CHOTTO GHETTO
WILDFIRE

Our Los Angeles buddies Chotto Ghetto have been making psychedelic prog-punk-metal for something like fifteen years now! What?! Their latest record is another unique shredder, a loud, anthemic, ambitious, apocalyptic political sci-fi thriller. It's an epic and urgent trip, maaaaan, check it out!!!

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1. Debrief
2. Multiversal Receiver
3. New Horror
4. The Work
5. Unstable Isotopes
6. The Odd Man
7. Dr. Gerard is Trying to Chill
8. Like Old Times
9. Eternal Return: Tempus Fuckit
10. Gemini Croquette
11. HIRO AI
12. Charlie Cluster 8

WILDFIRE
Chotto Ghetto is
Chris Candy - Vocals
Fletcher Alliston - Bass, Vocals, Keys
Jody Giachello - Drums, Keys
Chris Shilakes - Guitar
Justin Jacoby - Guitar
Curtis Marrero - Percussion

All songs were written by Chotto Ghetto
Mixed and Produced by Stun Sound
Mastered by Hans Dekline Mastering
Artwork by Nathan Cabrera

Additional voices
Tom Grabon - Lieutenant Grabon
Rick Darge - General Darge
Laura Stevenson - LAURA AI
Matt Kurz - Dr. Gerard
Hiro Tanaka - HIRO AI Space Probe
Erica Harper - Additonal Voices

Special thanks to Jeff Rosenstock, Rose Candy, Nathan Cabrera. This record is dedicated to Kim Shattuck.

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ALL DONATIONS GO TO THE CCF WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND

01 Debrief
(SKIT)

02 Multiversal Receiver
[V1]
I bumped the frequency on my receiver to some unknown 
Band the technology should not be able to decode
A voice repeated apocalyptic descriptions; I wrote the details down
Calculations, dimensions, and timeline cuz the voice was mine somehow

[Chorus]
We welcome you to our facility, deep underground, a doomsday sound

[V2]
We used the timeline to find the engineers
For blueprints and codes
We pitched their findings to like-minded investors
Searching for new roads

Here we acknowledge the declining incentives 
To even getting old
That the systems in power are broken
And their brokers have sold

Hope for lives better than those of our predecessors
To a few corporations
They target us using our personal data
In which they trade

They count our lives as opportunities for wealth extraction
The hunger won’t satiate 
No more letting those who got us here decide what’s best for us
No more half remedies

[Chorus]
We welcome you to our facility, deep underground, a doomsday sound
We got the tools to fight infection ready, while the world above further succumbs
Biomedically secure for the future, our work sound deep underground
We welcome you to our facility, deep underground, a doomsday sound  

Doomsday sound

03 New Horror 

[V1]
WILDFIRE’s got technologies to unfuck the cluster up above
Powered by rejecting everyone perpetuating cycles of logic rot
WILDFIRE’s got the remedies for poisoned minds and corrupted worldviews
But we can’t immunize the maladies without first neutralizing our own ills

[Chorus]
If we’re gonna make it this time first we gotta get you off the floor (get you off the floor)
We’ll go below for disinfection, honing methods for the mental war (for the mental war)
The Sackler clan sold out humankind then sold treatment for the new horror (for the new horror)
If we’re gonna make it this time first we gotta get you off this floor (get you off this floor)

[V2]
We got some rejuvenation plans for the Earth but it’s not looking good
We got roaming AI satellites searching for a habitable world
We’ve been trying to fix what we caused while these chuds deny it’s even real
And for outbreaks of this idiocy we’re still stuck at the fucking drawing boards

[Chorus]
If we’re gonna make it this time first we gotta get you off the floor (get you off the floor)
We’ll go below for disinfection, honing methods for the mental war (for the mental war)
The Sackler clan sold out humankind then sold treatment for the new horror (for the new horror)
If we’re gonna make it this time first we gotta get you off this floor (get you off this floor)

[Outtro]
WILDFIRE’s got technologies to fight against the nonsense up above 

04 The Work

[V1]
First it makes you question what you hear
And this new instinct might keep you in the clear
Then it dictates how your brain receives
Sensory information to store memories

[V2]
At this point the organism is locked in place
Filtering your comprehension of reality
It distorts prior knowledge while not recognizing
Long established science and recorded history
It makes you complacent when without need
Then replaces motivations with insatiable greed
In 82 Exxon knew the Arctic melts in 2019
Then we got Kevin Costner in an action movie

[Pre Chorus]
We know 
The organism’s to blame
Infecting
The most powerful

The momentum 
Of ecological apocalypse 
Seems unstoppable

[Chorus]
It can’t end this stupidly
They gave me the nuclear key
Following the Odd Man Hypothesis

It can’t end this stupidly 
They gave me the nuclear key
Well-knowing no one trained us for this empty of an ending

No one trained us for this empty of an ending

05 Unstable Isotopes
(SKIT)

06 The Odd Man

If you use the nuclear key
You guarantee defeat
Our work here’s nowhere near ready
If you push the button: defeat

If you use the nuclear key
You guarantee defeat
The space travel’s nowhere near ready
If you push the button: defeat

07 Dr. Gerard is Trying to Chill

[Intro]
I woke up and it occured to me
There’s always been pessimists, you see
Some just broadcast negativity
There’s always been pessimists, you see
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end

[V1]
Stop questioning our history
And the premise of this great country
There’s no way we hastened decline
From this 250 year ride
There’s doomsday talk every few years
But I choose not to live in fear
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end.
 
