Track 8 on the record. Well not really … their are some « hidden tracks » and extra material on the album… but this is the 8th « real song » that was recorded. The original title was supposed to be « Abyssmalicious Clitoris » but the name was shortened to simply Abyssmalicious. I think the title suits the song better now. Not that TGON does not like the female anatomy… I mean all the guys in the band really enjoy hair-pie… I dunno… the clitoris was just in the way. So yeah we cut the clitoris. Yikes now doesn’t that sound fucked up? That sounds almost as bad as the title of track 9… which has nothing to do with the song… but hey… it just sounded too intense to change the title.

So yeah… Abyssmalicious…very fun song to play… one of my favorite riffs is in this song. The problem is we only play it like 4 times and never repeat it!!! Just when you start digging it… kerplow… it’s gone.

When working on the bass line in the opening part, there was a selection of notes that we could use that worked. So fuck it… we just used them all. We ust piled them all in and had a low-end orgie. Hahahahaha

As much as I am all about the bottom end, no pun intended, Jon’s leads in this are just crazy. They really sing and stick in your head.

ABYSSMALICIOUS (lyrics by Schrecker)

You!

You can’t reach me now
I’m gone.

Please help me
I’m falling
I’ve got
That sinking feeling
I don’t know,
Absolve you?
Can’t think of why I’d want to…

Do I wanna die?
I don’t wanna die But I could right now
Do I wanna live?
I don’t wanna live with out you
Does anybody know?
Should anybody know?
The bad thing that we did
Love is vicious

Standing on the edge
Never mind a misstep
Ultra sensitive
Can you feel the world give up
Everything we are
My abyssmalicious baby
Our reflections are in taking
Not giving

There is no love just her
In this fucked up world
We just spin and spin around
Sometimes you have to fight
Just to feel alive
Baby fight with me tonight
Baby fight for me tonight
Baby fight with me tonight

You can’t reach me now.

This spinning world doesn’t care
Love makes ways for me to suffer
Grinding down it is not fair
Crawling like every other fucker

There is no love just dirt
In this fucked up world
We just spin and spin around
Sometimes you have to fight just to feel alive
Baby fight with me tonight
You will not be hurt more than you deserve
Now watch as I get ripped apart
Till my dying day I will see your face
Sad girl you broke me hard
They deny what they feel but it’s all crystal clear to me now
Sad girl!

You can’t reach me now!

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Maybe it is my infatuation with the female ass but when I first heard the title of this track… I swear I heard the words butt-plug. But no… the title of the 7th song of the album is PlugRut. What the fuck does that mean? Uhhhh Schrecker explained it to me once, but I must have been too pissed off and / or drunk to remember. I had just finished the previous title track “Broken” and we wanted to start playing live. Zasta suggested we work out Plugrut because it is a little less chaotic then PornoZING! and we could start doing some 30 minute live shows. I learned it in a rehearsal with the guys and we were ready to go.

Since I knew the song we wanted to track that one right away and release a 3 song EP as a sort of teaser to the album. This is the last song that was recorded with my Mesa Boogie amp. Fuck I hated the way that thing was playing with my head. We had done a live show in Ste-Julie and it crapped out on me at the beginning of the gig. I could not hear myself on stage but could faintly hear myself in the house system. We all have our issues. My thing is this: I have this belief that inanimate objects are out to get me… That amp would work fine in the studio and then KERPLOW… bitch would not work in live situations. I finished the track and days after we were playing at this grade school in the gymnasium. Sound check… hmmmm… the lights are on but nobody’s home. I wanted to go for a 3 pointer with it at the other end of the gymnasium. I did the gig with an amp Schrecker had at the studio… luckily someone that was coming to the show lived close-by and brought it for us.

After that gig I complained to this guy named Shawn at Mesa Boogie in California and sent it in to get it fixed for free. Once I got it back I sold it… I did not even bother to turn it on and try it out. I was done with it and I got something waaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

So yeah… the recording of the song…. uhhh well…. it went pretty quickly. It has a punk feel in the chorus and I never really played punk stuff. I actually do not even listen to any. The thing with TGON is that nothing is really specific in genre. The song has a punk feel to it… but it has a little TGON twist that makes it sound different. That’s one of the many things I like about this band and our music. We can do anything musically and it will fit in context to everything we have done previously or anything to come in the future.

