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The 7 Deadly Sins

by Mantra Sounds

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1.
Forbidden Fruit Intro 01:08
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In my hand is a pencil, an eraser and a blade Because if I can’t write my wrongs Then I’ll just leak out on the page Dull edges And collapsed veins Bodies of water Asphyxiation and blood stains The devil is not done crying So stop asking about the rain Sometimes getting a little wet Helps ease up on all the pain Evil is a stationary vehicle Driven by emotion And all of the love lost demons that I’ve come across Always seem to be most devoted Frost bitten bodies left in cold dark oceans By the time you find the time Your weapon of choice will be rusted, corroded I swear this is not a wave But I can promise that it’s a notion I’ve been putting messages in bottles But then I overthink, so I turn them into potions If telling little white lies isn’t always an ulterior motive Then why does the smell of losing control always have to be so god damn potent
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Envy (feat. Grim Steez) 02:34
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Thrown in freezing water Bitch I’m walking on thin ice Just roll the dice Take a chance And don’t think twice Under the knife It’s a fools paradise You just jealous of the slice Blood bleed wrong but taste so nice You broke a promise So you might as well suffice Put my lips on the trigger Shoot my shot It’s so precise Let’s emphasize Ignite a fire deep inside And let the dead come alive Despite disparities of divine Wrapped in chains and sewn together fine in twine You whine I dine I got you tangled in my vines Move like felines but I bite hard like a canine And I be trippin off that acid Got me balanced, alkaline Not satisfied until I get what is not mine I’m eating tourmaline for breakfast Envy served as a side I’m doing laps While you’re too busy getting by Sinking right to the bottom Feed the pit to stay alive To stay alive, stay alive To stay alive, stay alive To stay alive, stay alive Thrown in freezing water Bitch I’m walking on thin ice Just roll the dice Take a chance And don’t think twice Under the knife It’s a fools paradise You just jealous of the slice Blood bleed wrong but taste so nice Wrapped in chains and sewn together fine with twine You whine I dine I got you tangled in my vines Move like felines but I bite hard like a canine And I be trippin off that acid Got me balanced, alkaline Not satisfied until I get what is not mine I’m eating tourmaline for breakfast Envy served as a side I’m doing laps While you’re too busy getting by Sinking right to the bottom Feed the pit to stay alive
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Greed (feat. Grim Steez) 02:13
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Green as the greed A paper machine I want it upfront Like it’s 3D Growing from trees So I plant the seed Pull straight from the root And tend to the weeds Water on vines Drips down to the leaves I cut off the crown The green that I bleed Cream of the crop A want not a need Harvest and worship For all dirty deeds Gamble with paper Turn to a traitor Toxic donation Don’t ask for no favors Love of the money Power through labor Sacred and savored Green land on god's acres Bow to the savior And honor thy neighbor Because you’re above Does not mean that you’re greater Eat up the rich While your broke in bad health Isn’t greed vs ambition Well-being vs wealth I don’t wanna overspend But I got all these dividends Man, I’m stacking all this paper Call me Frank or call me Ben I see greed in the grass Careful who you call your friends This is money meditation It’s a cash out zen
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Pride (feat. Grim Steez) 02:35
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Your blood on my lips Is the deepest of reds I put the pencil to the paper With the darkest of leads You’re not welcome in my palace Cause it’s off with your head I got bags under my eyes Bitch, I’ll sleep when I’m dead And I don’t ever listen Cause it’s fuck what you said And everytime you eat You never ask if I’m fed But I don’t need a cut That’s why I break my own bread It’s a table full of heads I'll sit by myself instead Paint a picture in my mind I call it abstract art The page is looking blank Let's rip this chapter apart Wolves travel in packs The lone lives to outsmart I may show my face But I don’t want no parts Nah I don’t want no parts I don’t want no parts Man fuck your part You’re just playing the part Your blood on my lips Is the deepest of reds I put the pencil to the paper With the darkest of leads You’re not welcome in my palace Cause it’s off with your head I got bags under my eyes Bitch, I’ll sleep when I’m dead And I don’t ever listen Cause it’s fuck what you said And everytime you eat You never ask if I’m fed But I don’t need a cut That’s why I break my own bread It’s a table full of heads I'll sit by myself instead
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Purgatory Interlude 00:52
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I’ve been walking backwards and watching my steps disintegrate in front of me And I’ve been hammering nails into my head in hopes that maybe something will stick God reached for my hand once But I don’t shake hands Because I’m unimpressed I don’t like making new connections I’d rather sit by myself dressed in my sunday's best Fire follows close as I drag my feet on the concrete Stepping on every goddamn crack With a sheet over my head and two eyes cut out The ghost in me takes out the most in me Dark circles caved in under my eyes where the rats can feed I’ve been setting myself straight but now I’m walking on a fine line So don’t tell me to lift my chin while I’m looking down on my destination
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Sloth (feat. Grim Steez) 03:18
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Solomon sent me and now I’m here to raise havoc Please lead me to the room where I’ll unpack all my baggage I'm out here scrounging for change But I’m too stuck up being static Figured keeping to myself would be a stigma breaking tactic I been walking in place while the world spins on its axis I learned writing down your wrongs doesn’t give you the right of passage Man I got a lot to say, I just don’t mess with all the masses And fuck a retrograde We’re in the middle of a Sabbath Solomon sent me and now I’m here to raise havoc Please lead me to the room where I’ll unpack all my baggage I been walking in place While the world spins on its axis And fuck a retrograde We’re in the middle of a Sabbath Sabbath Fuck a retrograde we’re in the middle of a sabbath, sabbath Sabbath Fuck a retrograde we’re in the middle of a sabbath, sabbath Throw me to a snake pit I’m head first, diving Constriction at its finest Medusa is so biased They tell me straighten up But I just happen to be spineless Man-made and mindless Imbalances that bind us Head first diving Medusa is so biased But I just happen to be spineless Imbalances that bind us She’s so biased Constriction at its finest Constriction at its finest Man-made and mindless Made and mindless Cause we’re mindless We’re mindless Cause we’re mindless It’s imbalances that bind us They bind us It’s constriction at its finest It’s the finest Yeah, Medusa is so biased
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Gluttony (feat. Grim Steez) 02:44
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Spill all your guts Right from your mouth Inhale the fumes Now exhale them out Indulge in my pain I’m a glutton in vain
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Lust (feat. Grim Steez) 02:16
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Mad cause I said what you wanted to hear You say I’m fucked up Put some trust in your fear She say I’m the devil So she smudged and she smeared But she can’t stay away So I sip on her tears She asks my intentions But my message unclear Cause I don’t say much Cause it’s not that severe Sip on champagne Under glass chandeliers And you can’t wear my mink So just sit and adhere No one wants to be I know you know she feels So don’t try to get In a world of awe This is lusts depiction (This is lust) I don’t mean to fall a victim Love just don’t concern me When I’m under these conditions I've been up for three days I've been assuming all positions (I been assuming all) Tell me kick her out whenever Guess it’s time for a decision Mad cause I said what you wanted to hear You say I’m fucked up Put some trust in your fear She say I’m the devil So she smudged and she smeared But she can’t stay away So I sip on her tears
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Wrath (feat. Grim Steez) 02:54
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Consumed by rage and revenge Spits me out and swallows me in Your life in my hands The blood of a lamb A dagger so sharp The wrath cuts my skin I’ll soon have my way And you’ll have no say I’ll make you regret what you did on that day Trapped in your cage Playing pretend To bathe in your blood This is my final sin Your life in my hands The blood of a lamb A dagger so sharp The wrath cuts my skin
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Affirmations Outro 01:40
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These passing thoughts They’re just clouds to me My eyes shift ninety degrees Just to watch you drain the water out of the seven seas Is it the envy that makes you wish of all the things you thought you could be It’s one thing to be in awe But jealousy is such a sick disease You keep paper possessions in a safe closed off by lock and key And you call it fulfilling desires but if you took the silver out from in front of your eyes I’m sure you would call it greed I've been training my whole life for my ego death I guess that’s what people mean when they say god's speed Brushing up on your pride is just one of those books that you have to reread Staying stagnant is almost worse than doing the wrong thing We’re taught to believe that sloth and complacency hold the best seats But you’ll come to find out that they’re just nosebleeds A limitless god once said to me That food isn’t the only thing that we tend to force feed We’re all gluttons for fulfillment Tangled in the webs we weave That all want to fall in love but I’m not sure any of us know what that really means Committed to trust and summoned to die by a ring Having a lust for life might just be make believe When you’re going through the motions Things are quickly perceived It’s when that one small bump in the road can cause your wrath to bust at the seams We’re all in search of some ritualistic rhyme or reason But it’s hard to keep up when things are changing faster than the seasons Can we slow down the time I would die to watch it freeze Cause living in the moment and being alive is not the same thing It’s never been the same thing

