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The Beginning of the End

by Sullvation

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    Includes 12pg booklet with lyrics, band photos and info.

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    Chicago’s SULLVATION is an explosive solo album from bassist, Brent Sullivan, who co-founded legendary underground bands Slauter Xstroyes, Winter Kill, and Mindwarp Chamber. Sullivan’s writing and musical style takes listeners on a journey from power to progressive metal, captivating all with an old school feel and modern-day touch. Notes from iconic bands reminiscent of Judas Priest, Metal Church and even Slayer ring throughout. Joining Sullivan is long-time friend and former bandmate Chuck White (ex-Ion Vein and more).
    Sullivan recruited some of his favorite local Chicagoland musicians, assembling a small tribute to local talent. Treating metal fans to a variety of strong melodic vocal performances the album soars with talented metal singers including the infamous Tim “Ripper” Owens adding a special treat between tours. Amazing local lead guitarists add twists of metal, from previous bands and new collaborations featuring the shred master himself, David Shankle (ex Manowar).
    Whether a new or long-time fan of Brent Sullivan’s work and his incredible bass playing, this album, loaded with killer riffs from start to finish, is sure to please. Metal heads will appreciate the unique writing style and locals are sure to know someone adding their talents to this masterpiece. Digital downloads are now available on all streaming platforms, but SULLVATION is sure to be a treasured collector’s item, with only 500 initial physical copies created.
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1.
The One 05:31
Intro 1 (Spoken): AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSHUA, GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE REVELLED IN SIN. THEY GREW COLD IN THEIR HEARTS FORGETTING THE MIGHTY WORKS HE HAD DONE. THEY DID EVIL IN THE LORD’S SIGHT AND BEGAN TO WORSHIP PAGAN GODS. THIS ANGERED THE LORD Verse 1: A GENERATION WITH NEW WAYS A FORGOTTEN COVENANT LEFT BEHIND THEY WORSHIPPED gods FROM OTHER LANDS AGAINST HIS FIRST COMMAND C: WOE TO THOSE, WHO NOW FORSAKE THE ONE, WILL COME, WHO FREES, THE SLAVE HE LEFT THEM TO THEIR SINFUL DEEDS TO WORSHIP BAAL AND ASHEROTH AND LET THEIR LAND FALL UNDER SEIGE HIS HOLY WRATH THEY’D FEEL Chorus 2: WOE TO THOSE WHO NOW FORSAKE WHO COMPELS THEIR FOES TO SLAY Change Chorus 2: THE ONE WILL COME WHO FREES THE SLAVE (DA-DA-DA) THE JUDGES WILL FAIL-------------- AS WILL THE KINGS REIGN AFTER REIGN A SAVIOUR WILL COME------------ FOR ONLY HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE LEAD Spoken Over Post Lead Bridge (3 Da-da’s) THE FOOL WALKS IN THE DARKNESS ON THE PATH TO DESTRUCTION HIS HEART IS DECEITFULLY WICKED BUT THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH Final Chorus: WOE TO THOSE WHO NOW FORSAKE SEEK THE ONE WHOSE BLOOD WILL SAVE Final Change Chorus 3: HE DIED TO SAVE HE SHED HIS BLOOD THE ONE HAS COME PREPARE THE WAY
2.
Stuck within your mind Is that what you crave Virtue signal design All forced down in fear All of the lies, all of the fear's Watching through the camera eye Screaming in Silence Raise your hand for another king. Hail, Hail Sympathize the criminal lies In the gloaming nights they roam In a gleeful sacrifice As society dies All of the lies, all of the fear's Watching through the camera eye Screaming in Silence Raise your hand for another king. Hail, Hail Wait it out, leave no doubt It's all a play, within our minds I see it all, watch it fall To play the game, there's a cross you must bare Lead section Final Extended Chorus All of the lies, all of the fear's Watching through the camera eye Screaming in Silence Twisted lies are never what they seem We're shaping the violence, hear the laughter as the masses bleed Craving the silence Noone wants to ever hear you scream
3.
We Become 06:02
Cradle to grave, long and winding is the way. They teach us to walk. They teach us to love and to hate. These are the houses we build with sweat, and tears, and blood. Digging out roots, forcing new ones to grow. Through winds of madness, In peace or war, We're riders on this storm. C: Sinners, Believers, Outspoken deceivers, What have we become? Heroes, Enslavers, Destroyers or saviors, What will we become? We get on our knees. We spit, and we beg, and we pray. Inherit the sins of our gods, our fathers, our friends. And, as the charlatans speak, money exchanges hands While we stone the wise with our scorn and disdain. Through walls of silence, In pride or shame, We're summoned here to play. C: Repeat Rectify the sins of our makers, Or carry-on repeating patterns of shame. Rectify and look in the mirror Or close our eyes and draw more lines in the sand. C: What will we be?
4.
Force fed lies, No compromise, The bleeding hearts prevail We’re giving into, repeating doom, putting freedom for sale Warning shots, angry mobs, can we no longer see The foundations cracks as we look away, soon we’re no longer free You best check yourself Chorus We come in peace, but if you want war you know we’ll bring it to you We come in peace, itchin’ scratch’ getting ready to win Speak to me when your spoken to, that’s if I only agree I don’t think I like the way you speak today, this conversation’s mute How the hell did we become this way, everyone is a clown The world is spinning around, around, around, but it’s upside down You best prepare because we’re coming Chorus We come in peace, but if you want war, you know we’ll bring it to you We come in peace, We’re locked and ready to roll We come in peace, but if you want war you know we’ll bring it to you We come in peace, itchin’ scratch’ getting ready to win Lead We come in peace We come in peace We’re locked and loaded We come in peace, but if you want war you know we’ll bring it to you We come in peace, We’re locked and ready to roll We come in peace, but if you want war you know we’ll bring it to you We come in peace, itchin’ scratch’ getting ready to win
