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Rhizome

by Plague Rider

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I STAND BEFORE YOU NOW A PRYING MASS OF ASSEMBLED MINDS THE AGGREGATE NEURAL NETWORK THAT PROBES WITH COLLECTIVE PURPOSE A COLONY OF VORACIOUS EGOS PRIMED TO RECEIVE MY WORDS I HAVE MERGED THE DISCIPLINES AND ARTICULATED THEIR EXPRESSIONS FOR MY OWN ENDS THE EARTH WITHOUT ORGANS THE PLANE OF CONSISTENCIES OF SWARMING INTENSITIES AND SHIFTING CURRENTS OF GEOLOGICAL FLOW I THAT HAVE MADE THE EARTH SCREAM WITH THE PAIN MACHINE HAVE WITNESSED THE TRAJECTORIES AS THEY MERGE THE UNFORMED AND UNSTABLE MATTERS AND MAD TRANSITIONARY PARTICLES I HAVE UNCOVERED THE CRUCIAL PHENOMENA OF CEASELESS CONCRETION AND COMPRESSION THE ORDERING OF INTENSITIES THROUGH THE SHIFTING LAYERS OF STRATA OCCLUSIONS ACTS OF CAPTURE TERRITORIALISED JUDGEMENTS OF GOD GOD god THE LOBSTER THE DOUBLE PINCER THE DOUBLE BIND DOUBLE BIND DOUBLE BIND DOUBLE BIND THE FIRST ARTICULATION SELECTS FROM THE CHAOS IMPOSING AN ORDER ON UNSTABLE FLOWS THE SECOND ASSEMBLES AND CODES AS EXPRESSION IS GIVEN TO CONTENT MACHINIC ASSEMBLAGES PROLIFERATE AND DIVERGE SOLIDFYING OR DISSOLVING AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS DEVELOP AND MERGE AND FORM FOLDS INTO SUBSTANCE INTO FORM MATTERS SELECTED AND CODED STRUCTURED INTO MACHINIC ASSEMBLAGE FLOWS SHIFT UPWARD AND DOWNWARD THROUGH LAYERS INTERMEDIARY THE FOLDING MOLECULES THROUGH FRAMEWORKS TO ORGANS THE VECTORS ORGANIC MINERAL CONCEPTS ENDLESSLY CONVOLUTING DISTINCTIONS PROLIFERATE ON ANY GIVEN STRATUM AS MILLEU ORDER THE CODES OF THE SUBSTRATA AND ABSTRACT ANIMALS EMERGE MOLECULAR POPULATIONS DICTATE FORM AND CONTENT SUCH ARE THE STRATA ENDLESS ARTICULATIONS FORM AND EXPRESSION MOLAR INDUCTION TRANSDUCTION OF SIGNS TRANSLATION OF CODES FOSSILS OF MEANING AND PETRIFIED VELOCITIES THE STRATA CONGEALED THE STRATA THE MASK IS UNDONE DOUBLE FACING DISARTICULATED TOWARD THE DRUMGATE AS I DISSOLVE INTO THE MECHANOSPHERE PANIC IS CREATION PANIC IS CREATION
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STAGNATED VAPID LITURGIES INVOKE CLICHED ARCANE TROPES INNOVATION IS SO COMPLICATED SO LET’S STICK TO THE CVLT WE KNOW DONE UP IN DEAD LANGUAGES AND REVERBERATING IN CAVERNS INTONE THE TRIED AND TESTED LITANIES OF OLD SCHOOL VALIDATION CLUSTERED IN THE SEPULCHERS OF CURDLED SOCIAL MEDIA MAGICK ENDLESSLY CATALOGUING THE SACRED NAMES AND PICKING OVER THEIR REMAINS MESSAGE BOARD OCCULTISM SELF CONGRATULATORY MYSTICISM LETHARGIC PSEUDO-PROFUNDITY APPEASE THE FORUM LORDS BARGAIN BIN INCANTATIONS EXTOL THE LATEST ANCIENT NADIR WORSHIP THE CULT WORSHIP THE ANCIENT GODS ASCENDANT AS ARBITRARY THEATRICS DEMAND WORSHIP THE CULT WORSHIP DIGITAL ATAVISM SERMONS EXTOL THE OLD RELIGION DECADES PAST BLASPHEMIC GARBLED NOSTALGIA APPEASE THE SOCIAL MEDIA HORDE BLUE COLLAR MAGISTERS JOSTLING FOR VALIDATION HERD THOUGHT INDIVIDUALISM GRATIFYING MINDLESS ELITISM LETHARGIC PSEUDO PROFUNDITY ALL WRAPPED UP IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ZEAL THE TRUE NAMES NEVER MEANT TO BE RELEASED GLEANED FROM SACRED LOW FI DEMOS WORSHIP THE CULT WORSHIP VACANT ORATORS CHANT CONTRARIAN INCANTATIONS WITH ALL THE DREAD BANALITY OF NIHILISM ALL THE DREAD BANALITY OF NIHILISM