[V2]
Are you trying
To honestly tell me
The people in power
Accelerated the end for a few millions?

Why would they lie?
The best network anchors
All boast of great jobs reports
The market is up we got a booming economy

It’s not so dire
No doomsday prescription
I heard that on Late Night
They tell all the best jokes

[C1]
Are they the ones infected here?
It’s never been so clear
They’re here to terrorize our lives

Above the organism is spreading
And eventually
The uninfected’ll be heretics

[V3]
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end, you’ll see

What does it matter now
The world is so loud now

It’s the end? No it can’t be the end
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end, you’ll see

What does it matter now
The world is sold out now

It’s the end? No it can’t be the end
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end, you’ll see

What does it matter now
The world is so loud now

[C2]
Are they the ones infected here?
It’s never been so clear
They’re here to terrorize our lives

Above the organism is spreading
And eventually
The uninfected’ll be heretics

[V4]
Why’s everyone freaking out
The news says things are calming down
The melting ice is not a trend
The world’s  warming, it’s just a phase
I think I’ll just recline zone out

[Outtro]
I woke up and it occured to me
There’s always been pessimists, you see
Some just broadcast negativity
There’s  always been pessimists, you see
It’s the end? No it can’t be the end

It’s the end? Not it can’t be the end   

08 Like Old Times

[V1]
Gerard our fear is that you’ve been infected
Can you hear your own words?
Our mission’s on hiatus till we sort this out

We caught you sleeping at the periscope
Wearing headphones 
Repeating the same phrase at least a thousand times

[C1]
“Just close your eyes it feels like old times”

[V2]
Gerard we really hope you’re not infected
We need your help
WILDFIRE’s mission can’t succeed without your keen mind

There’s been no word from the HIRO space probe
And with you like this
We might have to nuke the facility, so please stop repeating

[C2]
“Just close your eyes it feels like old times” 

09 Eternal Return: Tempus Fuckit

[V1]
You can’t keep me and my ideas 
Behind this glass
You’ll find the others agree 
Deep down you know I’m right 

[Pre Chorus]
Quarantine will be the safest thing
But we cannot just keep him here, he once was the best of us

[Chorus]
Our time is now ever-fleeting
Why not just live the same
Ways as those who came before us
And never show our shame
For failing at life, yeah for failing at life
We don’t know its meaning but this cannot be it
Our time is now ever-fleeting
Why not just live the same?

[V2]
I think you’ve got the votes to get me out of here
If you just look around you’ll see they feel the same 

[Pre Chorus]
Quarantine would be the safest thing
But we cannot just keep him here, he once was the best of us

[Chorus]
Our time is now ever-fleeting
Why not just live the same
Ways as those who came before us
And never show our shame
For failing at life, yeah for failing at life
We don’t know its meaning but this cannot be it
Our time is now ever-fleeting
Why not just live the same?

10 Gemini Croquette
(SKIT)

11 HIRO AI

12 Charlie Cluster 8

[V1]
The alarm rings out, people scream out loud “Quarantine!” 
Prepare to go, we’re on our own what they’ve been telling us is wrong
Gather your things hit the ground full speed, we need to go 
Ground control: yes, the situation has gone south

[Pre Chorus]
“Attention scientists of WILDFIRE: there’s nothing wrong so please retire”

[Chorus]
Push the button
It’s over
Push the button
It's over

[V2]
You can hear the knock, it’s the doomsday clock, it’s coming
What will we do? The thing we feared most is out and taken control 
An organism this strong, well we’re no match for, what should we do?
Get on that mic and try to calm the scientists down

“Attention scientists of WILDFIRE: there’s nothing wrong so please retire”

[V3]
Our mission is fucked and we’re out of luck, what's left now?
Salvage this mess, cut our losses right now, it’s too late to save ourselves from them
Wait I’m thinking right now what if we stay here?  There’s so much on the line
Put our minds together, it’s the only option left for us

“Attention scientists of WILDFIRE: there’s nothing wrong so please retire”

[Chorus]
Push the button
It’s over
Push the button
It's over

[Outro]
Doomsday sound

“Attention scientists of WILDFIRE: there’s nothing wrong so please retire”