Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
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Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror: Wikipedia Album Entry
Reign of Terror is the second studio album by the American noise pop duo Sleigh Bells. The album will be released through Mom+Pop on February 21, 2012
The writing process for Reign of Terror began during the touring cycle for Sleigh Bells' debut album Treats in 2010. The song writing for Reign of Terror was a more collaborative effort between group members Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss, as the majority of the songs on Treats were written solely by Miller before Krauss joined the group. Krauss' musical background is primarily in pop music, and her contributions to the album included pop song structures such as bridges, counter-melodies and pre-choruses. In addition to traditional pop music song structures, Reign of Terror also features a more guitar-centered sound. According to Miller, "With Treats it was less clear to me whether Sleigh Bells was going to be a guitar band or if we were going to do more sample-heavy stuff. With this record I had to pick sides. The beats are still important to me, but the guitar won." Sleigh Bells also described the album as being heavy, immense and huge, and a press release described it as "the sonic equivalent of a beautiful shotgun to the head." Lyrically, Reign of Terror features songs that are emotionally heavy, differing from the songs on Treats which were described as "party music" by Miller.
Sleigh Bells were rushed during the production of Treats and were unable to finish recording all of the songs they had written before they had to leave the studio to perform at scheduled tour dates. Not wanting to repeat this mistake, the duo set aside a lot of time in 2011 to record and produce Reign of Terror. Recording began on June 25, 2011 at SMT Studios in Manhattan, New York.The album was produced by Miller and engineered by Shane Stoneback, who also worked with Sleigh Bells on Treats. At SMT, Miller recorded his guitar parts in a reverberation room to achieve a, "massive Def Leppard-influenced guitar sound." Sleigh Bells also recorded a group of their friends stomping and clapping in the bleachers of a high school gym for the song "Crush".
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Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror Lyrics
Sleigh Bells - True Shred Guitar Lyrics
New orleans
Push it, push it, push it
True shred guitar
Push it, push it, push it
Sleigh Bells - Born To Lose Lyrics
Heard you say suicide in your sleep
Just get on with it, you were born to lose
Will you hang, like the moon,
From a rope, in your room,
Sleigh Bells - Crush Lyrics
With your hair in braids,
Your mother tips the maid
Blindfolded nun,
Sleigh Bells - End Of The Line Lyrics
The nightmare lies in the morningrnWhen the birds are bleedingrnAnd you hope the day will comernBut you're never gonna live this downrnrnWish it away with the blamernYou could just stop breathing nowrnYou didn't want it enough, didn't want it enoughrnAnd you tap and you cutrnAnd you start with the heavy breathingrnYou're parallel to the darkrnBut they're still not leavingrnBut you try and talkrnYou'll do anything but you're never gonna keep it downrnDon't leave me now, don't leave me nowrnrnChorus:rnYou know it didn't have to be this wayrnYou know it didn't have to bernBut it's the end of the linernSo goodbyernrnCan you hear mernCan you see mernWell it's the end of the linernSo goodbyernrnNow you talk to yourselfrnAnd you wonder why nothing ever changesrnHow you're gonna fall so far so fastrnWho you gonna blame this onrnI don't care anymore in the morningrnWhen the birds start bleeding nowrnAnd it's all the same, and it's all the samernrnI was faced to the wallrnWith the mirror crashing downrnAnd you stood so tallrnBut you fall and you're never gonna get back uprnYou didn't want it enoughrnAm I central now, am I central now, I was central howrnrnChorus:rnYou know it didn't have to be this wayrnYou know it didn't have to bernBut it's the end of the linernSo goodbyernrnCan you hear mernCan you see mernWell it's the end of the linernSo goodbyernrnNo one loves yournUp above yournNo one hears yournNo one sees yournrnNo one loves yournUp above yournNo one hears yournNo one sees yournrnChorus:rnYou know it didn't have to be this wayrnYou know it didn't have to bernBut it's the end of the linernSo goodbyernrnCan you hear mernCan you see mernWell it's the end of the linernSo goodbye
Sleigh Bells - Leader Of The Pack Lyrics
Do you remember when,
You used to sleep at night
And when somebody dies,
You see them lifting
Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid Lyrics
know it's hard but
You've gotta deal with it
Why don't you look around
Show me what you're made of
Sleigh Bells - Demons Lyrics
You drink the wise blood
Theyâre gonna hear about it
Youâll be taken down,
Brick by brick by brick
Sleigh Bells - Road To Hell Lyrics
Go away for awhile,
Cause you canât,
Cause you canât see this again
Sleigh Bells - You Lost Me Lyrics
You lost me
Behind the circle K
Where our bodies lay
We took our lives away
Sleigh Bells - Never Say Die Lyrics
Ladies Drinks  Power Hour (x8)
Maybe its this power (x8)
Sleigh Bells - DOA Lyrics
Wipe the blood from your nose
How come nobody knows
How the chorus should go
How the chorus should go
