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230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)

by Anubis

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Carsten Pieper
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Carsten Pieper I had Aussie proggers Anubis on my wish list for a long time. Taking stock, I went for this Anniversairy Edition ot their debut album that is doing the Deluxe part of the name honour! 4 CDs worth of material included in the download:
1) The partly re-recorded/re-mixed album.
2) Live versions of the albums songs and unreleased tracks
3) Official bootlet feat. a performance of the album 2010.
4) Original recording/mix of the album.

Favorite track: The Deepest Wound (2020 Mix).
JC
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JC 230503 Deluxe Anniversary Edition est clairement un disque pour les fans du groupe anubis et de leur premier album ou pour les personnes qui aiment écouter des morceaux déclinés de plein de manières différentes. Favorite track: The Life not Taken (i. Old Pain, New Wounds ii. The Deepest Wound iii. Circular Roads with Straight Lines iv. Leaving Here Tonight v. Worlds Apart vi. Breaking Water) (2020 studio recording).
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Deluxe 2CD mediabook version of the 2020 Partial re-recording and remix of the band's celebrated 2009 debut studio album.
    With CD of unreleased tracks, including the new single 'Technicolour Afterlife' (written in 2004), and the unreleased 'lost' epic 'The Life not Taken' recorded in 2020 and 2021 by the band's current line-up; and live tracks recorded across the world throughout the band's career.

    With full sleeve notes by the band and photography and design by the band's long term collaborator, Tim Neill.

    Includes unlimited streaming of 230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 11 Anubis releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Sirens from Afar (Live in Katoomba 2021), 230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition), Home from Home (live, 2020), Homeless, Lights of Change (Live in Europe 2018), Different Stories, The Second Hand, Behind Our Eyes (Live, 2014), and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Listen to the voice that speaks Without idea or thought I knew that I could hear it So I've never gotten caught Paint my face and show my name Hide reason from you all I'd played the part so well that you'd forgotten that I'd fall Keep me safe and keep me warm Keep me from losing sight Keep me from dreaming same old shit From night to night to night I can't think and I can't feel The way I always was Hold back the tears and show no fear Shake and I dissolve I never had it, I'm bleeding from it, I never had it, I'm aching for it, I never had it. The Deepest Wound I never stayed, I never left I'm always in your heart Another thought, another dream That's tearing us apart I found no gain, the pressure held It's breaking at the seams One on one, we held the sun Your laughter turns to screams You're next to me but far away I brought what I had sold See the noise and taste the smell It burns when I turn cold Melt the bricks and drink the fire Discover my insides My Insides turn to outsides when I left it all behind I never had it, I'm bleeding from it I never had it, I've never lost it I never known it The Deepest Wound.
2.
All that I've known All that I've felt Everything I've been through Everyone I've met Never, ever knew What it's really like To hold in the one hand Believe in the right Take my wounds Patch them up tight Discover my pain And cure it tonight One stolen kiss That cuts like a knife Scrambled my feelings Straightened my life Time has sent me away Face to face, don't ever stray. Don't ever... You never seem to notice when I know it's right I've made my decisions I'm leaving here tonight Please stop crying This river of tears I have to be with her And spend my life near her One more time Look in my eyes Melt my soul And say our goodbyes Break my fall Keep me safe And tell everyone They won't see me again I can only make it When the time is right There's only one future And it's looking so bright GIve me all the riches That life can bring Open up to me And you can show me everything The moments tick away More than most I'm clearing out my closet Like some homeless ghost GIve me all the memories Of this lonely taste of life Cure me of this nightmare Is the end in sight?
3.
A silver pendant's just the gift To show you how I feel It shows you I'm committed and my feelings are for real It's hot in here, I need some air Not much inside this room I know it's cold, I'll be OK I'll come back very soon You take a dive and realise it's colder than you thought You cannot breathe, your legs are numb Your clothes have gotten caught You fight to rise for air but find That everything is screwed She calls your name, you realise There's nothing you can do
4.
All my broken dreams My final daylight scene I slaved away my days As the skin peeled away I tried to hold my own When they stood on me Take me to a place where the pain fades away The insanity breaks and I fade to grey

