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Sciatica

by Sciatica

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1.
Youth, Ravager 02:39
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earthquake jaw, knives of stone erupt from pink ridges slice through inflamed taut trash compactor mouth meat limbs crack length & torsion sanguine skin stretches slow motion savagery all growth is pain you are young & i am old your fat boils you are strong & i am brittle the scum obeys mother's trauma brain dust stress sightless hammer you wore her, ripped her bathed in degraded sick you swelled her feet, spine now anemic nausea sleepless your gummy idiot smile your stink of helplessness gush from bitten tongue swallowed psychic slaughter exploding bodies feed slobber covered knives i skinned my sister for her arousal they crowned me prom king youth is a ravager you are young & i am old your fat boils
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My Neighbor's Garden 03:24
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i am a captive child sessile mollusk slime drift feeble strips of shredded plastic freight truck jism choke the trees piss cheap halloween store ghosts of the interstate gently night wind swaying in my neighbor's garden sidewalks vomit roaches squirming gutter flesh horizon plunging vacant tooth socket sunset future home of cul-de-sac scar tissue grafts self-slashing rifle barrel veins in my neighbor's garden adjacent wastelands cage feedlot slaughterhouse cage feedlot slaughterhouse swollen pipeline spasm stabbing morning fog stratified ruptured sky blood & bone & bruises lifted on high watching smoothly sloping i am not innocent i flooded salt & kerosene into my neighbor's garden
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Long Division 03:02
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it eats around the edges bright blood slick slip through fences the graveyard smells of garbage divide divide divide a fishhook snagged my eyelid wet wreck of human fingers red nails & chalk spit plaster divide divide divide bisected flush hot twitchbone on this leaking nervous highway unconcerned with why you suffer divide divide desiccant chrysalides misshapen & too sick to change sense is taken hostage by the all-consuming thrall this plan is poverty naked wretched survive this pain is property distract and divide no paid time off for funerals get used to degradation
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Army of Amy 02:12
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come join the army army of amys we ride the boneyard french kiss our bootstraps we succor charity train in diplomacy & rip the wings from your cherished vesper we soften skin flaps the color of kindness we fight the warbler sight across the bough we wring the redpoll out of your dishrag we hold your kneecaps to civilize them we wield heraldic mace don't disturb our sunday eyelash i lash tongue of braided zipties
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Render Unto Scissors 03:50
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cathedral sewer ceiling to folds of rank sky steamstreaked with stained glass rat poison infected sputum shade they call imperial green pick the proper tool & the moment will choose itself antenna to stir the ashes so many odors of dust scissors for the pruning whetted on empty plates decay does not reverse itself queen termite, fat fealty discolored dripping bandage cancellation, cancellation i was told it is a fact empirical when people know how much pain they will endure they can endure more pain but how can this be measured without hurting someone against their will?
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This Will Help You Sleep 02:49
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i don't want your pills sickness spiral by throat by prison by blisters nourished by the bile flogged in heavings questions answers stab wounds poison on the wind i pray for fractures sweat stains street lights bedsores this will help you sleep big money nightmares of my dried-up future toilet treasure retch marks the spot the rain brought nothing but a barely human carcass stinking in the drainage ditch yellow sodium spitball arches your fingers hold open blood vessels this will help me sleep
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Sinus 03:15
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in a scalding steam hypnosis i sucked wine from a shotgun chamber black powder & redness trickled down my breast to a starving dog naked shrieks of sewage cavities stuffed with voided tissue this is my offering the milk of every pried up scab scoured within rubbed raw inside hatchet scalp straitjacket brain lubing my palm with the mucus of infants mourning my friends' while strangling my own science is barren & so is your god help is not coming

about

SCIATICA is the solo creation of Charlottesville, Virginia’s multi-instrumentalist Cullen Wade (ex-Beldam). In summer 2019, during a debilitating bout of sciatica, the chronic pain condition of the lower back, Wade began channeling his anguish into extreme metal music. “When you can barely walk for a month, average four hours of sleep a week, and pain pills are useless,” he says, “your mind goes to some pretty dark places.” As in Wade’s previous band, Beldam, the music took the form of doom/sludge metal in the punishing tradition of Eyehategod, Weedeater, and Brainoil, but with a punk rock attitude toward song lengths. Challenging the subgenre’s tendency toward long-winded bloat, Wade prohibited himself from making songs longer than four minutes. The watchword was, “Don’t play any riff more than four times. If it’s really good, maybe play it five times.” The result is a set of short, sharp songs that get in, get out, and make an impression, with intense surreal lyrics addressing chronic pain in all its forms, from physical agony to the long-term dehumanization of life under out-of-control capitalism. Wade christened the project SCIATICA, after the pain condition that inspired its creation.

Though he is a thorough metalhead, the musically versatile Wade is more active in the hiphop world, where under the stage name Fellowman, he performs and records both as a solo rap artist and as a member of the hiphop duo Sons of Ichibei. One of the cornerstones of the central Virginia hiphop scene, Wade is the co-founder and director of Charlottesville’s annual Nine Pillars Hiphop Cultural Festival and the bi-monthly Rugged Arts Hiphop Showcase. His experience in hiphop manifests in the poetic imagery, leftist politics, and keen sense of social justice he brings to the lyrics of SCIATICA.

“It will feel right at home for those who like music that just screams emotional catharsis with an ugly sound.”
Colin McNamara, Brutalism.com
brutalism.com/review/sciatica-sciatica/

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released July 3, 2020

written, played, produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by cullen wade, summer 2019 - summer 2020
artwork, layout & logo by cullen wade
special thanks to mike moxham for engineering guidance

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Sciatica Charlottesville, Virginia

Punishing doom/sludge from Charlottesville, VA, with a lyrical focus on chronic pain both physical and psychic. FFO: Eyehategod, Brainoil, Weedeater.

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