Bleeding
Needles
Razor blades sharpened
to suffer is to live
no joy can be had
without torture
your beauty
ascended through pain
deep incisions
you shall bear witness to the virtue of suffering
knives are sharpened
agony
for all time
Joseph Hawker subverts the musical and sociopolitical status quo with a black metal triptych that's as incendiary as it is impressionistic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022