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FILTHY INSECTS SCUTTLE IN PITCH BLACK, TIRELESS ERECTING TEMPLES OF WISDOM REVERSED GNAWING CAVERNS THROUGH THE FOLDS OF THE SOUL THROUGH VENTRICLES AND VEINS PARASITIC SPAWN DEVOTED SERVANTS FIRST AS PUPAE INGESTED INHALED IN THROUGH THE EYES THE EARS SQUIRMING IN THE MOUTH SWALLOWED INTO THE DEPTHS GROWING IN SUCCESSIVE WAVES THEIR COMMON SPECIES: LUST, ANGER, FOUL DECEPTION, THE SCOURGE OF THE AVERTED EYE IN WEAKNESS, IN BLINDNESS, AND IN SLUMBER, I AM RIGHTLY DEVOURED THEIR BITES LEAVE NOT WELTS UPON THE SKIN BUT SCARS UPON THE SOUL MY TASK, TO BRING DOWN INTO THEIR MASSES WHITE FLAME A SALVE FOR ANCIENT WOUNDS, AND RENDER THEM TO NAUGHT
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GO, GO LIVE ECSTATIC LIFE EXIST EXIST INSIDE EXIST OUTSIDE BE BE WHOLE REGAIN ORIGINAL DIVINITY REJOIN ORIGINAL WHOLE THIS THIS IS IT GO BE EXIST INSIDE EXIST OUTSIDE GO BE REJOIN ORIGINAL WHOLE EXIST OUTSIDE EXIST INSIDE
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UNDER THE DIRT DOWN TO THE STONE DOWN WHERE THE ANTS AND WORMS CALL HOME THERE IS THE PLACE WHERE WE BEGAN REPLACED THE CLAY WITH A FOREIGN SAND TO CARRY THE FLAME UP THROUGH THE EARTH TO HARNESS THE FIRE INSIDE THE HEARTH INTO THE AIR SEE THE EMBERS FLY THE FIERY ASHES BURNING OUT IN THE SKY SMOKE FILLS THE AIR ITS IN EVERYTHING THEY SMELL THE WILD BLAZE AS THE CINDERS SING TO CARRY THE FLAME UP THROUGH THE EARTH TO HARNESS THE FIRE INSIDE THE HEARTH "HIGHER HIGHER BURNING FIRE MAKING MUSIC LIKE A CHOIR" BURN THE FOLLIES OF MY YOUTH ALL MY VICES AND UNTRUTHS THE BRICKS GLOW RED ON INTO THE NIGHT WE'LL WATCH IT BURNING TIL THE MORNING LIGHT
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TO THE CASTLES OF OUR CLAN WE TREAD AN UNSEEN ROADWE ALL FALL ALONG THE WAY LEAD BY SHINING HEARTS THE FORKING PATH VEILED IN FOG BLIND WE STUMBLE GROPING IN THE DARK GREY FOLDS OF NIGHT TO THE CASTLES OF OUR CLAN WE TREAD UNSEEN ROAD TO BURN AWAY THE DARKENED EYE THAT CLOUDS THE WATERS DARK AND CLEAR, DIVINE
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VILE PROTECTOR, DOMINATOR PLEAD RELEASE FROM THE SHADOWED HAND BANISHED, EXILED FROM CABAL OF ROTTING CORPSES THOSE ADVERSARIES OF THE LIVING LIGHT THOSE WHO THRUST THEIR WITHERED SPIRITS INTO CHILDREN OF THE EARTH DOWN INTO THE PITS THEY BE THROWN AND WITH THEM LEADEN SAP DRAWN FROM THE POISONED WELL OF MY SOUL
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Rats 08:09
ANOTHER MOUTH IN A STARVING WORLD OH HOW VERY ORDINARY IT'S NOT A VIRTUE NOT QUITE A BLESSING THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALL FORGETTING HUMAN ROACHES, HUMAN RATS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. HUMAN VERMIN, HUMAN ANTS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET IT. FLEAS ON RATS FLEAS ON RATS HUMAN ROACHES. HUMAN RATS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. HUMAN VERMIN, HUMAN ANTS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. MOTHER NATURE'S CRUELEST TRICK, GORGE OURSELVES UNTIL WE'RE SICK HUMAN TAPEWORMS, HUMAN TICKS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT, DON'T FORGET HUMAN ROACHES, HUMAN RATS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. HUMAN VERMIN, HUMAN ANTS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. MOTHER NATURE'S CRUELEST TRICK, GORGE OURSELVES UNTIL WE'RE SICK HUMAN TAPEWORMS, HUMAN TICKS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT, DON'T FORGET HUMAN ROACHES. HUMAN RATS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. HUMAN VERMIN, HUMAN ANTS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. MOTHER NATURE'S CRUELEST TRICK GORGE OURSELVES UNTIL WE'RE SICK HUMAN TAPEWORMS, HUMAN TICKS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT, DON'T FORGET HUMAN ROACHES. HUMAN RATS. WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. HUMAN VERMIN, HUMAN ANTS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT. DON'T FORGET. MOTHER NATURE'S CRUELEST TRICK GORGE OURSELVES UNTIL WE'RE SICK HUMAN TAPEWORMS, HUMAN TICKS, WE'RE NO DIFFERENT, DON'T FORGET
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Crescent 04:24
STATIC IN MY ATMOSPHERE DRAWING HER TO NEAR SENSES LOST IN THE HAZE SHE DREAMS AND WE ESCAPE AND WHEN THE RAIN COMES POURING IN WE WILL DROWN AGAIN HALOS CIRCLE HER HEAVY TONGUE WHISPERING OUR SONG WHEN I FORCE HER TO COME UNDONE TO HEAVEN SHE WILL COME AND WHEN THE RAINS COME POURING IN WE WILL DROWN AGAIN
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THE EARTH IS SHUDDERING FACES PUSHED INTO THE ASH BODIES ARE TRAMPLED SMOKE CHOKES THE STARS WORLD INFESTED WITH TINY SCREECHERS RED CONSTRICTED FACES TIED UP IN TERROR GNASHING OF TEETH CLENCHING OF FISTS CLATTERING FEET STAMPING CLOUDS OF DUST SOLITARY SPECKS GATHER IN MALIGNANT CLUSTERS SABERS CLASH, A STUTTERING MARCH THE EARTH IS SHUDDERING FACES PUSHED INTO THE ASH BODIES ARE TRAMPLED SMOKE CHOKES THE STARS THESE MONSTROUS INFANTS SONS KILLING, SONS RAPING RAGING TO FORGET THEIR BIRTHS FROM FRAILTY FLOWERS VENGEANCE VENGEANCE OF KINDNESS VENGEANCE OF BEAUTY LIVE NOT AMONGST SNARLING HORDES CLASP HANDS IN THE SWAYING FIELDS UNDER OPEN SKIES

