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No More Hiding

by Ancient Filth

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No! No more hiding! No! No more hiding! No! No more hiding! No! Fear from what you are hiding, from thoughts and fears it's kept all inside us. Shields hiding inner reality. We have to hide our emotions for humans. It's insanity. No more! No more hiding! What we fear is the child inside us and we were conditioned to live this lie even to ourselves. No more! No more hiding! No more! No more hiding! Why would we rather be right than true? Are we afraid of what really drives us? We are afraid of being hurt and we people please, we are so afraid of punishment! No! No more hiding! Feelings. No more hiding intentions! No more hiding problems! No! No more hiding judgments! No more hiding shame! No more hiding guilt! No! No more hiding the scared child inside! No more hiding is freedom! Bring it all into the light!
2.
Not enough too much: what is really me? Am I sick? Do I wanna believe what you say is me? Mine my mind, is it mine? Suck my energy. I'm too good, I'm too bad, I need one reality. From when I was socialized you told me that I was wrong. Now it’s internalized from myself, I was torn. Putting me in a box, giving me a label to make me a good boy, to make me a producer. You’re a user, put me down by telling me I’m sick. Who’s sick? You’re sick! Only seeing me as a tool not a person but a commodity. No flower is ugly, no tree is wrong. Straight lines and boxes kill. “Take your pills!” Can't accept me. See in straight lines but the world is curvy. Mining my mind, corral my potential, squander my gifts, tell me I'm mental. I don’t fit in your plan so you call me sick and I feel your hands in my brain. Mine my mind, mine myself and my body.
3.
No Man 01:49
Toxicity affects us every day. Trying to understand my privilege ‘cause I dont wanna to play. I've never felt it and I don't fit in. If this is a man, I don’t want that prison. Always fighting for control, but inside scared of our own soul. Fear-resisting is masculinity, as long as we’re “MEN” no one will be free! No man! No man! No man! What’s the definition of a man? Just violence with our big hands? Only express rage, no sensitivity. To free us all, end the toxicity. Always fighting for control, but inside scared of our own soul. Fear-resisting is masculinity, as long as we’re “MEN” no one will be free! No! No Man! No! No Man! Denying our need for sensitivity. Killing others and ourselves with our actions and our silence. Strangling mothers with our violence. The iron boot of man. To control! To control! Just big boys with baby minds. Scared inside! Scared inside! With a violent manly hand. To control! To control! We need feminine energy. No! No Man!
4.
No one cares if your suicidal. They only care when you're dead. Isolated, nowhere to go. Is it my fault? Why do I feel so alone? Mask all day. No one can handle my reality. I think about suicide every fucking day and even the doctors say it wont go away. No one is there to lift me out besides me. Got to pick up myself. Pick myself up by my bootstraps. Dragged myself up by my bootstraps. If we legalized suicide, maybe then people would take real action. How can you help me? How can you help me? Maybe I just need someone to listen. No one cares if your suicidal but they’re surprised when your dead.
5.
Father knows best. The great protector and all knowing judge. Our king! Our savior! The one to keep us in line. The one who shames us into following along. If he wasn't there to watch over us and protect us what would we do? Would we kill? Would we steal? Chaos would ensue? Nature is dirty and ugly. We need to separate us out from the natural order of things. He can organize us better than ourselves. Give up our authority to his power. But if we didn't, we would have to live like the animals. Daddy, I'm not ready to be like them. We need a system that puts value on all this terrible terrible world. Your structure saves us. It keeps us safe. It keeps reminding me I'm the problem. I want to give in. I want to survive. I want it to make sense. I want you to be my morality for me. Control control control me. You know that I cannot see. It's the great lie of civilization, the lie of the father, the lie of the system. You're a violent selfish child. God you’re the devil soul stealing fraud. Claim there is only one way to live and it sounds like fear is your way. Father! Father! Save me! Father! Father! You know what's right for me. Might makes right, protect me. Father! Father! Save me!
6.
