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* WalkingTheEarth: After being ejected from Rome following an affair with a wealthy noblewoman that ended with the woman's suicide, the prophet Antiochus spent 27 years travelling across Europe and Central Asia on foot before returning to Rome a full fledged prophet. What happened in that time period is left mysterious, but is implied to be horrifying. See HumanoidAbomination for details.

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* WalkingTheEarth: After being ejected from Rome following an affair with a wealthy noblewoman that ended with the woman's suicide, the prophet Antiochus spent 27 years travelling across Europe and Central Asia on foot before returning to Rome a full fledged prophet. What happened in that time period is left mysterious, but is implied to be horrifying. See HumanoidAbomination for details. When asked what happened during this period, he reportedly said "Simply life, and that was enough."

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** ''The Unnatural World'' has a similar booklet, centered around spiritualism

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** ''The Unnatural World'' has a similar booklet, centered around spiritualismspiritualism.
* CreatorThumbprint: Count on every Dan Barrett project to come packaged with a lengthy booklet expounding upon the concept of the album.
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* ArcSymbol: Arrowheads, which appear twice in "Bloodhail" with the lyric repetition of "Arrowheads" and "Hunter", which focuses on Humanity killing God by sending a "Great Hunter" to shoot him with his arrow.
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** ''The Unnatural World'' has a similar booklet, centered around spiritualism
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* NeoclassicalZydecoPunkRockabilly: Self-described "depressive post-industrial doomgaze".

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* NeoZydecoPunkRockabilly: Self-described "depressive post-industrial doomgaze".

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* GothRock: A noticeable influence on ''The Unnatural World''. "Defenestration Song" almost sounds like Music/TheSistersOfMercy could have done it.


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* NeoZydecoPunkRockabilly: Self-described "depressive post-industrial doomgaze".

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* AndIMustScream: The golems in "Earthmover". They cannot die or feel pain, but wish for death so they can be released from an existence that consists only of mindless destruction.



--> ''"And I'll never know what you said, because I'll be fucking dead by then"''

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--> ''"And I'll never know what you said, because I'll be fucking '''FUCKING''' dead by then"''then!"''


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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The golems in "Earthmover" can neither die nor feel pain, but long to die anyway.
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* ''Sea of Worry'' (2019)
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Have a Nice Life is an American experimental rock band from Connecticut. Consisting of Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, the band is known for their unique style mixing elements of {{shoegaze}}, PostPunk, PostRock, and drone, as well as the bleak, funereal atmosphere of their music. The band was founded in 2000, but didn't release their first record until 2008, when they came out with the double album ''Deathconsciousness''. Though it was released to little attention at first, the album gradually picked up a devoted cult following on the internet. After this they went into another period of hiatus, releasing a couple collections of demos as well as an EP called ''Time of Land''. In 2014 they released their second full length album, ''The Unnatural World'', to widespread praise.

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Have a Nice Life is an American experimental rock band from Connecticut. Consisting of Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, the band is known for their unique style mixing elements of {{shoegaze}}, PostPunk, PostRock, and drone, as well as the bleak, funereal atmosphere of their music. The band was founded in 2000, but didn't release their first record until 2008, when they came out with the double album ''Deathconsciousness''. Though it was released to little attention at first, the album gradually picked up a devoted cult following on the internet. After this they went into another period of hiatus, releasing a couple collections of demos as well as an EP called ''Time of Land''. In 2014 they released their second full length album, ''The Unnatural World'', to widespread praise.
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* LeadBassist: Though he's not the frontman, Tim Macuga could qualify due to a large chunk of the band's songs being built around his bass lines.
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* ApocalypseWow: "Earthmover" gives this impression, being the longest and most grandiose song on ''Deathconsciousness'' while describing the destruction of the world.

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* DroneOfDread: "Waiting for Black Metals Records to Come in the Mail" begins with one.

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* DroneOfDread: "Waiting for Black Metals Records to Come in the Mail" begins with one.one, while "The Future" has some droning feedback in the background that becomes increasingly louder as the song continues.
* EchoingAcoustics: A big part of their SignatureStyle.



* GodIsDead: All of mankind comes together to literally murder him in "Bloodhail".



* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Consistently around an 8 or 9. They rarely make use of profanity or describe anything explicitly disturbing, but the level of sheer despair on display is more than enough to land them on the hard end of the scale.



** ''Voids'' has a song called "I'm [[Series/{{House}} Doctor House]]".



--> ''What should come out''
--> ''But 'We wish we were dead'"''

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--> ''What should come out''
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--> ''But 'We ''We wish we were dead'"''dead''
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* SomethingSong: "Defenestration Song".

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* SomethingSong: TheSomethingSong: "Defenestration Song".
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* NonindicativeName: "Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail" is not about the act of waiting for black metal records to come in the mail.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: "Cropsey" has one as part of its instrumentation.


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* PrecisionFStrike: In "Burial Society".
--> ''"And I'll never know what you said, because I'll be fucking dead by then"''


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* SomethingSong: "Defenestration Song".

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* DeathSeeker: The Antiochean cult was based around a complex and somewhat ambiguous form of this; rather than wishing for death, they wished for release from an existence that could ''only'' end in death.

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* DeathSeeker: The Antiochean cult was based around a complex and somewhat ambiguous form of this; rather than wishing for death, they wished for release from an existence that could ''only'' end in death. The golems in "Earthmover" play it straight.


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* WhamLine: The last line of "Earthmover".
--> ''"And when their stone mouths open up''
--> ''What should come out''
--> ''But 'We wish we were dead'"''
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* MadOracle: Antiochus.


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* WalkingTheEarth: After being ejected from Rome following an affair with a wealthy noblewoman that ended with the woman's suicide, the prophet Antiochus spent 27 years travelling across Europe and Central Asia on foot before returning to Rome a full fledged prophet. What happened in that time period is left mysterious, but is implied to be horrifying. See HumanoidAbomination for details.
* WeAllDieSomeday: Antiochanism is this taken to an extreme; not only is everyone and everything doomed to die someday, they believed that, because of this fact, everyone and everything is ''already'' dead.
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* HumanoidAbomination: There are several hints that Antiochus may have been one of these, including a legend from his time in the mountains of Dagestan in which he appears as a wandering sorcerer who takes residence in a village of the Avar people, acting as a fortune teller for them. However, when a man from the village offends him by spying on him as a crow whispers secrets to him, he disappears into his tent and emerges five days later as a monstrous being covered in raven feathers, who prophesies the complete destruction of the village before disappearing into the wilderness.

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* DeathSeeker: The Antiochean cult was based around a complex and somewhat ambiguous form of this; rather than wishing for death, they wished for release from an existence that could ''only'' end in death.



* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Bloodhail" describes an apocalyptic rebellion against God.

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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Bloodhail" describes an apocalyptic rebellion against God.God, while "Earthmover" depicts an army of golems destroying the world by physically tearing apart the land and mountains.



* {{Golem}}: "Earthmover" is about an army of golems destroying the earth, yet wishing for death themselves.



--> "Teeth and hate
--> End our relationship
--> Of course it's sad but that's the way it is
--> Your violence always wins the day
--> Yes, your violence wins"

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--> "Teeth ''"Teeth and hate
hate''
--> End ''End our relationship
relationship''
--> Of ''Of course it's sad but that's the way it is
is''
--> Your ''Your violence always wins the day
day''
--> Yes, ''Yes, your violence wins"wins"''



* IronicName: The band name, as their music is renowned for being extremely depressing.

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* IronicName: The band name, as their music is renowned for being extremely uncompromisingly bleak and depressing.



* AMillionIsAStatistic: Referenced in the preface to the ''Deathconsciousness'' booklet, in which the album title is defined as essentially an awareness of this trope.
--> ''"Knowing that an individual death is meaningless - any individual death, especially your own - that you are not a person, but a statistic - and noticing, more each day, the countless deaths that occur around you - of other people, of animals, of insects, of the sick and infirm, of accident victims, of plants ripped from the earth and worms crushed beneath the blades of plows - of authors in their rooms, scribbling out desperate words in the backs of books no one will ever read- even the shattering of molecular bonds, the disintegration of atomic structures, happening in every moment, millions in each nanosecond, everywhere-''
--> ''This is Deathconsciousness.''
--> ''And It begs the question, 'What is the point?'"''



