"Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take"
I'm not going to wake up today They've pulled my plug, the picture fades And as my body decays Mold begins to fill my grave
The smell of death permeates the silk within my coffin lays Go to hell!
As they bury me now, six feet there, my body lies Still feel like I'm going down, I hear a distant wailing cry God! Something must've gone wrong! And much too late I realize...
Go to hell!
I saw my funeral that day I know who didn't show to mourn My judgment was life in hell Pillars of pain and thorns
My only friend's the goat, with 666 between his horns Go to hell!
Place all your trust here in me Rest assured, these things I know And as Charon sails the sea Your journey, too, shall end below
Ah yes, you're all sitting ducks! It's true you reap what you sow Go to hell!
"Now I lay me down to sleep Blah… blah… blah, my soul to keep If I die before I wake I'll go to Hell for Heaven's sake"
the guy was around for mid-late 00s, just been slow getting new stuff out. I actually like his older stuff better, but that album's not bad. Minutia's Curse and Nightrunner are standouts on it
Originally posted by aldra
I have physical copies of oppidian and void(), didn't know they were still around
I have Oppidan, Void and Geosynchron.
I really want to get back into cds, since 2007 I have been mostly digital and it pains me. If this whole planet is nuked and I die at least I'll get to reincarnate and experience going to VIBES records for the first time again ;_; If the world doesn't end and DJT turns the economy around and somehow I end up making money then I'm going to buy albums and go to live shows all the time.
The year was 2006, summer. I was 15 years old. My okaasan and I were living at my grandparents, she lost her job in 2005 and so we had to leave the apartment. This was the greatest year of my life and mostly it's because I wasn't on the internet. The hard drive in my AOL pc (they had this special where you could get a desktop, monitor and kb/m all for $300) had failed (idk why I didn't think to buy another hard drive) and so I was left a whole year without a computer, however occasionally I would go to the public library and use their computers. During this time I was left with nothing to do but play video games and watch tv. That year I really started getting into manga and I even attempted to try and learn Japanese, but I have an extreme avoidant personality disorder so it never worked out but that was the apex year for my Japanophilia. Bored out of my mind I went through my cd collection and fate had it that a few years earlier while dumpster diving with my tomodachi outside of a half priced bookstore I found a promotional cassette tape copy of Skinny Puppy's Last Rights. Holy fucking shit yeah I was fucking lucky. When I tried listening to it I was like "What the fuck is this fucking garbage how in the fuck could anyone want to listen to this. Up until then my ears were only accustomed to accessible music, since I mostly grew up with nothing but access to the radio and whatever few cds my mom happened to buy me (we have always been poor). Around that time my favorite band was Rammstein, I absolutely worshipped that band and watched their music videos all the time (the 90s really did have the greatest aesthetics and media). I was very curious as to how and why someone could enjoy and listen to something like Last Rights, and a year or two earlier I discovered Merzbow through Pandora so remembering my tape and that weird band I stumbled upon on the web I made the life changing decision to explore the most challenging music possible and train myself to enjoy music that on first listen either sounded boring or painful. When I first started listening to these bands/musicians/albums it truly was a psychedelic experience, my consciousness would go into dissociative states and I would trip out without even being on any substance (except for all the caffeine from the sodas). That year was the year my musical life began and the year I would go on to discover one of the coolest places I have ever been to in the fleshnet, a record store called "Vibes Music" in Broad ripple Indiana. I had never experienced a real record store, the only ones I had been to were corporate places in the shopping mall or places like Best Buy so stepping into a genuine record shop was like visiting another country. I would go into detail about the visuals and smells of the place but that would take too much effort and time so let me just say that it was a smelly old looking record shop filled with thousands of cds and vinyl records. I was determined to find the coolest and most challenging music they had and it just so happened that that fucking place was legit as fuck and had everything from Merzbow to whatever the fuck else and so it was there that I bought my first ever Merzbow album "Merzbuddha" (fuck the haters laptop era merzbow is the best), I also picked up a copy of the Wolf Eye's album "Burned Mind", a copy of Boris' "Pink" and VNV Nation's "Empires" all of those albums forever changed me and made me who I am today. The rest is history.
Also ever since then Last Rights became my second favorite album of all time. I'm not exactly sure what my first is because I have like a dozen of them, but I'll say it's probably Things Falling Apart.
Last Rights is really good, probably Skinny Puppy's best.
I dunno if I could pick a favourite, but here are a few:
Sophia - Spite Rome - Flowers from Exile Haujobb - Vertical Theory Death in June - either But What Ends When the Symbols Shatter or Take Care and Control
