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Null Apostle

by Bridge Burner

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Cast down myself, the lesser man For I know just who I am Laboured motion worthless, whether blood or breath The ringing echoes from where I began Fingertips that smear filth between us The love that ebbs from dotted line We all know the blood easily follows The throbbing rapture, the piteous divine Kaleidoscopic failure Abstract and abject
2.
The faintest scent of sick and distant iron taste There was never going to be another way Reborn into greying muck, among the earthen waste Atrophic hands and gnawed fingers start to shake Skullen fluids into empty soil Black hole manifestations The core collapses on itself The granular decomposes As the burning digits flex Fractured thoughts begin to spiral Peripheral shocks begin to creep One last blow for benediction A prayer of loathing, on my knees No redaction in these seconds The clinging pulse, and threaded diction Time aches and contracts in violence Beneath shining skin of labored friction With swollen knuckles, spread the ribs and climb inside Swallow and be swallowed For the vortex shall never lie Be still
3.
Keelhauler 02:09
Devil be drowned Devil be still Collapse of the straight white hope Press to the sea, pull taut the rope Baseline of decency to dirtiest of words To the depths of shame and salt with the absurd Follow your rank regurgitations Again and again, ad nauseam Into the bowels of the unforgiven Through split tongue and foulest acrid lung Entitled mass of swirling shit Swallow your "dream" and choke on it With every tear of panicked skin With pounding heart and seizing lung This This is for them This is for your own good This is all you have ever deserved Your world is dead
4.
Rabid cries howl to acrid moon Gnashing teeth through the flesh of hearth and home Ash in the arteries, charcoal heart with no compression Crimsoned arcs white beneath, rote thought, ingrained obsession Sweat soaks into leather, self flagellate with dead hand To never have existed, lash by lash, we understand Alchemic paths alight once darkened descent in the pitch of night Ritual besieged, in defiance of natures godless plight Bind these withered hands, once benign and believed Tie them tight beneath broken back, among the sweat and grief This lightless ache shall set ablaze those who will not repent The bled and blessed to turn to ash of obsolescence Flames to kiss the now unfettered Forgiveness licks the tender wound That seeps beneath the broken rib The weeping heart, ablaze, impugned Burnt spirits Witches alone Burnt spirits, we
5.
Rusted shovel to broken skin Plunged deep into sodden sin Trying to return to where I began Digging deep for the meaning With the bloodied palms of the damned Fury fermented within the lowest of ebbs Haematic annihilation Nemetic muck within my veins A worthless god's unloved creation Enmity lurks within the marrow With nobody to blame (Below the surface) the bloated child of each and every ill Forever whispers my name It forever whispers my name “I want you to ache with the guilt I want you to swallow all blame I want to show you your true self Ignoble burden, for shame Fuck your subtlety and fuck your fragility Feel the loss and live your futility” Clawing Deeper and deeper To unearth the way things used to be The way I used to be The boy I used to be Sever the head as I begin to suffocate Just let me breathe Gagging on the earthen truths Please let me breathe Just let me breathe I cant fucking breathe
6.
Cultfathers 03:50
The tainted semen to soil Bedeviled sons of turmoil Balled fists of fathers to bring them to spoil Malleable eyes skyward learn to recall Corrosive saliva drips from rancid maw Blurring the vision, shaping the jaw Guidance and bondage, as is, as before Ego nulling empathy, wretched and raw Expression Stonewalled Victims Aren't we all Free will In thrall So empty and obtuse Open means weakness Follow obsequious Silence and oppress Condemning victims and vile Insidious, manhood defiled Generational blight Virulence unhindered, heart crushed by might Law of the strong, law of the right Compassion carrion, stillborn in dead light Our bonded slaves devour each word Vibration cancer mimicked, their nature perturbed Dualism of all ills, loathsome and absurd From male to male to female (to the unheard) The toxicity permeates, from mimicry to DNA The sons of our fathers, the virus, the host All are to suffer, the unborn, the ghosts All are to suffer
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Null Apostle 07:04
When the goodness turns to poison And lines, they permanently etch Cavernous nausea distills and sighs Limp ribs groan with every single breath Monochromatic alleviation Seeping from these filthy veins Stripped of every rotten layer Revealing naught but guilt and shame Worthless words are all I have ... And they mean NOTHING Once so sure that I could save you Now I know I can't even save myself Worthless apostle dead beneath the water No purpose, just memories adrift This is the rawest pain I have ever known I'll ever know I hope I'm never found

about

Introducing 'Null Apostle', the crushing new release from Auckland’s Bridge Burner; a genre-defying plunge into pure heaviness propped up by a backbone of white-hot aggression.

While the band cite Botch, Godflesh and Gorguts as large influences, their tar-doused sound seems a far and unique fling away from these three. Null Apostle forces listeners into a thick mire of deep ear-shattering tones, fluctuating between heavy rhythm and grind driven riffs – never relaxing for a second.

Null Apostle wastes no time in cementing itself as a strong contender for metal album of the year. The sheer musical diversity of the record spans across genres like black metal, math, crust punk and more, coming together like a Frankenstein’s monster of aggressive music.

It’s truly one of the most challenging, evil sounding releases of 2018 – made even more impressive that it’s come from our neighbours in New Zealand.

credits

released May 31, 2018

Vocals: Ben C. Read
Guitars: Josh Hughes
Drums: Cam Sinclair
Bass: Gary Brown

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cam Sinclair

Artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn

Guest vocals on Keelhauler by Jelena Goluza (Outright)
Guest vocals on Cultfathers by Tali Williams (Human Resource, DIAL)

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Bridge Burner Auckland, New Zealand

Illness and loathing.

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