Track By Tracks: Grim Discipline - Pennsylvanian Thirst (2025)

1.Tormentorer:

I wrote this song from the perspective of someone going mad from trying to escape imprisonment countless coming and coming to the realization that they cannot escape. The prison itself is the tormentor. That lyric came to me after I wrote the music. Everyone's got a tormentor, and I figured I'd go a little spinal tap with the title. Musically, I wanted to just meld old school speed metal with some ugly black metal-type chords and some blast beats with an old Metallica/Motorhead-esque ending.

2. Haunt my dreams:

I attended a wedding in France and heard "Yes, sir, I can boogie" for the first time. My wife loves disco music, and I wanted to challenge myself to write a proper metal song to a disco beat so that maybe she would like it more than my other stuff. Again, I am pairing some standard NWOBHM riffs with some black metal stuff through in there. The breakdown riff was originally faster and gave me a Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries vibe. Since it's got a dance beat, I figured it's got to be a love song, this is a metal project so it's gotta be a metal love son,g so it's about a warlord or warrior etc who returns from battle and is raring to go, but is also using bdsm as a way to cope with the trauma of war.

3. Night Lord:

The music for this was originally going to be a song for my previous band, ALMS. I love 70s hard rock and proto metal, so the intro has this Scorpions vibe to it. Also, a fun chance for me to have some interesting bass. Lyrically, it's hip-hop influenced in the way rappers will write about how tough they are. I wanted to do a first-person "I'm tough as shit" type track. Also wanted to do a sort of Lemmy cadence with like very obvious rhyming.

4. Financialized:

This is more of a thrasher/speed type track with a kind of doomy intro. One of the riffs is a Skeletonwitch homage. The breakdown section in the middle was an old surf rock progression that I heavied up a bit.

Lyrically, it's based loosely on Adam Curtis's hypernormalization. It's about how we are reduced, as human beings, to vessels of financial transactions.