What’s your favorite song from our debut album?

This is an early version of our album cover, created by the amazing Shawn McCauley.  Shawn did the artwork for our album Distance as well as the Open The Gates single.

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Fall of the Tyrant
 
I’m damned if I’m forgotten
Don’t walk into the light
They said I’d live forever
If I held my ground and finished the fight
 
My heart is heavy and
My sword is drenched
In my own blood
 
They won’t go down
Their numbers are too great
My army falls to the ground
Perhaps it is too late
 
Staring at the sunset’s dying glow
 
My days are done of ruling all
Here comes the fall
 
And I will stand
And I will wait here forever
Lonely is the last one to leave behind all
“Fall of the Tyrant” they call
 
I break the wall
This is all in sight
I break the wall
Slay in the dark of night
 
Put down your weapons and I swear
That I’ll spill no more blood
 
I need to crush this revolt
Or my kingdom is doomed
I need to smash the faces
Of those who hear the truth
 
Men will die before their pride is gone
 
I don’t want to die
Not like this
I’m not in a dream
This can’t be real
 
Solace
 
I want to understand
How you can lock up all those feelings
If you could understand
My self destructive tendencies
 
Things aren’t always what they seem
 
It’s time we sit and reevaluate
The time we just let go to waste
These years I’ve wasted
I just want them back because I won’t see
What could have been my brightest moments
Will never be
Now hear my cry
Just give me solace
 
If you could comprehend
What it means to be alone
Then you could understand
Why I’ll always be on my own
 
So close that I can taste it
Yet far away from you
You’ll never understand that
I put my myself through hell for you
 
Lights out
This show’s about to end now
I feel so god damned run down
Let’s watch this city burn down
 
It’s only through the eyes of a believer
That a saver of souls will redeem those
That are the most unworthy
 
I command your thoughts I command your soul
For this small price…you shall live
 
The hatred runs so deep that
I cannot stand myself
Now you can understand the
Misery that I have felt
 
Fools will judge on what they see but
Things aren’t always what they seem
 
Open The Gates
 
Break the glass, escape the fate that’s been
Plaguing your mind for all of these days
 
The rage in my heart is from
Years of staying set in my ways
 
Comfort never found me now I’m reaching in despair
Because I’m sick of trying
 
Enough of breaking it down
And I’ll no longer wait
 
We sit here in our silence and I struggle just to care
and it’s like condemnation
 
You’re always weighing me down
And I’ll no longer wait
Condemned…
I need to bring this life to an end
 
I don’t want to waste it all on everything you want to be
I don’t want to push away, all the things we’ve never seen
It’s here I waste away while my soul is screaming
On the edge of a broken dream, you’d never want to feel this
 
You’ve uncaged this animal that’s been
Living inside this lonely world
In the past it’s been this way where I shut my
Damned mouth and hear you scream
Of all the god damned things I’ve heard you say
Never once have you said it to my face
I want to burn those letters in front of your face
 
I’m sick of being beaten down
And I’ll no longer wait
Condemned…
I need to bring this life to an end
 
I don’t want to be alone when I close my eyes
Walk into this dream with me and I’ll never leave your side
 
Rising from the ashes
The blood spills on the grave
This is the second coming of my life
Begin…
 
Burning Alive
 
We know and love the things that tend bring us down
Embrace the thoughts that keep us mentally unsound
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
It’s not enough to simply want it all
 
We follow the easy answers
We follow those who give us pride
We follow the least resistance
We follow those that end our lives
 
I am the product of my self-induced depression
Enraged and rabid from the sheltered isolation
Alone I dwell in this self constructed prison
It’s not my fault that I chose to end it all
 
Let’s see you try to break my soul
I’ll watch you die as I become more
 
We want the world to be forgiving
To feel our pain and forget our faults
 
Feel the ruined failures
Pull down all of your fears
 
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
It’s not enough to simply want it all
 
Let’s see you try to break my soul
 
Your Poison
 
I’m not denying and I swear it’s all right
Just trust me, everything’s fine
I don’t need your sympathy
 
I’d rather be the one who suffers so that you’ll never know
But you don’t know the pain you’ve caused me
 
Intensifying because you know that I’m lying
I don’t know what to do
I’ve let this rage build up inside me 
 
The differences between us could divide the world
You know I never liked you anyways
 
We become what we despise
With all the anguish
With all the suffering
 
In sorrow we will thrive
Let it end
 
I’d rather we both die than let my enemy live
No harm to me as you pump the poison in my veins
 
This world is full of those like me
Innocent and waiting for a break
Have I told you all of my dreams?
I bet we could make it as a pair
Tonight, this suicide I’ve planned will kill us all
 
What will it take to buy a few more days?
I can’t just throw this away
I don’t care if I’m selfish
 
I’m buying time at the expense of my ever fading life
So don’t pretend to love me
 
