1. 01
    Feed on the Blood of Rats

    initiated: Barr

  2. 02
    Set

    initiated: McMaster

  3. 03
    The Wheel

    initiated: McMaster

  4. 04
    Aspherance

    initiated: Barr

  5. 05
    The Myth

    initiated: McMaster

  6. 06
    Mass Cathexis

    initiated: Marston

  7. 07
    The Form

    initiated: McMaster

  8. 08
    The Formed

    initiated: Barr

  9. 09
    All and Nothing

    initiated: McMaster

Mass Cathexis

XIV · 2020August 7, 2020

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recorded October 2019 and March 2020 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves, Queens NY, as well as mixed/mastered by Colin Marston.

Dave Ed vocals recorded July 30, 2020 at the Kicker space by Matt "Mauz" Parrillo

Nicholas McMaster: bass, vocals Mick Barr: guitar, vocals
Lev Weinstein: Drums Colin Marston: guitar, keyboards, bass
Dave Edwardson: vocals

This album was recorded in two halves, which each session handling 4/5 songs. There was a third session planned with an additional four songs. This session was cancelled because of the 2020 pandemic & lockdown. These songs were eventually recorded and released as “Mass Cathexis 2.” Dave Edwardson only appears on the song “Mass Cathexis.”

— NM

Mass Cathexis

Feed on the Blood of Rats

lyrics: Barr

Hail brief devastation fulfillment of the word Brevity be thy sakeness Bent over shivering blend fast with this silver ‘fore it changes Foul change seething its worst Dripping through pavement pooling in the tunnels beneath Festering seepage, breeding ground For insects who feed on the blood of rats

Set

lyrics: McMaster

The brutality of archaic deities behind the mask of prosaic power visions of supremacy foul passions Dissociate Trauma cleaves the mind into shards Compartments formed in self defense systematic implantation world control

The Wheel

lyrics: McMaster

I care not from whence you came gift, vessel— I drink your pain All I’ve won, all this enlightened life, the black thread. And now, in kitsch rites from another era I complete the circle.

Aspherance

lyrics: Marston

Leaden drop into aspherance Be the collectors of mass In the collection of stars Overhead Yet places the nuisance with the divine On the pedestal, a scale Vessel of human’s ash and dust On one side The other holding the flame

The Myth

lyrics: McMaster

grand debt of love and rage conspiracy of invisibilities Egypt stretches out before you Building on the broken bodies of slaves Implant a new persona to do your work Split the mind of your firstborn Without the cult Would I even know your name

Mass Cathexis

lyrics: Edwardson

Unnatural obsession Sublimated aggression Societal misanthropy We’ve sown the seeds To feed the need To cede to greed Commit savage deeds Mass Cathexis Feelings buried inside Override our bounds of distinction Empathy is crushed Psychic focus Damaged reasons Self betrayal Unconscious subversion Distorted thoughts: Brainwashed

The Form

lyrics: McMaster

The black thread Bind present in every weave The form For the gift from our master Feast, for the chosen. Loki Bound And the Earth shakes

The Formed

lyrics: Barr

Tributary of infest Seeds of transplanted doubt Root rot endless In visions countless Chained to chimneys Of the infinite inferno Blanched white bone radiance The only moving thing Scenes of the serene summon themselves Endorphinol blotting Delused into peace and nightmare Larynx of the former one who forms Blend in amongst the formed