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Pure Acid Hell

by Grimbeard

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1.
Hey, man Scumbag Rat-catcher Chem-freak Tonights the night Press check Laser sight Your eyes are getting red Bloodshot You need your meds Breath in the entropy I’m right where I wanna be I feel it in my veins Were gonna start the pain Goddamn, it’s such a rush It’s like i’m taking a walk Down sunset beach Everyones laid out A bullet for each Metallic waves Oh, how it parallels These hallways glittering with empty shells The bastard i’ve become Would hate the fool I was The bastard i’ve become Bites until he tastes the blood I can’t remember just how I got this name Memories like ashes A crime scene in the rain Hold onto this feeling Try to make it last This faded fucking holograph Thats bent and torn in half I look into your face And a crease runs down the middle Said we’d die together, babe Well, pretty soon we will The last link in a chain That’s splitting Primed to pop And once it’s gone I’m lost I’m lost I’m lost Dressed to the nines Cybernetic spit-shine Hypercodex Datacase Deadman’s switch for safety sake My city is an abattoir If you aim then you better fire Love it or hate it It’s just where the credits are
2.
There's a message waiting for me Command line on a black screen Painkillers Leftover Chinese My fingers dancing across the keys False book full of minidiscs Found the stuff but i’m feeling pretty sick Speed-dealer glasses Mesh tank and a leather jacket I feel the data in my spine The year is is 1999 Cower away from the light Laptop RAM 12MBs Corporate saboteur Gun No serial number There's a message waiting for me Backdoor Rent-a-cop on the floor Biometric security lockout No time to fuck about Sleeping beauty Lend me a hand Access granted in the holy land
3.
Resist Schismatic tryst Your avarice Will slit your Resist And the hit the bone Eject this nightmare Sleep beneath stone Retrieve your teeth This dirty kiss We are alone Alone in this Resist Subsist Resist Subsist They think they know Black bag Plastic wrap But in the dark Our eyes will adapt If only they knew If only they knew If only they knew what these bastard hands could do Born incomplete Die on your feet Suffering slowly Dungeon of meat Where we are going the sky is a wound Clouds wound from sulfur A cancerous tomb Feeding the biomass Upgrading tech implants Buying sand for an hourglass Crystalline ore Power from pre-war Works like a charm A literal fire-arm Subsist Subsist Resist Subsist
4.
Corporate kink I love this country I love this land I love the feeling Of the back of it’s hand I love the rich man I love his power Love getting fucked for chump change an hour I love a man in a million dollar suit And god damn will I fellate his boot Gimme some of that Yeah I want it I want it You got it Gimme some of that I’ll give you any fucking thing I got American Dream? Well I guess we’re sleeping American Dream Yeah, I guess we’re sleeping Billionaire Idol Poverty Cult It’s a real sick joke It’s a real sick joke When Earth is drowned Your coins will weigh you down Down Infinite money glitch Cracking the code Sudden windfall Just press download Chain-lover Life on a knife’s edge Pain-seeker Ecstatic in bondage
5.
Arm yourself Feeling brave? Does that gun really make you feel safe? Tiny bodies Pulsing meat Eyes like crimson stars at night Not enough Bullets Take us all The many lives on The many lives on The many lives on We hope she’s smiling My queen of the gutter They see what we see They know that we love her We are one A god on all fours Tread on one The many will come Everyone needs a home So do we The earth is a catacomb Our sheer weight will cave it in Your body will let us in Everyone needs a home A great machine Emerges from the filth As you sleep A ladder to your windowsill Hand in hand We make the rungs Before the sun The screaming song will be sung It will be sung Before the sun Your god hides in the sky Our god will look you in the eye Tails interlocked into a garrote Waves of razor-wire Come join the knot
6.
Begin Begin anew Erase Erase the life that you knew Fed up It’s always the same It’s always the same Yet we continue to play Play our little game I don't wanna have kids with you Rather remove myself from the gene pool Blood Sweat Misery A world I cannot see I cannot see Love Sex Fantasy I am too scared to leave I am too scared to leave We do what we do and we die We do what we do and we die We do what we do and we die We do what we do and we die
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There’s a river of red It runs through you You animate the dead What's dead is new This shovel in our hands Too lost to save When it’s all you’ve got Everything’s a grave Everything’s a grave Two glittering dots Pinholes through the dark Augmented eyesight Obedient acolyte Doesn’t make a sound As it shifts around We sit and wait Therm-optic shape Are those my shoes? Are these my hands? Is this my knife? Is this part of the plan? I feel like smiling I feel like crying I feel like smiling I feel like crying I am the owner of a lifetime supply of patience and love Gotta love what you do The goddess in red This is what she said: “The slime from below amasses the godhead” The gutters clogged like a foaming mass Kneeling with reverence at the seat of the rats The many eyed Wet incisor Feticide Turn to leather Breed Death cult Fetishize I lose myself There is no self I lose myself There is no self
