J:Dead – Draws My Blood

Between aggressive industrial intensity and atmospheric depth

I’ve developed a real "love-hate rela­tion­ship" with J:Dead. There are always the odd tracks that lean too heav­ily towards met­al and are simply too aggress­ive for my taste. Yet I find good indus­tri­al sound, the sort that really packs a punch with plenty of elec­tron­ics, abso­lutely bril­liant. So with J:Dead, it’s always a bit of a bal­an­cing act as to wheth­er a song grabs me or not. With “Draws My Blood”, how­ever, I’m cer­tain: I love this track!

Although the sound is heav­ily influ­enced by indus­tri­al, the skil­ful use of syn­thes­isers makes the whole thing sound incred­ibly excit­ing and var­ied. Jay Taylor doesn’t des­cend into the worst kind of scream­ing or shout­ing vocals here, even though the singing car­ries a palp­able sense of urgency. Lyrically, this fits per­fectly, as the song explores, in an almost eer­ie way, the pro­cess by which we gradu­ally lose our essence through the influ­ence of oth­ers, until the ‘dark­ness’ catches up with us. Anyone who appre­ci­ates heav­ier music is sure to enjoy J:Dead’s take on this track. A suc­cess­ful track that strikes just the right bal­ance between raw energy and atmo­spher­ic darkness.

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Lyrics of "J:Dead – Draws My Blood"

And I know there's more to take, cuz this is all on show
I hun­ger for the life that got away
And I know I have to leave, but there's one thing you know
I’ll nev­er drain the life blood in your veins
And I know I have to leave, just wait and listen for, the dark­ness call­ing us

There’s a shad­ow call­ing us, there's a pres­ence in your home
Did you see it fol­low us, did you hear it breath­ing cold
I feel it creep­ing up, I feel it when it draws my blood

And I know there's more to take, cuz this is all I know
My mind is tak­ing parts of me away
And I know I’ll nev­er leave, this body's weakened for, the dark­ness drag­ging us

There’s a shad­ow call­ing us, there's a pres­ence in your home
Did you see it fol­low us, did you hear it breath­ing cold
I feel it creep­ing up, I feel it when it draws my blood

When it draws my blood

Feel it again, and it comes with the rain, let it draw my blood…

There’s a shad­ow call­ing us, there's a pres­ence in your home
Did you see it fol­low us, did you hear it breath­ing cold
I feel it creep­ing up, I feel it when it draws my blood…

Feel it again, and it comes with the rain, let it draw my blood…