Permafrost

Doom Metal Intro Near 62 Bpm, Massive Downtuned Guitar Chords Ringing Into Silence, Church Bell Tolls, Slow Double Bass Drum Swells, Wind And Sleet Field Recordings, Deep Clean Baritone Chant Rising To A Distorted Roar On The Last Line, Frost Cracking Sounds, Cinematic Dread, Played Completely Straight.

[FIELD RECORDING]
(wind. sleet on glass. a furnace igniting like a dragon clearing its throat.)

[CHANT, clean and low]
The porch is bare. The tubes are stored.
The couch is in. The stream's restored.
The window shows a whiter world.
The banner of the frost, unfurled.

[VERSE]
First frost on the field at dawn, the fog has turned to knives,
The river's running slower like it's thinking on its life,
The basket stocked the hand warmers before the forecast knew,
Wednesday sees the future. Wednesday always do.

[BUILD]
The furnace is our double bass. The radiator rings.
The screen door came inside this year. Retirement's for kings.
And somewhere past the tree line, hanging patient in the freeze,
A certain trick is waiting for a road across the seas.

[FINAL LINE, roared]
WINTER IS A THURSDAY THAT REFUSES TO END.
GOOD.
WE HAVE SNACKS.

Sacktap & Destroy - FIRST FROST (INTRO) (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

The cold arrives. The stream moves indoors. Doom bells over Poplar Drive.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 01 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Thrash Metal Near 196 Bpm, Razor Downpicked Riffs, Relentless Double Bass Drums, Aggressive Shouted Verses Into A Massive Gang Vocal Chorus, One Divebomb Squeal, Shovel Scrape Percussion On The Breakdown, Circle Pit Energy About Snow Removal, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1]
Six inches overnight and the radio says more,
The bucket run's at seven and the truck's behind a wall,
I grip the wooden handle that my father gripped before,
The driveway is a mountain. The mountain's gonna fall.

[PRE]
Bend the knees! (BEND THE KNEES!)
Lift with legs! (WITH THE LEGS!)
Chicken o'clock waits for no accumulation!

[CHORUS]
SHOVEL! (SHOVEL!) THE DRIVEWAY MUST BE CLEARED!
SHOVEL! (SHOVEL!) THE PATH SHALL BE ENGINEERED!
Two lanes wide for the whip, one path clean to the door,
SHOVEL! (SHOVEL!) THEN SALT IT, AND SHOVEL SOME MORE!

[VERSE 2]
Destroy runs the second blade, symmetrical and grim,
The snow bank on the mailbox side is eight feet tall from him,
The plow guy's gonna pass at noon and bury half our work,
We do not curse the plow guy. The plow guy's just the church.

[BREAKDOWN] (shovel scrapes on the two and four)
Scrape. (scrape) Lift. (lift) Throw. (throw) Repeat.
Scrape. (scrape) Lift. (lift) Throw. (throw) COMPLETE.

[OUTRO]
(two shovels planted in the bank like swords. steam rising off two legends.)
The driveway is cleared. The covenant may proceed.

Sacktap & Destroy - SHOVEL (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Thrash anthem. The driveway must be cleared before chicken o'clock. Non-negotiable.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 02 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Metalcore Near 152 Bpm, Chugging Drop Tuned Riffs, Screamed Verses With Sung Soaring Chorus, Double Bass Drum Bursts, One Devastating Half Time Breakdown With A Dial Click Sound, A Calm Mom Voice Delivering The Law Over The Breakdown, Duel Between Fire And Ice Energy, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1, screamed]
Sixty-eight degrees, the number on the wall,
Carved into the household like a rune inside a hall,
I reach out one cold finger toward the sacred plastic dial,
The floorboard creaks behind me. She was there the whole while.

[CHORUS, sung, soaring]
Thermostat wars! We fight them every night!
Two degrees of freedom versus one maternal right!
Thermostat wars! The blanket is the way!
Sixty-eight is not a number! Sixty-eight is LAW!

[VERSE 2, screamed]
Dad turned it once in '19. We do not speak of Dad's attempt.
The cousin brought a space heater. Confiscated. No contempt.
Destroy just wears the beanie, indoor beanie, calm and warm,
The man adapted years ago. The man's beyond the storm.

