Sunday 12 November 2017

If you have a physical copy of the new album you'll be aware that I didn't print any lyrics in the liner notes. Here they are, give or take some last minute changes/mispronunciation.

I am everything you see.
I swear I've never seen you before.
I know your every thought.
I don't know you at all.
Do you dream at night? Of course I do.
I made that world. But I don't know you.
All solid things melt away
And day must bring a breath of wind.
A face which breaks, spots of clay
Scattered lost amongst your things.
A trail of bread threads on ahead
To a home you can't be sure is there.
Alone amongst beloved dead
Breadcrumbs dancing in the air.
All desire rests in me. You don't know what I want.
But I decide what you can have. Why do this to me?
Every rule you ever breathed
Now rests quietly in books of law
And god retreats to profane leaves
Unholied by their very form.
Human works stretch on beyond
All the wonders hands have built,
With all creation stretching on
Reflecting our collective will.
All eyes will be gouged out
So the feet will not give way.
They will drag the bodies on
Towards the promised day.
I see it all. But you'll carry on.

Corruption streams from every sore.
Rivers teem with ash.
Body. God. Earth. Shit.
Cower. Wail. Gnash.
Satanic gasses spew across the plains.
Poverty. Clashes. Poison. Rain.
Sinister fucking shit.
Existential threat.
Sinister fucking shit.
Existential threat.
All the water is ruined.
All the food is gone.
The house is empty.
I'm coughing blood.
Sickness is everything.
No one is left.
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
Death.
Everything is screaming.
Everything is fucked.
Vomit clouds my vision.
Nothing is enough.
I am not a person.
I am not a thing.
I am not a thought.
I am screaming.

Could you ever know yourself
With violence holding you in place?
Can you really be your own
With violence holding you in place?
A million possibilities
Barely even seen.
What do you call yourself
With violence holding you in place?
Violence holds you in place.
A million possibilities
Barely even seen.
A million personalities
Barely even seen.
A million new humanities
Barely even seen.
A million further histories
Barely even seen.

God and antigod
Have synthesised a whole.
They have cast you off
And imprisoned you in flesh.
You can not grasp their ethics.
There is no law.
The cosmic dialectic
Is unholy (eternal) war.
All souls are in excess.
They will not be returned.
You will see no other shore.
You are already reborn.
You can not grasp their ethics.
There is no law.
The cosmic dialectic
Is unholy (eternal) war.

Writhe in squalor
While I carry your burden.
I will watch you starve.
I will lead you to god.
Relish your struggling.
Life was never to be enjoyed.
I will leave you to suffer.
I will make you like Christ.
God has granted you poverty.
His most noble gift.
I will gather up our sins.
I will please god with your pain.

Let us carve a hole in space
And pass through and out.
And observe from our new home
The goings on within.
Within the old space
Is a sickening order.
A sacrifical pyramid
Built of worthless falsehood.
Denizen of the cosmos,
Lay claim to your realm.
Be master of your labour
And master of your time.
Recognise no order.
Be cowed by no violence.
Reject all false freedoms.
Criticise all gods.
We will outlive all law.
We will outlive all nations.
We will outlive religion.
We will outlive work.
Stand amongst the heavens
And spit upon the earth.
And curse mankind with glee
For now you are human.

Thursday 2 November 2017

Kastchei's new album "Communist Black Metal Madness!" is now on Bandcamp. It is the inaugral release by The Dropa Collective. Downloads, streaming, and RED cassette tapes.