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The Gospel of the Devourer

Release date July 16, 2021

Tracklist

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"
9:04
9:04
2
we followed: as centuries passed, our guns became curse-rifles and our ships turned into demons, yet we turned our backs on war
2:17
2:17
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
5:29
5:29
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.
1:15
1:15
5
It came to be called the War of Accretion; and its violence tore asunder the laws of Gravity itself
7:16
7:16
6
and the grief of civilisations rang out into the depths of time
2:48
2:48
7
We brooked no heroes, yet they whispered of the Saint who massacred a trillion soldiers on the cusp of Orion
5:11
5:11
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
4:45
4:45
9
Flowers grew along the paths where the bodies of the fallen had sprouted vines to tear apart their enemies
2:18
2:18
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:
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6:03
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"
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8:56
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
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3:36