[BREAKDOWN] (everything drops to half time)
(one dial click)
(silence)
(Mom, calmly, over the chugs:) "Put on a sweater, sweetheart."
(the sweater goes on)
(the breakdown continues, but respectfully)

[BRIDGE, sung]
And when the label CEO decrees the temperature of art,
You wear the sweater that she knit you, and you wear it from the heart.

[FINAL CHORUS]
THERMOSTAT WARS! (we lost!) WE ALWAYS LOSE! (we know!)
SIXTY-EIGHT FOREVER! THE SWEATER IS THE SHOW!

Sacktap & Destroy - THERMOSTAT WARS (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Metalcore. Mom holds the line at 68. The breakdown hits when somebody touches the dial.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 03 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Funeral Doom Metal Near 48 Bpm, Crushing Downtuned Chords With Enormous Sustain, Agonized Slow Growled Vocals, Sparse Thunderous Drums With Occasional Double Bass Rolls Like Distant Avalanches, Mournful Lead Guitar Wail, A Single Wet Footstep Sound, Total Despair Over A Minor Domestic Event, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1, growled, glacial]
The boots... came off... beside the door...
The puddle... waited... on the floor...
I walked... in confidence... in wool...
The left foot... found... the meltwater... pool.

[CHORUS]
WET SOCKS.
(the cold ascends the ankle)
WET SOCKS.
(the day is now divided: before, and after)
WET SOCKS.
There is no dryness. There is only memory of dryness.

[VERSE 2]
I stood... one thousand years... upon that spot...
The sock... clung... to everything... I'm not...
Destroy observed... and slowly... shook his head...
Then handed me... dry socks... he keeps... a pair... ahead.

[BRIDGE, whispered over feedback]
(he keeps a pair ahead.)
(he has always kept a pair ahead.)
(what else does he know.)

[OUTRO, clean and broken]
On the radiator now, a small flag of surrender hangs,
Steaming gently, penitent, absolved of all its wrongs,
And I, in borrowed dryness, walk carefully evermore,
For the puddle keeps its vigil... by the door.

Sacktap & Destroy - WET SOCKS (DOOM) (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Funeral doom. Snowmelt by the door. One step in socks. The heaviest thing ever recorded.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 04 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Epic Power Metal Near 176 Bpm, Galloping Riffs, Triumphant Twin Harmony Leads, Soaring Heroic Tenor Vocals, Double Bass Drums At Full Sprint, Orchestral Hits, A Diesel Engine Roar Blended Into The Mix, Choir On The Final Chorus, Glory And Rock Salt, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1]
When the county sleeps in silence and the drifts consume the lanes,
One headlight crests the ridge line like a comet dragging chains,
Twelve tons of yellow thunder with a blade of holy steel,
He plowed for Deb's mother through the storm of '78. Same route. Same legend at the wheel.

[CHORUS]
THE PLOW GUY COMETH! (raise the salt!)
Down Poplar Drive at dawn!
THE PLOW GUY COMETH! (clear the road!)
And then the guy plows on!
He asks for no reward, he takes no glory and no rest,
One wave from that high cabin and you know that you've been blessed.

[VERSE 2]
He buried half our shoveling. We saluted. It was right.
The bank he builds beside the box could stand a siege all night.
And Thursday last, at seven, as the covenant convened,
The great blade slowed before our house. The window then went clean.

[BRIDGE, half time, reverent]
He held his phone above the wheel.
He pressed subscribe. Bare handed. Twelve degrees.
Twenty-four.
The horn spoke once across the frozen fields,
And every dog in Bucks County answered.

[FINAL CHORUS, with choir]
THE PLOW GUY COMETH! (twenty-four!)
THE ROUTE IS NEVER DONE!
THE PLOW GUY COMETH! (evermore!)
FIRST SERVANT OF THE SNOW! FIRST RIDER OF THE SUN!

Sacktap & Destroy - THE PLOW GUY COMETH (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Power metal gallop. The municipal rider crests the hill at dawn. He waves. Subscriber twenty-four.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 05 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Skit Over A Slow Heavy Riff Played On A Diner Radio Near 70 Bpm, Blizzard Wind Outside, Coffee Urn Percolating, A Confident Diner Voice Laying Down Blizzard Law, Book Club Ladies Snowed In And Thriving, A Bell Over The Door Fighting The Wind, Warm Fluorescent Hum, Field Recording Grit.

