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Total Crust Violence

by Filthpact

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Is it pretentious to use phrases like “our culture” when discussing the punk/hardcore scene? Is there such a thing as a “scene”? We hear phrases like “the punk scene”, “the hardcore scene”, “how long have you been in the scene?”, “support your scene”. It's an intangible concept, but it must exist because so many people seem to believe in its existence. If we can call this conglomeration of bands, writers, artists and idealists a “scene”, then the “scene” must send a message to the parasite record companies and pimp media moguls: We can function without you, you cannot function without us. Being independent has kept us strong and remains the only serious threat to the status quo of the music business. This scene is not in place to make agents and managers rich, this scene is in place to question everything we have been force fed by radio, TV and Hollywood – Chris Bickel.
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Embrace (free) 01:56
Try to embrace our scene, watch us tear you apart, feel relief as we destroy all that you once had. Commercialisation is not an option. What you seek is not yours to have, and try as I may, I will not understand, your intentions of control. As this is something we built to call our own, your financial interventions are far from welcome. Our time, our sweat, our dreams, not yours, now leave well alone. To give this up now would be to give in.
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Chamber for Bruar (free) 01:12
Why can't you see that this is wrong? Not fashion but ignorance, skin of so many now possessed by one. Chamber death to a lifetime encaged, carcass laid to waste, all but fur remains. Raised for the slaughter to cover the bourgeois, as your fellow human I can't help but feel disgrace. With this season’s wear, the blood is on your hands.
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Not Punk (free) 01:39
Sell yourself as what you're not, a false messiah of broken trust. Accept the ride through an open door, take all you can from this then leave for more. You are owed nothing, yet consume everything. Parasitic resemblance, I can't help but detest, feed from our kindness then offer nothing back. Play your show for a guaranteed fee, not just covering costs but draining this dry. Not a punk, just a cunt.
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Disease (free) 01:32
Are we the disease, we didn't quite detect? The terminal gene that slipped through the net. Decadent decimation, breed of annihilation, touch of destruction, actions of the human. Pillage the earth, enslave its resource, destroy all around, no thought for future worth. The human affliction of homō destruction, man-made decisions kill our species' existence.
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No Jesus (free) 01:51
Jesus Christ has no place here, in this we love, this the work of men. I abhor your Christian hardcore, no son of god has ever been here. Use our means to sell your lies, fund your groups, endorse pro-life. The great word of Jesus has no place here. Working through our channels to manipulate young minds, express your ideals upon the youth you find. Your gods, heroes, your Jesus, your saviour saint sal-fucking-vation, has no place here, this is the work of men.
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Credit Culture (free) 02:58
To live beyond your means, a task too easy to achieve. Modern day problem, the future's burden, ever increasing with little solution. Overdrafts, credit cards, delayed payments on the bills. Debt mounting, problem growing, becomes a nightmare before you know it. Overcommitted, no financial assets, lose all you own for failure of payments. One in four now in the red, credit culture taking hold.
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Total celebritarian worship, media enforced bullshit. These are people with no higher worth, propelled through hype unjust. Do we obsess about their lives as a way to escape our own? Never confronting the problems which lie so close to home. This does not equate success, their actions deserve no front page.
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Work Ethic (free) 01:25
Forty-five-hour working week, nation stood dead on its feet. Minimum wage doesn't represent, hours slaved away by the underclass. Overtime at the weekends in order to meet the bills, our workforce too dead beat to pose any threat of resistance. From this we may be nourished, yet I feel it part destroys us. Divide up our days to try make the rest fit in, constant stress and hassle, always short on time. We live our lives processed and segmentised, with our nation's wealth built on such long work hours, perhaps it's time we reassess our worth.
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Technological Roots (free) 00:49
A technological imposition to be looked at with concern, we give scarce opposition as the roots sink deeper. Worsening with time, plug in and disconnect, escalation of dependence to rely on only the internet. How many hours spent wasted behind this glass screen? Has too much control been given from man to machine?
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X Youth (free) 00:45
Fear of something different, intolerant of variety, something dark is brooding within our communities. White Britain, golden age, no asylum, bring back the slaves. Nuclear family – 2.4, girls stay at home, hand raise the brood. Stop abortion, kill the right, sexual preference you have no choice. Xenophobic youth – on the rise, see and despise, can't accept – your narrow-minded ignorance.
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Scapegoat (free) 01:45
A quick fix, the innate urge to shift the blame. To displace, all consequence and responsibility. To inflict, all guilt and resulting misery. This primitive concept developed during infancy. Scapegoat, witch-hunt, we demonise the innocent, we distort the honest truth. Rise up, grow up, accept your significance. Perform the deception, transfer the aggression, excuse the discomfort and continue as normal. Blame the drugs and shame the schools, for those kids who break the rules. Blame their idols, not the social silence, for these acts of grotesque violence.
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Human Error (free) 01:15
Halfway up the food chain, yet holding all power, we abuse other species to make our life better. Factory farmed produce, product testing on apes, hunting with packs of dogs – can we call these mistakes? We dominate this shared land, blindly destroying their habitat, inflicting death through human harm, upon these creatures and see no cause for alarm. This is by no means coexistence but decades of human ignorance. This is what we've been taught so long, yet we never seem to learn. We'll erase a species from the face of the earth, with no concern for its life or worth.
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Watching over Us (free) 00:38
Over two million eyes observe our daily lives, and still these numbers continue to rise. Has this invention for security invaded our civil liberties? This technology with such beneficial use currently stands unguarded from gross misuse. There's too little control, insufficient constraints, with no license required to have you on tape. Has this invention for security invaded our personal privacy?
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Closed Gates (free) 02:42
