Drowning in the Evergreens

(Intro) (Sludgy, distorted bassline creeps in under the sound of heavy PNW rain. A slow, agonizing drum beat drops.) The fog rolls in thick like a burial shroud Cascades hiding the sun behind a rotting cloud Moss on the bark, wet rot in the lung Breathing the damp where the missing are hung. (Verse 1) (Tempo kicks up to a blistering blast beat, guitars shift to aggressive, drop-tuned deathcore riffs) Trekking through the timber, boots sink in the mud Smell of decaying cedar mixed with copper blood Every shadow shifting in the twilight gloom This ancient forest is a suffocating tomb! Eyes in the canopy, watching me bleed Feeding the soil with a sickness, a seed. (Chorus) (Expansive wall of sound, mixing raw grunge wailing with death-metal growls) We’re drowning in the evergreens! Buried under branches where no one hears the screams Roots wrapping tight around a shattered spine Swallowed by the shadow of the weeping pine. Can’t escape the dark, can’t escape the cold The forest takes back everything it holds! (Verse 2) (Fast, jagged, hardcore-punk pacing. Vocals are panicked and frantic) Snap of a branch, a whisper in the mist Something in the dark with a bone-saw wrist Elongated limbs crawling down the trunk Skin pale and peeling like a corpse in the junk Deep in the bog, breathing out the frost Welcome to the woods where the wandering are lost! (Breakdown 1) (Music drops out completely. A single, cold click of a flashlight turning on. Then, the heaviest, slowest, drop-tuned chugging possible. Vocals are deep, guttural low-growls.) Shine the light. Follow the blood. Roam the needles. (Silence for one beat) BLEGH! Heavy, rhythmic chugging Red stains the brown. Drag them underground. Roam the needles. (Chorus) (Blast beats return, huge and chaotic) We’re drowning in the evergreens! Buried under branches where no one hears the screams Roots wrapping tight around a shattered spine Swallowed by the shadow of the weeping pine. (Bridge) (Tempo slows down to a crawl. Eerie, clean grunge guitar with a heavy chorus effect. Vocals are a distressed, melodic whisper that slowly builds.) Shine the flashlight down, see what's on the floor Glistening and wet, crawling to the door Of the cabin in the black, where the devil sleeps What you sow in the soil, the mountain reaps... (Vocals build from a wail into a piercing, visceral shriek) Look up! Get out of the trees! IT'S IN THE TREES! (Breakdown 2) (Absolute musical chaos, dissonant deathcore chords, rapid double-kick drums, and horrific high-pitched shrieks) Flesh meets the bark! Carve my name in the dark! Demon in the evergreens, tear away the face Leave me as a warning in this cursed place! (Outro) (Tempo drags back down to the sludgy intro riff, slowing down until it falls apart into pure distortion) Leave me in the needles. Let the moss consume. Zero. Nothing left but the gloom. (A final wall of guitar feedback fades out into the sound of crackling branches and dead silence)