[Angel_or_Daemon]

Yes, it’s on Discogs – but I was interested in the specific versions included in Becoming MP. Well, I’ll wait for it to pop up (or for the boxes to arrive …)

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Those who have already received it: any specs regarding the tracks on Becoming MP?

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Can’t find it on Apple Music … Still waiting for the record to arrive …

[Angel_or_Daemon]

Exactly the four songs from the DB box, hardly half an hour of music. Shame …

[Angel_or_Daemon]

Ordered both out of a reflex – although I'm feeling extremely disappointed. Several reasons for that:

– adding Demon Box to the box set makes no sense – it just makes it more expensive (and what a cheap explanation: "included in this box set simply because it's essential for the period and the collection wouldn't be complete without it." – well, most fans' collections are complete without it …)

– why not include the Rut 7" as a standalone instead of putting it on a compilation? Wouldn't that actually contribute to making collections complete?

– the "box set" is in fact just a slipcase (no booklets, no nothing …)

– Communication: Will there be standalone releases of the EPs, Lobo and Soothe? I assume Rune will announce it only after the 2,000 box sets have sold out.

Plus, judging from the short clip on Rune FB:

– the Blitz is only 5 out of the originally played 10 tracks, makes it a meaningless record altogether

– the EPs look like they are 12", which is a bit lame considering 10" is the band's standard for EPs

And the pricing, well, truly ridiculous! Paid roughly 300 Euros for it, that is a lot of dough for the few gems that can be found in the box sets.

A missed chance, for sure.

[Angel_or_Daemon]

well, last September the band announced the reissue of Lobotomizer, remember? On Instagram it said: "@runegrammofon will release a newly remastered and reassembled edition of the original album next year, as it was intended to be heard. here’s to 30 years!"

I guess that is one of the two sets, right?

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Nice one from Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany):

Quote:

Contrary to what people everywhere like to claim, indie rock is not dead. It's just been hiding in Norway for a while. And all those who now claim (and, okay, not entirely wrongly) that it's about the same thing haven't been to a Motorpsycho concert yet. There would have been plenty of opportunities to do so before the pandemic, the prog-stoner-rock band founded in Trondheim in 1989 toured the world tirelessly, but of course not at the moment. Instead, with "Kingdom Of Oblivion" (Stickman Records/Rune Grammofon), there is now the 24th Motorpsycho studio album, and that is a very good substitute for the time being.

For example, you can immerse yourself in the viscous and screaming power of "The United Debased" or in "The Waning Pt. 1&2", which is a heavily driving, stoic riff monster on the one hand and an elegiac, psychedelically echoing falsetto-chorus meditation on the other. Whereby the Motorpsycho secret is, of course, that neither blasé prog sauce nor prepotent hard rock and certainly not nervous show-off metal emerges, but rather Motorpsycho music. Led Zeppelin for grown-ups who also love minimalist meandering Krautrock and slow-motion thundering drone and are more interested in the hypnotic force of a heavily dragging electric guitar riff lowered a few octaves than in any sawing solo show-off. Inexplicably, actually, Motorpsycho is still the least known of the few really significant rock bands of the past 30 years.

German version can be found at sz.de.

[Angel_or_Daemon]

@psychonaut:

the point of no return's finally passed

pushed over the edge

equilibrium's offset at last

here out on the ledge

earth's homeostasis

we're losing races

the waning has begun

no choice for anyone

this can't keep going on

insect-like we've taken over

a predatory kind

bite the hand and fix it later

a one-track hive mind

earth's homeostasis

still losing races

the waning has begun

no choice for anyone

this can't keep going on

children children fight your corner

you'll need a new home

boldly go where none have ventured

new spaceships in chrome

from homeostasis

to survival races

the waning has begun

no choice for anyone

soon this will all be gone

[Angel_or_Daemon]

… to be honest, I'd be happy to download the leaked album if I knew where to look for it. I really can't wait to listen to the new music, I just can't. Will buy the album anyway, like I always do. I actually think leaks don't have a big influence on album sales in mp's case …

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postage on this gem is really neck breaking …

does anyone know if the light fantastic will also be sold via mighty stickman?

