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Devastating Planetary Shift

by Twin Lords

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progdolphin Will these guys ever write another one? No clue, but at least they can rest easy knowing that they created a truly unique noise rock/post-hardcore expression infested with wildly distorted neoclassical bass wank. Favorite track: Why Am I.
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Heddbuzz (I.R. Puffinstuff) bass & drums like no others Favorite track: Stoned Cutter.
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Everest This is some damn heavy stuff. Always been a fan of bass and drums, and these guys do it well. Favorite track: The Guilt of One Man.
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Stéphane Gallay Un métal progressif ultra-technique, ultra-agressif et surtout dominé par des parties vocales que je trouve à la limite du supportable. Ça reste très intéressant, mais trop loin de ma zone de confort.
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1.
Rise 03:31
Rise Be what you want you to be Rise They’ll crush your dreams and dignity They’ll Watch You starve While they stuff their faces in Rise
2.
You left alone Went miles away Left her alone Now who’s the one betrayed She locked herself away behind a wall He tried so hard to reach the other side The Guilt of one man I see her In the corner Of my eye But when I look And turn my head She’s not there
3.
You keep me willing With those eyes Taking and giving with those eyes Blind is our future We are lost Oft we share our gifts Love and Lust Don’t know what life will choose So what will be will be We wake with the sun Youthful time is gone Victims of our past Our world’s against us
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She lifts the skirt past her knee Takes out a brand new blade Weed before reprieve The power The Glory In all of it’s ecstasy Stoned Cutter The first cut help’s numb the brain Second the rush follows Thirdly she resorbs The horror The pain An empty shells’ left of her Stoned Cutter
6.
The Fear 02:06
Death’s emptiness is a horror That some day I’ll find for myself The empty pool and the vastness of space Some day I’ll find for myself Night After night Night I’m reminded of dying again and again Every night After Night Night I’m reminded again And can’t even escape in the day Death’s emptiness is a horror That some day I’ll find for myself To be reincarnated or cast into darkness Some day I’ll find for myself You can’t control how I breathe You can’t control how I live An eye For an eye For an eye I’ll die How I die When I die
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Why Am I 06:43
Devastating planetary shift Life’s nothing like the way I knew it Mid-life feels more like being half dead Contemplating more pleasure or procreation Tell me what to do I can’t think any longer Lost inside Tell me what to do I can’t see any Longer Lost insight Fending off a tortured past Cause I see no future Hopelessness and frustration in prayer As I wait for nothing to arrive Tell me what to do I’m not me any longer Dead inside Why am I Born to be Wandering Lost this way

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“Life’s nothing like the way I knew it…Mid-life feels more like being half dead.”

So howls to the sky Dan Alex Riviera on Twin Lords' debut album, "Devastating Planetary Shift," and I think it's safe to say he speaks for all of us. An unnamed character's lament. He is Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul, he is the shaved-ape, cursed with consciousness; the secret, kind soul, shat upon since birth; the passenger, traversing dusty and dirty alleyways, pocket-knife at the ready - to defend and to kill those who wish to trample on him, and take what is his, and laugh at his misfortune and ignore his beautiful and curious nature. He is me and you and we have had enough.

Such is the lyrical and spiritual content of New York’s Twin Lords debut album “Devastating Planetary Shift.” A forty-minute odyssey of gonzo, insatiable riffs, thunderous, progressive melodies and blast-beaten, janked-out anthems that ache to be cranked up as loud as your face-piece can handle. Urgent, and furious. To the death.

One part Lightening Bolt, one part Nomeansno, and one part Bastard Noise, Twin Lords play a punishing mix of swirling, melodic, progressive, heavy-as-hell metal rooted in insane bass riffs and blast-off drumming. The music is beautifully weird, wonderful, infectious and totally fresh – a welcome sonic salve for fans of original, extreme music that speaks to the human condition.

-David Hall

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released September 18, 2015

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