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All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Deluxe re-issue of The Body's groundbreaking double album "All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood" comes with a 4th side of rarities never before released on vinyl. The Digital of side 4 is only available with download coupon or at Thrill Jockey. Side 4 will not be streaming or available for download elsewhere.

    The limited mail order Silver double LPs contain two posters: a 12x24" poster of the front cover and a 12 x 24 poster of the inner gatefold. The poster of this iconic cover is only available on the mail order copies.
    The first pressing on all colors will contain the inner gatefold poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Abody 09:56
Hands fail. Hearts fail. As babies born, as corpses dead. Vaguely alive with arms that forgot how to hold. To pray for the death of all that breathes. The awful journey that led to this. To tear away this fleshy veil. A body, empty.
2.
A Curse 04:31
May your hands to seize. May your legs to shrivel. Your mind to falter and eyes to cloud. May misery court you. May disease then take you. Fires lay waste to your crops and the seas cover your land. A curse.
3.
Empty Hearth 04:21
In all these days will a famine lay upon all of your lands, and a plague upon all of your people. Forever in the name of this Lord and all others. In all days hereafter will you rest uneasily under the ash. Forever.
4.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Look at the cross. Look at the void. Even the Saints knew their hour of failure and loss. Lifeless plains, birthing dust. Hands of gods useless and impotent. One billion papery tongues, Forever unknowing.
5.
Prepare Sarin. Inhale Sarin. History teaches, but they will not forget what we have done. The strength to shape and make, to justify love and murder. Oh, my beautiful Sarin the brave.
6.
Ruiner 03:06
There is pain. There is guilt. Every moment remorse. Oh, Elohim. Oh, gods of science. Oh, scholars of divinity. I will ruin this. I swear I will ruin this.
7.
To pull back this ruined limb. Devoid of purpose, for all intents ruined. A time that stole this heart. A yield of bone and flesh. Empty seeds that grow into hollow shells with no fruit. To fill a hole that can not be filled. A time that stole this spin. A yield of stone and ash. Words that follow forms sedative and misleading and a need for the need to believe. A crushing need to be desired. Full of fear of abandonment. To give hope to a heart that can not know hope. A yield of disappointments, and you are a liar. Est mea vocorum vox daemoniorum (my voice is the invoker of demons) Vivos ango (I torment the living) Convoco pestem (I summon the plague) Noxa dissipo (I disperse harm) Coniugo cruentes (I bring the bloodyminded together) Sacrosanctum convomo (I vomit all over the consecrated) Mortuos laudo (I praise the Dead) Gray dust piled and blown away to hill and plain. May you find unease, diseased and weak offspring. Retract at the sun's glare. Retreat. Fall back. Crippled wallower. Years and years, upon wasted years. Upon sundered seas and darkling stars. No cairn of stone, no circle of spear. Awash in dead technologies. Waters clogged with branch and ash. Atop the crest of an epoch. There, eyes with bitter tears, alone stand I unsatisfied with a lack of proof of your demise. Repayment in kind I demand. A just finality I deserve.

about

Originally released in 2010, The Body’s All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood is a watershed album that changed the landscape of heavy music. Buoyed by the eclectic cast of musicians, from the undeniably potent collaboration with The Assembly of Light Choir as led by now longtime The Body collaborator Chrissy Wolpert, to guest contributors that include members of Dead Times, Fang Island, Lichens (aka Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), Human Beast, and many more. The album’s singularly bleak, yet beautiful atmosphere not only set the tone for The Body’s career in breaking the mold, but set a new standard for what extreme music could do.

All the Waters rightfully broke The Body, the duo of Lee Buford and Chip King, out from the underground and was met with acclaim from across a wide spectrum. Pitchfork’s Grayson Haver Currin said of the record: “The rare album that feels truly dangerous. As it crushes and collides doom metal, harsh noise, industrial rock, and gospel singing into one mean mess, it seems to obey no rules but its own. The result is a singular, explosive masterpiece.” NPR’s Lars Gotrich put it in his 2010 Top 10 list, calling it “the most surreal doom-metal record of 2010” and The Quietus called it the year’s “best record on the fringes of metal.” Following the album’s release and subsequent tours, which sometimes included the entire Assembly of Light Choir, The Body established themselves as a permanent fixture of forward-thinking artists and a reliably overwhelming force, both on record and in live settings.

All the Waters also helped spark the duo’s penchant for collaboration, which they then solidified across dozens of releases, from collaborations with Braveyoung to BIG|BRAVE, Thou, Full of Hell and beyond. The influence of those collaborations, rooted in All the Waters can be seen proliferating throughout the heavy music world today. Buford noted to Treble on the album: “With [All the Waters], we kind of figured, we can do whatever we want. There’s no reason why we can’t add strings and a choir, and that was a real turning point for us. We can just do whatever, it doesn’t matter. It’s easy to get hemmed in by “This is what we play.” But artists I like don’t make music that way, so why should we?”

The new reissue for All the Waters is packaged as a double LP, including a whole new Side D, which is composed of bonus material never before pressed to vinyl. First edition pressings of the vinyl reissue also include two full size poster versions of the album’s artwork.

credits

released July 25, 2025

ABODY assembly of light choir, robert lowe (voice), ryan seaton (saxophone, guitar), scott reber (noise), chrissy wolpert (piano) A CURSE scott reber (keyboards, noise), chrissy wolpert (piano), alexander barton (drums) EMPTY HEARTH seth manchester (drum programming), robert lowe (voice), scott reber (noise) EVEN THE SAINTS KNEW THEIR HOUR OF FAILURE AND LOSS assembly of light choir, ryan seaton (saxophone, guitar), scott reber (noise), daniel schleifer (sousaphone), michael jeffries (baritone saxophone, saxophone), alexander barton (drums) SONG OF SARIN, THE BRAVE keith souza (moog), alexander barton (drums) RUINER daniel schleifer (sousaphone), michael jeffries (baritone saxophone, saxophone), patrick reilly (viola), chrissy wolpert (piano), scott reber (noise) LATHSPELL I NAME YOU assembly of light choir, gus martin (double bass), patrick reilly (viola), brad dumville (voice incantations), chrissy wolpert (voice), steven vallot (voice), robert lowe (voice), aj barillaro (drums), keith souza (drums), seth manchester (drums), jon knudsen (drums), alexander barton (drums), steve kerfien (drums), aaron weese (drums), marc st. sauveur (drums) ASSEMBLY OF LIGHT CHOIR: chrissy wolpert, natalja kent, rebecca mitchell, marilee armstrong, karen pace, lansie sylvia, vicki warner, mc cannon, katie moore, sam merritt, s reis, pippi zornoza, melanie fuest (all choir pieces written and arranged by chrissy wolpert)

recorded at machines with magnets by keith souza and seth manchester dec 2008 - dec 2009, mastered at machines with magnets january 2010, photography and layout by kara healey

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