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Psalms of Paralysis

by ASYLUM

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1.
Apprehensia 02:06
Wars not fought with weaponry instead Seek to adopt subliminal tactics Authoritative application of conspiracy, ever evil To produce obedient citizenry A population of compliance, unawareness Slaves to an overreaching governance You hear not truth, but what they allow Go back to sleep This is the tactic of the oncoming epidemic sheep-like behavior to a hideous degree Slowly the grip tightens the veil of ignorance Trade free thought for security Release your mind: The method of loss By which they gain Control
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In dawn of sinister sun Five souls conspire in silence To a gathering at midnight Daring ideas of archaic divination spring from morbid, yet perplexed curiosity for taste of the astral plane Any opposition to intrusion upon such a realm where the specters propagate Swiftly dismissed as cowardice, antipathy towards dark council of accursed souls Arranged in circular shape, this joining of trembling hands Unsettling shadows taking form upon sadistic art of the damned Air increasingly suffocates as intense conflagration fuels incantation Provocation cloaked as benign in hopes to evade our fractured will Penetrating our collective psyche, shaking fibers of our existence The very atmospheric pressure is awry, as acquisition of a knowledge coincides Within the minds of the lighters of horrific flame, their howling echoes across the waves Nomadic spirits! We seek thy council! Ignite within us, cognition! Inflict our psyche with essence of subservience! Across the ocean we ride! Imploring dancing spectral shadows: Devour this night! There is a definite change in nature's form Once withering winds now great antagonists to the sails All thirteen candles suffocate, drowned in fire's bane Symptoms of grim pathological changes coincide With notable difference in their thought and sight - this is Some sinister presence gnawing at the broken soul Enriched with great metaphysical mastery following this Outreach to a world all too insidious Antithesis of supposed bliss Abhorrence flows as ocean currents out their eyes crying tears of blackened blood and marrow As time progresses, execrations show impending symptoms Somatic evidence of possession now appears Even though the very same corporeal form likely remains Some traits have become vaguely dissimilar Some indiscernible detail Which poses greater threat than physical force
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Metabolic disturbances inducing bilateral hemiplegia Impairing these limbs that once created such beautiful disaster One needle to the spine from this diabolical doctor of death One last sensation then complete cessation of muscular function The intrinsic desire to create trampled by another’s to destroy Experimentation for the sake of science, tissue truncated away for the sake of symmetry Letting loose my bowels, powerless to stop this despicable bodily collapse Extremities twitch with involuntary insanity I claw myself with futile desperation My precious scalpel to which I cling with life and limb Enacts with vengeance, decrees of surgical blasphemy My forceps hold steadfast, that which must prevail My ailments take form of praise in paralytic psalms The body that once was, entrenched deep within my mind I struggle to summon forth that being that once left an imprint upon this world But nothing emits but indecipherable groans and moans of palsy and stroke These sounds shall be known henceforth as my psalms of paralysis They laugh, they mock, as they poke and prod, the scalpel tearing at my precious private parts All I can do is widen my eyes and drool while I try to form words, not even a shell of my former self My last resort, to imagine the torture I’d unleash against these filthy humans Were I who I once was, left to my old devices, to my tools of technique
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Five bones comprise the lumbar, sacrum, coccygeal complex In vertabral fusion, a spinous cortical sanctum And as if to desire its own menacing means of demise Fragile cartilage begs the scalpel For penetration, into the outlined skin Maximally invasive probing excavationary exercise Clearly defining this procedure's intentions, now it’s time Summarize the modus operandi Medical science will awaken Research objectives are as follows: To gain an understanding of the links between the stimuli and physical pain To quantify the threshold at which subjects slip from a conscious state Right down to a catatonic REM But to apply this nervous system paradigm Hot knives must first be sterilized quickly With time and wind against the grain, one can't delay Epidermal piercings must commence at once Enriched capacity for exploration By sickening scents of bone To put some price on human life seems trivial When placed before the advancement of science In its most malevolent form Carnal treasure Awaiting words Screams echo through the halls Grinding inside your head A waking state is regained All anesthetic effects wane to lucid comprehension The patient's eyes dart to and fro As vertigo and nausea become increasingly apparent With side effects of scoliosis, transverse myelitis, sacroiliac dysfunction A myriad of afflictions We must act in calculated expansion of our frontier And for the sake of scientific advancement No post-op treatment will be offered We'll but observe and record the operation's most gruesome effects
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Heliophobic 02:05
This light is causing blindness in the way Which we’re perceiving how the days pass the time now that guilty Betrayers have been harbored away Such asylum was bestowed with a lack of consent For unheard of, this fear of the sun What measures can be taken to draw out the rain And used to ascertain this accursed one Plagued with drought and irreparable disease, Boils and sores take formation upon those who howl In rage from this new malediction In desperation, measures must be applied to undo This abhorrent new devilry about He who is blighted, step forth and confess That we may cast thee away, to the depths of the sea