 So as I lie back in the water Why fight it anymore? The night decides to grin as the pain begins I scream across the air But no-one's answering
 I think of my sister What will she grow to be I say goodbye to my mother What must she think of me? Thrashing and turning Bleeding and burning Dark and alone Flesh, Water and Bone I can hear you cry but I can't see the sky From the water above me, it will not free me As I find my way down
5.
When I'm gone, release me Let me go I have many things to see and do I don't think you've noticed I don't want to be found
6.
Cross out everything you know And I will tell you how How to think and how to breathe Do you understand me? You only know what you are told And I will tell you now You're not the one that you think you were The one you were has gone My face pushed to the floor By force and without gain As the city around me screams so loud It blows my ears right off my head Suffocate from the inside out My skin is turning blue The doctor comes to comfort me To trust that I can't trust you Bound by the knowledge that you're trying to kill me I can send you to hell It's just a bond of mutual distrust But it suits me well My blood drips to the floor It pools like fallen rain My cries for help are a bitter defeat As I let it all go like the skin from my feet The lights that blind my opened mind Will you tend to my wounds The men in blue will be here soon The secret is no proof No time to lose, no rights to prove Nowhere left to go You vultures pick the meat from my bones I - prey. You - leave me alone. I'm laid out on the floor Struggling for breath again I don't trust you but I know I need you. So I do what I'm told.
7.
As I squat and I squirm I live in fear of a life returned I see the memories don't belong to me I broke out this shell so I can see A time and a place for me to breathe And watch the nights roll into fear I hold what's mine so you'll keep yours Please, please, help me. Cure me of this disease I keep falling inside of me Promise me safety From all these blinding dreams What can I do? Anything for you I scream until I turn blue My blood boils through And I'm all yours for you to use You're kicking me around this room Until I find I'm broke in two Until I find I've found the need To be released One little voice to change my life One little voice to tell my soul To burn it all right to the ground To walk alone and find myself Amongst the bone of memories To separate this afterlife Seems all this time it wasn't me Crying tears in fear of fear The purest of the pure Won't save me now Someone bring the remedy The remedy to save this day And after all that I have done It seems that I'm not anyone It seems that I'm not anyone. Anyone?
8.
I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling
9.
As it grows, I'm burning. Throw me some water let me soak it up I'm shaking in fear. Looking through blinded eyes A strung out mind Scared to think a single thought Closed the doors. Everything has blown apart. Break my skin, with your needle Tattoo my soul, tell my story Now in a whole new world of pain Both your hands upon my reins Just leave me to die again Beads of sweat I'll hold them in with a stronger vice My tangled veins Keep me away from the knives and the forks A misplaced sound Fills my head as it hits the ground My sonic dreams I wish I'd never heard that sound Feeling dizzy? Time to make or break my day. Hello to you. When did I come across your hate? Your burning fire perished in the light of day I'm slowly fading And served up to you on a silver plate. In my dreams it was a different story Love and life and happiness Another sits all alone Waiting for the thing that's best A mother is born before her child We all walk in single file Bygone times and spoken minds Nobody knows what he's left behind. And worlds away, he fades away Tomorrow's gone and turned it's back No help for him, he lives in sin Left to dream in white and black He's frozen into one pose As every heartache never mends The final page of this forgotten tale Is this the way his story ends? Damp rises in the night Misty streets became his home Wind and rain stood in his way Living life all on his own More and more, time ticks away Moments come, they never stay. Another song, another day Written down as he slips away
10.