They seek immigration to our nation, through no choice in times of desperation. Too many families separated, their children kept uneducated. This system shows no sign of working, too often it's the innocent suffering. What would you do if it happened to you? What would you do if it was someone that you knew? Two percent of applicants accepted, tens of thousands point blank rejected. Public perceptions emerge antagonistic, the crop of media-induced racial hatred. What would you do if this happened to you, or someone that you knew?
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Tantamount to Torture (free) 01:31
A fate worse than death, to be tortured and left to rot, for unproven actions in which you may have played no part. Torture in times of warfare, you help set the rules, but do you play fair? International agreements disregarded by this treatment, the rights of the Geneva conventions not given to these prisoners. Humane conditions abandoned to try and force a statement, the denial of two proposed visits by UN inspectors.
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Vanity vs Consequence (free) 01:40
Go out and dress yourself in another big brand name, yet to produce this cloth you wear and hold so dear, lies a tale of which I hope you have an understanding. When will you see? This is our responsibility! If we buy products corrupt, it's the impoverished we hurt. Branded like cattle, we flock like sheep, in our desire to look the same we help starve the weak. Consider the sweatshop workers, those tired of being oppressed. Whilst we support this system these people struggle to exist. It's the impoverished that we so badly hurt if we choose producers whose means are corrupt.
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Scared to Live (free) 01:29
Fear of terror and fear of death, fear of having nothing left to give. Fear of neglect and fear of abuse, fear of the future that awaits our youth. Fear of theft and fear of crime, fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fear of sickness and fear of disease, fear of crossing god and his beliefs. Fear of the foreign and fear of the unknown, fear of dying all on your own. Fear restricts us and fear shapes our fate, fear helps keep our feet in the same place. Fear is power and power is feared, so we'll lead our lives too scared to live.
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Black Blood (free) 02:27
Like vampires we lust for the black blood, a substance for which we will fight and kill, for which we'll send our young to wage war, in order to ensure the economy is kept stable. The building block of western society, incorporated within most modern technology, as time goes by we increase our dependency, as scarcity grows we invade another country. The cash crop of the twentieth century, fuelling the many machines of industry. What shall we do when this is gone? When we've drained the last drop from this dying planet's womb. Where shall we go and how shall we live? When our empires start to crumble and a new way of life must begin.
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Filthpact (free) 00:51
This is what we've made, a brotherhood of sorts. Not in this to be cool or hip, but to voice our thoughts, fears and concerns. We will have achieved our most important goal if all we do is influence one trail of thought. No regrets or false pretence, no compromise.
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Consent (free) 00:59
Forty-seven thousand victims last year, is forty-seven thousand victims too many. When a person says no, you must accept it and listen, and take no further action without their permission. A totally barbaric crime, still commonplace in our time. The most selfish act you can commit, leaving scars which never fade.
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Victims (free) 01:35
Stigmatised by the ill informed masses. Branded, labelled and put into boxes. Cast out, led astray, offered no alternate way. Scorned upon, looked past, eternally the outcast. Laid to waste, left to rot, never spared a second thought. Worsening health, slow decay, praying for the end each day. Victims of a chance not given, victims of an uncaring system, victims of this world we live in. I can't believe this can be, I can't believe what I’ve seen. Admitted into the hospitals, driven out onto the streets, sentenced to the prisons, kept distant from the powers that be.
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Eternal Decay (free) 02:16
We have raped this planet, so long, too long, for what? Suffered the mistakes of those before us. Treated its existence as endless. Waste poured into our rivers, fumes pumped into our skies, as the supposed master species we do too little to keep this place alive. Earth, air, fire and water – as we abuse the elements we help destroy our mother. Yet when we've cleared all the forest, and no longer can we see the stars, when our numbers are in excess and we've gone that step too far. When we reach the point of no return, will we regret this devastation caused by man?
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Perfect (free) 01:50
Dream of the perfect figure, dream of the perfect mind, dream of having the perfect vision, occurring in a perfect time. Dream of the perfect family, dream of the perfect home, dream of being the perfect human, living in a perfect world. So tell me what is perfect and if such ideas are really your own? Or if over time they've been instilled from an external source? What we desire is not what we need. To look younger, slimmer, darker. To be richer, stronger, smarter. To own a house, a car, a computer. To have a wife, a son, a daughter. When will we accept that having this does not make us any worse or better?
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Worldwide Dead (free) 01:00
Just one click to kill, another creature of this world. In no time of hunger but purely for the thrill. This is no game, make no mistake, this concept is real and exists today. Desktop brute execution for a monthly subscription, the head shipped to your door for an extra contribution.
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4298 Thrash (free) 00:49
I’m sick and tired of their hardcore scene, full of pretentious pride and apathy. These media masters have sold their souls, between us and them there is no common goal. 4298 – we'll shape our own fate, each step that we take. This is something that we can call our own!
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Dulce et Decorum Est (free) 02:19
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, till on the haunting flares we turned our backs and towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; but someone still was yelling out and stumbling, and flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in, and watch the white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; if you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud. Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues – my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – Wilfred Owen.
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Hold of Power (free) 01:25
Falling from the shadows, rising from the soul. We are now your servants, your objects of control. You are now upon us, confronting internal turmoil. Bleed the source of our existence, control the power you hold.
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Smoke on the Gevitter (free) 01:36
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credits

