Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Circle of Dust, the ‘90s industrial-metal project of Celldweller, re-releases an explosive 2016 comeback album Machines of Our Disgrace, featuring a 2nd disc of bonus tracks, including two songs produced in 2025. "Digital Messiah" showcases Klayton returning to his early 1992 roots of the self-titled Circle of Dust album, taking inspiration from "Technological Disguise" - a nod to his earlier work. Machines of Our Disgrace (Definitive Edition) is available from FiXT digitally and as a limited vinyl run.

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Lyrics:
The Word was flesh, but now it's code
Worship new gods of silicon
Come, all ye faithful, lost and alone

Echoes of the days of old
Fade to silence as our souls are sold
The dawning of a digital messiah
Have we been born again?
Have you been born again?

There’s no need for us to repent
Narcissistic baptism our new sacrament
No respect for life, salvation or hellfire
Worship digital messiah
Digital messiah

What we want, what we need - Save
What we get as we bleed - Slave
Blind to our Contagion as we all bow down and bend our knee

Looking for new ways to help us bury our pain
And we think we’re moving up but the result is the same
We worship old gods but we give them new names
And we think we are enlightened as we praise them in vain

Move through our lives, living out lies
Hiding behind technological disguise
Deaf in our ears and blind in our eyes
We’re chasing highs and stimuli that can’t satisfy

The Word was flesh, but now it's code
Worship new gods of silicon
Come, all ye faithful, lost and alone
I’ll burden you with new sins you won’t have to atone
Digital messiah

Born from the dust, beginnings of man
A seed of disobedience
Stain of the curse we've brought on ourselves
Damnation of the soul
Black roots of sin planted firmly within
The soil of our hearts
One way alone, mankind's only hope
Jesus Christ is our salvation!
Deliverance
And our salvation!

Technological disguise
Blinded by electric eyes