8.
Jack-in Endless Void Parasite Paranoid Smile when it feels like shit Drain the last fucking pig I gotta say I gotta say How are still here today? I gotta know I gotta know How long until it fucking blows? How long until i’m fucking broke? It’s like the dreams but it’s not a dream Exhilarating If not for the screams I have found control In here Dissolving Shrinking That's the fear The fear Paranoid Pure acid hell The devil seed squirming in my meat Control Control A flash of fangs Dragging the chains Twisting alleyways A murderous sadistic maze A hate A night The tech-nightmare were in The stink of nitroglycerine
9.
You’re never alone They’re tracking by drone Crossed into the zone Ruins and bone And it burns And it burns And it burns Oh no Red line painted down a rotten door Machine disease Man on his knees The stench of decay Lingers on the highway The only road into town EMP Grenade at the ready Rad-sickness Gotta keep it steady My weapon is drawn Retractable baton Now that they’re in range They won’t make the shift change Bite down hard You’re never alone Gunpowder in the wound Bite down hard Bite down hard Bite down hard It will be over soon The signal is weak But were still on our feet The necks of nazi bastards underneath
10.
In this city your a rat or a cop The weight of a flood in a single raindrop Something growing Underground The rats amassing A king with a crown I’m the in the middle Gun in the waistband Thirsty for credits Warm flesh and cold hands Someone to sink my teeth in My circuitry is a sin Theres nothing like the animal lust ICEbreaker Database to bust Who do you trust? When skin is false Computer Sex Latex and Semtex Blood Blood Blood In the machine Blood Blood Blood Inside the screen Blood Chrome Obscene Sex in the screen Evacuate it’s fluid And isolate the gene We primp and we preen In a generated scene We feast and we ween On the tit of machine I can feel The merging Cybernetic Apathetic Loss of function Lethal to stun A hydraulic press in a leather dress Readout: Failing Readout: Failing There’s nothing like the animal lust Don’t pull the plug No No No In this domain I am the law Rejected from man and conceived as a flaw It’s been so long Since i’ve seen the sun Since i’ve been a gun and said fuck everyone
11.
We are the rats of this city The rats of this city The rats of this city It’s hard to admit But we stuck out our hand and it got bit It’s hard to admit But we stuck out our hand and it got bit Just listen the day is coming Maybe not today Maybe not next week But it’s true Yeah, it’s true Meet me at the place we agreed on Left of the cross Ten yards beyond We’ll leave the city in our dust Cause god chose us God chose us It’s no use Insects in their hand Every day their bodies expand Pharmaceutical corporation Capital worship Mass cremation And when the data leaks And makes its way to those beneath You better believe they’re gonna eat Eat that fucking meat Razors made to break through our tech’ You really think they give a shit? Of course we knew it wouldn't last Just what happens when rats amass Empty words you’ll say Empty alleyway They’re eating her, yeah Well, then they’re gonna eat me It’s the tragedy of this economic slavery Man is made to crawl through the gutter at night Don’t tell me that this shit is alright They’re saying nothing to see Police = the military Drag another body away Oh, what a grand conspiracy Empty words you’ll say Empty alleyway We are the rats of this city The rats of this city The rats of this city One more time in case you didn’t get it We are the rats of this city The rats of this city The rats of this city It’s hard to admit But we stuck out our hand and it got bit One more time in case you didn’t get it It’s hard to admit But we stuck out our hand and it got bit
12.
Burn it down The rats of this town Red light Gang fight Short-circed I am fine Shut it down Cyberdeck Pull it out Penetrative tech Critical God, it kills It’s like a dream Stims in my bloodstream Millimeter Nine I’m just a vampire Superchromed Trash-can fire Dead as romance Filthy as a braindance Black bangs Red fangs A tanto in mid-swing Burn something down Drag their heaven to the ground Burn it down The rats of this town Red light Gang fight Short-circed I am fine Millimeter Nine

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Over the course of a year I've collected a few "songs" into the shape of an album that follows a loose concept. Tracks from and inspired by a fictional video game world. A near-future, near-past, corporate cyber-horror dystopia. In a cyclopean cityscape hiding a grimy network of alleyways and gutters, gangs addicted to chems war with tech-upgraded vamps, but they're practically the good guys most of the time. Once beneath us, the city's vermin have become restless, gaining territory thanks to a biochemical data leak. They've stolen our thoughts, our memories and they're building something beautiful and awful that might destroy us and maybe that's for the best.

Cover art : Marieke Douma (artstation.com/mkdouma6)

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released December 27, 2022

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Grimbeard San Diego, California

EBM and Goth Industrial based on the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episode, "The Wish".

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