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"Ocean Of Wrath" -(Given a wrathful live debut replete with black out rage in 2013, 'Ocean became a seething focus for a great deal of anger,frustration,contempt,indignation channeled into
me having a creative outlet (and a malevolently productive one at that.) Always keeping in mind the unhinged aggression of that early performance, much detail was spent into making the track for some
listeners utterly impossible to sit through. There would be something deliberately that would set them off whether it was the grinding,clipping feedback, or the way the music is one shriek and pummel.

But that's it's design from the get-go. I too detect some of my more intense musical influences in it's turgid chemistry, bands like SWANS in their early days, Killing Joke, Big Black, Godflesh but this is no mere tip of the hat to them. Rather than resigning myself to becoming nothing more than a one man attempt at the aforementioned, I wanted to have one last final burst of what would keep me forever stuck in the categorization of 'noise'. That too was a reason for this track. A figurative 'fuck you' musically speaking, giving those who've reduced my work or the like to a single genre label. "You want noise? Here you go. Oh drone eh? Have at it. Industrial, you say? I'll program the drum machine." Even much of it's hostile and tense recording was often in situations of extreme stress and anger, living up to the title.

The lyrics, however completely altered the song's initial weaponized and contemptuous design. A first draft were composed while being galvanized by the result of the 2016 election, and having an utter hatred not for the usual targets of spite towards conservatives: rural, working class people. Instead, I centered on the real source of why the results were as such: affluent voters.

Class division and inequality informed the core, yet the ultimate theme that defined 'Ocean Of Wrath' was climate change. From political/social outrage to ecological apocalypse was the shift of scope for what I finalized for the final draft. Making the 'you' less obvious. The delivery of the vocals: from gentle to inhuman then utterly ghostly I thought gave the song more of an edge as opposed to having an excuse to turn it into a total screamfest.

The impetus came from the death of Scott Walker, and of course signs of his influence are all too evident in the slow burn build up of the discordant arrangement. This is also the first song where I used a cello bow to play guitar.)

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The sea is rising
It will strip away
What you love
Down to the bone

It will be swift
And with little pain
But in the end
Only indifferent waters
Shall remain

The sea is rising
It will strip away
What you love
Down to the bone

I will watch you drown x3


You have no safe harbor
You have no assured sanctum
You have no stable shelter
You have no higher ground
You have no welcome refuge
You have no certain future

I will watch you drown x3


You have no privileged birthright
You have no purchased rank
You have no time to reflect
You have no promised mercy

I will watch you drown x3


No safe harbor
No higher ground
No welcome refuge
No time to reflect
No certain future

You deserve this
You will not be mourned
You deserve this
You will not be mourned

I will watch you drown

Drown


The sea is rising
It will strip away
What you love
Down to the bone

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from Baptized By The Void, released April 1, 2019

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NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING DEMO/ALBUM SUBMISSIONS. Welcome to Argali Records. We are a small, but dedicated venture run by John Lithium and Reon Moebius. The intent of this label is to release high quality experimental music, of a wide variety of genres, moods, textures, and techniques. ... more

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