2002 Music & Lyrics
Copyright 2001 - 2002 Todd West
PARANOID STATE 2/2002
I had started these songs originally to work into the scripts of SHORTWAVE and WEBMASTER, but I felt, and heard a different direction taking shape out of a few of these songs. Then the terror that was September 11th, 2001 happened and a dark time desended on almost everything. As I began to seperate these groups of songs and work on some of the music in early 2002 I heard a plot running, and took cues from the reaction and all these "wars" somehow we all of a sudden seem to be in, from the disasterous "drug" war to the never ending war on "terror", these songs reflect what our nation was becoming, a "Paranoid State". This album flows from song to song, from mystical landscape to intense industrial decon, it's beautiful!
Contents:
1. Sacriledge
2. The State
3. Bulldog
4. Fulfillment
5. Inner Demons
6. Soul Kill
7. Spirit Calling (inst)
8. Holy Angel (acapella)
9. Spanning Chasm
10. Hammer Down
11. Law Of The Land
12. Satisfier
ANTISOCIAL 2-7/2002With the situation in the world continuing to decline, it's hard to stay positive, and not say I told you so. As I gave up trying to digitally record Paranoid State on an ancient computer without near enough hard drive space, a new batch of songs roll out. I put together a new (and the last) version of Pit Boss, only to have it a few months later go down the crapper as it seemed no one in the band could get their shit together, except partically me, which was a real change. Some of these songs were ones I wrote for that band specifically, some of the others, a pure reflection of the state of the world.
Contents:1. Revolution
2. Israel
3. Glowdeck (inst.)
4. Psychobabble
5. Talk To Me
6. Tam Jam / Make It Tight
7. Where Have You Gone
8. Give It All Away
9. Atomic War Machine
10. Depression
11. Palestine
ANGEL OF WAR (soundtrack) 4-7/2002Soundtrack to the motion picture script for Angel of War, originally titled Fallen Angel, most of the titles are extensions of music that accompany the movie. I had originally used some of the ideas for Webmaster, but they fit much better in this dark goth epic, so it doesn't surprise me at the time I had laid them aside. That, and the fact that while trying to demo them my cd burner mysteriously quit, so I lost the work-up tracks, at least until I can get another burner that uses the same software. Alot of the instrumentals are ambient, as are some of the lyrics in the numbers with words. Some though, are intense as all. It's an intense movie script, what can I say. I released some of the music in different mixes and samples during 2006.
Contents:1. Theme (instrumental)
2. Sanctify Beloved (instrumental)
3. Blessed Hope
4. Tantra
5. Wealth and Corruption
6. Heathen City
7. Babylon
8. Dream Destroyer
9. Tattooed Demoness
10. Witchcraft
11. Releasing Spirits
12. Hand To Fist
13. Darkening Skies (instrumental)
14. Flesh, Blood & Bone
15. Lion Of Judea
Mentally Challenged 7/2002Big bombastic riffs, prog noodling, atmospheric soundscapes. This one came together over the first weekend in July as I was finishing writing Fallen Angel and working on the screen play. Officially, a few songs had been floating around since June, on an obscure and never realized spoken word w/ ambient music type thing I had been writing. As a concept EP dealing with humankind's exploration of mind and space, the title says it all. Trip the light fantastic !
1. Behavior Science Services (instrumental)
2. deus lo volt
3. Animal Experimentation (instrumental) /
Not A prayer
4. Body Skin
5. Another Round
6. Brilliance
7. Ham Bone 