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THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE ENDLESS AND THEY CIRCLE MY LEADEN CORPSE LIKE VULTURES WHILST DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS CARVE HOLES IN MY MIND LIKE WOODWORM THROUGH ROTTEN TIMBER IT’S AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE TO BANISH THAT SOPORIFIC FOG A CLOYING VISCOUS SHROUD WRAPPED AROUND DEADENED SYNAPSES CEASELESS STRIVING THE BURDEN OF ENDEAVOR NEURONS ACHING SHRIEKING MANDIBLES OF INTERNAL MONOLOGUE SCOUR MY CORTEX A LANDSCAPE OF POSSIBILITIES POCKMARKED WITH HOLES SPIRAL CONTENT STRIP-MINES BELCH LETHARGY I AM HOLLOWED OUT AND DRAINED EMPTIED OUT INTO THIS ENDEAVOR I AM HOLLOWED OUT AND DRAINED THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS - TOIL AND YET THE WORK MUST CONTINUE EVEN AS NERVES BURN BARBED HOOKS OF LETHARGY ANCHORED DEEP FROM PULLEYS OF SISYPHEAN CYCLES THE TETHER EVER TIGHTENING AT THE PROSPECT OF ESCAPE AND LASHING AT MY MINDS SKIN AS ACHIEVEMENT ELUDES BY FLAILING GRASP VICIOUS CIRCLES BARBED AND SELF DEFEATING FUTILE DEFIANCE IT WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH TO REST
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BECOMING IMMANENT BECOMING STRETCH INTO MYCELIUM EXTEND WITHIN, WITHOUT ABSORBING EXTRUDING DISSOLVING SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLE COMPONENTS OF SELF EVAPORATE INTO NEON FOG DECONSTRUCTED ORGANISM IMMANENCE IS PARAMOUNT! MEMBRANES PERMEATED ASSEMBLAGES FORMED You never reach the Body without Organs you cannot reach it you are forever attaining it it is a limit TO RESEMBLE THE NETWORK TRANSFORMED INTENSITIES THE MACHINE IS CONSTRUCTED AND MOVES ORGANS RENDERED CONCEPT UNFOLDED AND ASSEMBLED REFOLDED AND REFORMED MYRIAD POTENTIALS SIMULTANEOUSLY A PHENOMENON OF ACCUMULATION COAGULATION SEDIMENTATION TEAR AWAY THE CONSCIOUS FROM THE SUBJECT STRIP THE UNCONSCIOUS FROM THE SIGN THE PLANE UNFETTERED THE SORCERER FORGES THE PACT CYCLIC TRANSFER FEEDBACK LOOP CURRENTS AND FLOWS BECOME THE MULTIPLICITY THE ANOMALOUS RECAST TRAJECTORIES SKEWERED BY LINES OF DESIRE EXPLODED THOUGHT THROUGH GRIDS AND AXES PLATEAUS EMERGE LINES OF FLIGHT!

about

The professor has gathered the performers and articulated their expressions. The unformed and unstable matters have coalesced and stratified. The rhizome is presented as it dissolves.

Dismantling traditional tropes and reassembling them over a warped scaffold of noise and experimentation, death metal mavericks Plague Rider continue to push at the boundaries of their genre with Rhizome.

Relentless sinewy riffs interlace with frenetic drum work, whilst layers of noise and varied inhuman vocal delivery merge into a barely contained whole. A challenging listen which is as vicious as it is expansive, Rhizome represents the shifting neural network of a continuously evolving sonic entity.

Panic is creation.

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released October 9, 2018

Jake Bielby - Guitars
Matthew Henderson - Drums
Lee Anderson - Bass
James Watts - Vocals
Rob Woodcock - Noise

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Plague Rider Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Difficult music by difficult people.

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