''Heaven Sent'' is a collaboration between

Boyd Rice Boyd Blake Rice (born December 16, 1956) is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the ''Partridge Family Temple'' religious group, co-founder of ...

Douglas P. Douglas Pearce, known professionally as Douglas P (born 27 April 1956), is an English folk musician, record label owner, photographer and actor who is best known for his neofolk project Death in June. Pearce was born in Sheerwater in Woking, Sur ...

(of

Death in June Death in June are a neofolk group led by English musician Douglas P. (Douglas Pearce). The band was originally formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the grou ...

) and John Murphy (of The Associates), recording under the name Scorpion Wind, released in 1996 on

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. The album consists of

's spoken-word lyrics on subjects ranging from

Social Darwinism Social Darwinism refers to various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in We ...

to alcohol with backing music in various styles, including

lounge Lounge may refer to: Architecture * Lounge, the living room of a dwelling * Lounge, a public waiting area in a hotel's lobby * Lounge, a style of commercial alcohol- bar * Airport lounge, or train lounge (e.g., AMTRAK's Acela Lounge), a premium ...

and neofolk.

Track listing

#"Love Love Love" #*(Equilibrium) About

and the need for the strong to rule the weak.) #"Preserve Thy Loneliness" #*(About asceticism and elitism.) #"In Vino Veritas" #*(About drinking alcohol as

civilization A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of a state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system). ...

falls.) #"Paradise Of Perfection" #*(About man's inability or unwillingness to confront "the downward trend of history".) #"Roasted Cadaver" #*(A song from the perspective of an eternal being--

Death Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

? the sun?--sapping the life out of a dead man. A reflection on man's mortality and the eternal nature of the forces surrounding us.) #"The Cruelty Of The Heavens" #*(A hymn to the deity

Abraxas Abraxas ( grc-x-biblical, ἀβραξάς, abraxas, variant form romanized: ) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the "Great Archon" (), the princeps of the 365 spheres (). The word is foun ...

.) #"There Is No More Sleep" #*(A fatalistic call to endure until the inevitable

armageddon According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Armageddon (, from grc, Ἁρμαγεδών ''Harmagedōn'', Late Latin: , from Hebrew: ''Har Məgīddō'') is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies ...

.) #"Some Colossus" #*(A reflection on the endurance of man's greatest creations—the Colossus of Rhodes for instance as compared to the transient nature of man himself and the actions of inferior men.) #"The Path Of The Cross" #*(Comparing the

Iron Cross The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia es ...

which Boyd Rice uses as a symbol for strength and war to the Christian wooden

cross A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a sa ...

.) #"Never" #*(Claims that a lie can never destroy truth or beauty, but instead degrades those who, by lying deserve to be degraded.) #"Message..." #*(An answering machine message about a credit card bill.)

External links

Boyd Rice Discography at Boyd Rice.com

1996 albums Boyd Rice albums {{1990s-album-stub