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* ''Orchards of a Futile Heaven (collaboration with Dis Fig) (2024)

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* ''Orchards of a Futile Heaven Heaven'' (collaboration with Dis Fig) (2024)

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* ''Leaving None But Small Birds'' (collaboration with Big|Brave) (2021)
* ''Enemy of Love'' (collaboration with OAA) (2022)
* ''Orchards of a Futile Heaven (collaboration with Dis Fig) (2024)
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* "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
* ''One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache'' is a line from the song "Doll Parts" by Music/{{Hole}}.

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* ** "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
* ** ''One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache'' is a line from the song "Doll Parts" by Music/{{Hole}}.

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* ShoutOut: "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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"Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
* ''One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache'' is a line from the song "Doll Parts" by Music/{{Hole}}.
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* LongTitle: They're very fond of these. Notable examples include "The Blessed Lay Down and Writhe in Agony" and "Even the Saints Knew Their Hour of Failure and Loss."
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* DreamTeam: They've worked with a laundry list of other extreme musical acts, including Full of Hell, Thou, Krieg, and The Haxan Cloak.
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* HarshNoise: "For You".

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* HarshNoise: "For You".You", as well as the entirety of ''I've Seen All I Need To See''.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A solid 10 most of the time, sometimes shooting up to an 11. They do take it lower for some songs, but this is almost always followed by intense MoodWhiplash.
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* BadassBeard: Both Chip and Lee sport some epic whiskers.

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* MisanthropeSupreme: A recurring theme in their lyrics, along with HatesEveryoneEqually and DrivenToSuicide.

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* MisanthropeSupreme: A recurring theme in their lyrics, along with HatesEveryoneEqually StrawNihilist and DrivenToSuicide.


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* SensoryAbuse: Between the grinding feedback-laden guitars and Chip's anguished howling, they're a pretty challenging listen to say the least.
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* ''I've Seen All I Need to See'' (2021)

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* ''O God who avenges, shine forth. Rise up, Judge of the Earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.'' (2018)
* ''Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back'' (collaboration with Uniform) (2019)
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Lathspell I Name You" to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', ''I Shall Die Here'' to ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. [[note]] Specifically, it's taken from Valerie's letter to V in the death camp. [[/note]]

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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Lathspell I Name You" to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''I Shall Die Here'' to ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. [[note]] Specifically, it's taken from Valerie's letter to V in the death camp. [[/note]]



* ShoutOut: "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''.

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* ShoutOut: "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''.''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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* HarshVocals: A uniquely disturbing flavor that WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop once described as sounding "Like a mutant pig man being tortured to death in an underground cellar."

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* HarshVocals: A uniquely disturbing flavor that WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop once described as sounding "Like a mutant pig man being tortured to death in an underground cellar."" Chip's vocal style is very similar to John Gossard of Music/{{Weakling}}.

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* ''I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer'' (2018)
* ''Mental Wounds Not Healing'' (collaboration with Uniform) (2018)
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* SpokenWordInMusic: Mostly done with samples taken from cult leaders or people talking about killing themselves, though "Prescience" begins with guest vocalist Chrissy Wolpert reading an original bit of writing.

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* SpokenWordInMusic: Mostly done with samples taken from cult leaders or people talking about killing themselves, though "Prescience" begins with guest vocalist Chrissy Wolpert reading an original bit of writing.excerpt from the novel ''Suicide'' by Edouard Leve.
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* ''Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light'' (collaboration with Full of Hell) (2017)
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* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Song of Sarin the Brave" is based on the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo Sunway System. Some shirts for the band actually feature a mugshot of Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the attacks.

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* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Song of Sarin the Brave" is based on the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo Sunway Subway System. Some shirts for the band actually feature a mugshot of Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the attacks.

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* BoleroEffect: Used to great effect on "Prescience".



* LiteraryIllusionTitle: "Lathspell I Name You" to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', ''I Shall Die Here'' to ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. [[note]] Specifically, it's taken from [[DeadManWriting Valerie's letter to V]] in the death camp. [[/note]]

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* LiteraryIllusionTitle: LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Lathspell I Name You" to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', ''I Shall Die Here'' to ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. [[note]] Specifically, it's taken from [[DeadManWriting Valerie's letter to V]] V in the death camp. [[/note]][[/note]]
* LonelyPianoPiece: "The Fall and the Guilt" is this paired with a DroneOfDread.
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* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Song of Sarin the Brave" is based on the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo Sunway System. Some shirts for the band actually feature a mugshot of Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the attacks.


