Over on Shambhala SunSpace, I’m sharing with readers the chance to hear “Red As Blood,” a track by Seattle’s Deadly Light, who describe the music on their new CD Six Walls as “fairly heavy rock/metal, with a bit of an ambient/tribal feel as well.” Also, the band are practicing Buddhists. Here, on the Horse, you can also hear another track, “Black Electric” (below).

Deadly Light is Max Neal (guitar, backing vocals), Don Baumer (drums, backing vocals), and Dave Vitello (vocals, electronics). Regarding the band’s connection to the dharma, Baumer tells me:

“As practicing Buddhists, we have written lyrical content that deals with consciousness, the trials and triumphs of working with meditation and the path, and the difficulties of bringing that path into a society that often fosters materialism and alienation.”

Okay — I’m sold on the concept. But how’s the music? Well, I’m sold on that too, but here’s “Black Electric” a sample track from Six Walls for you to check out for yourself. The lyrics are included, too.

Deadly Light – Black Electric (Click to play; opens in new window)

Presence thickens the air
Clear light shines
Why protect the indestructible?
Instead I’ll bow down
Fear suffocates
Break through
Open night
To zero point
Breathe the charge
Central channel
Current shoots
To zero point

Floating in black electric
Let the dream shine
Groundless, the panic comes
Don’t you go unconscious

Take the leap
Reach the shore
Cut through
Chained no more
Reach the farthest shore
Cut through
Chained no more

Gone far beyond
You’re gone far beyond

(About the song, Don says: “Black Electric is about experiencing the moment to moment unfolding of our lives as a transparent intensity, like space being on fire, rather than the ‘safe’ world nestled in familiar concepts. ‘Floating in Black Electric’ is what happens when we stop protecting ourselves from illusions of creation, destruction, and separateness and instead experience the present moment as an intense, crackling, electric singularity.”)

For more from Deadly Light:

You can hear another track (also with lyrics), “Red as Blood” over at Shambhala SunSpace.

Or, follow Deadly Light on their website.