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Split w/ Extortion

by Cold World

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1.
Rise up to me for one last time Delight me with your presence For a free kick to oblivion For all springs to be erased What if there's a time for a second chance? Stay one more tiny wartime For I will inhale peace And lubricate so long stuck joints With permanent disease Rise up to me from your stained soil Let cravings come to surge A last corroding sunrise shows As hand in hand we merge
2.
There come the day There come what may Since man has come around everything falls down There come the day There come what may Ruined earth, land and sea Left mother earth in misery Man has ravished and raped her sensation She can’t take no more humiliation Since man has come around everything falls down Man’s oyster and he knew nothing better than to flush her right down the toilet There come the day There come what may There come the day The pride of creation received its present The low of creation wasted it all
3.
Bloghole 01:09
Bloghole – what’s your goal? Bloghole – what do you stand for? In the name of virtual liberty You kill the independent scene You just sham a helping hand Ruin small labels, hurt small bands You leave a debris field behind, can’t you see? Bloghole – what’s your goal? Bloghole – what do you stand for? You leave a debris field behind, can’t you see? Can’t you see what’s at stake? Hope you don’t get away with it By no means you’ll get away with it Bloghole – what’s your goal? You strife for credibility But you never had it and you never will
4.
Boardhole 00:59
I heard that someone said... Boardhole - spread your lousy gossip Wanker - jerking off and dissing A sad and lonely overambitious wonk With less social life than Mr. Monk Big ballin’ incognito behind the screen But when things get rough you’re nowhere to be seen Ten tabs open but not a single clue Pissing on active people is all you ever do We wanted to see the boulevard down But you just try to install your own, you clown Boardhole - spread your lousy gossip Wanker - jerking off and dissing Not even a loudmouth, just a boardhole
5.
Economical predators Wipe out all rivals and absorb the poor Worldwide supremacy Obey the order and abort your dignity Puke on your ideals Resistance is futile Delete your dreams and erase human ideals Multinational takeover Hail eternal growth as it lasts forever Guess the name of the game Take no prisoners As brutal as it gets As good as it gets
6.
Like a puppet on a string A rat trapped in its cage You follow well known dirt tracks The path of least resistance Please remain in file Common people, common taste Common lowlifes, human waste Common savage, common hate Common downfall, human fate Someone please hand me a gun Choke on this one
7.
Cruel World 02:50
Seems like I’m earthed with concrete boots For all the troubles that I’ve been through I’m tripping and I’m stumbling and I’m giving it my last shot I give all I have, all I’ve ever got For each step forward there are two steps back Is someone playing tricks on me? What the heck! It’s not even funny if this is my destiny Stumbling from tragedy to what may be (You’ve) lost so many loved ones along the way Still there are so many things you’d have to say But time is gonna heal all your wounds Well, at least that is what you’ve been told Pain doesn’t go away, you’ve been betrayed Life goes on but it will never be the same Still there’s hope that it was not all in vain Never give up and start all over again It’s a cruel world – be sure about that And it’s getting colder as a matter of fact But still tomorrow belongs to me

about

Nimmervoll - vocals
Rossiwall - guitar
Zinner - drums
Gürtler - bass

Music by Cold World 2009/2010
Lyrics by Nimmervoll, "Second Chance" & "Boardhole" by Rossiwall
Recorded 3/2010 by Christoph Filzwieser
Mixed 6/2010 by Martin Schirenc @ Vato Loco Studio, Vienna
Mastered 7/2010 by Rainer Spänle @ FFW Studios, Vienna
Cover by Rohan

Praises to Sandro, Rohan, Rhys, Clint Shortfuse, Ken Pollution, Filip Fuchs, Ondra, and Schurl for backing vocals

credits

released July 11, 2012

After 2008's "Hands Off Our Music" 7" (Shortfuse Records) with its furious, brutal delivery, Vienna's COLD WORLD are back with their first full new recording since reuniting late 2007.
The focus on COLD WORLD's side of the split 12" with Australia's powerhouse EXTORTION lies on their 80s-Highspeed-Hardcore-roots (the 3 core members having played in Austria's premier Hardcore Punk band EXTREM) and early Powerviolence sound which they helped initiate on the European side of the Atlantic with releases on labels such as B-Core and Sound Pollution.
However the band is proudly still breaking every rule of the Punk Police, even if this means another 25 years in blastbeat obscurity away from any D-Beat-, Noise-Punk-, Post-Punk- or whatever-hype that just happens to be the retro flavor of the moment. COLD WORLD never fit in anywhere and couldn't care less to change this situation in 2012.


COLD WORLD/EXTORTION – split LP
Damn, you know the gods of blast beats were smiling the day this record was announced.
Fans of the style will be familiar with Australia’s mighty EXTORTION, a band who’ve endeared themselves to legions of powerviolence nerds by honing the raw energy of genre forebears INFEST and SIEGE into a polished, precision-crafted riff machine. True to these bands’ legacy, EXTORTION’s brilliance lies not just in their ability to go fucking fast (the nine blurry seconds of “Burn Down” should lay waste to any doubts on that subject), but in the interplay between manic grind and memorable, tension-building slowdowns.
Austria’s COLD WORLD (not to be confused with the brotastic US band) sound punk as fuck no matter how eye-peeling the tempos get. Most surprising – and impressive – are their frequent flirtations with melody: a few where-did-that-come-from guitar solos along with some melodic walking basslines blew my mind by actually working on a grind record!
The two bands compliment each other perfectly without a hint of redundancy – the essential formula for a classic split.
(WB, MRR #355, December 2012)

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