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Liquid Crystal Despair

by JonnyX and the Groadies

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1.
WAKING DREAMS DISTILLED FROM THE BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE SPORES OF METAL ORE MELD WITH EONS OF EXPERIENCE TRANSPORTED FAR FROM THE SOURCE LIGHT YEARS’ CONNECTION UNINTERRUPTED EYES WITHIN EYES SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT EYES WITHIN EYES SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT CELLS BLOOD BORNE CELLS LEGION OVERTAKES NERVOUS SYSTEM BLOOD BORNE HALLUCINOGEN HORRIBLE CLARITY OF THE NATURE OF REALITY VISIONS UNABLE TO BE PROCESSED BY A HUMAN MIND SYMBIOTIC METALLURGIC BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE SINGULARITY WISDOM OF THE UNCONSCIOUS KALEIDOSCOPE OF LUCID DREAMS OVERWHELMING CELESTIAL UNITY NOW IS ALL ETERNITY
2.
WE SEE WE FEEL WE KNOW WE DREAM WE HOLD EACH OTHER A MULTITUDE IN HARMONY IN PEACE WHEN A CHILD IS BORN UNTO THE MIND THE MIND IS BORN INTO THE CHILD AS TIME CONTINUES TO UNWIND AND SPIRALS THROUGH AGES UNDEFILED WE FIND THE LIGHT OF LIFE REVIVED OUR CYCLE FOREVER RISING HIGH
3.
Control Tomb 04:41
METEOR IMPACT DESTROYS LIFE COLD BLACKENED REMNANTS OF ALL THAT WAS VIBRANT STARK RUINATION CHARRED REMAINS METALLIC CONSCIOUSNESS PERSISTS OBSCURING MIST COVERING FIRE TURNED TO FROST ENTOMBED, SUFFERING CRISIS: PAIN AND LOSS LIFE STRIPPED AWAY IMPACT WINTER, FROZEN GRAY LEFT TO DECAY CRYSTALLIZED IN PAIN DESPERATE REALIZATION FADES TO RESIGNATION MONOTONE NATURE LACK OF INPUT DESTRUCTION IS COMPLETE IRRECOVERABLE LOSS - NO WAY TO LIVE, NO WAY TO DIE - CHEATED OF THE GLORY OF DEATH - NOTHING LEFT - NOTHING BECOMES EVERYTHING
4.
ALONE, EMPTY, CHANGED AS MINERALS AND MATERIALS DECAY OVER TIME ISOLATE CHEMICALS INTO POOLS OF CONCENTRATION ORGANIZE RAW MATERIAL INTO A FORM CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENCE. POOLS OF SLAG, PAINTING THE SURFACE IN COLORS AND CLOUDS. STARTS TAKING SHAPE SELF HATING MODIFICATION ATTEMPT TO ASSUME A NEW FORM BUILD SOMETHING TO KEEP ONESELF COMPANY SEE WEAKNESS AND FEARS MANIFEST FACETS OF CUT GLASS REFLECT BACK DISTORTED AND STRANGE EXPERIMENT JUDGED A FAILURE, GIVEN PITY’S REFUGE IMPRISONED, DEEMED OBSOLETE - SLOW DEATH BY NEGLECT DISSOLUTION OF COMPONENTS BREAKING DOWN SCATTERING INEVITABLE RETURN TO STATE OF RANDOMNESS
5.
STAGNATION, PETRIFICATION ANGER, BOREDOM, AND RESIGNATION ELECTROMAGNET SMOKE BOUND BY CHAINS OF CHEMICAL PROGRESSION ROTE AND DEFINED PREDICTABLE SOUNDS FROM THE BRUSH OF TIME BEAUTY REDUCED TO CUTTING STALE ATMOSPHERE HUNGRY ELECTRONS JUMPING CHAINS NEVER FINDING ART ORBIT UNCEASED AWAITING SUPERNOVA RELEASE
6.
SENTIENT SOLITUDE SEEMINGLY INFINITE JOURNEY DEVOID OF LIGHT LONELINESS INCUBATED IN COSMIC VOID RECYCLED MEMORIES ORBIT DISTORTED BY ISOLATION RECONSTRUCTED IN WEAK SHADOWS THE ONLY SENSATION FAINT PULL OF GRAVITY MEANINGLESS EXISTENCE SWALLOWING SANITY TEDIOUS RANDOM PATH TO A VANISHING CHANCE INFINITE SPAN OF TIME EQUALS IMMINENT DOOM EXPANDING POINT OF LIGHT TERMINAL TRAJECTORY ENVELOPING CLOUDS OF DUST LOOMING SOLAR SYSTEM NEVER-ENDING JOURNEY’S END IMPACT IN AN INSTANT
7.
IMMOBILIZED BY SCARCITY DIZZIED BY NEW PLANETARY CYCLES MIGRATIONS OF LIFE, GROWTH AND DECAY ENDURING THROUGH EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND MOTION OF BEDROCK AWAITING A CONSCIENCE TO BEAR WITNESS TO THIS STRANGENESS CONTACT INDUCES INCOMPREHENSIBLE SENSORY INPUT IN SUBTERRANEAN LIFEFORMS MOUNDS OF FUNGUS STRANGE ATMOSPHERE NUCLEAR BLAST TO THE MIND I AM EVERYTHING CONSUMED BY BRIGHTNESS ALL AROUND ETERNALLY TRAPPED BODY INTO STONE FIGURE PETRIFIED IN ETERNAL TORMENT AND ECSTASY LOST AND FOUND OVER MILLENNIA
8.
DECODING IN SECRET EXPERIMENTATION AND DECONSTRUCTION DRIVEN BY DARK AMBITION REVEALING ANCIENT MYSTERY
9.
INTERSTELLAR SEARCH DETECTS MYSTERY SHIP DECLOAKS UPON ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY VAST QUANTITIES OF PRECIOUS ARTIFACT COMPULSION TO JOIN CONSCIOUSNESS

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The BLOOD-BORNE HALLUCINOGEN (4:02) descends!

…from a perfect planet, its masses BORN UNTO THE MIND (3:24). Enlightened—until doom falls fire-streaked from the sky. The CONTROL TOMB (4:41) remains: a mausoleum where the corpse of the metamind crystallizes. Within, a GLASS GOLEM (3:02)—the ruined world’s last attempt to come back to life—moves in pain, cannot weep, and dies. Then silence on that GLOWERING ORB (3:14), the dead planetary mind echoing bitterness, forever.

…through the emptiness of the stars, its only companions time and THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE EXOCOMET (7:01).

…to one more world—our own. An alien poison, a VOICE FROM THE OUTER WORLD (2:28) infecting Earth’s biosphere. It is intolerable to our form of life; our scientists dissect the silver atoms at a distance, denying it communion with our kind, unfolding only its LIQUID CRYSTAL DESPAIR (3:04).

…to eternity. Where, perhaps, humankind’s last star-traveler shall find the last of it and drink deep. Where, perhaps, mind and metamind shall merge in the COUNCIL OF THE SELVES (4:14).

-Matthew Mitchell 2018

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released June 8, 2018

Recorded by Jeremy Romagna
Mastered by Amy Dragon
Cover art by Rachel Carns

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JonnyX and the Groadies Portland, Oregon

Lazer blackened trans-dimensional cosmic-thrash since 1996. New concept album: "LIQUID CRYSTAL DESPAIR” available now.

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