Fan Videos

My buddy Levi put this video together for the song The Judge, so I thought I would share, be warned there is "sexual content" so if you are sensitive please don't even listen to our band. I also would like to invite any creative people out there to make videos with our music, if you send it to me we will put it up! you can reach us at thebadlight@gmail.com

Some lyrics

We have been hit up a few times for lyrics to the songs, if you bought one of the records you know they are in the inner sleeve, but for those of you who don't have the vinyl, here ya go:

~Neuronaut
Let the whole world mind if he dreams a lot, he lives in his mind or thereabouts
from his younger days he already knew that the world inside had the sweeter fruit
Are the waters deep were the surface is calm? or is he a grave were it never dawns?
Can he see your soul with a single glance or is it a stare that is cold and blank?

Is he here or is he lost in the cradle of his thoughts?
Carry on The Neuronaut!

Past the deepest throes of his inner mind lies the open door to the worlds behind
where the folds of time slip into a knot, let the eons live and the minutes die!


Is he here or is he lost in the cradle of his thoughts?
Carry on The Neuronaut!

To escape the membrane of linear time the explorer sheds all his carnal ties
on an open page in the book of man, in the empty space lives The Neuronaut


Is he here or is he lost in the cradle of his thoughts?
Carry on The Neuronaut!


~The Judge
Im gonna wet your roots and feed you sun, make you feel second to none
Gonna nuzzle your nape and kiss your palms, whisper sweet and break your spine
Gonna tie you up and bleed you dry, savor the fruits of your last desires
You're gonna smell so sweet in my vault, dream of all the ways you'll provide

Down on your knees and know Im your Judge

Im gonna watch you grow and blossom green, you're so frail and willing to please
Little Kush, little crush, dream of all the ways you'll provide

Down on your knees and know Im your Judge

~Onward Downward
Born of hearty holly roller stock, rattle snake handling desert rat
Raised on brimstone spoken in tongues laid her roots at the Devil's lungs
Bloody moon bloody knuckles rocked, old enough to buy her own drugs
Mama told her Its time to kick rocks, set her sails straight to Babylon

Burn it down to the ground
Onward Downward run it to the ground

Tweeker ticker got her brain on fire, fuck this town full of snitches and liars
Show you bitches how to burn shit down and move along to a higher ground


Burn it down to the ground
Onward Downward run it to the ground

Onward Downward all her world a fire, all her saints are nowhere to be found

~Ill welcome you at the door
Oh sorrow did you ripen did you swell up and grow
to be at the foot of my door?
Oh sorrow did you miss me did you come back ten fold
to be at the foot of my door?

When I hear you knocking, Ill welcome you to my door

Dead winter did you blow in on a North wind with a sword
to be at the foot of my door?
Dead winter did you crack bone did you turn blood to stone
to be at the foot of my door?


When I hear you knocking, Ill welcome you to my door

Pale rider did you eat storms did you ride high and low

to be at the foot of my door?

Pale rider did you quicken when you heard me sing this song

to be at the foot of my door? 

When I hear you knocking, Ill welcome you to my door

and when I hear you calling, warmth will be here no more

When I hear you knocking, Ill welcome you to my door

won't you settle in now and lay your head on my bones?

Nate Gonzalez

Nate and I started this project called The Bad Light jamming in his garage a few years ago and it has been the most rewarding musical experience of my life, sadly for me, a couple of weeks ago Nate made the jump to go follow his own heart and moved to Central America to make a go of it, heres a couple of pics from our last show together, I feel like we got the chance to send him off in style, love ya buddy and best of luck!!

FYI, I have found a new drummer and we are in the process of tightening up and writing new material, stay tuned...

Vinyl available

After months of waiting for the pressing to be done the new EP is finally complete and ready to ship. Its a run of 250 numbered and includes a fold out with lyrics, poster and a digital download card that is also a sticker, the record itself is 33rpm on side A and 45rpm on side B pressed on virgin vinyl . To order direct you can paypal $20 plus $5 shipping for North America and $15 shipping for EU to thebadlight@gmail.com . It will also be available through CD Baby which may be able to give better rates for shipping if you are overseas. It was quite expensive to produce the packaging and extras so these 250 copies will be the only time this will be available in a physical format.

Jackson Allen

Pretty stoked on this, Thanks Jackson!

EP ready for download

Finally got the EP uploaded to CD Baby and Bandcamp, until the vinyl is done you can check out the new songs from the links on the right of the post. Enjoy! 

Catalyst show w/ Rohan

I thought I would post a couple of pics from the last show where we were lucky enough to have Emily come up and sing some vocals, Emily did backups for us on the new EP which we just finished mixing today. We still have some work to do before Its available on vinyl but I uploaded a teaser here if ya'll wanna check it out

Onward Downward art

We recorded 5 new songs last month and now we are working to put them on vinyl,this will be the front and back cover art for the EP, figured I would post art in progress. 

Poet show

Its been crazy busy lately and I haven't posted much but I had to put this one up cus Its so cool, We made it into the studio again last week and laid down some stuff we are stoked on,we'll be mixing in a couple of weeks and we'll see where that goes. Come out to the show if yer in town, Hiram's new band Powers is awesome and we shall shake the Poets foundation once more!

She looks familiar...

You know It's gonna be good...

Record Store Day

• We are playing at Streetlight Records here in Santa Cruz, Saturday April 21st @ 4pm. Come down and get yerself some new music and gear, we will be selling the new shirts and a CD for $20

Poet and the Patriot show

9 PM

Saturday April 14

Free admission with space costume

Get awesome

CD is finally done

Finally got this thing done,I did the art for the cover in negative and Shane Jessup did the rest. Six songs to groove out to ,you can buy the physical CD or download it from the links to the right.

Live at the Atrium

Ron from PhotoGrafiti hooked this up for us and we are beyond pumped

Dusted Moscow Light

Going for it again,this time with Dusted Angel

Dying will be easy

I added one of the new tracks to Soundcloud that will be on the upcoming CD. We are in the process of getting all the artwork and layout done and hope to have it available by the end of Dec. As always you can download the track from here, and if you dig it do us the favor of passing it around.

TeenBreeder

Matt Wilson is doing a series of youtube videos for bands in the area and we got to go first. Check his stuff out! 

Friday!

This is going to be a sweet show!

Recording

We finally made it into the studio to record a second demo, with Evan at the controls at The Compound , we laid down six tracks and we are pretty stoked on them all.We made a full bandcation out of the whole ordeal,stayed at the world famous Brookdale Lodge hoping to catch a glimpse of Its ghosts,but only saw a mountain hooker and some tweekers,not quite ghosts but...soon, so close enough! We will have a second sitting to mix and then we shall unleash this into the world!!!

Slayer in Monterey!

Rumor is that back in the day Slayer played at what is now Joses,if you have never been there the place is tiny,but tons of fun for shows ....see you there on the 18th.