to keep with the relationship but in the end of it both agreed they must separate. Julia said that there’s no other interpretation of this song due to its straightforward lyrics, it’s a fantasy sexy song, in her words.
The song was choose to be the lead single of the album and it manage to peak at number 2 on airplay and number 3 in digital sales, it also received a video which was shot in a version of three parts shared with other two song in the album.

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#8 Posted : 01 February 2013 10:07:07(UTC)
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4- Damned

Carly’s Tales

'Five years have passed since Carly was bitten by Marcio, she’s been running around the world trying to fight against the murder wish she feel all the time. She can’t see the sunlight anymore and now she almost forgot what is like to be warm by it, it doesn’t matter anymore. She’s so far away from home but still young and not tired, how could that be possible?
She also tried to not drink anyone else’s blood, she’s not the one who liked to murder a person, but sometimes she feels so thirst that she has to find someone to drink its blood, in a certain time she manage to stole a couple of blood from a hospital, it’s not that good but at least it’s a clean blood. She met once in a while with another vampire, but they all look the same and still she prefers to walk alone. She killed a vampire on Texas because he tried to kill her first, no big deal.
Walking alone makes Carly feels sad and depress in a lot of times, there are certain moments where she just stay, in a dark place looking to nowhere with an empty mind, she can’t sleep like a human being but she can empty her mind and close her eyes, it helps the time pass, once she ‘slept’ for a whole month, she only woke up because of the damn thirst.
Did God forget about her? She used to be a good girl, in that gray morning Carly was so sick of all that sadness that she decided to walk outside the abandoned manor she was hiding, she was somewhere near Pennsylvania, she saw a handsome man looking from her the other side of the street, she knew he was a vampire too, but there was something different with him, he approached her and said that his name was Thomas and that he was traveling the whole country after her, he was Marcio’s brother, Julia hesitated a bit but he explained that his brother was a stupid blood drainer, he was different and he was glad that Carly killed Marcio.
They spend a week knowing each other and sharing some victims in a prison near the city they were, drinking blood from people who were in the prison made Carly feels a little less assassin. Thomas told Carly that there are a big vampire clan living in the US and that they only let smart and strong vampires to join them, he convinced Carly to go with him to meet the clan.
They travelled around a whole year to find the clan, meantime being together was not all that bad for Carly, despite they had faced some vampire killers around the way they finally arrived at the vampire’s clan hideout.'

Lyrics

Damned without a name
Burning down my sins in flames
Trying to figure out the sane
Hoping God will save me

Please give me redemption
Can you purify my soul?
Please relieve me from your judge hands
And save my soul from damnation

The hate inside my heart bursting
Darkness embracing my spirit
Closer to the night I’m turning
Away from the sun I’m living

Please give me redemption
Can you purify my soul?
Please relieve me from your judge hands
And save my soul from damnation

Pretending
My happiness
I’ll go living immortal days
And all the sins I hide
In the midnight
They come alive

Please give me redemption
Can you purify my soul?
Please relieve me from your judge hands
And save my soul from damnation


Technical Information

Recorded – December 2012, UK
Genre – Electrorock, pop rock
Length – 3:38
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, Rick Bonadio
Producer – Rick Bonadio, Julia Volkova, Vin Peters

Sound and Writing

The track has strong influence of industrial rock and electronic music. It reminds us of Julia’s work with her former band ElectroDeath, especially they first international album. Julia ‘s voice is warming and dark, she only raises her voice to a higher note in the chorus of the song, there are backing vocals elements and a drum sequence that follow throughout the song.
Piano and electric guitar completes the sounds of the song, lyrically it‘s about redemption, like if someone has made a terrible mistake and is begging God or any other superior figure for forgiveness and comprehension.
Julia expressed her feelings in the song by saying that this is another song written strictly for Carly’s story, she never felt like she needed to be forgiven for anything, but for Carly after she left her hometown she got into a very dark period, even more because she refused to kill humans to feed her so she currently felt damned and she needed someone to forgive her.

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#10 Posted : 01 February 2013 11:25:03(UTC)
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OOC: This looks great, can't wait to see all the songs :)


Originally Posted by: RoseJapanFan Go to Quoted Post
Jennifer: This is coming along really nicely, can't wait to hear the rest of it! It's so....haunting! ;)


Julia: Thank you Jennifer, that's my goal with this album, to be haunting! LOL you're such a sweetheart and by the way your album is FREAKING AWESOME TOO!

