We are ONEHUNDREDTHOUSAND
Alex Goldenthal
Andrew Magnotta
Richard Matos
Gregg Sgar
Kurt Wubbenhorst
Alex Goldenthal
Andrew Magnotta
Richard Matos
Gregg Sgar
Kurt Wubbenhorst
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Physical CD's available in 'MERCH'
The Forms in Which They Appear
Part One: A World Divided
1. Delivered
Start again
Cant see the light
I don’t know where to run
Deliver me from what’s about to come
Come down and meet me here
Now that we’re gone
2. Goldenjaw
Hiding out again, a world divided
And fading through the scenes of every new day
Choke upon our own defiance
Hoping that the truth will find us
But I can’t help but feel
That there’s a better way
We’re delivered from our fiction
To another direction
We struggle to start again
I’ll shelve another set of all the memories
And if this breaks again, where will they stay?
And in a moment I’ll fade out
Like all the choices that I never made
But here we are
Now it’s time
Here I am
Here we are
A human collection
Here I am
Here we are
A world in question
3. The Way You See Yourself
A moment, please, to learn my lesson from you
A truth too close to see
It’s just my thoughts are growing distant here
In damaged memories
It’s not that I couldn’t make up my mind
To give my world to you
I’d let you stay
But I’d hate to explain why I can’t fall asleep
And I remember a time and place when things were well
But you just had to design
A way for life to fall around me now
I will watch you slip away from me
If proof is what you need
A vision played in foggy sihouettes
Leaves shadows where it breaths
It’s not that I couldn’t stifle a sigh
But are we late to bloom?
Too soon to say
And although it’s over, I can’t look away
And I remember a time and place when things were well
But you just had to design
A way for life to fall around me now
This is just my device
Of a way to bring you down
And I will take what is mine
I feel you’re blinded by the way you see yourself
This means the world to me
To get better now
I feel we’re late to speak
Or can’t remember how
It means the world to me
Looking better now
A willingness to reach
Without looking down
4. Far From Dead
The weight of the sun
Preserves my silence
Grasping for meaning I’m out and down
I’m more like a silhouette
So I’ve been thinking
Fading through being and falling out
Can you see me now?
Relive it
If I were to scream, could you feel it?
With every shadow of doubt
That falls onto me
I see ahead of the glare
And I’m free to be
I’m running away
From troubled water
Seeing through greylight, I’m laying low
I’m more like a baited breath
So I’ve been waiting
Holding on, holding up, pouring out
We’re alive, at least for now
But I can see a halo overhead
Take a breath and hear me out
The only chance we have is far from dead
Part Two: Rise
5. Fathoms From This Place
Bow down
You always do
Inferior or is it shame?
Keep pushing your back up against the wall
Take a look around
You've started to burn it all
We know
How this could go
It's time to let the truth be told
Keep leading us down; we're sure to drown
Like a disease
No chance to fight it off
As falls go
It's staggering to see
I could lead you out
How could we keep going on?
Afraid to let it go
Cut away the broken limb
Rebuild and let it grow
We've got to let it grow
Too slow
In undertow
With every step you lose, it's changed
The flooding so easily sweeps away
Lost in a wave,
Too weak to fight today
Give up hope that is poisoning
Give up faith that this could someday be
Awakened again
If there's a new horizon, I'll be burning it down
As falls go, it's staggering to see
I could lead you
Fathoms from this place
If you only knew what you'd lose
But you're already gone
You're already gone
6. Type Stolen
A warning plagues the fearful heartbeat
To blind the mercy chasing you
Pictures painted on your memory
Stimulate the tremors shaking you
Tonight we can't look back
Tonight erase the spite
We have to push the fear away
Now you're alive
Inside we tremble
Comfort dismantled
It all comes crashing down from here
Measuring the way your heart fits in your hands
Empathy's been stolen from your mind
Cancer feeding on uncertainty
Your soul's remorse is met with gnashing teeth
Faded scenes
Vague frontiers
Paranoid
All these years
Lights fade
When all that you need is to open up
The love you've forgotten and thrown aside
To realization
A cleansing of the blood that you have spilled
7. If Only You Could See It
So logical
I see it in my mind
Something here I know I need
So defined
I'm crystal clear and focused
On the fact that I belong
And maybe for today
I will lead the damned
To find another way
If only you could see it
You'd chase the day away
So insincere
I'm trampled by the shame
Of being kicked again and down
Make peace today
We've only scratched the surface
On a way to re-align
And maybe for today
We will lead the damned
To find another way
To raise a revolution
To fight another day
So logical
I played a game and lost it
To a foe I'd never seen
I see me now
The one who went unrecognized
By passions so confined
8. Low
We've been nowhere this low
In your eyes the color's washed away
See where once we had a home
You're not alone
It won't be long
Keep going on
We're all that's left of yesterday
Go on and live the breath you take
We're all that's left, we're everything
Go on and live
Know nothing's gone
We've been through it all
Whispers so strong
Know we can belong
See where once we were inspired
In the smoke, the ghost of fire
Why do we bleed so long?
