NEWS
2023 New Release "All Hail The New Frauds"
May 25, 2020 Release of single "Punishment..." from
the upcoming album All Hail The New Frauds
May 2016 Release of debut CD Ice Disease
March 25, 2016 Release of single "The Dead Could Not
Be Counted"
DETAILS
Based in Saint John, NB
Founded in 2012
Genre: #Metal
MUSIC
Link to Bandcamp Page:
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https://rifium.bandcamp.com/album/ice-disease
https://youtu.be/ZifK2wtyskl
Punishment...
First single off our upcoming album "All Hail The New Frauds"
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PHOTOS
Dan Harding - vocals/guitar As vocalist and chief lyricist, Dan’s earnest, gravelly baritone is Rifium's voice. Dan has been playing with various bands in the Saint John area for over 25 years. Dan is inspired by such metal godfathers as Motörhead, Celtic Frost and Mercyful Fate.
Matt Orser - Bass. Whenever I was questioned about my musical proficiency, I'd say: "I play a wack of guitar, dabble in bass, and I suck at singing." Recording with the Benoit brothers taught me a lot about writing bass as part of a larger whole. Then I joined a band, then I practiced a lot, now I'm a bass player. Geezer Butler is the only bass influence I can put my finger on, and I still suck at singing.
Dave Brideau - Drums. Weird Al taught me first to play because it's fun. Korn taught me to play heavy. Playing at church taught me to listen to everyone else. Meshuggah taught me to memorize and play independently. Ruins taught me to play complicated but silly. But most importantly, Mr. Bungle taught me that you can be good at everything and sound like you're having a blast doing it.
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Matt Vail - Guitar.
ABOUT THE BAND
WE ARE
Dan Harding - vocals, guitar
Dave Brideau - Drums
Matt Orser - Bass
Matt Vail - guitar
Bio
Formed in late 2012 in Saint John, NB, Rifium is a band with a riff heavy, death/groove metal sound. Rifium released their debut CD entitled Ice Disease in 2016. The single off this album, was released in March 2016 and is entitled “The Dead Could Not Be Counted”. New Album to be released 2020. Our first single off the album entitled Punishment... to be released May 26, 2020. Rifium hopes to be playing a stage in your area soon.
UPCOMING SHOWS
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Our first album!
Our Shirts - Available in S, M, L, XL, 2XL$25
LYRICS
All Hail The New Frauds
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Ripped apart by fire
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Collision course Terror in the night
A planet in shock Slicing through the sky
Salutation
Some can’t accept Disbelief will come
Ten million eyes await The epic cataclysm
Ripped apart by fire Someone’s coming
Electric eyes Alert the masses
Space torn wide
Salutation
Ripped apart by fire Someone’s coming
Space torn wide
Black orb eye
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The universe is vastly empty
Void of life cold nothing
It craves darkness fueled by
Destruction drawn to existence
Like a seed that drains
Taking life force from the host
Until the source is depleted
What gives now takes
There’s no trace of life In the black orb
It’s the dead of night In the black orb
Knowledge far beyond In the black orb
Truth becomes disguised In the black orb eye
In the black orb it will erase the flaws of life
In the black orb it will contain enlightenment
Bestowed we place our faith In the black orb
Behold the molten core In the black orb
The truth shall arise In the black orb
Drawn into the gleam in the black orb
eye
In the black orb it will erase the flaws of life
In the black orb it will contain enlightenment
In the black orb it will erase the flaws of life
In the black orb it will betray the host of lies
Elemental Flaws of life
Elemental Host of lies
Elemental
Ascend to peril
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Watch us rise With blind eyes
Our dominion knows no bounds the gods’ gift forgotten
One generation to rise and fall gradivus is upon deaf ears
Ascend to peril
Ascend to peril
Our appetite so voracious offspring cannot be sustained
Limitless resources imagined we are the new gods
Ascend to peril
Ascend to peril
Hail the new gods Hail the new gods Forge ahead
Hail the new gods Fail the new gods Hail the new frauds
Forgery
Rise by their hand
Boundaries
Grasp of the gods With blind eyes
Punishment ye shall receive
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Our blight New creation Our disease Unforgiving desperation
Technology Forsaken In line For your
Punishment ye shall receive
Immense power Striking down
The global deception
Millions fade
Parasites
New strain On life Escalates Unimagined infiltration
Indiscretion Unprepared In line For your soul
Reap Unknowns Betrayed Exposed
Blindside
Facing insanity Dooms day
Ending the legacy
We crawl Like prey
