Tuesday Tunes: Soulfly – Dead Behind the Eyes
Welcome to Tuesday Tunes! Soulfly has a new album, Ritual with a Clive Barker and Cenobite-inspired song, called “Dead Behind the Eyes”. I like it all right, but I haven’t been following Soulfly since their second album or so, and I love Sepultura’s Chaos AD.
In an article in Metal Hammer where Max Cavalera describes each track, he mentioned his inspiration:
“Zyon [Cavalera, drummer] and I built the whole thing together as a father/son project. It was originally called ‘Cenobites’, because it was all about Clive Barker and Hellraiser. Josh is good friends with Randy Blythe and Randy fell in love with Dead Behind The Eyes. He sang on it and, with his voice, it became even more Hellraiser! It’s some of my favourite stuff on the record.”
Lyrics are below.
“Dead Behind The Eyes”
(feat. Randy Blythe)
You sweat the hate from your flesh
Rejoice…through the void
Consumed by loss of breath
Human greed is our destruction
The abyss of your seduction
Demure, suffer
The grief a burden to bearNo pain – walk on fire
Holy – mystic auraCenobites I know your kind
Dead behind the eyes
Self-inflicted – cenobites
Dead behind the eyes
Endless…deathless
A cryptic inner fear
What’s left, the wretched
And those who speak in your ear
Eviscerate your own impressions
Die along with your transgressions
Menace…penance
Horrific path to…ascension
No pain – walk on fire
Holy – mystic aura
Cenobites I know your kind
Dead behind the eyes
Self-inflicted – cenobites
Dead behind the eyes
Dead behind the eyes!
All the…flesh eaters
Skin crawlers
They tear you limb from limb
Blood feeders
Hellraisers
These vermin feed my rage!!!
Do you…purge fire
Shed light
Or let them come tonight
Nephilim
Seraphim
The lost paradise…
Cenobites…cenobites
I know your kind…I know your kind
You’re all dead…all fucking dead
Behind the eyes
