Can't you see it's all flown out of my hands?
Everything you do is planned out in advance
And the stars push their dark wills down on you
And wolves all tear themselves apart better in packs
It's just a function that we will have to work on through
We're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool
You're reacting just the way I thought you would
And the stars push their dark wills down on you
And wolves all tear themselves apart better in packs
It's just a function that we will have to work on through
We're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool
You're reacting just the way I thought you would
—"Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000"
Deathconsciousness is the debut album of the rock band Have a Nice Life. It was released on January 24th, 2008.
Tracklist
- "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" (7:52)
- "Bloodhail" (5:40)
- "The Big Gloom" (8:07)
- "Hunter" (9:45)
- "Telephony" (4:38)
- "Who Would Leave Their Son out in the Sun?" (5:19)
- "There Is No Food" (4:00)
- "Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail" (6:17)
- "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" (6:29)
- "The Future" (3:50)
- "Deep, Deep" (5:25)
- "I Don't Love" (6:13)
- "Earthmover" (11:28)
A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours TV Tropes:
- All There in the Manual: The 70 page album booklet for Deathconsciousness, which contains a lengthy essay, supposedly by a professor of religious history whom the band contacted, about the history of the Antiochean cult from which the album draws many of its themes.
- Arc Symbol: Arrowheads, which appear twice in "Bloodhail" with the lyric repetition of "Arrowheads" and "Hunter", which focuses on Humanity killing God by sending a "Great Hunter" to shoot him with his arrow.
- Concept Album: Deathconsciousness is a loose one, based around The Books of Terror and Longing, the religious texts of a medieval cult called the Antiocheans who were persecuted by the Catholic Church for their heretical beliefs, which included denying the existence of heaven and possibly of God as well. There's almost no evidence outside of the album booklet that this cult or the Books of Terror and Longing ever really existed, so the whole thing can be read as an elaborate work of metafiction.
- Epic Rocking: Most of the songs go for at least 4 minutes, the longest being 11:28 (Earthmover).
- Intentionally Awkward Title: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000".
- Longest Song Goes Last: "Earthmover is the longest song in the album at over 11 minutes.
- Nonindicative Name: "Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail" is not about the act of waiting for black metal records to come in the mail. In fact, many of their song titles don't have much to do with their lyrics.
- Rage Against the Heavens: "Bloodhail" and "Hunter" describe a story, supposedly drawn from The Books of Terror and Longing, in which all of mankind rebels against God, building a massive ladder from their own bodies to the heavens, so that "the Great Hunter" can climb to heaven and shoot God down with his arrows.
- Wham Line: The last line of "Earthmover"."And when their stone mouths open up
Just what words should come out but
We wish we were dead" - Who Wants to Live Forever?: The golems in "Earthmover" can neither die nor feel pain, but long to die anyway.
- Word Salad Title: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000", though the latter part of the title is in reference to the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000. Apparently the suicide rate in the United States is also 40,000 per year, though that may just be coincidence.