Part Three: Ghost
9. Kismet
Bury me
Nothing left to see
Don't go alone
See your life
Can't escape the light
So don't go alone
You're free to go
Never mind the world.
10. Pyewacket
Sit down and pour it out
Leave space for here and now
There can't be an ounce of doubt
Before you lay your burden down
You bury
You worry
You wake the voice in me
You're free to go
See your life at war
Don't forget where you come from
Never mind the world
Nothing left to see
So come back where you belong
Bring back insomnia
Don't fast to see it through
Brand new calamity
Be calm if calm will do
11. We Surround
Swallowing me whole again
The more I see, the more I dread
Hopelessly committed to the dreams I've thrown away
A birth into seas of severance
To the faces that condemn me here
And take from me
The only thing that keeps me straight
You're on my side
Thanks for coming down
We can believe in the same things that we surround
And all my life
I can't remember speaking out
But I believe there's a new day ahead
And the path we now tread shows the way
I know that I want to take away
Everything that seems to haunt me
Staggering on wounded knees
I'm clawing at the fears in me
Praying that I'll wake from this cruel dream that I'm in
No one can implore me from my world
Through pleas of hollow essence that are forced on me
The troubles that I keep away
The pressure needs to fade away
As time crumbles out of place
12. Better Days
How do you stand
Breathing echoes, nothing?
Don't wake up
Keep on holding out for better days
You pay no heed to the verses crashing
Spoken in tune
Present tense of rhythmic figures
What do you see
When your grief eclipses wonder?
Don't follow me
Where there's nothing but falling.
Sing if you're with me
Say you can hear me
Look at the way we divide our memory
How do you seem to wake without ever sleeping?
Don't you pretend
Is it truth that makes you wander?
Eyes fallen short
Sullen foresight clouded
Overcome
By the score you long stopped counting
Sing this, come around, you're alive
Sing this now
If ever I was fallen
Who would come to run?
Idle a thousand days
Don't waste another one
Scream hello
Scream murder
Stare straight at the sun
Scream hello
Scream further
Echoes of your lungs
One Hundred Thousand's new single, "A Place You'd Rather Be," is as coherent a fusion of rock radio melody and progressive rock intension that you'll find in 2017.
"A Place You'd Rather Be" was premiered on broadcast radio by Q104.3FM New York DJ Jonathan Clarke on November 5. It's available everywhere November 10.
"It's probably the most radio-friendly song we've ever written," says drummer Kurt Wübbenhorst.
"But it's almost entirely in 7/4," adds bassist Andrew Magnotta.
The song was premiered online via Metalsucks.net on November 9 before going live on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Music, Spotify and Apple Music November 10.
Written as the band gathered ideas for its next full-length album, "A Place You'd Rather Be" is the sound of the five-piece lineup of the band coming into its own artistically.
"[It's] the first song where we can really see the individual personalities of OHT starting to blend into something cohesive," says guitarist Alex Goldenthal. "As with many of our songs, it started with a little piece here or there. But as more hands got involved, the main riff took on a new feel and that led us to the chorus."
After fleshing out the song vocally, OHT wasn't really sure what it had until the band performed "A Place You'd Rather Be" live for the first time this past summer.
"The song didn't fit the concept of our new album," bassist Andrew Magnotta says. "But it got a really, kind of, shocking response from people after we played it live a few times. We thought releasing it as a one-off single would be a nice way to give us and our fans something to be excited about between now and when we finish the new record."