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Words in miseducated tongues Spat violently upon the anchor Piercing the whitened sky Hysteria abounds The sayer of spells stands tall, calling upon the clouds Invoking a terrible end reserved for the worst offenders of Decrees of law and order, commandments meant to conceal intentions Taken to inarguable amendments Orders ceremonially mock the impoverished Uneducated, without a chance Consumerism before the altar A divine ordination The deliberate assault of information Bleak is the fog that clouds perception Hopeless in depth and dimension, such is life Bleeding from the eyes of god Wailing lamentations across the abyss Navigation dangers exponentially increase Round every shadowless turn lays subterfuge Disallowing trust See the cloaked ambassador Offering free passage Congregate within the sanctuary All must pay tithe You are programmed Enslaved to appease the eye Tearing inside out connections forged Increasing separation between companions In the grain of time erodes a shattered life Day in and day out Passing down restrictions Meant to obscure, perplex and bind You are enslaved Programmed to consume design Insidious state propaganda Preaching the material doctrine Transforming want to vitality Humanity upon the altar Paralysis of information Bleak is the fog that allows such ascendancy Evil in death as in all life, and beyond
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Pyschosurgical mutilation Exploring the prefrontal cortex leads to decreased cognition, incontinence, and epilepsy No consent for resurgence Watch the face contort into a vortex of lost control Jabbing the ice pick through the membranal tissue Cackling as his body jolts, oh so violently Rejuvenate by means Of contracting this subject to be free Advance this Precision never necessary Fortitude for an ego so lifeless Destruct the barriers of my conscious thought Shoved in a peril of the artist’s vision of cleansing me Contorting mechanics of my soul Hole in the skull Inject ethanol Introduce the leucotome A circular lesion Mental dullness Complete submission Lobotomize The helpless patient Drill...Then a scream Stab...Then a slice Completion A blank stare A true zombie Incarnate Now, applaud as you marvel at the end goal Be amused at invasive interventions Chuckle and smirk as willpower vanishes Exit satisfied knowing the patient is truly cured Perceive as the puppets dance slowly to my tugs of death Notice their soulless gaze staring directly through you Enjoy as they blabber utter drivel and nonsense Be amazed at the results of surgically induced childhood Deliberate lesions to regions of the brain Giving rise to increasingly assured pathology Grave functional disturbance as we dig in the lobe Beautiful failure to mechanize behavior of the victim Epileptic convulsions and even death ensue Sharpen the tools, fuck the rules, begin again Mental dullness Complete submission Lobotomize The helpless patient
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A simple pump plunged deep within your orifice Hypodermic needles intravenously inject control Infectious diseases intentionally spread throughout Human lab rats exploited for diagnosis Apprehension sweeps society As to the cause of a widespread paranoid hive mind Mentality wrought from gradual slavery In centuries' time, our dust will reveal what dwells inside In a clash of needle and delicate bone A new Renaissance of forensic pathology must commence at once The morbid anatomy of disease must finally be conquered A diabolical blend of bacterial microbes Jabbed repeatedly into the skin Cytopathological inquiries necessitate these travesties Neuropsychological studies introduce a stab of toxins to the temple Psychopathological solutions acquired through relentless needling Human guinea pigs subjugated for analysis Apprehension sweeps society As to the cause of a widespread paranoid hive mind Mentality wrought from gradual slavery In centuries' time, our dust will reveal what dwells inside In a clash of needle and delicate bone A new Renaissance of forensic pathology must commence at once The morbid anatomy of disease must finally be conquered Restrict in the name of tolerance, ideas and expressions outlawed These sinister mandates terrify dissectors of anthropocene fossils Boundary dissolution, forbiddance of which led man to ruination Left shivering, wrought from a bastard "god"
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Neuroslave 07:07
Driven out of sanity by illusion’s cold embrace While institutions shoveling narratives push the latest In convenience and technology, re-scripting neural oddities Sold as necessity, some new must-have distraction therapy To amass, such frightening ignorance spread to a global scale Requires a meticulous, mechanized fusion of wires and flesh From the ever-willing masses Eager to accept that which seems best to make them feel secure Complete rewiring Total and absolute disassembly of information process The average citizen can but lust of such a power To drive a herd of sheep as slaves to a hideous system War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength! And resistance is futile! Mass media weaponized through collusion of corporate gods With ever-extending outlets, the screaming specialist mouthpiece Now the propagandists are protagonists Or so they say Preaching revelations ordering: Trust us, we know what’s best Let troubling fears of insecurity wash away Abandon one’s own creativity impulse And instead, learn from celebrities pushed through garbage channels Medicine to attain complacency in total inactivity Apply directly to the brain Stay asleep To amass, such frightening ignorance spread to a global scale Requires a meticulous, mechanized fusion of wires and flesh From the ever-willing masses Eager to accept that which seems best to make them feel secure Total rewiring A finely detailed dissolution of the human psyche The grinding hate machine exists but to drive our species Ever onward to a self-induced extinction

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Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Irving Lopez

Featuring:
Dean Arnold (Vital Remains/Primalfrost)

Artwork by:
- Henry Carter (Gray's Anatomy, 1858)
- Andreas Vesalius (De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 1543)

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ASYLUM is:
Colby Rodgers - Vocals
Jonathan Hatley - Guitars
Trey Hepfer - Guitars
Carlos A. Gallegos - Bass
McKenzie Webb - Drums

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released March 17, 2017

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ASYLUM Fort Worth, Texas

ASYLUM has developed in sound and design to become a statement on current societal trends concerning humans today. While plenty of musical acts flirt with the edges of sensitive topics, ASYLUM strikes at the root, explicitly and unapologetically, discussing uncomfortable subjects ranging from technology addiction to psychedelic research and mental health. ... more

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