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Rank and Filth

by Stress Orphan

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You ask, if there are so many things objectionable, why we work in the mill. Every situation in life has its trials which must be borne, and factory life has no more than any other. There are many things we do not like; many occurrences that send the warm blood mantling to the cheek when they must be borne in silence, and many harsh words and acts that are not called for. There are objections also to the number of hours we work, to the length of time allotted to our meals, and to the low wages allowed for labor; objections that must and will be answered; for the time has come when something, besides the clothing and feeding of the body is to be thought of The great mass wear out their health, spirits, and morals, without becoming one whit better off than when they commenced labor. The bills of mortality in these factory villages are not striking, we admit; for the poor workers, when they can toil no longer, go home to die. When you sell your product, you retain your person. But when you sell your labour, you sell yourself, losing the rights of free men and becoming vassals of mammoth establishments of a monied aristocracy that threatens annihilation to anyone who questions their right to enslave and oppress. Those who work in the mills ought to own them, not have the status of machines ruled by private despots who are entrenching monarchic principles on democratic soil as they drive downwards freedom and rights, civilization, health, morals and intellectuality in the new commercial feudalism.
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Separation Two hands claw down the sky Acting in spite Reclaiming misery Bleeding locked jaw Drooling mess Spitting venom On crippled dogs Composite black iron Lost from the hive Armed and isolated Cornered hornet Stunted aphid Screeching powder burn Hollow drums Crossed wire Shatter glass In the absence of guilt Live fire Composite black iron Lost from the hive Armed and isolated Cornered hornet
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Generator 03:29
Clandestine Red wire Into plastic Measure grains Clamp brass Disassemble Militarized control Ideology mechanized Industrial reclamation Whip and flay Before the harvester Demanding split tongues Clear course of action Pulsing backlash Gasoline generator Breeding contempt Begging to react When the silence breaks Martyrs will hang from monuments As a warning
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Thresher 04:48
Keep hunting Through still red mist There is blood in the water They can smell it Always moving In perpetual hunger Never stopping To choke on silence Unsated Discard husks To rot Carefree They hear the tension And bear down On tired prey Struggling to breathe To stop eating Is to fall behind To stop moving Is to drown Keep hunting Through still red mist There is blood in the water They can smell it Always moving In perpetual hunger Never stopping Choking on silence
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UnAmerican 04:10
From the heights of towers Drunk on liquid organs Thirsting for the throat Stepping into the light Braindead power surge Revictimized fangs Rally the destitute Generational mass grave Transparent bloodthirst Crumbling foundation Bathed in luxury Hallucinating the end Impulse to persecute Standing above unrest Braindead power surge Revictimized fangs Rally the destitute Generational mass grave As we cast out your unAmerican ways
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All hail the block captain All hail All hail the block captain All hail Malicious pigs Begging to blood let Your own people Block captain All hail the block captain All hail All hail the block captain All hail Breaking bones For flakes of privilege Like an animal Press their faces into filth Block captain When it ends You will be abandoned To burn With your victims Limping through ashes For nothing All hail the block captain All hail All hail the block captain All hail

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NRR130
No Rent Records, 2020

Recorded Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019

Forward and direct, Stress Orphan has never been an artist shrouded in ambiguity or mystery. “Rank & Filth” is not a departure from past releases, but rather an escalation of the signature style he’s been forging over the past ten years. Following an introduction featuring Unrest Productions mainstay Am Not, a firm and centered vocal delivery carries the album through tracks of leftist contempt for some of the more reprehensible trash we happen to share the planet with. There are no cryptic lyrics hiding behind modulation effects or excessive amounts of reverb, instead this is as in-your-face as it can get. While many contemporary projects find their audience through recycled tropes or edgy trends, Stress Orphan continues to rely solely on the compositional strengths of his recordings. An undeniable force both in the studio and on stage, this is an American answer to the notion that only Europeans do Power Electronics right. - Matt Boettke (1/13/20)

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released May 1, 2020

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