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God Is The Giver Of The Gift

by Straight Panic

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Bug Chaser 09:03
Validation Transubstantiation of the word into flesh Prophecy or curse Future collapsing into present Fulfillment of manifest destiny The frontier opened Ravaged Stripped bare Fear abandoned Accepting of one's mortality The rectum is a grave Boundless and starving Unblinking void Generations devoured Sealed off until the time of the end Future collapses into present to have become death
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Gift Giver 06:00
This I give to you One man's revenge Poured unto the world Through the vessel of your body I bestow upon you your death Your fated, terminal result This is my gift to you Passed down from father to son Brother to brother This is my gospel As manna from heaven We gratefully receive the fruits of our burdens God is the giver of the gift
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GRUTESK: Locked and loaded A toxic dosage Plummeting T-cells Ready and willing Neg cunts wrecked Best before '96 Stealth executioner A snail on a razorblade Pass the baton To ignoble death STRAIGHT PANIC: Genetic I.E.D. A biological insurgency Fluid suicide vest The crowded marketplace of your body
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Charging 06:35
Positive ionization Additional growth Biological arithmetic Ineffective breeding Generation of entropic acceleration Positive plus negative equals negative A widening chasm A philosophical point of view
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Stealthing 04:07
Sexual roulette One in the chamber The blank target of the male physique Begging for a bullseye He doesn't ask the caliber That's not the purpose of his role What he doesn't know doesn't hurt him Eyes forward, locked No backtalk No questions Duties performed With the utmost attention to detail Deep cover Behind enemy lines A vibrant perfectionist A fastidious streak A real winner
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A bouquet of symptoms A rosary of markers Here the serpent's tail coils around Cain't heart The shepherd's crook The hanged man Never inverted Blessé homme The Wounded Man There is nothing left after this A respectable stable showing The transubstantiation Facets viewed through facets of a diamond The grand prix
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Mark of Cain 08:01
The sins of the father Visited upon the child Generation after generation The burning bush Of your father's shame Generational greed Egotistical ignorance A ledger in red A debt unpaid Paid in full With interest The sins of the father Visited upon the flesh of his brood Breeding ceaselessly Copulating into an open grave Seed spilled unto fallow earth A lifeless golem crumbles A stillborn homunculus

about

There was a lot of debate in the 90s—academic, public policy, behavioral health—regarding the validity and veracity of Bug Chasing/Gift Giving (i.e. intentional HIV infection/ transmission). Regardless of whether the concept ever really extended beyond roleplay, concept, or isolated individuals, the notion of embracing one's own demise always felt incredibly poignant in the face of Falwell's "moral majority;" Reagan's silence; Cardinal O'Connor's stiff platitudes. When it really was the plague years, how could one not feel inclined to give in to rage, to subvert the moral fatalism of the Christian death cult, to meet the End head on without fear or uncertainty?

Disembodied voices of the departed usher tracks of densely layered power electronics. The interplay of texture and frequency supports snarled vocals that seem to stumble over themselves in the pursuit of their own demise. Few paraphilias benefit from solitude, here is no different; guest appearances from Délinquance Juvénile (FR), Contraktor (US), and Grutesk (US). GITGOTG strives to neither glorify nor shame, but rather humanize those who were vilified by leaders of Faith and Government, left to fend for themselves during the height of the epidemic. Let this be a monument, erected.



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released February 5, 2019

Design/Layout: Jason Crumer
Cover: "Suicide of Lucretia," Meester met de Papegaai (1500-1525)

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New Orleans (2017-2020)
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