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Disempath

by Bridge Burner

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1.
Ideation ad infinitum Challenger Deep level of collapse Shielded by the dulled azure Ceaseless, tireless and tiresome Broken echo that I must endure Manifestations of termination With every word and every step Suicidal assimilation So sick to my stomach of myself Numb to the horror of it all Blood pact of my inexistence Dreary promise of clotted black Passenger of loathing and lead Of failures stench in every act The constant subconscious sabotage The stillness as a subterfuge Impulse excision to survive So bored of this contrite abuse Even in the golden hours The voices never still Every breath a transgression Every second a weakening of the will
2.
Disempath 02:21
Suffocating, floundering in a mire of self-inflicted stench  The gnawing grind of enamel on quartz without end Anonymous tongues lolloping beneath the fecal sands of leaden time Violent scrum of corneal malfunction, the sneer of contrarian eye The trough sinks beneath the earth These silt-filled lungs to never purge Asphyxiation of empathy Genuflect to blighted idol Heaving downward on bended knee Self-bound hands draped around soured straining neck Salival hymns spill as you begin to gorge again This void of human congregation  Pushing thresholds to dullest edge  Rotting ring of vitriol Waste leaks from every wretch Gorging on bile Feverishly gorging on bile And I’m waiting for you all to choke
3.
Evangelical apostasy Clambering onto the cross, breaking bone to bend the knee Theocratic frenzied vision Verses of loathing spit with soured breath through loveless excision Blade to paper, arterial shift Psalms to further this Orwellian drift Striking until the muscles ache Splitting soft skin with gleeful face Flaying to separate false sin from innocence Flaying to teach of god’s good grace “Suffer the children to teach them true For they exist beyond the chosen few And my God has no love left for you Wretch, my God has no love for you” The dust of millennia, it breathes and chokes Torn pages devoured and regurgitated, hatred bespoke Beyond the final blessing of unrighteous judgement cast Sordid salvation spent and limp below broken cross Sanguine silence from the bloodied body of god Cruellest barbs of deicide, embedded deep within your praying palm
4.
Self-exiled, righteous whores and heretics Delirium here upon spoiled throne of salt and shit If gods not dead, then he's fucking sick Bearing worn chalice of poison and politic Depths to plunge with stale and sagging breath And rancid heart burns with pure delight A void dragged through ugly sleepless night Cause I'm fucking empty Like god I'm fucking sick Vortex of Leviathanian might Placental crust upon the blight Worthless krill to yawping maw Down clogged and noxious throat In the belly of our beast With thumbs deep in eye-sockets, we can see Gnarled hands upon the swollen throats Our one true love to call us home Deaf through another graven year Scraping knuckles in the gutters of fear I'll still be treading this filthy muck Feverishly waiting for the floods
5.
Amongst the swarming black of entwined love and horror With melted skin and weeping eye Collapsed beneath the pressure, the diamond hollow Of aching charcoaled mind A rusted key pressed into hands of legion deep A terror true as fraying tendrils start to creep Clutching laboured heart of grief I’ll wring every ounce of blood Down my wretched fucking throat And I’ll drown again today Beyond all reconciliation Cast down to sanguine depths Sorrow in perpetuity The love and loss of the life bereft Torn every waking moment The malaise of compassion unconditional  For the love of bonfire souls I’ll burn again today And for the love those extinguished I’ll drown again today
6.
Acrid chorus singes skin with putrid breath Renewed as the color of gristle, wretched raw Parasitic, conjured by the weakest men alive And it comes in waves, transfixing Relentless, corrosive like acid tides Split earth, beneath the weight of the misery Endless joy seeping from those dead inside Hail the ark dweller and insipid flock Feast and famine forced down cultless throat Bloodied feathers under boot of drowners and madmen alike  The final failure breathes its last, as do we Hog tied and helpless, worthlessly  we writhe Limp spirits to gutters, where we all belong
7.
...and on and on... Life, a broken process of unravelling Withered wants tangled in a squalid well To endure and fall thirty thousand times Among a million pleas for none of this at all Shit plunged into the deep Too pained and too aware Clogging the evolutionary drain Forever circling in fear A humdrum drowning in the dark Treading apathy and the unknown Whimpering, while compassion sinks below Gilded rope of green and gold White knuckles slip, bloodied and old Choking on brackish sludge Futile nods to the ones above Fervent prayers to the ones below The moon seeps into the hole with misguided empathy Because it means nothing to those of broken belief Loose skin separates from yellowed bone Like ones will for goodness lost amongst all that is known
8.
Fatigue in the marrow, defeat in the bone Slow breath over sorrow, deafness in the drone  My heart limps through every laboured beat  Fire pissed to ashes, ashes of the weak Bleeding and flailing Thickening iron returning from whence it came Bitter, organs twisting Tongues macerated in the mouth of blame I am afraid I am losing the ability to care We are all going to die Hopes run, pathetic and throbbing, from scab-picked scars to rusting steel Hand over limp hand, we press and in blissed silence, doom shall prevail No metaphors left     Just bland resignation For a world rotting from the head down For a humanity that has crushed my will and killed itself I am afraid I am losing the ability to care We are all going to die And nothing matters no longer feels like a lie
9.
Abyssal 04:06
Aching through worthless grief, it permeates and seeps beneath Worn deep by craven dragging of bruised feet With cinder-block waves and blunt force blues Dull pulse of attrition, a life destined to lose (a life I'm longing to lose) Prostrated husk of helplessness, a worthless mite in a fading light Enamel cracks to endure, to cope, to suffer a final suffered night The familiar warmth of the impulse blight I don't know how to live without constantly wanting to die

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New Zealand-based BRIDGE BURNER make their Hibernation Release debut with their incomparable sophomore full-length Disempath. 28 minutes across 9 tracks expelling equal parts self-loathing and outward disgust, focused through a maelstrom of angular hardcore, grinding d-beat and Death Metal dirge creating a unique and pummeling sonic experience difficult to categorize. With Disempath, BRIDGE BURNER have unleashed their finest material to date bursting with profound precision, tangible ferocity and awe-inspiring intensity not to be missed!

BRIDGE BURNER features Josh Hughes on guitar (VASSAFOR, GRAVES), Ben Read on vocals (ex-ULCERATE, IN DREAD RESPONSE, TOSKA HILL) completed by Gary Brown on bass, Louis Malloy on drums (ex-ANABYSS) and guitarist Maxwell Gravelle(ex-HEXIS, SETENTIA).

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released April 2, 2021

Ben C. Read - Vocals
Josh Hughes - Guitar
Maxwell Gravelle - Guitar
Gary Brown - Bass
Louis Malloy - Drums

Tracked and Mixed by Cam Sinclair and Raj Singarajah at Dynamic Rage, Aotearoa
Guitars & Bass tracked by Josh Hughes
Vocals tracked by Ben C. Read
Mastered by Luke Finlay at Primal Mastering, Aotearoa

Cover art by Mark Tumaru

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