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Stay Hungry + Catalyst

As we are celebrating three years as a band, we are very happy to announce our future partnership with no less than Catalyst Records, a label that has had a clear straight edge profile for almost twenty years and worked with a long list of cool bands, such as our friends in Anchor. It also means that we will take part in the label's current drive with European edge bands, such as Unveil and Wolf X Down. Needless to say, being offered a release on a label with both an honorable history and strong present day momentum means a lot to us. It will be very inspiring to start working on material for an EP, set for a 2012 release.

"Still hardcore,
still straight edge,
still giving a fuck."

We have unleashed the fuckin' fury!

XXX

/ Stay Hungry, August 1st 2011

http://www.xcatalystx.com

Appreciation

To Risk It and the Dresden crew.

To Pavel and everyone involved in Prague.

To the distinguished Fluff crew, and to Tomas’s forgiving patience.

To Jens, Jaan, Fille and Omar.

To Anchor, No Omega, Hårda Tider, Beyond Pink, Victims and Death Is Not Glamorous.

To all the kids who defied the mud, and to Michal The Wonder Years  for catching our flying bass player.

To all our friends from Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, the UK, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Russia, Belgium, the US (yo Finland, Denmark, Holland and Portugal, we missed you!).

We spend half a life on these loose ends and think we have experienced most of what carries worth when it comes to energy bouncing between four walls, a floor and a roof; we believe that we know all about sweat blending from bodies on the verge of boiling over; we assume that we are aware of what passion can be transferred from eye to eye when the song starts.

Then we play a show like the one on Prague last Thursday, and it dawns on everyone that we are actually pretty clueless.  And we leave such a show, through a local storm of hugs, smiles and high expectations, re-affirming each other that yes, if there ever is a standard to be set for how a hardcore show should be, this must surely have been it.

And we roll into the Fluff camping site and pinch our arms so we can be sure that we won’t miss out on what’s going to happen right now, so we won’t flinch and find that it passed us by. As we hug Martijn and Angelo at the entrance, we know that this is somehow a home away from home for us.

We have our hearts in small venues and fifteen minute sets that leave PA-systems gasping for mercy, where we wait for the touring band to arrive in a mal-functioning van (and where we are grateful for sometimes being that band), where we hope that someone will sing along, buy a fanzine, meet for the first time and decide to start that band that we can stagedive to a few months later. We all share that. We have devoted parts of our lives and bodies to “breakdowns, fast snare beats, good lyrics, and intricate simplicity”. And the combination of these ingredients sets us off like a god damn neutron bomb.

“To those who paved the way, who still remain, we are one – from the same strain”.

See you soon!

XXX

// Stay Hungry, July 2011

NEW CD! Tour shirts leftovers!

http://www.stayxhungry.bigcartel.com/

Give respect, get it back

After sixteen shows in ten countries, we arrived home safely yesterday. Our third European tour, the first with Johan in the band, can’t be seen as anything less than a fantastic experience for all of us. Along the sometimes endless highways, and in the cities’ dirty backstreets, we have met the kindest and most dedicated people that have all conquered safe places in our hearts. We will carry the impressions from this journey with us for as long as we live. More than seeing incredible sights, more than getting to play songs we enjoy, more than selling some shirts after the gig; what truly manifested itself this time was that if you try as best as you can to give respect, sometimes you receive twice as much back. From the get go, we have considered it a privilege to be able to do this at all. We are thankful for any small gesture from anyone anywhere to help us out. The response we have received during the latest two plus weeks has been close to overwhelming.

To all the lovely friends that moshed, to everyone that talked to us, to the great friends we re-visited or met for the first time, to the sweet bands we got to share stages and venue floors with, to the kind people who fed us and provided floors and roofs, to all the straight edge kids, to Spook, Refuse, Cobra, to the almighty Ratel Crew, to Daniel, Björn, Christoph, our H8000 guardians, Francois, Alexis, Remy, Wilo, Nab, Gabi, Simone, Stefan, Pavel, Andris, Carpath Bears, Pawel, Maciek, Kasia, Marek, Mario and everyone else involved in making this dream possible for us:

We love you, and we’ll see you at Fluff Fest.

/ Stay Hungry

Tour changes

8/4 Wunstorf, Germany
9/4 Leipzig, Germany
10/4 Münster, Germany
11/4 Belgium, TBA
12/4 Nantes, France
13/4 Bordeaux, France
14/4 Tolouse, France
15/4 Barcelona, Spain
16/4 Milano, Italy
17/4 Luzern, Switzerland
18/4 Prague, Czech Republic
19/4 Budapest, Hungary
20/4 Bratislava, Slovakia
21/4 Czestochowa, Poland
22/4 Warzaw, Poland
23/4 Berlin, Germany


So yeah the show in Paris got cancelled. We will now play Münster instead and also Belgium and Münster switched dates.

