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Compelled To Repeat

by BEGGAR

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    Compelled To Repeat on vinyl featuring artwork by No Master Studio. Black vinyl in 3mm spined sleeve with printed inners. Cello-wrapped. Strictly limited edition of 250.

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    Exclusive Limited Edition Compelled To Repeat t-shirt designed by No Master Studio, printed on Gildan Heavy tees. This t-shirt is only available online via Beggar Bandcamp and APF Records. It will not be available to buy at gigs or elsewhere. Printed to order.

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1.
Blood Moon 04:32
Osmose, consume, absorb, digest I’m half between two states – am now Fluid, planar, axial flow Metabolise for energy every Man, woman and infant Programmed to switch to feral wrath in the Blood moon, blood thirst, blood machine Rhizome that flowers now in violence, signifying Death upon my animal feet Death of self, death of world Birth of hunger for carnage Plateaux, networks Link the dead space of the mind Spread along this web of sin Naught to stop the trail of death Voracious appetite for dread Osmose, consume, absorb, cannibalise
2.
Anaesthete 04:04
One old idea Begets another Propagates itself One sick multitude Persists forever Obnubilates the earth Like a gas cloud Reroute the canals To flood the museums And let the canvasses bob On the dead water Sequestered here In a closed fist In a haptic interface with the world Lust for the gruesome Ecstasy Of sense and the sensual world And now I’m dead
3.
Just help me to stay awake – just like The newborn infant at the wake Outside the yew tree and the night The death watch beetle at my feet Poor Yorick, Dignam, Father Flynn Nourish the worms within The cadaver speaks Draws you near The cadaver moves Crawls right out of the bed The cadaver speaks Foreign tongues The cadaver moves The eyes flick open The cadaver lives The cadaver knows He passed through that magic bourne The bounds of our philosophy Seeking a parlay with you Inside his mortal tomb
4.
Black Cloud 05:18
I was a free one Could have changed the world So to wallow Was to break the mould All of the loved ones All those heavy with child From the sameness Issues the fucking rot Stop your profitless despair we’ve Got to think Got to find any way to hide Our sickly boy Now I’ve gone too far Now I’m someone else Colourless apathy towards All human life A brick wall for a future I’ve Become a ghost
5.
We’ve been collecting heads Of all the folks who have come our way We’ve been here all along Forming our plans against the west British peer found Letting blood in the jungle And we warped his mind Began his course of holy war Yes, we warped his mind Left his life behind Seeking refuge, fell into our hands Now a fearless son Taking lives for his new god God – made him love the way of the sword Stupefied, all ego was lost We found your man Outwitted MI6 And we took his head Turned his remains into pig feed Yes, your missing Briton found Entrails making a mandala A lord in exile Trepanned head stares at the sun
6.
7.
Caught moments from waking Thrust back into the nightmare again A repeat of the universe A simulation of – A life A life – a lie A life – a sick joke An outward show of Sentience Sigh on – sometimes Cry on – made to breathe Doesn’t tally up to me Wake the dead Stand them up Make them work – tenantless the graves And the dead in the streets Handsome and tall as you Get on – got to Go on – made to breathe Never tallied up to me Property is god Before which we bow our heads Since the days of yore Commands all our praise Praise it – praise it – Rejoice, praise the lord And our hidden systems Supplicate ourselves Drain the light from the world
8.
I am a vessel Matryoshka brain, eclipse the sun Gripping my head Each one of us, another cell Replicator Containing itself, nothing more The City, heat map of disease Bacchanalia Try to be free: you’ll die of hunger here Another starveling Those who trembled in the caves Tremble now in the skyscrapers As empty as mirrors The stochastic ash of money burning As vacant as buildings As remote as cancer Harvest – your mind Proffer – your life Silence – weigh your dust Pinch-faced – when needs must Without convictions and alone Generating power for unknown gods
9.
Now And again now How do I get out? Now Always now Can’t afford to lose I bet the house on this I speed on Into my certain death I have committed To an infinite dead end And I submit To the exigence of life My cold Fingernails Rend the veil Abject Awfulness Thanatropic drive Where did I exist No traces found Syncretic worship I’m compelled to repeat All belief systems’ drive to Auto-replicate Synthetic fabric Of the universe, I am Forced to do it again Though the pleasure is gone The men arrive Hear them at your door They want you to go No one tells you what it’s for There’s something wrong Doesn’t matter what it is I’m laughing now But I don’t laugh any more

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released April 3, 2020

Music by Beggar.
Lyrics by C.M. Davis

Beggar personnel:
C.M. Davis - vox / bass
A. I. Whitworth - guitar
J.W. Leyland - guitar / backing vox
B.M.S. Sautier - drums

Recorded and mixed in July 2019 by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, London.
Mastered in August 2019 by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks, New York.
Artwork by No Master Studio, Barcelona.

