Vehement Apathy

Produced and mixed by Entity Crisis
Vocals by Nix Nihil
Mixed and mastered by Lex Plexus 

mobilize the weary sighs
contrive these dark designs
nothing is the only thing
I’m feeling in this simulation
 
conform
consume
consumers do
 
collect
comply
conditioned lies
 
contort
contrived
acclimatized
 
combine
confine
concubine
 
conserve
convert
perverse inverse
 
compact
combat
on the attack
 
superstition
misinformation
is the disease
against mental ease
 
superstition
disinformation
is the disease
of our mental peace
 
superstition
misinformation
is the disease
against mental ease
 
superstition
disinformation
is the disease
of our mental peace
 
mental pieces
fragmenting
superstition
mental pieces
 
mental pieces
fragmenting
bits and pieces
bits and pieces
 
goddamn this mad society
vehement in my apathy
goddamn these rabid enemies
vehement in my apathy
goddamn this mad society
vehement in my apathy
goddamn these rabid enemies
vehement in my apathy
 
superstition
misinformation
is the disease
against mental ease

superstition
disinformation
is the disease
of our mental peace
 



this world has gone to shit
I’m drowning in the piss
my brain is in a rut
my guts are tangled up
  
goddamn this mad society
vehement in my apathy
goddamn these rabid enemies
vehement in my apathy
goddamn this mad society
vehement in my apathy
goddamn these rabid enemies
vehement in my apathy
 
superstition
misinformation
is the disease
against mental ease
superstition
disinformation
is the disease
of our mental peace

superstition
misinformation
is the disease
against mental ease
superstition
disinformation
is the disease
of our mental peace

Entity Crisis (ft. Nix Nihil) - Vehement Apathy

*****Human Ant Hill*********

this is the way the ant moves
this is the way humanity grooves
the ant he works to feed the queen
but the human beast feeds a machine

this is the way the ant moves
this is the way humanity grooves
the ant he works for togetherness
but the human works for self-interest

cash money is not interchangeable… for soul
your currency is inadaptable… incompatible with ours

this is the train the ant rides
burned beneath the solar tides
even sun waves magnified
can make these tiny creatures die

two heads trump a single one
now times that by three billion
this is a choice, the chance to relieve
the guardians of those who sleep
it’s humbling to learn something
from creatures crushed beneath our feet
considering the greater scheme
we’re not so big, we’re all the same

and we live to serve 
the swarm 
we live to conform
to the will of the swarm
so we live to serve 
the swarm 

cash money is not interchangeable… for soul
your currency is inadaptable… incompatible with ours
can we really as individuals weather the approaching  storm
can we come together to create ourselves a better norm

can we not see the commonalities
will we not see the human ant hill peak?



Psyoptic - Human Ant Hill

Music by Lex Plexus
Words and Voices by Nix Nihil

*****Sleep, Cerberus*****

Loathing, lone-wolfing
beneath the veneer
still sneering
so standing
aware, we dream
of sleep
Danger remaining
Stopping the barking
Choking and gobbling
Guarding the threshold
Shepherding Three-headed dog
We are Cerberus

Grooming
The evidence, it disappears
The secret 
The sequence (digesting enzymes)
We’re omnivorous 
The bones for gnawing
Feasting and feeding, beckoning, calling
Licking and teething, panting and howling
…. Aah aahh ahhh ahhhhhhh…Awooooooooooo  

Closing
Worthless Circuits 
Lay down with the serpent

In the dungeon
deep in the halls of Hades
We are the dog “becoming-human”
In pure entropy we will dissolve
In essence
never evolve
forever alone

In the dungeon
deep in the halls of Hades
We are the prisoners “becoming-dog”
In pure entropy we will dissolve
In silence
never evolve
together alone
In the dungeon
In the cellar
We’re sleeping
Just let us be
And leave the dog lie

Gaining, closing distance
The smell of your fear, it doesn’t wash off
And turn the lights off
We are the gatekeeper 
we are the earth-shaker
we are the hell-raiser
we are so weary
so just keep it down

Won’t you humor me
with one moment’s peace?

