(electronic warbling) (electronic buzz) (heavy indie rock music plays) (indie rock continues) ♪ Agony ♪ ♪ Are you breathing ♪ ♪ In too deep ♪ ♪ Are you breathing ♪ (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) ♪ Agony ♪ ♪ Are you falling ♪ ♪ Back to sleep ♪ ♪ Are you falling ♪ (energetic indie rock continues) (energetic indie rock continues) (energetic indie rock continues) (energetic indie rock continues) (energetic indie rock continues) ♪ You're severing ♪ ♪ Torn at the seam ♪ ♪ Tether to me ♪ ♪ Your agony ♪ (heavy electric bass playing) (audience cheers and applauds) (energetic indie rock plays) (energetic indie rock continues) ♪ Tossed in the flame ♪ ♪ Another name ♪ ♪ To burn ♪ ♪ It's all the same ♪ ♪ Ashes to fill ♪ ♪ The urn ♪ (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) ♪ Tossed in the flame ♪ ♪ It's time to take ♪ ♪ Your turn ♪ ♪ Embrace the pain ♪ ♪ Endure the fate ♪ ♪ You earn ♪ ♪ You choke and sear ♪ ♪ The smoke will clear ♪ (heavy indie rock continues) ♪ You will be gone ♪ (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock slowly simmers out) - We just kind of sat down, and I guess narrowed down all the stuff that we really enjoyed, and like, kind of met in the middle of, and slowly but surely, adding everybody else, we just kind of still kept incorporating stuff we all liked and could just mesh well together.

Because I feel like everybody has a different taste.

We don't all collectively listen to the same thing.

We branch out so much, which I think is very apparent in our songwriting at this point.

- I think it helps that we all kind of align on like, the same like, middle point.

- Middle ground?

- Yeah.

We all have like, an enjoy enjoyment of heavy music that kind of carried us through.

- I mean, as far as being like, "This is what we're gonna sound like," I don't think we ever knew.

- [Band Mate] I still don't think we really know.

- Yeah.

I still think it's growing.

I think, regardless of your influence, you can love as many bands as you want, but by the time you sit down with your friends to write a song, it's gonna be that, you know?

And it's gonna maybe sound like things you like, but whatever comes out and through the change of five different people, it becomes its own thing.

(mellow soft indie music) (mellow soft indie continues) ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Haunting you in your dreams ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Why won't you bare your teeth ♪ ♪ Show them so I can leave ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Tremble when you're asleep ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Why won't you make me bleed ♪ ♪ Fight me with everything ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ (heavy indie rock music) (heavy indie rock music continues) ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Trying to be set free ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ ♪ Are you afraid of me ♪ ♪ Why won't you let me be ♪ ♪ Thought you could finally see ♪ ♪ I'm your enemy ♪ (music echoes out slowly) - Song's called "Halley".

(heavy indie rock plays) (heavy indie rock continues) (heavy indie rock continues) ♪ You saw ♪ ♪ I look for you at night ♪ ♪ In the dark ♪ ♪ Open your shining light ♪ ♪ Just tell me one more time ♪ ♪ I want you to come home ♪ ♪ I want you to wait there patiently ♪ ♪ I want to wander ♪ ♪ I want to give in everything ♪ (heavy indie rock continues) ♪ In the storm ♪ ♪ I wonder where you've been ♪ ♪ Ripped apart ♪ ♪ You stretch yourself so thin ♪ ♪ You should know better than ♪ ♪ I want to come home ♪ ♪ I want you to wait and ♪ ♪ I want to know it ♪ ♪ I want to give in everything ♪ ♪ You wish I can follow ♪ ♪ I wish you could follow it to me ♪ (indie rock music continues) ♪ To me ♪ (indie rock music continues) ♪ To me ♪ (indie rock softens to ambience) (audience cheering) (indie rock softly fades) - Honestly, it was just going to like, park shows and in Texas and like, just seeing live music outside of the church, you know?

'Cause in church you, you're loud, but you're nowhere near as loud as we are.

You want the lyrics to carry the whole service, and like, I do try to treat the shows kind of like a sermon in a sense.

Obviously not in like, a verbatim way, but... - [Band Mate 2] Can I say it?

- (laughs) Chill, chill, chill.

Chill, chill, chill.

I don't know.

Like, I do want it to feel like you're there, and it's like a service.

I don't know, like a religious experience, and I think that the loudness aspect of it, you get to feel that because, in church, you feel something when you're connected to the lyricism anthe sounds and stuff.

That's what was my favorite part about church is like, when I would hear like the guitars get louder and the, you know, the vocalists singing with more gumption and like, being more emotive.

I would, you know, start feeling more, so I think when we play and we get louder and you feel the rumble of the bass, and then you hear the drums crashing, you see all of us kind of getting really into it, you should feel that and it should tie into something in you, and I think that's at least my approach.

- Yeah.

I guess.

I mean, yeah.

Like we talked earlier, all the different types of music that we like, it's like a pretty wide spectrum of things, but one thing it all has in common is that it's loud, I guess.

Like shoegaze, doom metal, hardcore, all that.

All those different types on music, They make you feel something because it's this loud experience.

(heavy melancholic indie rock playing) (melancholic indie rock continues) ♪ Setting sun ♪ ♪ It's almost done ♪ ♪ We can't go on ♪ ♪ Sorry ♪ ♪ I'm so sorry ♪ ♪ I'm alone ♪ ♪ You've always known ♪ ♪ We sink into the sea ♪ ♪ Reminding you and me ♪ ♪ That I regret ♪ ♪ Everything ♪ (melancholic indie rock continues) ♪ Don't try again ♪ ♪ My broken friend ♪ ♪ I've made amends ♪ (melancholic indie rock softens) (drums beating deeply) (drums continue beating) ♪ We sink into the sea ♪ ♪ Reminding you and me ♪ ♪ That I regret ♪ ♪ Everything ♪ (melancholic indie rock continues) ♪ Everything ♪ (melancholic indie rock continues) (melancholic indie rock continues) (melancholic indie rock continues) (melancholic indie rock continues) (melancholic indie rock softly echoes out) - This is our last song.

Thank y'all so much for being here.

We're Trauma Ray, again.

Fort Worth, Texas.

(audience cheers) I love Birmingham, Alabama.

Straight up.

(audience cheers and whistles) (upbeat guitar strumming) (upbeat indie rock music plays) (upbeat indie rock music continues) ♪ Runner ♪ ♪ Sprinter ♪ ♪ Look at you go ♪ ♪ Record ♪ ♪ Breaker ♪ ♪ Star of the show ♪ ♪ Reach out ♪ ♪ For you ♪ ♪ Pulling away ♪ ♪ Hear me ♪ ♪ Calling ♪ ♪ Why won't you stay ♪ ♪ I'll play it like the fool ♪ ♪ I can't bother ♪ ♪ To keep on chasing you ♪ ♪ Runaway ♪ ♪ Runner ♪ ♪ Sprinter ♪ ♪ Look at you go ♪ ♪ Quite the ♪ ♪ Distance ♪ ♪ I can't follow ♪ ♪ I'll play it like the fool ♪ ♪ I can't bother ♪ ♪ To keep on chasing you ♪ ♪ I'm so tired ♪ ♪ I can barely breathe ♪ ♪ You're a liar ♪ ♪ You said you'd wait for me ♪ ♪ Runaway ♪ ♪ Runaway ♪ - Thank y'all so much.

Y'all have a good day.

(audience cheering)