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Handheld Demise

by Gonemage

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1.
Oh! We meet again I've traveled far I've sacrificed Many human pixels No No No more creation So why did you come here? Why did you leave? Hello! Nice to see you too I am saving souls It's like a game They're trapped in a dream Nowhere to go It takes much of my energy You see, you were my prodigy Pardon me Bless Transfer Yield Complete Wake Soul 338x returns to their waking life safely You, the paintbrush, you, your aura?! Halt! Explain yourself Your arm is unsightly What have you become? I'm sorry The power creep consumed me I couldn't stop until I found you You should have stayed Leave Leave me to work Banishing spell!?!?
2.
I was tied to the pendulum Inside the cavernous cabinet Of a gargantuan grandfather clock My senses overwhelmed It was flooding with water The ropes began to swell Father Time was a demon Licking tears and sweat from my face I told myself I was no Houdini Though I couldn't help but notice I wasn't fighting it I wasn't fighting it I wasn't fighting it I wasn't fighting it The wood unfamiliar to any earthly origin The sound of water pooling It was flooding with water The ropes began to swell Father Time was a demon Licking tears and sweat from my face It was flooding with water The ropes began to swell Father Time was a demon Licking tears and sweat from my face Leaving only my face exposed The texture and scent of his tongue Like burning wood and charcoal Humidity increasing Heartbeat pounding I can't escape I won't escape I can't escape I won't escape
3.
Almost every day I have nightmares of me screaming out my anger at people who have put me through traumatic events Traumatic events I can’t take revenge on them directly in the real world Fuck you After having that nightmare, I awoke tired and angry Then I tried to go back to sleep by suggesting myself to have another dream, another dream Guided by my therapist, how I created utopia as my safe place Complete with my favorite foods and imaginary friend Almost every day I have nightmares of me screaming out my anger After having that nightmare, I awoke tired and angry (garbled mumbles) Oh fuck Hey you Oh why aren’t you laughing Oh why aren’t you laughing Oh why aren’t you laughing Oh I’m gonna eat your head I’m gonna eat your head I’m gonna eat your head Gonna eat your head Why aren’t you laughing No No So Dead
4.
Cut From the perspective Of a decapitated head From the moment Of separation To falling to hitting the floor Heads will roll heads will roll Stairwell of stairwell of gore Heads will roll heads will roll Stairwell of stairwell of gore Die Cut cut cut cut Landing looking up and my Last sight being my Killers feet leaving me Bleeding out and terrified Heads will roll heads will roll Stairwell of stairwell of gore Heads will roll heads will roll Stairwell of stairwell of gore Switch from corners unknown I found myself stuck No matter how much I told my brain to move My body remained petrified A faceless apparition At the foot of my bed Out of the corner of my eye Like a nurse ready for my death
5.
I could stay asleep Never read or create Nor move nor grow And protect everyone I know The suffering and endurance Of the dilemma, a void Before you lies A book of life A book of lies Empty pages Trapped and caged in So I stayed asleep Never creating I could not move nor grow Protecting everyone I know The suffering and endurance Of the dilemma, a void The suffering and endurance Of the dilemma, please avoid I could open A card and read A line of poetry But I won't Empty pages Trapped and caged in
6.
I'm sitting on the beach and my friends standing in the water Behind them, a nuclear bomb is dropped Slowly I watch the shockwave roll over everything Slowly I watch the shockwave roll over I watch everyone I love be consumed, then wait for it to take me too I watch everyone I love be consumed, then wait for it to take me too Tearing up my heart it seems Tearing up my heart it seems There is nothing left for us There is nothing left on this world Now I'm stuck in Delirium Slowly I watch the shockwave roll over Slowly I watch the shockwave roll again I watch everyone I love be consumed, then wait for it to take me too I keep watching everyone I love Then it takes me too Takes me to this place called Delirium Who are you? Why am I here? Why do I exist? How do I wake up? How do I wake? How do I wake up? How do I? Wake up How do I wake?
7.
A blaze in the Southern sky Processing metal to new heights Sweating bullets from a spooky site I heard a man sneak behind Chasing me through the smelting plant Clad in flannel, sack on his head Never plays out the same way twice Need a place to hide or else I'm dead Sadistic extraction, silver and iron Death metal mansion, it's my turn Overalls motherfucker scraping metal Wait, are those fire-toolz from hell? Am I in a slasher? Or a first person shooter? Yo does this man have some hooks for hands? Does this man have a plan? Chasing me through the smelting plant This madman chasing Never plays out the same way twice See nothing but smoke Ancient terrors forged Into new armors Cackling, screaming in everchanging flame Recall passages to deliver us from here To disappear in a plume of smoke or of feathers Through a doorway or a window My friend, how did it play out this time?
8.
I can't escape There is a wave I can't outrun Or I'm on a train And the train tracks go Through the ocean I'm approached by a massive, massive shark Going too deep Swallowed whole There is a wave that I can't outrun Into the ocean
9.
My lifelong dream To trundle through air Levitate The equation to levitation The sensation so real I forsake the ground I've studied how to hit the right thought Like it was taught to me subconsciously Levitate The equation to levitation The sensation so real I forsake the ground Fly atop Being chased by a crew of vampires flying through Buildings and windows Running and jumping off the roof Never got caught yet But very close a couple of times Woke up in a panic like fuck that Fuck that Fuck that vampire crew? Never enough blood to satiate their thirst Immutably consuming Snuffing out the light O, how I long to free Them of their curse But when even exorcism fails One must take flight
10.
Four walls Surrounded by a dense forest Over the top like a canopy No road leading from it At a stop Staying inside is an endless loop of hallways and stairways No doors out of the building except one Break out a window It becomes dark and I'm Hunted by something I am hunted by something At some point people from my life Start coming out of the woods but They don't talk If they reach me I reset Twists and turns A giant water slide with corpses Rollercoasting extreme Limbs so wet, corpse slide Wet dream Corpse slide wetting my body I cannot wake up from these dreams
11.
Floating in the sky Swelling up flooding everything with light Shimmer and shake the light Shimmer and shake Everything is oneness or something Degradation into emptiness Everything Degradation slowly decay Irrelevant Nothing is everything Nothing is everything Entropic manifests Entropic manifest both physical and non-corporeal Degradation
12.
There was a presence at the Edinburgh vaults I encountered something in the corner of the room it inhabits Nearly a decade being chased by this Daemon horrifically Traipsing my dreams as if I were awake Then everything would turn neon orange and green There was a presence at the Edinburgh vaults Manifesting as a plague doctor or a Daemon glow Following the wash of neon lights Everything around me dissolves to night Greying concrete A ruined building Anyone whom I'd speak with Started glowing Greying concrete A ruined building Anyone whom I'd speak with Started glowing Then chase me, me I see the entity with a mask banging On a window, trying to catch me A creeping dread A creeping dread catching up to me The glow heating my skin, now burning, now burning Chase of the Daemon, beware the glowing light Chase of the Daemon, you can't escape its sights Chase of the Daemon, beware the glowing light Chase of the Daemon, you can't escape its sights Chase of the Daemon Chase of the Daemon Chase of the Daemon Chase of the Daemon When it caught me, I'd finally wake When it caught me, I'd finally wake
13.
Standing in front of the door My mom and dad are in the car in the driveway I'm crying What are they leaving for? Leaving me Don't know where they're going Turn towards street's dead end Look out the window Empty white wall looks like a portal Into the woods I touch the wall I call my grandma on the phone She appears Trying to explain why they left She's no longer there I close my eyes Trying to walk through the wall Into a forest When I open my eyes I'm standing in the woods Dead leaves I can hear footsteps coming towards me Looking all around Can't see anyone But the footsteps keep getting closer Closer I wake up In my bag of holding These nightmares are subdued I now sense a feeling Of power in solitude In the Astral Corridors

