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Semiotic Weapons - Mightier than the Pen

by Semiotic Weapons

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    It's like three time-travelling Druids showed up at a Hardcore festival and decided this was the best thing since iron weapons.

    A hard-hitting take on Stoner music, alternating from droning sludge to grinding thrash, with mathy complexity and folky undertones. Featuring members of Accelerate Entropy, American Discord, and Class A, this is not just a reductive look at punk or metal music with a focus on emulating others. Reorganizing musical and lyrical themes around pop culture symbols and subverting the shit out of it all since 2016 is the name of SW's game. Some have called it Desert Rock / Stoner Rock, and they dig that.

    Special guest vocalists abound on this album, giving you a wide variety of local Wichita talent, deep in the mix (which was done by the talented hands at Pauly's Productions of Wichita, KS). Scotty Edwards, of Gringo Sapiens and the Joycoughs; Maurice Chucho, of Ghost Town Strays and Sin Lengue; Mat Splat, of the Death Scene, formerly of Green River Gary; and the one and only Danny Echo, of Old Man Creaky Bones, formerly of Iron Octamoms. It might not mean much to a non-Wichitan, but it is still impressive to see a new band have such collaboration from a diverse local scene.

    Preorder release to include one tape, SW sticker, and bonus digital content including the Valentines Demo Massacre (2015) with two unreleased alternate mixes of "Friends" & "7.62xoxox.39".
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7.62xoxox.39 04:16
An unspoken admiration one in which we take no satisfaction but even still in this dire situation when every one of us, seems to benefit from your action But assume not our acquiescence At not least down to the last man I cannot speak for with or against you But in silence I know that you can truly understand When the criminals write the crimes And you’ve heard the same goddamn excuses time after time Don’t you want to pluck all those bad apples from the barrel and stick them in a line Send them all the same love letter signed: 7 6 2 X 3 9 In horror watching mock trials permanently fixed with the suns cycles replicated with every turn of the dial locking away the truth in some secret file The naïve post their admiration while the puppet-masters see fit to record their conversations paradoxically dulling the spear of a once great nation where once upon a time telling the truth was considered a tradition
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Objection: Utopianism [L&O Song] Law and order is on retirement The time for a hero came and went The illusion can no longer be maintained, at present Law and order’s is on retirement Lenny’s down in the basement hiding in a bottle of Jack Logan got out and addicted to pills his soul finally snapped Van Buren came out of the closet still retired with respect Schiff got a red Ferrari and drunk drove that whip, till he wrecked Curtis moved upstate lost touch with his family Green got a job teaching race studies at New York State University McCoy doesn’t practice law anymore but you can still catch him on your TV selling bullshit life insurance and his own credibility [Wet en orde is afgetree Di tyd vir ‘n held is verby Ni kan byhou nie die illusie, op die oomblik Wet en orde is afgetree]
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Asphalt Prairie [Now all we Need are Gangstas on Poegies] Asphalt Prairie! Asphalt Prairie! Bang! Bang! Wichita, yes we livin’ on a asphalt prairie. Teeth are gonna fly, I’m talking wild, wild West shit Doctors gunned down in church, you better wear a vest if you intend to help a woman choose then you could get arrested or worse: ‘cause if you ain’t Christian, expect to be detested! A Kansan is to English as a child is to spinach: The barbarians I live with still pronounce the dub in ‘Greenwich’ The meek walk the street while the rich roll heavy What you know about the meter in your soul tickling E for empty in Wichita, yes we livin’ on a asphalt prairie (Asphalt Prairie!) Wichita, yes we livin’ on a asphalt prairie (Asphalt Prairie!) Got more guns than a you could conceal and carry (Bang! Bang!) Wichita, yes we livin’ on a asphalt prairie (Asphalt Prairie!) Wild-catter oil barons, armed security guard mansions The poor an easy score, so they holdin’ them for ransom Multinational airplane companies get tax cuts and subsidies while secret Illuminati conspiracies, brew beneath the Keeper’s feet! Keep the money downtown, preserve the natural habitat Can’t control the floods, but the river got a bike path Home of the Keystone ecocidal vision but they already got a pipeline from the schools to the prisons in
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Green Promise Behind every shadow there exists a secret We never know their sacrifice Lawyers, doctors, students by day but all that can change in one night They toil for our freedom to draw the false distinction Between government shutdown and human extinction We’re not alone; No, we’re not alone But ET’s dialing 911 before he’s phoning home I look to the sky and ask my creator, ‘when will you finally return’ I look ‘cross a nation of inhuman creatures Too kak-stupid ignorant to learn
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Darkness be with You Pulled myself up from the hole Urge to fight is in our soul Give us scraps, but we want the whole, well I was born in it... We’ll fight until we’re free Make our home in your armory Shadows deceive you, they belong to me ‘cause I was born in Born in it, I was born in it, this city of evil, this world of shit! I was born in it! I was born in it! Your body will break before my spirit! Born in it, I was born in it, this city of evil, this world of shit! I was born in it! I was born in it! We might be destitute, we’re not desperate! I was born in it! I was born in it! I hope my name is your Bane and you choke on it! I was born in it! I was born in it! Your body will break before my spirit. We can’t lose and we can’t win Knockin’ at your doors: let us in! Come on out and let the games begin!