Hey… we might even write a song about throwing inanimate objects and call it Butt-plug.

PLUGRUT lyrics by Schrecker

Surrender
It’s your time tonight
Nothing by starlight
Holding you down

Let yourself go
What’s holding you back
Let yourself go
Who’s holding her…

No gravity
You can’t face this
The world won’t turn
Cuz you know she’s with him

Whatever
It’s her time tonight
Nothing but starlight
Holding her down…

No hiding place
The world won’t turn
Not until we fix this

This is the end time tonight
Nothing but starlight holding…
Nothing is left at all

Figures of eight…
What do you care?
We don’t have a prayer!
What do I care?
Why should I?

I have got this feeling
That her feet don’t touch the ground
I don’t know what she’s saying
But I love to watch her mouth
Heaven dies upon her lips…

I have got this feeling
That it’s happening again
I don’t know what she’s saying
But she’ll be saying it to him.
I don’t know what she’s doing
But she’ll be doing it to him.
This goddamn feeling
That every thing must end.

Give it all up!

Let yourself go
What’s holding you back?
Let yourself go
What’s holding you down?
We’re out of control
What’s holding you back?
Let yourself go
Who’s holding you?

No gravity
I will fix this
Then the world
Will spin again

Heaven surrendered tonight
It’s nothing but starlight
Nothing at all.

It’s happening again
I don’t know what she’s saying
But I love to watch her mouth
I don’t know what she’s doing
Whatever and ever.

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Ahhhhhhh PornoZing!

Ok… ok… ok… ok…. I guess you need to have a sense of humour to understand this one. I have my flaws but I do think that I have a decent sense of humour. The critics really hate this one… especially the part that says that your mother is « a slut slut slut »… well face it PAL… she probably is. Does that upset you? To know that your mom likes to get rammed in her poontang? That she likes to get her nipples pulled on while getting smacked on her ass and called a dirty whore?

Sexuality (as fucked up as some people’s habits are) is part of life and that’s what the record reflects… life and the Earth and what mankind has done to it. Doing the nasty is just one aspect of it. Ok enough with that… if you don’t « get it » you never will.

Now back to MY experience with this song. « This is about me now isn’t it? » he asks himself as he takes another sip from the bottle. Fuck another empty one! Kat is sleeping and in pain so I am drinking and writing because I have to occupy my brain.

OK here we go : I had been having some trouble in live situations with my Mesa Boogie bass amp. At the first live show we did… the fucking thing was as loud at 3 as it was at 10… I knew something was up. I wanted to throw the fucking thing. We start tracking this song and half way through… the amp starts crackling and making all kinds of noise. I was really happy with the way it sounded at first, but I guess I got a lemon … a little sissy of an amp that nobody wanted… the runt of the litter. OK I do not have patience for this shit… kerplow… days later I purchase a mammoth amp and start all over. GLOCKEN – what? « The Earth shakes » Jon is at the studio and wants to try his preamp into my amp and cab… shazzam… the 15 inch speaker in the cab hyperextends and I am fucked again. Gotta wait to get a new one.

I think I forgot to mention… if you fuckers have not noticed… that this song is a complete mindfuck to learn and play. The structure and parts are all over the place. All slutty like. Hmmmm how fitting to such a song with such a title. I guess the critics did not pick up on that…. Ooops sorry back to MY experience again… it is all about ME now. Me me me me me me me me me me me.

Ok where was I? How the fuck should I know? Anyways the song is done and it’s all slutty… just like your momma!

PORNOZING!!! By Schrecker

Oh
She’s a blood red light
Little fucker’s gonna ruin your life
She’s a hot little devil
You’ll think you’re in hell

And I want…
And I want… Her
She was made to make me suffer

She’s too young!
Oh! I don’t wanna… No!
A word she has no use for!
PornoZing!!!
Ah Ah
You know I love a good slut

And I want…
And I want… Her!

It’s just that fucking her is driving me wild!

See how she looks so sweet and innocent
When she just loves to fuck me up
Her little smile for a simple love song
Porno
Zing!!!

She flows through me like a poison
Then I know I’ve got to nail her
Oh wow!
She’s so damn dirty when she’s going down
And she’s going down like crazy
Oooo
Suck it!