about

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"Handheld Demise is the third piece to a trilogy by GONEMAGE, following Sudden Deluge and Mystical Extraction.
Handheld Demise portrays Galimgim's brief reconnection with The Curator and a deeper look into the purgatory-like dream realm known as Delirium.

'Disdainful Stroke' begins with him finding her tending to
this realm where lost souls have become stuck in their dreams, suffering recurring nightmares and completely unaware they are stuck. Despite his well-intentioned reunion, she quickly senses a profound
change in him, disappointed that the mystical paintbrush has corrupted him with power. She attempts to retrieve the brush, but his grip and unwavering attachment has grown too strong. From this power struggle, she impetuously resorts to casting a banishing spell on him to focus on her mission in Delirium, wistfully knowing this may come back to haunt her.

The rest of Handheld Demise is inspired by old survival horror games, handheld RPGs, and what's known as a "monster of the week" format typically depicted in horror and sci-fi series. These songs are based on
recurring nightmares that were submitted to me for adaptation, with some songs containing multiple nghtmare sequences. Each one is adapted within the confinements of Delirium as manifestations while
The Curator attempts to fight them off and subdue them in her bag of holding. Meanwhile, Galimgim finds himself in a forgotten and neglected realm (for the next album) in Astral Corridors."

- from "Handheld Demise Guidebook", included as a .PDF file in the digital download.

EU cassette by Xenoglossy Productions
US cassette by WereGnome Records
Vinyl by Fiadh Productions

credits

released September 30, 2022

Galimgim - guitars, bass, drums, vocals, synth, sampling, production, cover layout

Mastered by Angel Marcloid @ Angel Hair Audio

1-bit Pixel Art Cover by BlindCherub

All songs written & produced between December 2021 - February 2022.

