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Stasis Cocoon

by Sallow Moth

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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
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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spun Weep For Sun Fall asleep A stasis cocoon Condemned to solitude From the grips of nature Sent to a plane of misery Withdrawn from the clutches of power To simmer in subconscious shambles The scrambled loss despark The phase out has begun
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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

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Additional tape copies on Tridroid Records: tridroid.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-cocoon

This album continues the story directly after The Larval Hope.

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CHAPTER III: STASIS COCOON

The Servym destroyed was a clone decoy. The real Servym is safe on a different plane with a few of his androids left on a laboratory ship.  He created a failsafe far away from the Sallow Moth in the event its power would grow and exceed beyond the duty of infiltration and war, to the point where it grew to apocalyptic levels. Servym preemptively installed a mechanism for subject zero to collapse on its own power with self-consumption, to the point of mana drain and memory loss. A state of profound confusion.

Even with a depleted network of androids, Servym sends a viral code to the Sallow Moth to insure the void mechanism runs the full course. It will feed brainwashing mechanisms through its core and neural centers so that it does not fight off the memory/mana drain. The Mothlords reluctantly agree to help Servym and place their efforts into making sure the Sallow Moth is weakened and unable to wield magic through the use of a powerful stasis cocoon.

There is a seal which the Mothlords have kept protected in an old cave by one of their elders, Kira. It holds an ancient power able to destroy most machines or artifacts created by humans. There was never such an urgency to justify breaking the seal to use its power, until now. After helping Servym detain the Sallow Moth, the Mothlords seek to destroy the lab and machines which created the Sallow Moth, along with other experimental stations created by Servym's artificers. Servym reveals to them new plans for more cocoon test subjects modeled after subject zero, severely powered down without the ability to wield magic. His plan is to begin farming and converting Mothfolk and other species. Turbulence arises between them.

Meanwhile, on a desolate world the Sallow Moth’s subconscious begins to awaken but recollects nothing of the past, only dreams and visions of pain and suffering.

Servym and his depleted android army struggle to battle the Mothlords but with the help of contracting a powerful rogue illusory mage named Ja-Sei, they’re able to keep most of the labs from being destroyed. Ja-Sei wields a powerful illusion spell to make the Mothlords believe they’ve successfully decommissioned every machine in Servym’s lab and believe they have retrieved the Sallow Moth’s stasis pod to watch over on their home planet. What they really brought with them is a birthing pod designed to spread a nanovirus Servym has created. A neural virus shielded by illusory magic that can affect not just machines, but organic matter as well. His malicious and selfish motives are on the verge of besting the Mothlords and cement his technocratic reign over nature.

With over half of the galaxy’s population exiled from existence from the Sallow Moth, Servym’s viral mission is to repopulate with machines, to forge and assimilate organic beings under his command and neural network. Servym’s plan is taking form with the help of Ja-Sei. An infusion of aether fuel into Ja-Sei’s mind is able to keep the illusion over the Mothlords while the virus begins to transmute them. The Mothlords sense a strangeness among their world and begin to realize the (illusion) Sallow Moth has started to regain its consciousness. They quickly gather all magical resources on the planet to help keep the stasis pod sealed. Little do they know, the pod has already begun seeping its viral contents into the roots of the world, other inhabitants, and the Mothlords themselves. Chrome steel begins to plate over their flesh and wings as their blood and organs harden into machine. Their hearts, no longer beating like a living being, now clicks and hums as a chaos orb. Their minds, enslaved to Servym's network.

The real stasis pod of the Sallow Moth hidden on a desolate world begins to glow. Servym has a chamber of android guards and rogue mages keeping the cocoon at bay but the malicious act on the Mothlords is somehow sensed by the Sallow Moth’s organic core. It’s mind is stuck in a dream hellscape trying to break free. It’s strong enough to send a distress signal to the cosmos in hopes of giving away its location. A small planar vessel traveling through space nearby senses the signal. The vessel looks like an aquatic shell, aboard with scavengers of space and sea. Part fish/part man called Merfolk. They’re alarmed by the Sallow Moth’s distress signal, unsure of what it might be. Curious in nature, they decide to venture towards this world, weaving through thick clouds and hidden force fields. These Merfolk possess an uncommon magic of lifting veils and piercing through illusions like no other being in the multiverse. Upon their arrival, they telepathically send aether fuel to the cocoon. Suddenly the Sallow Moth begins to regain physical strength and develop a cathartic feeling of empathy and hope, becoming more lifelike than its machine counterpart. Its memories are distorted so it does not fully recall the catastrophic events it caused but it remembers who Servym is. This new catharsis ignites a power in the Sallow Moth and with the help of the Merfolk, fight off the guards and mages by trapping them in the stasis cocoon. Joining an alliance with these Merfolk seems to give the Sallow Moth a new purpose as they depart this world in search for Servym and to rescue the Mothfolk.

To be continued...

credits

released July 2, 2021

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

"..nasty, old school flair reminiscent of classic Hypocrisy, along with a penchant for lacerating melodic leads and twisted progressive touches reminiscent of both early Dismember and prime-era Edge of Sanity..Sallow Moth contains multitudes, and it’s the fusion of all of them, merged together at the DNA level, which makes this album more than just the mere sum of its parts. " - Andy Synn, NCS (www.nocleansinging.com/2021/07/06/sallow-moth-stasis-cocoon/#more-199459)

"..Sallow Moth is very much focused on Swedish death metal, with the crisp, memorable riffs and churning buzzsaw guitar tone of tracks like opener ‘Chalice Of The Void’ recalling both the grandeur of early (and I guess judging by their latest, also contemporary) At The Gates and burly power of Dismember. That said, there’s still plenty of Garry’s eccentric flair here – just check out the wonky rock & roll riff that bursts in during the title track, like Lemmy breaking up a bar brawl between Vomitory and Bloodbath, or the almost grindcore ferocity of ‘Fevered Visions’. There’s a more technical, progressive edge to tracks like ‘Seal Of Primordium’ too, almost like Edge Of Sanity covering Gorguts.." - Kez Whelan, The Quietus (thequietus.com/articles/30242-at-the-gates-darkthrone-mayhem-review)

"This album is absolutely loaded with surprises that not only make it the best old-school tech death record of the year, but easily one of the most epic and exciting listening experiences I’ve heard in ages, and with only a 31 minute runtime, that’s damn impressive." - Zax Record Reviews, Noob Heavy (noobheavy.com/album-review-sallow-moth-stasis-cocoon-8-8-death-metal/)

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Sallow Moth Dallas, Texas

2016-2022. Concept project from Garry Brents. Story/themes inspired by Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy i.e. Swamp Thing, Hellraiser, Macross, & MTG. Story revolves around conflicts between celestial humanoid nature-preserving moths, tech-obsessed human/android civilization hungry for space colonization, and a defected faction of moths who mutated into malicious scavengers & sorcerers who thrive on chaos. ... more

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