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Obsolith EP

by Obsolith

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Loosely based on Paolo Bacigalupi's novel, “The Windup Girl” (2009) Those seeds will never come up They are just comestible And that is only if they Wouldn't be eaten by rust or weevil That bulk will never take off There is not enough coal And petrol we've left in the age Of the Expansion of blessed memory It's the Contraction Hardly squeaks the spring of life Consume calories Turn them into joules To breath to work to strive For a new feed Eat SoyPRO and tighten springs Hack genes computing with treadle All starts and ends with a squeak Last goodbye of globalization And somewhere the windup begins The desperate quest for herself So soon it will be heard Heechy-keechy's bloody first hello It's the Contraction Hardly squeaks the spring of life Consume calories Turn them into joules To breath to work to strive For a new feed Cheshire cat Of free market Slinks away And malicious smile Stays and hangs Grows and thickens Overhead Squeaking squeaking Meanwhile
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Portia 04:19
Loosely based on Peter Watts' novel, “Echopraxia” (2014) Pisces-Cetus Galaxy Wall Virgo Cluster of Laniakea Local Group then Milkу Way Orion Arm you're almost here Prehistoric posthuman and the bunch of absent persons clash With the hive of carcinomas in trance obsessed with hand hygiene Everything goes according to the plan relax pill-popper Everything goes without saying Ready steady get in Local Interstellar Cloud The bubble that kisses Bubble One Take a closer look at the dwarfs One of the yellow is our Sun Posthumans fail and the greatest secret is in the dirty mandibles Of pathetic helpless but enduring roach piece of the obsolith Everything goes according to the plan take it easy baseline Everything goes without saying Ready steady take it Daring Ikarus hovers there Snuggle right beside it and dwell Save your strength for oncoming meet According to the intelligent plan All-pervading mimetic glacier Portia the mold Overthinking overwhelming Portia the god Dive like Dive with Fire Rise from Rise like The ashes Portia the mold Portia the god
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New Tongue 04:57
Based on the song by “Underthals” (https://underthals.bandcamp.com) New tongue's Grown through my gullet and lungs The spiny stem he's so fiery and so young One more Friend to help us in our war To wedge in people's minds to make them to abhor Their glazed Ignorance and indifference And aspiration for private happiness Such a haste Yet before he has to taste The icy scab and burning salt from the ax [New tongue's] Grown through my gullet and lungs He's full of hopes dramatically bright and strung His thirst Is unquenchable he wills to burst Slop of our life darkness of our time but first I'm sure He has to lick our own gore From the walls of prison cell and from the door and from the floor Such a fate Yet it's very hard to get Thirst may turn into despair or stupid hate New tongue's Grown through my gullet and lungs The flaming list of what is to be done His game Is clear but totally insane Deep inside he's aware he was born in vain The darkness Devours every spark In its deafening slush no one gives a hark That's a fate Yet it takes time to fade We'll make the best of a bad job while we wait For this We will never come To those promised sparkling days Maybe somday newborn tongue Will make an ode to you New tongue Offsprung New tongue So young Power is disgusting Just like barber's hands From the force of the habit We wake and strive The slush overgrows and thickens And there's nothing left For us but to accrete And co-ossify
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Snored Awake 04:17
Snored myself awake In the darkness of these days At a crawl down my way home Through the country of despoil The land of toil and moil To dig my teeth into another bone I have won One day I heard about The Big Sleep Grimly fancy it Forever since And when his guitar Gently weeps I'm trying to go out the window of my waking dreams Snored myself awake In the middle of the wake Hardly figuring out Who has passed away Ordinary loss In our pitch-and-toss Still not me I'm here I outlast Not so fast One day I heard about The Big Sleep Oh could I suffer it At least with half an eye Is there such a thing As it's placid deep I hope I have a chance to undergo it till I die Snored awake х6

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“Slush of the impassively squelching Universe and of the choking Earth is the Obsolith EP scenery. What takes place there is just as abominable. Obscurity, despair, failing frantic efforts, dreams of tranquility undistinguishable from death. You can say that, seeing the very name of the band, this nonexistent compound, portmanteau, as Humpty Dumty calls such things. But what we have here is neither funeral doom, as it might appear, and nor dismally bubbling sludge. We hear determined and aggressive riff metal burning out and evaporating what lyrics are bound to be about. This clash of music and lyrics may very well be the principal feature of the work”.

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released March 14, 2017

Konstantin Seregin — guitars, back growling
Pavel Klunduk — bass
Alexander Moskalenko aka Mo — drums
Dmitry Subbotin — flow, growling

Music — Konstantin Seregin, Pavel Klunduk, Mo
Lyrics — Dmitry Subbotin
Art — Mo

Recorded and mixed at Pent(agram)House Recording Studio by Igor Butz (Vorvaň band)
Mastered by Alexander Perfilyev
Produced by Konstantin Seregin

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Obsolith Moscow, Russia

Dismal lyrics vs robust and brisk music, circumstoner sound vs spirit of nu-alternative scene, eclecticism vs conceptualism, ambience vs rush... The work of Obsolith is developed by the conflict of these opposites. And the band is beyond power to refuse even one of them. More like guys would add some fresh ones! ... more

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