Nightmare Sprites (Guests):

Alec A. Head - Backing clean vocals on 2, 3, 5, & 10. (ghostbound.bandcamp.com)
Armando Puente Jr. - Backing falsetto vocals on 1 & 12.
AV Kid - Backing clean vocals on 4.
B. Elkins - Backing low vocals on 4. (transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-redness)
Bob Dzrunkel - Backing vocals on 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, & 13.
Brendan Sloan - Backing vocals on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 10. (altarsdeath.bandcamp.com)
Cameron Davis - Backing vocals on 5, 6, 9, & 10. (bluebedroomrecords.bandcamp.com)
claire.computer - Noise outro/outro lyrics on 7 & 9. (claire.computer)
Cuticult - Chiptune composition/instruments on 8. (cuticult.bandcamp.com)
Danae Lelina - Lead chorus clean vocals on 6.
Dave Petersen - Bitcrushed/Digitized vocals on 2 &10. (linktr.ee/HallucinogenicBulb)
Deedee - Backing vocals on 2 & 3. (mspainthattiesburg.bandcamp.com)
Déhà - Backing clean/harsh vocals on 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, & 11. (deha.bandcamp.com)
Espi - Backing vocals on 2, 5, 9, & 13. (twitter.com/espikvlt - 18+ only)
Fire-Toolz - Backing vocals on 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, & 13. (fire-toolz.bandcamp.com)
G.E.F. - Backing low vocals on 2, 4, 9, & 10. (thecodontion.bandcamp.com)
Gene Hex - Backing clean and harsh vocals on 5 & 12. (linktr.ee/eveningoflight)
Greg Kennelty - Ambient outro on 5, Ambient intro on 11 (chalkportraits.bandcamp.com)
Grotesque Misalignment - Backing vocals on 11. (grotesquemisalignment.bandcamp.com)
Ivan Belcic - Backing vocals on 2 & 13. (kosmogyr.bandcamp.com)
Jay Spurcăciune - Backing low vocals on 3. (coldbrats.bandcamp.com - vocals recorded/edited OsimetriC Music Productions)
John Kerr - Backing vocals on 1, 2, 3, & 4. Aux percussion on 3 & 4. (pyrithe.bandcamp.com)
Lorenzo Vincenzo - Lead falsetto vocals on 12.
Lunar Cult - Chiptune/DS Outro on 13. (lunarcult.bandcamp.com)
Matthew Giniat - Backing vocals on 2 & 10. (soundcloud.com/4thtimepod)
Melora Cayce - Backing vocals on 5 & 10. (woundlicker.bandcamp.com)
McMansion - Backing vocals on 4. (mcmansionnoise.bandcamp.com)
Michael Alan Prince III - Backing vocals on 1. (soundcloud.com/lorddealwithit)
Mirai Kawashima - Lead vocals on 4. (sigh.thebase.in)
Misandr - Backing vocals on 3, 10, & 11. Noise intro on 13. (misandr.bandcamp.com)
Nicholas Hertzberg - Backing vocals on 1 & 10. (alloftheblood.bandcamp.com)
Ophelia Jocelyn - Lead/backing clean vocals on 2, 5, & 13. (opheliac.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis)
Rail/Slave - Intro/sampling on 9. (railslave.bandcamp.com)
Ria Wigley - Backing vocals on 12. (karnstein.bandcamp.com)
Rich Loren Balling - Backing/lead clean vocals on 2, 5, 6, & 7. (pyramids-hhr.bandcamp.com)
Ryan Harper - Backing vocals on 3 & 4. (tumultuousruin.bandcamp.com)
Saidan - Backing vocals on 1, 2, 5, & 11. (saidanusbm.bandcamp.com)
Sammy Gurule - Backing/lead shrieking vocals on 4, 5, & 13. (warrenofohms.bandcamp.com)
Sofia Schmidt - Clean choir vocals on 2, 10, & 13. (etherealkingdoms.com)
Stilgar - Backing clean vocals on 2, 5, 6, & 12. (thecodontion.bandcamp.com)
Winterquilt - Chiptune outro on 2 & 11. (winterquilt.bandcamp.com)
Yin Shyen - Lead clean vocals on 7. (soundcloud.com/yinut)
Zach Jenckes - Backing vocals on 1. (the-holloway-tape.bandcamp.com)
Zooey "Räudig" Klamma - Additional falsetto vocals on 1 & 11. (chainmailac.bandcamp.com)

Nightmare Pixel Pieces:

1. Juzuworks
2. Pale Hand Horror
3. Ian Bechtold
4. Warpixel
5. Miketenebrae
6. Maria718
7. Fruit Punch Samurai
8. Omart471
9. Artemevon
10. BlindCherub
11. Tase Miru
12. Fruit Punch Samurai
13. Yelta

Recurring Nightmares submitted by:

2. Shanj Ela
3. Mang Ikin, Nicasio
4. Chrundle, From Corners Unknown
5. Heather Capri
6. Burst Synapse
7. JD Griggs
8. Netty, Jay Spurcăciune
9. Rail/Slave, Depths of Tuonela
10. Matthew Giniat, Misandr
11. Grotesque Misalignment
12. Rich @ Astral Noize
13. Andrea May

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