[SKIT]
(wind screaming. a door forced open. the bell over it rings sideways.)

DEB: "Close it, close it. There. Welcome to the only light in the county."

(the urn percolates like a bass drum.)

DEB: "Blizzard rules. Coffee's bottomless. Booths are first come.
The book club has the corner and they are not leaving. Ever, possibly."

MARGARET: "We've established a government."
BOOK CLUB: "A JUST ONE."

DEB: "Kitchen's open till the kitchen isn't. The Rooster never closes.
The Rooster has never closed. My mother ran this counter through the storm of '78
and her mother through the freeze before that. You know what they kept hot?"

BOOK CLUB, in unison: "THE FRYERS."

DEB: "The fryers." (a beat) "Boys, your usual's already down. I saw the headlights on the hill."

(three snowed-in truckers at the counter lean over one phone. three subscription chimes.)

DEB: "Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven. Storm's good for business."

(she refills the urn. outside, the plow guy's horn sounds once, far off. Deb nods at it like a colleague.)

DEB: "Book club. Hands in. EXTRA."
EVERYONE, even the truckers: "CRISPY."

(the bell rings again. it has chosen a side. it chose the warm side.)

Sacktap & Destroy - DEB'S DINER (SKIT) | PERMAFROST

Blizzard. The Rooster is the only light in the county. Deb keeps the urn full and the law simple.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 06 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy featuring Deb and the snowed in. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Blackened Thrash Metal Near 208 Bpm, Tremolo Picked Riffs, Blast Beats Into Double Bass Gallops, Shrieked Verses With A Chanted Ominous Chorus, Icy Reverb, One Slip And Recovery Sound Effect, Frantic Terror Over A Short Walk, Sudden Stop Ending, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1, shrieked]
It looks like wet. IT IS NOT WET.
It looks like road. IT IS NOT ROAD.
The mailbox stands just forty feet
Across the mirror world below.

[CHORUS, chanted, ominous]
BLACK ICE. (the driveway lies)
BLACK ICE. (trust nothing that shines)
BLACK ICE. (small steps, arms wide)
BLACK ICE. (the penguin walk survives)

[VERSE 2, shrieked]
Destroy went first, a statue gliding, center mass controlled,
I followed like a newborn deer negotiating gold,
The recycling bin went down at eight. We heard it. Gone. At sea.
It drifted to the neighbor's yard. The neighbor let it be.

[BRIDGE] (blast beats)
ONE SLIP,
(the arms windmill)
ONE FULL SECOND AIRBORNE,
(the mail stays gripped, priority one, protect the mail)
THE LANDING: SOMEHOW: STUCK IT.
(the judges: two dogs and the plow guy, distant: all approved)

[FINAL CHORUS]
BLACK ICE. (we reached the box)
BLACK ICE. (two coupons and a flyer)
BLACK ICE. (was it worth it?)
BLACK ICE. (the coupon was for chicken. YES.)

(sudden stop)

Sacktap & Destroy - BLACK ICE (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Blackened thrash. The driveway's final boss. Forty feet to the mailbox. Pray.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 07 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Symphonic Metal Epic Near 140 Bpm, Orchestral Strings And Horns Over Downtuned Riffs, Double Bass Drums Marching, Operatic Backing Choir, Heroic Baritone Lead Trading With A Diner Voice On One Line, Sleigh Bells Weaponized, Key Change Into The Final Chorus, Grandeur About Fried Chicken, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1]
Chapter one, we screamed it, with the fryers running hot,
Chapter two, we rapped it, when eleven's all we got,
Chapter three, we let it breathe in golden summer light,
Chapter four: the whiteout. And the covenant tonight.

[PRE]
Seven strikes regardless. Seven strikes through snow.
The clock does not negotiate. We lace the boots. We go.

[CHORUS]
CHICKEN O'CLOCK! (the cold hunt!)
Through the drifts the legends ride!
CHICKEN O'CLOCK! (the old vow!)
Not a Thursday's been denied!
Blizzard, black ice, buried roads, the ancient rooster calls,
EXTRA CRISPY IS A FLAME THAT NEVER, EVER FALLS!

[VERSE 2]
The whip won't start, the whip's excused, we walk the final mile,
The cousin's on the toboggan with the trumpet, going wild,
And through the white, a neon glow, the only light for miles,
The Rooster in the storm looks like salvation. It's the style.

