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Flesh /Excess /Wealth

from The Incident at Black Lake by All Else Fails

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Flesh /Excess / Wealth is a violent, dystopic assault on the senses. Its oppressive musical themes of war and militarism are complimented by the existential horrors of the mass indoctrination of regressing humanist world views, the removal of the soul, or essence of humanity from the human experience. The depths of its endless despair are contrasted ever slightly by the glimpse of hope in its reminder that we are more, we come from dust and will return to it, as do the stars, as will the Earth. Our cradle is the infinite, and so will be our place of rest. The softer, ethereal eastern musical elements are employed to offset the crushing march of industrial percussion, a nod to the band’s recent experiences in India. The song is heavy, fast and technical, while carrying an ambient melodic beauty in its pre-choruses and bridge. Backed by thrashy guitars and animated drums, the driving chants in the vocals are huge, evoking a feverish mass hysteria.

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Flesh and blood
The caged immortal
A fleeting glimpse behind the veil,
The infinite revealed
At the gates of sleep
A storm blows through my dreams.
Ruminating on how I survived
The blood will wash away
And I will lose you all
Fear the night
Yearn for meaning in this life
Live in dreams
Haunted by the promise of what I could have been
At the edges of perception,
A flash of my true self
Clouded by desire for flesh, excess, wealth
From dream to dream
I hunt for who I used to be
Fading like the sun in the east
The flowers of morning have withered
You can be me when I'm gone
I gaze into the infinite
Grief welling inside
The stars sing of an ancient truth
Keening in the night
A primal urge calling me back home with a longing undefined
For a cradle unremembered in the deep cimmerian sky.
Fear the night
Yearn for meaning in this life
Live in dreams
Haunted by the promise of what I could have been

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from The Incident at Black Lake, released September 30, 2022

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