I fuck you!
You want me to!
Can’t you see I’m dying for ya
Can’t you see I’ve had it
The girl I love is a slut

Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, slut,
She’s a slut, slut, slu-u-u-ut!
Just like her mama!

Can’t you see I’m dying for ya
(I fuck you)
Can’t you see our love is killing me
(You fuck me too!)

You fuck up my world and make me think it’s alright x3

Oh she’s the perfect sin
If she lets you in
She’ll show you what you cannot imagine
Where’d she learn to do that
Ooo she’s just so young
I got a one track mind
Pussy!

You fuck up my world and make me think it’s alright
You fuck up my world!

She flows through me like a poison
Then I know I’ve got to nail her, nail her!
Ahhhhhh!
“Fuck Time” is written on her school bag
She’s a slut and I love her fucking ass!
Suck it!
Wow!
She’s a slut but you love her and that’s alright
She’s a slut and I love her!
I LOVE HER FUCKING ASS!

I fuck you!
You want me to!!!!

Blood red light you slut you!
Fuck you!
I suffer just to touch you!
PornoZing! And a love song
Slut, slut, slut!

Can’t you see I’m dying for ya!
Can’t you see I’ve had it!

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BROKEN is the 5th track on the record but I had recorded PlugRut (the 7th) before… just because we wanted to put out a 3 song EP and wanted to include PlugRut on it.

As the title of the track of the record… you know it is gonna be big. When I first met Schrecker, Zasta and Jon at Moonbabe Studio… Schrecker asked me what I had already heard. He presses play on the console and I listened to what seemed to be a frickin’ 12 minute song. A mammoth epic piece of music over 7 minutes long with numerous parts, textures and moods.

For the recording of the album I had been using my orange sunburst 5 string Music Man bass but I had just bought a new bitch… same thing as the other one except for the color. This one was cherry red with a black pickguard. The sound was much bigger, rounder and tighter with this bass because I had it set up with a thicker gauge of strings and wow… what a difference!

I find the main riff of this song so infectious. In the live show we extend the middle part of the song and Schrecker and Jon do a dual guitar solo… really cool, and it revolves all around the main riff. This song will really take you in all sorts of places.

BROKEN lyrics by Schrecker

Everything is tired
Tired of blood
Night sings we must…
Die
Soaked in blood
You all deserve the worm
To dust return
It’s so cold
This temple is a tomb
This temple is a broken tomb
But you won’t try to change at all.

I love the dirt and filth of this world I live in
She won’t forgive you
You won’t get over it
You’re pain is her pleasure
AND you cannot hurt her
She’s already broken.
We are slaves
Talk, sick, of love
And poisoned us.
You were right
Oooo
Biomachines
Don’t need to dream
Of blood soaked hands
Or annihilation.

We’re paying full price
For a slow death.
I stand in wonder
Under ashen skies
So close you could touch them
Nail us up to die
U, me and love
U, me and hate
Human ‘til the end
Chained to the grave

You can’t hurt me
I’m already broken

You were right!!!

Night sings we must die
A slow death.

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My journey into the realm of “The Gods” began with this song. I was looking for a project that was serious. I was in a project that was, when looking back on it, a total joke. My relationship with the word serious goes a little further than… “wow that was a great tasting beer… I think I will have another… seriously…”. The people I was dealing with were still wet behind the ears and seemed to have serious problems with commitment. I bet they couldn’t even choose between single or double-ply toilet paper… If the single ply doesn’t work and it gets messy just fucking fold and use more already… Dude quit wasting my time! Anyways… I will not get into messy toilets, that is not my thing… seriously.

So yeah, what the fuck was I talking about? Oh yeah, so I was online looking for a project that would occupy some spare time that I had because the band I was in was infantile and going nowhere. I was not looking to leave my current project necessarily, the rare occasions we did work together were fun. I just wanted to move forward and experience more because my current project was crawling at the rate of a quadraplegic turtle.

I found a posting online for a “serious band looking for a bass player”… oh no… it is that word again… serious. The posting said “we have the studio, the marketing plan and are ready to go when YOU are.” I dug that… I am not a big fan of being pushed into shit I am not ready for… I got enough issues.