[BRIDGE]
(the door. the bell. the warmth like a wall of grace.)
(Deb, without looking up:) "Saw you on the hill. It's boxed. It's hot. Sit down before you die."
(choir, softly:) She saw them on the hill. She always sees them on the hill.

[FINAL CHORUS, key change]
CHICKEN O'CLOCK! (chapter four!)
Frost on every brow!
CHICKEN O'CLOCK! (forevermore!)
The covenant is NOW!
Four albums deep in chicken and the flame's still burning tall,
YOU DON'T CHOOSE CHICKEN O'CLOCK. CHICKEN O'CLOCK CHOOSES ALL!

Sacktap & Destroy - CHICKEN O'CLOCK IV: THE COLD HUNT (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Symphonic metal epic. Chapter four. The Thursday march through the blizzard. Deb saw them coming.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 08 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Sludge Doom Near 66 Bpm, Fuzz Drenched Downtuned Riffs Swaying Like Heat Shimmer, Slow Double Bass Pulses, Reverent Baritone Verses Rising To A Massive Group Chorus, An Actual Electric Heater Hum Blended As Drone, Orange Warmth In Sonic Form, One Amp Worship Feedback Swell, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1]
Returned to us by treaty, with conditions, from the queen,
One outlet, never two, and never left alone, unseen,
It sits upon the hearth stone where a fire would have burned,
Three settings and a pilgrim's glow. Behold: the heat, returned.

[CHORUS]
ORANGE GLOW. (the coils sing)
ORANGE GLOW. (the dust smell of the first ignition, incense of the season)
ORANGE GLOW. (rotate your body like a rotisserie of gratitude)
The front of me is summer. The back of me is Mars.

[VERSE 2]
We put a microphone against its humming metal cheek,
It droned a perfect B flat. It had waited weeks to speak.
Destroy tuned down to meet it. The whole song rests on that.
Our lead vocalist tonight: a heater. Run the track.

[BRIDGE, whispered]
(do not touch the grill.)
(we know.)
(we learned.)
(the cousin learned twice. he says it was worth it. it was not worth it.)

[OUTRO, group, swaying]
Glow on, orange prophet, through the darkest week of all,
Sixty-eight's the letter of the law, but you're the soul.

Sacktap & Destroy - SPACE HEATER (HYMN OF THE ORANGE GLOW) (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Sludge worship. The confiscated heater, returned under treaty, glows. They mic it. It sings.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 09 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Atmospheric Black Metal Near 172 Bpm, Shimmering Tremolo Guitar Walls, Blast Beats Softened With Reverb Into A Blizzard Of Sound, Distant Harsh Vocals Like Wind, One Clean Chanted Passage, Deep Ice Boom Sounds, Awe And Omen, A Single Pontoon Horn Frozen Mid Note, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1, harsh, distant]
First the edges, lace and glass,
Then the shallows, then the deep,
The current fought a week and lost,
The river went to sleep.

[CHANT, clean]
Bank to bank. Bank to bank.
The old ones said it happens once a decade if it dares.
Bank to bank. Bank to bank.
And when it does, a road appears that leads to only theirs.

[VERSE 2, harsh]
The ice speaks in the nighttime, booming psalms beneath the stars,
Deb's pontoon sits frozen at the dock like a held breath,
The S.S. Second Shift will wait the season out in glass,
Her horn froze mid salute. The note continues. Nothing's lost.

[BRIDGE, whispered over tremolo]
(you know what's out there.)
(past the middle. up the air. nine hundred degrees of forever.)
(there has never been a road before.)
(there is a road now.)

[OUTRO]
The freeze completes at midnight with one final cannon crack,
And every light on Poplar Drive comes on, and none go back,
Tomorrow we assemble. Every sub. Every friend. Every chair.
The river built a bridge this year. We'd be rude not to use it.

Sacktap & Destroy - THE RIVER FREEZES (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

Atmospheric black metal. Bank to bank, the Delaware locks. The old road opens.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 10 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Epic Melodic Metal March Near 128 Bpm, Massive Unison Riffs, War Drum Toms With Double Bass Underneath, Whole Crowd Gang Vocals, Twin Guitar Harmony Rising Verse By Verse, Boots On Ice Percussion, One Muted Trumpet Fanfare Answering The Riff, Torchlit Grandeur, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1]
At dawn we gathered at the bank, the crew of every song,
The book club in matching knitted hats, Herb's lantern burning strong,
The plow guy parked the rig above and walked down like a knight,
The pizza guy brought thirty freeze pops. Frozen? Sure. But right.

