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Ruins of Time EP

by Tomistoma

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1.
Why? 05:39
Abandoned houses but there's men on the street The vacant faces of the people you meet The cities crumble, the sky in on fire Nobody ever stops to question why, oh why The rich get richer and the poor left to die A world in ruins whilst the people get high The Earth is boiling, the seas are a mire Nobody ever stops to question why, oh why
2.
Screen burn, image churn Sermon under 30 words And it stokes the fires in your head Your best life is wishing death Upon some kid you've never met Forget forgive and forget Because someone's poison pen Scribbled down their cursed name And God knows what they said But it damn sure woke the walking dead And there's millions to manipulate When your magic manifests In the Ruins of Time Frown face human race Simplify emote exchange It's all to fuel your rage In your never ending teenage phase In your cloud of fear and hate No punishment will satiate And you won't see until too late That you're writing your own fate In the Ruins of Time
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It's a crime when the thief and the robber Are the ones in charge Now they're preaching greed like the Book of Psalms And you should be alarmed You've gotta hit the street There's a gun in the cupboard and there's Fire in the streets tonight There's a wolf with a lawyer waiting at your door There's a fire in your belly and your certain that The time is right Now you know that you just can't take anymore What are you waiting for? You've gotta hit the streets There's a time and a place and it's now And the dawn is bright The day has come when the rich shall fear the poor Now the match has been lit and the embers Fend away the night All it takes is the strength to say "No more" You feel it in your core You've gotta hit the streets
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Too Much 04:15
Mind gone, switching on Scrolling down infinitum With your skin-pale lack of sun Feelings turning into fuzz It's too much Smartphone, lose control Sign over your sickened soul To the silence in your head Far better adjusted friends And you'll never better them 'Cause they're distorted images Of the same old broken men If you look beyond the lens It's too much

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“We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”
- Joseph Conrad

Electric piano, clavinet, organ, drums and vox performed by Cai Brown.
Written, recorded and produced by Cai Brown.

Cover art by Frederick Catherwood (1844), based on the beautiful stone sculptures at Copán, a Mayan city in Western Honduras. Edited by Cai Brown.

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released March 26, 2019

DOOMABBESTIA WEBZINE EP OF THE WEEK 17.04.19

ROCKAMBULA REVIEW:
"Occult stoner imbued with tribal psychedelia: this is how Tomistoma sounds, from Stoke On Trent, England. The cover image taken from a nineteenth-century painting depicting a Mayan sculpture already gives an idea of ​​the unusual, mysterious atmospheres that characterize this work. Powerful and abrasive riffs, from classic stoner rock, with the organ (yes, the organ) that often takes the scene: it is a shaman's ritual, an attempt to ascend towards something intelligible and mystical; as if Black Sabbath had decided to record a record in Central America, perhaps right in the ruins of a remote Mayan cult building."

DENPAFUZZ REVIEW:
"From the United Kingdom arrives the new Tomistoma EP, "Ruins of Time," containing krautrock vibrations on a psychedelic basis. Piano, keyboards, drums and voice in an original experimental context."

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Tomistoma Stoke On Trent, UK

Reptilian piano-led doom from the darkest heart of Stoke-on-Trent, England.

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New EP, "Cathedral City", out 07/09/2023.

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