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Godcaster

by Godcaster

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“My face it shines much brighter than the sun My trembling finger’s on revolver’s tongue” Said David Diamond full of sounds and wine Knifelike blood pump stings behind his rind “I’ll do away with all six Diamond kin” Said David Diamond as the six close in “My bullet true despite my bubbling sight” David said as gun smoke filled the starry sky His stroke runs gingerly across his scarred abscess “My salience my steadfastness it fingers shakily in all my systems ticking and carousing” He looked up and choked out Split my head Choke ten times On his back in black gunpowder snow His brothers’ blood now drenched him head to toe Diamond licks his burns newly earned A cracking voice spews out it’s motheryearn Flaming wires sparking out their light Strobing visions in the hazy air The tube’s been cut and lymph milk fluid floods the dust Mixed with blood and sweat The cost of brotherloss Dave stands up with bustling heated nerves inside his head “Strike you down I’ll burst your bloody hide” he said “Strike you down I’ll burst your bloody hide” he said Split my head Choke ten times Get stung by wasps Make my day
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Vivian Heck 04:22
Vivian, everywhere I go Find her in the glow Of shapes behind my eyes Shudders quake Through Adonison Sees her in the sun And laughs through tears Vivian, heck inside her heart Flaming throwing darts Vermillion flavored swell Puncture deep Breathing like a bomb Whimpering gasping song Till ecstasy
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Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Awoken by hot sun Awoken by engines A stinging in my eyes A compost inside me Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded The sun beats down on me The heat is a cymbal The sun beats down on me The desert is trembling Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Lungs flood with oxygen Lungs spill out the carbon Lungs flood with oxygen Lungs spill out the carbon Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded I shriek and I cry out Washed under water spout I shriek and I cry out Washed under the bloodspout Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded The gaping abrasion The throbbing abrasion The gaping abrasion The throbbing abrasion Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Ecstatic reaction In fleshly contraption Ecstatic reaction In fleshly contraption Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded Confounded confounded The chewers in legions The chewers in legions The chewers in legions Confusticate my masticators The serpent’s a syphon His language is poison The serpent’s a cymbal His language is crashing Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Antidote is louder Antidote more power Antidote a siren Antidote a shower Ingest it ingest it Ingest it ingest it Ingest it ingest it Ingest it ingest it The shining inside me The light is gigantic The flashing inside me The light is warm blanket Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Engulfed in the flash flood Engulfed in the flash flood Engulfed in the flash flood Engulfed in the flash flood Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic My grieving is boiling My grieving is boiling My crying is boiling My grieving is boiling Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Didactic didactic Antidote is boiling Antidote is bubbling Antidote is boiling Antidote floods into the morning The silver shell sets out to stab the sun Apollo screams the silver bullet bleeds The daystar blows imploding thousandfold
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Albino Venus 02:18
I found a pregnant deer Scything in the forest with a beating fetus inside And when she came too near She looked at me as though I was the forceps or the speculum I found severed wing Trampled on the pavement while it’s amputee sang to me I found an angel wing Baking on the pavement an albino Venus in heat I hear a song stung blue And underneath my stirring I can hear it flutter and coo
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I have pupils bathed in oil See through sun and see through soil Eyes like stallions drenched in broth Eyes like Death’s Head Eyed Hawkmoth I see clear and I see bright Shining vision flaming sight I see lovers speak in tones Smell anthurium’s pheromones All the figures wrestling figures All the figures clapping figures All the figures applauding figures I see clear and I see bright Shining vision flaming sight See as far as wings of flight See beyond the morning light All the figures wrestling figures All the figures cladding figures All the figures applauding figures I see them coiled down in the caverns I see them swim in the grottos I see feel their chirps bounce through the canyons My gaze can pierce into the sun The sun
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With all my might the loudest light I sing and shout draw breath cry out Behind the ground a silver sound I sing and shout draw breath cry out I hear silver from down below From the bottom I hear quaking From the chasm Blinking faster I hear chatter From down below From the engines I hear aching From the sun Boiling teardrops Behind the iron alarming sirens I sing and shout draw breath cry out Behind the hull a raging bull I sing and shout draw breath cry out A great machine a philistine Propulsion heat cacophonous bleat The loudest sound one thousand drums Bright white hot lights pierce through the night Bright white hot lights pierce through the night Revolving lights pierce through the night Bright white hot lights pierce through the night Revolving lights pierce through the night Bright white hot lights pierce through the night Revolving lights pierce through the night Bright white hot lights pierce through the night Revolving lights pierce through the night
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Pluto shoots his gaze into the sun How beautiful my heart is full It’s beautiful Pluto finds a crimson beating scar Miraculous to taste and see the love in me Pluto tears into the boiling air Below the earth the morning hurts the sun is burst
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I saw a snake tongue in the dark Teeth, talons then living sparks I saw a whiplash in the dark Teeth, talons then living sparks Gut sink moan Fill me up Gut sink moan Up me fill Where I go Never no I saw a snake tongue in the dark Teeth, talons then living sparks I saw a whiplash in the dark Teeth, talons then living sparks Gut sink moan Fill me up Gut sink moan Up me fill Where I go Never no

