Creature Eternal (1:52)

Backwards-tracked guitars introduce an up-tempo percussive line that rapidly warps into a distorted melody in the dark style of Chrome. More backwards-tracking—on vocals this time—blends with forwards-tracked vocals that sound like the moans of idle cows slowly coming awake under the prodding of that percussive line again. Strange vocal intonations seem to be soothing while urging the herd onward. Guitar work echoes the low-toned vocal cries and moans. Soon it all coalesces into an off-center melody like the jerky perambulations of a beast moving forward in freezing mud, repeatedly slipping in the clay-like ground, striving to find regular footing. the vocals drive the percussion and vice versa as the ungainly construction struggles to stay upright and moving forwards, keeping the vital fluids pumping and warming beneath the splatter of half-frozen rain as the herd slowly moves off down around the hill, growing fainter in the distance.