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Acid Bath - Bleed Me An Ocean

Let the blackness roll on
Mother’s cool reptilian womb
Ain’t so cold tonight
My fingers trace the exit wounds
by graveyard light
There’s bone dust in my throat and everything is DEAD
but it’s all right
Take it easy
You bleed so easy
Bleed me an ocean
Bleed me an ocean tonight
By electric graveyard light
Bleed me an ocean
Let me lie beneath the sky
Teach me how to die
Bleed me an ocean
As the blossom eats the butterfly
Can you feel the cold death
That rides along your spine
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Let the blackness roll on
I was sexless in clouds again
I was chasing a cold, cold wind
I’ve become bored with flesh and bone again
The deepest alone
I was riding the turbulence
an ocean of Hades
it’s all downhill from here
on the outer nowhere
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Let the blackness roll on
I was stoned to the drone
of the blackness that hums
I’ve become bored with flesh and bone again
The endless hum of the highway drone
I was riding the turbulence
an ocean of Hades
The taste of dead sex on my tongue
On my tongue, yeah
Let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
let the blackness roll on
You bleed so easy
Just like a rain drop
I was born baby to fall
and scale these prison walls
It was over before you were born
Sucked into the vacuum of this universal tomb
It was over before you were born
Sucked into the vacuum of this universal tomb
Old blossom dies
Like a young man breathes
The insects hum with their hunger and grieve
An icon of pale bone
Static white dream
Blind in the wilderness
Everybody scream
I couldn’t find my way
Out the door
We all died
Woke up on the floor
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream
I ride the painted whore
She gives good universal scream, scream

Acid Bath - Morticians Flame

Hunter of tears, relative pain
Half of this world is dark with the stain 
The stain of unknowing 
The dead flower buds, 
On smiling lips is innocent blood 
The corpse of your god can only rot and grow cold 
Now promise me you’ll kill me before I get old 
I hear you on the telephone 
Moaning my doom 
A cold woman will kill me in a darkened room 
Just enough, a heart attack 
Seal up my black body bag 
Take me home and hate me, love 
Bite the hand of our lost love 
Take your time and take your life 
Amputate with this dull knife 
Heaven’s meat is on the stick 
Stir my pain with an ice pick 
Pick, pick, pick 
Pick, pick, pick 
Pick, pick, pick 
The chain-saw smile of the mortician shines 
I still got all my fingers but somewhere I lost my mind 
I can smell abortion on you 
I can see through 
I take the gun out of my mouth and point it at you

Acid Bath - Dr. Seuss Is Dead

Dr. seuss is dead
We await life
Dr. seuss is dead
A cloud of flies obscure the sun
A stone is dropped the dream undone
Ripples grow and ride the tide
The dead things crawl from deep inside
With its dying
Sour breath
The burning smell of insect flesh
Hungry things in circles crowd
Around tv’s turned up too loud
We are the dead next door
It’s up too loud
Where the dirty needles shine and litter the floor
It’s up too loud
Taste the light inject the lord
It’s up too loud
I cut myself again because I’m so fuckin’ bored
It’s too fuckin’ loud
We are the dead next door
It’s too fuckin’ loud
Where the dirty needles shine and litter the floor
It’s too fuckin’ loud
Taste the light inject the lord
It’s too fuckin’ loud
I cut myself again because I’m so fuckin’ bored
Motherfucker
We await life
Dr. seuss is dead
The dream is swirling,
I’m alone
Where the streets are paved with bone
Buildings with a hundred eyes
Watch me through the swarming flies
Behind shades
Pulled down tight
Things are growing without light
Hungry things in circles crowd
Around tv’s turned up too loud
We are the dead next door
It’s up too loud
Where the dirty needles shine and litter the floor
It’s up too loud
Taste the light inject the lord
It’s up too loud
I cut myself again because I’m so fuckin’ bored
It’s too fuckin’ loud
We are the dead next door
It’s too fuckin’ loud
Where the dirty needles shine and litter the floor
It’s too fuckin’ loud
Taste the light inject the lord
It’s too fuckin’ loud
I cut myself again because I’m so fuckin’ bored
Motherfucker
The dream sea has been poisoned
The stop light flashes me red
Motherfucker
Innocence suffocated in its sleep
Dr. seuss is dead
Motherfucker
The dream sea has been poisoned
The stop light flashes me red
Motherfucker
Innocence suffocated in its sleep
Dr. seuss is dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
He’s fuckin’ dead

