Sink or Swim

Description:
This song starts out with a catchy trance riff. After a few measures the rest of the band joins in on the progression. The song then turns into the first verse where the synth drops out and is followed by brutal, heavy guitars and Jessie's screams. The song smoothly moves into the chorus where the synth joins the band again and Jessie reverts to a clean sound with Kraig backing him up with a little bit of auto tune to give them a more electronic sound. After the chorus there is a short break before the band moves into another brutal verse immediately followed by a short breakdown. The breakdown is followed up by another chorus. The song ends with one more verse with the same brutal screams and guitars and cuts out right after Jessie finishes the last word of the song.

Lyrics: Red = screamed
you're dead weight
you're dragging me down
i have to let go
if i dont want to drown
your cold hands reaching for me
i cut the string so i can be free

i see your face in my dreams
haunting me with piercing screams
your hands reaching for me
trying to pull me in too
the deep blackness you call sweet
sends shivers down my spine
this life is mine

your nails digging into me
trying to find a grip
to pull me down with you

i see your face in my dreams
haunting me with piercing screams
your hands reaching for me
trying to pull me in too
the deep blackness you call sweet
sends shivers down my spine
this life is mine

you cut me deep
you cut me deep until i bled
so i finally cut you free
so you can choose for yourself
to sink or swim

Sounds like:

Black Hole

Description:
This song starts off with a quick, build up that leads right into the first verse where Jessie shows off his deepest, darkest screams. The guitars find a way to bury themselves under your skin and unsettle you with a distorted, dissonant sound and Kraig sings the last line of the verse. Then the song bridges into the chorus where Jessie switches back and forth between his screams and clean singing. The guitars move to a less dissonant progression and match themselves with Jessie's voice. After the chorus they move into the second verse where the guitars play at a sort of half time and Jessie sings clean the entire time. Then after another chorus, the song moves back to the dark, violent, dissonant sound from the beginning and into a lull after the verse. This is when the trance beat starts to fade in and Jessie and Kraig do a short fill that they call the "woah-oh war". The song then moves back into the chorus with the trance sound carrying it entirely with no guitars. But, the song ends with the guitars dropping in and giving a brutal finish with more of Jessie's screams.

Lyrics: Red = screamed
what have we done
the blood on the ground is glistening
let the crimson burn
acidic to the mind
burn a hole through my skull
burn a hole through my soul

empty, I'm so empty
there's nothing inside of me
tempting, oh so tempting
to fill this hole and kill my soul

I look at my life
seeing only pain and suffering
wondering what went wrong
burn a hole through my skull
burn a hole through my soul
burn a hole through me

empty, I'm so empty
there's nothing inside of me
tempting, oh so tempting
to fill this hole and kill my soul

shame brings pain
my cries in vain
shame brings pain
my cries in vain
burn a hole through my skull
burn a hole through my soul

empty, I'm so empty
there's nothing inside of me
tempting, oh so tempting
to fill this hole and kill my soul

oh no more take it away
oh no more take this pain