[CHORUS]
ACROSS THE ICE! (the pilgrimage!)
Thirty strong and side by side!
ACROSS THE ICE! (the flashlights raised!)
The frozen Delaware's our bride!
Every step a drum hit, every breath a banner white,
WE MARCH BENEATH THE MORNING TO THE TRICK THAT OWNS THE NIGHT!

[VERSE 2]
The folding chair walks point position, bucket held aloft,
Redemption fully vested now. Its hinges never cough.
Three fishermen beside their holes looked up and understood,
Reeled in, packed up, fell in line. Subscribed. That's thirty. Good.

[BRIDGE, half time]
Past the pontoon, frozen queen, we each salute the horn,
Deb matches us on shore with the urn raised like a torch,
The cousin plays the fanfare and the valves hold, every note,
And the ice booms underneath us like the river taking oaths.

[FINAL CHORUS]
ACROSS THE ICE! (almost there!)
The middle of the world!
ACROSS THE ICE! (look up! look up!)
The flags of frost unfurled!
Thirty souls stop walking as the morning holds its breath,
Above us, in the silver air:
(everything stops)
There it is.

Sacktap & Destroy - FROZEN PILGRIMAGE (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

The march. Thirty strong across the ice, flashlights raised, the folding chair carrying the bucket.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 11 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

Merch, custom jock jackets, and the lesson book: /estate/sd/site/merch/

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Colossal Doom Metal Finale Near 58 Bpm, The Heaviest Downtuned Chords Of The Album Ringing Like Cathedral Bells, Slow Double Bass Like A Giant Heartbeat, Clean Awestruck Baritone Verses Into A Full Choir Of Thirty Untrained Voices, Aurora Shimmer Synth Pads, Long Sustained Final Chord With Ice Crack Harmonics, Total Reverence, Played Completely Straight.

[VERSE 1, clean, hushed]
Nine winters, three whole albums, every Thursday, every load,
It hung above this river with no witness and no road,
And now we stand beneath it, thirty upturned frozen faces,
Minus seven on the gauge and not one shiver in our places.

[CHORUS, everyone]
BENEATH THE NINE HUNDO,
Where the air remembers flight,
BENEATH THE NINE HUNDO,
Nine hundred degrees of light,
It never came down, it never will, and standing here we know:
Some prayers you land. Some prayers you leave exactly where they go.

[VERSE 2]
Destroy removed his beanie. Understand what that entails.
The cousin raised the trumpet, thought about it, let it lower. Details.
Even silence has a setlist. This was track one, holy, whole.
Mom recorded nothing. Some things go straight to the soul.

[BRIDGE, spoken over the heartbeat]
(Sacktap, quiet:) "Still up there."
(thirty voices, quieter:) "Still up there."
(Herb sets the shelf candle on the ice. The chip's flame holds at minus seven. Of course it does. It knows about heat.)
(the ice booms once beneath them, long and low. agreed.)

[FINAL CHORUS, colossal]
BENEATH THE NINE HUNDO,
The covenant complete,
BENEATH THE NINE HUNDO,
The cold admits defeat,
The gauge says minus seven but the gauge has never known:
Directly under glory it is nine hundred degrees.
Spiritually. It's nine hundred degrees.

[OUTRO]
(the final chord rings for a very long time. nobody moves to stop it. the river holds them all.)

Sacktap & Destroy - BENEATH THE NINE HUNDO (Official Audio) | PERMAFROST

The summit. Standing under the frozen trick at last. Minus seven degrees. Nobody is cold.

From PERMAFROST (A Winter Pilgrimage): full metal from the coldest winter on record, ending with a walk across the frozen Delaware to stand beneath the nine hundo.

New streams every Thursday at 7 PM. Winter changed nothing.
Subscribe and claim your sub number. The plow guy did it bare handed at twelve degrees.

Track 12 of 13. Full album playlist: [PLAYLIST LINK]

Performed by Sacktap & Destroy. Drums: double bass, dry socks. Trumpet: the cousin, valves held. Melodica: Destroy, mittens off. Recorded in the living room and once on a frozen river, Upper Black Eddy, PA.

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