Hardboiled webzine interview

http://www.hardboiledzine.com/2011/02/stay-hungry-interview.html

Live in Faro

Against the wall lyrics

Download!!!

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A

1. Overture

2. Think it through

Done with you, you asked for it

Take two steps back and you won’t get smacked

Pretty faces don't mean a shit

Tough guy bullshit! Oh you’re so quick

Think it through

What are you going to do?

Before you talk and disgrace our name

Hang your head in fucking shame

Run for your life

3. Against the wall

Surrounded, need to break out.

Isolated, alone in this crowd.

No More

Against the wall

Keep me contained, I need to escape

Walls are drawing closer, gotta get away

No More

Against the wall

I’ve been shackled but I’m breaking free

This is the last you’ll ever see of me

4. Dedication

Don’t need recognition, don’t need you to approve

Don’t need permission, to do what I do

I’d rather die than go down the stream

Fall back into your fucking routine

I’m choosing life, won’t abandon my post

Pure content in an ugly form

I’d rather die than go down the stream

Fall back into your fucking routine

Stronger every day, trust in myself

Devotion till the end

Never backed from what I believe

Same attitude same urge to speak

No beginning no end – time is gonna tell

5. Another day

Always surprised when we react

Five words for you: clean up your act now

You say we’re elite but look at yourself

I have no clean slate, you’re stuck in a shell

Fuck your acceptance, I think it’s pathetic

And you know it

A disapproval of your right

To point your finger at everything in sight

Save your words crawl back in

Wipe those tears off your chin

What you do won’t make me stop

31 and still on top

Still on top

What you do won’t make me stop

I am 31 and still on top

Still on top

6. Disgust

Your stupid grin is a pitiful sight

Did you fuck any groupies at the end of the night?

Just a product, manufactured and sold

Enjoy your time before the suits turn cold

Your fucking luck is running out

Slaves to the mainstream you’re awfully lost

A curse in my ears, I’m full of disgust

Cause I hate what you stand for, surrender and fall

Leave it to me, you’ll be dead and gone

Leave it to me you’ll be dead and gone

7. Prove it

Prove it, prove it

You’ll never make me

Prove it, prove it

You’ll never make me

Change my life

You are what you eat

With blood on your teeth

Swallowed the lies

Mouth full of meat

Face the facts

You’re wasting my time

Shut the fuck up before I lose my fucking mind

Swallowed the lies

Wasting my time

Wake up don’t believe their hype

You cannot compromise with lives

A life is still a fucking life

Stay back when I draw the line

B

1. When the rain pours

I’ve heard the complaints that we’re forcing our morals upon you

As if that beer in your hand and the smoke in the air is not a set of rules

We’re all peers, I’m not better than you, it’s just that I’ve got better things to do

Use your, use your head

You fucking pricks, your memory’s short, you forgot what Ian said

I’ve seen you drain this scene of substance, of what it was made of

Replacing it with status quo, the very evil we were to rise above

A tough façade, a radical front, I call your bluff

Use your, use your head

You shallow bastards, your memory’s short, you forgot what Henry said

2. The Promise

This is a promise to myself

Never let this hate be drained

Never let my rage be chained

Never let it be restrained

No love for

This fucking world

No love for

This fucking world

Don´t tell me

Tell me what to say

Don´t tell me

Tell me what to do

3. False Reality

Staring at the world outside

Life grows colder, no peace inside

Twisted words, no truth to be told

Stricken with fear, what will unfold?

Can’t you fucking see it

Who is in control?

Losing control

Face to face, this reality.

A sleepless hunger, can’t you see?

Driven by greed, ego and faith.

The rest of the world swallows the bait

Can’t you fucking see it

Who is in control?

Losing control

No!

Can’t you fucking see it?

We still have time to open our eyes

To see it clearly, I try and I try

We still have time to open our eyes

Force fed, lie after lie after life

We still have time

We still have time to open our fucking eyes

4. Iron Chains

Resolution to react with a knife in my back

And a razor sharp mind

I will never decline

I will show you true blood no mercy at all

You better pass the door

You can’t break these iron chains

What went wrong?

