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The Gospel of the Devourer

Band / artist:
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Release date:
16.07.2021
Genres:
Metal, Noise, Black metal
Plays count:
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1

A soldier came to us from the army of the Pretender, a deserter - "follow me", it said - "and I will show you where he bleeds"
A soldier came to us from the army of the Pretender, a deserter - "follow me", it said - "and I will show you where he bleeds"
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2

we followed: as centuries passed, our guns became curse-rifles and our ships turned into demons, yet we turned our backs on war
we followed: as centuries passed, our guns became curse-rifles and our ships turned into demons, yet we turned our backs on war
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3

but in the purple light of the heavy star a blow was struck, and we cursed our hands as they grew into talons, and sang out regret as we choked our enemies with our own entrails
but in the purple light of the heavy star a blow was struck, and we cursed our hands as they grew into talons, and sang out regret as we choked our enemies with our own entrails
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4

Alongside the battle, those in the twilight nebula sat, watching and biding their time. They were farmers and machinists, midwives and poets; they too knew Death.
Alongside the battle, those in the twilight nebula sat, watching and biding their time. They were farmers and machinists, midwives and poets; they too knew Death.
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5

It came to be called the War of Accretion; and its violence tore asunder the laws of Gravity itself
It came to be called the War of Accretion; and its violence tore asunder the laws of Gravity itself
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6

and the grief of civilisations rang out into the depths of time
and the grief of civilisations rang out into the depths of time
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7

We brooked no heroes, yet they whispered of the Saint who massacred a trillion soldiers on the cusp of Orion
We brooked no heroes, yet they whispered of the Saint who massacred a trillion soldiers on the cusp of Orion
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8

We pursued him on a gossamer thread of stars, through the heart of the dark galaxy, and there impaled him on a spire of crystallized time
We pursued him on a gossamer thread of stars, through the heart of the dark galaxy, and there impaled him on a spire of crystallized time
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9

Flowers grew along the paths where the bodies of the fallen had sprouted vines to tear apart their enemies
Flowers grew along the paths where the bodies of the fallen had sprouted vines to tear apart their enemies
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10

In the emptiness beyond emptinesses, between the galaxies, between the Weight and the Light, the last hunter writes into the ultraviolet rings of the final supernovae:
In the emptiness beyond emptinesses, between the galaxies, between the Weight and the Light, the last hunter writes into the ultraviolet rings of the final supernovae:
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11

“An end to endings: a war to end wars: the lie. An ethnography of the vacuum, writ in spinal fluid and dark matter. We have come to know that we are not luminous; only opaque beyond understanding, unending and inevitable"
“An end to endings: a war to end wars: the lie. An ethnography of the vacuum, writ in spinal fluid and dark matter. We have come to know that we are not luminous; only opaque beyond understanding, unending and inevitable"
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12

and at the end of space and time, we flayed the body of the ancient enemy and made his body into food for stars and the birth of new constellations
and at the end of space and time, we flayed the body of the ancient enemy and made his body into food for stars and the birth of new constellations
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