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This will be the opening track of the planned debut album. The main instrument is a serrated bread knife.

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Dead Kid Harvester

Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist from New Zealand with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony o

Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony or tempo. The primary instruments used are vocals and kitchen utensils. The life of a song typically begins with the lyrics, written with no consideration for rhythm or beat. Dead Kid Harvester takes influences ranging from doom metal to drone, industrial and old school punk, and polarizes them into an industrial cacophony of noise. Recorded samples and segments are combined haphazardly into songs, with frequent use of pitch shift and time stretch effects. The preferred lyrical themes are insanity, horror and philosophy. Dead Kid Harvester makes use of both jarring and subtle variations between channels to invoke uneasiness and disarray. In 2018, after nearly ten years of recording and procrastination, the debut full-length album The First Sign Of Madness was finally completed. Tracks appear on: 2009 - DEMUS Compiled II 2009 - We'll Leave the Lights On 2011 - 5DBSSS One - tha ReeMux is (remix 'Metal on Utensil') 2012 - SIGNALVOID (exclusive songs 'Puberty', 'Stubborn Cupboard') 2016 - Through the Drift and the Unspoken 2017 - No Synth Noise Compilation (an interpretation of an Into Orbit track)

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Experimental

Charts

Peak #156

Peak in subgenre #38

Uploaded

August 12, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44

Story behind the song

A song with a spiritual story for which the meaning is unclear. Partially inspired by gothic rock.

Lyrics

Despite the tales of creatures unknown,
I spent the night alone
In a haunted house out on a prairie.
And in the dead gloom of dusk,
Dare I say I saw a fairy.
When you've seen something new,
It's too late to undo
The gasp at the tip of your tongue.
Dressed in black,
Don't try to turn back,
She told me not to worry.
And to my surprise,
In her uranium eyes,
I saw a hint of desire.
There is something sweet
Where forked roads meet,
That a weather girl can't describe.
I stood for a time
Under a radioactive spell,
Then plummeted into cosmological implosion.
In the blink of an eye,
Lonely ground and foggy sky.
The rain came down,
But I had nothing left to wash away.

Despite the force of cold and isolation,
I spent my life unwound
In a hut up on a glacier.
Trapped in a haunted river
Of creaks and moans,
The echo of laughter
Too powerful for any ghostbuster.
Every white breath multiplying the haze,
Inching along as clocks spun like crazy.
Then the altitude of my colourless pillow became extinct,
And this iceberg slipped into the lively ocean.
Cold and separate at first,
But it feels so good to be melting.

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