about

- Old Man Gloom is a supergroup (containing members of Converge, ISIS, Cave In,
Zozobra, Doomriders, Mamiffer, etc.), but instead of making shitty records like other
"supergroups", Old Man Gloom actually makes great ones.

- "NO" is an undeniably great title for an album, and also serves as an ironclad manifesto
in opposition to the moral and aesthetic decay of our global society.

- This is Old Man Gloom's fifth album, their first in eight years. They weren't on hiatus,
just busy writing the greatest album in music history. That makes them the proud
progenitors of the five greatest albums of all time, "NO" being number one. "NO" is like
"one", only spelled backwards and without the "E".

- Old Man Gloom are playing shows in 2012 and 2013, just in time for the collapse of
the global economy.

- The acronym for Old Man Gloom is "OMG". "OMG" has become a household phrase
since its introduction in to the popular lexicon in 1999, directly coinciding with the
formation of Old Man Gloom the year prior. The group has never been properly credited
for this massively important contribution to global culture.

- "NO" was made using acoustic and electric instruments including but not limited to:
sheet metal, toilets, human voices, guitars, drums, tambourines, shoes, hands, various
other percussive tools, analog and digital electronic devices, and brains.

credits

released June 26, 2012

GLOOM CONGLOMERATE: NATE, AARON, SANTOS, CALEB
SPECIAL "NO" COMMITTEE MEMBERS: kevin baker, kurt ballou, mike MCKENZIE
RECORDED / MIXED BY KURT BALLOU AT GOD CITY, 2011
ADDITIONAL RECORDING AT HOLC, VASHON
MASTERED BY: JAMES PLOTKIN
ARTWORK BY ABCT, TYPOGRAPHY AND ART ASSISTANCE BY FAITH COLOCCIA
NO, THANKS.

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Old Man Gloom Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gloom conglomerate:

Aaron Turner
Nate Newton
Santos Montano
Stephen Brodsky

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Caleb Scofield

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