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6.
Sucker Punch 05:01
So, what will it be, will it be another, gut punch? We were warning, they disparaged with laughter Just tread lightly around, there’re not awake Agitating clowns surround, there’s no escape Did you know what came to be, or took their fist willingly Fate, falls on a whisper, too late it’s closing in. Face turns flush, Sucker Punched, buckle at the knees, submissive, suckers bleed What will it be today? They have a story to tell, you will believe, because you want to. Just tread right though, you know no rules Slither away with the loot, with our loot. Untouchable criminals “want to believe Loyalty” They’ll take what they want for all the world to see. We’ve been sold. Sucker Punched, how’d you get away, (we’ve condition you, you suckers) Willing to betray, Sucker Punched, karma’s running late, sucker’s cheer, the wise they fear Sucker punched, by the feeble fist, what will it be……today She’s crawling, see the beastly come alive with anti-hero schemes, she’s, and karma’s crawling late, she’s crawling Come down from yourself, you’re dancing on a hollow ledge. They all have lost their minds 2x It’s too late when you realize, you’re falling, come crawling You sucker, crunch, we were, we tried warning. Taking the reins from the clowns Not down for the count or finished yet, these changes
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The past is gone, And all the memories Are now a part of your life. The future’s near but made of nothing, and it has nothing to hide. It is the present That holds your fears And things that bump in the night. So, you build walls And live in cages, trying to control how to die. But what you don’t know, You cannot control Cannot stay away, From what you don’t know It will get you first, It will get you worst Can’t run away from, What you don’t know You spend your life, standing proudly Like doubt lives not in your mind. You stay away from all he dangers And light your way through the dark. But it’s the truth that hides in plain sight That will make you fall apart Cause what you don’t know You cannot control Cannot stay away From what you don’t know It will get you first, will get you worst Can’t run away from, What you don’t know
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The Grind 04:48
9.
Invasion 04:04
How many lies have we been told You act like we don’t even know C: Invasion! Don’t try to hide it Invasion! No use denying Invasion! Breaking our border Invasion! Causing disorder Invasion! No longer safe now Invasion! There’s no escaping Do you think that we are all blind? When we've seen it all through our eyes When the world is burning Do you run towards the fire With the tables turning We'll drown out your false desire C: Repeat Invasion! Next wave is coming Invasion! And yet you do nothing Invasion! There’s no protection Invasion! From your dereliction Invasion! Invasion!
10.
Carry On 05:55
CARRY ON It's been a million years tripping 'round the sun. Seems like a million tears and, still, the race ain't won. Beat down, but you're still standing. Cut down, but you're still whole. Seeing no way out but pushing on. It's hard to rise up against the tide that screams "SINNER!" Sinner, it's time to rise up and Carry on, don't let 'em turn you around. Carry on, don't give up an inch of ground. Carry on, hang on to what you've found. Carry on, don't let the bastards grind you down. It took a million nights to come out from the cold. Will take a million days to stand tall in the sun. Takes strength to show them mercy when you still feel the scars. Go high, go low, you earned that right. It's hard to rise up against the tide that screams "SINNER!" Sinner, it's time to rise up and Carry on, don't let 'em grind you down. Carry on, pick yourself up off the ground. Carry on, hang on to what you've found. Carry on, don't let 'em turn you around. Call ourselves free, but we're not whole. We walk this world in silence. The chains we're given, the chains we hold, Shall be undone or take us down. Carry on, don't let 'em turn you around. Carry on, don't give up an inch of ground. Carry on, hang on to what you've found. Carry on, don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Desolation of Abomination Psalms 1 1) Blessed is the one who does not walk in the steps of the wicked or stand in the ways the sinners take or sit in the company of mockers. 2) But who's delight is in the law of the LORD and who meditates on the law day and night. 3) He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. In the season of the witch There's crossing of the line of blasphemy with no escape to divine - The war with no design It's crawling through my veins With shadows of a light that once remains - So open up your eyes The serpent now applies, to the Desolation of Abomination The blood upon your hands, It's only modern man That can change from death to destiny - From the signs upon the cross That opens up the eyes but no one sees The taste of winter's silence, from those of us that believe - The summer winds have blazed The bottom feeders gaze with all insanity It's flowing through the eyes from foreign lands of old - And forever, The blood is on my hands Frozen here, reminds me of the man I once was Before this time of rage -SOLO- Nowhere, I've fallen dead and through the night a forced fires rage I see a talon shift's his gaze into my mind, I fell into the world - Nowhere to escape from violation, nowhere to forwards Nowhere to ease my mind, I raise hands to the sky No one for me here ya, No one for foresee the bomb Oh Oh Oh, Some other place beyond am I - Frozen in my eye, all that’s in my name Frozen in my mind, reminds of the time that once was lost forever - And forever, the blood is on my hands Frozen here, reminds me of the man I once was Before this time of rage

