Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Taken from Stress Orphan's "The Club of Rome" coming 2023 on Antipatik Records.
"In the project's debut full length album after 12 years of activity, Stress Orphan shows the fruits of a long and painstaking sonic evolution on The Club of Rome. Following recent EPs on No Rent and Dead Gods, this record solidifies Stress Orphan as a complex and tightly-constructed modern power electronics machine. An apex predator of the American scene. 8 tracks of relentless cosmic industrial dedicated to John Brunner.
Author John Brunner was born in 1934. Over his 60 years on this earth, he wrote and published nearly 100 novels and countless short stories, essays, poems, and speeches. An often-maligned master of science fiction, Brunner wrote with an authenticity that spoke of the future as if he lived in it. Predicting the poison, the pollution, the greed, the guns, and finding solutions. This album exists as an ode to Brunner’s works. A monument to the inspired depths he mined for over 40 years. To the foreign constellations he traversed. To the present he anticipated, and the future he hoped we would earn. Released on CD with a foldout art and lyric sheet."
Art by Matthew Revert
Animation by Syd Miller
Lyrics:
Behold the cyclops
Tracking north
Two assassins speaking in tongues
Primitive man poisoned
Hunters driven out
Redundant static burst
Scales falling heavy
Through nuclear apex
Behold the cyclops
The seer, the overdriver
Mining the hills
Exposure and sickness
Molting guardian
On white wings
In freefall
Behold the cyclops
Hissing beneath mud
Prodding wounds
Split at the neck
Reptilian Valkyrie
Fissile mistress
Melting shields of bronze
To exit the flow of time
Ageless and corrupted
Fissile mistress
Melting shields of bronze
To exit the flow of time
Ageless and corrupted
Taken from Stress Orphan's "The Club of Rome" coming 2023 on Antipatik Records.
"In the project's debut full length album after 12 years of activity, Stress Orphan shows the fruits of a long and painstaking sonic evolution on The Club of Rome. Following recent EPs on No Rent and Dead Gods, this record solidifies Stress Orphan as a complex and tightly-constructed modern power electronics machine. An apex predator of the American scene. 8 tracks of relentless cosmic industrial dedicated to John Brunner.
Author John Brunner was born in 1934. Over his 60 years on this earth, he wrote and published nearly 100 novels and countless short stories, essays, poems, and speeches. An often-maligned master of science fiction, Brunner wrote with an authenticity that spoke of the future as if he lived in it. Predicting the poison, the pollution, the greed, the guns, and finding solutions. This album exists as an ode to Brunner’s works. A monument to the inspired depths he mined for over 40 years. To the foreign constellations he traversed. To the present he anticipated, and the future he hoped we would earn. Released on CD with a foldout art and lyric sheet."
Art by Matthew Revert
Animation by Syd Miller
Lyrics:
Behold the cyclops
Tracking north
Two assassins speaking in tongues
Primitive man poisoned
Hunters driven out
Redundant static burst
Scales falling heavy
Through nuclear apex
Behold the cyclops
The seer, the overdriver
Mining the hills
Exposure and sickness
Molting guardian
On white wings
In freefall
Behold the cyclops
Hissing beneath mud
Prodding wounds
Split at the neck
Reptilian Valkyrie
Fissile mistress
Melting shields of bronze
To exit the flow of time
Ageless and corrupted
Fissile mistress
Melting shields of bronze
To exit the flow of time
Ageless and corrupted