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* LiteraryIllusionTitle: "Lathspell I Name You" to ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', ''I Shall Die Here'' to ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. [[note]] Specifically, it's taken from [[DeadManWriting Valerie's letter to V]] in the death camp. [[/note]]
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* AlbumTitleDrop: A rare example of one located ''outside'' the album: "The Vision" contains the lyrics "All the waters of the earth turn to blood."


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* DrivenToSuicide: This gets brought up a lot. ''I Shall Die Here'' contains multiple speech samples drawn from suicide hotlines.


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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "The Vision", which draws heavily from the Book of Revelation. There's a pretty apocalyptic theme to ''All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood'' as well.


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** "The Vision" isn't even remotely a metal song, instead being a gospel/folk song that slowly devolves into creepy dark ambient.
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* BadassBeard: Both Chip and Lee sport some epic whiskers.


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* NobodyLovesTheBassist: The band doesn't even bother with a bassist.
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The Body are an American experimental SludgeMetal band. Consisting of core duo Chip King (guitars, vocals) and Lee Buford (drums) and featuring a recurring cast of collaborators, the band are known for their punishingly heavy sound, experimental touches (including gospel choirs and electronic elements), and atmosphere of unrelenting hatred and nihilism. To date, the group has released 5 albums, along with a number of [=EPs=] and collaboration records with other bands, including Full of Hell, Thou, and Krieg.

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The Body are an American experimental SludgeMetal band. Consisting of core duo Chip King (guitars, vocals) and Lee Buford (drums) and featuring a recurring cast of collaborators, the band are known for their punishingly heavy sound, experimental touches (including gospel choirs and electronic elements), and an atmosphere of unrelenting hatred and nihilism. To date, the group has released 5 albums, along with a number of [=EPs=] and collaboration records with other bands, including Full of Hell, Thou, and Krieg.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The dudes themselves; Chip King (right) and Lee Buford (left).]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The dudes themselves; Chip King (right) (left) and Lee Buford (left).(right).]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The dudes themselves; Chip King (right) and Lee Buford (left).]]
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* GenreBusting: They have elements of sludge metal, dark ambient, noise, electronica, and even pop music.

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* GenreBusting: They have elements of sludge metal, dark ambient, noise, electronica, industrial, electronic, and even pop music.

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The Body are an American experimental SludgeMetal band. Consisting of core duo Chip King (guitars, vocals) and Lee Buford (drums) and featuring a recurring cast of collaborators, the band are known for their punishingly heavy sound, experimental touches (including gospel choirs and electronic elements), and atmosphere of unrelenting hatred and nihilism. To date, the group has released 5 albums, along with a number of EPs and collaboration records with other bands, including Full of Hell, Thou, and Krieg.

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The Body are an American experimental SludgeMetal band. Consisting of core duo Chip King (guitars, vocals) and Lee Buford (drums) and featuring a recurring cast of collaborators, the band are known for their punishingly heavy sound, experimental touches (including gospel choirs and electronic elements), and atmosphere of unrelenting hatred and nihilism. To date, the group has released 5 albums, along with a number of EPs [=EPs=] and collaboration records with other bands, including Full of Hell, Thou, and Krieg.
Krieg.

The band's releases include:
* ''The Body'' (2004)
* ''Cop Killer/Dead Cops'' (EP) (2005)
* ''All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood'' (2010)
* ''Nothing Passes'' (collaboration with Braveyoung) (2011)
* ''The Cold, Suffocating Dark Goes on Forever, And We Are Alone'' (EP) (2012)
* ''Christs, Redeemers'' (2013)
* ''Master, We Perish'' (EP) (2013)
* ''I Shall Die Here'' (2014)
* ''Released From Love'' (collaboration with Thou) (2014)
* ''You, Whom I Have Always Hated'' (collaboration with Thou) (2015)
* ''[=xoroAHbin=]'' (collaboration with Vampilia) (2015)
* ''The Body and Krieg'' (collaboration with Krieg) (2015)
* ''One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache'' (collaboration with Full of Hell) (2016)
* ''No One Deserves Happiness'' (2016)


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* ArcWords: "The night knows no dawn", which first showed up on ''I Shall Die Here'' and later appeared on ''No One Deserves Happiness.''

