deathrashed: Ebony Tears - A Handful of Nothing (1999)

Information

Artist – Ebony Tears

Album – A Handful of Nothing

Label – Black Sun Records

Released – 1999

Type – Full-length

Additional

Notes

A Handful of Nothing is the second full-length by Swedish band Ebony Tears, released in 1999 on Black Sun Records (catalog BS17) as a CD. Lineup consisted of Conny Jonsson (guitars, bass) and Johnny Wranning (vocals), with session/guest contributions from Richard Evensand (drums) and Lennart Glenberg (violin on one track).

The album was recorded at Studio Underground in Västerås, Sweden, produced by Pelle Saether, and mastered by Peter Indebeto (Peter In de Betou) at Cutting Room, Stockholm. Cover art was by Kenneth Johansson. Runtime is 30:35 across eight tracks. The sound shifts toward aggressive melodic death/thrash with prominent thrash-influenced riffing, rasping vocals, heavy double-bass drumming, and reduced violin presence compared to the prior release, emphasizing speed, density, and direct aggression over melodic ornamentation.

Videos

A Handful of Nothing (Full Album)
A Handful of Nothing (Title Track)
Harvester of Pain

Recording

Recorded in Studio Underground, Västerås, Sweden.
Mastered at Cutting Room, Stockholm, Sweden.

Identifiers

Barcode: 7 393757 030172
Matrix / Runout: GZ K40726 BS017
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LD01
Mould SID Code: IFPI 5J17

Tracklist

1. Inferno – 03:27 >

Burning... A nauseating taste
Pointles... Your life is such a waste
Bouncing and battering the beast in my skin
Aggression has come to grow
Forcing my feelings to step out of me
Relentless to the bone

Vengence dwells inside
Fearless I feast on your life

Screaming... My body connect with pain
Outrageous... In havoc I shall remain
Raping the cradle a life filled with sin
Forces below I adore
Your soul might be clean but this game you can't win
I'm back into the core

Vengence dwells inside
Fearless I feast on your life

Into inferno
Into inferno I go

2. Harvester of Pain – 03:38 >

Beaten, torn by the invisible, the face of all disdain
Jaws of hate around my spine and i die once again
We colour our lives with useless lies and end up in misery
Always hungry we scream for more and stumble on our greed

Harvester of pain
Bring us light again

A rotten smile on a sickening faceinside this fruitless game
Always want what we can't have the things we can't gain
Intolerance instead ofsecond chance we beat the ones who bleed
We turn our backs and close our eyes to fulfull our needs

Harverster of pain
Bring us light again

Faces will lie the truth be denied
This world is fading away
Never a smile that comes from inside
A world built on fake is rotting away

3. A Handful of Nothing – 04:35 >

With closed eyes I greet the fallen
Joy denied autums calling
Withering beauty scornful madness
My redemption
A sanctuary from a year of failures
A home for the broken

Time to rest my weary bones
To ease my heart I drop the stone
In solitude I feel no pain
And for a moment I am sane

Organized from the chaos
All intact I face the rain
Wasted beauty owned by liars
True deception
Count me in as one of the cowards
I'm no exception

Time to rest my weary bones
To ease my heart I drop the stone
In solitude I feel no pain
And for a moment I am sane

With a handful of nothing
And scars in my soul
With a handful of nothing
I walk through the door

Into sanctuary

4. Scenario – 05:13 >

Relentless - grief is thy name
Innocence and beauty but the song remains the same
Hatred builds pressure, I'm scorned by the flame

All our scars we hide inside
To fit the puzzle we must lie
Leave your innocence behind
Deny

Screaming - but there's no one to blame
You're the one attached to all that is insane
Why keep pretending only you can stop this game

All our scars we hide inside
To fit the puzzle we must lie
Leave your innocence behind

We keep falling lust turns to apathy
Where are we going when grey insaturate our need

To serenity

5. When Depression Speaks – 05:05 >

Depression is calling
Its face has been shown
Direction nowhere
A world painted black

And when I reach the highest point
It finally crushes me down
All my dreams are now withdrawn
As it slowly infects my soul

I feel no desire
My lust is gone
Hatred and denial
Is burning my soul

And when I reach the highest point
It finally crushes me down
All my dreams are now withdrawn
As it slowly infects my soul

When depression speaks through me
My soul I shut, sealed
When depression speaks through me
I bleed

I'm going down for real
My soul is now revealed

6. Erised – 01:22 >

"En ledsen batbyggare"

7. Cosmical Transformation – 03:42 >

World keeps spinning round my head
Vague rejections will transcend
Truthful faith for the worlds inside
This fairyland can't be denied

Embrace me in secrecy
This world's for real not a dream
Right in my hands the fairyland
No truth can spoil my beliefs

Thoughts colliding against wonderwall
Trough the silver haze I hear your call
Truthful faith for the worlds inside
This fairyland can't be denied

Embrace me in secrecy
This world's for real not a dream
Right in my hands the fairyland
No truth can spoil my beliefs

Lost in fairyland
Lost in wonderland

8. The End – 03:33 >

I'm falling headless downwards
Screaming like the filth inside of me
Burning like a fallen god dropped from high above
Dying to be released from it all

Filth, Hate, Angst, Against

Burning my candle in both ends
Trapped inside this mess it's no longer me
Hatred tears my soul apart
I bash my head against the wall to be free

Filth, Hate, Angst, Against
Sick of it all

It's time to leave to take the fall
I'm so tired to pretend
There's no meaning to it all i'm waiting for the end
All my power turned to grief
Dreams faded away
I'm waiting to be released no beginning without an end

Total length: 30:35