(Though whether these are hallucinations from the thirst driving you insane or not is, of course, open to interpretation…)Ģ. Swarms of stinging siafu ants may not actually appear in this fantastically bleak re-imagining of America’s “Horse With No Name,” but the frantic/frenetic pace and twist-and-sting riffs here suggest a stinging swarm could easily appear at any moment. The shrinking of your skin, bursting lips So in lieu of the usual numerical song and dance, we decided to match Pestilence-the-band tracks to this list of pestilence-the-pestilences courtesy the fine folks at Batzner Pest Control.Ī gruesome affliction the heat of the sunĭon’t really know in what direction to go That said, a record that so fully and perfectly embodies a unified theory of brutality cannot be ranked in the standard way. Add to this the dark (and, yes, extremely extreme) musical vision and technical wizardry of Patricks Mameli and Uterwijk and it is easy to see how Consuming Impulse landed itself a sweet slot in our hallowed Hall of Fame. Those are some ghastly, evocative lyrics courtesy death metal drummer extraordinaire Marco Foddis, but bassist Martin van Drunen was hardly a slouch himself when it came to painting damnable portraits in the minds of listeners. Just open the abcess, will you please help me Three - for the first time i see an image of my brokenness utterly worthy of love.For “Pestilence By Beemahr” - my short story detailing the grotesque comeuppance a mad perfumer-cum-exterminator receives at the tiny, multitudinous feet of a surprisingly sentient army of flesh-eating gypsy moth caterpillars amidst an egg-web festooned apocalypse (available today in the Grey Matter Press rock n’ roll-themed horror anthology Savage Beasts) - I drew inspiration from the human-body-as-insect-incubator track “Out of the Body” from Pestilence’s towering sophomore album Consuming Impulse: The Sea of Atlas - we live and die under the thumb of fear, as though the finish line will merely disappear if we take one less step, even to catch our breath in temper we'll hate you, but please keep no scoreĮmphasis - but the sweetest thing i’ve ever heard is that i don’t have to have the answers, just a little light to call my own Keep No Score - 'cause God, when life here ends, we'll beg you for more. Two - like a force to be reckoned with, a mighty ocean or a gentle kiss, i will love you with every single thing i have Snow - so we sing carols softly, as sweet as we know, a prayer that our burdens will lift as we go Touch - all i want is to flip a switch before something breaks that cannot be fixed Heirloom - you remind me of who i could have been, had i been stronger and braver way back then i’ve always been afraid of heights, of falling backwards, falling backwards Pluto - i’ve been worried all my life, a nervous wreck most of the time. in spite of the uneven odds beauty lifts from the earth Uneven Odds - maybe your light is a seed, and the darkness, the dirt. COUNTDOWNS SLEEPING AT LAST LYRICS HOW TONow I've got a captive audience! In no particular order.Įarth - the echo, as wide as the equator, travels through a world of built up anger-too late to pull itself together nowĮast - maybe paper is paper, maybe kids will be kids-Lord, i want to remember how to feel like i did Oh gosh, I've always wanted to properly put my favorites in order, but honestly I don't know anyone irl who's interested enough in SAL to sit through all my gushing.
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