More on "A Place You'd Rather Be"
The song gestated in demo-form for months before the band figured out where to take it.
"We had that main riff for the longest time and we felt it was going somewhere interesting," Wübbenhorst says. "We wrote more around it, trashed it, rewrote it and finally arrived at something we thought was a coherent expression of what we do."
That persistence resulted in OHT's most pristine-sounding recording to date.
"We were able to capture the energy that we feel is going to propel us into our next evolution," added Goldenthal, crediting engineer/producer Shane Stanton, of Architekt Music, with bringing the track to life.
After being mixed by Stanton at Architekt in Butler, NJ, in August, the song was mastered at Rogue Planet Mastering in October.
The band's previous release was its debut album, The Forms In Which They Appear, released in the spring of 2016.
Earlier Work
Since 2013, One Hundred Thousand has impressed audiences with its unique take on modern rock and metal, showing the genres can be as technically inspiring and cinematic as they are full of hooks and memorable passages.
The band's early demos caught the attention of Sevendust/DarkNewDay guitarist Clint Lowery, who co-produced vocals on OHT's debut full-length, The Forms In Which They Appear.
The band has built a reputation in its home NNJ/NYC area for its kinetic live presence, buoyed by professional musicianship, exceptional live sound and the band's mobile light show.
In the summer of 2016, OHT took its show on the road, playing gigs from the East Coast to the Midwest with national and international artists like Thank You Scientist, Eye Empire, Saving Abel, Like a Storm, The Binary Code, Icon For Hire, Stitched Up Heart, JOLLY, RavenEye and others.
Moving Forward
The increased live schedule of '16 and '17 found OHT as inspired as ever and back at Architekt Studios in Butler, NJ, by August of 2017 recording its single, "A Place You'd Rather Be."
This winter, OHT will take its fusion of heavy metal battery and progressive rock intricacy back into the studio to record its second full-length album.
Framed by impressive individual performances and an ultimate devotion to memorable song craft, the band is made up of guitarist Alex Goldenthal, bassist Andrew Magnotta, vocalist Rich Matos, guitarist Gregg Sgar and drummer Kurt Wübbenhorst.
For more information, contact the band at onehundredthousandmusic@gmail.com.
About Architekt Music
Wübbenhorst is also a co-owner of Architekt Music, in Butler, NJ, which is home to a private music lesson studio, a live venue, an artist management firm and two recording studios. Architekt serves as a home base to One Hundred Thousand. It’s also where Sevendust’s three latest releases were recorded, as well as recent releases from bands like Three Years Hollow, Thank You Scientist, Call Me No One, Candlelight Red, and many more.
MUSIC VIDEOS:
“Low”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yv9BQ8nvEk
“Type Stolen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGKTt_8emDc
“If Only You Could See It”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3s_xzsNPJs
OFFICIAL AUDIO on YouTube:
“We Surround”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSERC63mok
“Better Days”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkYvXpGJt7A
Clips:
Featured on Ronnie Scalzo's "Independent Minded" podcast; “On The Beat” in Modern Drummer; WDHA’s Homegrown Spotlight; and Singled Out.
"The group fashion themselves as equal parts hard rock and progressive rock, calling in influences ranging from Porcupine Tree and Karnivool to Deftones and King’s X." – Roie Avin, The Prog Report
“OHT blends hard hitting riffs and steadfast beats with occasionally complex instrumentation and colorful timbres.” –Jordan Blum, The Big Takeover
“This isn't just another rock band creating as much noise as possible and figuring out the point later. Their sound comes with a purpose.” –Brittany Frederick, AXS.com
“Like the lovechild of Sevendust and TesseracT.” – Axl Rosenberg, MetalSucks.net
“With help from Clint Lowery (Sevendust) on vocal production, they were able to create four heavy-hitting tracks, which flow while encompassing many genres – just about everything from electronic ambience to djent.” -Denise Graff, Bergen.com
"The songs tend to be intricate but the band remains devoted to melody...it's a process that results in songs having a lot of layers to them" - Joe Bennett, TalentRaters
“These guys were awesome! Strong vocals, great guitar work, thunderous drumming…” – Tim Louie, Aquarian Weekly