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Fetid

by Aterrima

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about

Q&A with the band on the track...

What inspired the song?

We used to rehearse at a decommissioned bomb shelter. Whenever we would take smoke breaks, we would go up on the roof and see various insects, and other small fauna. It made us consider how similar or different we really are from even the smallest form of wildlife.

Who produced it? What was the recording experience like?

Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston of Krallice, Gorguts, Behold... The Arctopus
The band recorded it themselves in aforementioned drummer's mother's basement

What do you want people to take away from the song?

See things for what they are. Look around you and ask "is a pile of ants really so repulsive?" If you look sincerely, you might find that we are tiny stars in a bigger constellation.

Was there a particular mood you were trying to capture? A story you were trying to tell?

The intense interaction between this colony of insects, and this human, and the human epiphany that they and this colony are equal

Anything else noteworthy?

The instrumentals were derived from E-Melodic Minor, because it contains chords that are very "bright" sounding (augmented chords) and very dark sounding (diminished chords). These sonorities are meant to reflect the perspectives of both the insect colony (bright, loud) and the character (dark, quiet).

lyrics

Suffocate us
and always we return
Lend yourself to us
surrender to the swarm

The rumor wind,
Calm and copacetic
epitaph my repulsion
instinctual avulsion
Embrace Empathetic

This enclave is breathing
whole entity entwined
lies that I once believed
When I saw only torment and smoke

If you die here, you’ll be
forever forgotten
When seeped into the
trees, You will feed our young

Rejuvenate us
After all life has learned
Watch the way it was
Crumble with time unborn

The carcass wood
Spells the forest’s way
indifferent skin
wisdom wearing thin
Roots my feet in place

What is it about them
that beckons softly
our fraught condemnation
When knowledge changes like seasons

If you return to your
own, You will be erased
They will not, they cannot
Listen. They spend their end in reminiscence

Seethe. Become.
We are everywhere
Breathe inside
this rotten hollow

Do they indulge like us?
(Vagrant, embrace the swarm)
Like the clockwork I left behind
(Take on your shameless form)
Millennia with moments to go
(Before you are reborn…)

Subsume
Subsume
Subsume
Subsume

credits

released February 11, 2022
Isiah Fletcher: Drums
Ted Clements: Bass, Vocals
Brent Ruddy: Guitar, Vocals

Recording: Aterrima and Shad Tuck
Mixing & Mastering: Colin Marston
Artwork: Andrew Ryason and Morgan Weber

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Aterrima Boise, Idaho

Seeks to provide honest commentary on the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

This manifests in a fraught musical experience, as passages of calculated chaos, cerebral eccentricity and consonant serenity intertwine to create Aterrima’s distinctive form of blackened death metal. ... more

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