#borntoruin

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The Banner - Lilith

A thousand days in numbing cold And you are warm. But I let go. She is a starless sky over my endless night, And you are bright. But I let go. There is no weight to my tired soul, I drift away. And you are rope You are heaven sent but I cannot ascend. I am blind, shroud of black. You are oxygen/ she is a heart attack. The warmth it shocks knowing only cold. And you cant know peace never knowing home.

That part is dead, the prize you seek. The tower tall and the boy was weak. I lift my gaze to your crying eyes But my fate is sealed, I am denied. To cut that piece from my brain Where her taste and smell lies in wait. In the shadowed halls of my mind The castle is a tomb and the throne is mine. I've long forgotten life outside. And a rising sun only burns my eyes. Skins gone pale, I'm the king of night. Drag my chains, I don't live or die. I am bound to this place now cold and grey.

A thousand days in numbing cold and she was warm. But I let go. You are a starless sky over my endless night. And she was bright. There is no weight to my tired soul You are a noose, she was a rope. She was heaven sent but I descend.

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I think the lyrics on Born To Ruin I are definitely some of my best, at least im most proud of them.

The Banner - Lilith

A thousand days in numbing cold And you are warm. But I let go. She is a starless sky over my endless night, And you are bright. But I let go. There is no weight to my tired soul, I drift away. And you are rope You are heaven sent but I cannot ascend. I am blind, shroud of black. You are oxygen/ she is a heart attack. The warmth it shocks knowing only cold. And you cant know peace never knowing home. That part is dead, the prize you seek. The tower tall and the boy was weak. I lift my gaze to your crying eyes But my fate is sealed, I am denied. To cut that piece from my brain Where her taste and smell lies in wait. The shadowed halls of my mind The castle is a tomb and the throne is mine.

I’ve long forgotten life outside. A rising sun only burns my eyes. Skins gone pale, I’m the king of night. Drag my chains, I don’t live or die. I am bound to this place now cold and grey. A thousand days in numbing cold and she was warm. But I let go. You are a starless sky over my endless night. And she was bright. There is no weight/ tired soul You are a noose, she was a rope.

She was heaven sent but I descend.

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The Banner - Lilith

APPARENTLY a lot of people don’t even know this exists, these are literally some of my favorite songs i’ve written as The Banner. Spread the word to all your cutter friends and tumblr goths.

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The Banner - Negative Zone

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Heres the review of Born to Ruin I from Tighttothenail.com REBLOG IT POR FAVOR

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The 5 year gap since 2008's Frailty has seemingly done nothing to cool the inferno that burns at the heart of The Banner. Following break ups, drummer issues and lost hard drives they return with Born To Ruin, a 4 track cassette demo and the first in a series, and on it they're displaying a rage and vitriolic fury here that would put most bands who are far more wet behind the ears to shame. Always a band who seemed to take leaps forward between each release, it's quite fitting that they're lurching back into life with a demo; rejuvenated and reinvigorated isn't the word; as triumphant returns go, The Banner have smashed it out of the park, not to mention adding a few more aspects to their sound.

The most dangerous weapon in their arsenal is undoubtedly their frontman. Now, there's angry vocalists and then there's Joey Southside. With the rest of The Banner razing the earth around him with a punishing, timeless, metallic hardcore onslaught, Southside is free to stalk this wasteland like a man possessed. He was recently described to me by a member of Withdrawal as “a true degenerate Jersy goth”, which is pretty accurate. Lyrics hinge on isolation, a detachment from humanity, damnation and at times he paints a picture of almost supernatural transformation (“Skins gone pale, I'm the king of night” from 'Lilith'). Which may sound a bit purple-and-black on the surface, but Southside's conviction is remarkable, with each word spat from his lips hitting like a brick to your forehead.

It's not all Southside's show though, with the musicians behind him belting out rock solid metallic hardcore that stacks up with the best of their contemporaries. Tight, precise and swerving outright technical wankery in favour of a bludgeoning heaviness, The Banner also occasionally dip into blackened melody too which keeps it punchy and exhilarating. Don't expect clean singing though, as the vocals continue to rage like a dying sun. That is, until Southside unleashes his inner Pete Steele for some graveyard baritone on 'Negative Zone'. It's a risky manoeuvre, but as The Banner are clearly skilled in their ability to implement subtle changes to their sound it's pulled off perfectly. So much so that when they drop in a Zola Jesus song to close proceedings, you might be fooled into thinking that they've gone full crypt-core and that it's one of their own."

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THE BANNER "Born to Ruin pt. I" set for late July Release!

After months and months of waiting, and months and months of set backs (drummers coming and going, a crashed hard drive, a little rain by the name of Sandy, etc) there has finally been progress made with The Banner's first release since "Frailty".

Born to Ruin pt. 1 will be released in late July via cassette and will be accompanied with a digital download, exclusive artwork, and shows in promotion of the tape. Because this is being treated as a demo for the four-part series that TB mastermind, Joey Southside, has concocted, we found it fitting to release it in true "Demo tape" fashion.

"Born to Ruin pt. 1" will be available in late July 2013. Official release date and pre-order date TBA.