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Darkest Angel

by Mighty Sphincter

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What a surprise to meet a new and disturbing work of this excellent Phoenix, band , who have added to their gloom and doom an intense macabre flavor, amplifying their riffs leading to a harder sound. Magnificent album.
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t0rqreturn2019 Was saddened to hear of Doug's passing. One of my favorites since I first heard Ghost Walking in the 80s. Somewhere, I think I still have a signed letter from Greg saying maybe someday they'd come out East.
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    2017 release. Legends of the Arizona underground, Mighty Sphincter was born in the very early '80s and has not looked back yet. Led by vampire Doug Clark, Mighty Sphincter roars back from the undead with eight hard rockin' goth metal songs with just enough punk rock roots to make the surliest devil lock wearing death punk happy (or full of gloom, as the case may be).

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1.
Woeful have delivered me from sombre skies, in magnitude of my dismay, I saw the anguish of your lifeless eyes, all in your tribute to decay, Dead maggots twist beneath your waxing plumes, hiding out pretty there to see, halo of flies shifting up the worms, burrowing to earth into eternity. Upstairs your precious wings breed silent light, oblivious to pity as defeat, as sugar sweetness taste the sleeping sighs all in your tribute to decay
2.
Rich Undead 04:12
I'd rather be rich undead An have you next to me in my bed Perhaps we could go down to the lake In the misty morning fog to Abbey Road And take all of our angels to the dark places I'd rather be rich undead
3.
Black Roses 02:49
Delightful in your cold repose, your pale beauty I embrace By candle light, as shadows dance upon your lifeless grace Woeful sorrows echo wet, but shameless love still remains Black roses for my porcelain queen to sooth her frozen heart, one last gesture of my fatal darkest art Uncountless deeds that vomit forth, the cold October rain That feeds into a blackened pond whose depths reflect my pain The hopelessness of cold regret ignite my darkest flames Protected by silence from within, her vigil now begins Black roses for my porcelain queen to sooth her frozen heart, before her death tears us apart
4.
Her blood is flowing In rivers of red she bleeds for me With her hands and feet strapped to my bed Tonight I'll have to leave her half dead I've got to take back control I've got to taste the sweetness of her soul And once again I'll feel whole Darkened days and darkened nights Have completely refused to escape me And now I find myself living in the shadows dazed by the daylight Now all my nights have become one and I wonder where the time went I wonder where the time went I've got to take back control I've got to taste the sweetness of her soul And once again I'll feel whole Her blood is flowing In rivers of red, she bleeds for me I feel it take control, feel it taking over me, feel it taking over Now all this time has wasted away and I'm awakening I've got to take back control I've got to taste the sweetness of her soul And once again I'll feel whole
5.
In dark hallways Of my mind I follow a path only to find That there are ancient spirits here And I see them in my mirror They are lurking inside of me I can't tell who to be And the spirits trigger a response in me That sets all my phantoms free Now there moving from room to room While I manipulate their doom It's the only place I can hide It's the only place I want to go It's the only place where I can live Mental mansion It's a cemetery for my soul It's a place death can't go I have always existed here There's a universe in my mirror Time is locked behind these doors Eternity lies beneath the floors This is where my Spirits dwell when they surface it becomes hell Now there moving from room to room While I manipulate their doom it's the only I can hide it's the only place I want to go it's the only place where I can l live
6.
On this dark cold night of eminent domain Wolves’ eyes peer through your window Now there's rude comparisons you have drawn Under the black skies, I feed in darkness On horizons of present and past At first my thirst whispered, but now it screams In silence of your lucid dreams Ruby specs and splatters stain the white silk sheets Where she sleeps naked in destiny Now and forever haunting ecstasy Inside the house that drips cold blood Phantoms grope and shiver in endless shadows of fractured light Over nameless graves in the garden of evil Rows of dead roses and poison ivy That reach into the night like sharpened claws
7.
Dead silence succeeds the sound of the prayer Again the loud lair shudders and bleeds in the desolate air with the sound as of fire The hounds recede shudders and bleeds In the dead silence their hands reach out to me But the gates stand there Baring desire, baring the way of the dead unburied Inferno of joy Dead silence succeeds the sound of the prayer again the loud lair shudders an bleeds in the desolate air with the sound as of fire the hounds recede shudder and bleed in the dead silence their hands reach out to me But the gates stand there, Baring desire, baring the way of the dead unburied Unshivered and unblessed They stand and pray In the regions severed beating the breast Tearing the hair rending the arraignment There is none to care, no golden payment There is none to call, there is none to die But the gates stand there baring desire, baring the way of the dead unburied But heavier shrieking revolves and resounds in the ghastly profounds And the voice unspeaking of the hound of the damned runs eager and bounds malignantly crammed in my ears, and the noise in the ghastly profounds dead silence succeeds But the gates stand there, Baring desire, baring the way of the dead unburied
8.
Resurrected 04:20
Remote from fear and pain, white worms crawl through my brain Who traveled live may travel dead, the soul is no tenant of my head I lived and moved unseen, nude souls that masquerade confuse the form and sensation have the illusion incarnation I have returned from this silent tomb I have returned from eternity’s womb I'll shadow forth the immortal way, the chemicals transpose into grey Behind the curtains of life, I've seen what no one could see Far beyond the vast sphere’s dark idle grim becomes another stage that shall prove to unfold the elements in your mind, the depth of your soul

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2017 release. Legends of the Arizona underground, Mighty Sphincter was born in the very early '80s and has not looked back yet. Led by vampire Doug Clark, Mighty Sphincter roars back from the undead with eight hard rockin' goth metal songs with just enough punk rock roots to make the surliest devil lock wearing death punk happy (or full of gloom, as the case may be).

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released July 1, 2017

Recorded at Minds Eye Digital
Engineered by Larry Elyea
Produced by Doug Clark
Photos by Jim Hesterman
Layout/Illustration/Design by Mike Fisher

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Mighty Sphincter Phoenix, Arizona

Mighty Sphincter are death rock pioneers from the original Phoenix underground scene that have been influencing goth-rockers for four decades.

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