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Croatoan

by starkweather

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Slither 06:54
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Bitter Frost 06:19
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Wilding 07:36

about

2005: Hypertension Records.

Recorded at Studio Wild / Pierre Remillard.

credits

released August 25, 2005

Todd Forkin - guitar / Rennie Resmini - vocals / Harry Rosa - drums / Liam Wilson - bass / Jim Winters - guitar. Additional percussion on "Silken Garotte" by Tim Simmons. Bass on "Wilding" by Michelle Eddison.

wilding: In clandestine places we spoke hushed in whispers Ask at what price to leave secrets unspoken Remember it was autumn veiled 'neath placid silence when we walked the river's edge... All love withers away never dies Just left to linger in the plague years Eidolons fret in the unconscious eye as the apocalypse draws nigh.... Everything is rolling stroboscopic slow-motion.... I thought of you months on end tore my knuckles on the walls painted scarlet pictures Hallucinating I wandered the streets treading ever so softly lest the moorings fall.... Bask in silence enjoy its beauty for the moment's fleeting... Untethered latticework in the ceiling corner I watch your shadow climb the stairs Counting footsteps pace the floor I hear your voice echo in the hallway Fingers drum the saint vitus dance spider scuttle in elden dust Lunatic scripture nightmare logic I felt the cold-fire rush of your embrace You with your maudlin stare and rictus smile entitled to my deepest enmity Elevate this wretched form to savage elegance Rear my head bare my teeth to the world... I came here tooth and nail frenzy flushed Rear my head bare my teeth to the world I came here tooth and nail... Draw my mongrel eyes elsewhere Thinking in tongues Nonsense gibberish giddy laughter through pursed lips Rear my head bare my teeth to the world I came tooth and nail frenzy flushed rear my head bare my teeth to the world

taming leeches with fire: Annelidan you have stolen Parasitized Nova white radiance devouring Annelidan you have stolen "To destroy you is no loss"*... Pariah kind Cast aside Downtrodden Untouchable Below that which crawls Lowest amongst the damned Pariah kind Cast aside Downtrodden Anathema Pariah kind Cast aside Downtrodden Untouchable Pariah kind Cast aside Crestfallen... Blind visionaries with knives at the ready slaver over carrion swollen ripe to burst You've taken your pound's worth gorge until you choke You never meant to leave you needed only revenge Manufactured a heart-triggered time bomb with a gnawing ache for failure Made my bed amidst killers, thieves, liars, users and takers and embraced them in the most wicked of ways... I am unclean close your eyes to me... Spindrift dreams seldom seen Mere thirteen steps into oblivion Nova white radiance devouring "To destroy you is no loss".... Vespertilian midnight's savage son Rebuilt the broken child: the embodiment of perpetual rage Tempered to a glistening sheen Attrition worn arson born Heave and pitch flickering celluloid time "The child is father to the man"**... Taming leeches with fire...Before I was human torn I was bleeding the wounded and weak Taming leeches with fire *Khmer Rouge slogan **William Wordsworth

slither: I writhe serpentine Slither into your mind's farthest reach A little corner of hell Endhouse with a backyard that served as an execution chamber Pets drown in their cages Across the street backyards dropped to an alleyway Compost twist the guts into knots Feel the roll Expect the coil to anchor me to the spot... Praise be this mortal wreckage Beyond salvage or repair I am he who lurks invisible in twilight hours Revel in anonymity I am he who lurks invisible... A requiem stirring from a distant past of a childhood torturer Pulling wings off bluebottles of hornets in water filled jars attention to the present moment standing on a concrete carapace smothering the soil Where quiet is kept where truth will hold buried and moldering Quiet kept truth will hold all memory locked beneath the stone... Nothing ever is forgotten Thrives in neglect Emotionless Disconnected... Complex tangles of thought twist and turn Caught in the coils Sense piercing bone scraping hurt Surging endorphins firing ephemeral euphoria Wracked by a chorus of ascendant rattling throes Wide-eyed, leaden weight mute acknowledgement Unconditional relinquishing... Rapt concentration Auguring open wounds It's so easy to paint a smile and borrow time on a lie...Pile them high on the embers Soot and ash strafe the sky I'll feed the fire and grind the bellows... Glimpse tiny stabs of sudden motion Spatters and splotches across the baseboards Removed in scabrous formations Quicksilver bends and breaks Quivers as a living thing Overhead a jet's billowing signature creases the azure Power lines twitch beneath hollow- boned weight Hail hits asphalt with a spark Footsteps echo around every corner Knuckles are tensing white...Plague ridden anxiety driven Tempest torn Bated breath entitled to less None of those years were kind Head in hands Amass primal elements Totem bound in twine Ophidian sinuous movement Sidewinder resplendency