State! Monopolized violence! In the hands of the police, shrouded in silence. Authority! Is violence in action. The Illusion of safety for the rich’s satisfaction. There's no police without brutality. Violence is their tool that controls our reality. Ownership! On violence and action. Their violence is praised and demonizes other factions. Prisons! A slave driving tool. Violence is inherent and it’s okay unless it's done to you. All prison! Is violence insanity. All police protect their master’s authority. There’s no police without brutality. No prisons without insanity. If you're anti-violence, then you’re anti-police.
7.
Bandaids 01:52
It’s not broken. It’s how it works. You don’t want a solution, just a bandaid for your profit. Won’t look at the problem. Just punish the symptoms. Bandaids for severe wounds. An aspirin for an amputation. Ignoring the bloody elephant in the fucking room. Pull the curtain closed. Slow death. Numb the pain. Don’t listen to the body. We never get to the root. Cover up, bind our eyes. Bind our senses. Rag in our mouth. Cover up, bind our eyes. Bind our senses, muffle the cries. For a solution, we need a radical approach. Their system is a festering wound that’s designed to rot. Our band aids are soaked through. It's not broken, it's how it works. Aspirin for amputation, don’t ignore the root. Bandaids! Bandaids! Bandaids!
8.
Purge 02:17
Purge what does not serve. Let go of what was needed but now is void. Taking up space in my body and mind. Still controlled by the abandoned child inside me! Purge! Let it out! Let it out! Let it out! Let it out! Purge! Let it out! Let it out! Let it out! Let it out! Purge your god. Purge your anxiety. Purge it out or it will come out another way. Don't force it, let it come naturally. Got to let go. To try to get free. Purge what does not serve. Let go of what was needed but now is void. Taking up space in my body and mind. Still controlled by the abandoned child inside me! Purge! Purge your hate. Purge your patterns Purge your fear. Purge unconscious actions. Purge your hate. Purge your patterns Purge your fear. Purge unconscious actions. Feel it! Feel it! Purge!
9.
Authority is not power! Our connection is our power! Authority is not power! Our connection is power! Authority is not power! Our love is power! Authority is not power! Understanding is power! Power is our connection to the earth.Responsibility and love is power. Power is our connection to the earth. Responsibility and love is power. Authority is not power! Our connection is our power! Authority is not power!
10.
The Watcher 01:23
My thoughts are not me. They are not me. My thoughts are not me. Then who am I? I know that my thoughts are not me. I am what’s behind the “reality”. I am the watcher, I am the presence / awareness, I am the whole. We are all god. I know that my thoughts are not me. They are the product of society. Ego lives and ego breaths but i won’t live my life on my knees. On my way to ego death. My thoughts are not me. Die, die, die, die, die. Not control of me. Face my fears so one day I can be free and control my destiny. See the patterns, be the now / see the machine. Don't let my mind be in control of me. My mind is a tool. It can use me or be used by me. The watcher always sees. All I can do is keep calm and breathe. The watcher always sees. I know that my thoughts are not me.
11.
Punk is ceremony. What we do is sacred! No dogma, no god but ourselves. The definitions are loose and evolution is key. This isn't a costume, this is a way of life! This is our ceremonial dress. This is our coming together. Let the tribe increase. Let the ritual stay strong. The definitions are loose and evolution is key. Thank you for what you have given to me. I want to give back. Punk is ceremony. The ritual of the outcast, ritual of anger and pain. The ritual that screams from the shadow and is birthed in a rage. We shall honor that flame and it will not die. DIY punk in spirit, no dogma, till’ we die. Punk is ceremony! What we do is sacred! This is our ritual! Punk is sacred!
12.
Pain is a teacher. If I'm ready to learn. Pain is a teacher. If I'm ready to learn. I don't want to learn. I don't want to feel the burn. Pain is a teacher and it knows me. It's my main reality. Can I watch and feel the pain? It comes and goes. Am I stuck with this reality? I don't want to learn. I don't want to feel the burn. Pain is a teacher and it knows me. It's my main reality. Can I watch and feel the pain? It comes and goes. Am I stuck with this reality? Pain is my teacher. If I'm ready to sit with my pain. In the pain. Sit with pain.

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New 12 song LP from Boston's Ancient Filth.

12"available now on Shock to the System Records and Gonzosonic records.

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released September 20, 2023

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets Fall 2022

Shock to the System Records & Gonzosonic

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