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Beastland

by Author & Punisher

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1.
Pharmacide 04:29
Insatiable weakness That reaches forever But forever is known Not known for forgiveness Forgiven for filth Filth in injections Injections of Wealth From a world I can't see Playing with liquid Liquid corrodes It's the scene of a lifetime You'll be chained at the coming hour You did what you wanted At a pinnacle of power It soothes your soul When you cross that line You chose your role You crossed that line The play of a lifetime Alone in the looming tower You wait for a life line Foundations crushed Opportunist fucks enslave you Enslave and bind
2.
Dwells thus as if unable to move again Or no will left to move again Not enough will left to move again Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength
3.
Dwells thus as if unable to move again Or no will left to move again Not enough will left to move again Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Mighty horde Strength Nihil strength Nihil strength Nihil strength
4.
Crisis of all things but mine is the only one Crisis of love, I can't believe this sin Face it alone, open the gates of the vestibule Mining the soulless, wanting to dig my way out Wages ahead to protest what they show you Or you'll lose yourself Or you'll lose yourself I can't help you Bracing for death won't protect Or enthrone you Abuse yourself Use yourself I can't help you Canyons of Gods Canyons of failing Gods Statements of all In the setting sun Canyons of steel Canyons of tethered steel And I know there's sun I know there's sun But I can't feel it Lead into sand where the dust Will surround you Better lose yourself Abuse yourself I can't help you Curse of the land, where the truth Will impound you Better lose yourself Abuse yourself I can't help you Planets will bloom Planets will splinter and move out of line And this day, you will be burned You will be burned This speaker is blown This speaker's been systematically blown Better tonight than tomorrow Just a memory now Fade into sand Can't believe what they've shown you Release yourself Unleash yourself I can't help you Bracing for death The release will dethrone you Better sooth yourself Better lose yourself I can't help you
5.
Nazarene 04:09
We have a list, it goes like this We made a fist, it feels like this We built a cross, all hope was lost An albatross in semigloss We have a list, it goes like this We made a fist, it feels like this We built a cross, all hope was lost An albatross in semigloss Fantasy Nazarene Paint a line no one's seen A recipe for atrophy Misinform happily Precipice sisophis Paint a line with your fist Out of phase, an empty gaze An act of rage from happier days When you have severed the only lines It's a method that opens you up When you have severed the only lines It's a method that cuts you up You might also like Apparition Author & Punisher The Speaker is Systematically Blown Author & Punisher Nihil Strength Author & Punisher Ecstasy, plastiscene Carving lines that no one's seen See your face, it's wrapped in lace It drifts away with lasting grace Fantasy, misery Treating wounds with wizardry Out on your own, a jagged stone Cuts to the bone, that's when you've know When you have severed the only lines It's a method that opens you up When you have severed the only lines It's a method that cuts you up (It's a method that cuts you up) (It's a method that cuts you up) (It's a method that cuts you up) (It's a method that cuts you up)
6.
Apparition 04:38
The race for the backward Power in the wrong few The fumes from the world war The clouds in the room Systematic hunger Emblem of a brighter youth Overwhelming numbers Killing without proof They predicted a sensation An Apparition of a predatory few Voice of innovation To halt unrelenting doom Impossible situation Impossible room We fought off sedation The lure of dystopian ruse They pushed our imagination There was nothing to lose A planet with a blackened heart A condition of a passive nature Sedition only went so far Patient with a falling root System with a crooked start A future lacking any patience Afraid of what you really are But does anybody choose Can't ask us to settle now Afraid of what we're made of Afraid of what we are Afraid of what we'll lose Don't ask us to settle now I'm afraid of where we're going I'm afraid of what will be Afraid of what we'll lose
7.
Night Terror 06:05
Haunted visions coming back A collision on the track For days I've seen the sorrow Bad decisions from the past Incision in a crack Many ways to reach the horror Hidden secrets that I keep A structure down on me In a phase of my destruction Rising waters weigh me down I'm buried in the ground Consumed by my affliction And I'll learn how to play And I'll learn how to play And I'll say what I mean And I'll learn not to say And I'll learn through the pain And I'll learn that I'm too slow I've been saved but it's not fit I fell through but it's poison Shove my face but it's inside In my ears but it's genius Found the place but it's nowhere I've been cross but I'm outside I've been fit but I'm not in shape I run around but it's wrong On the day when I found you I'm ok when I found you I'm only sane when it's too slow I'd turn around but it's too thick I'll be saved but I'm not alright I'll be hanged from the ceiling No way out it's a full moon Christmas day no companion In the wall but it's inside In my eyes but it won't fit It's a shame is all Wretched place with wretched view Deathbed army is a part of you Crooked face a crooked screw Deathbed army is a part of you Who wins in our eyes Who wins and who dies On the day when I found you I'm ok when I found you Many ways to learn You'll learn the pain Many ways to learn You'll learn the pain Many ways through pain There are many ways to learn There are many ways to learn through pain
8.
Beastland 06:03
From the beastland Hard and beaten This is my place These are my methods Nowhere is safe All things aggressive Hard and beaten

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Beastland was recorded at K Street in San Diego, CA and engineered by Tristan Shone & John Cota (Death Eyes). Additional recording was done in Las Cruces, NM with Jason Begin (vytear). The album is co-produced with Braden Diotte (Faust, EXO//ENDO, Neurosis, Tarantula Hawk), mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Album art by Juha Arvid Helminen.

Industrial metal visionary AUTHOR & PUNISHER delivers his sixth full-length recording and Relapse debut Beastland. Drawing inspiration from his career as a mechanical engineer, Tristan Shone (the creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER) forged a relationship with design, sound, and fabrication that ultimately yielded his hand-built “Drone Machines” which mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made "precision machinery." A robotic experimentation in industrial metal, noise, doom and drone, AUTHOR & PUNISHER recalls Nine Inch Nails channeling Godflesh, traversing through dark, uncompromising, and often disturbing soundscapes with occasional detours into rich melodies and splinters of light. Armed with newly built “Drone Machines” and a new label, Beastland is AUTHOR & PUNISHER’s career-defining statement and a powerful listening experience that further blurs the line between man and machine.

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released October 5, 2018

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Author & Punisher San Diego, California

Author & Punisher is an industrial doom and drone metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom fabricated machines/controllers and speakers called Drone/Dub Machines. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of the interaction with machine.

Photo credit: Chad Kelco
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