Earlier this week I discovered the band Meshuggah. I was in Best Buy picking up some stuff for a few people, because of my kickass discount because of that card mi madre has and all, when I saw their new single. "Hmm", I thought, "those mp3s off their website were really good...and for 3 bucks it's more than worth it..." Honestly I have no idea how I got this for 3 bucks, because even online it's around 10 or so, but Best Buy kicks ass, so whaeva.
It's one song.
Just one.
Truly a single.
Song title is a single letter, to boot.
The song is 21 minutes long.

I've listened to it four times now. The first three it just sounded like total gibberish put together (I mean honestly...at first glance I didn't understand what any of it meant). But on that fourth listen it just hit me.
Degradation of society.
Being swallowed up by it.
This is the deepest song I've heard in a long time:

Meshuggah - I

I
I - this fractal illusion burning away all structure toward the obscene
I - to cleanse, to purge, to breach eternity and smother all life
Blind - these mortal men of clay, divine and dying in their harnessed form
I - this furnace of limitless hate. Bestial, pure

The pendulum swings semi-attached to the centre of all
I drug these minds into ruin and contempt - the acid smoke of burning souls

This is an anomaly. Disabled. What is true?
Not destined for incarceration. I crave my nothingness

This illness that they whisper of, is that what makes me fail?
I see through the eyes of the blind
Not clear what it is to be this self I dread, the immense, the rabid I am
The cogs turn, grinding away at ceaselessness - willing it to dust

Re-desintegration. Convulse. A dead universe - Impales this twilight
Fear aligns. Sadistic me. Meant to devour. Despair
Sickened by the fact that immortality is not mine to have

A snail along a straight razor - dividing itself through motion
I charge this feeble product of god
Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions
Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation

Solitude in splendor has been rivalled
Shrouds stained with tarblack vomit
Veiling the rotting eyes of the masses
The strain of armageddon evolves

Shifting through worlds from chaos, to chaos, to chaos
I devour this manure of existence - infertile, barren, whole
Rancid redeemer. Virulent deterioration of faith

Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted
A witness to this savage carnage. A frenzy of animosity
The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation
The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread

Conception derived from misconceptions
The dimensionless features of truth
Silence in the core of undoing
Untie its knots and set it loose

The inertia of my existence is clear
Premutations of slaughtered worlds
I alone will behold the dying sky
A servant of eternity

Progress finally, emergence of doom complete
Here only to reverse the flow of life
I



Oh, and HAPPY HANUKKAH, GOYIM!

- Joshy-poo