From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you From something shiny I used to know It's said beneath this second skin Lies a person free of sin And although I think they lied to me There's nothing else I can believe They said I died, they say I'm dead Visions of this run through my head Beneath the soil they piled on me I wash my hands until they bleed Deep beneath this destructive hue Lies a person of virtue Who wants to see the light of day And preys to no-one again and again I lost my faith in the human race With visions of strange, familiar faces I cannot place this silver chain It seemed I'd never see it again Disinfected and Abused Remorseful and so confused Would I have died if I'd not used The line that delivered me from truth? Just another corpse, just another day Just another corpse, just another grave You tell me so many stories Of battles won and your glory Pay to play and nothing's free Your ignorance astounds me Poised upon a knifes' edge It's nearly time for supper But eating your own flesh It seems is just the beginning And he smiled as he finished his supper Safely fed and ready for bed. Never mind the bloodstains on your sheets That's what comes of eating raw meat Knives and forks Knives and forks Knives and forks I broke so many hearts And slit so many throats All for the pleasure of pain And the remorse that I'd feel So soon it will be your turn To lay upon the bed I made And when the fire burns me I'll laugh so hard I explode Wait for your turn in the sun As I crush your time away The fight for my life is over And all that's left is my cold blood The habit of eating my fill Has come to haunt my nights When will you see over this? When I throw you to the wall? From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you You're a person I used to know I guess it's time to shed this skin And find the one that lies within And hope that what we can see Is something more than fantasy But worlds away a telephone call Breaks her from pictures on the wall She turns to face her brother's end And realised all this never happened
11.
i. Old Pain, New Wounds (Instrumental) ii. The Deepest Wound Listen to the voice that speaks Without idea or thought I knew that I could hear it So I've never gotten caught Paint my face and show my name Hide reason from you all I'd played the part so well that you'd forgotten that I'd fall Keep me safe and keep me warm Keep me from losing sight Keep me from dreaming same old shit From night to night to night I can't think and I can't feel The way I always was Hold back the tears and show no fear Shake and I dissolve I never had it, I'm bleeding from it, I never had it, I'm aching for it, I never had it. The Deepest Wound I never stayed, I never left I'm always in your heart Another thought, another dream That's tearing us apart I found no gain, the pressure held It's breaking at the seams One on one, we held the sun Your laughter turns to screams You're next to me but far away I brought what I had sold See the noise and taste the smell It burns when I turn cold Melt the bricks and drink the fire Discover my insides My Insides turn to outsides when I left it all behind I never had it, I'm bleeding from it I never had it, I've never lost it I never known it The Deepest Wound. iii. Circular Roads with Straight Lines (Instrumental) iv. Leaving Here Tonight All that I've known All that I've felt Everything I've been through Everyone I've met Never, ever knew What it's really like To hold in the one hand Believe in the right Take my wounds Patch them up tight Discover my pain And cure it tonight One stolen kiss That cuts like a knife Scrambled my feelings Straightened my life Time has sent me away Face to face, don't ever stray. Don't ever... You never seem to notice when I know it's right I've made my decisions I'm leaving here tonight Please stop crying This river of tears I have to be with her And spend my life near her One more time Look in my eyes Melt my soul And say our goodbyes Break my fall Keep me safe And tell everyone They won't see me again I can only make it When the time is right There's only one future And it's looking so bright GIve me all the riches That life can bring Open up to me And you can show me everything The moments tick away More than most I'm clearing out my closet Like some homeless ghost GIve me all the memories Of this lonely taste of life Cure me of this nightmare Is the end in sight? v. Worlds Apart Time has sent me away Face to face, don’t ever stray Heart and mind brewing numb I never thought it’d be this much fun Silence breaks this lightning pace As my seed is sewn in some fertile place Can I find the answer page? Worlds apart, we collide in space vi. Breaking Water A silver pendant's just the gift To show you how I feel It shows you I'm committed and my feelings are for real It's hot in here, I need some air Not much inside this room I know it's cold, I'll be OK I'll come back very soon You take a dive and realise it's colder than you thought You cannot breathe, your legs are numb Your clothes have gotten caught You fight to rise for air but find That everything is screwed She calls your name, you realise There's nothing you can do
12.
All my broken dreams My final daylight scene I slaved away my days As the skin peeled away I tried to hold my own When they stood on me Take me to a place where the pain fades away The insanity breaks and I fade to grey

