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BALLAST EXISTENCES

from SCAVENGER EP by Putrefaction

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IN THE EYE OF THE BUREAUCRAT
‘HUMAN IS EVERYTHING’
A COLD MACHINE, SEES ONLY
SUB-HUMAN POPULATIONS

HUMAN//UN-HUMAN
BALLAST EXISTENCES

A MANIACAL DOCTRINE
DEATH APPARATUS
‘ASOCIAL ELEMENTS’
LIQUIDATED BY NUMBERS

OLD AUTOCRACIES
CRAVING SUSTENANCE
CRAWLING BACK TO LIFE
SYSTEMATIC GENOCIDE

‘Ballast existences’ was a term used by the Nazi administration to describe those deemed inferior due to mental illness. Ballast referring to excess or ‘dead weight’. It was a term rooted in the idea that a class of “Untermensh” existed. Those scheduled for the concentration camps and ultimately liquidation. This constituted a normalisation of utter mania. A formalisation of a mass sociopathic condition, manifested in a political system. This system was widely believed to be civilisation at its most developed. A homicidal frenzy, calculated to perfection. A mechanism of terror. An engine, unstoppable, reducing people to numbers, files, codes, leading only to death. How many echoes of this orchestrated dehumanisation can we hear today?

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from SCAVENGER EP, released April 28, 2016
Recorded by James Eager, The Hive Studios 2015
Released on Distroy Records

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