Gunshots In The Cathedral
By RajaTheResidentAlien on February 1, 2026 11:55 pm
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this is what happens when i try too hard to release my angst... and it was a bit too much of an undertaking for just one week(that too: i started late on Tuesday night). i must admit, though, i feel pretty relaxed now having pooped this track out 
*innocent-angel emoji*
it started out as an experiment to create a driving, punchy beat, with much saturation, compression, and limiting... then, it felt so driven as a beat, it kept driving me forward into this grandiose 'industrial' sound/song i wanted to create(i don't normally make this type of music)... and right away, i just thought to myself, "this sounds like 'Gunshots In A Cathedral' should be the title of this song"... so then i just had to take it there.
i wish i played guitar better(i used to practice 4 hours a day in high-school, i think i wanted to be a guitarist at one point, until i got major tendonitis in my left-wrist, which is a huge part of the reason why i eventually got into electronic music production, thinking i could make Max patches or software that would assist me in playing live in a more original way(still working on that, too... still sucking at it, as well, haha), even if i had lost my ability to play guitar as well as i wanted).
it was a huge trauma to let go of guitar... nowadays, i'm still trying to bring it back, i'm hoping this will be a big part of my weeklybeats this year... we'll see. i don't have the gumption to practice as much as i used to, and tendonitis is tricky to practice around, it's yet another thing that keeps invading my sacred spaces of musical practice/meditation... so my apologies to all you awesome guitarists(and bassists) for this major editing job, which still sounds pretty terrible 
but i had a vision! and, although the song is still very much incomplete and amateur in sound(i wanted to add some more guitar to some of the quieter middle parts, and i wish i had come up with some good/better verses...), i definitely did my absolute best to see it through in this short time ...only 10 minutes to go til the deadline! 
this song is about the way in which violence has invaded so many sacred spaces across the globe, and how violence, itself, when used to diminish life and freedom, is always an invasion of the sacred.
Lyrics:
(pitched-down to sound demonic->) NOTHING. BUT. CHAOS!!
nothing but nothing, nothing but nothing, nothing but nothing is
nothing but chaos!
nothing but nothing ...nothing bu-#&#&%^$#&%%^&^*_)((%#^%@%^!
nothing but chaos could prove so remedial,
nothing wakes the soul like gunshots in the cathedral!!!!!!!!!
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(and yes, i hate my lyrics: i couldn't figure anything better to rhyme with 'cathedral' than 'remedial'
... also, i had more verses but they ALL sucked, so i scrapped 'em and started yelling just those remaining lines you hear in the song, over and over, edited to make it all work somehow... sort of... i dunno...)
are you all feeling the angst of these times?!
EMBRACE THE SUCK!
(that's what wrote this song, it wasn't me, it was 'the suck').
Do not give in to these traumatizing times, release your wigglez!!
). Thank you for noticing! I really appreciate the complexity and advanced compositional work of your music, and yet how it flows with ease to feel so natural from you, and so to hear you enjoyed my track here really makes my day