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Corporeal Crawlers

by Walter Campbell

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corporeal crawler You take the shortcut through the cemetery path Despite the warnings from the local riff-raff They talk of haunted ghosts and ghouls Childish nonsense, you’re nobody’s fool You leave the inn at a quarter to midnight Walk down the fog-covered trail by moonlight You spot a figure standing still as a grave Not quite lifelike, but very depraved It sees you now, its stare fills you with dread And makes a sound that could raise the dead Sure enough, they arise from their tombs Coming toward and hungry for you They are collectors and you're one of a kind You start to run but twist your ankle in time You try to crawl away, they crawl in pursuit Now you’re surrounded, and they’re calling for you Now you’re pleading and they’re upon you Now you’re screaming and they’re devouring you Now you’re dead and they’re collecting you
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drawn & quartered Weary traveler, rest your head More rest to come when you’re dead Which will be very soon Come the next blood red moon Your steed rides off as you sleep deeply The forest closing in silent, discreetly Branches wrap around your ankles and wrists Tightening with every grip Pinned down by the trees that surround Pulling your limbs without making a sound Arm and leg off like a child with a fly And now it’s time to die Your amputated abdomen Now being pulled apart from both ends You scream in silence as you split in twain Death will not stop the pain The trees they seed in your entrails and gore Drawn and quartered until you are four A human compost pile of maggot feed Hero of the worms and weeds
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splatterhouse by the cemetery Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide You thought the curse was lifted when you slayed the necromancer Your salvation is temporary But now the question of your fate will fatefully be answered At the house by the cemetery The footsteps of your would-be executioners approaching Cacophony from across the graveyard Their snarls and calls for your flesh and of bloodlust life-encroaching The walls before you your only safeguard You choose to enter through a window near the rear way entrance So far, so good, your heartbeat slowing Opting to fortify your faith and say a prayer of penance Stalls you when you should keep on going Being distracted, you don’t see the motion from behind you It attacks, yet you manage to escape Not much longer before you have no more places to run to Need a hiding place before it’s too late The panic makes you fail to take a semblance of precaution You reach a dead end, the door won’t open And now their sounds echo the hallway and you’re out of options God won’t save you, your faith is broken You’re frozen as the very walls descend with desperation Disarmed in more ways than one, you’re screaming Upon the floor, you’re torn asunder without hesitation And now the splatter house walls are bleeding And now the splatter house walls are feeding
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let me see your face I saw my lover fall to their death, their mangled body upon the shore The rocks their tombstone, buried in a pile of gore Yet now I see you in the moonless night through my window, standing still If my eyes cannot believe, then my heart it will While I can’t make out your face, it appears I’m right Please don’t look away, let me look into your eyes Turn around, please don’t look away from me Let me see your face, the face of my one and only…
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Corporeal Crawlers is a storybook collection of dungeon synthpop about misadventures in misanthropy. Inspired by dungeon synth, body horror, and "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels, this spooky new release from Walter Campbell features nine songs full of ungodly monsters, unholy spirits, and the hungry undead, with contributions from co-conspirators coast to coast.
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Recorded December 2021 - February 2023
Produced, mixed, and engineered by Walter Campbell
Mastered by Scott Nydegger
Artwork by Thaniel Ion Lee

Vocals, synths, and drum programming by Walter Campbell
Songs written, performed, and arranged by Walter Campbell, with:

#1
guitar and moog synth by Douglas Hargrove of Alibastard:
alibastard13.bandcamp.com

#3:
drum programming by Nikki of Third Eye Mutilation: thirdeyemutilation.bandcamp.com

synth bass by Karl Meischen of The Greening & book on VHS:
thegreening.com
bookonVHS.bandcamp.com

#5:
music and synths by Douglas Hargrove. Lyrics inspired by the A.M. Burrage story, 'One Who Saw' (1931), and its Midnight Radio adaptation, "The Evil Face [aka Let Me See Your Face]", broadcast April 11, 1969

#6:
drum programming, synth bass, and lead synths by Karl Meischen

#7:
guitar and added synth by Douglas Hargrove. Alternate versions of this song appear on these releases:
dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/album/farces-of-death
waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/live-on-local-love-13123

#8:
drums and synth bass/effects sampled with permission from "Horror of the Opossum" by F2RC from the album, Conscript in an Alien Empire: muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/conscript-in-an-alien-empire

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released July 6, 2023

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