OOC: Thanks, I'm very slow with this, but I'll do my best to have all teh song posted untill Sunday! :)

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;289507]OOC: Good job on this. I look forward to reading all of it.

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OOC: Great work so far. Loving the new Julia :)




Vin: I'm quite proud of what was created for this record. I think all of your fans will love it as much as we do. Thank you for the opportunity.


OOC: Thank you for the support, it's always very appreciated!

Julia: I hope I'll be able to work with you again Vin, you're such a genious when creating new music. I'm also very glad both labels agreed us to work together, it's hard nowaday to manage contracts and stuffs like that, it proves that Chaos and Nomad Records work in name of the art!

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Vara: This is my favorite song on this album so far. I loveeeeee it, baby. :)

OOC: Great job on all of this. :D


Julia: I hopw you'll change your mind Vara LOL, I mean maybe you'll enjoy my favorite in the album... just kiding, thank you so much for the support it's so cool to hear good things from people like you.

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5- Some things you cannot deny

Craly’s tales

‘The life in the clan can be very comfortable, you don’t need to kill humans to be fed, they have a great amount of blood stock due to so many years of vampirism traditions, the clan survives for over a century now, Carly was somehow well received, there are some issues she might have to work out to solve, especially an issues named Isabella, she’s Thoma’s girlfriend or at least she says she is, for Thomas he’s completely single.
The point is Carly notices that Thomas got too much close to her, Isabella knows that and she won’t let him to be with Carly but who said Carly wants anything with Thomas? The truth is after all these years Carly’s miss Joseph, somehow she feels something for him, she was dumb enough to never realize this before.
The clan was composed by 20 vampires, one of them the elder one Lucius, likes Carly, he said to her that she is incredibly powerful, because she killed and drunk Marcio’s blood, Marcio was an elder too just like Thomas is, this made Carly a very strong and powerful vampire girl, unfortunately all the hopes that Carly had to become human again was demystified By Lucius, once you’re turned you’ll never comeback.
The main objective of the Clan is to survive with a little dignity and to kill any vampire hunter that would stay in their way and believe me when I tell you there are some very strong vampire hunters around the world one of them is Joseph!
Yes you read right, after Carly left her hometown Joseph became obsessed by vampires and he sort of started to develop a killer instinct for these creatures. Well it’s been almost ten years now and he had traveled the whole world after Carly, he wants to revenge her, he can’t understand why she was turned and he would kill any vampire to see her as a human again.
Carly is feeling good for the first time as a vampire, she has Thomas to hangout, Isabella to hate and Lucius to call as father, she was not completely happy and maybe she’ll never be but she feels safe there in the clan.
In one Night Isabella, Thomas and Carly were ordered to look around the neighbor about a certain vampire hunter that was seen sneaking around, they instead went to look after him and they found him, but in fact that was a trap, and there were not only one vampire hunter but five vampire hunters, who cornered them in order to find the clan lair.
And so they did, when they arrived at the vampire’s clan lair they quickly killed Isabella and so Carly and Thomas managed to escape from what was the end of that clan, Lucius and the others were all killed by the vampire hunters, Carly was seeing her comfortable world being taken away from her again. Thomas and Carly run away to Europe to find more about the five vampire hunters who murdered their clan, and that was a chock revelation for Carly, Joseph was a member of that group, despite he was not there, he belong to the same group of vampire hunters.’

Lyrics

I'm far from home, well I still follow
Your traces
It’s been some time and I’m still hollow
To lead my way
But that’s ok, ‘cause doesn’t matter anyway
And you will never find someone like me
Yes, you won’t find someone good as me

Did you realize?
I was the best thing of your life
I bet if you don’t feel alright
When you’re all alone and you can’t stand your miserable life
Some things you cannot deny
Some things you cannot deny

Will someone give me a reason to smile?
You never did
I’ve been bleeding, now just for a while
I’m relieved
I’m trying to find a reason for what you did
Well, baby I’m tired of waiting and grieve
I’m sick of everything from you that reminds me

Did you realize?
I was the best thing of your life
I bet if you don’t feel alright
When you’re all alone and you can’t stand your miserable life
Some things you cannot deny
Some things you cannot deny
Some things I can’t deny
Some things I can’t deny

