Forgotten Oil Rigs, by Ryan Wall

Forgotten Oil Rigs

by Ryan Wall

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USB Flash Drive + Digital Album
A limited edition usb flash drive of the 13 track concept album 'Forgotten Oil Rigs'. The drive is shaped like a card and features crisp, colored art along with a pop out usb drive.

Inside, the file structure contains a high quality version of the album along with a compressed MP3 version. You'll also find a full art gallery along with lyrics, credits, and a story page.

One side is pink, to represent the eternal sunset. The other side represents the night of escape on the song 'Secrets From Below'.

Includes unlimited streaming of Forgotten Oil Rigs via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Through Seas of Peace 01:14	lyrics
Swim With Me Through Seas of Peace and Float Beyond Forgotten Oil Rigs
2.	Awakened by the Sound of the Drill 03:49	lyrics
Awakened by the sound of the drill It's cutting through my soul I can't believe they found me here Deep inside of this hole Filling it with Pain Drill Drill Drill And take it all away Drill and shatter the crystalline in me I was born deep in this oceanic home I got used to eyes shut in silence And through this unpredictable lust for innocence They cut me out and used me for their gain As the well dries out I feel the air in the tomb In the still, let go Enter the new life As the poison is rushing down You drill Inside And take anything you want Gutted me and left them a shell Please leave me here To rest forever Please leave me be Let it sleep Flooded with chemicals Paralyzed Sterilized Have no choice... I can't stand this sound anymore I have to give in and let it die All these dreams at the bottom of the well Will fade away when they're boring my soul My soul Ripping me apart Cutting me down Put into pipes Extracted Sold Left in the dark Employed To work up on the Rig
3.	Work 03:52	lyrics
I'm a kid on an offshore platform I was sleeping on the job and I had a dream I had a dream that drill cut through me And since then I fear I might lose myself Workers fade away Ghost remnants still haven't left this place This is the rig Forgotten Rig Alone by myself Frozen in fear In the cold wind's embrace Pulling me near Inside of a dream, but Lost in my mind Over and over again I drill Drill Drill I'm a kid on an offshore platform Losing flow, losing flow, losing focus here You're over water, over water, you don't have a choice I don't care, today I'm running, I'm running away Down stairs with handrails Past pipe walls and steam vents Down here with no where to go Hang on Just hang on, hang on to the pipe Don't let go Alone by myself Frozen in fear In the cold wind's embrace Pulling me near Inside of a dream, but Lost in my mind Over and over again
4.	Mindfold 03:36	lyrics
When I stare into the water He's looking back at me Reflection of my darker side Whispers I'm not free On every single sightless thought I'm left unclear My silence breaks the surface And drowns me in this fear You're letting your mind fold That the structure inside is faced with collapse You're bereft in all, all that you do To preserve the crystal shards beneath It happens underneath Inside these crystal caverns But they break and shatter As the drill comes in Never again will it stay the same Beautiful crystal shards are gone And cut right right through you You're letting your mind fold You're letting your mind fold You're letting your mind fold You're letting your mind fold
5.	My Envelope 04:31	lyrics
5. My Envelope I will always hold on To this unopened letter Feeling inside The key is waiting for me To unlock the final door It stayed with me for 1200 years Through the sheds and the snow valley's gorge In my pocket through the World of the Bore But when I reached the final door The key was nothing more Than rust Watch the rust pour From my envelope Why won't you open up and let me change the machinery I'll turn the wheel You fear that I know who you are Sitting there behind this door All that's left is an envelope Watch the pages fall Tear the pages up and let the little pieces fly away Nobody has to know You're not going to read it Tear the pages up and let the little pieces fly away Nobody has to know You! You! You wouldn't read it Tear the pages up and let the little pieces fly away Nobody has to know You wouldn't read it
6.	Hydraulic Fracturing 04:49	lyrics
6. Hydraulic Fracturing Watching youth fade away This is our last chance This is it now Now that I'm an old man Committed to breaking the crust I give unto myself this power Like God, with hydraulic fracturing Your fate my hands I control the strings That bind the world To my fingertips I'll drill No, save us from this rig Please leave us in the ground No, stop the desecration By your hydraulic fracturing Like the Hydra Unleashed That feed on souls beneath Drill Drill Drill Drill It's burning out Faster, faster, faster Don't stop now Faster and faster and faster There's nothing left for you Keep grinding through rock and through youth Until it's just a memory No, there's nothing left Just a shell down there
7.	Secrets From Below 06:02	lyrics
