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The Algorhythm

by Stone Gnome

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1.
Right now The Algorhythm is encoding this song As you take another hit from your bong And your mind tries to follow along Behind your mind's eye, you do not exist You are just a ripple of decoherence You gouge out your eyes so that you can see The drowning waters of immortality Of three assassins you must avail A green knight who's body has failed A dark lord who leads his people to be saved A blind wizard who will lead you to your grave And then you die
2.
Decoherence 06:35
Initiated Energy translated The multiverse has been created Times elapsed Waves collapsed Selection of direction faster than synapse A measuring eye You're inward blind Inside your mind there's nothing find A singular appearance It's decoherence With no vision of the Algorhythm Worlds connect Electrons direct Parallel lines never intersect Self-aware braids In an infinite place Bombarded by beams from distant space You coalesce Your fucking mind's at rest A glowing beam shoots out of your chest Quantum production Dreams of destruction With no vision of the Algorhythm Right now your dead But you're alive It just depends on where you lie It's all before you 'Til it ain't But all that shit, it's just the same All of creation Is just relation There's no fixed point in the equation It's all too much But it's never enough The Algorhythm
3.
The Sieve 04:35
Too much light Too many noises Too much thought Too many voices Too many parts Too many particles Too many bytes Too many molecules Too much sensation Too much seduction Too much creation Too much destruction Too many fantasies Too many factories Too many human beings Too much tragedy Flowing all around me A swirling storm of light Glowing sparks surround me Embers in the night An ancient luminescence has deprived me of my senses Exogenic incandescence Overwhelming my defenses Leaving me totally senseless I don't know what to do So I close my eyes There's too much to see There's too much to hear There's too much to feel Everything I feel So you sift it out Just to hold it together And you bury your head Hiding from the weather You're just a mule in a mine You think you can see but you're blind If you ever come out in the light You're gonna lose your fucking mind So I climb in a hole (There is another way) And pull down the blinds (A path is lit before you) Peek out through the hole (Too much knowledge destroy you) A pin prick in my mind (Turn and push it away) In time
4.
Boiling Ice 04:07
You were just a young man Working an escape plan Looking for some freedom You had to flee them In your own time frame Hop onto an airplane You could no longer wait Trust it to the fates TransWorld airlines Not following a straight line Flying from your father You had to be like water Don't look at the finger Don't try to control it, 'cause there's nowhere you can hold it Just follow the tide out let the fates decide your ride out And sail Don't try to steer it, 'cause you don't need to fear it Let the moment take you, because time will not forsake you Boiling ice will give you what you need I was just a young man Escaping from my own jam Burning down a building A life unfulfilling Made it to the outside Dried up the tears I cried Gave up the plans I made Trust it to the Way Best move every made Trust my life to the Fates And I know it must be true I was made like you "The harder they come" means the harder ones will fall Best decisions we make are written on the wall Read the signs Do what they say Close your eyes and find a way Every river flows into the sea
5.
He was a master, sometimes a disaster A bar fighter, a party-all-nighter Paycheck cashin', tongue lashin' He was a master in a fashion A rail snorter from the streets of Aurora A big eater, book reader Enlightened meathead, and too much said It's 2am, it's time to go 24 beers and a bindle of blow The sun comes up Your body fails Prop it up with a few more rails Shows up to work disheveled and rank Still stinking from the drink that he drank Can't remember the night before A box of peanuts waking up on the floor His bones got shattered and his face got splattered His legs were broken and his bones were pokin' He cracked his skull and started strokin' He was a biker, a kung-fu fighter Sandals and candles, man the dude had some handles A full vegan who could party all weekend He met the end that he was seekin' You love it so much that you squeezed it to death You rode it too hard, you got it too wet Your a high flying, young dying Energetic diabetic Pernicious narcissist A life of play has slipped away Endless frustration is your final destination Living to party has destroyed your body A black Nowitzki drinking Fireball whiskey A minimum asdf, coaching the ladies Shot callin', going all in Oh how the mighty has fallen And so the birds fly away with the storm A blue light showing up in the morn' Nicht vergessen A life lesson Greed and attachment Spiritual entrapment Soul affliction Lust addiction Sun goes up Your body fails Prop it up with a few more rails
