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As I Lay Dying return with their new single ‘Echoes’, marking the start of a new era with fresh creative energy from the new line-up. The track blends heavy riffs, driving rhythms and soaring choruses while lyrically reflecting on struggle, loss and resilience.
Line-up:
Vocals – Tim Lambesis
Vocals, Bass – Chris Clancy
Drums – Tim Yeung
Guitar – Bill Hudson
Guitar – Don Vedda
lyrics
Buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but now I'm seeing
How it's haunting me
How it's haunting me
Haunted by the price I pay
For passion and impulsivity
But as the blindness fades away
The greatest pain is if I choose to stay
A shell of skin around a mind
That's spiralin' in a decline
'Cause you're dead inside
Why would I choose to chase a ghost
When all I would gain is just more loss?
And how could I seek to find my soul
As I kill myself to make you whole?
Why would I sacrifice my only life when
You won't try to simply even take a look inside?
I watched your body stay yet your heart disappear
Like mourning your death while you're still here
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling
(echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me
It's crushing me
I wish there was another way
But hope cannot save us
The good moments were never gold
Just pyrite giving false hope as we grow old
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling
(echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me
(how it's crushing me)
Now I'm buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
Let go to become
Who I always should have been
Become the architect
What I was born to build
Become the architect
Of what I was born to build
Buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
Hearing echoes, hearing echoes calling
(echoes are calling me)
This is haunting how it's crushing me
(how it's crushing me)
Now I'm buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding
Forged in fire but not defeated
I struggle on, I can't let go
I struggle on, but now let go
(buried by the thoughts, I'm bleeding)
I can't let go
(forged in fire but not defeated)
I struggle on, the echoes call
They call until I let go
No longer haunted
Become the architect (the architect)
Of what I was born to build
credits
released October 9, 2025
Lyrics & Composition: Tim Lambesis
Song produced by Chris Clancy and Jack Daniels
Mixed by Chris Clancy
Mastered by Mike Kalajian
2023 - Metalcore (US)
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