Acid Bath - Toubabo Koomi

We wanna see some blood 
We need a new whore 
We don’t give a fuck 
We just want more 
Blood, we want blood 

I’m gonna fuck the hole in Kennedy’s head 
Revolt, deface, resist 
Push the button 
Legalise freedom 

Let’s shoot the president 
Rape the queen 
And feel the flowers breathe again 
Inside this dead machine 

Swimming into nowhere 
Thrill kill avenue, 
Cutting her slowly 
Liberty, she crawls to me 

I slept the last mile on our way to endsville 
Shove it inside her, spectro-trippin on 
I slept the last mile on our way to endsville 

Spread your legs, don’t look at me 
Cut me, rape me, make me free 
Breeders screaming, dreaming bloodless 
For the loveless 

White sound, oceans of dreams 
I won’t be another number on the screen 
Shhh, I wanna hear you scream 
I won’t be another number 

White sound, jet black scream 
Vomiting this cold mass of hate 
I’m gonna push my love 
Through her skull 
Through her 

I have heard abortion stories from the leather nun 
Holding hands with dead girls, hiding from the sun 
I did a line

The lines that define begin to gray and fade now 
We shoot out the lights and swallow razor blades 
I feel nothing for the meat that came before 
Liberty, she crawled to me playing the whore 

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Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly

A creature made of sunshine 
Her eyes were like the sky 
Rabbit howls like something old as we twitch to her lullaby 
The scalpel shines in god’s sunshine 
Street lights whisper pain 
Down here near the poison stream our god has gone insane 

She smiles like a child with flowers in her hair 
With blood on her hands into the sun she stares 
She feels it die, I heard her cry

Like the scream of the butterfly 

Sunshine a house in flames 
She likes it where she gets it but it’s never felt the same 
Surgery in the house of dissection 
When your candle burns out I will resurrect you 
She runs through fields of daisies 
Yeah it’s just a shame that they eat their own babies 
Who cares cause the air is free 
When you get there will you kiss the dead for me? 

There’s blood on the moon and the summer is cold 
There’s love in the room but baby that’s gettin’ old 
There’s blood on my face sittin’ on a dead shore 
A highway of emptiness and I’m gettin’ bored 

There’s blood on the moon as we plan our escape 
The goddess in bloom, handcuffed and raped 
There’s blood in the bathtub, baby, murder the king 
There’s blood on the moon 
There’s blood on just about everything 

Sunshine a house in flames 
She likes it where she gets it but it’s never felt the same 
Surgery in the house of dissection 
When your candle burns out I will resurrect you 
She runs through fields of daisies 
Yeah it’s just a shame that they eat their own babies 
Who cares? ‘Cause the air is free 
When you get there will you kiss the dead for me? 

Something cold is forced inside her 
A tear spills down her cheek 
Stillborn songs of a dead dreamer 
Hymns of the needle freak 
With sunlight in her hair she smiles like she don’t care 
Her dreams are liquid blue 
I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you 

She smiles like a child with flowers in her hair 
With blood on her hands into the sun she stares 
She feels it die, I heard her cry

Like the scream of the butterfly

I met an angel with a sawed-off shotgun 
Wanted by the FBI 
We dropped some acid, killed our parents 
Then we hit the road 
Like the scream of the butterfly

Some facts about this song

• The lyrics are expressing lead singer Dax Riggs’ interpretation of love.
• The phrase “Scream of the Butterfly” is from the song “When The Music’s Over” by The Doors, lyrics by Jim Morrison.
• Scream Of The Butterfly was the name of a 1965 B-Movie about murder and sex. It was written by Alan J. Smith and Howard Veit and directed by Eber Lobato.

