BAND NAME: xSLTHRDx
GENRE: Experimental Unblack Metal / Trap / Deathcore / Powerviolence
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: USA (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
The name is an intentional misspelling/abbreviation of the word "slithered".
Lineup:
One person, name unknown - All instruments, Vocals
Links:
Bandcamp
Instagram
Spotify
Apple Music
Amazon Music
iHeartRadio
SoundCloud
Discography:
1) There are many samples used in the songs. I don't have time to transcribe them right now, but I pasted over the credits from each Bandcamp page.
2) Each "{CONTINUOUS PLAY}" track is, as the name implies, just each song from the release uploaded as one continuous file.
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"SAMPLES FROM:
"THE GRAND INQUISITOR" PRODUCED BY OPEN UNIVERSITY, WRITTEN BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
"ASLAN" ALBUM BY ASLAN (1972)
"THOMAS (A CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN)" BY CAMPUS LIFE, FROM THE ALBUM "THE CARPENTER" "
1) Slithered
2:28, lyrics:
Evade
The beast
As he lurks
Devouring
The soul
Wasting
The earth
All life
Dispersed
And casting this aside
Manipulates the mind
Calculates the tides
Flapping wretched wings
Screeching at the sky:
"Creator, your will
Encroaches on mine
Step out of the clouds
Gathered in my wings
The innocent and meek
Bid to do my deeds”
Crush, then
Under your heel
That serpent
That snake
The violent
And brutal
Mistake
Where is your faith?
Have you placed
In the one
Who
Slithered
Away?
2) Unjustified Torture
1:30, lyrics:
Casualties of a new war
Subjected to traumatic inheritance
Through a concentrated vehicle
Unable to decipher why
This future looks to me
To be one of division
Unjustified torture of men
Present day pathologies
Attributed to what I’ve seen
And made a mockery of my pain
I fail to see the humor
3) Inquisitor
1:38, lyrics:
Manifest
Destiny
Underneath the foot
Inquisitor
Genocidal
Ruler of the earth
The throne
You inhabit
Spills the blood
Of the people
You conquered
And won
How much are all those souls
Worth on judgement day
How much does land cost
On the day of atonement
Your throne
Spills the blood
4) False Teachers
1:52, lyrics:
I am not the final
Bearer of the word
But some beliefs you're kickin'
Oughta get kicked to the curb
Devilishly sly
Like candy to the mind
Marking up the conscience
Setting scales over the eyes
Brothers and sisters
Emerge, then, from your fog
Are you gonna submit and claim
To believe what you do not
Fanciful tongues and spells
Keep you away from the truth
Don't lead those sheep to slaughter
Cuz the first in line is you
False
Teachers
Millstone tied around your neck
Cast into the sea
Children in the arms of God
Nothing but death with thee
Sanctify your spirit
Repent of your disgrace
The pain of these theatrics
And deterrents; lay to waste
Guard your heart
Watch your tongue
What lives in the other
Comes out with one
5) Daze
3:26, lyrics:
Cancerous rot
At high speeds
Sin condensed
All I need
Petrified life
Soaked in death
Poisonous air
My last breath
I've learned to love the chemicals
I've learned to love the rays
Take my mind out my body
I need virtual daze
As the world gets hotter and hotter
I need a place for my soul
I want to carve out the motor
Give away my control
I need to be gagged and blinded
Forever reminded
That I'm not alone
What happens when the tower falls
When the grid no longer serves?
