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Apex Parasite

by IO

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"I wrote the concept of this song when I was a teenager along with over an album's worth of songs written in those sessions; this song in particular is based on a horror movie concept I was toying with, in which a black market funded gene engineering lab come across an ancient fossil containing a fully preserved parasite. Upon finding it, they immediately start gene splicing to create a controllable bioweapon for black market buyers, and aptly named it The Apex Parasite. However, this parasite was not of this planet and a leftover remnant of the meteor showers that ended the dinosaur age, unbeknownst to the scientists both from negligence and lack of research as well as their greed.
After its birth, the engineered creature begins to show signs of intelligence increasing at an hourly rate, and it grows rapidly in a matter of days before destroying its enclosure and killing all life it encounters (including the entire team at the compound) as it attempts to establish itself as the apex predator.
Before his death, one assistant engineer realizes the horrors of what they've made and sends an encrypted video message to the billionaire funding the twisted venture, and the clean up crew is then deployed.
I kept all the demo ideas stored for many years and felt now was the time to bring this song in particular to life. I waited this long to release this song simply because the necessary technology required to achieve the full vision of what this song is, and do it justice, just wasn't readily available until recently. But now it is, and I'm so proud to be able bring you this slab of sheer horrific brutality."

lyrics

Lyrics:
Burn
Burn it down to the ground
Before it takes us all
Burn it down
It’s too late to turn back now so
Waste it
We’ve got to kill this thing before it kills us all
And they named this thing the apex parasite

There’s bodies in the basement
The scent of death still haunts these hallowed enchanted falls
Distorting all reality
‘Til you can’t tell the real from the insanity

What the hell have they been doing here
Bioweapon XT6439
Continually evolving, the very apex of a species lost to time

They have created a monster beyond all comprehension
Engineering the extinct to manifest a new form of bioweapon

Looks like they met their end
By this thing that they had designed
Playing with ancient forces
That they didn’t even try to understand

And now that this things let loose
From their own pathetic negligence
We’ve got to clean up this mess
If there’s any hope for a future left

When all of this is dead and buried
When we’ve undone all the wrong
When the place is nothing but ashes
We did what had to be done

What we they expecting
There are some things that man cannot control
This is one of the ancients
The shape of pestilence embodied in a native form

Lock and Load

Burn it down to the ground
Before it takes us all
Burn it down
It’s too late to turn back now so
Waste it
We’ve got to kill this thing before it kills us all
And they named this thing the apex parasite

Terrified and Apoplectic
They didn’t know that it was capable of sensing fear
What began as incidental
Quickly morphed into the reason why it’s still here

Follow the destruction
All the rivers here are stained with so much blood
I can smell all their insides
And all the skeletons it left here in the mud

Driven by instinct and bloodlust
The worst of this is yet to be seen
That thing will just keep on killing
‘Til all of life on earth is wiped clean

I can feel all the horror
The ground bleeds drenched with death from everything that went down
All that’s left is the ancient
And by now it’ll know what we have come here to do

So ready yourselves for the storm
This thing will not go down easily
We’ve got to clean up this mess
If there’s any hope for a future left

When all of this is dead and buried
When we’ve undone all the wrong
When the place is nothing but ashes
We did what had to be done

If we don’t it’ll keep on consuming
Growing larger by the day
And If we don’t we’ll never see our loved ones again
So what do you say?

Die
Foul creature
Die

Kill this wretched thing
We will be the last that it will ever see
Burn this abomination
For the sake of humanity’s preservation

Die
Foul creature
Die

Go back to hell where you came from

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released April 5, 2021
Written, Performed, Played, Produced by Mike Webster 2021
Mixed and Mastered by Anthony Chognard 2021

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Heavy Music for Heavier Minds

From the Mind of The UK's One Man Metal Machine,
Mike Webster

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