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Mythos Mechanism

by Vertigo Fox

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1.
Screecher 02:19
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2.
Redline 05:06
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In the thrill of the thunder Ride on Hunt for meat and for plunder Hunting your hunters Odd scent, as if caught between other shapes The rings on your tail, like colors of wind Cunning and power belies a small frame Ride out the storm like a leaf, like a wing … Their world's redlining Don't get caught in the riptide Your power's redlining Keep it on the inside In the thrill of the thunder Chase, ride on the wind Hunting for meat and plunder Hunt to discover Odd beast, not quite like what they all became Showing teeth, arching back, bare mid-air threat Cunning and power belies your small frame Hold onto the things they hope you'll forget … … Ride, Fly Don't be caught in the riptide again Don't get swept on the world's tide with them Keep your strength inside you Don't let the storm become you Or what would you become then?
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Cosmic Cacophony 02:29
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Rot Engine 05:57
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5.
Reaper 05:16
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We thought man set for any game Then on the wind the reapers came Waking up to power and strength As flames reach the heights Deadly creatures fill the sky Deadly shapes now much like mine ... A land strewn with bodies like the ones we forsook In order not to be the ones the hunters took The city burns in my place And I find my wings Flames lick at dark-coated tail Heat and strength are everything When I smell the blood of those who flee Adjusting to new hunger in me … … Hot wind blows between my legs And flames lick at great wings And those folk we left behind Fuel and fine game
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Yaguarund 05:20
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Drawn down the drain Into an unexpected place Into an unexpected shape - Drawn through the gate In a most unexpected way The logic here is warped and strange And it’s hungry Felt like a river, but it’s inside me Nude in a forest, where there’s no green This land’s laws are warped and they’re hungry This land’s logic is warped and strange and it’s hungry … In the jungle (it’s hungry) The fodder won’t survive for long Leaf and water (it’s hungry) But there’s not anywhere else I can belong The only way to understand Be sharp-clawed hunter of this land … Drawn down the drain Into an unexpected place Into an unexpected shape - Drawn through the gate In the most unexpected way The logic here is warped and strange And hungry
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Shadow Mire'd 04:51
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Blacker than the new moon’s heart Cannot accept the mire Get ‘round this place, where to start? Always one too many parts Deeper than my eyes’ bright sparks Must keep above the mire Mutant carnivore magic Sustained on my foes’ inner fire ... It pulses, just beneath the skin An extension of the creatures within Tear flesh-like shells, seared by some inner sin As I feed upon their surface kin Stinking of the shape I’m forced to take If I’m to make it up that spire Concealed under coat of spots and stars So much for this adventure My eyes gleam in midnight dark Feel the souls within the mire Naked, far too near it all Only diving deeper into the fire Mud and sludge between my claws Smell every inch of blood I’ve drawn Not nearly far enough above this ghostly swamp With just tail to keep steady this side of the drop ... ...
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Flame and Fang 06:04
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You may not know, that I was a warrior In another life of my own No hero of sagas though, the truth be told My great battle was fought alone Exploring far wilds, saw below, settlement Unlike any our own kind would know Horrible creatures building terrible things Which had to be dealt a swift, fatal blow The land around, wrecked, torn out like your prey's neck The place stank of tar, and cloth, and oil And the beings themselves, it's difficult to tell For the face alone would make your tail coil … Fire and claw Their meat in my jaws Feeling the buzz of the projectiles Fang into flesh No pause and no rest Red magic surges through blood and bile Furless and flat-nosed Wrapped with cloth like cadavers These wild-eyed and wingless foes Crude blades and crossbows Torn and twisted savannah Ripped them apart in their droves Smash, and dash Fire-claw slash Power tingling, from tooth, to claw, to tail Alive and in peril, knowing I couldn't fail Looking back, I think the last May just have tried to ask 'why' But you know how this world hungers For the souls that fall from the sky … ...
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Hollowed 05:50
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All the dark magics your mind couldn't grasp What did they put inside you? What did they put inside you? All of the strangenessess which you can do And if you're not careful, you might ...Tear and slice Since they cut you open Split you in two To eviscerate all you were, with a spoon ... These black skies you lift into Fear the night, for it fears you Fear the night, for it fears you Fear the night that you fly through Tawny death! Hunt the light as it streaks true All the strangenessess your mind couldn’t grasp Till it became the only thing it had The tail and sleek and the flying, are these new? You can’t be sure what else they gave you The price for power held in razor claws Can you remember what it is you lost? ...Smell their dross Can they even be hunted? They cut you open Split you in two Chopped out the thing that you were, to be consumed … ... Velvet shadows caress your coat To such a thing reduced What did they put inside you? What did they put inside you?
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Dread Spiral 04:07
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11.
Runoff 06:04
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Feeling the pull of the dread machines From head, to toe, to tail So much stronger than it's ever been Poised in poison of the tainted trees Couldn't escape, not in my old shape Even out here, it seems, I'm not free … Just a beast, fleeing the machine As it haunts me, deep in my dreams Just a beast, fighting the machine Farther and farther into the unseen The world is tainted, not as it should be Only way forward, into the machine I can't restore what this place has been Only way forward is through the machine Claw my way up girder, truss, and beam Stinking of oil, slag, and broken dreams Hunting naked, for a way down, a way around Only way to fight, into the machine … Feel all the cogs turning under my feet These impotent muscles cannot defeat Hear the screech of metal inside the trees The wild couldn't save me from the machine ... This beast couldn't save my mind from the machine Poised in poison of tainted fallen leaves

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The full album version of my unofficial soundtrack mod for "Dimension of the Machine", MachineGames's August 2021 Quake episode.
All the atmospheric vocals are intact; plus, Redline and Shadow Mire'd are here in their full versions.

As I like to do with my bandcamp stuff, I've added some B-Sides as bonus tracks. Three songs that were written in the weeks leading up to this project, and which use a lot of the same techniques for composition, performance, and production that I ended up using on the album.

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released October 3, 2021

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Vertigo Fox Winnipeg, Manitoba

Vertigo Fox is a band made up of one mysterious, probably catlike creature.
A mysterious creature who, tired of hearing the same themes in music year in and year out, decided to create something altogether stranger.


Vertigo Fox enjoys long walks and hikes, though the cats he inevitably encounters always tell him they're prowls. ... more

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