 So as I lie back in the water Why fight it anymore? The night decides to grin as the pain begins I scream across the air But no-one's answering
 I think of my sister What will she grow to be I say goodbye to my mother What must she think of me? Thrashing and turning Bleeding and burning Dark and alone Flesh, Water and Bone I can hear you cry but I can't see the sky From the water above me, it will not free me As I find my way down
13.
When I'm gone, release me Let me go I have many things to see and do I don't think you've noticed I don't want to be found
14.
Cross out everything you know And I will tell you how How to think and how to breathe Do you understand me? You only know what you are told And I will tell you now You're not the one that you think you were The one you were has gone My face pushed to the floor By force and without gain As the city around me screams so loud It blows my ears right off my head Suffocate from the inside out My skin is turning blue The doctor comes to comfort me To trust that I can't trust you Bound by the knowledge that you're trying to kill me I can send you to hell It's just a bond of mutual distrust But it suits me well My blood drips to the floor It pools like fallen rain My cries for help are a bitter defeat As I let it all go like the skin from my feet The lights that blind my opened mind Will you tend to my wounds The men in blue will be here soon The secret is no proof No time to lose, no rights to prove Nowhere left to go You vultures pick the meat from my bones I - prey. You - leave me alone. I'm laid out on the floor Struggling for breath again I don't trust you but I know I need you. So I do what I'm told.
15.
As it grows, I'm burning. Throw me some water let me soak it up I'm shaking in fear. Looking through blinded eyes A strung out mind Scared to think a single thought Closed the doors. Everything has blown apart. Break my skin, with your needle Tattoo my soul, tell my story Now in a whole new world of pain Both your hands upon my reins Just leave me to die again Beads of sweat I'll hold them in with a stronger vice My tangled veins Keep me away from the knives and the forks A misplaced sound Fills my head as it hits the ground My sonic dreams I wish I'd never heard that sound Feeling dizzy? Time to make or break my day. Hello to you. When did I come across your hate? Your burning fire perished in the light of day I'm slowly fading And served up to you on a silver plate. In my dreams it was a different story Love and life and happiness Another sits all alone Waiting for the thing that's best A mother is born before her child We all walk in single file Bygone times and spoken minds Nobody knows what he's left behind. And worlds away, he fades away Tomorrow's gone and turned it's back No help for him, he lives in sin Left to dream in white and black He's frozen into one pose As every heartache never mends The final page of this forgotten tale Is this the way his story ends? Damp rises in the night Misty streets became his home Wind and rain stood in his way Living life all on his own More and more, time ticks away Moments come, they never stay. Another song, another day Written down as he slips away
16.
From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you From something shiny I used to know It's said beneath this second skin Lies a person free of sin And although I think they lied to me There's nothing else I can believe They said I died, they say I'm dead Visions of this run through my head Beneath the soil they piled on me I wash my hands until they bleed Deep beneath this destructive hue Lies a person of virtue Who wants to see the light of day And preys to no-one again and again I lost my faith in the human race With visions of strange, familiar faces I cannot place this silver chain It seemed I'd never see it again Disinfected and Abused Remorseful and so confused Would I have died if I'd not used The line that delivered me from truth? Just another corpse, just another day Just another corpse, just another grave You tell me so many stories Of battles won and your glory Pay to play and nothing's free Your ignorance astounds me Poised upon a knifes' edge It's nearly time for supper But eating your own flesh It seems is just the beginning And he smiled as he finished his supper Safely fed and ready for bed. Never mind the bloodstains on your sheets That's what comes of eating raw meat Knives and forks Knives and forks Knives and forks I broke so many hearts And slit so many throats All for the pleasure of pain And the remorse that I'd feel So soon it will be your turn To lay upon the bed I made And when the fire burns me I'll laugh so hard I explode Wait for your turn in the sun As I crush your time away The fight for my life is over And all that's left is my cold blood The habit of eating my fill Has come to haunt my nights When will you see over this? When I throw you to the wall? From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you You're a person I used to know I guess it's time to shed this skin And find the one that lies within And hope that what we can see Is something more than fantasy But worlds away a telephone call Breaks her from pictures on the wall She turns to face her brother's end And realised all this never happened
17.
I played the part so well Through every corner of hell Every night I’m asking for sleep Empty dreams and endless repeats As I sing this hollow melody I’m missing the first part of me Chest as tight as a wire Reminiscence turns into fire Let me go, there are many things I must see and do A world of opportunity is there for you A life of your creation now comes to an end The last lamented goodbye to a friend Let me go, there are many things I must see and do, A world of opportunity is there for you To alter your reality, a belief you suspend The time has come to finally transcend Dig deep enough, heal the wounds No silver pendant can change this tune Like a mother consoling her child With a face that no longer smiles Was all of this just the foundation Of a life so suddenly taken? As silence takes its place Worlds apart, we collide in space.
18.
Listen to the voice that speaks Without idea or thought I knew that I could hear it So I've never gotten caught Paint my face and show my name Hide reason from you all I'd played the part so well that you'd forgotten that I'd fall Keep me safe and keep me warm Keep me from losing sight Keep me from dreaming same old shit From night to night to night I can't think and I can't feel The way I always was Hold back the tears and show no fear Shake and I dissolve I never had it, I'm bleeding from it, I never had it, I'm aching for it, I never had it. The Deepest Wound I never stayed, I never left I'm always in your heart Another thought, another dream That's tearing us apart I found no gain, the pressure held It's breaking at the seams One on one, we held the sun Your laughter turns to screams You're next to me but far away I brought what I had sold See the noise and taste the smell It burns when I turn cold Melt the bricks and drink the fire Discover my insides My Insides turn to outsides when I left it all behind I never had it, I'm bleeding from it I never had it, I've never lost it I never known it The Deepest Wound.
19.
All that I've known All that I've felt Everything I've been through Everyone I've met Never, ever knew What it's really like To hold in the one hand Believe in the right Take my wounds Patch them up tight Discover my pain And cure it tonight One stolen kiss That cuts like a knife Scrambled my feelings Straightened my life Time has sent me away Face to face, don't ever stray. Don't ever... You never seem to notice when I know it's right I've made my decisions I'm leaving here tonight Please stop crying This river of tears I have to be with her And spend my life near her One more time Look in my eyes Melt my soul And say our goodbyes Break my fall Keep me safe And tell everyone They won't see me again I can only make it When the time is right There's only one future And it's looking so bright GIve me all the riches That life can bring Open up to me And you can show me everything The moments tick away More than most I'm clearing out my closet Like some homeless ghost GIve me all the memories Of this lonely taste of life Cure me of this nightmare Is the end in sight?
20.
A silver pendant's just the gift To show you how I feel It shows you I'm committed and my feelings are for real It's hot in here, I need some air Not much inside this room I know it's cold, I'll be OK I'll come back very soon You take a dive and realise it's colder than you thought You cannot breathe, your legs are numb Your clothes have gotten caught You fight to rise for air but find That everything is screwed She calls your name, you realise There's nothing you can do
21.
All my broken dreams My final daylight scene I slaved away my days As the skin peeled away I tried to hold my own When they stood on me Take me to a place where the pain fades away The insanity breaks and I fade to grey

