Heaven Sent
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A collaboration between Boyd Rice, Douglas P. (of Death In June) and John Murphy (of The Associates) released in 1996 on NER. Consists of Boyd Rice spoken word on subjects ranging from Social Darwinism to alcohol with backing music in various styles including lounge and Neofolk.
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1. Love Love Love
- (Equilibrium) About Social Darwinism and the need for the strong to rule the weak.)
2. Preserve Thy Loneliness
- (About aestheticism and elitism.)
3. In Vino Veritas
- (About drinking alcohol as civilization falls.)
4. Paradise Of Perfection
- (About man's inability or unwillingness to confront "the downward trend of history.)
5. Roasted Cadaver
- (A song from the perspective of an eternal being--Death? the sun?--sapping the life out of a dead man. A reflection on man's mortality and the eternal nature of the forces surrounding us.)
6. The Cruelty Of The Heavens
- (A hymn to the deity Abraxas.)
7. There Is No More Sleep
- (A fatalistic call to endure until the inevitable armageddon.)
8. Some Colossus
- (A reflection on the endurance of man's greatest creations--the Colossus of Rhodes for instance as compared to the transient nature of man himself and the actions of inferior men.)
9. The Path Of The Cross
- (Comparing the Iron Cross which Boyd Rice uses as a symbol for strength and war to the Christian wooden cross)
10. Never
- (Claims that a lie can never destroy truth or beauty, but instead degrades those who, by lying deserve to be degraded)
11. Message...
- (An answering machine message about a credit card bill.)
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Albums by Boyd Rice |
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The Black Album | Pagan Muzak | Physical Evidence | Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing | Blood and Flame | Music Martinis and Misanthropy | Easy Listening for Iron Youth | In the Shadow of the Sword | Seasons in the Sun | Ragnarok Rune | Might! | Hatesville | Heaven Sent | God and Beast | Receive the Flame | Wolf Pact | Children of the Black Sun | Terra Incognita: Selected Ambient Works, 1975 to Present | Alarm Agents |
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