Remember when you said I am not what I am? How could you be when you love me? You are drowning in your own culture. Insecure, the king of swords. Say you have pride, then deny me my own. Another space you've taken from me.
I swim down the street. Deliver the message. That hole glows inside me. Am I swimming or am I skipping? A sigil not of hate. You may never know. Did I try to curse you? Well, I almost did. The fear of you. I see your ghost. I wait to see you swim. Touch me, you weren't the first. Will you even be the last? You've taken so much then say I ruined you.
My brain it burns out. Seeping down my neck. Feel it deep in your gut. Let it scrape your skull.
A heavy prayer for lightness. The crushing weight of existence brings me to my knees, weeping and laughing. All the unseen beauty within me now wriggles free at last, putrid, stinking, and fertile. Transsubstantiated and transcendent, the glorious filth within me nurtures the ravenous abyss that gnaws inside us all. Dave Aftandilian
Featuring members of Noothgrush, Graves at Sea, and more, the Oakland metal band juxtapose cavernous doom with spaced-out shoegaze. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 21, 2024