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* DroneOfDread: A lot of their stuff features this heavily.
* HarshVocals: A uniquely disturbing flavor that WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop once described as sounding "Like a mutant pig man being tortured to death in an underground torture chamber."

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* DroneOfDread: A lot of their stuff features this heavily.
heavily, particularly ''I Shall Die Here''.
* EpicRocking: Some of their songs run pretty long, the longest being "The Manic Fire" at over 16 minutes.
* GenreBusting: They have elements of sludge metal, dark ambient, noise, electronica, and even pop music.
* HarshNoise: "For You".
* HarshVocals: A uniquely disturbing flavor that WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop once described as sounding "Like a mutant pig man being tortured to death in an underground torture chamber."cellar."
* LighterAndSofter: ''No One Deserves Happiness'' to their previous releases, which is slightly less abrasive and features more female vocals. They said they wanted to write "The grossest pop album of all time."
* LongTitle: They're very fond of these. Notable examples include "The Blessed Lay Down and Writhe in Agony" and "Even the Saints Knew Their Hour of Failure and Loss."
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Both of them appear this way on the cover of ''All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood.''



* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A solid 10 most of the time, sometimes shooting up to an 11. They sometimes take it lower for some songs, but this is almost always followed by intense MoodWhiplash.

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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A solid 10 most of the time, sometimes shooting up to an 11. They sometimes do take it lower for some songs, but this is almost always followed by intense MoodWhiplash.



* SopranoAndGravel: They like to add in female vocals to contrast against the rest of the band's sound.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Mostly done with samples taken from cult leaders or serial killers, though "Prescience" begins with guest vocalist Chrissy Wolpert reading an original bit of writing.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "A Body", "I, The Mourner of Perished Days", and "The Fall and the Guilt."

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* ShoutOut: "Lathspell I Name You" is named after a line in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''.
* SopranoAndGravel: They like to add in female vocals to contrast against the rest general ugliness of the band's sound.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Mostly done with samples taken from cult leaders or serial killers, people talking about killing themselves, though "Prescience" begins with guest vocalist Chrissy Wolpert reading an original bit of writing.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "A Body", Body" (or at least the first seven minutes), "I, The Mourner of Perished Days", and "The Fall and the Guilt."



* TrueCompanions: Lee Buford and Chip King.

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* TrueCompanions: Lee Buford and Chip King.King.
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The Body are an American experimental SludgeMetal band. Consisting of core duo Chip King (guitars, vocals) and Lee Buford (drums) and featuring a recurring cast of collaborators, the band are known for their punishingly heavy sound, experimental touches (including gospel choirs and electronic elements), and atmosphere of unrelenting hatred and nihilism. To date, the group has released 5 albums, along with a number of EPs and collaboration records with other bands, including Full of Hell, Thou, and Krieg.

!!This band provides examples of:
* CarefulWithThatAxe: Chip King is really good at this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Both main members, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twr8xyo1ETo interviews.]]
* DreamTeam: They've worked with a laundry list of other extreme musical acts, including Full of Hell, Thou, Krieg, and The Haxan Cloak.
* DroneOfDread: A lot of their stuff features this heavily.
* HarshVocals: A uniquely disturbing flavor that WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop once described as sounding "Like a mutant pig man being tortured to death in an underground torture chamber."
* MisanthropeSupreme: A recurring theme in their lyrics, along with HatesEveryoneEqually and DrivenToSuicide.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A solid 10 most of the time, sometimes shooting up to an 11. They sometimes take it lower for some songs, but this is almost always followed by intense MoodWhiplash.
* MoodWhiplash: All the goddamn time. Particularly notable is "A Body", which begins with almost seven minutes of a heavenly gospel choir before transitioning into grinding sludge metal with almost no warning.
* OminousLatinChanting: Most of it provided by the Assembly of Light Women's Choir.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted, like with most extreme metal bands. Their music is intensely heavy and nihilistic, but the guys themselves are very laid back and friendly people who enjoy hanging out with fans.
* SopranoAndGravel: They like to add in female vocals to contrast against the rest of the band's sound.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Mostly done with samples taken from cult leaders or serial killers, though "Prescience" begins with guest vocalist Chrissy Wolpert reading an original bit of writing.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "A Body", "I, The Mourner of Perished Days", and "The Fall and the Guilt."
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood.''
* TrueCompanions: Lee Buford and Chip King.

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