King 810 vokalisti valottaa yhtyeen uusimman albumin kappaleita esseillä

Detroitin Flintistä tulevan hiljattain Slipknottia Helsingin jäähallissa lämpänneen King 810:n vokalisti David Gunn on aloittanut yhtyeen virallisella kotisivulla osion, jossa julkaisee esseitä liittyen yhtyeen debyyttialbumin ”Memoirs of a Murderer” kappaleisiin. Voit lukea miehen ensimmäisen kirjoituksen, jossa hän käsittelee bändin ”R.I.C.O.” -nimistä kappaletta tästä:

”Might as well start at the beginning here.

Below are the annotations for a song called R.I.C.O. I’ve typed these to be more legible. This is the first KING song ever ”written.”This thing was put together mentally and committed to memory while in solitary confinement following the arrest of myself and 5 friends on January 20th 2008. I mention this not to gain any sort of reputation but to aid in understanding the origin of the material and my own process as its author. After creating and memorizing a song this complex I stopped believing in writing songs on paper entirely and haven’t done so as long as KING has existed.

Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeenMainos päättyy

The words to this work describe a handful of first hand experiences I’ve had growing up that I’ve coupled with an underlying mathematical theme. I wanted to write this not for the song to gain any kind of attention because I think it’s a poorly made song but more so to display the circumstances and the type of lifestyle KING was birthed from.

R.I.C.O

5  Lock and load. 1
4  Duck down, when you hear the sound of one hundred rounds tear your house to the ground.
3  That’s how they’re getting down downtown.
2  We’re killing over color and we’re heaven sent and hell bound.
1  Father wasn’t around to beat me down.
16 I’m a conscious less psychopath on the streets of a ghost town.

Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeenMainos päättyy

15 Bodies slumped on their steering wheels, brains climbing from their mouths, muscles protruding from their wounds, like even they want out. 2

14 Nobody gets out. 3
13 Nobody ever makes it out and before I drew my head from the cunts mouth…

12 One foot was in the grave. 4
11 We’re dying so young where I come from.
10 It’s gun or be gunned.
9  Run or be ran over man over man.
8  Foolhardy as they come.
7  As kids we skipped the fun.
6  Fascinated with numbers and ways we could make them run.
5  Fascinated with numbers and ways we could make them run.

4 Unaware we had just hung the possibility of a kosher become. 5

Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeenMainos päättyy

3 It’s so damn dark, out here ♠hailstones blot out the sun.

2 Bodies, buried atop one and other. 6
1 Cutters, keep on hacking up my brothers.
8 Bodies, buried atop one and other.
7 Cutters, keep on hacking up my brothers.

6 They’re letting shots loose from Sacramento to ♠Syracuse. 7
5 I dreamt I put it all behind me then I awoke too…

4 Sounds of busting guns.  8
3 Bullet holes in lungs.
2 Taste your guts sliding off of your tongue.
1 Tendons bone fragments lodged in your gum’s.
4 Mothers praying for the health of their sons.

Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeenMainos päättyy

3 Sickens me, what we’ve become. 9
2 Sickens me, what we’ve become.

1 Bodies, buried atop one and other. 10
2 Cutters, keep on hacking up my brothers.
1 Bodies, buried atop one and other.
1 Cutters, keep on hacking up my brothers.

Syracuse problem, also known as Collatz conjecture after Lothar Collatz is an unsolvable mathematical conjecture, 3n + 1.
If a number is odd triple it and add one.
If the number is even divide it in half.
Any number eventually gets to 0.

Reference to the Hailstone sequence or hailstone numbers which is a reference to the number sequence and how they fall. Also known as ”hailstone numbers.”

Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeenMainos päättyy

one – There are six mentions of this number in the song which serves as the first number entered into the equation which pans out; 6,3,10,5,16,8,4,2,1

3 – The next number in the sequence. There are three perspectives or points of view in this song. Although the content is consistent there are two major movements. The first POV is from a more involved and aggressive demeanor. This POV morphs with the lines ”Nobody gets out. Nobody ever makes it out.” into a more pitiful and sympathetic perspective. With the lines ”They’re letting shots loose from Sacramento to Syracuse…” the songs POV is one of disgust at the subject. This reflects the three main feelings toward this specific topic from my own perspective.

10 – The next number in the sequence. On the right side of the words in the text of each separated section are the numbers 1-10 numbering the sections, 10 in the whole work.

5,16,8,4,2,1 – These numbers are up the left side of the text. The words and sentences have been structured around the remainder of the numbers in the sequence.”