Now I’m feeling good ‘cause I forgot you
Forever
I’m sorry baby if you still do
Remember
But that’s ok, ‘cause I’m fine at last
And you will never find someone like me
Yes, you won’t find someone good as me

Did you realize?
I was the best thing of your life
I bet if you don’t feel alright
When you’re all alone and you can’t stand your miserable life
Some things you cannot deny
Some things you cannot deny
Some things I can’t deny
Some things I can’t deny

Some things you cannot deny
Some things I can’t deny
Some things we both can’t deny


Technical Information

Recorded – October 2012, LA
Genre – Post Grunge, hard rock
Length – 3:27
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova
Producer – Vin Peters

Sound and Writing

This is a hard rock track, simple and probably the most upbeat song in the whole album. It has a regular structure predictable on rock songs. The chorus of the song is the highlight of it, it becomes louder and harder but nothing compared to previous track on the album.
Julia’s vocal comes back to the husky sexy sound she first sung in the song ‘Tonight I gave Up’, she sounds ironically, probably because of the song’s lyrics which talks about freedom. The meaning the behind the song is to be free form a situation or a person who was the focus of your life, and despite you might still have traces of that old life you feel better and you see the light in the end of the tunnel.
Rumors that the song is about ElectroDeath, Julia left the band last year to pursuit a solo career but frequently she was asked and people refereed to her as a member of the band. In Carly’s perceptions it’s the point where Carly realizes that she is in love for Joseph and even though she didn’t see him in a while now, she feels something for him, but it also represents the first time Carly feels fine as a vampire.
Vin produced the song and clearly we can perceive his unmistakable guitar riffs and drum sequence, it still is a very different sound for Julia, but now the album enters in a old reference of her first album with more folk oriented songs.

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#14 Posted : 07 February 2013 11:56:55(UTC)
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6 - Looking for you

Carly’s Tales

'Carly and Thomas travel to Europe to look after Joseph, Carly convinced Thomas that he might help them considering the fact that he also shared feelings for Carly, Thomas first refused to go after a vampire hunter, but now he only have Carly to follow once his clan is destroyed and Carly sis the only one he wants to stay near.
They found Joseph in Spain, he was hiding in an apartment when Carly first saw him in one night, when both finally looked at each other again it was like a movie, Carly felt something strange for Joseph, she could almost feel happy by seeing him again and so Joseph kind of shared the same sensation for Carly’s appearance.
They talked for a several hours and Carly knew that he got married with a Spanish girl and that he no longer hunts vampires, but it’s hard to leave the vampire hunters group, so he’s still hiding in Spain, the knowledge of Joseph marriage to this girl named Rosa, made Carly realize that they won’t ever be together. They belong to different worlds.
At least Carly still have Thomas as a friend beside her and by the way Thomas didn’t want to go with Carly when she went to meet Joseph, he said he was trying to contact another vampire clan in Europe. Carly went to meet Thomas again to tell him that Joseph will help them in hiding themselves from the vampire hunters, which was when Carly got a big surprise.
When she found that Thomas met the European vampire clan, she didn’t know that in fact Thomas was angry for his Clan’s destruction he made up an ambush for Carly, he wanted revenge against the vampire hunters and so Joseph was the man who would lead his new friends to the destruction of those murderesses.
Thomas kidnaped Carly, she felt so betrayed, she couldn’t even tell Joseph that Thomas was going after him to maybe kill him for revenge, she asked Thomas why he was doing that, he said that one day she’ll forgive him and she’ll live with him as a vampire. Carly refused to live as her new nature, but she also wanted to revenge from the vampire hunters she just didn’t want to see Joseph hurt, he was not guilty after all.
Thomas forced Joseph to tell him where the vampire hunters hide, and after that Joseph and his wife were kidnaped with Carly in the same cell. Thomas and his new vampire crew wen to kill all of the vampire hunters and so they did. It was a massacre, the vampire hunters were formed by around 50 guys and 15 women and all of them were brutally assassin by the European clan of vampires and Joseph himself who even quartered the leader of the hunters.
Meanwhile Carly was forced to kill three of the vampire guards who have stayed to watch her, Joseph and Rosa, she manage to free them form that cell and she said to Joseph run away and hide with his wife on their hometown, by saying that Carly knew she would never see Joseph again and despite Joseph was happy with his new wife he kissed Carly as a goodbye gesture.
Carly needed to run away too, but before she needed to find Thomas, after all she still wanted to be with him, he was everything that was left for her to not feel alone, she went to meet him in the way he was coming back to the European clan’s lain, she told him that she free Joseph and Rosa, Thomas than says he won’t run away from that place and that both of them should stick together with the clan. Carly realized that Thomas was just like them, Carly left Europe with the promise of surviving that world as a human and not as a blood drainer and if Thomas will ever wish to be with Carly again, she said him that she would be in Russia.'

