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The Hexagon

from The Killing Light by Aterrima

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"Aterrima’s debut single, “The Hexagon” tells the story of a devoted colony of bees after the death of their queen. The workers, unable to comprehend that their leader has left them, go about their usual tasks with the best of intentions.

Throughout the song, Aterrima’s driving, dissonant musical stylings elicit the bees’ frantic, futile buzzing and misplaced devotion. But in the end, their efforts are not enough, and they die, isolated, without aid from their lifeless creator."

lyrics

Hopeful hum the hive’s hymns
While honey drips from Mother’s limbs
Six walls sequestering
The lacerated crown atop her servant

Tiny wings thundering silently
In service to his lifeless queen
Vision vivisected in a thousand directions
But his eyes could see only her

The killing light floods in
As he trusts in his crumbing home
But neither his steadfast devotion
Nor her imploding womb
could save him

Gold glimmers the crystalline exoskeleton
Still faithful sings the swarm
Each abandoned by their purpose,
Remain upright in the fervor of their work

Still the time and the dust bear down
Six legs point to the sky
Crumpled over his trembling thorax
Three crosses mark his hollow martyrdom

Apostate brothers
Die among the flowers
With the sweetness of her tribute still on their arms

While he in the hexagonal house of his maker
He in the hexagonal house of his maker
dies the same

credits

from The Killing Light, released February 18, 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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