Beneath The grade
Harbinger Of death
Stand for Judgement
Punishment ye shall receive
Immense power Striking down
The global deception
Millions fade
Parasites
Terrorized it
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Down fall
Begins
Cast blame
Factions
Enticed
Divide
You were betrayed by those you trust
Our stores
Depleted
Lost hope
Unhinged
Desperate
Measures
You were betrayed by
Those you trust
Blood rust
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Decay Spineless march of rot
Bludgeoned By corrosion
Ashes to dust
Suffer blood rust
Blight Chocking down the rot
Endless feast of waste
Ashes to dust
Suffer blood rust
Crimson hearts brought to their end
Immolated nothing spared
Crimson
Oblivion rains down on you
Blood rust hails your extinction
In demise
Liquefied bone crushed matter
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Crack it on a rock
Watch the sun eat it
Nothingness
Liquefied bone crushed matter
Life to crust Eternal fire
Nothingness
Wasting
Hopeless
Corpses
Melting
Dire rotsequences
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Chaos runs its course
Dying planet
Existence torn away
Collapse into destruction
Flee from their fate
Swallowed to extinction
Digested by ambition
Entombed with the dead
Desolation is my home
Prolific death
Repeats until we are
Entombed with the dead
Desolation is my home
Prolific death
Repeats until we are
Gone
Rot red end
The end times
Banishment
Sacred stone from the gods ends all life
Gradivus to quirinus
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The final trace
Of life is gone
An empty place
In the stars
Contamination
Pillaged plunder
Again to make this
Grave mistake
Too big To fail
Captured Essence
Fueling The host
Lesser Parish
To wage war
On adversaries
Time will tell
Eons away
This wasteland
Fit for corpses
All the ages
Cannot repair
Draining for master
Spreading their plague
Feeding Final departure
Immortal
Too big To fail
Captured Essence
Fueling The host
Lesser Parrish
Dispose of the waste
Offspring are hungry
Barren rendered asunder
Return to base elements
Nothing remains within this hell
Silent domain life was felled
Eternal
Slumber
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Ice Disease
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SHARPEN THE AXE
FOR VALHALLA
JUGGERNAUTS OF BONE AND STEEL
HOLD MY STONE TOWARD THE EAST
NO ONE KNOWS HOW FAR THEY CAME
NO ONE WINS AGAINST THEIR BLADE
TILT THE OAR’S AND RAISE THE MAST
SPILLING BLOOD ACROSS THE SEA
BLOODY STAIN ON HISTORY
CRUSH THE ENEMY
ROW………..
DRINKING FROM OUR VICTIMS SKULLS
WATCH ANOTHER NATION FALL
DEATH TO ALL BY RED MOONLIGHT
YOU ARE CRUSHED BY VIKING MIGHT
SPILLING BLOOD ACROSS THE SEA
BLOODY STAIN ON HISTORY
CRUSH THE ENEMY
SWING THE AXE
BLOOD RED
BURN
HORROR
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BOUNCING BETTY
DOOM
TEAR THROUGH PITS OF HELL
MOLTEN BITS OF LEAD
WAITING IN THE GROUND
ONE WRONG STEP YOU’RE DEAD
ENGINEERING THE DESTRUCTION OF FLEASH AND BONE
MAIMED LIMB
SHRAPNEL
BRAIN CHUNCKS
EXPLOSIONS FROM THE EARTH
CRAWLING FOR YOUR LIFE
RINGING IN YOUR EARS
BLACK, SOUND OF SCREAMS
MAIMED LIMB
SHRAPNEL
BRAIN CHUNCKS
IN BONE
ARMS
LEGS
BLOOD
LEAD
DOOM
THE DEAD COULD NOT BE COUNTED
ENGAGE THEIR ARMY
SHOW NO WEAKNESS
RAIN OF ARROWS
CHARGING HORSES
TRAMPELING WARRORS
SLASHING THROUGH INFANTRY
RAIDING THE VILLAGES
SILENCE THE SCREAMS
PILE THE DEAD
MERCY KILL
SPOILS OF WAR
WAR
GENOCIDE
WAR
E.T.
DRAINING IN THE SEA
POISION FROM THE SKY
RAINING ON THE EARTH
FUELING THE DEMISE
FLUSHING OUT THE ROOTS
ALL SHALL FEEL THE MIGHT
SPREADING LIKE DISEASE
DOMINO’S THEY FALL
ANNIHILATE
REFUGE
HOMOCIDE
ENDLESS
PENETRATION
MY SOLUTION
DEVASTATION
MY SOLUTION
PENETRATION
MY SOLUTION
DEVASTATION
MY SOLUTION
TERMINAL
YOUR FATE
HYPNOSIS
OUR RACE
ICE DISEASE
GUTS ON ICE
BLOOD ON WHITE
MEAT AND BONE
BRAIN AND BRAWN
SOLDIER’S
DYING
FIGHTING
MANIFEST DESTINY
EON’S
PROVOKING
UNKNOWING
SPREADING THE ICE DISEASE
DEATH TO OUR ENEMY
INSTILLTHE DEBOTCHERY
DEATH TO OUR ENEMY TO APPEASE A VENGEFUL GOD
INSTILL THE DEBOTCHERY TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO
TAUGHT
HATE
TAUGHT
HATE
LIES
BAIT
LIES
BAIT
MY BASTARD IDOL
SO GO AHEAD
DO YOUR DYING NOW
RIOT AND THEY SIEGE
SUPER POWERS FALL
SO LOOKING BACK
DOES IT FEEL THE SAME
KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW
WOULD YOU TRY AGAIN
WOULD YOU TRY AGAIN
NO BLOOD
NO REIGN
NO BLOOD
NO FAME
SO GO AHEAD
DO YOUR DYING NOW
RIOT AND THEY SIEGE
SUPER POWERS FALL
NO BLOOD
NO REIGN
NO BLOOD
NO FAME
THE IMPOSTER
STALKING FROM BEHIND IT’S YOUR ENEMY WAITING FOR THE CHANCE TO TAKE THE FATAL STRIKE
DROP YOU TO THE GROUND DROP YOU LIKE YOU’RE HOT
LEAVE YOU THERE TO BLEED WITH CONSCIENCELESS EYES
THINK IT’S SAID AND DONE THINK IT’S OVER NOW
YOU DON’T KNOW A THING IT’S BRINGING YOU TO YOUR KNEES
WHEN YA GONNA BOMB WHEN YOU GONNA BREAK
SMASH YOU TO THE GROUND
TRAPPING YOU DOWN UNDER
RAGE INSANITY………..
