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Helpless Corpses Enactment

from In Glorious Times by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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Obsessed with the all-encycling world of this famous and unnameable book of the dark in recent years, this song leapt into my mouth while reading on BART, the Eversower demanding to be set to music, dictating the rhythm and form...and metal. Hail to the Iteritinerant Legions of Book Metal!

Dedicated to Jim & Mickie Frykdahl, keepers of the Huntington Library, Oakland branch. —nf

lyrics

The text of the Helpless Corpses Enactment was written by a famous sorcerer, a Penman, late decendent of the Tuatha De Danann in the line of Finn MacCool, whose words have fallen prey to a proprietary ogre, a certain Shawn the Yawn.

Vah! Scatterbrand to the reneweller of the skies, thou who agnitest! Phall if you but will. Rise you must.

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from In Glorious Times, released May 29, 2007
music: Nils

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Oakland, California

Perhaps we can call them Avant-Prog Metal, or Grindcore Funk Theater, or in the words of one
particularly rapt concertgoer “Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit."

Regardless, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum indoctrinates their audiences with circuitous melodies, unnamable harmonies and gleefully dark, evocative sounds emanating from an array of voices and instruments, many of them homemade.
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