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Killafornia

by First Blood

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Next Time I See You, You're Dead 01:01
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I cannot forgive, what I cannot forget... that day you took that shovel to my chest. Because of you I'll never trust. Because of you I'll never heal. You represent a time and place that I wish to forget. Dead. Next time I see you, you’re DEAD. Don't ever bother to waste your time to make amends. You don’t deserve a place in my life ever again.
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First Blood 03:29
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They drew first blood NOT FUCKING ME. The insitutions that try to decide how I should live my life. With their traditions they expect me to fall in line, but their will, their way is not for me. Anyone thinking with an open mind is often ostracized. So my decision just to stay within my own kind is justified. They drew first blood it wasn't me. I didn't ask for all these things to be part of this world OR PART OF ME. And who are they to protest me when all I want is to live peacefully. JUST LEAVE ME BE. Born in this world with innocent eyes. The more I see it becomes more clear to me I cannot trust powers that be. Taught to embrace with open arms a society that does not have a place for me. I didn'task for this social divide and all the racists and the scum of mankind. But now I know, I'm on my own, so leave me be, and I'll live my own life. This is the way things have to be. All because they drew THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD. As corporations gain control of the world, the more and more the common good is not served. They won't dictate or brainwash me to buy their dreams and consume 'til I die. The best advice given to me is never serve who is not there to serve me. They drew first blood it wasn't me. They drew first blood NOT FUCKING ME.
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Conspiracy 04:13
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This whole situation reeks of conspiracy...We can't erase THE LIVES all the lives that were lost all the memories. You can't erase YOUR TIES all you lines all your ties with the "enemy". Some see through all the propaganda. Others unite they stand by your side. And when this plan was pulled off with precision, how could you think no suspicions would rise. So many pieces so perfectly aligned. Coincidence? The facts will blow your MIND control machine is all you see 'til you believe to FUND the war machine as history repeats itself AGAIN. This quest for truth will never end. Let us ask THE REAL QUESTIONS for the victims WHO DIED. Let us ask THE REAL QUESTIONS. All our chances DENIED. What made them fall? The answers, hidden from all. And why weren't they warned? All those who perished answered their call. Let us ask real questions for the victims who died.
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Suffocate 03:31
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The polluted face of life hiding in black clouds unknowingly killing you, killing me. HIS FILTHY HANDS... are wrapped around our trusting throats but the last thing that we need is another liar breathing the fire... SUFFOCATE... of death down below. Suffering in solitude as your last breath slips away... with no one ever knowing. From the last generation, turning their backs to the truth, to the new generation, continue to spread the truth. Rebellion against the truth... Ignorant minds hide from the truth... Angry minds defy the truth... Greedy minds deny the truth... as we all SUFFOCATE.
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Execution 04:43
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Someday you'll have to face the fire. Someday you'll have to face their law. Someday you'll have to face your trial. Someday you'll have to face the firing line. THE FIRING LINE. Wave your flag of your beliefs and wave it high, safe within the group in which you confide. Wear your mask, let everone know just where you stand. Irony strikes when you help bring your demise. Casualty of war no matter what you're fighting for. Sentence you to death unless you cowardly conform. They will pick apart your everything, shoot you down for anything, tryin to gain anything, everything. Face the firing line. Blindfold, hands behind your back. Deciding moment, will you stand or will you turn back? Under attack, will you defend your honor? When no one has your back, will you press on or cowar? They will kill. They will take. And relent until you break. Will you bend for their sake? It's your choice to stand or break. Most of them won't make it out alive. ALIVE. Some will stand or join the other side. THE OTHER SIDE. You can choose your fate. Will you stand or break, it's up to you. Do what you can cause you can choose your fate. Do what you will, it's up to you, so will you stand or break the line? Wave your flag of your belief's and wave it high. You've endured a true lesson in life. Someday you'll have to face the fire. Someday you'll have to face their law. Someday you'll have to face your trial. Someday you'll have to face the firing line. THE FIRING LINE.
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Victim 02:56