Lyrics

Who are you?
I smell your perfume in my sleep
Are you here to harm me?

Where are you
I can hear your voice in my mind
But I still recognize it

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life

I’m alone
No one really cares with me so,
Do I must still have hope?

I’m all alone
Time is not my friend, I’m getting old
But I keep having hope

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life
All my life

Do you hear my heart calling you
Even It doesn’t know you
When I find you, will you love me just
The way I was

I still live the dream
I can't gave up from looking
While in my heart you live
Then I’ll be dreaming

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life

I’ve been looking for you
All my life
I’ve been looking for you
All my life


Technical Information

Recorded – December 2012, UK
Genre – Alternative Rock
Length – 2:46
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova
Producer – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova

Sound and Writing

A song about looking someone that was already found but still the person is not available anymore and that loose sensation of being alone again comes to haunt someone’s pleasant dreams.
Sonically it's a chunky pop rock melody, thrashing guitars and oh-so smoky vocals, there's hooks, emotion, thought-provoking lyrics, all topped off with a monstrous chorus that brings plenty of teenaged angst to proceedings.
The song has an acoustic guitar riff start and it grows to a heavy rock chorus mixed with violins and Julia’s husky vocals, it comes back to a slow down melody when it comes to the second verse, but still is bigger than its start. It ends with a solo violin sound, some sort of a introduction to the next song on the album.
It’s not a change on the album’s sounding style so far, the sound of guitars and Julia’s vocal intonation are still the same from previous songs in the album, but now she’s singing more dramatically and it almost could turn into a ballad because of its violins and slow tempo drums sequence.

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#15 Posted : 08 February 2013 08:31:08(UTC)
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7- Killing me from inside

Carly’s Tales

'Carly run away to Russia from Thomas’s betrayal and perspective of never having Joseph anymore, he was married and probably he would be happy for the rest of his mortal life, Carly still have an immortal life to live.
In a hurricane of emotions Carly was forced to rob some money so she could dignity live in Russia for some time, the weather was more subtle for her, she was living in a region where the sun almost don’t rise, so she’ll feel more human, despite she killed some human beings due to the money and blood she needed to live.
She met a little girl who lives with her mother in the same building she choose to live her name is Meryl and somehow Carly found a good friend where she could tell her sadness, of course Carly didn’t tell the girls that in fact Carly was a vampire, but it was pretty good for Carly to have someone she could talk to about her deceptions and sorrows.
The young girls became a frequently visitant to Carly’s home, Carly never bough human food after she was turned, but she bought some cookies and milk so she could offer to her new friend. The worst sensation for Carly was that she was again alone, she was betrayed and Joseph was just a memory right now, she’ll never find love again, maybe she’s destined to live lonely days and to live with that pain.
For three years Carly lived in Russia, recovering from all that sadness she was forced to live and all the deceptions she faced, well the good thing was that finally she was feeling better and things were starting to change for her, Meryl became the sister Carly never had in her life and that was a person Carly could care about, she choose to take Meryl and her sick mom now, to travel around Europe, Meryl’s mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Carly was clung to take care of Meryl and so she did.
After two years traveling around Europe with Meryl and her mom, in that point Meryl already knew about Carly’s condition, but Meryl wasn’t afraid of Carly, both were like sisters now, and Meryl’s mom died by the begging of the third year they were traveling. Meryl was already a teenage girl and she invited Carly to come back to her hometown, at first Carly refused but Meryl convinced her.
Before they traveled to Carly’s hometown in US, they stopped in Spain so Carly could meet Thomas again, it was a brief but intense meeting.'

