Bride is back.

The first single of "Snake Eyes"
Yeppter the peppers, Bride is back.

Cool! Glad to see some new Bride music. I wasn’t too big on his other project The World Will Burn.

Cool!  Definitely be buying that!

Not sure exactly why, but I'm not really digging that at first listen (but the band has always been a bit hit or miss for me).

Was it the crab?

Fundy wrote:

Was it the crab?

  No that wasn't it.  The track sounded muddy (maybe just my headphones) and something about Dales voice seemed kind of "off".

Yeah, it does seem a bit muddy to me as well.

Sounds great to me!  Gonahead and label me a fanboy.

I enjoy Dale's other project The World Will Burn.  I am also looking forward to the release of his other bands N.O.G. and Perpetual Paranoia.

Wahoo! Look at him go. There's an AC/DC feel to this one. Crab...ew, ew, ew. Love the location. It's on the west coast of NZ (for those who are interested). Amazing dunes you can 'surf' down. Awesome....but I wouldn't want to drink the water (too salty).

Bride.

Jen, that's nice to know the location where Dale is in the video.
New Zealand is a beautiful country.

Thank you RV

You're not alone, Staybrite.  I don't care for it either.  The music is all right but the lyrics don't really say anything:


John The Baptist


In the waking hours of the morning
The sun yawns and stretches forth to shine
Everything reaches up to feel the light


Tradition, Admission, A Confession and Regression
It sounds complicated
Like a razor down your spine
Like a blind clairovoyant
A mute mystic
The future is our yesterday
For those who wish it


It depends on your perspective
So keep looking up
The Spirit is not an emotion
The light of understanding
Understanding if light which reveals everything


Tradition, Admission, A Confession and Regression
It sounds complicated
Like a razor down your spine
Like a blind clairovoyant
A mute mystic
The future is our yesterday
For those who wish it


Through the wilderness I must go
I will prepare the way
I looked over Jordan and I see
Things that others dream


Tradition, Admission, A Confession and Regression
It sounds complicated
Like a razor down your spine
Like a blind clairovoyant
A mute mystic
The future is our yesterday
For those who wish it

I'm really glad you posted those, Xid. I actually like this song (it has a cool vibe), but as a person who writes lyrics, I'm always fascinated by what other songwriters write. He's certainly breaking some rules with these (though that's not always a bad thing; love it or hate it, I do it all the time).

For the most part, the verses make sense, but I'm stumped about the chorus. He's getting quite cryptic. What's "complicated" about "a razor down your spine?" And, what does he mean "the future is our yesterday?" Is the point that we should all regress and, if so, why???? Is there some aspect of the story of John the Baptist that would illuminate the meaning???

The only part of the song that eludes to anything like John the Baptist is:

Through the wilderness I must go
I will prepare the way

Even that isn't correct in that John didn't go "through" the wilderness, he lived and preached there preparing the way for Jesus.

The future is our yesterday doesn't make sense unless we've traveled time and certainly nobody can wish into reality for the future to be their yesterday.  Though if you wait 48 hours what was once tomorrow will become yesterday.

The first verse is the only one that has any coherence to it and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the song.

It's definitely more cryptic than a lot of their previous stuff, but I still think there is a story there.

I read it as JB's calling to the wilderness. It seems to be a recreation of what it was like to begin the day and feel called to service. The sun rises. I look to the light...and receive the light of understanding. In that understanding, all of God's plan for me is revealed and I am drawn into the wilderness to prepare the way.

I still don't get the chorus though.

Me either - lol

I'm fine with cryptic songs, but I'd like the band/lyricist to explain what it means.

Bride pre-order is up at Boonesoverstock!

Jen5 wrote:

It's definitely more cryptic than a lot of their previous stuff, but I still think there is a story there.

I read it as JB's calling to the wilderness. It seems to be a recreation of what it was like to begin the day and feel called to service. The sun rises. I look to the light...and receive the light of understanding. In that understanding, all of God's plan for me is revealed and I am drawn into the wilderness to prepare the way.

I still don't get the chorus though.

With the story you just unveiled, the chorus would make me feel that John the Baptist was the undoing of religious tradition.  I still don't get the line about the future being our yesterday for those who wish it.

Fundy wrote:

Bride pre-order is up at Boonesoverstock!

I did the fan backing that Bride did on their website.  I paid a little more that way, but they have always come through with preorders for their albums ever since "This Is It" came out.  I saw no reason not to get behind this.

What I really keep looking for is the Whiteray preorder.  This is the band that would morph into Killed By Cain.  Their early Whiteray stuff is more straightforward metal and not the groove styled metal they were known for as KBC.  The new Bride and the Whiteray album could easily be my albums for the year.

The CD is $13.99, but the postage is $22!!!  That's almost twice the price of the CD just for shipping!  Boones is very expensive for that, and I've been put off a number of times because the charge is so high.  If they stock Medusa and Whiteray comes out soon I'll probably get all 3 together and hope the postage stays the same (and not become $66!!!!!!!)

The music is okay, and I'm anxious to hear more of that. But the lyrics bugged me because I couldn't understand anything of what he was trying to say. Now that I've read them (thanks Xid!), I still don't know. And when a guy is known for believing heresy, as Dale Thompson is, I can't simply trust that he's not saying something wrong. I still miss Snakes era Bride. 

Fundy wrote:

The CD is $13.99, but the postage is $22!!!  That's almost twice the price of the CD just for shipping!  Boones is very expensive for that, and I've been put off a number of times because the charge is so high.  If they stock Medusa and Whiteray comes out soon I'll probably get all 3 together and hope the postage stays the same (and not become $66!!!!!!!)

Thankfully, shipping to the USA from Boone's isn't that bad.  When Whiteray comes out, I am all over that!  I am awaiting the release of the Jerusalem reissues and this new Bride.  I have them all preordered!

Bride has been pre-ordered! WOOOOOO!

Fundy wrote:

The CD is $13.99, but the postage is $22!!!  That's almost twice the price of the CD just for shipping!  Boones is very expensive for that, and I've been put off a number of times because the charge is so high.  If they stock Medusa and Whiteray comes out soon I'll probably get all 3 together and hope the postage stays the same (and not become $66!!!!!!!)

Dang, that's horrible.