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Defend your life, defend your soul. Victims digging our own graves. Terror. Horror. Fear within their veins passed down along a never ending chain. ANOTHER VICTIM DIES. The lies kill both sides. No regard. No respect for life. UNDERSTAND the effects kill two ways... killing the life, killing the soul. FALL VICTIM TO THEIR LIES. Defend a way of life you can't justify. How many more must die? Defend your life, defend your soul, but you will pay FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. Set your stake and place a price with no RESPECT FOR LIFE. Raping, pillaging, someday you will pay. Taking, displacing, someday you will pay. Mock me, belittle me, someday you will pay. ANOTHER VICTIM DIES. FALL VICTIM TO THEIR LIES.
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Conflict 04:03
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Nowhere to run, to hide. Justice, revenge FOR THEIR CRIMES. Bloodshed without warning. Now they must all PAY THE PRICE. The ultimate in justice, reprisal for their crimes. Assassinate, eliminate, the rule of an eye for an eye. The moral question, to take another's life. Political necessity when justice has been denied. TERRORIZED for crimes that often go untried. SPREADING FEAR throughtout their victims, ultimate sacrifice. CRITICIZED for killing any hope for peace. VIOLENCE no matter what the consequence. Who pays the price? All for a place that they call home. Conflict will never end, all for a place that they call home. This pain, this suffering, in a fight that will never end. Withdraw, to disengage from a place that they call home. Reclaim, retaliate in a fight that will never end. Fighting for a home, the right to claim a land, when victory is everything and nothing will hold back. This is their fight to keep their home. This is their fight to claim their land. This is their fight to keep their culture and their people on the map. Someone must pay for their crimes. Attrition. Kill their own kind. Suicide. Kill their own kind. Attrition. Kill their own kind. And they will fight with everything for victory no matter what the price. They must defeat at any price and they will fight with everything, relentlessly, when justice is denied. The choice must be made. Kill. This price must be paid. Kill The choice must be made. KILL. This price must be paid. KILL. Revenge must be made. KILL. For a place that they can call THEIR HOME. And they will fight with everything until they've reached their goal. The price to pay for a place to call their home to keep their culture and their people on the map. Conflict will never end, all for a place that they call home.
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Tides 03:05
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First you give. FIRST YOU GIVE. Then you take, just like the turning of the tides. I will rise...HIGH TIDE rise and find good things and bring them within reach. Bring me good fortune. Reward my good deeds. Then as the tide recedes, you steal a piece of me. This neverending cycle constantly CREATES ME. This cycle, it will NEVER END. Bring me love, take it away, just like the turning OF THE TIDES. Pick me up, then bring be down, just like the turning OF THE TIDES. Bring me hope, then hopelessness, just like the turning of the tides. Learning to adjust my expectations cause I know that the TIDE WILL TURN. Strickened by this persistence, but I know that the TIDE WILL TURN. Preying on my existance, but I know that the tide will turn HIGH TIDE rise and bring me...BRING ME PEACE. Neverending cycle of life repeats. Tides keep turning...Why can't you leave me be? Give to me, then take from me. I know that the tide WILL TURN. Bring me life, then bring me death. I know that the tide WILL TURN.
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Regimen 02:35
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Conditioned to live life in constant SERVITUDE, never questioning another way OF LIVING LIFE 'cause what I gave you I didn't get back in return for my time spent building their dreams 'til I was left with nothing. Spending each waking moment waiting for my days to end. A slave to the man will somone just save me from this regimen. Forcing myself to do something in absolute compromise. I'm stuck in a rut will someone just save mefrom this torture, from the life that I truly seek, I have to take a chance and live in risk 'cause these chances are just passing by. Pieces of my soul being to face. Will someone just TAKE ME AWAY from this modern slavery. Just so high someone can climb, yet still they fall behind. And when it's gone they treat it like it's the end of the world. THE END OF YOUR WORLD. I can't let life pass me by. Save me from this regimen now.
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Unbroken 03:49
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW? Hiding behind the mask of blatant fucking lies. I despise everything you once fucking said. Look into your eyes there's NOTHING LEFT. What have you become but a WHISPER IN THE WIND. Every word you said has been pissed away and ripped to shreds TORN THE FUCK APART. Now we are left with this epiphany. No sympathy and not one BROKEN HEART. For all the wrong reasons you won't be forgotten. But I remain UNBROKEN. I watched as it slipped through your fucking hands. It won't be a surprise if you're not ever SEEN AGAIN but I will remain... UNBROKEN.
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Armageddon 01:13
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Carl Schwartz: Vocals
Kyle Dixon: Guitar
Manuel Peralez: Bass
Brandon Thomas: Drums

