Melancholy And Raving Madness Of The Abominable Twins

from Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by EXNUN

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“Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” is an album mixes hardcore punk’s ferocity with extreme metal’s dark, poetic complexity.

Musically it deconstructs all the basic elements of punk, hardcore, grind, death metal, noise, thrash and black metal and puts the pieces together in a nonconforming post-modern way while sound-wise staying raw and old school.

Lyrically this is an album about the normalization of collective insanity and how our twisted, unrealistic definition of the “normal” affects the mental health of the individuals and the society. Today the system we live in pushes us further into a soul crushing monotony and sameness filled with a horrifying suppressed anxiety. Everyday we ignore our emotions and try to meet unrealistic expectations of the society whose only fundamental value is money. We don’t know where we are, what we are and why do we live because we compleletly forgot our universal cosmic roots. Overwhelming feeling of powerlessness and desperation it creates on every individual gets us little bit closer to inhumanity everyday and since everybody is trying to act like everything is ok, everyone of us thinks “something should be wrong with me” while the only thing being wrong is living in a system which values the money and power more than love, happiness, beauty, meaning, truth and freedom.

Album takes its name from “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” which is a series of nineteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas of actual murder scenes, created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science.

Lyrics of the songs are seperate poems while the actual vocal lines recorded on the album are just selected words and lines from the poems and inscrutable screams emphasizes emotion more than meaning.

The album is recorded in Istanbul by the band, mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

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lyrics

Melancholy and Raving Madness of the Abominable Twins

“I prove the animals wrong”
They didn’t seem to care
“My blood eats me,
My blood eats me,”
She yelled

A hysterical monkey, you see
My fun-loving friends
My respectable associates with respectable objects,
Is what it all starts with for us
Before that, it was just
A hollow dot and
A self-inseminating ethereal womb

At the beginning
In fact
Tranks and bugaboos
They both were the same
Under the All Frighty God’s
Piss-tainted bed

But the abominable twins
They prove ‘em wrong

Mom/Dad/Miscarriage’s maniacal claps
Echoed through the
Mom/Dad/Ethereal crap

So the long uterus short
“My blood eats me,”
She yelled

A soaking wet ghost
Of a hysterical monkey
In a worn white gown
Was combing her hair
In a catatonic trance
With her razorblade nails
And she sounded calm, you see,
I have to admit,
My fun-loving friends
My respectable tribesmen with respectable fleas,

Relieved by the flood
Of the blood draining from
All the pores on her head
To the leech clump she’s on

“Why did you leave me?”
Little meekly she asked
Mom/Dad/Miscarriage ecstatically explained:
“At the beginning, you see
In fact lice and baboons
They both were the same
But once you forget,
Start dividing ones by twoes
It went on forever
I’m sorry I can’t help you
Child, but your Street has no name”

And that little monkey friend of yours
She’s not really helping.