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The Wicked

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Seven Deadly Singles will be released in early 2010.

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The Wicked's musical philosophy is simple; in a musical world that is littered with clichés, artifice, and plastic they strive to create something real, something provocative, and something pure. Their upcoming EP Seven Deadly Singles explores themes of violence, lust, suicide, and excess thematically relating them to the seven cardinal sins. The EP examines light and dark textures both musically and lyrically, but doesn’t lose itself in it’s own pretension. It’s tongue in cheek, and never takes itself too seriously.

The band was formed in the spring of 2009, and it's members have collectively played over 1000 shows in Canada, the US, and the UK. They share a common belief that we live in a C-minus world, and look to create something disturbingly beautiful, as compelling as a car wreck, and as sexy as a Bond girl with a tattoo.

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The band typically plays one hour long set. Staple originals include:

Truth
Lies
Saturday Night
Bottom Feeder
Dressed to Kill
Achilles
The Storm
Sal's Song

In the good spirit of keeping it interesting, the band will play two or three covers at each show - and never the same ones. It tends to keep the set fresh. The covers that The Wicked have performed live are as follows:

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Ohio - Neil Young
What's Next to the Moon - AC/DC
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
Prowler - Iron Maiden
Positive Bleeding - Urge Overkill
I Believe In Miracles - The Ramones
Search and Destroy - The Stooges
2112 Overture/Temples of the Syrinx - Rush
American Band - Grand Funk
Opium Trail - Thin Lizzy
Gimme Danger - The Stooges
Aneurysm - Nirvana
Hopeless Case of a Kid in Denial - The Hellacopters
Turn Up the Century - The Makers
Whiskey Dog Mind - The Makers

Lies

Written By: KJ O'Brien

Your flame burns bright.
I see fire in your eyes.
A demon in leather, a rebel in denim,
Attitude to idolize.

Be what you want to be, see what you want to see.
Be scene how you want to be seen.
Do what it takes, fake what you’ve got to fake.
Find out what it means to be cool.

I keep lying to myself,
Just to be like you.

Truth and lies;
All in your perception.
A personality, essence you conceive
Are you open to suggestion?

Do what you want to do, no regard for any rule.
Life is as it seems to you.
You don’t need integrity when you’ve got vanity.
Show the world what it means to be cool.

I keep lying to myself,
Just to be like you.

Superficiality and artificiality are true to your reality.
Maybe then you’ll be.
A truer personality, untrue to your mentality, iconic immortality.
Maybe then I’ll see.
Superficiality and artificiality are true to your reality.
Who needs integrity?
A truer personality, untrue to your mentality, iconic immortality.
When you’ve got vanity.
Superficiality and artificiality are true to your reality.
Maybe then you’ll be.
A truer personality, untrue to your mentality, iconic immortality.
It’s not good enough for me.

Bottom Feeder

Written By: KJ O'Brien

Nurtured on fear at the breast of apathy,
Nectar of decay, indulge the fare They feed.
It may be Monday, Virginia’s Wolf in your mind.
Celebrate four twenty ninety-nine.

It’s blood on your hands; it’s your face in the dirt.

Alienate an alien.
A copy of a copy when being you’s been done.
Ask your doctor to sell you happiness.
Side effects include cancer, pain, and death.
Buy! Buy! Buy! Sex and drugs and blood
Brand Name Wet Dreams crucifying Love.
Sleepy Laissez-faire buying plastic wrapped truth.
And we all know your name for all the wrong reasons.

You will rue the day
You throw your life away.

All that’s left are their names,
When your problem and solution are the same.

In violence there is nothing to gain.
It never takes away the pain.
You bleed the bloom of innocence.
You seek bravery in cowardice.
Crimson truth for a Scarlet lie,
Stillborn youth on the verge of life,
Misplaced Son, do you want to die?
You only live once, so why don’t you start livin’?

Achilles

Written By: KJ O'Brien

Shotgun predator murdered by his prey
Hemophobic vampire starves another day.
Just because it's all fucked up,
Doesn't mean it's not meant to be.

Come a little closer, come on over here.
There's something I've got to tell you. I'll whisper in your ear.
I'm going down, all the way down.
Only love can save me, come on and save me.

I've got a deathwish, Baby. I'm taking you with me.

Step outside and reach for the sky.
Then you'll realize it's falling.
When I'm right, Hell's fire burns bright.
It steals the darkness from the cover of night.
Hector's dead. I've got his head.
At least, that's how it goes in the version I read.
Take on Troy, take on the world.
At the end, every motherfucker burns.

Reaping what I sow, you're stealing what I stole,
But you'll never get the best of me.
You knocked me down, but I got back up.
Hell hath no fury like me.

Just because it's all fucked up,
Doesn't mean it's meant to be.
I'm killing myself trying to live life.
Ha! Ha! Ha! The joke's on me!

Warriors! Come out to play!

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