We'll inhabit this desolation
And inherit our curse
6) {CONTINUOUS PLAY}
10:56
Jesus Saves (EP, 24 February, 2023, Independent)
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1) Treacherous 1:05
2) Messiah 1:48
3) Transgression 1:02
4) Martyrs 1:27
5) {CONTINUOUS_PLAY} 5:23
Condemned to Crawl // Sentenced to Slither (album, 21 July, 2023, Independent)
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1) Intro
00:59, lyrics:
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, "Where art thou?" And he said, "I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
"Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" And the man said, "The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." And the LORD God said unto the woman, "What is this that thou hast done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
(Genesis 3:9-15, KJV)
2) Distillation of a Theme
2:07, lyrics:
Impure
Perverse
Reflection
Of love
Betrayal
Of my own body
Failure
To be truly known
Wronged by my own
Distorted desire
In hell on earth
No one can hear you scream
Voyeuristic nightmare
Visions of extreme
Debasement
Derision
Distillation of a theme
Information overloading
Fracturing an open mind
Wires crossed
In development
Tangled, takes long to unwind
Please renew my mind
I’ve dug so deep into my own design
I've been clinging to
The tree of Eden
Rotting on the vine
My own discretion
Is not enough
My programming is
Set to self-destruct
3) Prescription
1:24, lyrics:
Liars in power, final hour
It’s the end of days
Strengthen my constitution
Through the darkness that I’m facing
Holy master of creation
The maker, the messiah
They’re dying from lack of knowledge
They’re fallen, the end is nigh
They’re claiming 666
That makes me sick (sick sick)
My body dies, my spirit knows
What the prescription is
I ride the scripture
That chariot is infinite
Slithered til I withered
But I live again
With him
4) Paranoia
1:56, lyrics:
“no gods, no masters,” you say
Somehow you’re still enslaved
It’s how you suffocate
I watched you scurry to
The pen they made and shut the gate to
Somehow you say you’re free
From that which you have not escaped
You readily inject their poison
You fervently fly their flag
Paranoia, first solution
I don’t blame your (r)evolution
You’re just playing the game
In the back of your mind
Do you remember
What it’s like to think for yourself?
Did you let that old serpent
Come between you
And that sacred truth
That you once held?
Don’t let this cold, cruel world
Deceive you
Don’t trade your own soul
For a fad
5) Chasm
1:16, instrumental
6) Jagged Piece
2:11, lyrics:
Piecing my life together
After I tore the puzzle apart
Piece by jagged, broken piece
Reassemble a dying heart
Life under new conditions
Broken wings still fly
Weakened spine
Holding up
The bones of a new life
Holy ghost hear my plea
Will you return to me
Though my body is weak
My spirit is willing
Destined for the pit
I fear and dread it
I felt your peace in my soul
I can’t forget this
Was I created
Only to be
Forgotten and destroyed?
Can I return my life to you
Though I struggle to hear
Your voice?
Am I even listening?
My patterns of selfish drought
Present to me the truth
I can’t waste any more time
Running away from you
Heal me
Correct my steps
Lest I fall from your grace
7) The Most High
1:55, lyrics:
(Christ is risen, Christ, the most high)
Look into the sky, or far beyond it
As I gaze upon it
Artificial minds devising rhymes
That could be catastrophic
Titanium angels spray
Aluminum in the sky
They want you popping at your neighbor
Popping pills, or just to die
Lord of the souls of men
The uncreated paradise in Christ
Holy name above us
The love of a father’s cries
The dark days shimmer in the life that he gave
Make way
For the perfect manifestation of his grace
Kingdom come
Word
(Christ is risen, Christ, the most high)
8) The Wrath
4:07, lyrics:
Sacrificial love
Transforming hearts
Rendered desolate
Through the blood he shed
You’re worth the blood
Of the cosmic king
Whosoever believes
Wrought out of the fires of heaven
Into new beings
I stand on the precipice
Looking out afar
Waiting on my savior to heal
My wretched heart
Though my bones are weary
And my body fades
I will trust the lord
Until the end of days
I may stumble on the same stones
At my feet, but I don’t feel the same
I may stand in my pride
But I still shudder at his holy name
When I gazed into my own heart
I saw it was black
My faith is in my deliverer
Like Moses who only saw his back
Kingdom reign
Down on us
Show your truth
Spill your cup
The wrath of a righteous god
The map for all those lost
We don’t deserve the mercy
Pouring from your love
9) {CONTINUOUS PLAY}
16:00
You Will Be Disappointed (album, 27 October, 2023, Independent)
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"Thematically inspired by Jonathan Pageau's lecture 'The Importance of Disappointment.' "
1) Chimera 1:43
2) Disappointed 2:06
3) Profession 2:04
4) Echos 1:59
5) Prosperity 1:57
6) Scapegoat 2:27
7) Slight 1:13
8) Praxis 3:32
9) Delegate 3:25
10) Forgotten 1:58
11) Cerulean 2:36
Vanity of Vanities // All Is Vanity (EP, 29 February, 2024, Independent)
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"The sample in English at the beginning of "PASSAGE" is from a tape of a speaking engagement by Richard Wurmbrand.
