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Anthems To The Disembodied

by M.O.R.

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Catalog no: UNI10
    Release date: August 27th, 2016
    32 minute cassette tape. Limited to 150.
    Pro-dubbed. Matte black cassette with color label.
    Insert with lyrics.

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1.
Matter is bad Matter is evil All flesh derives from the realm of darkness Partaking of flesh weights the spirit down so that it can no longer fly to God Matter is bad Matter is evil Experience the formless reign In the sphere of nothingness In the sphere of neither cognition nor non-cognition The more insubstantial the foods the closer the body could come to the gods Matter is bad Matter is evil All flesh’s born of coition Sex is impure It propagates more matter The purpose of life is not to become entangled in the material world but to remain on the edge on the outside Life trapped in matter... Matter is bad Matter is evil Mouth's a sepulchre for animals Soul incarcerated in the body as in a tomb Light particles like insects in amber Matter is bad Matter is evil Cosmic battle of light and darkness Wisdom and folly Good and evil Mind and body A battle between life and death Life trapped in matter and flesh.
2.
Before the Fall Distant memory of peace and plenty A past when no blood was shed No blood stained men’s lips Non-violent, vegetarian No killing, no pain After the Fall A world of thorns, thistle, slaughter and ills Cain tiller of fields gave fruits to God Abel keeper of sheep gave a sheep to God God preferred Abel Cain killed Abel God doomed Cain Flood Noah New era Murder Noah cooked meat and smelled a sweet savour Before the Fall Meat is for God Veggies for men After the Fall Blood belongs to God Meat is for men The setting apart of blood is sacred for murder to be avoided Now that men killed God both meat and blood are for them.
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Killing animals is killing people Eating animals is eating people And eating people is wrong So eating animals is wrong Metempsychosis The soul is immortal passing on into another body either human or animal after your death Metempsychosis People are reborn in the time flow of life on earth All life forms should be treated as kindred Recollection of previous lives Rebirth any number of times Transmigration of souls Through complete abstention from meat all of us could recall what we have been La viande rend l'esprit impur et fait de nous des brutes You murder your cousin to eat his flesh The cries of a dog is the voice of a friend Recollection of previous lives Rebirth any number of times 'til you break the circle Return to the light of day from the dwellings of Hades Break the vicious circle Killing animals is killing people Eating animals is eating people And eating people is wrong So eating animals is wrong.
4.
Dionysos le seul dieu qui meurt Dernier roi parmi les dieux Dionysos a reçu l'univers Des mains de son père Zeus Le passage ne se fait plus par la dévoration Mais par une cuisson initiatique Les Titans maîtres initiateurs Dionysos le seul sacrifice Égorgé Dépecé Bouilli Grillé Unité dispersée Meurtre antique La douleur de Perséphone Unité rassemblée Les Titans condamnés à leur prison cosmique Le Tartare
5.
Dance yourself into frenzies when animals are torn to pieces.
6.
Tu trouveras à gauche de la demeure d'Hadès une source Et, tout auprès, un cyprès blanc. Ne t'approche pas de cette source. Tu en trouveras une autre, Qui fait couler son eau fraîche Du lac de Mnémosyne; Des gardiens se tiennent devant elle. Dis-leur: Je suis fils de la Terre et du Ciel étoilé; Mais ma race est céleste; vous le savez aussi. Je suis desséchée de soif et je meurs; Donnez-moi vite L'eau fraîche qui coule du lac de Mnémosyne. Et ils te laisseront boire à la source divine, Et tu régneras alors parmi les autres héros. Tablette tumulaire de Pétilia Strongoli, Grande Grèce, IV-III av. J-C
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Riches consist not in the extent of possessions but in the fewness of the wants What people eat is a symbol of what they believe It begins at breakfast Animals are not fodder for humans We make our life by the death of others A god like power over living creatures Doing nothing is allowing things to happen Respect for life We're all born in the footsteps of the cow Take care of how you earn your living you soldiers, butchers, fishermen... You weak minds! Fill the belly first and think the principles last You weak minds! Man is so fashionable You weak minds! The increase of luxury is but the multiplication of filth You weak minds! Respect for life We're all born in the footsteps of the cow Killing is not natural to humans Killing needs a suitable setting Gastronomic preferences legitimise regular slaughter Vice is a necessary evil They know their turn is coming soon They know they're gonna die for nothing For the pleasure of men For stomachs For weak minds You know it, you know There's more than just grounds of suspicion Evidence is of your eyes Evidence is of your ears Violence is real The violence of humankind
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Impulse to sweetness Longing for salt Revulsion to bitterness Caution with new foods Obstinacy in sticking to foods we know Desire for meat is sensual Texture of cooked muscle's unique Mysterious satisfaction Memory of a hunting time You cook meat because you tend to dislike the taste of blood Disguise the murdered animal with herbs, spices, oil as though embalming a human corpse Don't you feel horror at the sight of the burnt corpse lying on the table? Man is not a natural flesh eater If you want flesh then kill it yourself with your hands, your teeth and your jaws Then sit down and eat it You're already in putrefaction Your belly is a malediction You're nothing more than a passage for food Nothing more than a filler of privies Has nature given us so insatiable a stomach while she has given us so insignificant bodies?

about

M.O.R. is one of the numerous low-profile manifestations of Geneviève and S. de la Moth's musical partnership over the last 20 years. It briefly existed in 2005-06, just enough time to give birth to their unreleased Anthems to the Disembodied and hit the stage once. It is what led to Menace Ruine, making the transition from a more electronic period to their current and best known project together. In fact, they first named Menace Ruine what they liked to call their "vegan synth-trash-metal" band, but since they shifted so quickly from one to another, they kept the name for their upcoming music, and for this projet simply translated Menace Ruine into Menace Of Ruin, using the acronym of it, which was highly meaningful: "death" being "mort" in French, and quite rightly, M.O.R.'s music is all about death...

Since they have always been fond of this album, they decided to mark its 10th anniversary by releasing it on their own label, Union Finale.

Anthems to the Disembodied was influenced by their 80's trash metal favorites and the book The Heretic's Feast: a History of Vegetarianism by Colin Spencer. They had a blast working on this album together, despite the seriousness of the matter...

After a few years of veganism, obsessing over the fact that the whole world was not vegan already, Geneviève began to steal her neighbours' grocery flyers and to make compulsive collages out of the raw meat pictures, in search of answers. How could dead corpses like these be appetizing to people? Why is it morally accepted to expose murdered bodies and to put a price over them? How could this be considered as normal? How come the mass killing of nonhuman animals is daily routine, and goes unpunished? Meanwhile, Steve was programming trash metal riffs and beats... So they met at this highly creative crossroads. Geneviève wrote the lyrics directly inspired by the aforementioned Spencer's book she had read with great enthusiasm a few years back.

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released August 27, 2016

Vocals, guitars, synths, lyrics and collage artwork by Geneviève.
Synth & drum programming, audio mix and graphic layout by S.
Mastering by James Plotkin.
Produced in 2005-06.

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