the unraveling

Charybdis/Scylla

June 25, 2009 on 9:00 pm | In music, extropy | No Comments

April said I should post this one, so here you go… more coming next week. Album is coming together… Charybdis/Scylla

 

i’m on the outside now

looking in

 

it seems the pure are not so pure

and the truth has no meaning

between the pious and banal

and the ugly uncaring cold

i’ve lost my way

 

you will live forever

if you just believe

if you do what we say

a loving creator waits for you

at the end of the path

with the holy

the ordained

the true

follow me

follow me

 

there is no hope

there is no god

despair will burn your throat like acid rain

nothing fucking matters

we are just maggots crawling across the corpse mounds

of humans past

and if we dare to make a mark

who will care in the end?

 

i’m on the inside now

looking out

 

i don’t know what to believe

there are too many devils happy to show me the way

and i wish i could escape

 

but the monsters have got me now

 

the monsters have got me now

extropy… track list

June 14, 2009 on 7:22 pm | In music, extropy | No Comments

it’s starting to fall into place so I thought I would post the track list for the forthcoming extropy record. Going to sum it all up I hope. self-titled..

O) PART I: THE INFINITE

 

01  cepheid variable

02  Aura

03  Perseus arm

04  asymptote

05  the dreamers

06  radii

07  mind sequence

08  swim

09  electric trees

10  the immortal

11  Aenea

12  the believers

 

O) PART II: THE IRRESOLUTE

 

01  the answer

02  depths

03  circumstance

04  Charybdis/Scylla

05  gravity well

06  at the center, a black hole

07  the absolute

08  parallax view

09  time stem/oblivion

10  the unnamed

11  hymn for the aeon

the believers

June 6, 2009 on 10:24 am | In music, extropy | No Comments

I’ve been trying to get my thoughts straight on this song for months now, and after seeing my baby in the Ultrasound monitor on Tuesday it all came into startlingly clear focus for me. I’m not finished with the arrangement yet but the lyrics are really important to me and are probably the best summary of what the new record is all about (despite the dark nihilism of disc 2). I’m certain this will be the last extropy release, but I’m confident it will be a fitting end to just over a decade of work. I don’t know what comes next, but thanks to everyone who became a part of this story and helped us to reach this particular moment in time. Cheers.

 

 

the believers

 

i am just a wanderer in this place 

staring at the infinite

the stars wheel about our heads and i

can’t spin fast enough to make them still

 

and i know 

we’re only here for an instant

 

but i am an observer

overwhelmed by the beautiful

and i want to carry it within me

and tell you everything

before it slips away 

 

because we only exist

for an instant

 

unspooled from billions of tiny threads

within centuries of drift

fractured, splintered, cratered, bled

from oceans transforming stone to sand

through fields that fed the forebears of man

 

all the aeons that spawned this moment

seem to be aligned

 

and it’s so fucking absurd

it’s hard to believe

 

but

here we are