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SENTINEL

Leaders? We don’t need no stinkin’ leaders...

About Me

This is a project exploring extremity in sound and emotion. A way to cope with the trappings of civilization and it's dooming effect on the world. Harsh sounds and mechanical rhythms swell into a corrosive wash of ambience and despair.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/25/2006
Band Members: Rob = guitar, vox.

Shannon = bass.

Sequencer = the noize & the hum.
Influences: Lewis Mumford. John Zerzan. Malcom X. Henry Thoreau. Emma Goldman. Noam Chomsky. Green Anarchism. Food Not Bombs.

MUSIC - Godflesh. Thrones. Refused. Unwound. Crass. Mastadon. ISIS. Artimus Pyle. Nasum (RIP). Dalek. An Albatross. Shotmaker. Burst. Naked City/Zorn. Husker Du. Melvins. Neil Fucking Young. Subhumans. Ruins. Blind Idiot God. Shellac. Combat Wounded Veteran. Jesu.
Sounds Like: The violent discharge of death culture.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lyrics

Since the point of this band is to communicate certain feelings and thoughts, and since sometimes in metal/HC/etc the vocal content can easily be lost in the mix, here are the written lyrics for the c...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:58:00 PST

Mute Observer

Mile marker to ascension. Totemic watchdog to brutal aggression. This subtle genocide, not every hand is tied.Fill a void, of conscious, but trying hard to avoid any contact.It takes so much to be tha...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

Loss of Vision

Sight for sore eyes, try to see through the disguise - it's not as simple as Us VS Them.Who are "They" when it includes family and friends. Or the average person just trying to make ends meet.Of cours...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:50:00 PST

Trapped animals attack both enemy and ally&

Fire lingers- waits to rebuild.The wild hungers- for the fold.But it will take more than theories to fix what's wrong.The threat mounts. Evidence piles up.No avail. No recourse. Eyes shy away while mo...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:49:00 PST

Prodigal Species

Most cannot accept that utopia can exist for the human race. There will always be struggle strife and grief, or so it's said.If not by human hand then by the elements.So we live in false security behi...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:48:00 PST

Static in the broadcast

What good is art against mass graves? I want to know. Can we fight boredom and tyranny with the same blow? Coffin liner of deceptive ideals? Build up the questions, they'll be useful someday....
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST

One credit left

Too afraid to feel something realRhetoric and theory used only as a shieldBooks are useful but never an endCountless people struggle daily, while the academics pretendPut another quarter in the machin...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST

Endgame

If this game is played to it's conclusion it will surely mean the end. Global roulette while we manufacture our way into obsolete existence.Blind ritualism by rote - can't seem to cope with the realiz...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:46:00 PST

Turning swords and ploughshares into lives.

The grip is strong. It tightens and fights against change. One hundred thousand strong push against the gates. Heavy crown soon forced to own it's mistakes.Concrete and chain-link all surround the sum...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:46:00 PST

Befallen

Abstract findings, running counter to one anotherThe paper trail piles up, but only points inwardFalse starts covered by artful deceptionWhat are the intentions? What are the effects?The point seems s...
Posted by SENTINEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:44:00 PST