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And the Celestial Ascension

by Gods & Punks

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Old Man Doom
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Old Man Doom These ratbastards kept it simple and friendly, playing blues and boogie for folks who just wanted to down their likker and smoke their bongs to the sound of some good-time rock’n’roll. Unlike, say, Sweet, the guys in Gods and Punks needn’t look back at old photos of themselves in glittering silver crotch-high platform boots and say, “What was I thinking? I look like a total git!
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muschiosauro These guys have started putting out great 70's-infused stoner grooves in 2016 (1972 in their alternate timeline) and now, three years later (1975 on their calendar) they have seriously outdone themselves. The heavy punch is still there, intact, but the songs are much, much more engaging, dynamic, nuanced, proggy and replete with psychedelic rides, swirling guitar solos, quiet interludes, majestic climaxes and much good ole riffy grit. It's a real pleasure to bath in such heavy brilliance. Favorite track: Ascension.
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*Side Effects May Include: MILD TO MODERATE DEATH* What an underrated album! Every track is awesome! Love the band name too. Favorite track: Crowns on Fire.
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1.
Ascension 06:55
Ascension The light begins to fade into the night As stars colide in this red sky I feel the winds blow out eternal rites Recited with the altar’s lies Celestial trails blinded by your hate A sacrifice that you must pay And as you hear the spirits whispering You’ll see the light ascends within All will ever be All that was Pleased by energy Pleased by lust Held by severed hands In the void Lost in wasted lands With no voice
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Crowns on fire I shouted out loud Just what you wanted to hear I spread hate I spread doubt Grown by the roots of your fear Saw you were feeling so down And no one else was around So I became what you are deep down But the mask now has fallen As I am way worse than that Like a disease in the air Or like a plague that has spread And you may close your eyes But deep down you know the truth You might have aimed for god But your shot hit the roof With Crowns on Fire And Godless anarchy A damned desire That none wishes to see They throw the bone And then feast on our flesh Taking what’s left Of what we still possess
3.
Infinite Hourglass The roar of the mountains Reverbs into fields Of desolate sights Left out by God As after the gathering The stars they all fell Oceans turned red And rose up above Don’t you come to me my love If you’re empty handed Where were you when I fell down And was left here stranded Now back to the dust And under the sun Ruins of lust And words came unsung The dead crimson light Has broken the seal Reverted me back Now I must reveal You had come to me my love In your time of need Then you had a price to pay Nothing comes for free The poisoning starts within your mind As ignorance screams with any means it can find The curse of the youth is to live by their elders ways Limit their path by the actions of yesterday The poison gets worse inside your mind The voices now yell beneath the sky You were struck by the spear of the great time One final feast, a deal with the beast You crossed a line now your soul will never sleep Forever in a hell inside an Infinite Hourglass As time it shall not pass All you know shall lay to rest While you go on front and back in Infinite Hourglass Time cannot be outclassed Don’t you want your soul to last? Better think before what you ask
4.
Escape to the Stars And when the starlight shines upon us An eerie voice it shows the way Release the inner from the outer Turn off your mind and isolate Heavy gaze, heavy eyes Feel the haze into the night Read my lips from afar And escape to the stars You’ll go on through the night And into the light The sun in the morning You’ll know that it shines It might never be clear There’s always a cloud But that thundering roar It don’t scream so loud And the starlight will show you the way And the starlight will show you the way And the starlight will show you the way And the starlight... Heavy gaze, heavy eyes Inhale the haze, feel that chill in your spine Immerse your mind into art Let nature’s gift heal all of your scars When I feel alone, well I’m always beside you Grateful for times when you cleared the skies Poet of love, wish that they’d understand you Se we’d go higher above and far into the stars Can you feel my love now? Heavy gaze, heavy eyes Feel the haze into the night Read my lips from afar And escape to the stars
5.
The Rift 09:44
The Rift When your cells rearrange It might feel a bit strange As your spirit Transcends From the start To the end Come alive and renew Atoms and molecules Beyond the stare A love we share Erase the clear In the air We’re past the point of no return and finally met demise Indifference is now the only feeling left inside The blackened mass arrived and took all that it could not find The stars The sand The tomb The rift has come And it calls you Beyond the stare A love we share Erase the clear In the air
6.
Dying Planet 05:18
Dying Planet There’s a void under where I stand Spreading doom all over the land Melting skies over where I lay Ash to dust floating into space I hear the deceiver right here in my ear Telling me how the end is near To realize how I should not fear And I really shouldn’t draw a tear And all the love that there is Will not turn back the time As everything that you see Must all be left behind Read the fate carved into your hand Turned to dust buried in the sand A lost memory you will never save Feel your brain stuck inside a cave Every lesson that you did not learn Every ember lit into the sun All your blessings that you never earned All in vain, now it’s time to burn We stand as the roars of the suns Collapse into the seas A state of tranquility As all shall come undone The cry of a fading star And tears of a dying planet The gasp of an ancient race As they lie in their cosmic grave

about

“And the Celestial Ascension” is our third full-length release in three years straight, and - by far - our most complex and experimental one until now.

Following the final dates of the Damnation tour, we had to leave the attic indefinitely, and we were left with no place to rehearse or compose. We spent some time trying to find somewhere else that could take us in with no success but then Arthur, our drummer, found a place. The shack. We moved all our stuff and settled in, made it our home. It was when the magic happened. That vibe, in the middle of the jungle got to us, and made everything we wrote even more psychedelic and strange-sounding. At times, we had to try not to let ourselves overdo it.

These six songs wrote themselves. They tell the story right where we left off, after “Damnation”, and leaves us right where we began all the way back with “Sounds”. We highly recommend you take the time to appreciate these six tracks. There’s a lot more going on this time. Some will instantly blow you away, some will grow on you. We hope you’ll like ‘em as much as we do.

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released November 8, 2019

Music by Gods & Punks
Lyrics by Alexandre C.
Edited by Arthur R.
Mixed and Mastered by André Leal and Kleber Mariano at Estúdio Jukebox
Recorded live in Estúdio MATA in August the 12th, 1975
Artwork by Cristiano Suarez

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Gods & Punks Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Strange Riffage from South of the Equator.

Alexandre C. - Vocals
Pedro C. - Bass
Rodrigo B. - Guitars
Gabriel S. - Drums

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