0.00 Doesn’t the guitar roar resemble that of a lion? It is an aggressive
thing to start a song. 0.03 Doesn’t the jangle sound reminiscent of a horror film? Like someone
entering the room of an evil and/or dead child. Brings to mind innocence gone a
bit pear-shaped. 0.38
Is that a moan in the background? How
about the juxtaposition of the roar and the jangle? Both aggressive and scared?
Unusual contrast. 0.45 Percussion
sounds like the clap of thunder to me. 0.54 Drums
recall both a heartbeat and the motion of a machine. Like someone feeling
threatened but also a regular and unstoppable process. That bass too – almost not there. This features a lot in horror
films to induce foreboding. 1.09
The vocals sound passive but
non-human. There’s no emotional resonance here – in itself threatening. The echo
recalls a loudspeaker. I have the impression this is something being broadcast.
The use of the present tense is interesting. 1.26 The scene
described is horrific but the listener inhabits it as it goes on. Happening
happening. 1.32 Speaks of ritualised sex and murder. Post-Christian
post-civilisation setting perhaps. Brilliant to suggest so much in so little.
1.45 Pagan I think. Fetishist too. Lot of instinct and surrender to our
impulses. But ritualised. 2.00
Then the discordant guitar tone. Once
more like a machine. Sounds like destruction or fire too. Terrible violence. But
the narrative roots this in human action. So the industrial applied to ritual
fetishist action? 2.20
Discord grows. Parallels to an orgasm
of course. More and more until it tapers off.
