The Night Devours

from Sola Pravitas by Plaguebringer

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lyrics

A vicious curse has been cast on me
By a doppelganger with a parasitic smile
A shifting visage shrouded in darkness
How could so many faces seem so vile?

Though at first captivated by beneficence
Vainglory and majesty at once did conspire
With demagoguery and mockery,
Once reviled with suspicion

Now I wept onto hands stained crimson
As chastened love died there in my arms

Whence came the onset of this aporia?
The thinning and ailing of time?
Am I haunted by memories or merely delusions of a fanatic mind?

An epoch spent drowning in despair, enraptured by self righteous sin?
Or predeteriminstic heretic hypocrisy, hellbound corruption from within?

God alone knew how I felt
Consumed as I was by jealousy and ignorance
Covetous of earned rest
As distorted visions molest me I assume the burden of The Beast
I've submitted and debased myself,
As a disciple of this Cloven Priest.

Another day bleeds past me
I can't count the hours
Remnants of dying light fade
As The Night Devours

His visage wreathed in darkness
How could so many faces seem so vile?
His masque once of pure arcane beauty transforming before my sight
His warm smile inverting once beguiling now distorting into perverse caricature of life
As diabolical grin tears through the remnants of skin, I fled in horror, terrified
Yet every time I close my eyes
I see these faces, taunting
Haunting me until I die

Another day bleeds past me
I can't count the hours
Remnants of dying light fade
As The Night Devours

credits

from Sola Pravitas, released April 28, 2023
PLAGUEBRINGER IS:

Aaron Lang - Bass
Aaron James - Guitar
Oswin Wong - Guitar
Greg Smith - Drums
Diaro Irvine - Vocals

All songs written and performed by Plaguebringer
Synths by Randy Slaugh & Diaro Irvine
Drums recorded at Oracle Recording Studios in Edmonton, Canada by Diego Fernandez
Guitars, Bass, & Vocals recorded at Diaro's house in Calgary, Canada
Mixed & Mastered at The Grid in Montreal, Canada
Cover Artwork by Patricia Taylor
Layout by Cole Hadley
Band Photo by Karolynn Mattern
Insert Poster Artwork by JSS

This work is based on the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.

Contact: plaguebringercanada@outlook.com

This project has been made possible in part by FACTOR,
the Government of Canada, and Canada's private radio broadcasters.

Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce à FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada, et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

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