The sample in Russian at the end of "PASSAGE" is from the 1969 film adaptation of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
It states:
”…beauty is not only fearful, but also mysterious. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart.”"
1) Rejected (Отклоненный)
2:20, lyrics:
I gave my all to the exacerbation of chaos
And from that fog I was convicted by the Lord our God
What folly! I’ve seen too much
Such arbitrary vices!
The mist of desperate longing
Philosophies of grandeur
Seeking some distant answers
Twisted necromancers
Musings of discordant dancers
When I gaze into
The simplicity
The compassionate heart of God
I knock
The door is opened
Wondrous and terrible
Is the will of the Father - a miracle!
To dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever
2) Balm (Бальзам)
1:19, lyrics:
"slithered"
3) Vanity (Тщеславие)
2:52, lyrics:
Strangely dim
Guarded but so reflective
Eyes in my head
Yet I still walk in darkness
Seen it all, yet blind
Held it all in my hands
Slipped through like sand
And though I labor on
Despair over the vanity under the sun
This life is a vapor
Strangely dim
Guarded but so reflective
Eyes in my head
Yet I still walk in darkness
4) Life // Death (Жизнь // Смерть)
3:06, lyrics:
Life
A flicker
Death
In but a single breath
Woe to those beneath the sun
Who have seen the evil work thereunder
Regard my heart
In your spirit
The vengeance
Of the Father
I fear it
Life
a flicker
Death
In but a single breath
Broken vessels
Heed the Word
Wretch that I am
I have no hope
In my own works for salvation
I’m at the end of my rope
5) Passage (Проход)
1:53, lyrics unknown
6) Creator (Создатель)
2:43, lyrics:
Awoken with conscious awareness
Petrified by this fatal condition
What steps can I take to ensure
I do not ensnare my own feet before me?
Seeking Wisdom
To know my Creator
To not die before my time
But cherish this meaningless life
Exhausted from chasing the wind
Exhausted from chasing the wind
Set my hands to plow
Set my eyes on You
Exhausted from chasing the wind
Empty apart from Him
Fear of the Lord
The beginning of Wisdom
7) {CONTINUOUS_PLAY}
14:16
Discography '22-'23 (compilation, 1 January- 2 September 2024, Blue Snow Records)
Format: CD-R
(link?)
The person who added it to Discogs notes they received it in September (and added it to the site on the 2nd of the month). They believe it was first released in February, but seem unsure about it.
Tracks 1-5 - xSLTHRDx
Tracks 6-9 - Jesus Saves
Tracks 10-17 - Condemened to Crawl // Sentenced to Slither
Tracks 18-28 - You Will Be Disappointed
1) Slithered 2:28
2) Unjustified Torture 1:30
3) Inquisitor 1:38
4) False Teachers 1:52
5) Daze 3:26
6) Treacherous 1:05
7) Messiah 1:48
8) Transgression 1:02
9) Martyrs 1:27
10) Intro 00:59
11) Distillation of a Theme 2:07
12) Prescription 1:24
13) Paranoia 1:56
14) Chasm 1:16
15) Jagged Piece 2:11
16) The Most High 1:55
17) The Wrath 4:07
18) Chimera 1:43
19) Disappointed 2:06
20) Profession 2:04
21) Echos 1:59
22) Prosperity 1:57
23) Scapegoat 2:27
24) Slight 1:13
25) Praxis 3:32
26) Delegate 3:25
27) Forgotten 1:58
28) Cerulean 2:36
Piaculum (single, 27 October, 2024, Independent)
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A "piaculum" is a sacrificial offering meant to reconcile a god and a worshiper.
This song was originally released under one of the artist's other projects, "Durr". (I might make a page for this at some point.) This version is remastered.
1) Piaculum 1:41
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INFO:
1) Missing lyrics + samples. 2) Does this project have any physical releases besides "Discography"? I notice one has a cassette in the cover art. 3) Is "Discography" still available for sale somewhere? Also, when exactly was it released?
IMAGES:
1) The logo used on "Vanity of Vanities". I couldn't crop it very well. 2) The unused logo on the image below, but without the slime graphic over it, if possible?
Miscellaneous stuff:
A picture from Blue Snow Records' website, featuring an otherwise unused logo.
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