about

Open on the fiery tail of a meteor bursting through the atmosphere. The first track of Godcaster’s fervid self-titled album, “Diamond’s Shining Face,” is a reentry, a display of a band metamorphosed into a harder, more devastating form. Their previous releases and euphoric live demonstrations have established Godcaster as an unstoppable Promethean force, always moving towards their next conquest. The pursuit for them on their self-titled album? Write their own definitions of Godcaster, and share exactly how the band hears and sees themselves.

There is a clear maturation from the group on Godcaster—each of the songs are emotional, narrative vignettes showcasing a more deliberate and sincere lyrical and sonic turn. Many of the brighter, bouncier elements found and fiercely executed on Long Haired Locusts and the Saltergasp EP have been all but buried and traded in for something heavier. The angular sass and joviality in the troupe’s past have been stripped of frivolity, rounded out, dirtied, and stretched to create a more expansive, full-bodied practice.

Since their last release, Godcaster’s tightly-knit band—most of the members grew up together in New Jersey—has expanded into a sextet and shifted some of their roles. They’ve added good friend Jan Fontana on bass, and Von Kolk and David McFaul have added some guitar work to their previous stations as vocalists with flute and keyboard duties, respectively. Bruce Ebersole (guitar) and Judson Kolk (vox and guitar)—who’ve known each other since infancy and have been playing music together since grade school—alongside their explosive drummer, Sam Pickard, continue to exude confidence and power in their performance.

With this growth, their fervorous live shows saw the songs from Locusts and Saltergasp grow as well, both in energy and size. This new sound, more hulking, more earnest, and more staggering, has fully settled in for the band, and on Godcaster, it shines through. They have set out, armed with a new certainty, to communicate the feeling of overwhelming light they experience while performing—a brightness that moves beyond its common properties of health and guidance to become a force that burns and ravages.

Nowhere is Godcaster’s newfound immensity better demonstrated than on the album’s two anchoring, ten-plus minute epics, “Didactic Flashing Antidote,” and “Draw Breath Cry Out.” The former sounds as though it was constructed to emulate the hammering of railroad spikes—it feels like hard work. The lyrics, crooned by McFaul, conveys exhaustion-induced hypnosis, a hallucinogenic thirst. The rhythm marches unwavering, with power and consistency, as the surrounding noise flexes and shakes around that center. The latter is more nebulous and kinetic, inspired by a recurring childhood dream of Judson’s in which he bore witness to an unfathomably large silver bullet that pierced the sky and destroyed all light. It flows naturally from big, pressure-filled sections of rising commotion into more spacious, atmospheric wanderings and then back into a nightmarish uproar.

The shorter pieces on Godcaster equally present the dynamism and versatility of the group. “Vivian Heck” is an ecstatic and hypnotic vision of romance, passion, and heartthrob at its most extreme—the guitars and bass swirl alongside soft vocals, capturing the listener in its mesmerizing pattern. Its almost sensual aura is in tension with the strikes of discordant guitars, driving a feeling of impending disaster that culminates in an outburst like a solar flare of sound and color.

While most of Godcaster highlights the destructive nature of overexposure to the light, the band never forgets the caress of a warm illumination. Serving as a brief but welcome respite to the encroaching cacophony, the stripped-back delivery of “Pluto Shoots His Gaze Into the Sun” plays like a lullaby. It’s a youthful serenade of gentle acoustic guitar and vocals originating from a tune that Judson’s niece sang to him one day. Von carries the melody like a birdsong, and allows the listener a moment to breathe before the band tears into the ferocious closer, “Gut Sink Moan.”

The band has tightened their grasp on and further developed their uniquely vicious expression, allowing the music to evolve naturally into its current, monumental shape. It requires significant confidence in the work to release an eponymous album. Trust that Godcaster is an immense declaration of self-actualization by the magnificent juggernaut known by the same name.

credits

released March 10, 2023

Judson Kolk - vocals, guitar, percussion
Bruce Ebersole - guitar, bass, keyboards, organ, percussion, autoharp, omnichord
David Mcfaul - vocals, organ, piano, guitar, xylophone
Von Kolk - vocals, guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel, singing saw
Jan Fontana - bass, organ
Sam Pickard - drums, percussion

Produced & mixed by Hayden Ticehurst
Mastered by Ruben Radlauer
Songs & music by Godcaster
Lyrics by Judson Kolk
Album art by Judson Kolk & Von Kolk
Design & layout by Graydon Kolk

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