Lyrics


A murder scene
When you stabbed my heart
You did a wound deep hard, it hurt

Then I bleed
For all those bad words
That moment you showed, your true face

I never knew, you would be cruel
I surrender
‘Cause I was about to lose

Falling
Like dead leaves
With my face on the ground
With dirt in my mouth
Crying
With this creased face
With shredded raw flesh eyes
Killing me from inside

I rewind the scene
When my mind is empty
And Devil’s at home messing…
My sense

Don’t try to explain, all is in vain
What once was done cannot
Be undone

Falling
Like dead leaves
With my face on the ground
With dirt in my mouth
Crying
With this creased face
With shredded raw flesh eyes
Killing me from inside

Does it hurt?
When you’re all alone by yourself

The final frame
From today, each one for itself

Falling
Like dead leaves
With my face on the ground
With dirt in my mouth
Crying
With this creased face
With shredded raw flesh eyes
Killing me from inside
Killing me from inside
Falling
Like dead leaves
With my face on the ground
With dirt in my mouth
Crying
With this creased face
With shredded raw flesh eyes
Killing me from inside
You’re by yourself
You’re by yourself
I’m by myself
Ohhh, na na na na
na na na na


Technical Information

Recorded – April 2012, LA
Genre – Alternative Rock, Soft Rock
Length – 4:36
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, Abie Lena
Producer – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova

Sound and Writing

The song was one of the first songs to be written by Julia for the album ‘Haunted’, initially it was just performed in a piano and it received the help of Abie Lena who co-wrote the song, Julia first showed the song to her label mates and later she pushed back the idea of making it a piano track to add more instruments and make it a more rock oriented song.
The song has an alternative pop rock structure with drums guitars and bass, also Julia’s vocals are clean and loud, there are also the additions of backing vocals and an emotional crying intonation on Julia’s vocals. The chorus of the song received influences of Ska and also additional percussion. In the break down moment of the song there’s a Latin acoustic guitar melody probably performed by Vin Peters.
The end of the song is marked by Julia’s emotional breakdown as she drives the melodies of the song with her vocals, sometimes singing lyrics other times just vocalizing.
The lyrics of the song represents Carly’s recovery and feeling from Thomas and Joseph, but also Julia wrote about a drastic broke up where the hate had taken over the couple and no one of them wanted to keep with the relationship and so in the end she determines that each one for yourself.

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#16 Posted : 13 February 2013 23:21:04(UTC)
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8- How much I hate you

Carly’s Tales

'Carly and Meryl met Thomas in Spain, different from the information Carly had that Thomas might be in Russia, something happened to that vampire clan Thomas had join a couple of years ago, he told Carly that the clan was attacked by a rival clan which used to live in Russia too, Thomas run away instead and came to hide himself in Spain, fanatic religious hunters used to live in Spain but they were easily to kill or to hide from, so Thomas was better than he was in Russia.
Carly and Thomas had a long talk about everything that happened to them between the times they were away from each other. Carly told about Meryl now with 18 years old and that she swore to protect her till her death or till Carly’s death, Thomas was very happy for Carly that she had found someone to look after, even though Thomas knew that Carly would suffer in the end, she was happy and Thomas was happy too.
Carly and Meryl decided to stay for a couple of time with Thomas, Carly was somehow falling in love for Thomas, he was always nice to Carly even though what he had done by her and Joseph, he could’ve kill all of them but he let them to run away, what Carly could not perceive was that Meryl now with 21 years old was also falling in love for Thomas and although she loved Carly as a sister, she would do anything to stay with him.
It was in a day where Carly and Thomas were sleeping that Meryl entered Thomas bedroom in order to seduce him, Thomas was in a deep rest as Meryl was getting closer to him, sexually she started to touch Thomas’s cold skin and even more closer to him she kissed him waking him up. Thomas first reflection was to push Meryl away, she got very angry and started to argue with him that she was in love and maybe she wanted to become a vampire just like him, when he told Meryl that he loved Carly and that no one could take that feeling away from him.
In a furry moment Meryl left Thomas bedroom and entered Carly’s bedroom, Thomas went after Meryl trying to calm her, when he arrived at Carly’s bedroom, Meryl was about to kill Carly with a stake, Thomas quickly put himself between Carly and the stake receiving the stab for Carly.
Meryl realized what she had done, the same time Carly woke up and saw Thomas dead on the ground and his body started to be burn itself. Feeling desperate and isolated Carly asked Meryl what happened and Meryl started to blame Carly for what had happened, without understanding the situation Carly took Meryl’s ark and cut her to drop blood on Carly’s month, in a second Carly could saw through Meryl’s blood what really happened in that day and all the nasty thoughts Meryl was having from Carly for a long time now.
Carly full her heart of rage and hate, she stare Meryl and said to her that all the love living inside Carly’s heart will die that night with Meryl. With a single hit, Carly cut Meryl’s head out of her body.'

