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Test Subject

from The Human Cost by Stormland

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This song is a duet meant to represent a recording of an experiment in a fictional Newtype laboratory. Guest vocalist Leda Paige takes on the role of the lead researcher engaging in unethical testing on a subject played by Stormland's Justin Pierrot.

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Commencing Test 7-82A
High voltage, low amperage
Hippocampus stimulation
To force spatial precognition

It hurts
Why are you doing this?
What do you hope to gain?
To force your evolution
To weaponize it
Then erase your sense of self

You're nothing, just a war orphan
Worthless but for this one thing
I'm a human being
Not just a mere-
not just a

Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject

Begin simulation
Wait what is this?!
Aim and pull the trigger
Predict your target
I can't! It's too much
My brain is on fire

Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject
Test Subject

This one's unconscious
Remove them from the chair
And prepare a replacement
If this one awakens
And seems undamaged
Prepare them for testing again
If anything is off
You know what to do
Dispose of them
Swiftly and without mercy

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from The Human Cost, released September 30, 2022
Guest Vocals by Leda Paige

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Mecha-heavy death metal about Gundam! Multi-instrumentalist Justin Pierrot uses increasingly progressive & technical death metal to tell stories using the Gundam meta-series as narrative lens.

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