The storm is forming The storm is forming Have you heard the secrets from below Whispered out through the seeping steam spirits They told all about the light That opens portals to another life The storm is forming in the distance now The storm is forming in the night One last chance to find the secret well below Golden sun You never let me sleep Until now When the dusk and dawn meet Bastard suns Never let me leave Until now When the ends of the world meet I will merge Within the light Take me away From the storm Before the waves are coming in Waves are flooding and pushing me around I can't hold light open anymore Waves are coming in Waves are drowning and pushing me around I can't hold on anymore To see the light through I will be lost in a darkened sea Tumbling backwards through the waves And all that will be left of this toxic tower Are the scattered pieces of the past Hold on Hold on Beyond the secrets in the dark Lie the well that's emanating souls Hold on to pieces of the past Of the collapse You will make your way back Beyond the secrets in the dark You know well, it's emanating light Hold on to something as you go A semblance of the past you left It will lead you back Back to the light Hold on
8.	Soaked in the Return of Memories 07:48	lyrics
Scraping off the crust Scraping off the crust Scraping off the flakes From my skin Come on One day I will break Out of the cage I'm shackled in solitude My rusted body awaits The next rising tide I'll be forced again Into the return of memories The return of memories In this drowned state Gasping for air Stuck onto this barge Three times I saw the past and cried Three times I saw the future Burning black smoke Dying world Three times I go back in To the industry we're all in Soaked in the memories of returns And see the memories of the green field grass Turning bleak Turning dirt to rust As the industrial world left Go ahead and drink last sips of paradise Leave it all Leave it all to ruins Go ahead and rust The winds won't fade Then I'll be here Waiting Waiting For 1 year 3 years 5 years 8 years 13 years 19 years 28 years 40 years 49 years 60 years Someone come back for me I'm sitting in this cage Waiting here forevermore Someone will cross the sea I'm sitting here forevermore Someone come back for me And smash this fucking cage Forever I'm soaked in the returns of memories Soaked in the returns of memories Emerge Emerge again Emerge Emerge again To an eternal sunset Oh to an eternal sunset The winds won't fade I'll be here Waiting for you Waiting until the end I'll wait I'll wait and wait and wait and wait I think I found the answer To put a stop to the rage I think I found the answer To get out of the cage I'll wait I'll wait I'll wait for you 71 years 130 years 280 years 560 years 740 years 970 years 1200 years Until the seal breaks
9.	Quartz 01:12
10.	Floating Beyond Forgotten Oil Rigs 01:53
11.	The Kola Superdeep Borehole 07:19	lyrics
Kola Kola Kola Kola Kola There was snow On the cloudberries It seemed like I walked forever Through the hills There's a beacon Of the past An open wound Like snot Dripping out my nostril Like reversed smoke Flowing out My soul led me To the Kola superdeep And then released itself To find the greatness underneath The borehole My soul led me To the Kola superdeep To find a resting place In the Kola superdeep borehole I stood up From the hole A piece of me is missing now I'm just walking around With no where to go My soul is under the ground On its way all the way down And I am walking around endlessly Trailing red in the snow My soul is under the ground On its way all the way down And I am walking around endlessly For no reason at all Blood was running through my veins Telling me Don't give up Don't give up Don't let them Steal your fate Don't let them Close the hole No No Don't let them Steal your fate It can die Is this where I die On these plains of snow The white One last cloudberry From the brush The sweet to grace These human lips Is this where I die None will be remembered And that's fine Here's where I die
12.	Corrosion 05:26	lyrics
Metals lay In the sand After the world's collapse But suddenly They start to levitate Towards the ocean Floating along As if the sky was water Corroded pieces Will complete the cycle Along that way The fairy dust erosion Detached Only the shiniest pieces Rise to the top To the top But its okay Everyone is forgiven and forgotten Corrosion is apart of us Until it's sucked Into the wormhole To incubate The rust Will settle And form Me Corrosion Form me Corrosion Form me Form me Form me
13.	Swim With Me 16:27

about

Forgotten Oil Rigs is the 3rd continuation of Ryan Wall's solo projects, last leaving off with Radioactive Noise. It is not a sequel to any album, but the beginning of a new world entirely. It features visceral, gut wrenching vocals, explosive progmetal riffs and guitars, chunky bass, well-executed drums. The synths have every characteristic of sounding like the depths of the ocean floor, to the whispy winds at the top of an ocean crane.

I was greatly inspired by my influences. All the way from growing up, sneaking around forgotten ocean harbors, to my beginnings of listening to progressive music like Dream Theater, Cynic, and Devin Townsend.

F.G.O.R features 13 tracks and follows the 'kid on an offshore platform' as the world rapidly changes around him.

credits

released May 25, 2020

Ryan Wall - Vocals, Music

Special Guests -

Chris Knight: Multiple additions to 'Awakened by the Sound of the Drill'
Nicholas Bonstin "Salohkin" - Guitar Solo on 'Soaked in the Return of Memories'
Yury "Uranium" Trubnikov - Corrosion Outro piano
Jaime Vendera - Lyrical help on Work and Mindfold