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Lyrics: Benjamin Levitt
I'm watching a deer in the woods. Its head is lowered while it eats something on the ground. It is a medium sized doe.
"You have to look out for the ones with teeth," my guide tells me. Maybe startled by the sound of his voice, the doe lifts her head; her mouth and muzzle are covered in blood and she snarls to reveal a mouth full of jagged, sharply pointed teeth.
I see that she had been eating a squirrel. Its torn remains lie on the forest floor.
The last last surviving person has only a lighted sign to keep him company. He lives beneath it and comes out at night to watch the red lights light up.
One night, after a premonition of exactly this, the lights come on in a new pattern, pointing toward another sign standing taller behind it atop a tall metal pole.
The man thought that he might as well climb up to have a look. At the top of the metal pole, a door into a room sitting behind the dark billboard revealed a slit at eye level. Through the slit, inside the room the back of a man's head could be seen. He turned around and put his face against the slit, facing the survivor eye-to-eye.
This person inside the room had angry eyes and a dark beard.
All of this had been foreseen in a sequence of premonitions.
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A Cadaveresque Breeze
06:13
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Lyrics: David Brenner
Permeating
Above, behind, below
From where it’s born
We do not know
Uninviting
Cringe we do at this gust
Unbeknownst to its cause
Endure this we must
Infiltrating
In, out, around, everywhere
Impenetrable; something in there
Erects my neck hairs
Something rotting
Wormwood this way drifts
No doubt a thing postmortem
Dance, the essence of stiffs
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Bellows
05:28
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Lyrics: Benjamin Levitt
Hide with me, we must hide
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Something Foul
04:11
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Lyrics: David Brenner
What did I miss?
How inhospitable is this?
Unfathomable in depth
Tumescent and overcooked
A phosphorus glow which is underlooked
But you’ve got me hooked
And now these nights are booked
Full
You fool
It’s the unthinkable
Vortexing, disintegrating
Flexing on the incinerating
Never more contemplating
Where it goes from here
It’s all been made clear
To the outside mind unrelatable, inconceivable
To us, inescapable
Blow this way
Horrible decay
Is here to stay
Why must it be this way?
Who could say?
That’s above my pay
So here I’ll lay
And watch it all swirl away
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Intermittent
04:29
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Lyrics: David Brenner and Benjamin Levitt
Spoken Word: Rosa Henriquez
It feels like, you know when you're having a dream and the way the little things aren't sitting right with you?
Like you're in a classroom but you notice that under the desk there's mold, and the teacher's face is melting.
And the back of the desk chair splinters before crashing into a thousand pieces on the floor.
And suddenly you realize that it's not really a fully formed thought, let alone a dream.
And then you're standing in the void where everything fell apart.
I have friends up there
I have friends up there
I have friends up there
But I need them down here
Shadows chase light
Shadows choke light
Eyes bleed so much darkness
Shadows are my light
Watch the path
Watch the path
Watch the path
It’s not the sky that’s dark
Shadows are my light
Follow me
Away, away turn your eyes
Follow us
Follow us
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Lyrics: David Brenner and Benjamin Levitt
What melody is this serenading my descent?
An appropriate tune for an outlook so dim
All in earshot scurry as they realize my intent
The slower their retreat their chances grow ever more slim
Of surviving this dirge from a mindset this bent
And I’m conducting this slaughter on such a simple whim
Without this satisfaction urge will not relent
A sanguine reality as your masses I trim
It’s just business,
It’s just business.
Remember
It’s just business
You burn whatever the acid doesn’t dissolve
Sink the ashes, with everything else that would otherwise float
It’s got to be somebody
It’s always got to be somebody
The song’s been written
Now somebody’s got to dance
The song’s been written
Now somebody’s got to dance
It’s like I said, it’s just business
But you know, it’s never just business
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Lyrics: David Brenner
Noxious fumes
Arise in columns
Billowing plumes
So grimly solemn
Sky of auburn
Crimson the glow
Snowflakes of carbon
Ashen, they blow
Swirling vapors
Envelop the herd
Never escapes
A creature or bird
Smoldering hillsides
How lovely a hue
Seductive smoke collides
With new winds which blew
Reminiscent
Of what we once breathed
It’s fading, isn’t it?
A brief reprieve
Returning our gaze
Back to the pits
Our remaining days
Shall all end like this
After we tire
From smoldering away
Walk into the pyre
But the burn pits will stay
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Lyrics: David Brenner and Benjamin Levitt
What began a gentle breeze, a pleasant reprieve on this desolate plain, has picked up again
Endlessly stretching, this expanse of unknowns
A far-reaching chasm now drawn so far obtuse
We lose depth, what frigid currents it has kept now swept landward, set loose
The surge belies now over plateaus of disdain
Again and again it attains gain, now stained
With proof of these tribulations
Engrained with effigies, recounts of devastation
With immeasurable voices at once silenced by the fear
An unavoidable aura of tension, an unmistakable fog of apprehension
Enveloping our presence, now understanding our residence
Venture aimlessly into obfuscated frontier
A course from which we dare not steer
Aware of the terror which resides to our rear
But what lurks in our path remaining dishearteningly unclear
Persevere we must, while attempting to ignore this foul gust
Evermore recurring and less intermittent
On this course we’ve committed
Besieged by trepidation, without an utterance collectively increasing out pace
These winds appear to want to keep us from exiting this doomed place
Recollections of all we’ve witnessed continue emerging from places recessed
No longer able to be further repressed
Now torrential, escaping these winds is essential
Attempt to force away the hauntings escaping from the mental
Our task we must grasp with every impeded step and gasp
The airborne current now riptiding
Colliding, with all we are on the surface and inside we now
Combust, all bonds rust and disintegrate into the air as traveling dust
No longer tethered, no longer traversing together
Blindly tossed about within this funnel
With no semblance of light ending this tunnel
Plummeting into the lahar, from our plan we’re afar and gravely doomed we all are
Downwind from what stalks us
Our faults now showing, cracks in our foundation growing
While these winds just keep blowing
Acceptance of our fate now innate
No longer must we contemplate
For us the selection has been made; we now embrace what was once forbade
And we face windward
Unfurl the sails and lean into this gale
Pyroconumbulus elevates into the black beyond the pale
The harbinger winds have already told the tale
Embrace now your demise, as that gentle breeze prevails
It finds you here
Shows you the way at the end
It finds you lost
Pushes you on toward the end
Cold as death, warm as decay
Cold as death, warm as decay
It’s not what it becomes, forebode
It’s not blind when it comes, foretold
Cold as death, warm like decay
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
Dreaming
I hear
You’re drowning
I’m dreaming
You’re Hiding
I’m dreaming
Here
Dreaming
Further, dreaming
It comes on frozen waves
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
Dreams come
The dreams come again
Can it break
Through
Signs I see
All blows through
Sign of the end
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
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GRIDFAILURE Valley Cottage, New York
The ominous vision of creator David Brenner, GRIDFAILURE delivers a cinematic, tension/paranoia-driven form of harsh experimentation fusing dark ambient and harsh sub-hardcore mutations with endless other genres including jazz, world music, folk, electronic, and beyond. ... more
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