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Just for the Hell of it

by Age of Infernal

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Depthbuffer This really needs more love! The intricacy and complexity on display is quite something; this was clearly a labour of love. Depths of Depravity, with its contrast between the stripped-back acoustic guitar & vocals in the opening bars giving way to chugging distorted electrics, is the highlight for me: the lyrics, taken at face value, almost border on darkly comic... but the quality of vocals and guitar work, and the earnest delivery of it all, makes the whole thing work. Favorite track: Depths of Depravity.
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A C Warren It's difficult to pick a favourite track on this album.

Obviously Conjurers of Magick is a prog metal masterpiece.

Depths of Depravity is certainly the catchiest of the set.

However, if pushed, I would have to say Mind Fucked resonates most with me.

Melodic metal at its best. Favorite track: Mind Fucked.
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1.
Conjurers Of Magick What have you secrets to reveal? Bloodsucking deliverer of evil. Are we really meant to know who you are? Reality is that it’s gone too far. Dark sorcerer waiting in the wings. The puppet master pulls upon the strings. Grip tightens, wraps around the neck. If we can’t breathe we’ll have to find another remedy. Please something awake us from this sleep. Obscuring vision of the sheep. But if by blindness we can’t see, we’ll summon the elusive, ghostly conjurer of magick. Subjugation is not choice. Shout it loud let them hear your voice. It’s your autonomous right. It’s your body and your life. Crack in the skull, through the brain. Do it more harm, or leave it lame? Stabbed in the back, the dark arts stain. Give them some hope, and then we’ll attack. Taking the breath, it’s there to hold. Feed them the lines, truth be told. Not for today, but it’s our future. Let it all be, but you’ll dream it all away… A lethal plan concocting, you got to stir that poison. Solution in the making, and never mind what it’s taking. (And then they’ll bleed, and scratch out their eyes…) Debauchedly forsaking, all the while our backs are breaking. Compliance is not murder, so let’s lead those lambs to slaughter. (And leave them to die, so they’ll cease to be…) Dark days are dawning. Shake your fist up high towards the heaven. Angels are falling, and we don’t even know the reasons why. Dark days are dawning, shake your fist up high towards the heaven. Angels are falling down, and we don’t even know the reasons why… So you rip out the tongues and you scratch out the eyes. Got ‘em fooled with your well tempered, plug-in disguise. The unnatural causes you have ‘em believing. And the data reveals, but it’s always deceiving. Breathe easy my friend, its all you got to know. It’s all you got to know… Subjugation is not choice. Shout it loud let them hear your voice. It’s your autonomous right. It’s your body and your life.
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Mind Fucked (skit) I think I’m losing my mind… The answers I just can’t find… I think I’m losing my mind… I think I’m losing my… Mind!
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A Fools Revenge Revenge is bittersweet, if you’d like to have your cake and eat it too. Though for all our sakes, I think it’s best just left to be. But sometimes I really feel that, I’d like to blow you all away. Oh, but then I see the truth, is the only thing that can set me free… But I’ll get you back. I’ll get you back… One lamplit night the present woke to some disturbance. And from a window they could see the scene unfurling. Just then the words appear, before their very eyes; ‘The way to hell is pathed with good intentions!’ I’ve been waiting so long, for a moment. Working up to fix it, but it’s broken. Silently enslaving, letting go of all you are. Waking in the moment, of a life… Thoughts meandering with tortuous absurdity. ‘Is it for you or I to know which way the wind blows?’ All in a wrung, the sound screaming from those lungs; “Just let me live! I’ve got so much left to give…) Waiting for this moment, for so long. Working up to fix it, but it’s broken. Synchroincedences all around me. Escaping from this moment, all alive… All alive… For all of life… For all of your life… You only got to play it. You only got to learn to play it. You got to want to play it. I’ve been waiting so long, for a moment. Working up to fix it, but it’s broken. Synchroincedences all around me. I don’t want to play it, it’s a fools game… It’s a fools game… It’s just a fools game… It’s just a silly fools game… And I’m not playing any more!
4.
Depths Of Depravity I stare into my soul, but I don’t like what I see There’s a forsaken demon, lurking inside of me And oh, I’m sinking low to the depths of depravity… I’ll break into your coffin, feast on your decayed flesh I’ll cut you up and eat you, wrapped up in barbed wire mesh Monsters inside my head, have led me down this path I can’t fucking help it, I’m a crazy psychopath I’m sinking low, and I can’t believe it’s really me I’m slithering down to the depths of depravity… The smell of rotten bodies, the taste of congealed blood I’ve opened up the sluice gates, and it’s turned into a flood Only god can help me now, to stop me from this madness But I’ll keep on wreaking havoc, and fill this world with sadness I’m sinking low, and I can’t believe it’s really me I’m slithering down to the depths of depravity… I’m sinking low, and I can’t believe this could be me I’m slithering down to the depths of depravity… I stare into my soul, but I don’t like what I see There’s a forsaken demon, lurking inside of me I’m sinking low, and I can’t believe this could be me I’m slithering down to the depths of depravity… The depths of depravity The depths of depravity The depths of depravity The depths of depravity Depravity Depravity Depravity Depravity
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Inside My Head What do they want? What do they want from me? What do they speak? What do these words speak to..? I close my eyes, silently pondering. Thoughts passing by, what is the meaning of..? I can hear them now, calling, inside my head..! I want them to leave me be. I need them to set me free! Imploring to let me know. And then I can let them… What do they mean? What do they mean to me? Somewhere I’ve been, something I’ve seen somewhere? I don’t know how. Or anything truthfully. Something I said? Do words have real meaning? I can hear them now, these voices, inside my head! I want them to leave me be. I need them to set me free! Imploring to let me know. And then I can let them go! All the hopes and dreams, bursting at the seams. Can we really know anything truly? In all honesty? With thoughts and ideas only passing through us. Can we claim them as our own? Or try to play them out in our reality? Does the game become too tough? Are we falling down? What do they want? What do they want from me? What do they speak? What do these words speak to..? I close my eyes, silently pondering. Thoughts passing by, what is the meaning of..? I can hear them now, calling, inside my head..! I want them to leave me be. I need them to set me free! Imploring to let me know. And then I can let them... I want them to set me… I need them to let me… I want them to set me free… Inside my head, I can hear the voices calling… Inside my head, I can hear the voices calling… Inside my head, I can hear the voices calling… Inside my head, I can hear the voices calling me!
6.
Disillusionment Life, passes by. It hurts badly, and sometimes even makes me cry. And I don’t know what’s happening here, but we have always been dictated by fear. In this global isolation, time goes by… Answers are hard to find, but you can change your mind. And if you bear a heavy load, you’re not alone. Withering away, is the time that we have to share with each other. And as each day passes by, so will I… Answers are hard to find, but you can change your mind. And if you bear a heavy load, (just remember that) you’re not alone. Do they know what it feels like? Do they know how it feels? Through your window you can see the pain unfurling… Do they know how it feels… Do they know how it feels in this growing disillusion? Do they know how it feels in this mass confusion? Do they know how it feels in this growing disillusion? Do they know how it feels in this mass confusion? Do they know?
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Mind Fucked 03:23
Mind Fucked I think I’m losing my mind… The answers I just can’t find… I think I’m losing my mind… I think I’m losing my… Mind! Oh my! I’ve lost my mind… Answers, so hard to find… Oh no! They stole my soul… Sometimes, it’s better the devil you know…