Lyrics

How much I hate you,
for running away with my charm
How much I hate you,
for messing with my sanity

How much I hate you,
for leaving me with scars
How much I hate you,
for watching my heart bleed

How much I hate you,
for destroying my self confidence
How much I hate you,
for defying my patience

How much I hate you,
for deceiving my friends
How much I hate you,
for stepping me while you stand

How much I loved you,
giving you my all
How much I loved you,
breaking down all my walls

How much I loved you,
surrendering my body and soul
How much I loved you,
being blind to what you showed

How much I hate you,
for giving me insecurity
How much I hate you,
for vanish with my love capability


Technical Information

Recorded – April 2012, LA
Genre – Alternative Rock, Folk
Length – 4:07
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, Abie Lena
Producer – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova, Rick Bonadio

Sound and Writing

The heaviest folk influence song in the album. This track drives us to Julia’s very first debut album, it has acoustic guitar, flutes, emotional vocals and an even more emotional lyric. The song is a slow tempo one with influences of folk music and alternative rock, it has a flute which is played in the end of the song and it comes just like a follow up to the depressed lyrics of the track.
The album has its start with up-tempo and haunting songs but it will goes closer to a depressive and melodically end. Following Carly’s life as a vampire years of loneliness and sadness will drive us to more fold oriented sounds.
Lyrics are about love turning into hate due to subliminal several reasons within the poetry in the song. The song was first written in April of last year and later it made the final cut of the album because of Julia’s feelings for the girls named Meryl who betrayed her, in this song, listeners and readers will realize how much Carly loved Meryl, probably Meryl was Carly’s biggest love.

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9- What If...

Carly’s Tales

'In a roller coaster of emotions, Carly decide to keep up with the plan of traveling to her hometown in US. In her counts it’s been more than 40 years she’s away of her house, she never sold it, the house is still there, perhaps she think it is still there, maybe Joseph is still there, with his wife but in this point it would be a relief for Carly to see he happy with his beautiful family.
When she arrived at her hometown, she went straight to her old house, and there was it, old, dirty, it has become the haunted house of the street, funny isn’t it? The ‘haunted house’ all stories about her in the neighbor, was that she had become a ghost, well she feels like a ghost, she’s still looking 20 despite she’s around 60, and so she remembered that Joseph might be with 60 too.
She saw Joseph’s wife in front of their house, she was with a child on her lap, she looks old too, maybe that child is her grandchild, how long time they had met in Europe, Carly can’t remember, time has passed for her so subtle that she could even remember of Marcio’s tempting stare.
Carly approached Rosa who recognized Carly instead, they had a long talk, the one needed for Carly to discover that Joseph had died of heart attack a couple of years ago, he left a small piece of paper with Rosa so she would give it to Carly one day, Joseph always believed that Carly would return to her home. Carly took the paper from Rosa’s hands, it was almost midnight, she said goodbye to Rosa and she went to the cemetery.
Carly read Joseph’s Epitaph ‘Here lays Joseph beloved husband and father’, she opens the paper and it says ‘I never forgot you Carly, my spirit will immortally waits for you’. Carly was crying from inside, even though she can’t drop tears, even though she was cursed for the rest of the times, she was extremely devastated, she never felt so lost and sad before.
Before the morning sun appear, Carly left the cemetery she was old but young, she had vitality but she was tired, with all of that feeling she remembered herself seeing the sunrise with Joseph in the beach…'

Lyrics

Lying among all these photographs
The times we were together I go back
I know you have found your soul mate
I know this is a little too late

I wish you all the best
But this loss can’t get
And I find myself wondering

What if we got engaged?
What if you had regretted?
What if I never forget?
What if you could come back?
But I’m with the tragedy

As I close my eyes I revive
The moments won’t ever die
Believe me when I said I still love you
Some things remain forever blue

This grudge consumes me
It hurts my soul deep
I cannot stop find me wondering

What if we were strong?
What if you'd never gone?
What if you'd never wrong?
What if I'd stayed long?
But I’m with the tragedy

I’ll never love someone like I loved you someday
I wasn't strong enough to survive my mistakes
And in the end I know that things were never meant to be
I’m sorry if you find me crying

What if we had never gave up?
What if we were still together?
What if this life never hurt?
What if the time could turn?
But I’m with the tragedy

What if I never get heal?
What if we'd be destined to feel?
What if someday we'd be few?
What if you still feel?
Well I'll be here waiting...


