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The Tragedy in Understanding Nothing

by Agony Reigns

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1.
I 01:39
2.
Necrosis 05:54
Cleanse by flame By cause humane Mind unkept My life left wrecked Now you see what's become of me This false life, I've paid the price Deathly bout calls tonight One more chance to be alive Observe, Embrace Complete, Disgrace Mind Controlled It's time I go Now you see what's become of me This false life, I've paid the price Deathly bout calls tonight One more chance to be alive One Wrong tonight, engulfed in spite This sad tale has come to its end No one to listen, no one to care My mangled solution hangs dead in the air Now I see that all this time I was left blinded from the start Hiding who I was from myself and everyone who gave a fuck Mind controlled its now I go and feel the pain, which Ive succumbed So dark, So cold No thought, no soul Life defined I bid goodbye Now you see what's become of me This false life, I've paid the price Deathly bout called tonight Lost my chance to be alive
3.
Ruination 03:39
Imagine a picturesque world where violence has ceased And tyrants above don’t care about what's east Now the vision is fading and the truth floods in All the madness of a world built on sin I'm so sick of the war Sick at the core Sick of the hate That keeps coming ashore I'm trying to heal Trying to be Trying to live But I'll never be free Is it that hard To let go Of your dignity I'm nothing more than a slave Cant you see Its already too late, there's no going back A world succumbed to a substance, black The speculum shows a pitiless reflection An image distraught, We're fading away I'm so sick of the war Sick at the core Sick of the hate That keeps coming ashore I'm trying to heal Trying to be Trying to live But I'll never be free Is it that hard To let go Of your dignity I'm nothing more Than a slave Can't you see This is my cry, no time to delay All this violence has to fade There's no remorse, we'll waste away The fall of man, You'll all decay Breed Feed Compete Breed Feed Defeat Breed Feed Delete Breed Feed Repeat Go now I'm so sick of the war Sick at the core Sick of the hate That keeps coming ashore I'm trying to heal Trying to be Trying to live But I'll never be free Is it that hard To let go Of your dignity (Your dignity) I'm nothing more More than a slave Can't you see I'm your desire I'm your empire Don't feed the liar Situation dire
4.
Beyond Death 04:28
I’m torn between what’s wrong and long gone Insanity confines as my home This bitter peace locked behind a closed door Threw away the key, for the sight is fucked alone So take this life, return to black And make it right, never come back What keeps me sane, inside this hell What keeps me safe, safe from myself I lived everyday, hoping it was my last And I could never say, the answers to which you asked I lived so long so close and it’s best you say goodbye Because the pain has filled my hope And now I’m ready to die My life is only temporary No one can save me from myself Until I’m dead and buried This is living hell Sadness can be violence But loneliness is deadliest What’s been lost can never be found How much can i take And if I were to take this life Could you see that it was all a lie This hurts but I blame only me Don’t pity me, Dont Pity me And all the tears, and all the pain And all their fears and all the blame Are mine to bear, bring to my grave Too late for prayers, I can’t be saved Such Regret, and such despair Resigned to death, to time to care Leave me be, in misery There’s nothing left, don’t pity me Don’t you cry on the night I die Don’t you ask the reason why Don’t you say I didn’t try In the end I lost my mind And I’m not afraid And I know I’ve failed As my broken heart turns gray And my broken skin decays
5.
Why's it that I lie awake While you sleep without a sound Unaware of the damage you've done You're too far gone What if i told of suffering A kind not often seen Would you hear me out Or will i drown How can it be that someone like you Just watch and act so cruel Everytime I scream You just ignore I don't need your sympathy Just a sign of humanity This has gone too long Yet I implore So here I lie Waiting to die I cant believe How low I've come All that I need Is purity Yet here i lie Despondency I'm damned if i do and damned if I don't In this petty life, fueled by hope I'm Trying to find what's truly right So maybe for once I can sleep at night The clock is ticking your time is up Life petrified in this decadent demise All I wanted was a chance just to be So for once listen I'm on my knees Haunting thoughts come for me Reminding what couldn't be The kind of sparse yet better days Where I was free from misery I'm not the one who strayed No I'm the one who stayed This is my farewell
6.
Extinction 04:18
Now listen here and tell me why I can’t decide To live my life how I fucking choose, so what went And under what estranged concept of liberty Can some tyrant rise up to step on me We fight for something that we all deem fair Yet piteous violence just leads to despair Why can’t we wake up to realize Our world divided, yet we are the same We won’t be controlled Your reign is done and ours begun We must rise above Imagine a country free from all cruelty To Unite our society, come together triumphantly Now picture if you were trapped inside these wretched shoes You wouldn’t like it so why are you so confused Are you that blinded, stuck in your vile ways That you can’t see it’s you that will pay Pay for your greed, it’s so obscene Is it that hard to see with clarity You want me to beg, insist and to plead Just give up and do as you please That’s your mistake it’s you that will see As we laugh in pure ecstasy We are as one through all that we’ve done United and thriving our future’s begun Imagine a country free from all cruelty To unite our society come together triumphantly But we can’t make amends over pettiness all due respect I can’t find liberty, I guess this world’s not for me This is not the world meant for me Imagine a country free from all cruelty To unite our society come together triumphantly But we can’t make amends over pettiness all disrespect I can’t find liberty, in our world, so wake up today Alright now listen here motherfucker It’s about time someone put you in your place You’re going to end up face down in the gutter So watch out you fucking waste of space
7.
I’m sick of the plague that rules this fucking world And all of the people who live just to watch it burn How can this be, to live so devoid of love What more can you say, life gives until all is gone To hope is to dream To expect is demand This world is built on expectations of man The ones that break Kill Children And ruin the hope of a perfect world How, can you expect to live free In this world full of cruelty Do you think it's a game, to watch the fire burn While we lie and beg, hoping the world will turn The future is now, and it sure fucking hurts How long will it take, til’ this trial averts Fuck, all hope is gone, thy will be done How, can you expect to live free In this world full of cruelty It must come to an end Before more lives descend How can’t we see that this way of living’s not meant to be Forgive me not, because I see that our future is fucked How can you expect to live free In this world full of cruelty It must come to an end Before more lives descend
8.
Zealot 04:10
A zealot's defined by an obssession unkind Who misrepresents the entire of mankind There's no purity only space left for malice It's why brother's kill sisters an act oh so callous Behold judgement day Its full of dismay Who'd be surprised Its a tragedy divine Bodies lay in the street A sight undefined Take a look outside And see our demise So take my hand we'll fight till the end In these dark times we'll Fight for whats right Desperation and desecration we aren't alone this hell is our home And If God's sadistically watching from above Laughing at a world trying to find its lost love Hed say our time has come now we must burn in fire Look at what's become of the youth we've inspired Our time has come So take my hand we'll fight till the end In these dank times we'll fight for whats right No Our time has come This is requiem We must break free from the theocracy In order to find our perfect harmony Yet our world's fallen to Hypocrisy So we can’t live, return to dormancy
9.
Sea 02:27
10.
Tragedy is a never ending passage in which one soul is reborn and the soul that tries to understand is lost Lost in the waves of uncertainty that will forever haunt a dying soul Im gripping on closely And gritting my teeth The fucked future i’d want it to be Your lifeless still body Haunts my dreams A permanent sleep did you have to leave Beyond where our world meets the sea I dream a place there for you and me Please don’t leave because I need thee now and forever Mind confusing Pain ensuing Chaos left in rampancy My chest is heaving Life deceiving Terminal insanity Maybe i can for once rationalize all these troubling thoughts And understand that all along im guilty at heart I must accept there's blood on my hands Until my fucking bitter end I'll scream in denial of the truth Until my world falls apart Why Did You Have to go I truly can’t understand why I find myself here without you To Live,care, and love as if you've never existed I now understand the dread and the sorrow Like when a virus slowly overcomes its host Is this what it comes to To realize the tragedy In understanding nothing Why Did you have to go Couldn’t Life have just gone slow If there’d have been another way I’d always wish that you could stay Wonder what life would come to In the end a new breath we renew Beyond where our world meets the sea I dream a place there for you and me If you must go then just know I miss you now and forever Beyond all our lives Beyond all our strife I know that one day we will be united So please don’t forget me now For I’ll do the same and live a life, in memoriam