released April 3, 2016

Cheers to those who helped us along the way. Special thanks to Bazz. Filthpact on these recordings were: Alby, Ben, Jeeves, Mitch and Teabags. Guest percussion on 'The Watering down of Hardcore' by Robin. Guest vocals on 'The Watering down of Hardcore' by Mhari. Guest vocals on 'Scared to Live' by Roddy. Guest vocals on 'Consent' by Henry. Guest vocals on '4298 Thrash' by KiwiDuckGevitterLads. Studio tracks recorded and mixed by Paul Emerson at Captain Tom's – Aberdeen (2004–2005). Live recordings by Mac Warzone at The Front Page Bar – Belfast, John Wayne at Cafe Mięsna – Poznan and Mark Thomas at The Moorings Bar – Aberdeen. All tracks remastered by Jason Rees (2014). Originally released on CD by Black Box Records, Crisis Point Records, Hollow Soul Records, Iron Heel Records, Lawgiver Records, Problem Records, Profane Existence Records and Repetitively Futile Records (2007). Also originally released as a Digital Download by Moshpit Tragedy Records (2011). Tracks 01–06 appeared on the Filthpact S/T Demo CD-R – 2004, tracks 07–11 appeared on the Split 7" with Afterbirth (Sco) – 2004, tracks 12–15 appeared on the Split 7" with Atomgevitter (Sco) – 2005, tracks 16–18 may have appeared somewhere, tracks 19–27 appeared on the Split 12"/CD with Atomgevitter (Sco) – 2006.

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