* QuestioningTitle: "Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun?"



* QuestioningTitle: "Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun?"
* WordSaladTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" seems to be one at first, though it's most likely a reference to the national rate of suicide in the United States; 40,000 people every year.

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* QuestioningTitle: "Who Would Leave Their Son Out ShoutOut: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" contains a reference to ''Film/TheTerminator'' of all things, as part of its metaphor of human beings essentially being machines.
--> ''"Send me back
in the Sun?"
time''\\
''And I'll bring us back in line''\\
''Just tell me whose mother''\\
''I have to kill''"
* WordSaladTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" seems to be one at first, though it's most likely a reference to the national rate of suicide in the United States; 40,000 people every year.year.
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--> ''"Sometimes, I just... I just... I just don't know."''

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--> "''Knowing that an individual death is meaningless – any individual death, especially your own – that you are not a person, but a statistic – and noticing, more each day, the countless deaths that occur around you – of other people, of animals, of insects, of the sick and infirm, of accident victims, of plants ripped from the earth and worms crushed beneath the blades of plows – of authors in their rooms, scribbling out desperate words in the backs of books no one will ever read - even the shattering of molecular bonds, the disintegration of atomic structures, happening in every moment, millions in each nanosecond, everything-''



--> ''And It begs the question - "What is the point?''"

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--> ''And It begs the question - [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "What is the point?''"point?"]]''
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--> "''Knowing that an individual death is meaningless – any individual death, especially your own – that you are not a person, but a statistic – and noticing, more each day, the countless deaths that occur around you – of other people, of animals, of insects, of the sick and infirm, of accident victims, of plants ripped from the earth and worms crushed beneath the blades of plows – of authors in their rooms, scribbling out desperate words in the backs of books no one will ever read - even the shattering of molecular bonds, the disintegration of atomic structures, happening in every moment, millions in each nanosecond, everything-''

--> ''This is [[TitleDrop Deathconsciousness]]-''
--> ''And It begs the question - "What is the point?''"
--> - The prologue of the ''Deathconsciousness'' booklet.
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* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail", "Please please please release me" in "The Big Gloom".

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* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, "We kill everyone with arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail", "Please please please release me" in "The Big Gloom". arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads..."
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* DroneOfDread: "Waiting for Black Metals Records to Come in the Mail" begins with one.

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* DespairEventHorizon: "I Don't Love" is about teetering on the edge of this and considering suicide.



* HorribleHistoryMetal: "The Big Gloom" is about the death of Jean-Paul Marat, the event depicted on the album cover.



* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000".

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* {{Instrumentals}}: "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut", excepting some muffled spoken word at the end, as well as "The Future".
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000". 40,000".
* IronicName: The band name, as their music is renowned for being extremely depressing.

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* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail".
* ConceptAlbum: ''Deathconsciousness'' is a loose one, based around a supposed medieval cult called the Antiocheans who were persecuted by the Catholic Church for their heretical beliefs.

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* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail".BoleroEffect: "Hunter" and "Earthmover" both feature lengthy post-rock style crescendos.
* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail", "Please please please release me" in "The Big Gloom".
* ConceptAlbum: ''Deathconsciousness'' is a loose one, based around ''The Books of Terror and Longing'', the religious texts of a supposed medieval cult called the Antiocheans who were persecuted by the Catholic Church for their heretical beliefs.beliefs, which included denying the existence of heaven and possibly of God as well. There's almost no evidence outside of the album booklet that this cult or the Books of Terror and Longing ever really existed, so the whole thing can be read as an elaborate work of metafiction.



* HumansAreBastards: A central theme of the band, most clearly expressed with the line "Your violence always wins the day" in "Hunter".

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* HumansAreBastards: A central theme of the band, most clearly expressed with in "Hunter".
--> "Teeth and hate
--> End our relationship
--> Of course it's sad but that's
the line "Your way it is
--> Your
violence always wins the day" in "Hunter". day
--> Yes, your violence wins"



* MessianicArchetype: The prophet Antiochus, as described in the album booklet, is an atypically grim example. His life story, which includes a lengthy period of wandering the world in his youth which is not detailed by the text, as well as a martyr's death at the hands of the religious authorities in Rome, greatly resembles the life and death of Jesus, which the author notes was most likely intentional.



* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "Bloodhail" and "Hunter" describe a story, supposedly drawn from ''The Books of Terror and Longing'', in which all of mankind rebels against God, building a massive ladder from their own bodies to the heavens, so that "the Great Hunter" can climb to heaven and shoot God down with his arrows.

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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "Bloodhail" and "Hunter" describe a story, supposedly drawn from ''The Books of Terror and Longing'', in which all of mankind rebels against God, building a massive ladder from their own bodies to the heavens, so that "the Great Hunter" can climb to heaven and shoot God down with his arrows.arrows.
* QuestioningTitle: "Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun?"
* WordSaladTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" seems to be one at first, though it's most likely a reference to the national rate of suicide in the United States; 40,000 people every year.
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* MinimalistCoverArt: Both versions of ''Deathconsciousness'' have this, with the more famous one having a cropped picture of the painting ''The Death of Marat'', while the vinyl release has a black and white photo of a World War I soldier with the album title printed below.

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* MinimalistCoverArt: MinimalisticCoverArt: Both versions of ''Deathconsciousness'' have this, with the more famous one having a cropped picture of the painting ''The Death of Marat'', while the vinyl release has a black and white photo of a World War I soldier with the album title printed below.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The cover of ''The Unnatural World'', as well as the vinyl version of ''Deathconsciousness''.


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* PerishingAltRockVoice: Dan Barrett's vocals are like this.
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* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Deathconsciousness'' is divided into two discs, with the first being called "The Plow That Broke the Plains", and the second called "The Future".
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Bloodhail" describes an apocalyptic rebellion against God.


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* HumansAreBastards: A central theme of the band, most clearly expressed with the line "Your violence always wins the day" in "Hunter".
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000".
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Have a Nice Life is an American experimental rock band from Connecticut. Consisting of Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, the band is known for their unique style mixing elements of {{shoegaze}}, PostPunk, PostRock, and drone, as well as the bleak, funereal atmosphere of their music. The band was founded in 2000, but didn't release their first record until 2008, when they came out with the double album ''Deathconsciousness''. Though it was released to little attention at first, the album gradually picked up a devoted cult following on the internet. After this they went into another period of hiatus, releasing a couple collections of demos as well as an EP called ''Time of Land''. In 2014 they released their second full length album, ''The Unnatural World'', to widespread praise.

Discography:
* ''Deathconsciousness'' (2008)
* ''Voids'' (2010, demo)
* ''Time of Land'' (2010, EP)
* ''Live at the Stone NYC'' (2010)
* ''Voids II'' (2014, demo)
* ''The Unnatural World'' (2014)

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* AlbumIntroTrack: Despite being one of the longer songs on the album, "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" effectively functions as this for ''Deathconsciousness''.
* AllLovingHero: God in "Hunter" forgives mankind even as he lays dying of arrow wounds, and allows all the animals on earth to devour his flesh as a final act of love for his creation.
* AllThereInTheManual: The 70 page album booklet for ''Deathconsciousness'', which contains a lengthy essay, supposedly by a professor of religious history whom the band contacted, about the history of the Antiochean cult from which the album draws many of its themes.
* BrokenRecord: "Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads" in "Bloodhail".
* ConceptAlbum: ''Deathconsciousness'' is a loose one, based around a supposed medieval cult called the Antiocheans who were persecuted by the Catholic Church for their heretical beliefs.
* EpicRocking: Very few of the band's songs are under 5 minutes long. Their longer tracks include "Hunter" (9:43), "Earthmover" (11:28), and "Destinos" (13:23).
* LongTitle: "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut", "Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun?", "Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail".
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally around a 4 or 5, with "A Quick One..." being a 1 and "Waiting for Black Metal Records..." being a 7.
* PerspectiveFlip: "Hunter" is a perspective flip of "Bloodhail", occurring from the perspective of God as he lays dying upon the earth.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "Bloodhail" and "Hunter" describe a story, supposedly drawn from ''The Books of Terror and Longing'', in which all of mankind rebels against God, building a massive ladder from their own bodies to the heavens, so that "the Great Hunter" can climb to heaven and shoot God down with his arrows.

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