Took the future for granted

It’s a downfall coming closer

Another wasted life

Convictions held to my grave

You sold it out

You can never break, what can’t be bent

You can’t break these iron chains

5. Ingen plikt

Helgen är här, dags att supa

Du ser ingen orsak att sluta

Utövar frihet som individ

Skiter i samhällsproblematik

Inget ansvar, ingen plikt

Bara skaka av dig och bry dig om ditt

Du är problemet, du står i skuld

Men du stöter aldrig på patrull

Du tar bara din rätt för given

Genom hela jävla livet

Inget ansvar, ingen plikt

Bara skaka av dig och bry dig om ditt

Aaah vi har fått nog av din skit!

6. Something must be done

Moral decline, sign of the times

Succumbing to the treason of swine

We accept and sit by, pretending it's fine

We've left all dignity behind

Something, something must be done

Idle and silent, always obedient

Never question, never show any dissent

We need rebel souls, to regain control

Through these times there's one thing that we know

One chance to make it count

Only one guarantee

Got to erase all doubt

Until the blinded see that something must be done

Something, something must be done

7. Loose ends

Hard times define who stay true

When the tide turns, I’ll stand by you

Half a life spent

Stuck on loose ends

When the hard rains begin

I’ll count on you until the end

Outcasts and rejects, the diehard remain

Versus the world, we’re all the same

Half a life spent

Stuck on loose ends

When the hard rains begin

I’ll count on you until the end

Diehard remain

We’re all the same

My Doubts demo

Download our demo from 2008

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Demo lyrics

Download lyrics to My Doubts demo ´08

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stay hungry - demo 2008

my doubts

So many came and went, so many edges bent

So many lungs screamed out

So many who commit, so many fucking quit

So many throats gone sore, We´ve heard it all before

So you x-mark the spot, Show me what you have got

Bold vows but empty words, Just slogans on your fucking merch

When life treats you unkind, You'll hastely change your mind

same old

You’re all the same, And I can’t take it anymore

This shit has gotta go, before my temper blows

Let’s turn your back and leave

Save yourself from being the center point

This is what you get when you’re pushing on

Send in the clones choke on your smiles

Take your place first in line

Climb onboard lets win this race

Bleed for me now, just hang your head

Go on and cry it out

You’re all the same, You’re all the same

How can you live with yourself when you’re such an attention whore?

Fall on your knees or get the hell away from me

Is it so hard to understand or do I have to rub it in?

Cheap inspections, ground zero of your insecurity

such a waste

You suck suck suck suck, Breathe in breathe out, decision made

You suck suck suck suck, You look so weak,  you fade away

Drop drop drop, You drop fucking dead

Now is the time to make some enemies

Face to face with my rage of discipline

Cross my path and I will show my insanity

Straight Edge for so long, I have chosen my family

Polluted your lungs, polluted your brains

You sold us out, life’s a bitch, But I will stay the same

As long as I’m alive, What you say is a trend won’t die

this could be paradise

Another day in hell

Can’t seem to understand the meaning

Of this life, it’s a rundown to a fucking end

Nothing stays the same, Waste of time let’s evacuate

Evacuate

Held back and tied up I’m trapped in this place

Despite all my rage I’m still a rat in a cage

Lack of solutions, lack of emotions, The demons in my head

told me to give it up, Drained me from my blood

Boredom, constant flow of bad luck

total fucking idiots

I really hate all the brats, with their fake smiles and greasy hair

Fuck all those blonde girls, with their noses in the air

Rich people got no fucking clue

Punch in the face we’re coming for you

Walking down the avenue, Stupid poeple standing in line

Drinking, snorting, making out, You are blind I hate your kind

Rich people got no fucking clue

Punch in the face we’re coming for you

I’m so sick and tired of always being sick and tired

Blood on my hands today

Why won’t it just fade away?

I am holding my head up high, Your money can’t buy my soul

sinners and saints

Sometimes I just want to leave

Sometimes I don’t even care

I rather die than live with this pain

For every sin, For every shame

I can’t keep up, I hate this game

So many faces, So many lies

Fuck your rules, I fight my fights

The war is on, The war is on

For every sin, For every shame

I can’t keep up, I hate this game

So many faces, So many lies

Fuck your rules, I fight my fights

The war is on, Stop! Hammer Time!

I put my fist down to the ground

Feast for the crows’ dark black eyes

Revenge is sweet you better run

This world burns down

constant failure

Posi this posi that

I know one thing for a fact

Some days are better and some are worse

And some feel like a fucking curse

Tell the kids the truth for once

I don’t need shit to celebrate

I trust myself to forget

Whatever life serves my plate

I’m trying ‘till I fucking quit

My attempts just turn to shit

My attempts just turn to shit

Failure is forever

Glory will pass you by

My PMA is running thin

No matter how I try

stay hungry

Outro

::::::::::::

Recorded December the 6th and 7th 2008 by Peter Hayward, Mixed December the 10th by Peter Hayward

Live photo by Hyppe (www.hatad.se)

All music and lyrics by Stay Hungry

Greken and Tranås held it down in “Constant Failure”

Backups by Källe, Greken, Pop-Pär, Tor VSE, Palla, Love,  Allo xvx, Jaan Nerdario and Kalle CC.

