Solace in the Thought That History Will Celebrate the Fall of Our Empire

by Slaughterspine

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1.	Violence Is Righteous in the Hands of the People You Oppress 05:50	lyrics
“Barbaric and savage,” we call the world Melt their flesh with phosphorous, down to the bone Pound their bodies deep into the dirt Pave over their homelands and sell the soil A land of colonizers, a home to murderers An idealized history, whitewashed Starve our own for infinite growth A government grown like a tumor Everything you labor for is not your own Money spent openly to genocide a people To safeguard the interests of the western world A fascist state with the false face of a liberated country American made, home-grown bombs Like rain from the sky Level the earth—stubble burned—preparing for the line To grow and rise, 45 degrees into the sky Leave nothing alive Irredeemable actions and unforgivable costs Proxy occupation of the oppressed world It is not the burden of the occupied to justify Their right to fury, their right to violence Firebomb the institutions, deconstruct the government Annihilate supremacists and give no quarter to their kind Violence is now a choice it’s all that you have left us with Nothing you can ever do will justify what you have done
2.	With Every Breath the Walls Move In to Smother 04:59	lyrics
If these walls could describe the passage of time They would measure in intervals of flesh Watch us writhe, watch us break Watch every labored breath we take Movements embodied between stolen refrains Standard treatment for the unworthy Incentivized to deny and show no mercy If the pain would subside we might be inclined Toward a dream of violent unrest Still alive, still awake Still trapped by walls we can't escape Fading memories of an empire's reign Caring not for existence Forsaking life by design Profiteering by systems Condemning others to die All rise to meet the blade A debt the world has paid
3.	A Call For the Destruction of Western Ideology 09:20	lyrics
Antithetical to humankind The antithesis to compassion There’s an empire named America Who the fury-hearted are hoping to crumble We preach our hate to the entire world Tell them we’ve a singular right to their earth And wherever oil lives, so does America And so does our child capitalism Our god has long evolved from lowly Christian myth To economic and capitol growth; a cross-born capitalist Genocide is the price and we pay it happily Proxy colonization of fruit-bearing lands Etched in the sand and in the rock Bound with the mortar of children’s blood Burned in the cries of the empire’s bombs The phosphorous rains can’t erase what we've done Carved in the earth and in the sea The crimes of our growth and our prosperity A life that we could provide for the world Hoarded for us—and even then—the few There’s nothing we can’t—and won’t—ever do Nothing so sacred that we don’t defile An empire that’s named America Cannot exist without inhuman cost For every single breath this empire takes A thousand more extinguished; a thousand more dead For every single step this empire takes A sterile crater made; infertile concrete paved A blinding path with no light Open only in the dark A bureaucratic hell of redacted promises We cannot exist; this nation cannot live No coexistence works with capitalism This empire is rot; it is surely doomed to fail But such hell ravaged for it to have lived at all It all must be completely destroyed This empire named America Nothing holy about what we have done This empire has no right to live on this Earth Burn it all to the ground, every system born Out of white supremacy and indigenous genocide Burn it all to ground, leave nothing left to grow Everything that it stood for cannot be allowed to live
4.	The Unforgivable Violation of the Still Warm Bodies of the Dead 03:26	lyrics
Unearthing graves, upending the Earth Dig deep into the soil to pillage rotting flesh Even their blood you seek to erase A fascist’s life has no worth Even in death there is no peace For the victims of your occupation Even in death there is no rest No place too sacred to disrespect Endless support from the Western destroyers Endlessly toil to flatten the land Endless destruction from the Western world Endlessly strive to take them from their earth Endless defilement hiding behind Self-defense and justice; pathetic fucking lies No act of war too depraved No ground too bloody for them to sell
5.	If Saving Lives Was Profitable the Human Race Would Be Immortal 05:12	lyrics
Drowning in the smoke vomiting from the spires Ankle-deep in muck, feet dragging me to the line Spotlights search from towers high, prodding the streets Searching for wayward shells of debt and misery Chin placed firmly in your chest Cough into your hand The specks of blood grow thicker still A clock begins to tick Blood fills my throat My lungs begin to fold Stinging and burning me My blood begins to boil Heaving breaths and coughing fits Stumbling through the factory floor Desperate to leave the company grounds A family fined for a worker’s corpse Brain on fire and eyes vaporized Fingers clenched in oiled fists Veins press against the side of the neck The heart beats fast and then it bursts Debt free in a single instant All it took was to be lifeless Workers shake their heads The debt is redistributed Debt free in a single instant All it took was to be lifeless Corporate guns sell the corpse Harvesting it for parts Chin placed firmly in your chest Cough into your hands The specks of blood grow thicker still Another clock begins to tick
6.	Solace in the Thought That History Will Celebrate the Fall of Our Empire 06:30	lyrics
Breathe in dissent Exhale judgment We curse your name, unhallowed states Innocent blood trails in your wake You cannot see beyond your manifest inhumanity United blasphemies deserving righteous shattering Against your tyranny we stand We will not break, we will not bend The deaths of millions at your hands Evil empire Consume the rust Expel disgust We curse your name, unhallowed states Innocent blood trails in your wake You cannot see beyond your manifest inhumanity United blasphemies deserving righteous shattering You are a curse upon all lands We long to see you meet your end One day your sins will be avenged Evil empire Perceive disgrace Exude the hate We curse your name, unhallowed states Innocent blood trails in your wake You cannot see beyond your manifest inhumanity United blasphemies deserving righteous shattering

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This album was written in the wake of Israel's escalation of genocide against the Palestinian people, but is also rooted in the deep systemic issues that American and Western culture imposes on both its citizens and the people of the world through force, punishment, violence, and coercion. Western ideology is not sustainable; the American empire is not sustainable.

All profits will be donated to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
www.palestinercs.org/en

No AI was used or ever will be used in any capacity on this or any proceeding albums

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released April 22, 2024

Brett Windnagle (Lascaille's Shroud, Soulmass) • All Instruments, vocals, lyrics, production
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com

Lux Edwards (Soulmass, Wraithstorm) • Vocals and lyrics on tracks 2 and 6
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/unseen-unfound
soulmass.bandcamp.com

Artwork • Hubert Robert, "The Fire of Rome" 1785

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Anger, vitriol; vehement rage at the toxicity of western civilization. Anti-AI, anti-capitalist music for charity

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