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Orally Shed Ectoplasm

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

Orally Shed Ectoplasm

“Bite my arm” you say
“If the pain is too much”
Oh honey,
No shit.


Cannibal grouchy babies sucking out all the marrow of God inside the funhouse mirrors
In our franchise of secret garden carnival, here is another lovely day
Same quality guaranteed toxic vanity of rotten teeth weasels
Wherever you go
In our pretty fertile bowels
We grow flatworm bubbles under existential vacuum out of thin air
Oh honey I would very much like to show you sometime
I’ve been growing them for all my life
For all my life that’s what I know
That’s what I do in dim light
Every night, pretty much
Wage war
Shed blood
Body count
Repeat

Oh sweet defeat
No one knows which gon’ taste
Which one wakes up in the morning
Takes the wheel
Takes a sip of coffee, eats cereal
Act normal
Lie low
I lie
Oh honey
They know

They’re my best friends

They’ll call me on a landline buried somewhere in the past
Any time they sense
That I pretend
Like the dread might ever comes to an end


You and me in the room
We wash our faces with all the lotions you bought for us
I make four cheese vegan omlette for breakfast
While we eat we watch The Office for the eighth time around

[The phone rings]

We plan our two days anniversary getaway in this spa hotel out of town
Out in the country

[The phone rings]

You talk about the little tattoo parlor you’d dream to open in Milan

[The phone rings]

You say we need a new cutting board cause the old one is drowning in shit

[The phone rings]
“You hear something?”

We play Super Mario

[The phone though]

We play with our two cats
The boy is huge and badass
And the girl [PHONE] is so sweet

We talk [PHONE] soft
We [PHONE] make [PHONE] out
[PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE]
[PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE]
[PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE]
[PHONE] [PHONE]
[PHONE]
[PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE] [PHONE]

I c-section the phone from my mom
I answer, giving in
The operation room gets pitch black
Bleak paste of broken fridge starts to drool from the walls
Sinister hissings sing
Dismal nursery songs
Seeing all my secret sins and
Sinks the ceiling down
While a grinning frown emerging upon my squamous skin

“Don’t break her heart”
That’s all my lips can afford
Somewhere along the way they self-taught
That they can dissolve the dread into pain
By hurting someone near
For the pain is their warm dear home
Suddenly room’s dead cold
Growling whispers on the other end go:
“Look out the window
You failed us all”

Then I see the
Colossal putrid oozing carnivorous toxic blob
Bluntly chops the black and blue
Mash flesh
Fresh from the bucket shops of
Bleak cursed wastelands
That is our hive
Getting close
So we can’t hide
Then I hear your voice
Like million miles away
“Bite my arm” you say
“If the pain is too much”

They will come out to play
From my mouth
And they’re not gonna bite your arm then
They will bite everyone’s fuckin’ faces off
Then I will wear their skins to my head
Then I’ll shed my shame to death

But I’d take pain for dread any given Sunday

Oh honey
Please stay

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from Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, released June 9, 2023

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EXNUN İstanbul, Turkey

EXNUN:
Can Temiz: Bass, Vocals
Ersin Çağlayan: Guitars, Vocals
Ozan Çam: Guitars, Vocals
Aberrant Engin: Drums

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