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Infinite Regress

by Gestalt

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For how many times Through how many centuries Have different races of man In separated tongues Raised their palms to God Only to feel thorns Existential Expletive Hardened traditions The lion is always at your back When history is transparent And the pulpit is the scholar Scripture is the canon of order A seminal book Seeded in deceit Ezekiel Latter prophets When the chariot was dawn from the sky Divinity lined your pockets And buried gold in a valley of dry bones The righteous winnowed And separated Heaven Into ebbing kingdoms Of false denominations Let the scripture of the world unravel Beneath the memory of a golden cross Beneath the Earth which weaned me I ween there is no sacred passage No sage nor creed that divides me No longer imprisoned in ignorance Observing the mind Concentrate Shedding blood From shattered shackles Piercing beneath my feet
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Atavism 02:31
Speak Think Breathe Breed Ethos Alpha Tribal Vestige Exodus Hollow Subsistence Fealty Lord Vassal Fief Consume Wage War Commerce Frills Kingdom Come Atavus exhumes our primal Crawling inbred posture Whelming rumination Decline Mating in discourse Compos Mentis I reign lucid This world is a farce And I am laughing at a joke That no one can understand Seething in the sea The world below, and ponder The favor it would have been If we never stepped out of the basin And drowned our father In the ocean Genesis Deluge The drenched empyrean falls Into our plaited circle of spines I refuse to change Remain the same
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Tathātā 04:03
I carry the cruces On frail and passing vessels This moment exists as it is This extant form exists as it is Until the the hand of time Palms the grains of sand Imbue reflection Before another age is wasted Before the the hand of time Turns the grains of sand Penned in the eternal rending A somber aubade not long for this world Within this moment should I choose I could cradle the landscape Somewhere beyond where memories lie And restore the truth within myself Scrivener of Thusness Yet here I slumber, barren and Buried in a thicket of burning veins Exhausted, apathetic Subject to the yearning This moment exists as it is This profound form exists as it is Before the the hand of time Sifts the grains of sand Until the the hand of time Lands the grain of sand Subject to the yearning briar
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Wade in Toil 04:14
Wade in Toil Dull fruitless labors for God Anamnesis Second serfdom To the usurper clod Achromatic strife Lest you feed the circuit Jest of distant tyrants Why must I suffer here? Gratuitous spawn Begone We hunger not Writhe on this barren sphere In global perdition Raided soil from rampant creatures We all bathed in oil Rive this constant torment Respite splinters the ax Yawing the fallen betrayed Through suffering Soiled, violated In total derision Crawling away from dulcet ichor Gripped by the tides which swallow the masses Our mewling, consumed by the tepid advance Converted, marked as slaves Arise from the flux which spawned predation Natant cycle of redundance Instilling the fear of our emergence Drowning the barons of bondage Toil no more
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V 07:40

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GESTALT | INFINITE REGRESS

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An example of creative minds gone mad, St. Louis entity GESTALT brought their oddity of an EP named "Infinite Regress" forth into the digital world back in 2015. It is difficult to not see the effort and ideas being puked forth left and right as it is rare for the songs to sit still with their hands off the synth and treble-laden guitars.

Not unlike many of the increasingly-strange artists that have come from the city over the years, Gestalt is heavy in concept and lyricism. It is clear that the journey to Zen for these psychonauts is not without bloodshed and mental deconstruction.

While this short episode offers a brief glimpse into the minds of the trio, we await with bated breath for the DIRUS entity to unfold it's disgusting maw.

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credits

released May 14, 2015

Personnel:
Chad Griffin - Vocals / synthesizers
Dave Fischer - Bass / engineering
Matt Baker - Guitar / programming

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All music and lyrics by Gestalt. Recorded December 2014 at The Vomitorium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Album art by Lauren Gornik Illustration.
Merch design by J. Velazquez.
Photography by Patrick Murray.
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel.

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Wrought back to life for one last breath by Vigor Deconstruct.

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Gestalt (n): psychology : something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts.

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