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SkyNet is Real Your new phone is watching you Your flashlight knows your every move Your android phone is now self-replicating Gathering scrap for the swarm Building its own set of arms All the better for the strangulating How would we know if we’d already crossed the line? Screen says all systems go but everything ain’t going fine. Caught completely unaware that we’re getting a raw deal Now the system’s self-aware and SkyNet is real Somewhere a Roomba is eyeing an ankle ready to attach a custom-made, space-gray manacle when the user makes a post on facebook: “damn how cool that looks” Unaware of the plan so diabolical ... but
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Revolting Destiny Well they say the youth are revolting in their actions every day They say the youth are revolting in the words that they dare say But didn’t you wanna change things, too; back in your ‘prime days’? I’m just glad to be alive to see your era waste away. Truant youth run the streets No escape from the fates they meet Will it be the pushers and pimps around town Or the ruthless pigs content to hunt them down Is it not plain to see, that something is completely out of place here and do you truly believe that ‘mindfulness’ means ‘minding your own business’? The youth today inherit a plastic hovel They’ll play you like a demographic novel No longer fit, fit to beg and grovel They’ll cut your hand, off that saber’s pommel Is it not plain to see, that something is completely out of place here? And if you truly believe that ‘mindfulness’ means ‘minding your own business,’ then you’ll get just wat kyk jy and it won’t be bliss, ‘cause it’s not ignorance. Whole of space and history unfolds before us, we can’t ignore it, or it IS OUR DESTINY TO REPEAT Well they say the youth are revolting in their actions every day They say the youth are revolting in the words that they dare say But didn’t you wanna change things, too; back in your ‘prime days’? I’m just glad to be alive to see this cancer waste away.
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The Answer is Yes Our ancient ancestors built tombs and monuments aligned with the stars Around the world, many point to the same constellations Many were built with the same innovative technologies of mysterious origin and some scholars have theorized these commonalities share so many coincidences that they pose the serious question: “Is it possible our ancestors were visited by an advanced race from the stars who imparted wisdom and technology used to build our many wonders? And if you look at all the evidence you have to ask: could this theory be right?” The answer is YES! Emphatically, YES! Just say YES! The answer is YES! Just say YES! Not long ago, Archaeologists in Western China discovered the tomb of a man whose DNA suggested blonde hair and blue eyes His tomb was made even more unusual by his shaman trappings and the world’s oldest stash of weed: a five-thousand year-old zip. Some scholars, namely us, have theorized that this find has a simple explanation The shaman of European origin smoked out with some rad alien visitors then had them drop him off in a place known for the sweetest melons in the world Based on this evidence you have to ask yourself: “are aliens watching us right now waiting for us to get high?”
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I Get High I can’t lie, I can’t lie: I get high—everyday I get high, I get high I smoke up and I pray Y’all see the light, see the light and legalize the herb someday Until that day I’ll just get high, so high that I can’t hear the bullshit that you say I smoke bong bowls for breakfast and take my serving to the head you can pry that bong from my hand when I’m cold and fucking dead I smoke flowers at 4:20 and oil at 7:10 and if you follow suit then tell your family and friends If you can smell the smoke then bet somebody’s holdin’ fire You know what’s up when we yell dipset and temporarily retire Change isn’t about self interest: I clearly smoke up, nonetheless It’s about emptying prisons and rebuking hypocrites
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Live Tonight Up We came here for the party With us it never ends No matter how fucked up we get We know we’re among friends No fisticuffs but we’re breaking shit up World keeps turning we can’t do much Until they kick us out this shit won’t end Light the bong and heat that nail up S Dub, No Coast! We’re giving a fuck Grab a blue ribbon and a bull to get turned up No promise of tomorrow so live tonight up Lock the car and lose the keys We ain’t got any reason to leave Cause tonight we’re making our intentions clear Nothing to lose and everything to gain Nothing can stop us not storm nor rain If there’s a tornado there’ll be shelter here
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Friends 04:51
Friends Took me by the hand to a foreign land left me strand don’t care; don’t need you anyway But the rest of us what’s left of us had to sell our dreams away I respect your tact now I reject our pact and I hope our paths never cross again So go tell everyone tell everyone tell everyone how you ‘got fucked by your friends’ ‘Cause with friends like you who needs enemies, when all you’ve ever done is betray me? With friends like you who needs enemies? All you ever wanted was my bag. Given a second chance play the same song and dance take the same hardline stance Excuses drowning out the melody Reject the test Get it off your chest Wasting away your credibility If I had a dime for every time someone found themselves on your short end So tell everyone tell everyone tell everyone how much you love your ‘friends’ So tell everyone you know to tell everyone they know to tell everyone to go and tell everyone they know to tell everyone to go and tell everyone they know to tell every-ONE TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO TELL EVERYONE THEY KNOW TO TELL EVERYONE TO GO AND TELL EVERYONE THEY KNOW TO TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO TELL EVERYONE, yeah to tell everyone how much you ‘love your FRIENDS’!

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Wichita, KS, based Semiotic Weapons's debut full album

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released March 19, 2016

Recorded at Pauly's Productions in the Winter of 2015-2016

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A few men from Kansas making post-punk music designed to subvert pop culture archetypes and open new spaces for facebook.com/s3mioticweapons/
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