The Gospel of the Devourer

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 5
  It came to be called the War of Accretion; and its violence tore asunder the laws of Gravity itself
  7:16
• 6
  and the grief of civilisations rang out into the depths of time
  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
• 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
• 9
  Flowers grew along the paths where the bodies of the fallen had sprouted vines to tear apart their enemies
  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:
  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"
  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
  3:36

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  16 July 2021