bitterfrost: angel, you want under my skin until the damage is dealt so tell me who is alone when I have none so tell me who is alone take this with you always alone in the void alone in the void where spoken language betrays... I hope you're bled from my system with splinter kissed fists wind chimes hung in the ash lilt to the breeze rippling the early morning murk sounds pucker and peal as budding flowers do all's become undone... know me by degrees of misery come slake your thirst on my worthlessness it's all I've got to give take it take it take it I'll return to you as you wrought me tatterdmalion... so shall we speak of the grace of spiders the loyalty of dogs the mechanics of inner treason or patron saints of futures lost I've names for them all carve into me as deep as you can and let it be known it's not the trauma of beheading but ensuing starvation that kills... you want under my skin until the damage is dealt.... engage the unbecoming just grant me the opportunity I'll surely break your healing hands I'm agitated motion riddled with tell-tale signs of decay at whim of off-kilter senses gradually focused on a tight spiralling orbit's end... you want under my skin until the damage is dealt... teeth agrinding dark wave is coming I'm built to burn bitterfrost

hushabye: goodnight: the lie is not mine I've naught to speak of purification for the sake of sound... if there be dark hushabye and goodnight sleep, now sleep cradled in the comfort of security mercy see who burns the brightest of them all forgotten faceless fallen scorned to blackened shores... find me the heaviest stones to fill my pockets I thought it for the best that I should drown while I've the scent for water and a thirst to quench I hie to the river with a nervous shudder hackles taut from chills under the fiery gaze of an angry god this slick film coat of filth won't wash away under god's piss and angels' spit truth be told I am pleased all is in thrall of uncertainty... we're at play in the killing fields for a thousand years maybe more sharpen your knives...memories are what remain... fallen scorned to blackened shores Forgotten faceless Broken and unloved Dream you dead and gone... I've naught to speak of purification

vespertilian: Who gave you the right to breathe life into dirt Harness me earthbound with feet of clay Mold me a mortal form wingless constrained to the laws of gravity before I was human born I was beautiful so much more than weak now with scab sheathed skin cataract glazed eyes languish for flight does naught but grind me down Before I was shorn winged I was a predator born of majesty... mold me a mortal form wingless... azrael close your eyes to me raze me low...looking worse for wear paper predator easily torn, crumbled, burned Integral component missing tread under foot: detritus Eolian swept away...All withers beneath the shadow of azrael's wings

machine rhythm confessional: Flagellant prostrate in ritual abbeyance Subservient: subservant Subjugate will for another master Slave beneath the yoke of enlightenment Devotion blessed with ambivalence Crash and clangor of piston chatter Welcoming gears Christendom's machinery Ecstatic in misery Scarlet woman Magdalene sister Proffer contrition for a guilt insatiate... Save your servant enemies have risen up against me*... Futilitarian The eternal affliction A subtle self destruction Christus in absentia domine rex inferum Eternal affliction...On hallowed ground bended knee Praying your rosary Vigil for the unborn Damned to be impure Blessed holy trinity Faith demoralizing Ecstatic in misery Crushed by machinery...Save your servant Enemies have risen up against me*...*Psalm 53

silken garotte/the infinity coil: She of eminence and grace Speak not her name know better for it New language born Halted fluttering...Gossamer thin, elegantly woven silken garotte for her lover's throat It burns no better than this Lashed by eight caresses of therididae Above human Soulless perfection Bearing an hourglass Nepenthe for the walking wounded Drown beneath the amber flow Eagerly consume the poison fed to me... Arms bent back, hands cinched together tight She's binding knots in the snare's line What makes love so frightening You don't own it you don't own a thing... Jarred conscious upon impact the world is exploding Triggering a deep rooted primal hardwiring Something ancestral animal instinct survival mechanism... Nepenthe for the walking wounded...This is the end where it all begins again

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Starkweather Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

-isolationist music for the disenfranchised individual.
-a disturbance of the inner ear.
-a misanthrope's internal monologue interpreted through primal scream therapy.

1989: inception
1990/91: demos
1992/93: crossbearer
1995: into the wire
2005/06: croatoan
2010: this sheltering night
2011: Overmars split
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