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Eject Modernity, Erase Tradition

by Mikau, Mattachine

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1.
We’re fucking back This one’s for all the kids who had to grow up straight, never had a high school date, didn’t have sex til late, who felt like they had to wait, targeted by breeder hate, felt like they were second rate, tried to over medicate, and believed that they deserved that fate ‘cuz they were fucking gay. This ain’t a hardcore song. This is a call to action. All our lives we’re told we’re wrong. Another day, a new infraction. Existence under the weight of social pressures and abstractions as punishment for inherent traits and perverse sexual distractions. Oh, oh it feels so good~ Oh, don’t you wish you could? Oh, do you think you would? Oh, oh i think we should! Awrf awrf~ (U´ᴥ`U) This ain’t a hardcore song! This is a call to action! All you faggots: bear your arms! Let’s wage a war for crimes of passion! With our hands and fists let’s take — take back the reigns of satisfaction! It’s more than just our lives at stake when solidarity’s in fashion! Oh — It’s So. Fucking. Good. “The struggles of the peoples of the world are our fight as well; their victories are our victories and our victories are theirs. Our freedom will come only with their freedom… we can then begin to crack the barriers of our varying illnesses, our passivity, sexual chauvinism, in essence, our inability to unabashedly love each other, to live, fight, and if necessary, die for the people of the earth.” (from the 1970 “Sixteen Point Platform and Program” of the Third World Gay Revolution)
2.
This distance, it hurts; the silence is killing me. We spend our lives in hiding, in misery. Behind closed doors our love is everything. In public our hands entwined is suffering. Why do we hide? Why do we hide? Why do we hide? Our love is everything. Hiding our lives. Hiding our lives. Hiding our life. Our love is power. Our love is fate. Our love is everything you hate. No more in hiding. No more in the shadows. I’ll keep shooting my shot ‘til I’m all outta ammo. If your god is real, and He loves you? You’re a fucking disgrace, so He must love me too. There’s one thing I know, I know to be true: that I love him [not God, lol] and he loves me too. That’s fucking right.
3.
[Alex] Call me anti-natal. You call my life divine. Call me so ungrateful. Don’t call me shit, don’t hit my line. Tell me of miracles. Tell me it’s inspiration. I say we’re just blood and cum, mixed together in fornication. [Chorus] Self-aggrandize lack of consent. Breed forced labor to stabilize your conscience. No sanctity, no purpose. Preach a mission but your words are fucking worthless. [Alex & John] It’s plain to see. This whole world is rigged against me. When every single day I wake up and I feel the pull of depravity. Cause people like us, the unwashed masses, the social pus – we’re always to blame – but when this system falls we’ll stake our claim! [Chorus] Self-aggrandize lack of consent. Breed forced labor to stabilize your conscience. No sanctity, no purpose. Preach a mission but your words are fucking worthless. [Alex & John] Your next breath is your last. You useless waste of cum. I’ll spare you all the pain. Our lives end all the same. [Alex] Every single one of us is product of a mass extinction event: I want you to fucking act like it. [Alex] Cursed with the burden of existence: we refuse to propagate consciousness. [John] Why choose life over hedonism? Your legacy will decay just the same. Choke on the smoke from our embers, we can't wait to see you six feet under.
4.
A fleeting selfish moment, total disregard. Choke on bile and reap what you sow. Force-feeding - repeated. Regurgitation - your vindication. You act like it’s natural. Justification of your actions. The cycle continues: slowly set my world on fire. I'm not better than you. I’m just sick of all the heinous shit you do. It’s not your life to consume. Everything else doesn’t get to choose. If it’s natural selection. Why don’t you self-select suicide? Do us all a fucking favor and just curl up and die.
5.
What more is there to live for? Receipts acquired, transactions expired. Run it up then backslide, retain anything we can commodify. Devalue memories to stake my social claims. Preservation is the purest form of flattery. Scatter me - in the wind I’ll find my peace. Disintegrate - wrap my lungs with broken circuitry. I wish you could take me, replace me. Consciousness is just a bad dream. Rot - rust. Torn apart - recycled. Promise a better tomorrow? While we throw away today? Something broken, something borrowed. Disregarding life for a spot on your fucking ledger. Day after day I keep on hoping, I’ll die soon enough so my mind can go with me. Planned obsolescence, but somehow forced to live forever. The wheels of progress keep on turning - they drive me under.

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Mikau on this release is
John Irby - vocals, guitar
Adam Stergis - guitar, bass, programming, vocals
Austin O’Rourke - drums, programming

Mattachine on this release is
vocals, guitar - Alexander Rudenshiold
guitar - Justin Reichard
bass - Taimir Gore
drums - Austin O’Rourke

All tracks produced, recorded, and mixed by Adam Stergis at Chimera Lab in Alexandria, Virginia.
Mastered by Kris Crummett at Interlace Audio in Portland, Oregon.
Art by tissue_hunter; design by Alexander Rudenshiold.
Mikau logo by Cory Swope. Mattachine logo by Alaiaorax.

Released by Acrobat Unstable Records 2023

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released February 24, 2023

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