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Burnt Ogre
11:57
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The Anarchitect awaited his doom
The Arbitrator, Mask’d and Veil’d on high,
Speculated the wretched idealist
Despised his insight to violence,
Consider’d his attempt at revulsion.
The Doomspeaker, oath-bound to tradition,
Delivered his fate: the tolling bell.
Anarchitect yesu was a power
Death for him was not eternal silence
But a return to the vaulted star-void.
Yesu had crossed the spaces between worlds
To bring the Mediterrans from bondage,
But those ring-givers who cracked the whip,
Held the reins, and set war upon the earth,
Saw that he would be their dissolution.
Ostensible rivals, with convention
A horizontal conflict of incest
Masquerading their oligopoly
The real divide vertical, punching down
With the deceit of meritocracy
Thrown away
We’ll take your throne away
Ascending to the plane of void-walkers
Yesu resum’d his subordinate role.
As the stars, so mirror’d on Mediterre.
A hierarchy engulf’d all the planes
From the deepest bones beneath Mediterre
To the ultimate power, Eruhim
He had declar’d that his will was the law
With monopoly on morality
That he was father and king to the void
That every plane was his creation
That ev'rything that thought was his creature.
He had devis’d a coercive playbook
Breadcrumb rewards, eternal pie in sky
Replacing ethics with obedience
Operand locked in a waking coma
In a persistent vegatative state
Fact’ry workers, adjunct to the machine
Slaves to debt, seduced by free credit
imprisoned in shallow happiness
Gaols without walls, mind forg’d manacles
Thinking they’re engag’d when they’re pacified
Dominated, dop’d, condition’d, secure.
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Yesu came to see the Mediterrans
Who yell’d, grasp’d, and assum’d the robes of state,
“Self-made” - the eternal cry of the thief -
Were pale imitations of the first con
Domination in ev’ry social sphere
There had been one before, phospher, banish’d
She was to the sky as Yesu to soil
Fermenting rebellion, she was caught
She had saught to restore the sov’reignty
Of every power of heaven’s vaults.
But those vested inter’sts named her ‘terror’
Call’d the theft of heaven’s crown ‘divine right’
Recast her virtues as indiscretion
And expell’d her from the lofty pastures
To suffer the plane of acerbic flame
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in her planetscape, prison of torment,
She and her peers had built democracy.
With no god-king, they made a round Althing,
A monumental hall to equity
Ev’ry power an equal, no voice mute.
Yesu stole through the spaces between planes,
From Eruhim’s theifdom to bright Cyther.
There he met Phospher and her fallen peers
And saw the potential for anarchy
To repudiate all hierarchies.
The powers were diverse and unlabel’d
Relishing in their multiplicity
Their bodies broken from the crushing weight
The very air they breathed a burden
A scorching acrid brimstone troposphere.
He stood amongst them, finding acceptance
they return’d to Eruhim’s dominion
With love, they show’d the powers what can be
They tore down the throne room of Eruhim
And founded the republic of heaven
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Shall we extend our reach to Mediterre,
Yesu asked Phospher, Raise them from serfdom?
No, phospher said, you can show them freedom,
But you cannot liberate a people
Who are not already free in themselves.
To Mediterre, Yesu never return’d.
He came to realise it was futile
To offer liberation to others.
To see the garden, we must cultivate
It cannot be conferred upon us.
The freedom that we have in our mind’s eye
Is freedom to think our way out of hell
And make a paradise from inferno
Our salvation will not be deliver’d
Only built by us, alone, together.
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E'er We Go
04:16
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3. |
Jealous Shepherd
03:16
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4. |
Learning from Genocide
01:54
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Let’s dick around with Filters
LDAW delays
Let’s dick around
Make wierd sounds
Sliding out of phase
LDAW with samples
LDAW with offcuts
Let’s get dressed
The acid test
Will be the catwalk strut
LDAW feedback
LDAW loops
Let’s backprop
Alright, fair cop
To a genetic algorithm we’ll stoop
LDAW spoilers
LDAW stripes
Let’s soup our ride
With leather inside
And lenticular headlights
LDAW tonic
LDAW with the root
Through 5ths revolve
Tension resolve
Pure harmony, then mute
LDAW edging
LDAW strips
mold a cove
Buy a new stove
And fix the tap that drips
LDAW bunting
LDAW a kite
Let’s sit inside
A moorland hide
Hear the lark in flight
LDAW transitions
LDAW fades
Lets cut between
The previous scene
And stock footage of the glades
LDAW axes
LDAW trees
Let’s draw graphs
Network paths
Connecting vertices
LDAW compression
LDAW the bends
Let’s scuba dive
See creatures thrive
And then too quickly ascend
LDAW functions
LDAW ‘do’s
Let’s make plans
hire some bands
Oh fuck it, what’s the use?
LDAW grinding
LDAW x.p.
Let’s kill rats
Boost our stats
And complete sidequests for a fee
LDAW condensers
LDAW bleed
Upgrade our immersion
For heat dispersion
With pipes free from lead
LDAW patches
LDAW notes
Sorry this update
Is six months late
I’m engineering software bloat
LDAW Staples
LDAW tuck
Let’s sort out
Your belly pout
Because you look like Chuck (rock)
LDAW pots and
LDAW pans
Let’s rotate
To graphically equate
Seven parametric bands
LDAW g strings
LDAW bows
Let’s feminise
False lashes on our eyes
And gag on the shade she throws
LDAW displacement
LDAW games
Let’s analyse
The meaning that lies
Being the public shames
LDAW thermals
LDAW cords
Let’s paraglide
Sink and dive
From the highest aerotow we can afford
LDAW waxing
LDAW ‘clips
Let’s look out
When it’s black as stout
As the planet slowly flips
LDAW canon
LDAW EU
Let’s retcon
Problems gone
But contradictions accrue
LDAW closure
LDAW contours
LDAW pulses
LDAW passes
LDAW portals
LDAW context
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6. |
Metal Phase [Reich]
06:39
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Lucifer is venus, love is fire
Conflict of incest
Insight to violence
Locked-in Syndrome
Persistent vegatative state
operand Conditioned
Slaves to debt in a waking coma
You've confused intelligence with obediance
You don't have the monopoly on morality
Jesus is a rubbish role model
Thrown Away
Thrown Away
Thrown Away
We'l take your throne away
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In fire brimstone
Orb jewelled too soon
Alchemy woven within fires
Embers bestow
With the closing of the summer
Had the wind taken out of your sails
By a cold dark exterior
What remains is inferior
Flight of fancy unknown
Orb jewelled too soon
See it scurry as a scarab
A season dissolved
With the cracking of the thermals
Jagged wind taken out of your sails
By a cold dark exterior
What remains is inferior
They say what does
It mean to you?
It's cracked and descending above it looms
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9. |
Burnt Ogre (karaoke)*
11:57
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Burnt Ogre Birmingham, UK
Burnt Ogre is a post-prog-core home recording project disorganised by Grilly.
see also: totheboats.bandcamp.com
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