 So as I lie back in the water Why fight it anymore? The night decides to grin as the pain begins I scream across the air But no-one's answering
 I think of my sister What will she grow to be I say goodbye to my mother What must she think of me? Thrashing and turning Bleeding and burning Dark and alone Flesh, Water and Bone I can hear you cry but I can't see the sky From the water above me, it will not free me As I find my way down
22.
Instrumental
23.
When I'm gone, release me Let me go I have many things to see and do I don't think you've noticed I don't want to be found
24.
Cross out everything you know And I will tell you how How to think and how to breathe Do you understand me? You only know what you are told And I will tell you now You're not the one that you think you were The one you were has gone My face pushed to the floor By force and without gain As the city around me screams so loud It blows my ears right off my head Suffocate from the inside out My skin is turning blue The doctor comes to comfort me To trust that I can't trust you Bound by the knowledge that you're trying to kill me I can send you to hell It's just a bond of mutual distrust But it suits me well My blood drips to the floor It pools like fallen rain My cries for help are a bitter defeat As I let it all go like the skin from my feet The lights that blind my opened mind Will you tend to my wounds The men in blue will be here soon The secret is no proof No time to lose, no rights to prove Nowhere left to go You vultures pick the meat from my bones I - prey. You - leave me alone. I'm laid out on the floor Struggling for breath again I don't trust you but I know I need you. So I do what I'm told.
25.
As I squat and I squirm I live in fear of a life returned I see the memories don't belong to me I broke out this shell so I can see A time and a place for me to breathe And watch the nights roll into fear I hold what's mine so you'll keep yours Please, please, help me. Cure me of this disease I keep falling inside of me Promise me safety From all these blinding dreams What can I do? Anything for you I scream until I turn blue My blood boils through And I'm all yours for you to use You're kicking me around this room Until I find I'm broke in two Until I find I've found the need To be released One little voice to change my life One little voice to tell my soul To burn it all right to the ground To walk alone and find myself Amongst the bone of memories To separate this afterlife Seems all this time it wasn't me Crying tears in fear of fear The purest of the pure Won't save me now Someone bring the remedy The remedy to save this day And after all that I have done It seems that I'm not anyone It seems that I'm not anyone. Anyone?
26.
I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling
27.
As it grows, I'm burning. Throw me some water let me soak it up I'm shaking in fear. Looking through blinded eyes A strung out mind Scared to think a single thought Closed the doors. Everything has blown apart. Break my skin, with your needle Tattoo my soul, tell my story Now in a whole new world of pain Both your hands upon my reins Just leave me to die again Beads of sweat I'll hold them in with a stronger vice My tangled veins Keep me away from the knives and the forks A misplaced sound Fills my head as it hits the ground My sonic dreams I wish I'd never heard that sound Feeling dizzy? Time to make or break my day. Hello to you. When did I come across your hate? Your burning fire perished in the light of day I'm slowly fading And served up to you on a silver plate. In my dreams it was a different story Love and life and happiness Another sits all alone Waiting for the thing that's best A mother is born before her child We all walk in single file Bygone times and spoken minds Nobody knows what he's left behind. And worlds away, he fades away Tomorrow's gone and turned it's back No help for him, he lives in sin Left to dream in white and black He's frozen into one pose As every heartache never mends The final page of this forgotten tale Is this the way his story ends? Damp rises in the night Misty streets became his home Wind and rain stood in his way Living life all on his own More and more, time ticks away Moments come, they never stay. Another song, another day Written down as he slips away
28.
