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Blood Rusted Mother Earth

by Arsena

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barleybase A pulse-pounding metal masterpiece, the dudes in Arsena deliver righteous sonic transmissions on their debut album! Scorching riffs break into wide-open melodies filled with vocals both gritty and ethereal. Creative and enticing rhythms drive the entire vessel forward through drum and bass breaks that have my heart melting. Fans of heavy, thrash, prog, and just metal in general will rejoice in this album. Favorite track: Dreams in the Slaughterhouse.
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1.
Pioneer 05:13
Fog is on the edge of a thought Bridges left unfinished and forgotten Incompletely dreaming of scattered sheep Am I counting them or are they counting me Mark my words though I know them not I’m delirious and splitting at the seams Is it me plaguing corners and periphery Or is it you haunting my sleep Lucid waking as a marionette Ventriloquist of violence Judge and jury I am pleading of thee The murderer manifests at dusk My Siamese spine is forever entwined Psychopathic parasite inside my mind Imprison and cage me simply if you must But I’m pleading for a fleeting ending The Midnight Pioneer shall stop at nothing Bestow upon me a death penalty Lucid waking as a marionette Ventriloquist of violence Rest my child in serotonin streams These hands are ours to do as I please Together we’ll create a masterpiece There’ll be no washing these fingers, after this Ravaging bliss
2.
Moth Priest 05:59
Esoteric lines he reads To ascend past consciousness And Lose all his lucidness A man to moth he shall be Avert your eyes from it Lose autonomy Lose your sanity See past boundlessness Boundlessness Labyrinth See now his bending knee Kneeling for Oblivion Giving way to gravity Pay the price for transcension Avert your eyes from it Lose autonomy Lose your sanity See past the infinite Boundlessness Labyrinth Study now before it’s spurned Churned to mulch and rots inside Studying now before it glows Thriving bright consuming your soul The early Autumn of your lifetime Malevolence contorting your mind Contorting your mind Nefarious scripts shall start to show As the Moth Priest prays for humankind
3.
Lace your boots, pull your goggles down And embrace your solemn servitude A lonely precipice on the landing strip Reveals a red dawning light is calling you When they need you the most but not enough You’re the one to see it done When they shower you with praise and honor you You’re the last to see it through Divine wind from the sun My patriotism has drained Utility provided as needed Alchemical metal into blood Belching oil from an aluminum tail Sixteen years old, determined to be your time Praying and pleading that this will tip the scales As death comes screeching across the sky When they need you the most but not enough You’re the one to see it done When they shower with praise and honor you You’re the last to see it through Divine wind from the sun Sail this mortal messenger Across the solar holy sky Alchemical metal into blood The sun is staring up from the ocean Glaring it’s single one opal eye Your heart beating drum is thundering away The singing of your veins urges on Less than a minute until you will collide You see the the faces of the men you’ll find Ignore your guilt and civilized humanity To be the Kamikaze Sun God
4.
Tyrannicide 06:34
Capsized and in too deep We’ve killed the self and diver Treading water for eternity Gasping the last air left Can’t we revitalize The fire and rebreather To ascend from the ocean Twenty fathoms deeper Existentially locked inside By ice on the surface The only way out at this point now Is to venture inward Becoming one with an ocean Is simple if you’re drowning So swallow the sea and all she breeds To steal Poseidon’s crown Fear is the murder of the mind (I’ll let it pass right through me) I will turn the inner eye (And see the path it leaves) This monarch shall be left behind (A force from my core) As I commit Tyrannicide Power risen back in my palms As I shatter through the tension Tall, Herculean, and giving all As fear falls to descension High above the water now I’m vulnerable and naked I’m flying skyward And my mind is awakened
5.
The Tower is alive With blooming poetry The Tower can swallow The mental state of me The grass is growing through my feet These trees resemble anything Listen to the structure breathe Hear the heartbeat in her throat Favor your control For it’s powerless, you know Below my state of sight Dispose your former life Favor your control For its effortless, you know Breathe out the light Dispose my The Tower is alive With strange biology My coding is refracted In prismatic mirroring The edge is leaking down my skin In the light of a lighthouse distant My world is breaking down it seems And I am becoming all of this Favor your control For it’s powerless, you know Below my state of sight Dispose your former life Shred it out and Release the cry aloud Breathe out the light Dispose your former life My humanity devoured by Tilling blood in the reeds of the faceless forms to be A menagerie of twisted, writhing things Changing fauna into flora for the final state of all Changing (fauna into flora for the final state of all) With the coming of the ending and it all becomes one (With the coming of the ending and one becomes all) With the coming of the ending and it all becomes one (With the coming of the ending and one becomes all)
