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Technopagan

by Electromancy

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David Fischer
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David Fischer It is hard for me to find the adequate words for this record. Let me be clear about one thing: the musical quality is high, but this is by no means an easy nor an ordinary record. The sound is, for obvious reasons, different than on any other album I have ever heard. It does sound robotic, of course. It's also raging, traumatic. But what this record actually means, what it represents, is beyond the musical value. Technopagan is the sonic result of an unbreakable will, of adamant determination. Favorite track: You Cannot Live Forever.
Ippocalyptica
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Ippocalyptica Interesting. Very interesting…

Yes, this is the shortest of my nearly 700 reviews to date. Sometimes, words escape our grasp. And even if they had not, we would have found ourselves incapable of describing that which was before us…

Favorite track: You Cannot Live Forever.
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The Spark 04:54
On the first day And the last day Of the world The queer oracle Leaps From the center Of a cauldron From a fire Kept by fey And mortals touched by the Spark Stir the fire Mince the sage Add cardamom And time There’s a sleeping seed Buried deep Beneath The last fruiting tree On earth This tree will not survive Nor will it die Earth's brew Feeds this seed For rebirth Heat the cauldron Melt the sugar Drink the brew Set the spark We are all Just piles of mud Mounds of flesh Smothering the earth Encased in stone Statuettes, That is at least Until we feel The Spark
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Disabled 04:28
A recurring sense of grief A passing of myself Pushing my physical limits To face daily life Detached from my body Dissociated, numb My body keeps me safe from the physical pain of being By turning off Disability brings a repeated grief for oneself There is no reason why This is no one’s fault There is nothing you could’ve done This suffering just is Again and again Further My frail body is the ultimate teacher Stripped down to the core of myself By grieving away the parts of me I can hold no more When you can no longer do the things you considered you What are you now? When you can do nothing, What is your value? Intrinsic and infinite Yet we live in a world with a fetish for definition You can only be And that is beautiful Full of awe Powerful enough to crush any other notion I am 29 years old And I am prepared to be old, Wise, And next to death
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I am A flame I’ve burned bright Burned through many a night I’ve consumed the air around me And the kindling beneath my feet I’ve burned bright For long I’ve kept alight You can tell of my passing From a lingering smell of sulfur I’ve burned hot I’ve carbonized a lot I’ve left my mark on many things My black dust that stains the world I am a flame I am a flame Burning Burning away I’ve burned hot Emblazoned all I aught When my time is over I will be but soot and sulfur When my time is over I will be but soot and sulfur I am a flame I am a flame Burning Burning away Burning Burning Burning Away
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Glasshole 08:02
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Fluid a liquid existence eroding the symptoms of a two party system Gender is performative And the whole world is a stage But who is writing this play? And who gave you your role anyway? Turn this bipartisan brain into a stream of consciousness Warpaint I am no longer method acting anymore I am enacting a need my body needs to breathe by boiling over boiling over to burn the hands that feed Us fake news and fake culture Fake genders, it's over Warpaint Separate and far from equal motherfuker Let's fudge these lines, bend over! Prepare yourself for a new kind of water torture Don't just think for yourself Fucking feel, fucking do Who are you? Turn your bipartisan brain into an honest stream of consciousness Warpaint Follow the crevices through which it pours Fill the Basin at the bottom of your soul dry for so many years Until you to boil over drown the world with the love you have always had drown the world with the love you have always had drown the world with the love you have always had Warpaint This warpaint you call makeup Prepares me for war Against a culture That demeans faggots and whores These are my people We have pride Stained lips And Darkened eyes Join the legions For Today, like every other day, We fight Warpaint
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You cannot stay forever You hardly exist now Your perceptions of reality Are based on a bygone world Beneath blankets of security Rests the soil of this world Viewed Like static of uncertainty From which reality unfurls The grasping at the fabric Only helps it be undone Do not fight your undoing It is your making Mourning transformation Grieve Your passings with pride Accept what is to come The you on the other side
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My hands are heavy ghosts My face is filled with needles My arms have fallen asleep And they won’t wake up My leg burns from no fire My hand can’t hold yours back I cannot itch deep enough The world feels dull through my fingers But Don’t touch me it will hurt There is no reason why The suffering just is My body is failing me My body is failing me My body is failing me My body is failing me Will I die? Or decompose With my eyes wide open?

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Technical Black Metal composed by human, played by physical robots. In 2018 Satyra became chronically ill. Instead of quitting music because of their disability, they built robots to play instruments for them. This is the result. Technopagan chronicles Satyras physical and spiritual battle facing disability, mortality, and both the fragility yet unrelenting power of human existence so directly.

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released January 14, 2022

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Technical Black Metal composed by human, played by physical robots. In 2018 Satyra became chronically ill. Instead of quitting music because of their disability, they built robots to play instruments for them. This is the result. Electromancy, the robot metal band. ... more

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