From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you From something shiny I used to know It's said beneath this second skin Lies a person free of sin And although I think they lied to me There's nothing else I can believe They said I died, they say I'm dead Visions of this run through my head Beneath the soil they piled on me I wash my hands until they bleed Deep beneath this destructive hue Lies a person of virtue Who wants to see the light of day And preys to no-one again and again I lost my faith in the human race With visions of strange, familiar faces I cannot place this silver chain It seemed I'd never see it again Disinfected and Abused Remorseful and so confused Would I have died if I'd not used The line that delivered me from truth? Just another corpse, just another day Just another corpse, just another grave You tell me so many stories Of battles won and your glory Pay to play and nothing's free Your ignorance astounds me Poised upon a knifes' edge It's nearly time for supper But eating your own flesh It seems is just the beginning And he smiled as he finished his supper Safely fed and ready for bed. Never mind the bloodstains on your sheets That's what comes of eating raw meat Knives and forks Knives and forks Knives and forks I broke so many hearts And slit so many throats All for the pleasure of pain And the remorse that I'd feel So soon it will be your turn To lay upon the bed I made And when the fire burns me I'll laugh so hard I explode Wait for your turn in the sun As I crush your time away The fight for my life is over And all that's left is my cold blood The habit of eating my fill Has come to haunt my nights When will you see over this? When I throw you to the wall? From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you You're a person I used to know I guess it's time to shed this skin And find the one that lies within And hope that what we can see Is something more than fantasy But worlds away a telephone call Breaks her from pictures on the wall She turns to face her brother's end And realised all this never happened
29.
Listen to the voice that speaks Without idea or thought I knew that I could hear it So I've never gotten caught Paint my face and show my name Hide reason from you all I'd played the part so well that you'd forgotten that I'd fall Keep me safe and keep me warm Keep me from losing sight Keep me from dreaming same old shit From night to night to night I can't think and I can't feel The way I always was Hold back the tears and show no fear Shake and I dissolve I never had it, I'm bleeding from it, I never had it, I'm aching for it, I never had it. The Deepest Wound I never stayed, I never left I'm always in your heart Another thought, another dream That's tearing us apart I found no gain, the pressure held It's breaking at the seams One on one, we held the sun Your laughter turns to screams You're next to me but far away I brought what I had sold See the noise and taste the smell It burns when I turn cold Melt the bricks and drink the fire Discover my insides My Insides turn to outsides when I left it all behind I never had it, I'm bleeding from it I never had it, I've never lost it I never known it The Deepest Wound.
30.
All that I've known All that I've felt Everything I've been through Everyone I've met Never, ever knew What it's really like To hold in the one hand Believe in the right Take my wounds Patch them up tight Discover my pain And cure it tonight One stolen kiss That cuts like a knife Scrambled my feelings Straightened my life Time has sent me away Face to face, don't ever stray. Don't ever... You never seem to notice when I know it's right I've made my decisions I'm leaving here tonight Please stop crying This river of tears I have to be with her And spend my life near her One more time Look in my eyes Melt my soul And say our goodbyes Break my fall Keep me safe And tell everyone They won't see me again I can only make it When the time is right There's only one future And it's looking so bright GIve me all the riches That life can bring Open up to me And you can show me everything The moments tick away More than most I'm clearing out my closet Like some homeless ghost GIve me all the memories Of this lonely taste of life Cure me of this nightmare Is the end in sight?
31.
A silver pendant's just the gift To show you how I feel It shows you I'm committed and my feelings are for real It's hot in here, I need some air Not much inside this room I know it's cold, I'll be OK I'll come back very soon You take a dive and realise it's colder than you thought You cannot breathe, your legs are numb Your clothes have gotten caught You fight to rise for air but find That everything is screwed She calls your name, you realise There's nothing you can do
32.
All my broken dreams My final daylight scene I slaved away my days As the skin peeled away I tried to hold my own When they stood on me Take me to a place where the pain fades away The insanity breaks and I fade to grey