6.
Black Lung 06:40
Send my body to the bottom I’m a cavern servant and a slave The alchemy of the Rockefeller Turning blood into gold through me Heritage work is overrated Energy source has been outdated Canary falls down to the floor Carbon death for the ore Lost the sun and led astray I’m drowning in this black decay Lungs have filled with dust and death Choke the living, steal their breath Heritage work is overrated Energy source has been outdated Canary falls down to the floor Carbon death for the ore Violent strikes and violence mine I rape the earth and kill her light The stars go out my lamp is last I clog the air and choke her fast
7.
Am I a sheep, a swine, or a man? Sick of shoveling shit with a spade We will sweat in the breath of the sun We will drown in the salt and the mud Break me from the Shackles chaining My swollen feet and Blistered hands I will stand with my feet in the sand You will not see me bow To your promiscuous crown You lie with the wolf and the lamb You’re fueling the fires right now You will not see me bow I’ll bury my feet in the sand Call me the flame, the wind, and a grave I’ll scorch and salt this earth to the shade Escaping through the fields we run My spirit will not be undone Dreaming of stars Guiding lightning Maybe waking Maybe dying I will stand with my feet in the sand You will not see me bow To your promiscuous crown You lie with the wolf and the lamb You’re fueling the fires right now You will not see me bow I’ll bury my feet in the sand
8.
(Backrooms) 00:55
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9.
Skin Hunter 07:08
1978 A loner on the freeway Victim to your primordial side Shattered glass and shallow mind Temptation rules to bound and gag Tossed in the back of a Cadillac Cigarette stains and stale ash Muffled panic and rope rash Burned into mildew and oiled steel Lost to direction, sound, or reality Carried off to someplace else Cruel and hollow, an earthly hell I am not somebody else I am the same as you could’ve been Auctioned off my human shelf Chained to a wall in the skin hunter’s den Free this body from my cold cell Give back my strength and my free will Slave to man, enslaved to taste Please don’t forget my name or face (Please remember my name or face) I am not somebody else Listen up now and hear me out Sold straight off my human shelf Break the silence in secret vows Free this body from my cold cell Give back my strength and my free will Slave to man, enslaved to taste Escape again from this foul place (Let me out from this foul place) Dull eyes, dead eyes Return the light unto my sight Needle, need holes Channel my urge to fight back Can’t find, won’t find Fall farther into dry rot Under, sunder Broken bones from buckshot Shed the thinner skin Set fire to the den Out or farther in Identical twins Bright eyes, cold ice Harvester of my insides Needle, blood holes What did my skin look like Emaciated, desecrated Bury me in a dumpster Beauty, wonder This body is your own Shed the thinner skin Set fire to the den Out or farther in Identical twins
10.
All I know is a lonely mountain But I remember building every one Eulogy Lamenting Bloodrusted Mother Earth God has forged my final blue tomb in the winter’s arms From marble, moonlight, metal and blood it is slowly carved While I find my peace in this cold, hard solemn decay In the still, snowy waste of Mother Earth inside her womb The sun won’t rise again it’s frozen below Now I wait for the moon to follow suit Wondering how long it takes a star to drown And if they scream as they go My children have all grown and gone I’ve given all I can to their garden My children of humanity I hate to love But this Mother made them who they are Will someone sing a eulogy or hum a lullaby There’s no one left on the planet I just want to tell someone goodbye
11.
Dig these bodies deep, fifty people wide Dig down far below enough, keeping them from the flies Decaying in the heat, calling to the Earth Larvae, eggs, and maggots would all bring much more than Her Come sundown we’re completing The unknown ossuary As we turn to leave I see a boy watching from the trees One man says ransom, another says the gun Regardless of the outcome we agree that his life is done Pursue him through the woods, bag him quickly now Toss him in the trunk and we will figure the way out how To claim this child as our own A boy turned into man Giving him the gun He’ll have a murder on his hands See his crimson grin, his soul is buried now I see clearly my own past has been reflected somehow This cycle of violence; Its ritual in the Earth

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released September 9, 2022

Luke Albert- vocals, guitar
Owen Duff- drums, lyrics, triangle, synth
Robb Hollowell- lead guitar
Josh Deckman- bass, mouth harp

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Arsena Baltimore, Maryland

Based out of Baltimore, MD, Arsena is a 4 headed chimera of genre-defying influences creating a new, unique spin on its core sound of old school thrash metal. The group expands upon its musical similarity to Havok, Mastodon, Primus, and Megadeth with a haunting sense of atmosphere and melody long since lost by the genre. Members: Luke Albert, Owen Duff, Robb Hollowell, Josh Deckman ... more

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