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A sort of title track to Dead Kid Harvester. Instruments used include a plastic container, an oven tray, a can opener, a metal pot, a sieve, a ladle and a whisk.

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Dead Kid Harvester

Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist from New Zealand with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony o

Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony or tempo. The primary instruments used are vocals and kitchen utensils. The life of a song typically begins with the lyrics, written with no consideration for rhythm or beat. Dead Kid Harvester takes influences ranging from doom metal to drone, industrial and old school punk, and polarizes them into an industrial cacophony of noise. Recorded samples and segments are combined haphazardly into songs, with frequent use of pitch shift and time stretch effects. The preferred lyrical themes are insanity, horror and philosophy. Dead Kid Harvester makes use of both jarring and subtle variations between channels to invoke uneasiness and disarray. In 2018, after nearly ten years of recording and procrastination, the debut full-length album The First Sign Of Madness was finally completed. Tracks appear on: 2009 - DEMUS Compiled II 2009 - We'll Leave the Lights On 2011 - 5DBSSS One - tha ReeMux is (remix 'Metal on Utensil') 2012 - SIGNALVOID (exclusive songs 'Puberty', 'Stubborn Cupboard') 2016 - Through the Drift and the Unspoken 2017 - No Synth Noise Compilation (an interpretation of an Into Orbit track)

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Experimental

Charts

Peak #140

Peak in subgenre #29

Uploaded

June 29, 2014

Track Files

MP3

MP3 9.9 MB • 128 kbps • 10:49

Story behind the song

This track is about the people who live their lives like ants, not stopping to admire the beauty of the universe, and how getting angry with these people can suck you into their way of thinking (or lack thereof).

Lyrics

Planet Earth will never last forever, and fighting is futile so why even bother? Tolerate your brother, live as one and prosper together into the future beyond the death of the sun.

Humans are a dying species, outnumbered by living dead zombies. Caught in the tangle of a concrete jungle, the hustle and bustle of a constant jumble. I survived the delusion, and in the confusion I escaped, but souls met their conclusion as they were raped.

People are puppets of production, mechanism moving, manufactured illusion. In a world of corporation, corruption, conspiracy, feelings of anger build up inside of me. Boiling blood, poison ivy to the mind, now unreasonable that which once shined. How regrettable this kind of recipe is no longer feasible.

I am the Dead Kid.
The Dead Kid is me.
Spreading the sound of insanity.

Confide in me and you'll have nothing left to wear to hide you from facing your number one fear. Divided by nothing, you know the end is near. Despite the rising tide, you slide beyond repair. You tried to fit in but now you've fallen off the edge. The spaceship is leaving, already out of reach, so sit beside me and melt on the beach!

I am the Harvester.
The Harvester is me.
Trying to reap what I cannot see.

I'm free from the strings but with my brain in a knot, the pain it stings as my conscience rots. Overcome by my weakness, incomprehensible trouble, I fade into the bleakness leaving dust amongst rubble.

Where was my future? It had rusted away, I realise as I witness destiny decay. I taste my last breath as darkness is falling, smothered in the sound of death itself calling.

So into nothing I slipped and slid, engulfed in eternal burning I became the Dead Kid.

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