6.
Degloved 05:13
Since the rise of the cities When man came in from the plains Throughout the long arc of history One thing has remained the same Some people must grind While others sit on their hoard And the have-nots keep dying In the trenches of the rich people's wars The oppression of masses Is built upon an alliance Between the wealthier classes And the government's organized violence A dark lord that seeks to silence The voices of those that will not submit The voices of those who will not sit The voices from the bottom of the pit It's organized violence It's tortured confessions It's brutal intolerance War and oppression This is the legacy of mankind Mass graves left behind An insatiable need To sacrifice their blood for greed A flat burning wasteland For twenty square miles Smoldering tires Burning my eyes I see piles of corpses And children wailing in pain Bones splintering from wounds A frightened boy screams Then out of the darkness A big form emerges A black lord of hatred That upholds the world Hatred feeds the rich Sometimes they use bullets Sometimes a simple incision Sometimes they use torture Sometimes they lock you up in a prison Blood drips from your face And prods shock your balls You're locked in a place That echoes with the dying calls Under the rag the water falls You're caught in the serpent's jaws Ripped apart by bloody claws No one can resist when the black lord calls It's organized violence and tortured confessions It's brutal intolerance War and oppression Every dollar of the rich has been taken from the people Never given a chance to live Just sacrificed to evil Locked in a cell Rotting in hell Tortured and bound Left alive underground Spies and police Lies and deceased Religious excuses Bodies hanging from nooses Women abused Children are used And the dark lord's gaze Leads you to your grave
7.
A blind vidiot An educated idiot A country clown walking 'round downtown Wondering "am in the city yet?" I get down, in another situation Looking for some new vibration All you gotta do is focus But the trick is hocus pocus Why I gotta wind up in this place A million miles away in outer space A world apart from where I'm supposed to be This is why my life is killing me Crowded alone in the twilight zone A three-eyed jack in the back of the pack getting stoned with the gnome Which way is out? Which way is in? Can't find my way out of the trouble I'm in Then you'll find when you're getting loco in your brain Then you know it's time you quit the game When everything comes out all wrong The deck was stacked against you all along When you find that what is up is down Then you know the joker's been around Every time you try to make your stand The fool of fate is back to force your hand Dutifully oblivious And beautifully hideous Lies of the wise, not a prize Close your eyes 'cause they're insidious Mystic tryptic Sigils cryptic Incantation Brings frustration Misused magic Fate turns tragic Befalls wizard Karma blizzard Spells mistaken Signs forsaken Knowledge sought But demon brought
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Necron 99 09:08

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Written, recorded, and chiseled into obsidian shards in the dwindling dismal twilight of the plague of 2020, The Algorhythm is a metallic riff-rock ritual channelled from the dark energy of collapsing neutron stars and a fucking huge amount of weed. Bringing together years of ear-pummeling musical experience, Stone Gnome was formed from the scraped-out resin of their recently-deceased Japan-U.S. project, AUMA. With even greater intensity than before, Stone Gnome has laced their riff-driven rock with a high THC brand of heavy metal to create a weighty rock and roll invocation that takes listeners on an odyssey from the big bang to their death bed.

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released April 20, 2021

Vocals, bass, synth: XXVII Ojos
Vocals, guitar, drums, organ: Lord Jitteron, the Sleepless
Recitations on The Algorhythm and Necron 99: Josey White
Written and produced by Stone Gnome
Cover art by Rectopus Art

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After toiling for years in the gloomy darkness of the metal mines of the SF underworld, Stone Gnome has emerged from their subterranean lair to unleash their primordial aural assault on humanity. Combining shredding, nut-punching riffs from dual guitars with a seismic rhythm section forged in the molten core of the Earth, the Gnome will take you on a brain-melting odyssey to rock Valhalla. ... more

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