 So as I lie back in the water Why fight it anymore? The night decides to grin as the pain begins I scream across the air But no-one's answering
 I think of my sister What will she grow to be I say goodbye to my mother What must she think of me? Thrashing and turning Bleeding and burning Dark and alone Flesh, Water and Bone I can hear you cry but I can't see the sky From the water above me, it will not free me As I find my way down
33.
When I'm gone, release me Let me go I have many things to see and do I don't think you've noticed I don't want to be found
34.
Cross out everything you know And I will tell you how How to think and how to breathe Do you understand me? You only know what you are told And I will tell you now You're not the one that you think you were The one you were has gone My face pushed to the floor By force and without gain As the city around me screams so loud It blows my ears right off my head Suffocate from the inside out My skin is turning blue The doctor comes to comfort me To trust that I can't trust you Bound by the knowledge that you're trying to kill me I can send you to hell It's just a bond of mutual distrust But it suits me well My blood drips to the floor It pools like fallen rain My cries for help are a bitter defeat As I let it all go like the skin from my feet The lights that blind my opened mind Will you tend to my wounds The men in blue will be here soon The secret is no proof No time to lose, no rights to prove Nowhere left to go You vultures pick the meat from my bones I - prey. You - leave me alone. I'm laid out on the floor Struggling for breath again I don't trust you but I know I need you. So I do what I'm told.
35.
As I squat and I squirm I live in fear of a life returned I see the memories don't belong to me I broke out this shell so I can see A time and a place for me to breathe And watch the nights roll into fear I hold what's mine so you'll keep yours Please, please, help me. Cure me of this disease I keep falling inside of me Promise me safety From all these blinding dreams What can I do? Anything for you I scream until I turn blue My blood boils through And I'm all yours for you to use You're kicking me around this room Until I find I'm broke in two Until I find I've found the need To be released One little voice to change my life One little voice to tell my soul To burn it all right to the ground To walk alone and find myself Amongst the bone of memories To separate this afterlife Seems all this time it wasn't me Crying tears in fear of fear The purest of the pure Won't save me now Someone bring the remedy The remedy to save this day And after all that I have done It seems that I'm not anyone It seems that I'm not anyone. Anyone?
36.
I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Flying I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling I'm Falling
37.
As it grows, I'm burning. Throw me some water let me soak it up I'm shaking in fear. Looking through blinded eyes A strung out mind Scared to think a single thought Closed the doors. Everything has blown apart. Break my skin, with your needle Tattoo my soul, tell my story Now in a whole new world of pain Both your hands upon my reins Just leave me to die again Beads of sweat I'll hold them in with a stronger vice My tangled veins Keep me away from the knives and the forks A misplaced sound Fills my head as it hits the ground My sonic dreams I wish I'd never heard that sound Feeling dizzy? Time to make or break my day. Hello to you. When did I come across your hate? Your burning fire perished in the light of day I'm slowly fading And served up to you on a silver plate. In my dreams it was a different story Love and life and happiness Another sits all alone Waiting for the thing that's best A mother is born before her child We all walk in single file Bygone times and spoken minds Nobody knows what he's left behind. And worlds away, he fades away Tomorrow's gone and turned it's back No help for him, he lives in sin Left to dream in white and black He's frozen into one pose As every heartache never mends The final page of this forgotten tale Is this the way his story ends? Damp rises in the night Misty streets became his home Wind and rain stood in his way Living life all on his own More and more, time ticks away Moments come, they never stay. Another song, another day Written down as he slips away
38.
From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you From something shiny I used to know It's said beneath this second skin Lies a person free of sin And although I think they lied to me There's nothing else I can believe They said I died, they say I'm dead Visions of this run through my head Beneath the soil they piled on me I wash my hands until they bleed Deep beneath this destructive hue Lies a person of virtue Who wants to see the light of day And preys to no-one again and again I lost my faith in the human race With visions of strange, familiar faces I cannot place this silver chain It seemed I'd never see it again Disinfected and Abused Remorseful and so confused Would I have died if I'd not used The line that delivered me from truth? Just another corpse, just another day Just another corpse, just another grave You tell me so many stories Of battles won and your glory Pay to play and nothing's free Your ignorance astounds me Poised upon a knifes' edge It's nearly time for supper But eating your own flesh It seems is just the beginning And he smiled as he finished his supper Safely fed and ready for bed. Never mind the bloodstains on your sheets That's what comes of eating raw meat Knives and forks Knives and forks Knives and forks I broke so many hearts And slit so many throats All for the pleasure of pain And the remorse that I'd feel So soon it will be your turn To lay upon the bed I made And when the fire burns me I'll laugh so hard I explode Wait for your turn in the sun As I crush your time away The fight for my life is over And all that's left is my cold blood The habit of eating my fill Has come to haunt my nights When will you see over this? When I throw you to the wall? From the deep dark pits of my insanity I sit waiting for you to come for me I swear I recognise you You're a person I used to know I guess it's time to shed this skin And find the one that lies within And hope that what we can see Is something more than fantasy But worlds away a telephone call Breaks her from pictures on the wall She turns to face her brother's end And realised all this never happened