TIME HAS BROUGHT YOUR END
AND IT’S KILLED YOUR LUCK
CRUSHING DOWN ON YOU
IT TEARS AN UGLY MARK
WHEN YA GONNA BOMB
WHEN YA GONNA BREAK
SEND YOU DOWN THE LINE
CRUSHING YOU DOWN UNDER
RAGE INSANITY…………
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IN THE BOX
IMAGE OF THE GODS
CLONES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF ALL THE KINGS
AND ALL THE HYPOCRITS
SLAVES TO THE COGS
GROUND THROUGH ENDLESS GEARS
STAINED WITH THE BLOOD
DROWN IN ENDLESS TEARS
WHEN
YOU
GIVE ALL THAT YOU HAVE GOT
YOU FIND
IT’S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
MEANS TO AN END
TIME IS ALL YOU HAVE
GO WITH THE FLOW
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
BACKS TO THE WALL
TRAPPED IN A GLASS CAGE
ROLLED IN A HOLE
STUFFED IN A MASS GRAVE
WHEN
YOU
GIVE ALL THAT YOU HAVE GOT
YOU
FIND
IT’S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
FALL OUT
COLD LIES SPEW FROM YOUR BLACK HEART………
MY DAYS
GO SOLO
OLD WAYS
ARE OVER
MY RAGE
GROWS COLDER
NO SWEAT
IT’S JUST ANOTHER FALL OUT
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
NO SWEAT
IT’S JUST FALLOUT
WORDS OUT
FALLOUT
YOU SHOUT
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
YOU SHOUT……………..
YOUR MISERY IS FOREVER OVER
DESTINY HAS PLAYED ITS CARD
YOUR MISERY IS FOREVER OVER
DESTINY HAS PLAYED ITS CARD
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
YOU SHOUT
YOU SHOUT
FALLOUT
NO SWEAT
IT’S JUST ANOTHER FALL OUT
HALLOWEEN MASSACRE
SCREAMS ECO THROUGH THE NITE
A DARK FACE OUTSIDE THE LIGHT
BLACK CLOUDS BLOT THE MOON
HALLOWEEN WILL BE YOUR DOOM
THE STREET’S ARE DEAD
ALL HOPE IS LOST
BATTLE SCARED
THIS HOLOCAUST
HUNT MY VICTIMS
TILL IT’S THROUGH
I’M CREEPING UP ON YOU
HALLOWEEN MASSACRE ……….
PIERCE THE CARVING KNIFE IN DEEP
SCOOP THE INSIDES OUT TO EAT
LIGHT WILL SHINE THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE
FROM HOLES THAT WERE YOUR EYES AND MOUTH
STALKING ANOTHER VICTIM
DOOMING ANOTHER LIFE
CARVING ANOTHER VICTIM
SCULPTING ANOTHER LIGHT
BATS SOAR IN THE WIND
MY PUMPKIN SITS AND GRINS
UNTIL THE LIGHT BURNS DIM
MY PUMPKIN SITS AND GRINS
HALLOWEEN MASSACRE ………..
THE CATALYST
YOUR TIME HAS COME
JUDGED FOR EON’S
MEASURED BY GODS
FORCE THEIR HAND
KILLING TIME
DOOM SHALL REIGN
BORN INTO PERPETUAL
KILLING TIME
DOOM SHALL REIGN
BORN INTO PERPETIUAL
WAR REIGN
CONSUME YOUR WORLD
DECEND IN HORROR
PRECISION ERASED
DOOM SHALL REIGN
KILLING TIME
DOOM SHALL REIGN
BORN INTO PERPETUAL
KILLING TIME
DOOM SHALL REIGN
BORN INTO PERPETUAL
WAR REIGN
DOOM SHALL REIGN
THE COST
OF ALL THE HATRED
THE BOSS
OF ALL THE NATIONS
EXTERMINATE……………….