about

The Magick(al) Conjurers may have their way with the sheep, and the Fool may seek his Revenge...
Plundering down to the Depths of despair, and the madness Inside one's Mind...
Don't be Disillusioned, though, friends, don't let it Fuck with your Head...
Let us all have a ball instead...
Just for the Hell of it...

This all began with me (Dan) picking up my guitar again, after basically not playing for several years, with the vague intention to try and conjure up some Magick of my own.

It's been a hell of a journey, with a lot of learning/relearning.
There have been ups and downs, people involved for parts of the process, and then not involved in other parts of it.

I had the pleasure of working with my old friend (and drummer from a previous band) Tam Dickson, who helped with drum programming on most of the tracks.

My good friend John Darling learned all the bass parts and recorded them for me in his own time (I should say he certainly added some of his own ideas to my original guitar/octave pedal bass parts too though!).

And the amazing experience of a collaboration with A Suggestive Inquiry, who played keyboard and synth on the track 'Inside my Head".

There has also been an equally amazing collaboration with my uncle, Terry Johnstone, who during the first covid lockdown sent me a bunch of words for songs that he'd written, and out of that the track 'Depths of Depravity' was born!

I think this album, taking all of the conditions in which it has been made into account, is about as fair a representation of where Age of Infernal is as a creative entity.

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released February 25, 2022

Music and Lyrics by Dan Johnson (except*)

*Depths of Depravity lyrics written by Terry Johnstone

Mixed and Mastered by Guillaume Martin

Special thanks to...

A Suggestive Inquiry for his time and efforts in creating some interesting keyboard and synth parts for 'Inside my Head'.

Anders... you know who you are!

And... Wim Hof!

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Age Of Infernal Edinburgh, UK

Age of Infernal is a progressive/alternative rock band, based in Edinburgh.
Mixing up all kinds of influences, with a blend of heavy and melodic elements, to hopefully create something original...
(Also releasing music under various other names on this page.)
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