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Artwork by
Adam Burke

Stasis Cocoon

Sallow Moth

July 2nd, 2021
7 tracks
31:29
Stasis Cocoon
Stasis Cocoon
Chalice of the Void
0:00
3:06
Chalice of the Void
Sallow Moth
Servym destroyed? Was a clone decoy Veiled survival from a master of tricks Far away on a different plane He and his androids aboard the Recall ship A failsafe drawn From ancestral visions In the event subject zero exceeded Its design's power Beyond duty of war Inside its heart, like a chalice A self-consumption harnessing the glow A pact of negation A counterflux Overloaded Abrupt decay of power Servym's veto of thought scour A licensed disintegration Of thought distortions Mana drained Memories rearranged A wrenching of the brain
3:06
Stasis Cocoon
Sallow Moth
A viral code reinforced to the Sallow Moth to insure The void mechanism runs the full course Brainwashing its core as a lock against retaliation A stasis cocoon Condemned to solitude From the grips of nature Bound with magic and circuitry Reluctance from the Mothlords Cast a vital root maze For the cage of subject zero To appease Servym's rage Pause for the briefest of moments To consider the whorl of brambles The tangled twist of bark And the maze cocoon has spun Weep For Sun Fall asleep A stasis cocoon Condemned to solitude From the grips of nature Sent to a plane of misery Withdrawn from the clutches of power To simmer in subconscious shambles The scrambled loss despark The phase out has begun
3:45
03 Seal of Primordium
Sallow Moth
An ancient seal, designed to repeal Primordial wager, to sacrifice for nature Veiled from humanity, preserved by sacred wings In the cave of Kira, before they knew what fear was Hatching a new plan...in Servym's lab Neutered test subjects...without mana To break the bond, quiet disrepair Beyond his vision, a force of vigor Illusion or reality? Must deny nature's mockery Destroy the artifact, without a hostile act? (Servym): We'll create a fleet...to scour the planes Rebuild, shape anew...Mothfolk imbued I will change their ways...I can trick their life's code For my legacy...grand lobotomy Become my subjects...a network republic We'll pervade remaining species (Kira): How can we co-exist now? Your effigies, your autocracy The lives you take, the lies you create We've helped too much, we've lost enough Turbulence arise Shattering labs in the skies Behold nature's answer to the problem of your society Sacrifice (Kira): You take our wilds, we crash your ships You abused our magic, the final request (Servym): Galactic pests Merely a test (Kira): I am the simplifier, the root that drags all artifice to earth
3:15
Fevered Visions
Sallow Moth
The mind can only expand so far before it flies apart Body trapped in roots and wires, mind trapped in an aura of silence Why? Forever dreaming In confusion Inner screaming No recollection Lonely agony The memory of memories lost For each thought, a memory rotten What am I? Where?! Grief and rage and nightmares stir where hope and comfort fade Feeling of dread How do I leave?
1:23
Phantasmal Sphere of the Shadowmage Infiltrator
Sallow Moth
Phantasmal Sphere Struggle of power The price of this encounter Battles grow fouler and fouler Wings being ripped Alloy is worn Silk to constrict Till death in scorn Electric pain Surging through the veins On a turbulent plane The inexorable vitality of life Nature speaks Circuits shrouded In glowing moss Giant vines sprouted Have the machines lost? Why waste time Creating such weapons? Nature provides Provides us all that we need with arcane magic Nature shrieks Phantasmal Sphere Illusions Deceptions A powerful rogue Illusory mage in the aether Beseeched by Servym Create an illusion so strong So strong that it becomes another's reality So wrong that it becomes another's finality Ja-Sei, a master of dreamrealms, deceives the Mothfolk Reduction of energy and motion within the stasis field Creates the illusion of slowed time Led to believe they've decommissioned every machine in the lab Think they retrieved the stasis pod of subject zero to watch over What they brought with them instead is a birthing pod A virus Servym's vision A nanovirus shielded by illusory curses Infiltrate all organic matter The truth lurks below The truth lurks below
7:14
Birthing Pod, Chaos Orb, Mindslaver
Sallow Moth
Rebirth Forge and assimilate Rebirth Forge and assimilate In the chaos brought by new gods, spawned from shadows The need to obey coded in the nanovirus A masterful transformation Taking a page out of their book Turning them all into my machines Our insides..changing Chrome steel plating Viral contents seeping into the roots of their world This new chaos orb Rebirth Forge and assimilate Rework Repopulate We wake, we serve, we obey? What are we? Where are we? Why can't I feel the pulse of my heart? The stasis cocoon Enchanting it has befell our doom Oppressive will Mindslavered
5:04
Drowner of Secrets, Bring to Light
Sallow Moth
The real stasis pod of the Sallow Moth hidden on a desolate plane begins to glow Surrounded by a chamber Of android guards And rogue mages keeping the pod at bay The malicious acts against Mothlords is sensed by the Sallow Moth's organic core But it's trapped in a dream WAKE Memories Wiped clean Only dreams remain I awake I sense Pain and suffering I send through this veil A distress signal To those who can perceive Find me Release me (veiled screams) A small planar vessel swimming through the cosmos senses Aquatic shell, aboard with scavengers of space and sea Part man, part fish From buried oceans to beyond skies These space pirates curious, yet skeptical Decide to venture towards the distress signal These Merfolk possess an uncommon form of magic Lifting veils and piercing through cursed dreams and illusions Approaching the plane Targeting the pod Upon their arrival, equipped with cloaking suits Undetected by guards, subject zero now sees through The Sallow Moth begins to develop emotion A catharsis of empathy and hope, becoming more lifelike Thus ignites a power, transmuting itself with the guards to the cocoon Bring to light In search of life
7:42

This album continues the story directly after The Larval Hope. Originally released on tape via Tridroid Records.

Full story can be read here: https://sallowmoth.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-cocoon

Credits

Garry Brents - Instruments, Vocals, Lyrics, Production

Guests:
Armando Puente Jr - Guitar Solos (2nd solo on track 1, 1st & 2nd solo on track 2, solo on track 3, solos on track 5, 2nd solo on track 6, solo on track 7).

Jon Rosenthal - Backing shrieks on all tracks.

Tyler Berry - Backing vocals on 1 and 4.

All music written and recorded March - May 2020. Vocals recorded May 2020.

Adam Burke - Album Cover Art

Evan Craig - Tape Booklet Art