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It's with great joy that we finally are able to release our debut album. We put our all into these 10 songs over the past year Thank you all for the support!

Welcome to a new era of Agony Reigns

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"The style of the very young group is very difficult to classify and doesn't really want to be pigeonholed . . . Agony Reigns bring a breath of fresh air to the metal scene with their varied sound! Even if the vocals take a bit of getting used to at times, the disc is still suitable for a broad Metal Audience "

9/10 AMMO Supports the Underground (Austria)

"“The Tragedy In Understanding Nothing” has its moments. The strength of the album is the diversity in sound, the guitar riffing, and the lead guitars. The mixture of different styles keeps the album fresh and maintains a certain dynamic . . . AGONY REIGNS leave a first mark with their debut album. Thrash Metal and also Metalcore fans will surely dig the album and looking forward to future releases of a young up-and-coming band."

8/10 : Songwriting | 8/10 : Musicianship | 7/10 : Memorability | 8/10 Production | Metal Temple (Germany)

"In their new proposal, we will find a small change, and that is expressed in more furious and full of rage songs, then, that Thrash Metal that they know how to do, is now enriched with a powerful combination, easily prowling Metalcore , although to my taste, they don't get to be and it's that so much power and energy is transmitted in such a way that it won't leave you whole."

#12 of 20 in Oz Ga's top releases from 2021
#1 editor choice for Under the Graveyard 2021
#4 top extreme album of November 2021

- Oz Ga/The Dark Melody (Mexico)

"I’m a big fan of the intersection of thrash and melodeath, and Agony Reigns a well-produced example of said intersection. It’s not groundbreaking stuff by any measure, but I’ll be damned if it’s not a lot of fun. The shrieked vocals and punchy riffing give off the same kind of vibe as other recent acts in the same field such as Snakeblade and Bloodletter, and at name-your-price, I’ll be more than happy to add it to my collection alongside those two."

- Toilet Ov Hell (United States)

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released November 12, 2021

Agony Reigns is:
Matt McGee : Bass/Vocals
Micah Adams: Guitar Vocals
Jake Schultz: Lead Guitar/Vocals
Ben Moen: Drums



Produced by Elliot Merriman and Agony Reigns
Recorded by Elliot Merriman, Bailey Sullivan and Nick Pocock
Mixed and Mastered by Nick Pocock
Artwork by Matt McGee
Logo by Joshua Decker
Spoken Vocals on track 10 by Ben Moen
Lyrics in part written on Track 4 by Lydia Stark
Songs Written and Performed by Agony Reigns

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