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Laying Fallow
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Rudra
06:20
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Paralytic Miasma
05:19
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Mouths Without Throats
08:07
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To consume the day
start with the jaw
unhinge and set aside
you won't need it anymore
continue with the tongue
but first sand off all the bumps
then always with the teeth
every time just scraping by
Then the lip service
Serves its one purpose
For the sub-surface
Feed the face furnace
Next time if there is a next time
Next time if there is another next time
Build up your defenses four
Build up your defenses three
Build up your defenses two
What you swallow, never chewed
ingest in order to exist
exist in order to excrete
excrete in order to ingest
nothing greater nothing less
eat all the dots, eat all the dots, run
eat all the dots, eat all the dots, eat all the dots, run
eat all the dots, eat all the dots, run
eat all the dots, eat all the dots, eat all the dots, run
eat all the dots, eat all the dots, run
eat all the dots, eat all the fucking dots, eat all the fucking dots
run your mouth, and then
spill it out again
ingest in order to exist
exist in order to excrete
excrete in order to ingest
nothing greater nothing less
to consume the soul
fill the holy water basin
plunge the face in
to consume the self
clench the hand
feed the fist into the mouth
eat all the dots, eat all the dots...
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Progeny of the Wombless
04:51
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Encroaching Grays
02:33
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Locked
Locked to the loom
What are the shapes we're woven into?
And by who?
Hook over loop, over loop.
Hook over loop, over loop.
Hand over hook over hook hand.
Hand over hook over loop.
What are the shapes we're woven into?
And by who?
Hook hand.
Hand over hook.
Hook over loop.
Hook over loop, over loop.
See where it took you?
See where it took you?
Cloth mother
Wire mother
Stretch taut the canvas
My flesh to your masterpiece
Hook over loop, hook over loop.
Mother, mother.
Feed one, slaughter the other, too.
Feed one, slaughter the other one.
To feed one, slaughter the other.
Stretch taut the canvas
My flesh to your masterpiece
Grip tight the scalpel
What will the muse release?
Stretch taut the canvas
My flesh to your...
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Struggling to Detoxify
06:10
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Get credit
Take credit due
Bent knee always assumed
Skim the cream for you
It's all that's called for
It's all you want for
Take credit for existence
Turn on your brother, burn your brother
Turn on your brother, burn your brother
Turn on your brother, burn your brother
Finish one, take another
It's all that's called for
It's all you want for
Take credit for
Betray your own kind
Chew through that honeycombed hive mind
Seems that it all can be traced to the source
Can't alter the course
it's set at the factory
Programmed to think it's the right thing
but who did the programming?
Forces we barely can perceive
Realign
Reassign
Realign (reassign)
Reassign (redefine)
Seems that it all can be traced to the source
Toxin can be traced to the well
Poisoned the ground where my father's body fell
And I'm left
clutching its last stem cell
Betray
Betray
Betray
We are not they
A man takes advantage.
A man takes advantage.
A man.
A man.
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Cryptic Ruse Portland, Oregon
Cryptic Ruse is the one-person experimental metal project of nonbinary transfem microtonalist Deja
Igliashon.
Each album emphasizes a different constellation of influences, ranging from doom metal sludge to mathy progressive metal. A wide variety of microtonal tunings are employed on every album but Sierpinski's Casket, which is all in 12-tone equal temperament.
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