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Murder Hornets

from Gramppappies by Grampfather

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I wrote "Murder Hornets" as a follow-up to our 2020 album Magnum Grampus, our thrash album. What with the pandemic and all the blaring social injustices that came to define 2020, the news of incoming murder hornets just seemed like such a cartoonish cherry on top of all the misery and dread. Although the album starts off where Magnum Grampus ends, the new album, Gramppappies, does get more hopeful as it progresses.

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Another day, another plague,
murder hornets on their way.
Daily lies desensitize,
incessant terror normalized.
All hope seems but a distant dream
drifting away with each deceit.
We’ve come to know a curse of old–
only misery is all we’ll know.

Another year, a new host of fears
to keep us fed as death draws near—
preoccupied as we die,
wildfires blot out the sky
and clowns at the helm overwhelm,
inundate, indoctrinate, buy and sell.
Told to forgo all you know
by those who thrive
when your eyes are closed.

Oh, what could have been?
What could have been has been
and will be again.

So long to linear time,
fate’s not a straight line,
it was all inside my mind.

Murder hornets
swarming borders and seas.
Ever looming
a new brewing disease.

All the figures’ names change
but the game stays the same—
the waves erase the faces.

How many lives lost?
How many lives
does one man’s ego cost?

Abyss yawning
as the new day’s dawning.

credits

from Gramppappies, track released February 4, 2022
James Kwapisz (vox, guitar, bass)
Andrew Blot (lead guitar)
Tony DiMauro (drums)
Dylan Fader (organ, harmonica)

Mastered by Westfall Recording Company

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Grampfather Kingston, New York

Grampfather is an indie-psych rock band based out of Kingston, NY, whose material traverses a variety of rock genres, such as indie, garage, punk, psych, chill, and thrash.

James Kwapisz: vocals, guitar, synth
Tony DiMauro: drums
Andrew Blot: guitar, keys
Jake Offermann: bass

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