In the dungeon
Stuck in the halls of Hades
We are the dog “becoming-human”
In pure entropy we will dissolve
our essence
 never evolve
forever alone

In the desert
In the crypt
In the halls of
the labyrinth 

We are the prisoners “becoming-dog”
encountering entropy we will dissolve
Insomniac victim of negated Nyx
Forever alone we drink from the Styx 

In the dungeon
In the cellar
We’re sleeping
snoring
In the desert
In the crypt
We sleep in
silence
In the desert
In the crypt
We sleep in
silence



Lex Plexus And Nix Nihil - Sleepcaster EP - Sleep Cerberus (Nix Vox Remix)

Path of the Lightning Caster

Written by Lex Plexus and Nix Nihil
Programming by Lex Plexus
Words and voices by Nix Nihil

Introduction:
Raising the staff up to the cowering sun, the caster blocks what light remains as the last patch of open sky is swallowed up by heavy grey clouds. Rippling disruptions emerge at the vectors of the impending lightning chain manifestation. The caster leaps forward, self-righting into perfect balance, jabbing the staff forward into the horizon, rending the sky with a pillar of jagged light. The heavens groan and crack; the world momentarily flickers as the inevitable thunder chases its luminous counterpart across the sky.

Lyrics:

Crash, split, return
Flash, strike, illuminate

I am the invoker of the ion air
I am the provoker of celestial flairs
I am the beholder of the storm’s eye
I am the consoler of the crying sky
Humanity calls me a shadow-sweeper
A wind-walker, a promise-keeper—
A grinning reaper, a master blaster, 
As they behold the lightning caster!

Crash, split, return
Flash, strike, illuminate

The mounting excitement vibrates
unceasing movements of time and space
The shifting through the phases
Disintegrating, reintegrating
Reveling in the rearranging
A zillion different configurations
all at the same time forever and never
always and already, and ever after

An imperative was issued across the aeons
Resonating with the concentrated vibrations
Executed through a living conduit
Blasting to infinity light years in the distance
An ancient star acknowledges
Explodes in recognition of this covenant
The caster now concludes the chant
A wordless murmuring of assent

Crash, split, return
Flash, strike, illuminate
Crash, split, return
Light the path of the lightning-caster

The caster casts the runic staff, 
spinning it overhead in a flash 
bathing in an electric wind
scraping a sphere of ectoplasm 

a steady beat emerges
driving like the engine of a
grand locomotive
immutable rhythm of the universe
rending the sky with a pillar of light
Humanity calls me a shadow-sweeper
A wind-walker, a promise-keeper
A grinning reaper, a master blaster, 
As they behold the lightning caster!

Closing:
The caster, standing stone-still with bent knees, raised head, and extended arms, bows while the pouring rain and the jubilant voices ring true. The caster drinks in these surroundings, beholding everything while all visions crackle back into fractals, all air surges back into lungs, and all jarred consciousness rediscovers physical form as intense sensory stimuli saturates all receptors. Panting with satisfaction, the caster observes a moment of gratitude before rejoining the tribe with a smile, returning to the mundane.

Lex Plexus And Nix Nihil - Sleepcaster EP - Path Of The Lightning Caster

Written and performed by Nix Nihil
Recorded and engineered by Adam Whitaker-Wilson

An irreverent meditation on the relationship between player and character. But, whose desire is fulfilled?

"Saved Game Character"

“Acknowledged, affirmative! 
Move me here; move me there.
Direct me, Commander!
What now?”

MISSION BRIEFING:

“I wait where last you left me, Lord, 
friend observer boss whatever


Yes, much has happened to me here:
many orders issued and received;
Many paradigms to be preserved—
Protocols followed strictly. 