I check out the band’s MySpace page… hmmmm nice logo, I love the name… they seem larger than life… but then… then… I get that twitch in my right brow again… my finger starts to fidget on the mouse, is the fucking speaker wire tangled again?…. ahhhhhh fuck did I turn on the little pesky knob? (which is loose and has a fucking mind of it’s own… it loves to screw with my head… I know it does). Nope… it is not me this time it’s the bloody media player on MySpace. I feel my teeth clenching harder as I keep thinking to myself “play, play, play, play, play…” I have already spent a whole 3 1/2 seconds on the page and nothing! Christ is it me or am I just a wee-but too impatient?! Ok wait something is happening…

KERPLOW… the tune starts. In the blink of an eye I was hooked… seriously.

WRONG, BUT IN THROES (Lyrics by Schrecker)

We’re gonna rock tonight
Wrong but in throes
Leave it up to fate
Wrong but in throes

Like Death my angel
The bad times are back
Baby I’m fading
Fading fast

Nothing left of me and I’m afraid

I need it loud to drown it out
I’m on fire
Don’t call

You’re love is colder than death
Yeah
Tonight your gonna wish I had never been
Born
Born
Wrong
Wrong
But in

Throes

Like Death my angel
There’s no turning back
Nothing left of me
And I’m afraid for you

For U

I hope beyond hope
Play it loud to drown it out
That you can see
I’m on fire
The mystic fight I’m in tonight
So please
Don’t call…
Don’t call…

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Song 3 Lobotomatronic.

Talk about getting out of your comfort zone.

Generally speaking albums are recorded as follows : drums, bass, rhythm guitar, then lead guitars and vocals or vice vera all depending. That is what I had been used to. For this album the drums and the rhythm guitars were already more than half way finished… same with vocals. When I was laying down the bass… I could not play too tight with Zasta because the rhythm guitar would sound off… and same situation if I played too tight with the guitar. We had to find the sweet spot… the happy medium, you know… the piece of skin between the pussy and the asshole to just rest your chin and… uhhhhh …. You know what I mean.

Schrecker would always send me the guitar and drums tracks for each song so I could work on them. Even with just 1 guitar and drums this thing was huge. Holy-lick this thing is a monster!!! Sort of like a sweaty (and slutty) chick Frankenstein all pieced together. It totally did not make sense to me at first… all kinds of odd tempos and shit. I was out of breath after the first 3 listens. Then I got used to it… ok not really but at least it started to make sense… well kinda.

Got a huge distorted bass sound for a short section in the beginning… I never really used much distortion on bass… works very well for that section. Totally chaotic parts in this song… one of the heaviest on the record.

Done… now I feel all sweaty (and slutty).

LOBOTOMATRONIC Lyrics by Schrecker

Hold on tight now
You’re so in for it
Till the night is done

Mind Bent Junk Light

These effects I feel
Like a lobotomy
Dulls me out and paralyzes all that’s real
Go ahead and tear down
All of my answers
Until I’m left with nothing but anger

Ahhhhh
Nothing helps
Nothing helps
Nothing helps

And I can’t figure out what will

I know exactly what I am - I’m
Getting worse not better
And I can’t resist
When she says blowing me will put my troubled mind to
Rest…

Go ahead and tear down all of my answers
Until I’m left with nothing but anger
Go ahead and tear down all of my senses
Leave me to suffer clawing at darkness
Go ahead an tear down
All of it
All of it
And leave me with nothing
Nothing!

Don’t ‘cha worry ‘bout me
I’m just wired wrong
They can’t control me
I’m Lobotomatron
We’re so medicated
We’re supersonic
Desensitized
We’re Lobotomatronic

Ahhhhh
There is no pain
I’m just wired wrong
They can’t control me
I’m Lobotomatron
We’re so medicated
Numb and demonic
We’re dead inside
We’re Lobotomatronic….

Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps

Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps
Nothing no nothing helps

Why worry ‘bout me
I’m only half-way gone
I’m outta control
Raving mad and left with nothing
Don’t ‘cha worry ‘bout me
I’m just wired wrong
And nothing’s helping
My demons are to strong

Nothing no nothing helps
She looks so good in the junk light
Nothing no nothing helps
The effect blows my mind
Nothing no nothing helps
She brings my demons to light
Nothing no nothing helps
Then blows my troubled mind…again

Nothing no nothing helps
Ugh!
Nothing helps just save yourself
Save yourself!

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