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released May 2, 2006

Special thanks to Mike Orris, Jr. (Drums) and Daniel Fletcher (Guitar) for hitting the road with us and becoming the newest members of the FB family.

Recorded at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland, CA in January 2006
Engineered by Zack Ohren and Aaron Hellam
Produced by Carl Schwartz and FIRST BLOOD
Mixed by Zack Ohren and FIRST BLOOD
Mastered by Zack Ohren

All songs written and arranged by Kyle Dixon and Carl Schwartz
All lyrics by Carl Schwartz except UNBROKEN by Kyle Dixon/Carl Schwartz

All guitars and bass recorded by Carl Schwartz
Back-up vocals by Kyle, Adam, Jason, Leo, Jacob, and Jonah

Enhanced CD portion filmed and authored by xDoanex
Layout by Guav for ActWonDesign.com
Photography by Thomas Medvedich
Band photo by Jessica Britt

FIRST BLOOD uses ESP Guitars and Mesa Boogie Amplifiers & Cabinets

FIRST BLOOD would like to thank all of our friends and family for their love and support, Josh Grabelle and everyone at Trustkill, Chris Wrenn and Bridge9/Division36 Records, Jake and Tre at Deathwish Inc, Matt Pike and The Kenmore Agency, Marc and Ute at MAD, Trae and Howard at Superhero EC, Zack and Aaron at Castle Ultimate Studios, Clint and Luke at Crime Scene Merch, Allen and Todd at ESP Guitars, Tim and everyone at Mesa Boogie, Jason, Angela, Patricia, and everyone at PETA, ALL the San Francisco Bay Area and Norcal bands of past and present, especially Above This World, Aftermath, Alcatraz, All Bets Off, All Shall Perish, Allegiance, Animosity, Antagony, Benumb, Ceremony, Contenders For The Crown, Damage Done, Diseptikons, Doomsday Device, Embrace The End, Execution Style, Fate Thirteen, Forced Life, Gunmetal Grey, Hoods, In Memorium, Inner Struggle, Killing The Dream, Lights Out, Lowlife, Murder Machine, Powerhouse, Resist Control, Revenant, SEED, Second Coming, Set Your Goals, Slaughtahouse, Suffokate, Sworn Vengeance, and Time For Living. All our friends' bands from around the world, bands we've played with, and all the bands that have inspired us, especially All Out War, Bleeding Through, Born From Pain, Champion, Comeback Kid, Day Of Contempt, Death Before Dishonor, Deathstar, Donnybrook, Earth Crisis, Every Man For Himself, Hatebreed, Ignite, Internal Affairs, Knuckledust, Life Or Death, Kent and Locals Only!, Madball, Merauder, NDC, No Innocent Victim, Path Of Resistance, Piece By Piece, Ramallah, Ringworm, Shattered Realm, Sick Of It All, Sinking Ships, Stretch Arm Strong, Suffocate Faster, Terror, This Is Hell, Throwdown, Unearth, Vendetta, Virtue, Warriors... the list goes on and on. To anyone we forget to mention here, please know that you are in our thoughts, we appreciate you and all of your support, and that we take nothing for granted. Thank you.

Carl would like to thank: My closest friends and family (you know who you are), especially Adam Barton (I cannot thank you enough for all that you have done to help me and this band. I will forever be in debt of gratitude to you. Thank you for all the motivation and keeping me in line to get things done. You will always be the 6th member of FB... and congrats to you and Nadine!) Roberta, Steve and my nephew Edgar (the biggest little FB fan alive), my father for raising me well and for supporting my life decisions, my Gramma Irene and Aunt Judy for inspiring me to follow my dreams (I love and miss you both dearly. Rest in peace.) Scott, Nick, Frank, and Doug for all the experiences I will never forget and in looking back I wouldn't trade for anything else in the world, Brandon and Jessica, Shaun, Lafayette, Linda, and Grine family for all the love and support, Wig, Truuuuu, crazy little Adam, Adam and Olga, Jaime, Jason, James, vegans/vegetarians worldwide, and everyone else with the courage and conviction to stand for something positive to better their own life and the lives of those around them.

Kyle would like to thank: Mandy for always being there for me and supporting me in all that I do, I love you. My parents John and Deborah Dixon for your endless support. My brothers Grey and Keith Dixon. Joel, Louie, Jesse, Pat, Bart and Karl in Embrace The End. My Alcatraz homies. All of my friends and family and everyone else who has helped First Blood get to where we're at, I cannot thank you enough. Thank you to all my past and present FB band members: Carl Schwartz, Manuel Peralez, Doug Weber, Tony B., Albany Mike Boden, Nick A.D.D. Portalupi, Dave Yoha, Dustin Roth, Adam Barton The Visual Stand In, Daniel Fletcher, Mike Orris, Jr. and a special thank you to Brandon SEED Thomas, I appreciate all the sacrifices you made to make this album what it is.

Manuel would like to thank: My friends and family, northern California hardcore, straightedge.

Brandon would like to thank: Jessica for her love, support, and patience; my family and friends; The Aftermath for letting us take over their studio to rehearse; Carl, Kyle, Manual, Doug, Tony B., Albany Mike, Dave Yoha and all the FIRST BLOOD members past and present; Adam Barton--the best tattoo artist ever; the Bay Area hardcore scene old and new; and the international hardcore community for their encouragement and interest in FIRST BLOOD... and to all the Straight-Edge kids worldwide- - stay strong and dedicated.

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