I’ve got the best gear I’ve ever got
right now—to get the job done.
To end the Quest:
Ultimate power, was it?
Enlightenment?
Mere survival?
Entertainment?
Romance or revenge?
Or, some other attainment?

How many adversaries overcome?
How many lost, oh, watching one?

Must I go to fight the Final Fight again?
Need I still save the world, sacred and profane?
What if I would rather stay at home with kin
than march in your parade of world dominion?”

…

With anxious finger trembles the unfolding,
desiccated map of Utopia… 
But firmer is the hand that guides it.
It!

It will be found;
Yes, 
It will be found!


—Nix Nihil

Nix Nihil - Saved Game Character (Spoken Word)

"Sentient Detritus"
By Toecutter

Composed by:
The Bloodlust Abominator of Ritual War Incantations
Nixnihilator 

Engineered by:
Rob Mang

Recorded by:
Rob Mang
Adam Whitaker-Wilson
Kerry Beauchesne

Performed by:
The Bloodlust Abominator of Ritual War Incantations: Drums, guitars, grunts
Nixnihilator: Shrieking, howling, and hollering
Fiendrew: Guitar leads
Bassianus the Sackless: Bass guitar, growls


Whirling and twirling, expanding vortex, 
a new continent dwarfing Texas—expect us!
We swell and we swirl, an oceanic nexus
of spastic plastic, and swishing syringes.
Give us your garbage, your bags and your bottles,
your flotsam and jetsam, your rubbish, your rejects!

Nucleus eye looking outward extending axons, more, more, more…
Nucleus eye looking inward, offering dendrites, more, more, more, more…

Old cells, far removed, break from us while forming us;
reach out, push out, pull in, landlocked cousins
connecting and scrambling and fusing, and being, becoming,
evolving and growing to flow across
borders and shores; we come to make war
we come to distort, we come to destroy!

We come to destroy!

Raking and taking, expanding vortex, 
witness an emerging sentience.
Our plastic will choke you with your own vengeance
we’ll bury you in our synthetic garden!

Nucleus eye looking outward extending axons, more, more, more…
Nucleus eye looking inward, offering dendrites, more, more, more, more…
More! More! More!


Toecutter

Toecutter - Sentient Detritus

One of my favourite poems from a favourite poet. I really enjoyed playing the dual roles of self and anti-self, infusing the anti-self with a chaotic musicality!

The poem can be found here!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=13867

Nix Nihil reads W. B. Yeats - Ego Dominus Tuus

********Whistful*********

Beat: DunNgeon Keeper 
Words and Voices: Nix Nihil

Unfulfillable
appetite insatiable—unwinnable
heads looming, all-consuming
communal blooming overruling
mouths are drooling

industry is everything
to this fire-breathing
concrete-hydra-cancer-specter
cold and calculating

maximal interest taken
no respects are paid
but only claimed and all remaining flowers lain
on your grave

Feeling wistful in this exile 
Siren-singing dinner whistle

industry is everything
to this fire-breathing
concrete-hydra-cancer-specter
cold and calculating

industry is culinary
eating you is entertaining
entertain us in the streets
we pave you with our arteries
of blackened blood
in bluish veins
you’ll learn to love
our brutal ways
inhaling all your rainbow dreams
of promises we’ll never keep

industry is everything
to this fire-breathing
concrete-hydra-cancer-specter
cold and calculating

industry is butchery
bleeding you and profiteering
profit is our sacred meat
we melt your bones for energy
your crimson blood
is drained away
you’ll learn to love
our cityscape
we pave you with our arteries
of blackened blood
and dismal dreams

DunNgeon Keeper ft. Nix Nihil - Whistful

Drones Like Doves

Produced and Engineered by SiAdic
Vocals by Nix Nihil

drones like falcons
drones like doves 
(surveying, surveilling)

you program me
I circle in the breeze
digitizing eyes perceive
divining images and scenes—surveying the field 

looming, levitating in the stratosphere

ascending, spreading
white wings of steel

high above in the air
I am waiting here for you
tracing signal fades

there you remain
terran progeny
detached, I observe
impartially reserved

end transmission—
falcon or dove?