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This album was an interesting task. Originally it was gonna be a lot of bass highlights and much of my writing style is complex, odd timings, epic long tunes that take you on a journey. Kind of how the last track is; Desolation of Abomination. I realize that style is an acquired taste and limits the audience so I chose to really focus on an album that most anyone who loves metal can appreciate. Then I thought to myself, why not invite some of my favorite local musicians to join me on this journey. As timing would have it, I was able to get Tim "Ripper" Owens in between tours and had him lay down a quick track that turned out be the main single off the album. My goal in the end was to have well written songs, strong vocals, blazing leads, bass and wrapped up in a great production that sounds amazing. I pretty damn proud of the final result and hope you are as well. Next one might get a little crazier:)

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released September 12, 2023

Vocalists featured are: Lothar Kellar (Sacred Dawn, Divinity Compromise), Steven Reimer (Slauter Xstroyes), Bill Swanson (Maiden Chicago / Iron Maiden Tribute), Taran DePablos (Fierce Atmospheres), Scott Huffman (Mindwarp Chamber, Syris, Spiritweb), Kevin Truell ( Transgressor, Sceptor), the legendary Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth, KK's Priest, The Three Tremors) and Ray Smith
Lead Guitarists are: Jeff Tredwell, Briant Danials, Paul Kratky, Eric Gosselin, Ken Mandat, Gary Bernal, David “Shred Demon” Shankle

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Sullvation Chicago, Illinois

Chicago’s very own SULLVATION is a solo effort from bassist, Brent Sullivan who has co-founded legendary, underground bands such as; Slauter Xstroyes, Winter Kill, Mindwarp Chamber
Brent Sullivan with the help of co-writers of various top metal vocalists and lead guitarists in the Chicagoland area along with the legendary Tim Ripper Owens
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