Tears Strike the Mile High Gong
#3) Black Boned Angel - Verdun (2009)
1. Prayer Sodden Holes/Tears Strike the Mile High Gong/Creeping Barrage
noisey drone metal
"When one heard the whistle in the distance, ones whole body contracted to resist the excessively potent vibrations of the coming explosion; and at each repetition it was a whole new attack, a new fatigue, a new suffering. Under this regime, the most solid nerves cannot resist for long. To die from a bullet seems to be nothing; at least parts of our being remain intact; but to be dismembered, torn to pieces, reduced to pulp, without head, without arms, without legs, flattened and opened, this is a fear that flesh cannot support and which is fundamentally the greatest suffering. Having despaired of living amid such horror, we begged God not to have us killed- the transition is too atrocious- but just to let us be dead. we had but one desire; the end!"
Paul Dubrille, a 34 year old French Jesuit serving at Verdun, killed 1917
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