about

I had the idea to make a seven song album based on the seven deadly sins for a few years now, so I definitely went into making this with a plan. Before committing to the idea of making the album, I didn’t believe that my level of production was far enough along to fulfill the role of each song. Originally, I wanted the album to be a ‘Grim Steez’ album that was strictly lyrical recorded over an array of beats produced by different artists, but finding the music elsewhere did not feel natural for a project of this stature. As I started producing under ‘Mantra Sounds’ and separately writing lyrics under Grim, the album organically started to come into fruition in an unexpected way. Each song touches on impulses and emotions relating to each sin and how they can tend to get the best of you if you allow them to. The aesthetic of the album as a whole from the music, to the art and overall vibe aims to give off a modern victorian gothic identity.
It has been an insane year creating this body of work consisting of many sleepless nights trying to make everything come together in a cohesive manner. I have learned so much about my production style, my voice, and overall self as a person and an artist during the making of this. I am more than proud of the way this collaboration project came out and how it portrays the many different sides of ‘Mantra Sounds’ and ‘Grim Steez’ through sounds and lyrics. All in all, I think the album is extremely diverse and shows off a vast array of my production style as well as my writing and vocal style. I have a lot of ideas for more big projects like this and I can’t wait to continue to explore within the realms of my music and art.

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released April 7, 2022

All Tracks Mastered by Deez
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All Vocals Engineered by Obsidian Studios (Philadelphia, PA)
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All Cover Art done by Savannah Welsch / N4sty Design
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