Thanks to Law and Order Crew, LSE, the straight edge, friends and foes, Baldursson, Kalle for the amp and Peter for making this happen

Lyrics

Download lyrics to No beginning no end LP

http://www.mediafire.com/?r9vd6tdmtes19ha

LYRICS TO THE STAY HUNGRY 12” ON REFLECTIONS

SIDE A:

1.

Let’s pretend that everything’s cool

You say you’ve grown up but you’re just a tool

The truth hurts so bad you ignore your past

Cause your youth is dead and dreams come at last

Failed again dreams come at last

Just a front a fragile facade

Blend in with the crowd on a zombie crusade

Your body says move but your head says freeze

Maturity is a sickness and you’re the disease

Not dead yet you’re the disease

Chickenshit conformist, ate your words just like all the rest

Get in line to sacrifice your pride at these monuments of decadence

Grab for the bottle, see if it helps, are you alive under the influence?

For every one of you who lets it slip, did you think that we’d forget?

Not dead yet!

2.

Down to fight I’m sick to my guts

Too many efforts that I can’t touch

I stick to my words

Someday the world will turn on you

and when it does I’m standing right there

As it hits your face

Tough behind your screen but you got no spine

Type it once more and shit goes down

Quit it

Uh!

3.

Shut the fuck up you have yourself to blame

You chose to combine coke with fame

When cops bust your ass you think it’s all wrong

Pay for your crime when you play along

You whine and you cry you’re a fading star

30 days in jail and nothing is solved

There is a problem and the problem is you

If I was the judge you would sit there and rot

You had it fucking coming

Dead wrong

They left you behind and nobody cares

Take your words and shove them up your ass

Bad habits gone worse you will lose your life

You can snort it goodbye you’re going down, scum die

You had it fucking coming

Dead wrong

Left you behind and nobody cares

Take your words and shove them up your ass

You will lose your fucking life

You can kiss it goodbye

4.

I don’t wanna hear what’s on your mind

I wanna leave those miserable times behind

Grabbing hands tight around my throat

Last breath, think fast, left me here to choke

Enough of these sick little mind games

You struck my heart then stabbed me in my back

Healed scars but dead on the inside

Love lost, no trust Godspeed and fuck off

5.

Stop complaining no reason why

Walk on by

The price is too high? You know it’s right

Walk on by

In it for the fun were no rich snobs

Walk on by

Money issues? Get a real job

Walk on by

Look around what’s going on

Walk on by

It ain’t free to get shows done

Walk on by

Give up and let the truth sink in

Walk on by

Face your end you never win

Now move along

You never fucking win

SIDE B:

1.

Play hard play fast scream your lungs out

Stand up speak out move it to the sound

You claim to be true and you claim to be hardcore

Spare me that shallow shit my ears are deaf and sore

and those who it concerns, I don’t mind to tell you

get the fuck out this is not a place for you

No pride no heart without a substance

Hear me out understand look me in my fucking eyes

Loud and clear

2.

Total meltdown inside my head

And these walls are falling down on me

No social ladders left to climb

I just keep falling through the floors

Rumble down an empty street

the lights are bright I feel complete

False ideals and secret lies

save me from this blackened sky

Hold on to the ones you love

cause nights are cold and days get rough

Pray again and sleep it off

when the time is right the hunt will stop

I’m trying to give the best I can

To block out my feelings put it all to rest

I’m being forced I’m being fed

Wake me up I’m living dead

3.

Sheeps’ parade

Marching on in the same footsteps as you

I just think it’s sad but true

Your culture makes me wanna puke

I won’t bow down to your tradition

Not this time

Not this life

Not to you

Wolves on prey, at our expense

Jump in the fire last chance to dance

Play with the devil piss on your life

Rip it apart

4.

Nothing but a fucking crook

Your greed is swelling can’t get enough

Same bullshit talk it’s a waste of time

Sing the last verse of your worthless life

Press the button, push it in

Worlds colliding sink or swim

The tide is high and leaking in

Flood of hatred will sink your ship

You are filth

You are junk

Keep on sinking

Hit the ground

You never care

You never share

Bite my hook

Swallow the bait

I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait

I can’t wait to start hammering people