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Sigil ft. David Dyson

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LISTEN TO THE STRANGER THAN FICTION VERSION PLEASE MY GOD

A song about the dangers of tribalism and dedicating your life to causes or people that don't care about those who follow them. The current social climate rewards flag flying for anything from bands to organisations and the frustrations of a reasonable middle ground and compromise being almost impossible have mounted a violently aggressive culture.

The artwork (by Barnaby Oakley of CrossFade Graphics) shows a wasted city and a skull pillar with a sigil in between the skulls. The pillar is made up of human skeletons to show the struggle and effort the masses have to exert to maintain a sustainable status quo. The two skulls sat on top are hyena (left) and gorilla (right). Each being wild and potentially dangerous animals whose characteristics represent either side of the political spectrum relative to which side they are on in the art.

The sigil is a bow and arrow, the arrow being made to look like the symbol for Roman Goddess, Minerva, the Goddess of strategy, art, and war. This represents the powers that both sides worship are cut from the same cloth and both have the desire to manipulate in such a way that it can't be assigned to a biological life; it's inhuman. It states that the world as we know it will come to an end if we continue to give a pedestal to radical and extreme collectives that worship power hungry entities.

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Incessant noise
Driving blind
Into narcissism
Shit hits the fan
God has planned
Not to worry fool
Christ just shut up
Stop the press
And try to see that you're not here
We don't care
You beseech
We believe in only

Our way or the highway
Our way or the migraine

I will reignite you
To sanctify you
Hold the line, we prey on apathy
Strike the apparition of malediction
But don't hold your breath

Lifted calm like child of Saturn
Sink the stomach same
Swallow whole by holy grace
The appetite of the crowned will fade
The wails from ivory towers will hang
Their disciples out to bleed
Watch the fucked guide the Forlorn guide
The hoard of adorned Trojan horses
You adore

I am dogma
Cozene vigil
So don't you touch my
Fucking Sigil

Virtue sigma
Rapture Virgil
So don't you touch my
Fucking Sigil

Show me what you'll die for

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released April 1, 2020
Music and Lyrics by Daniel Moran
Produced by Adam Aboufayed
Engineered by Adam Aboufayed, David Dyson, and Reaper
Artwork by Barnaby Oakley
Guest Vocals by David Dyson

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Reaper Liverpool, UK

Reaper is a metal quartet from Liverpool, England. Reaper interpolates elements of hard rock, progressive metal, instrumental rock, and even small elements of fusion. Reaper's mission is to diversify the thrash metal and speed metal identity by interpolating any and all ideas we deem necessary. ... more

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