Jake Tavares
There isn't much to NOT like about this album. In fact, I can't think of one thing. Deep and dark and emotive. I can't stop spinning it.
Favorite track: Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper.
jane bird
This album is heavy in the way an ancient old oak is - all gnarled and twisted and sublime and also a home to birds and other woodland creatures who take their headbanging slow and natural. Love it so much.
Favorite track: Forest, Subsists as a Tomb.
Track 1: Water, tinted gold & tainted copper
the five awaken from their slumber
blinded by visions of the elements of life
leading to a scorched earth
a crows nest shrouded in metal and rust
even scraps fear nothingness
i've seen blackened, deserted shores
calling me, whispering lore
is uncertainty safer than security?
life reduced to moments powered on, flickering.
" Prodigal, Machinery, Crawling Back to the Devil I Know.
Tricked Out. A Workaround For Free Will
Got What We Thought We Wanted. What We Thought We Knew
Touched The Wires Together
Wade Through The Yellow Waters
And Then The Rust / And Then The Rust / The Death Of Us
Freedom / Corrosion / Death By Determinism
I’m Going Back To The Cage That Knows What’s Best For Me
Throw Myself At Their Feet
And Cease To Dream"
the five return to their slumber
carbon bodies
ash up to your knees
toiling for years
algae blooms
swell and spread
choking our air
dark towers
shroud these walls
dusk settles
seeds linger after droughts
they linger
baptized in the river
of metallic sludge
sinking to the bottom
give in
what if the end never comes
baptized in the river
in waves i'll meet you at the edge
sinking to the bottom
drowning in waves
circling the drain
find me
(cycle is interrupted)
numb and broken
floating with the current
(desperate to find a future)
take heed-
you dare spread the destruction from whence you came
take heed-
you who share frame & limb with those who breathe
take heed-
you whose youth shall quiver before our breadth
ive felt the mass of a fractured world
bear down upon my diminished branches
take heed-
all that has been lost you lost was ours to claim
take heed-
all that has been lost you lost is yours to blame
seeds linger after droughts
there is no lingering distance between you and death
life blooms after doubts
your kind has done nothing
moth floating
high above
wings scorched
limbs singed
(sky)
withered evergreen
lacking air
the end
came swiftly
(in)
crooked lips
wavered fealty
laugh amid
the wreckage
(descend)
we pebbles
formed mountains
gained arrogance
shattered back
(pieces)
cracked bleeding hands (the sky)
no longer carve stone (descends)
water exists as (the end)
our only sculpter
cracked bleeding hands (cast of)
of soil and ore (static)
of carbon and steel (smoke)
of fortress and conquest
about
** Jimmy Claypool, who played on the song Forest, Subsists as a Tomb was accused of sexual assault by multiple survivors and we stand with them. All money recieved from the purchases of this song will be donated to sexual assault support initiatives, and we will no longer be playing it live **
THE VINYL & CASSETTE OF THIS ALBUM ARE OUT OF PRINT. IF YOU WANT A PHYSICAL COPY OF THIS ALBUM YOU CAN PURCHASE PRESERVATION RITUALS, OUR DISCOGRAPHY CD WHICH INCLUDES THIS RECORD.
credits
released March 7, 2018
Recorded at Signaturetone Studios in Minneapolis by Adam Tucker
Additional Recording at Candle Recordings in Toronto by Josh Korody
Art & Layout by Stephen Wilson
Released by Halo of Flies (US) & Dry Cough (UK)
Track 1 features Chris Colohan on vocals
Track 3 features James Claypool on guitar
Tracks 1,3, & 4 feature Erin Severson as the narrator
The record was recorded live with one guitar, one drum kit, and two weird queer kids with lofty ambitions!
Vile Creature is:
Vic - drums, vocals
KW - guitar, vocals, percussion
supported by 122 fans who also own “Cast of Static and Smoke”
I love the light and shade between Bryan's dirty and Emma's forlorn vocals. There are so many layers to this recording that are driven home through contrast. Plus the riffs are brilliant and get me moving. I can't stop listening to Thou and Emma in general lately. spaceman2250
supported by 117 fans who also own “Cast of Static and Smoke”
never been a big death metal fan but this is actually super accessible for the genre, has fun concepts, and personally i'm always a fan of albums with short tracklists and huge runtimes (for individual songs) Great time, good jumping on point for newbies too. alienasu
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