Buy the song ($1)Vocals: Zoog Von Rock
Drums: Dave Nato (4th Wall, Anti-Nowhere League)
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Words and Music by Zoog Von Rock © Angelspit 2023
Angelspit’s new single ‘Art Imitates War’ is an experiment in sonic brutality.
Heavily distorted samples, Blaster Beam and the punk-rock drumming of Dave Nato (4th Wall, Anti-Nowhere League) are embroiled in a hammer fight to the death.
Angelspit took the old-school Industrial approach in making “Art Imitates War” by sampling metallic sounds and ruining them with distortion pedals.
Their six-foot aluminum Blaster Beam was also decimated, creating a wall of mayhem with its 11 low frequency piano wires.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“The music came from distorting smashed metal. When you hit metal it sings, but it screams when you distort it. It would be fair to say that I co-wrote the track with chaos and distortion. The lyrics cover the decay of the middle class, denial, drug abuse, domestic abuse, and mind-numbing social media telling you that everything will be OK if you stay plugged in. ‘Art Imitates War’ is an experiment in sonic brutality.”
– Zoog Von Rock, Angelspit.
Art Imitates War is released through Black Pill Red Pill, on Bandcamp December 12 2022, and all streaming services on Friday December 19, 2022.
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ISRC: USB6A2300001
CAT: BPRP61
UPC: 655365808626
RELEASE: December 12, 2022
SPOTIFY: December 19, 2022
LENGTH: 3:02
TEMPO: 136BPM
Lyrics
ART IMITATES WAR
[EXPLICIT LYRICS]
T=136 BPM
VERSE 1/
Children eating dirt, covered in trending filth
But happy ‘coz they don’t know better
Blame their parents for having absolutely nothing
‘Cept breakthrough debt and an oxy addiction
Don’t report the death rate to make you feel safe
Omit the numbers that are growing every day
And smack your house all the way back to London
It’s happy outside, so come out and play
VERSE 2/
Will you take your guns to church for me?
Then maybe dance the cooch
Can I call you “baby” if you call me daddy?
Then let’s kiss God and dream we’re rich
Empty those missile silos full of love
Feed our thirsty veins
That dull familiar feeling of total catastrophe
This is our manifesto of Caine
CHORUS/
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
VERSE 3/
I know it’s cool to like shock and awe
But someone’s doing the rounds
He’s firing up the crowds, firing squad for his opponents
Looks like there’s another new Fuhrer in town
Now decent Christian minions are doing his bidding
Out of blind obedience to the throne
Mass delusion with four years free interest
Idiot religious dogma via the phone
CHORUS/
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
Are you still listening? Do you still give a fuck?
Art imitates war imitates art imitates war
Are you still listening? Do you still give a fuck?
OUTRO/
In order to cope I have become
Someone completely different
I fucking hate that person