Technical Content

Recorded – October 2012; (Los Angeles)
Genre – Acoustic Rock, pop rock
Length – 4:49
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova, Vin Peters
Producer – Vin Peters

Sound and Writing

It’s a piano ballad song with other acoustic instruments such as guitar and drums. The song is hardly different from the first lead single of Julia’s upcoming album and according to the set list of her album it comes at number 9, almost closing the album.
Sonically it reminds of Julia’s first album, Because of its fragility and simplicity, there’s no much to talk about the arrangements of the song then just that it is composed by piano, acoustic guitar and drums, Julia’s vocal’s range is very clear and thin, also its high at some points of the song and there’s a dramatic intonation on Julia’s singing style.
The concept of the song can be explained in two forms. The first one continues the story of Carly, the vampire we seen some days ago in the video for ‘The Bite’ featuring James Urie, in this point of the album her story is almost in the end, and it seems that she’s singing about a love that doesn’t want her anymore and now she’s finding herself wondering situations where they probably would be together. But in the end of the song she still declares her love for this man, by saying that’s he’s waiting for him.
In another point of view the song is about Julia’s last relationship with fellow folk singer Katie Coyle, back at 2011 Julia revealed that’s eh had written a song about Katie and that the song would feature her first studio album, but for unknown reasons the song was not released. Producer Vin Peter revealed for this release that she already had the lyrics and the arrangements of the song, when she showed him and that before he changed a couple of lines on the lyrics, there were even Katie’s name on it.

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10- Suicide

Carly’s tales

‘… Carly sit down in the sands of the beach near her hometown, the sun was about to rise, it was a pink sky and that made Carly feel mortal again, she stared that beautiful blue ocean under the sky, the warm in her skin again, the clouds appearing white as the usual tone of it, there weren’t dark anymore, there weren’t loneliness anymore, the moment when Carly was about to take her deep last breath, her body burst into ashes.
In her place the paper she received from Joseph fell on the ground, the last phrase of the paper was:

“The immortality is the art of knowing the right time to die!”

The end’

Lyrics

I’m predictable
You’re unusual
I’m perfectionist
You are just simple

You complete my love
But you won’t be close

I am cold heart
You are warm heart
I am dirty mind
You see the good side

I need you by my side
But I won’t let go the pride

Ohh, my love
Ohh, my choice
Ohh, alone

I just wanted you know
I’m in love with you
Even we won’t work
I’ll still love you so

Now, time to say goodbye
‘Cause I won’t hold on this life…

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye…
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye …


Technical Content

Recorded – December 2012; (UK)
Genre – Acoustic Rock, Folk
Length – 3:32
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Julia Volkova
Producer – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova

Sound and Writing

The last song in the album is the most intimate and introspective song of it. It has an acoustic guitar melody with some other strings instruments and percussion. Julia sounds tired and sad, she sings it quilt simply and sometimes sleepy. There’s influences of folk elements on it too, specially the violin sound which follows the song from the first chorus to its end.
Lyrically it’s about someone committing suicide, it was written the same time ‘Haunted’ was written, it was used to be as the final track of the album and obviously it talks about the last act of Carly, which is her suicide. Carly lived for almost 50 years as a vampire, she had a bunch of relationships and also some battles she had to survive, but in the end she reveals that she never forgot Joseph and that she rather chooses to die with him then live immortal without him.
Other elements searched to form the track are some phrases of Peruvian philosopher ‘Sofoleto’, he wrote the last phrase Carly reads from Joseph’s words left for her and Julia used his writings of Immortality to create the concept of this end track.

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Adam: Yiiiiiiiikes! this is an incredible album. I always liked you, but I'm actually in love with this darker and heavier rock side of you. You do frighten me, but in a good way, it's like I'm afraid of you, but I also wanna give you a hug and tell you it's all gonna be alright.

Amy: This is a truly beautiful record ... it's probably best if you ignore Adam though.

Adam: ... But I think I can save her :(
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