Depression creeping always waiting for me
Because it has what I need
I’m like an addict in withdrawal
 
There is no reason in looking ahead when all you see is death
So don’t you try to justify my life
 
Accept your humble fate
With all the anguish
With all the suffering
 
Let the scars remind you why it’s not too late
Let it end
 
I swear this plague will be
The end of me
Letting go of all I know
Let’s fake this while we can
 
Left Alone
 
Gone, I need to break away
Gotta try and go break away
Escape
 
I know that it’s all my fault because it’s always me
 
How long will it stay this way with you and I divided?
The pain of all this misery is slowly killing me 
 
You just bring me back down
 
I’ve gone away to take back my life
It’s better that I’m left alone in disguise
And it’s all I take with nothing in return
It’s better that I’m left alone to my demise
 
Wronged, betrayed, and thrown away
My fate has been decided
I’m dead
 
I am finished trying so don’t waste your breath on me
 
It will stay this way with you and I divided
I hope that all this misery reminds you of that day
 
The day you killed our trust
 
We’re all in denial
We live in fiction
We pretend we love ourselves and smile again

“Burning Alive” taken from the album Distance.

The debut album from Triphon released August 14, 2012 via Rockingham Records. Catchy choruses, brutal breakdowns, a cappella bridges, majestic instrumentals, this concise album has it all. Five musicians from different locations and backgrounds combine to form a blend of thrash, power, and melodic metalcore.

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The album artwork for our debut album “Distance” as well as the “Open The Gates - Single” were drawn by comic book artist Shawn McCauley. Shawn is the creator of the Shadows of Oblivion series and has also drawn Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Monster Hunters, and more. Check him out and pick up his comic books!

Our debut album “Distance” is out NOW! You can stream and download the entire album for FREE on our Reverbnation or Soundcloud page. Share it, burn it, tweet @triphonband, share on Facebook, tell your friends. If you like it, you can buy it at your favorite digital retailer. It will hit US retailers such as iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify at various times today. Thank you all so much for the support, we hope you love it!

- - Kyle, Justin, Stephen, Brian, Morten
- - TRIPHON

Our debut album DISTANCE comes out tomorrow! You can download it or stream it from most major music retailers such as iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and more. Get a sneak preview and check out the teaser trailer. We’ve spent over a year combining various styles of metal to develop a sound that we feel is unique, and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

When ex-Shattersphere members Kyle Morrison and Justin Rogers decided to start a new music project, it wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. Sometimes things don’t turn out as planned, sometimes they turn out to be far better than expected. With an initial challenge of overcoming the 1,000 mile distance between them, Morrison (based in Atlanta, GA) and Rogers (based in Hartford, CT) began to co-write music over the Internet. Tracking riffs in Garageband and sending them back and forth to each other might seem like an odd way to start a band, but they were driven to start working together again after a 3 year hiatus.

After a few songs were written, the two of them decided to passively seek other potential members for the group. Upon browsing through various websites, Morrison found an interesting ad on Craig’s List that caught his eye and decided to meet up with the author. Enter ex-Redstone Rising guitarist Stephen Gladney. After an introductory meeting, the two later met again at Morrison’s home studio. After a few hours of collaborating, they laid the foundation for the song “Fall of the Tyrant.”

Now with 3 strong songwriters present in the band, the group pushed forward and was writing double the material in less than half the time. The demos were coming along strong, so and thus they decided to continue a passive search for additional members. It was then that Morrison contacted an old friend from college, ex-Priapism bassist Brian Dawley. There was only one catch to this: Brian lives in Boston, MA and had never met the remaining members. By this point though, the obstacle of distance was hardly a deterrent for the group.

And thus the stage was set. With the band working entirely long distance from their home studios, the demo EP thousands of miles back and forth between all of the members. Upon its completion, only 100 copies were printed up and handed out at the 2011 Summer NAMM Show in Nashville, TN; where the four members met together for the very first time. The industry response was overwhelming. After securing numerous endorsements and creating an enormous amount of curiosity, the band continued to push forward.

Needing to secure a drummer for their debut public release, the band continued their tradition of working with well established, out of state musicians; only this time they would be enlisting someone not only out of state, but out of the country. Morten Løwe Sørensen (Mercenary, Amaranthe, Dragonland) out of Esbjeg, Denmark agreed to take part in this highly unusual project, completing the musical juggernaut and transforming it into an international band.

Sørensen began tracking drums on September 6, 2011 with Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Mercenary, Tyr, Deadlock) in Ribe, Denmark. The tracks were then shipped over to the United States to filmscorer and producer Jonathan Cazenave in Atlanta, GA and producer Ron Zabrocki in Hartford, CT. Triphon’s debut album will be released internationally via Rockingham Records / The Orchard Enterprises. With 10,000 miles separating all members of the band, the world eagerly awaits the debut of a new International phenomenon.