about

When Anubis released 230503 in 2008, it had begun life as a hobby project by two songwriters - Robert James Moulding and David Eaton - that quickly had to became a band in order to record it. It was recorded, as self-produced debuts so often are, with a lot of enthusiasm but little experience and even less expertise. It was released independently, 'leaked' on BitTorrent and consequently, as a result of doing the right thing for the right time, found an unexpectedly large audience that has stuck with band and enabled it to continue releasing music for 12 years.

By 2020, when the album turned ten, the band had released six studio albums and had developed a means of recording in-house that meant that the 230503 album was little more than demo quality in comparison to the latter day studio records. Featuring some of the band's most popular music - including the 18 minute fan favourite 'Disinfected and Abused', the album garnered great reviews for it's ambition, performances and songwriting, and some derision for it's sound quality.

This version of the album features a complete re-mix and partial re-recording of the work. The original audio files were passed through better quality audio equipment and plugins to render the guitars, basses and voices in hi-res 88.2k/24bit sound, and the keyboards (which were mostly recorded as midi data) were passed through modern 64bit VSTs and better quality synthesizers. The Hammond organ was sent through a better Leslie cabinet and the whole sonic picture received a facelift.

The drums were all re-recorded in January 2020 by Steven Eaton. This process was captured, similarly in 88.2/24 and his performances, while faithful to the original record, give him the opportunity to stamp 10 years of experience playing the material live onto the definitive studio version of the track.

Robert Moulding's voice, having all of the primitive processing from the mid-2000's removed, soars in a way that listeners will be accustomed to on later studio albums, and the clarity in both his and Nick Antoinette's bass playing is stronger than ever.

The album was mixed by Dean Bennison, who produced the original record, and now feels that he's done justice to the band's debut album. Dean joined the band shortly after the release of the album and has since produced the band's entire catalogue.

Douglas Skene digitally mastered the album. Douglas has mastered the band's live albums and the 'Different Stories' and 'Homeless' albums.

This version of 230503 completes the story with a second disc that includes the lost epic 'The Life not Taken', which was woven out of 'The Deepest Wound', 'Leaving Here Tonight', 'Breaking Water' and several minutes of previously unreleased instrumental material. Originally intended to open the 230503 album, it was edited and split into the three songs now better known as the album's opening three tracks.

The album's original intended closing (and title track), 'Technicolour Afterlife' was debuted in an acoustic arrangement on the 'Different Stories' album, but is included here in it's original form.

Both of these pieces were recorded in 2020 by the current line up of the band, featuring Robert Moulding, David and Steven Eaton, Douglas Skene and Dean Bennison, with Anthony Stewart performing the bass parts as he interpreted them.

The second disc also features live performances of the band performing tracks from the album from 2010 to 2018, with Nick Antoinette and Anthony Stewart on bass. Including a performance of 'Disinfected and Abused' from the band's 2018 European tour at the ProgFrog club in the Netherlands.

The set is presented as a two disc CD book pack with linear notes by Robert James Moulding, David Eaton, Douglas Skene, Dean Bennison and Steven Eaton, as well as the band's friend and French promotor Thomas Konsler whose initial review of 230503 in the Musicwaves magazine went a long way toward helping break the band in Europe.

Unique to the Bandcamp sale of the album are another two CDs worth of downloadable bonus material, namely an official bootleg of the original lineup of the band performing 230503 in full at the Annandale in Sydney in 2010. This is the first full live release of the band that features the original lineup. The audio on the album was restored by David Eaton and mixed and mastered by Douglas Skene. Warts and all, this is a powerful recording of the young Anubis performing 230503 in full for what would be the final time.

The final collection in the download is a full recording of Dean Bennison's original mix of 230503 from 2008, digitally remastered by Douglas Skene, giving the album's original mix the best sound quality and clarity it has had to date. Whilst the sonic limitations of the original, unrestored recordings are present, for those who prefer the original, it remains available here.

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released May 23, 2022

230503 was produced by Dean Bennison, David Eaton and Robert James Moulding at Razorback Music Studio, Autumn 2006- Winter 2009.

2020 audio restoration by David Eaton
Mixed by Dean Bennison
Mastered by Douglas Skene
Live tracks and new studio tracks produced by Dean Bennison and Anubis

230503 concept and lyrics by Robert James Moulding and David Eaton.

Original art concept by Matthew Buttsworth.
2020 disc and booklet design by Tim Neill
Photography by Tim Neill and Matt Buttsworth

Recorded at Anubis HQ and Razorback Music Studio between November 2005 and September 2008. Drums recorded at Macarthur Music Academy in 2020. New studio tracks recorded at Macarthur Music Academy, Anubis HQ, Ploughman Studios and Razorback Music Studio January - July 2020.
‘Anonymity’ recorded live at the Excelsior, Sydney, August 2010
‘Waterfall’, ‘The Bond of Mutual Distrust’ and ‘The Collapse’ recorded live at Belgenny Farm, Camden NSW, March 2012
‘Disinfected and Abused’ recorded live at ProgFrog, t’Blok, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Netherlands, July 2018

On this record, Anubis is:

Robert James Moulding
David Eaton
Steven Eaton
Douglas Skene
Dean Bennison
Nick Antoinette
Anthony Stewart
Lachlan Rankin
Martyn Cook

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This sound recording (c) 2021 Robert Moulding, David Eaton, Douglas Skene, Dean Bennison, Steven Eaton and Anthony Stewart. Published by District6 Music. All rights reserved. Any unauthorised duplication or distribution of this work is prohibited. Artwork, design and art assets (c) 2021 Matthew Buttsworth and Tim Neill.

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Anubis Sydney, Australia

Anubis is a cinematic Progressive Rock band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2004.

The band has released to date 6 studio records to date, 2 live albums and toured Europe twice. The latest album, ‘Homeless’ reached number 4 in the Australian Indie chart in March 2020. ... more

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