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does anybody know if the record is already on sale at the gigs?

[Angel_or_Daemon]

THE CRUCIBLE

in the hours before the fire rained down

and turned the evening into day,

all was quiet, all was so serene

and all our thoughts were far away

with our loved ones, with our families,

a future in a better world

with the hope that this would all make sense

our hearts jumped when the flags unfurled

not a breeze, not a breath, not a sigh

all so tense, all so scared, all stand-by

we were young immortal patriots

proudly marching off to war

in our mind’s eye we were heroes all,

we couldn’t see what lay in store

we all saw ourselves on battlefields

proud, with tombstones in our eyes

not in this muddy hell of hopelessness

pawns just waiting ‘round to die

not a breeze, not a breath, not a sigh

all so tense, all so scared, all stand-by

what a waste, what an awful aftertaste: a travesty embraced

soldiers cry but still wait around to die, believers in the biggest lie

the never-ending awe-inspiring endless nameless grind

the smell, the mud, the hope you never thought you’d have to find

the endless drone of shelling every day and every night

and knowing only more wrong ever could make this be right

you keep your head down

and pray to god and hope he hears your voice

through drumfire roaring

that makes it feel like your head will explode

you see your brother disintegrate and rot before your eyes

you dream of home and you wish you were back there all safe and dry

the barrage it left us deaf and blind,

I never heard the whistle blow

but I followed where the others lead,

alive with patriotic glow

in a dream machine guns opened up

mowing like the devil’s scythe

I saw my peers, my generation fall

in that mud I watched them die

not a breeze, not a breath, just a sigh

all so tense, all so scared, all would die

to hope, to pray, to wait around to die …

no breeze, no life, no breath,

all gone, all gone, all dead

[Angel_or_Daemon]

LUX AETERNA

we die alone

we are sentient then we’re bone

numbers and a name on a gravestone

it ends today

take the pain away

there’s nothing left for anyone to say

the end is grey, an emptiness

that allows our grief to coalesce

and makes the sorrow harder to suppress

we live our lives, we sweat and toil

then shuffle off this mortal coil

and leave our worn out flesh beneath the soil

but when we go we are released

our disagreement all appeased

we’re memories just floating on the breeze

and hopefully our souls are all at peace

love me and set me free, I’m all I will ever be,

I’m only me

only now and only here

no five-year plan and no career

strip the noise away and make it clear

only this and nothing more

a multiverse still left to explore

the big release will open up the door

and take away the pain forevermore

universal now

not you, but a part of all

please take a bow

love me and set me free, I’m all I will ever be,

I’m only me

eternal light

pure and clear and bright

to light our way and help us through the night

it ends today

take the pain away

there’s nothing left for anyone to say

love me and set me free, I’m all I will ever be,

I’m only me

[Angel_or_Daemon]

PSYCHOTZAR

it’s not paranoia, we all choose what to believe

if you don’t understand it, you’re easy to deceive

we pick our stories, no two tales are same

follow the money,

ignore the smoke, but look out for the flame

cop a feel

make a deal

shit is all too real

put your decency in storage or run it by the lord

it’s not a system, it’s a funny game where lies are ignored

I’ve got this anger but I don’t know what to do

it’s not paranoia when it turns out to be true

cop a feel

make a deal

now it’s all too real

when truth is of no consequence

learning’s trumped by sheer pretense

when greed, deceit and vanity meets

watch your back and count your teeth

vanity before the fall, face first smack into the wall

you don’t care,

but will what still remains ever be rebuilt again?

is this the point the future changed

and a new world order arranged?

who will pick up what you have gone and dropped?

will he succeed where you have flopped?

[Angel_or_Daemon]

makes sense… but playing bbd & hbm2 as encores took at least equally long, right?

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