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The Degenerate Era

by Against Thee Wickedly

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My Body is Here, but my Mind is Long Gone 03:27
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The Only Constant is Suffering 06:15
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Lyrics: Humanity, a dying dream like a carcass withering Suffering is the only guarantee Beckoning our own extinction, we believe In false hopes worth nothing Human nature, we live and die just to suffer Lost composure, witness the burden of our failures Choking on our aspirations, we deny Any mistakes that we have failed to right Afflicted by a curse we all call life Ensnared by the void for all time Human nature, we live and die just to suffer Lost composure, witness the burden of our failures The Only Constant is Suffering
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Idealized Isolation 07:30
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Lyrics: Drowning out the world And my fellow man The silence comforts me Lust for solitude, my disease Their eyes meet with mine And spite burns inside I am a ghost Condemned to my design As I wallow in my void Free from their hateful ways I cannot help but feel empty No one will look for me No one will know my pain Trapped within this idealized isolation Words I wish to say But will not escape me Losing my grasp on my thoughts Locked behind my cage As I wallow in my void Free from their hateful ways I cannot help but feel empty No one will look for me No one will know my pain Trapped within this idealized isolation The voices deafening me Tearing from reality Are humans worth more than their ills? Or is life only darkness? Surrender to the unrest Cursed to dwell in idealized isolation
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The Degenerate Era 03:38
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Lyrics: We cannot fathom our place in the cosmos We are just grains of sand in the sea of time Someday our sun will never rise again While the astral plane remains unchanged The degenerate era Life in the blink of an eye Realize we are infinitely small And our kind serves no purpose Meaningless, adrift in the grand design It will breathe long beyond your death We are damned by own our self-centrism Escalating our suffering to obscene scales All of this strife just to be forgotten Reality lives on as though we were never here Demise, cleanse our vanity Humankind, a faint memory Realize we are infinitely small And our kind serves no purpose Meaningless, adrift in the grand design It will breathe long beyond your death
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Insanity 06:06
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Lyrics: Endless corridors, structures repeating Every direction leading nowhere Halls filled with spectres, foul apparitions Labyrinthine mind, a cold, dark prison Walls start to melt away to reveal Grotesque depictions of death and horror Bloodsoaked, dripping planes of reality Disappear into this hellish nightmare The onset of insanity has begun Internal screams beg you to succumb Cerebral fabric has come undone From this hell, you cannot run Descending ever down into the abyss Discordant murmurs filling your thoughts Unholy madness claims your soul Left to rot alone, consciousness fading The onset of insanity has begun Internal screams beg you to succumb Cerebral fabric has come undone From this hell, you cannot run
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A Cold, Dark, Iron Husk 06:19
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Long after man's demise, our existence, all but a worthless blink in the eye of time, a dying universe, increasingly empty, cold, and dark approaches entropy. Bodies born before our arrival, remaining after our departure, slowly decay into the void. The final dance in death's cycle. An ever-vast expanse, once so full of elegance, one we considered immortal, stripped of its significance. The last stars dim and wither, the furnaces of creation burn out, becoming lesser matter. The final sun fizzles in this realm, this realm of no warmth, no light, and no life. Humanity long forgotten, the only fleeting reminder of the living cosmos are cold, dark, iron husks.

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My 2nd full-length album. This one is both an expansion and a departure from "Gnashing Teeth." The sound still blends doom and noise, but it's much heavier on the noise this time. One could consider this industrial metal, specifically borrowing from death industrial, but I lovingly refer to it as doom/noise. On top of that, you'll hear influences from drone, dark ambient, and neoclassical music, and various other experiments.

Anyway, this record follows a bit of a concept, essentially about someone whose disdain for humanity pushes them further and further away from sanity, until said person is eventually consumed by feelings of existentialism, misanthropy, nihilism, and insanity itself. As such, the album gets more intense as it progresses, and its ending is definitely one of the parts I'm most proud of, but I won't spoil it, you'll just have to hear it for yourself.

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released December 20, 2023

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Against Thee Wickedly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A DIY Pittsburgh-based solo project that fuses death and funeral doom, noise, black metal, drone/ambient, and a slight neoclassical influence into a dark, heavy, and melodic sound that is more of a feeling an atmosphere than a particular genre.

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