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WAR Logo T-shirt Designed By Matt Needle
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WAR Logo T-shirt Designed By Matt Needle. These are made to order, please allow a few weeks to receive.
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Double 12"Red Vinyl Pop-Up Center Gatefold 180G
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Deluxe double vinyl version of our latest album "WAR". Pressed on 180 gram red vinyl with a gatefold jacket - Tara's pointy crown pops up in the center!
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Square, clear, lathe cut vinyl, very limited edition that was intended for tour. But now you can order em. Grab all four for a complete set! Of course. : )
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edition of 80
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Limited stock of UK ONLY WAR 8-Panel CDS
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WAR Double Gatefold Vinyl (UK ONLY)
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Double Red Vinyl with pop up gatefold (UK ONLY)
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about
Written somewhere around mid-2018, it started out much much slower, and was all 808 & Minimoog Model D synth. It was written at a feverish time in America, and at this point, I was on a daily basis stunned & sickened by what right wing America was getting away with. Each day was outdone by another horrible thing, building up more & more, rising up.
I never considered myself intelligent, secure or articulate enough to debate politics, but the Trump administration brought outrage and sadness out of so many, and I personally had to exorcise it or go mad. I reworked the song to radically increase the tempo & add a scuzzed up-fuzzed up bass guitar (something I’d never used on one of my records before), and more fitful vocals - in fact the very last screaming phrase ( “rats rise up never let ‘em kill again”) blew my voice out for a few days - got a bit carried away..
I saw this horrible culture of privileged cartoon rats eating those that were not of their ilk or privilege, the “mice” - and eventually eating themselves after consuming everyone & everything else. A gross, bone-chilling cannibalistic blur of hysteria.
Musically, I was getting into Ghost Rider by Suicide, and always wanted to have something that pulsed like that. Dean reworked the ending drums, massively improving the ending, making it a lot more propulsive.
lyrics
Debutante paws on my face
Snapped my claws right into place
Gonna hold her until I die until I die
Snap my neck don’t let me bite don't let me bite
In the mud I’m gonna lay...
In the mud I’m gonna lay down in the mud
In the mud I’m gonna lay down in the mud
In the mud I’m gonna lay down in the mud
In the mud I’m gonna lay down (& I’ll never kill again)
Got a scream waiting in my throat
try as I might I can’t spit it out
Rats will rise look at them fly, look at them fly
Rats rise up & eat the mice, they eat the mice
Rats rise up
Rats rise up
To your face
Rats rise up & they’re gonna kill again
Rats rise up
Rats rise up
To your face
Rats rise up never let em kill again
credits
from WAR,
released April 22, 2022
Written by Tara Busch
A stellar cast of artists put their own shadowy spins on recent Bestial Mouths material—toward the goth club floor or into pure noise. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2021
Darkwave synth that directly addresses our modern dystopian political environment, with proceeds going to the Voting Rights Project. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2018