God Is an Astronaut - Suicide by Star

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All Is Violent, All Is Bright is the second studio album by Irish post-rock band God Is an Astronaut, released in 2005.

[gynoma]

So, thanks for this post... I was inspired to write a poem...

FORMLESS
In the eternal space
Of timelessness
A violent place
Of skin

Is all misunderstanding
and grasping
The overwhelming hunger
Of expansion

The promise of escape
Toward the beginning
Of all things
We hurl ourselves

Unapologetic
Out of our skin
Into the vortex
Of certainty

[darrenlane]

We need bands like these, to take high from this world of ours, especially today's madness x

[legofski]

Sweet mother of god, the bass at the end was phenomenal  

[hoodedwarrior]

Damn I'm afraid of getting old and giving up on everything that stirrs something in my soul, post rock always numbs me for the moment.
Also, this song is perfect.

[psychoakustic]

Drowned in electronic music nowadays - sometimes I remember who I was in 17 and listen music that I used to listen. God Is Astronaut guided me through important period of my life. Just beautiful.

[TakashiNY]

After attempting to look up and play this song on my guitar. I realized just how insanely hard this song is and how skilled this band truly is.

[kevinwilliams]

That double bass at 3:50 is literally heavenly live

[BigYoshi]

Would love to play this during my final hour.

[Rehteal]

This is perfect for when I'm feeling empty, but too alive for Hammock. That grey medium between living and dying.

[TobiasTemann]

Still watching this, with eyes closed.

[Gstrangeman]

Hard to capture the scale of space.

All of the objects displayed here are light-years accross or away from each other.
You could be millions of kilometers away from a nebula and it'd still fill much of your field of vision.

You could be near the middle of a galaxy and look up to a sky so full of stars it'd be bright despite you being in insterstellar space. Yet most of them would still be light years away.

And then of course, there's the terrifying void between galaxies, millions of light years of void in every direction. If you somehow sent a spaceship that could sustain life indefinitely that way, at lightspeed, with some animals on it, by the time they arrive they would look nothing like what you sent.

A supernova might make your spaceship bright as dailyght, yet could be as far 7000 lightyears.

We are so, very, tiny.

[aaronmcentee]

There interesting thing about post music is that the music is both the backing, and lead vocal arraignments. Not everyone can get into instrumental music but i feel the base of emotions you can reflect and ignite in people is on level 10, 000 then emphasis on lyrics. Especially because those are somebody else's lyrics. The perspective is unique only to them even though it may have common ground. I don't want to link it here just in case 🤗 but mumlooknocomputer has a video of him playing 1, 000 tuned oscillators that whatever harmonic frequencies he had coming into that thing literally had me go from loving this music to welling up inside feeling the feels generally when family or friends pass away and your thinking about them. Sonic can be soothing or scary as hell. I really wish many times we didn't have language we speak with our tongues, but solely your hearts mines and bodies. If you read this thank you for reading my dragged out dragged on comment 🚀💫☄️🪐🌍🌕

[Digressiveify]

Songs like these make me feel like I'm discovering post-rock all over again.

[Chumtoad_Deluxe]

The ending is Amazing. It astounds me every time I hear it.

[antondavidovic]

I think that the reason why looking at space is so calming is because we're actually looking at ourselves in the rawest possible forms. Its like there is subconscious will to revert to these raw forms hence a secret longing for death. Its hard to explain but I think humans simultaneously have a fear of and long for death... The fear of death is our ego telling ourselves that we, or the "I", is no longer going to exist after which is hard to come to terms with, its this characteristic of the ego that pushes us to survive but in the end death is the ultimate freedom. We're no longer trapped in limited forms to the insecurities of life. I'm not saying anyone should commit suicide, I'm saying everyone should live their lives to the fullest before we achieve ultimate freedom.

[Elias-ggvt]

This song got my all hyped for today. Put the album in a playlist for a roadtrip and I'm ready to take on the road!

[RobSpewack]

SEE THEM IN CONCERT! Although you may end up with ruins where your eardrums used to be, nothing beats this song performed 20ft in front of you.

[rv]

The whole song is just excellent and the drums are epic perfection

[whitetiger]

Great photos you added to this music .... I'm on a Cosmic journey & loving it! 

[yaseddesay]

Listening to this song it's just like drifting in the emergency capsule in total inertia towards the blue dwarf.