1) Crawl is typically a… Read Full Bio ↴There are more than one band with this name:
1) Crawl is typically associated with the drum machine driven death metal inspired industrial metal band who hailed from Green Bay, Wisconsin in the US. The band originally started off as Bleed and played a much more death metal sound in their previous name. Under the name Crawl, the band still maintained that death metal sound but added more of an Godflesh influence to their style, which was most evident in the vocal style as well as guitar tones and style. Their first album "Earth," released in 1995, had re-recorded songs from the Bleed album "Womb" plus new tracks. Up to the second album "Construct, Destroy, Rebuild," released in 1996 on Olympic Records, the band incorporated an actual drummer and shifted their sound away from death metal and played a more hardcore influenced industrial metal sound. The band has disbanded after releasing the album.
2) There once existed a early 90's Swedish death metal band with this name as well presumed to be taken from the Entombed song "Crawl." They released one demo entitled "After Grace" in 1992 packed with five songs.
3) [most important] CRAWL is a powerviolence band comprised of students from Philadelphia. Made up of current and former members of Hightode Hotel, The Domino Theory, and Hollows. Although the band has only played one show at the Rudich Ranch in Easton, PA. Their future is up in the air because of heckling from the Lehigh Valley punk scene they have played in. The line up includes Griffin on vocals, Chris on guitar, Andrew on bass, and Ben on drums. There is only one release from the band in tape form, along with a bootleg recording of their infamous first live set.
4) "band crawl is some kids from denver...just changed their name from dethbox i am pretty sure...17 year old kids who think they run the scene...i have seen them throw an amp at an observer and almost hit a touring bands drumset...this band is horrible talk shit to them" - vivalavinyl message board (DEMO http://www. mediafire .com/download.php?bi4vdwjnzoy)
5) this guy from clevo apparently makes some stuff with some sounds that he makes and/or steals and records now
6) Crawl is a one-man experimental sludge project from San Antonio TX. With his vocal mic shrouded in a parastacoidean mask, Emperor Crawl drums with one hand while, with the other, he controls a home-built bass string instrument made of actual bones. He likes to build things, he says, and to run sound through a wall of amps. The result is eloquently blackened doom with nods to Khanate's Things Viral and Sunn O)))'s Black One.
7) Crawl is a doom/sludge band in Atlanta, Georgia.
8) Crawl is an old school Swedish Death metal band from Gothenburg/Kalmar formed in 2014 in the likes of Entombed, Entrails and Dismember among others. Not to be confused with the band from the 90's with the same name mentioned above. Has so far released two EPs (I: Serpents and Worship Death) and one album (Rituals).
Skinned
Crawl Lyrics
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I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
And oh, don't you know that I'm always feelin' able
When I'm sittin' home and I'm carving out your navel
When will I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on
Hey, I could really use a couple of hands
To complete one hell of a plant stand
Oh, and don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables
I'm just makin' em into coffee tables
And when I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find anymore
Oh, because you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in, oh yeah
And though you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in
The opening lines of Crawl's song Skinned contain imagery that immediately horrifies the listener, with the singer stating that they will create a shoehorn out of someone's skin and a lampshade from another individual's flesh. This serves to set the tone of the song as unsettling and violent. The singer then goes on to describe their compulsion to carve up their victims, appearing to relish in the act, suggesting they sit at home to create stomach-churning ornamentation.
The next verse sees the singer appear to question themselves, wondering when they will realise that the skin isn't theirs and when the "kill", or the number of people they have murdered, will be too much for them to handle. This could be interpreted as the singer struggling with their own identity and the atrocities they have committed, as well as debating whether to stop or continue.
The final verse repeats the refrain of the skin not being the singer's, and how they struggle to hide their true self. This is a common theme within serial killer stories, the struggle of being caught between the public and private personas. The song ends on a tense note, with the singer confirming they cannot hide but how hard they try, suggesting the compulsions they have are too strong.
Line by Line Meaning
I'll make a shoehorn outta your skin
I will use your skin to make a tool for putting on shoes
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
I will take your skin and create a cover for a lamp that will last a while
And oh, don't you know that I'm always feelin' able
I feel capable of doing anything I set my mind to
When I'm sittin' home and I'm carving out your navel
I will sit at home and carve out your belly button as a hobby or pastime
When will I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
I will come to understand that the skin I am in is not actually mine
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on
When will I have killed so many people that I cannot keep their remains hidden on my person
Hey, I could really use a couple of hands
To complete one hell of a plant stand
I need an extra set of hands to help me make a unique and impressive plant stand
Oh, and don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables
I'm just makin' em into coffee tables
I am stuck here in the middle of transforming rib cages into coffee tables, that is all I am doing
And when I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
I will eventually recognize that my skin does not really belong to me
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find anymore
When will I become jaded from killing people and it stops being exciting for me to find more meat
Oh, because you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in, oh yeah
Although I cannot actually hide who I am, I still try very hard to do so; this is just how I am
And though you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in
Even though you are aware that I cannot conceal myself, I make a valiant attempt to; however, this is just how I am
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: BRAD SMITH, CHRISTOPHER THORN, CHRISTOPHER JOHN THORN, GLEN GRAHAM, SHANNON HOON, THOMAS STEVENS, THOMAS ROGERS STEVENS
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S P
Bleed/Crawl was a big influence me growing up as I was in Green Bay, WI during the years of this band killing it. Seeing such music live at 14/15 years of age and their writing is superb and is still great to listen today. I believe they were dealt a bad hand as the singer quit and the record label crumbled. They would have been just as popular as Pitch Shifter, Fear Factory, Godflesh.... well nearly perhaps. But this record is phenomenal in the industrial metal genre.
ERNESTO PEREZ
It's Sad That Nobody Mentions Nailbomb,Godflesh,Crawl, Skrew, Klank, Red Harvest, Strapping Young Lad or 3TEETH. Underrated Metal Industrial Bands
Chris Zuccaro
I had the bleed womb release, shit was amazing listened to it a million times, never heard this till today thx for uploading
NOZ REDNA
I saw this band in Memphis and have this CD.
S P
Here is a link to the same band when they were called Bleed. The Womb demo of half the songs on Crawl - Earth. I almost like this demo better as the guitars are more powerful in the mix. It's a toss up.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bleed+womb
ilike2slug
Sounds like GODFLESH, good though.
Natashead Overdrive
@ilike2slug My Death metal / industrial project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQ07hhsjbE
ilike2slug
Looked for the Crawl cd cant find it over here in u.k at moment. If you do make music in this style please share.
Natashead Overdrive
Those CD or the genre in general?
The genre is kinda niche and died with the 90's saddly (tho, I'm working on something in the same style at the moment), but you can easily found those albums on Amazon's used CD's, got the Crawl one for a few bucks, and the whole Pitchshifter discography for something like 10bucks, since no one care about that type of music nowadays, they just want to get rid of it.