Bloody Panda is a doom metal band based in New York City.
The band was formed in 2003 by Yoshiko Ohara, an established visual artist based in Osaka, Japan, who "decided to spend her savings on a trip to New York City, brand new recording equipment in tow, with the idea that she’d move to America to make music, this despite the unfortunate fact that she didn’t know how to play an instrument of any kind." Ohara then posted advertisements for band members that read, "Seeking guitarist, bassist and drummer to form the biggest band in the world, as soon as possible. Must have dark personalities." One such ad posted in a local record store, caught the attention of trio Josh Rothenberger (guitar), Bryan Camphire (bass), and Blake McDowell (organ), who responded and subsequently joined Ohara's project, ultimately rounded out by "respected jazz and world music drummer/percussion-ist/tabla-ist" Dan Weiss.
Between 2005 and 2006, the quintet played around New York City opening for such diverse acts as Akron/Family, Genghis Tron, and Mouth of the Architect.College Music Journal commented on Bloody Panda's live performances stating, "Known for their daring stage shows, the band performs in executioner's hoods and robes to amplify their Yoko Ono-meets-Black Sabbath (or Sunn O)))-like) riff work." The band released—through Holy Roar—a split album with avant-garde metal group Kayo Dot in early 2007, and also recorded a cover of Eyehategod's "Anxiety Hangover" for the tribute album For the Sick. At this time, the debut album by the "enigmatic metal band with the indie rock name" had become one of the most anticipated full-lengths in 2007.
Warning finger marks
You are a fake
Sopping wet poison
You are a fake
There is not much sympathy on that bone
My rabbit was under wrong impression
You, over there
A pack of lies, a pack of lies
My rabbit took a step from his fate
The eggs burn their nest and bury themselves
In a pit fall
After all they have made the same mistake again
Didn't I tell you so?
I am always talking about you
You turned my heartbeat into a trap in an instant
What I said, that way, this way
Do we regain our feet?
People I don't know
Loss of memory with amazing speed
A dot. What do you mean by that?
We tied your horses to a post
Are you listening to me at this moment?
Now we are walking on the dots under the roof
People I know. Overpayment
Just between you and me
Your nails are well dyed but I don't remember anything
I don't remember well
Cound down
Are you listening to me at this moment?
The day
It doesn't work at all
Our best days. We have a quick mind
Please do something about by the second
The day
Are you listening to me?
[Japanese Lyrics]
Don't push your head out of the food cycle
What year is it now?
What day is it today?
It's my turn
Destroy the evidence
You look different today
[Japanese Lyrics]
Once we are easy targets under the skin
The past shakes the brain off the wall
The future shakes the brain off the wall
[Japanese Lyrics]
After images of doodle bugs in the peepholes
A sudden change
This is our National Anthem
Now we make no disguise in a bottomless swamp
I will bring you back
SO PLEASE
PLEASE
Optical illusions
A figment of your imagination
Immortal race
Ants around a burning sugar cube
Prick your seeds with a needle
And laugh with their mouthes (sic) wide open
Before your very eyes in the safety net
We restore youth when you grow old, old,
When you grow old
We all get out
Want me as
A fever so low
Positive voice
Negative pills
Everyone
Everything
A fever, a fever
Now you can see
Now you can see
Remind me
Vicious vision
Mirror
Trapped inside the eye
Recover your memory
You have seen my death
Someday you'll freeze
And pray to ice
Your head preserved in a case
[Japanese lyrics]
Red eyes and blue eyes are watching you
There are collisions in the universe
Your teeth pretend not to know
Self defence, force and emotion
Give me a hint
We digest your profit right now, right now
You repeat a whisful (sic) thinking in the well
We know you will be repaid in kind
Words of comfort, justice and a fist
You will dig a well to hide your name
We won't forgive you for breaking the peace
Dead force, rebirth and iron sand
A mad scramble for seats in your head
Give me a hint
Twist the fact to meditate
Self satisfaction
Scorn sucking at your soul
Left to suffer on your own
Self satisfaction
Scorn sucking at your soul
Things always come undone
Trapped behind the cold brick wall
Left to suffer on your own
Suffer on your own
Drag me out from the bathtub
The cell stood there, bound as if by a spell
Diamonds behind the madness cross the river of death
And genetic codes had no idea of time
Diamonds behind the madness cross the river of death
Who gave you that idea?
Movement of the numbers
What next?
A great sorrow drives itself into a corner
A symbol of fetters