Acid Bath

Biography

Acid Bath was an incarnation of two bands, Dark Karnival which featured Audie Pitre, Sammy “Pierre” Duet, and Tommy Viator, and Golgotha which featured Dax Riggs, Mike Sanchez, Jimmy Kyle, and Jerry “Boon” Businelli. Golgotha’s bassists were in frequent rotation finally culminating with Chad Pierce, who would then be succeeded by Pitre during Acid Bath’s formation. Tommy Viator was later replaced by Jimmy Kyle on drums but would return to play keyboards toward the end of the band’s career. Joseph J. Fontenot was the bassist for a short period of time.

Acid Bath was formed in 1991. The band was based south of New Orleans in several small towns including Houma, Thibodaux, Morgan City and Galliano. Influenced by thrash metal as well as bands and artists such as Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Celtic Frost, Carcass and Darkthrone, they recorded their demo Hymns of the Needle Freak with their manager and producer Keith Falgout in 1993. The strength of the demo earned them a deal with an independent label. They released When the Kite String Pops produced by Spike Cassidy in 1994, followed two years later by their second and final effort Paegan Terrorism Tactics (also produced by Keith Falgout). Neither gained them mainstream success by any means, but both albums earned a high degree of underground acclaim. In 2005, another album composed of their demos, Demos: 1993 - 1996, was released.

Acid Bath combined doom metal roots with influences from black metal, death metal, gothic rock, blues, folk, and country. In a Pit Magazine interview, vocalist Dax Riggs classified their sound as “death rock” (referring to death as a dominant lyrical theme, rather than deathrock), and also classified the band’s music as a blending of stoner metal and doom metal. In another interview, guitarist Sammy Duet described their sound as “gothic hardcore”.

Acid Bath are best known for blending extreme, grindcore-influenced sludge metal with a mixture of death growls and melancholic goth/grunge-style vocals and acoustic guitar passages, as well as use of sampling and the spoken word poetry. The band sampled sound clips from controversial movies including Blue Velvet and A Clockwork Orange. Dax Riggs’ vocals were processed, which produced an industrial feel; some other instruments have been processed through industrial effects in their recordings (such as the snare drum on the second half of “New Death Sensation”). One of Acid Bath’s most trademark sounds was the way in which they crafted multiple tempo changes and worked them into the song structure. Their experimentation drifted into diverse territory. The song “Scream of the Butterfly” is an acoustic blues song with the drummer utilizing double bass drum patterns toward the end of the song. The song “The Bones of Baby Dolls” experiments with folk musicianship, and the song “Dead Girl” is a country song and was described as such by Dax Riggs.

Dax Riggs’ lyrics are frequently poetic, oftentimes displaying an obsession with death, drug use, mental illness, dark humor, Louisiana-based regional culture, and continuous references to animism as well as paganism, nihilism, and misanthropy. He has claimed these inspirations are culled from comic books, namely those authored by Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Clive Barker, and has also expressed admiration for ANSWER Me! and Boiled Angel. Allmusic’s William York has stated that the song “Venus Blue” could have been a radio hit “if not for the graphic lyrics”. Another facet of their presentation which may not have endeared them to popular sentiment was the use of art by John Wayne Gacy and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Due to the controversy surrounding Kevorkian’s artwork For He Is Raised on the album, Paegan Terrorism Tactics was initially banned from Australia. The ban has since been lifted. The cover of the band’s 1994 extended play simply entitled Edits featured the artwork of Richard Ramirez. The cover of their 1996 compilation entitled Radio Edits featured the artwork of Kenneth Bianchi. Their song “Diäb Soulé” (the “Drunken Devil” in Cajun-French) starts out with an audio sample of Jim Jones of the People’s Temple screaming. Their song “Toubabo Koomi” is Cajun-French for the “Land of White Cannibals”.

Despite only releasing two albums, as well as a number of radio edits and an official bootleg DVD, Acid Bath have gained a strong underground following (especially in Louisiana) owing to the unique, experimental nature of their music.

Band Members

• Sammy “Pierre” Duet - Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Mike Sanchez - Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Jimmy Kyle - Drums
• Dax Riggs - Vocals

Discography

• When the Kite String Pops (1994)
• Paegan Terrorism Tactics (1996)
• Demos: 1993-1996 (2005)