Siadic With Nix Nihil - Drones Like Doves

The Great Equalizer

Beat and mixing by YZ1
Words and voices by Nix Nihil
Additional vocal mixing and mastering by
Lex Plexus

Welcome to the equalizing
Memory of neutralizing
Enemies of evil rising
Welcome to the equalizer
 
All shall be revealed
All shall be released
 
The great equalizer
The greater equalizer
The greatest equalizer
The greatest equalizer
 
Welcome to the equalizing
Spectacle of neutralizing
Synthesis and reconciling
Synthesize the equalizer
 
All shall be released
 
The greatest equalizer
The greatest equalizer
The greatest equalizer
The greatest equalizer
 
Welcome to the equalizing
Welcome to the neutralizing
Welcome to the synthesizing
Welcome to the reconciling
  
As the one collides with the other,
As each galaxy in turn obliterates the next,
One lone particle,
The last in all the universe,
Careens back
into the heart of the last black hole
It starts with me and
Ends with me
Facing the great equalizer
See a neutral arbitrator
Facing the great equalizer
See a neutral arbitrator
 
Preparing to be witnessed
Preparing to be seen
Preparing to be perfect
Prepare to be redeemed
 
Ready to be witnessed
Ready to be seen
Ready to be perfect
And readily redeemed

YZ1 And Nix Nihil - The Great Equalizer

Bats in the Sunlight

Beat, mixing, and mastering by Elephant Skeletons
Words and voices by Nix Nihil
Vocals recorded at Siadic Studios

against the Bloody Orange Taint
of the red, white, and blue-flavored
Asshole Attitude
a benevolent conclave of witches and warlocks hereby bind you

direct this hex onto a most deserving target
cease your creeping
and your malevolent leering
we reveal what you’re concealing

an eye through the eyes of empathy 
is something that you’ll never see
so shut your mouth and listen to me,
it’s about damn time someone else’ll speak
you’ve abused your moves
and soured the mood
and killed the groove
given up the good
from Washington to Hollywood
your fading fashion’s
understood

even the lamest of all horses 
can be lead to water
you’re all a bunch of pigs
and pigs get slaughtered
by nastier pigs
on Viagra, in wigs
in the venal, venereal envy
of a pathetic feeding frenzy

you mother-failers
(grow up)

we’re pulling you straight outta kindergarten
we’ll take you to the caverns 
of a proper coven
we’ll cremate your waste
and leave your fears in a grave 
as you contemplate 
your moral remains

your choice of coffin of cremation, 
mother-failer!


bats in the sunlight
roosters in the moonshine
here around the cauldron
smokin’ outta sight

burn the eyes of a voyeur
tongue of a lawyer
mind of a boor and the
heart of a destroyer

bats in the sunlight
roosters in the moonshine
here around the cauldron
smoking outta sight

we join the witches in the cave
we don’t have to be afraid
of the conscientious changing,
broadening airwaves

bringing this spell to a close,
spinning shut the magic circles
before you tear off someone else’s clothes,
walk in someone else’s robes
damned hypocrites and fools 
you egotistical tools
wake up from your snooze
your worst is everything to lose

Nix Nihil and Elephant Skeletons - Bats In The Sunlight

Greetings. This is the sonic portal to the musical realm of Nix Nihil. These tracks represent a multiplicity of selves, existing where they were and when they were. Let them speak to those who will hear. 

Nix Nihil is a musical emissary... some would say mercenary! I enjoy working with many artists of all stripes, and will gladly lend my voice to those willing to share beats and mix vocal tracks! ;)

Stay tuned for new tracks in the near future...enjoy the latest, "Sleep Cerberus" and "Path of the Lightning Caster" with Lex Plexus! If you enjoy these tracks, please consider purchasing the "Sleepcaster" EP at our bandcamp (link below) or at SeanLuciw.com


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