Check out Pressure 4-5's video for "Beat The World" here (linked cause Universal Music Group sucks balls)
I just dug out my copy of Pressure 4-5 - "Burning The Process", and am falling in love with it all over again. Heavy, melodic, and the bassist plays a fretless half the time, which is pretty uncommon in rock. This shit is bringing me back to how I felt years ago, playing in a band in Redding, discovering new music, feeling the raw energy of bands like Pressure 4-5, Mad At Gravity, Floater, Dredg (before they got all lame and radio-y), 40 Below Summer, DFiVE9 (who need to come down to sac, hint hint motherfuckers!! :D ), and the countless Sacramento bands who served as my role models, being the closest "scene" to Redding. Flicker, KeepingEllis from San Jose, Misanthrope, Absent Me, Wurkt, Dead on Planet Earth, Brand X Savior, Beat Officers, Luxt, Red Top Road, Long Drive Home, Shortie...
Back when I KNEW that music, playing in bands, would be my life. When I lived and breathed the band, and spent all my free time marketing, advertising, networking, learning, and doing what I had to do to get further.
That's not how it is now... Life changes, priorities shift. Dreams are dashed, ideas become faint memories...
Man, I miss that...
Pressure 4-5 - "Melt Me Down"
Born into fire
No given shape no
Sense of a beaten road
Trained by our voices
Given one choice it’s
Break the shell
and move ahead
Or eighteen dead
and decided
[CHORUS:]
Melt me down
Pour me out
Into the mold
But I’ll break out
Time is our magnet
I’m sticking to it
An iron-clad existence
Is a prison in itself
[CHORUS]
Have we all become molded
Alive to the world
But inside dead
To be nothing…
I’ll break out
I’ll make it
Yeah I’ll make it
Do it my way
Born into fire
No given shape or
Chance to remain as
we wish to be
And that is free…
[CHORUS]
I will not become molded
Allowed by myself to
be nothing now
I’ll be nothing now
