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Filthy Microbes

by Straenge

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Finally a full album!
This is a fresh wind straight into the lungs of thrash! No doubt.
Even the new logo is fantastic!
Impressing.

But especially I love this album for its price ;-)

Favorite track: Thrash Forever.
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    Our first CD release of our first album. Released by Captured Records in Japan. Includes 2 live bonus tracks!

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1.
Nothing makes sense in this world. Money pushes everything. Thrashing is all that makes me go on, Fighting creeping death. I want to eat thrash until I puke. Force feed me, make me repulse. Make me into the thing that I am. Make me into a wretched monster. Thrash Forever. You want me to behave like you say, Gathering money. I need just to thrash until I bleed, Traumatic thrashing. I don’t want to be part of your world, Fueled by greed and hatred. Thrash doesn’t care who you are! Thrash just wants to make life real. Thrash Forever.
2.
Atom 06:27
Subatomic story of forces beyond comprehension. Calculations insane, Our human brains are insufficient. Atom. Max Planck and Schrodinger, too, Quantum theory maniacs who hunted for the truth. Dirac and Einstein, Sippin’ from the quantum wine, Drunk on the madness of nature. Niels Bohr and Oppenheimer, motherfucker, Brains on fire with mind-blowing theories. Quantum states will fuck your mind! Neutrons (protons) smashing In a thirteen teravolt time-ripping, space-warping blast. Scientific fiction cannot possibly match The insane quantum world! Time ends, As eigenstates confuse our brains and melt our senses. Withdraw from society, Just to calculate. Calculate! Atomic energy filling the void. Heisenberg nightmares are driving me mad. Hermitian matrices haunting my sleep, And the visions of eigenspace take me away. Calculate atom!
3.
Space Cowboy 03:50
Gloom of the moon’s shade, Black roses in my mind. Acid gas vents and hellish pistons, Cross the gate into Death’s realm. Duty from the highest order, Beyond laws,domain of honor. The universe continues in silence, Oblivious to god and man. King of cowboys, Shrewdness manifest. Leads all cowboys, Pass through the waste. Drink from power’s cup, It runneth over. What is its price? Paid out in time.
4.
Rising from the slag, features alien. Exoskeletal frame, clicking black wings, Hissing and clicking, Eyes gleam with a killer’s malice. Black. Ancient. Death and hopelessness are granted symptoms. Grey skulls and ashen remnants lie silently, Bones splintering underfoot. No trace of human culture left to marvel. All signs of achievement ground down into dust. Shift from intent; this could have been prevented. Race to material riches brought Man’s unglorious fall. Home world overrun. Black shells scurry forth. Life is primitive and yet outlives man. Cold, deep fixing eyes find all becomes food. Rising from the slag, features alien. Exoskeletal frame, clicking black wings, Hissing and clicking, Eyes gleam with a killer’s malice. Black. Ancient.
5.
Innocence in your eyes, Satisfied by a sense of joy. Your eyes exist to glare and spurn. Wounding others, Using fear to bind them. Get out! You are not necessary For me! The rules you decided Influence all those around you. Your tactless severity cuts and maims. Did you notice? Nobody is following you. Emotions move in a single direction. You don’t seem to notice. What you yourself fear You are unable to sense in others. No one is around you. You are hopeless. You can’t understand Your reality. You can’t fathom what it is to live.
6.
The creature rages at the sun, A burning wraith. Bloodred, haunting face. Its heart is withered by its greed, A lust for power. Wretched, dying eyes. A want became a sickness, A need to be the king. Desire turned to madness, And selfishness the fix. Forsook the ones around him, To get a better edge. Imprisoned by neurosis, The walls are closing in. Psychopathic smile. Psychopathic smile, psychopathic eyes. At the top of institutions everywhere. At the top. Top. Grinning as he takes your life, Not with gun and not by knife. Byzantine financial system. Crushed by debt and corporations.
7.
We are thirsty. I want to drink. Hey men! Let’s go to the pub! Let’s go to the bar! Drink it! We want to drink. We’ll go to wonderland. We want to drink. We are the Hammered Battalion! We want to drink more. Don’t think about tomorrow. We’re hammered, but still we’ll drink more. The moon is asleep, and we drink yet. Let’s go to the next! Let’s go to the next! Drink it! Drinking is my life. Drink, drink, drink, and drink. We are the Hammered Battalion!
8.
A tale of blood and power, an age of total chaos, Consuming generations. An invasion ending with time itself. Crowning this chaotic time of utter violence, Our brutal advance laid the path for a wave of death. I won’t submit. An animal by your mastery, I am not. I refuse your rule. Aggression by countless generations. And I at the onslaught’s head. Our blitzkrieg is boundless. I become your Reaper. The one that schemes of evil is left on the husk. The one with a wish for the master inherits the ground. The one who is blessed by God is returned to the earth. The one immersed in rapture wipes the blood from his hands. Fire unto all! Unbind the power of Fafnir. Reduce all to ashes. Wielding the might of the Giant. Smote by the fist of aggression, The domain of God has fallen. Domination. Shattering force. Bask in the power! I will never be your slave. This day I walk with the Reaper.
9.
Enter the circus, only at midnight. Now it is showtime. The ringmaster shouts. Welcome! Acts! People exited to watch this amusing show. People are charmed by this unreal world. The show must go on Trance! Lose your mind and watch the show. Time has no meaning here. Temptations! Performers mesmerize The crowd with their skills. The show must go on! You all seem to enjoy this. But don't any of you realize? Your half-wit and vacant smiles, Your gaze is turned away from the truth. The show must go on! Crimes! Who will bear responsibility? The spectators only criticize. I simply survive. I see only despair. Survive. Only despair. Despair. The show must go on!

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released March 25, 2023

Produced by Walker Peterson & Straenge. Recording engineering, mixing, mastering by Walker Peterson. Cover art by Mika Hayashi.

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