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No Path

by Cracked Vessel

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William Covert Easily one of the most original sounding albums of 2016 that is packed full of different influences and each song glides between various musical genres. Listen from beginning to end, then repeat. Favorite track: No Body.
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1.
No Life 07:08
Clybourn, A crooked arrow Flying straight Into the mouth Of the beast Fog-enshrouded headstones in the distance Piercing the sky, Haunted by the soulless ghouls Of commerce Moneyed robes cannot mask the obstacles, Cut down by my my blade in flight Slice through progress With triumphant regression The cut draws not blood But shame and impotence From the lumbering brutes
2.
No Body 04:16
I am wed to my machine It disgusts you I am wed to my machine Revolting My machine- like grace As I weave through this mobile cemetery This swift freedom of mechanical fluidity Is sickening The liberation it’s beyond the symbolic: Piston legs Headlamp eyes Engine heart The nausea of the imprisoned Comes in waves from the gridlocked chain gang
3.
Stripped clean Neglect nuzzles your frame One companion left: decay One companion left: decay Left with nothing, each piece stolen away Shamed in public, lay naked and bruised Used up and left to rot Rust the only release
4.
No blade so thin as to pierce its armor No blade so strong as to strike it down No blade so thin as to pierce its armor No blade so strong as to strike it down The all-consuming phantasm Withers the swimming dagger No matter how strongly forged Or robust Surrender, our duplicitous companion, Is cast to the periphery.
5.
Nestled in the cloak of summer, Insidious fall places its hand On the hilt of the sharpest season The sword drawn Any being that crosses its path Is struck down Forged in driven snow (and piercing wind,) Winter’s blade Renders your armor useless While lumbering beasts succumb Our slim daggers remain unbroken Navigating the walls of white The gleaming sword shone In all its hideous glory We face it with reverence and awe This all-consuming blade
6.
Overpopulated wasteland A woman’s absolute choice is the solution Barricade against parasitic invaders, deny entrance to the sacred castle Banished babies’ souls float up to heaven Only to be bored to a second death By proselytizing drones The female body, a temple The parasite has no right To befoul the holy sanctuary Vacate the premises Before another victim of existence Drags its slime trail across the foul earth Her womb is hers So get the fuck out of the way (asshole)
7.
The grim determination of taking pride In blighted ruin The polish applied only to those Sanctified areas where the White Gleam is blinding We pull our coats tighter We hunch into the drops In a futile denial of the Expansive revolving void Empty insignias of mediocrity Flags to displace the mundane alienation The 5 stars won’t glow in the deep shadows Of the moneyed concrete and steel tombstones Civic pride a ghost story For frigid stroller pushers And privileged ghouls Life-trap dead end, The path rendered null and void Go back to hell
8.
No Mend 03:55
As I traverse the wretched city Only the bitter cold gives me hope Of there being a finality to all this Constant weaving in and out of sick humanoids Automatons disconnected from the stark freeze The age of NO PATH finally upon us The age of NO PATH finally upon us Welcome the absence and lack With open arms Mobile coffins May a shroud of snow render you inert For eternity Your last days spent shivering While we rejoice Our end is your end Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice

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Recorded by K. Rasmussen at The Observatory in Chicago. Mixed & mastered by D. Piskula during the summer of The Goat.

Additonal guitar on 'No Body' by J. Jelen

13 cassettes released on 5/14/2016 with bike tube cases
200 black vinyl 12" released on 12/09/2016 on Hip Kid Records

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released December 9, 2016

SC - Drums/Lyrics
SM - Bass/Vocals
xHx - Guitar/Vocals

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