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Cmdr Hall and Wherewithal

from Hypnopompia by Vultress

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lyrics

There is a portal at the edge of town
This alley here will take us halfway down
Step by step by step

I lift the glass it asks for my passcode
I knew it all my life but somehow, no
Incorrect, try again

A nano-drone awoke then made it clear
"Whoever tried to warp will disappear"
A flash and it was gone

They lay in wait for us didn't they
They paved no ways for us did they

Fist to the gate that holds me
It quaked in its welding
Thinking no man could fell me
I cut through the gates, singing oh oh


You got your way all those times
I held up the ladder, you climbed
Now you wear this do-good disguise
And turn us all into your puppets for this show you named life
Just before genocide
They’ll try to trap us one by one and starve us out so we die
Know it’s not all in your mind
‘Cuz the race is done and over and you never heard that shot fired

God-hand in the back of my head
A bouquet of wires
Fall back or rise up from the dead
now the choice is ours

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Claire began teaching Theresa how to see the world around them in the Greenhouse. Claire’s way of opening her senses to real-life was rooted in a salvaged childhood memory. Claire remembered a time she placed the backs of her hands on either side of a doorframe. When her knuckles turned white, she would take one step forward. Her arms would spring up around her on their own like wings. Soon Theresa could see a face from her own childhood. It was foggy but it was just like Claire’s wings and so Theresa was able to drop in and out of the Post’s dreamland at will. Looking at each other in the Greenhouse cell, Theresa can hear the guards as clear as Claire.

“Eight of us,” said a Guard, his voice like brittle reeds tightening round his throat. “Eight of us dead.”

“They got scared when girl flipped out,” another replied. “They got suicide sick. Died. I haven’t seen them and I didn’t like them.”

“Three now,” said another, calmer than the other two. “And too many hallways.”

This meant Theresa and Claire would have to play dead less often. Soon the only cord still attached to the Post was the one they used to talk. The other empty ports that had been stapled into their skin ached. They felt hungry without the biggest tube and grew weak, more and more confused every hour by the stillness surrounding them. If they were going to leave, they had to do it that day, or else they would die.

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from Hypnopompia, released October 23, 2020

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Vultress

Vultress is a progressive rock, heavy-prog band: Jordan Gaboian (guitar) Paul Uhrina (drums) and Anthony Capuano. (Vox/keys)

On Hypnopompia, the band fuses prog rock, metal, modern heady alt-rock and other eclectic influences.

Critics called their debut:

"[A] flabbergastingly high-quality release" (Scene Point Blank)

"one of the finest recordings ever of a debuting band" (Background Magazine)
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