RENT STRIKE's groundbreaking folk-punk-rock-opera IX, presented and packaged with a fully illustrated lyric zine, featuring art from talented mid-Michigan artists
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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IX Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition (everything is limited, be real, this is DIY) cassette of RENT STRIKE's groundbreaking Lord of the Rings concept album IX. Remastered for cassette.
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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12" Vinyl - Black
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Finally on Bandcamp:
Black vinyl record of RENT STRIKE's 2018 Lord of the Rings concept album IX.
Art reimagined by Levi Coven (@2headedcoralsnake).
Haunted by ghostly images on the back cover.
Limited quantities remain. Unlikely to receive a second pressing soon.
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about
This is about the ents and the poisoned Earth and also the prison industrial complex sort of
lyrics
V - Fair Trade Death March
I walked the highways in the darkness, in the Spring.
To Columbus, I walked the highways in the Spring.
Past iron walls across the street from hospitals,
To Columbus, I walked the highways in the Spring.
And in the Summertime, I saw the northern lights.
Up in Portsmouth, where I walked in the Summertime.
Cars passed by, it’s ‘Live Free or Die’
Up in Portsmouth, where I walked in the Summertime.
I said, ‘Bough and Flower, Leaf and Grass,
Let them pass. Let them pass.
Come back to me. Come back to me.
And tell me, my Land is best.’
They said that, in the South, smoke pours from the mouth
Of Hell that they’ve got hollowed out.
I saw it for myself as all the leaves of Autumn fell.
The mouth of Hell that they’ve got in the South.
So silent, in the snowfall, in the winter, in the West
To the Mountains, I wandered in the West.
I called them by the Names that they had in ancient days,
The Mountain range that sleeps now in the West.
Wood and Water. Stock and Stone.
Never go Home. I can never go Home.
But I’ll look for you. I’ll look for you.
To tell me I’m not alone.
Oh, holy Rust.
Turn foundation into dust.
Oh, holy Rust. Holy Rust.
Oh, sacred Flood.
Wash away what we have become.
Oh, sacred Flood. Sacred Flood.
I walked through fire. I will wander through the ash.
I will look for in the future what I looked for in the past.
And, although I’m scared, I know that I have weathered worse.
I have weathered worse.
So we smash the gate and burn the flag!
It’s the only choice we’ve ever had!
Sound the horn and beat the drum!
To industry, with Doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!
To industry, with Doom we
credits
from IX,
released January 11, 2018
John W - guitar n vox
Dakota P - percussion n harmonies
Duncan T - upright bass
Will McP - accordion
Grey Matter is really doing something that no other band is doing. Ska (I know, stay with me) + Jazz + Hardcore and a little bit of something else entirely. Lansing MI based RENT STRIKE
The first time I saw Peter play, we had already been friends for a couple months. I cried listening to him, for everyone else I've met whose gifts I didn't know. RENT STRIKE