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'This is a monstrous debut and one of the finest sludge records to emerge in years... this is the real, soul-wrenching deal'. - 8/10
- Dom Lawson, Blabbermouth
www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/compelled-to-repeat

'It’s slow, it’s thick, it’s insidious, it’s malignant. It has seductive elements... It’s agonizingly heavy and inarguably awesome.'
- MetalSucks
www.metalsucks.net/2020/03/23/exclusive-album-premiere-beggars-compelled-to-repeat/

'...beyond the norm... Beggar have clearly put a lot of time and thought into building around their impressive riffage.' - 8/10
- Joseph Stannard, Metal Hammer

'...a treat for anyone looking for total heaviness.'
- Angela Davey, Kerrang!

'Beggar are a devastatingly heavy band.'
- Alex Baker, Kerrang!

'This record is spectacular, and sets an incredibly high mark for all future activity.' - 5/6
- Tom Coles, Zero Tolerance Magazine

'As well as creating a monumental album Beggar have also released what is probably one of the best debut albums to arrive for a very long time... The song craft and musicianship on display is first class'.
- Astral Noize
astralnoizeuk.com/2020/03/28/beggar-compelled-to-repeat-stunning-debut-of-nihilistic-suffocating-sludge

'This is a fully formed record by a band who know what they want to say, how to say it, and have some killer riffs to deliver the message... BEGGAR could well become one of the hottest bands on the scene right now.' - 8/10
- Distorted Sound Magazine
distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-compelled-to-repeat-beggar/

'Beggar are a slavering, unstoppable, bloodthirsty, metal colossus... Compelled to Repeat has paved the way to madness; sweet, beautiful madness.'
- Mass Movement Magazine
massmovement.co.uk/beggar-compelled-to-repeat/

'All told, this is a pretty damn masterful album... worth wholeheartedly diving into... highly recommended.'
- Sleeping Village
www.sleepingvillagereviews.com/reviews/beggar-compelled-to-repeat-review

'Beggar’s highly-anticipated debut... is one ugly, irresistibly intense slab of suffocating sonic sludge that’s so disgustingly heavy that it actually causes me lower-back pain to listen to.'
- No Clean Singing
www.nocleansinging.com/2020/04/01/best-of-british-beggar-calligram-video-nasties

'...a challenging and quite complex album... thrilling and action-packed'.
- Outlaws of the Sun
outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2020/04/beggar-compelled-to-repeat-album-review.html

‘Compelled To Repeat has so many different genre moments piled into the brew it’s a miracle that this is even coherent, let alone the churning greatness that it is.'
- The Sleeping Shaman
www.thesleepingshaman.com/album-ep-reviews/review-beggar-compelled-to-repeat/

'It might be apocalyptic, but it's a really good time... Compelled to Repeat is the feel-good hit of the biblical revelation'.
- The Sludgelord
thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2020/04/album-review-beggar-compelled-to-repeat.html

'Beggar perfectly show how they're one of the brightest flames within the UK extreme metal scene'. - 8/10
- Noizze
www.noizze.co.uk/single-post/2020/03/31/Beggar---Compelled-To-Repeat-Album-Review

'Beggar at their most taxing and their most concentrated... exceptional'. - 10/10
- Games, Brrraaains & a Head-Banging Life
www.gbhbl.com/album-review-beggar-compelled-to-repeat-apf-records/

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BEGGAR UK

GENUFLECTION BEFORE THE ALTAR OF RIFF

London-based four-piece BEGGAR propound a kind of sludge- meets-extreme-metal carnival.

Across their palette BEGGAR absorb post-metal at its heaviest and most psychedelic; grunge and stoner at the peak of their melodicism, and death metal and grind’s berserk and belligerent kinetics.

BEGGAR are signed to APF Records in the UK.
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