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Shimmering scales, soft glow and bulbous enamor
A smooth touch of the growths beneath the waters
Doctored by interdimensional waves
Caressed by the tribes, menagerie of ex-military, scientists, thieves, and prison world sentinels, sentinels
Derelict ships in the aqueducts
Minerals, bodies, and metals collide
Bubbles erupt from lurkers below
Seafoam flickering with various bodily fluids
Tendril, pili, mandibular palps
Antennae, chrome exopod, nanowire
Nanowire dopamine
Tasting another world, salivary gel synthesized
Synthesized and manifested
Engineers racing against the deep water fiends
The evolution culminates together
A world of curiosity and oddity
Victorious of purpose, laborious in its pursuit
To wet the brain of the fallen
By the touch of here
Rejuvenated
By the luscious leaves
Iridescent
Incoherent voices murmur
One must submerge
A new appendage grows with a tickling sensation
Unknown nerves
Diatoms amalgamate
Diatoms amalgamate
Lighten, lighten
Seek, seek the temple and the incarnations
Incarnation extrapolated
Tropical, hidrotic aromas emanate
Whispers and chants spring
To learn a new language
Submerge deeper, eat the light
Fins creep
Creep
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Crippling presence
Bursting frost
Lost vortices inescapable
In anticipation of the panglacial moth, elder queen time manipulator
Three feasts and three visits
To uncharted realms granted
Brace yourself expeditiously
Underdeveloped
Traveler
Determine the cost of ambition
No biological entities be wasted
Consider all specifications
Enriching
Survive
Fire, ice, and slime alive
Learn to imbibe on the variety
Distend, distend
Debrief when you’ve had your fill, had your fill
The glow will feel unlike another, another
Unobscurities, not far
Skin tight, organs ripe, blood’s thick, ecstasy high
Soul separated, consigned to her, distended for her
Distended for her
Conduit
Designed for her
Release
Refreeze
Expunge and repeat this process twice, module, module
New soul built from scraps of aether
Just in time for the arrival, arrival
Dutiful and bountiful harvest
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Driftmoth Vivisector
03:56
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Studying the deeds of past selves, looking for revelations to reach a physical world
Fabric slice reality’s deglamer
Seize all warm bodies in sight
A pale, blue lure
Display promises of paradise
Then rip and dismember with precision
Searing laser paired with bladed tarsus
An obsession born from consequential bioshift
Equipped with new talents and tools to learn, must experiment
Medical atrocities inside vanishing portal laboratories, laboratories
Beginnings
Fascinated with any living being it sets its eyes on now
Pursuit
Journeying the worlds, developing skills, a purity sweet, slice
Ruthless movement, no armor unpierced
Driftmoth
Vivisector
Evolve
Belief
Creative touch
Improvisational elegance
One of one, witness
Next cut, with grace
Next jump, no psionic battery
Fabric slice reality’s deglamer
Lower shade with a brighter, blue lure
Glowing glimpses, regimental artistry
Driftmoth
Vivisector
Further into obscure beings
Annexing, indexing
Reaching status of a god, those believe
One of one, a following
Next cut, instructing
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Biohybrid Virulence
04:50
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Explore
Explore
The filament
Crawling in a haze, maze of consumptive goo
Relay message to the pilot, incremental influence of sickness, sickness
It spreads
Blight reversal systems engaged, unknown object pulsing inside
Taciturn messenger with cravings, undenied
Nanodeceiver bolstered by blood and water
Synthetic or not, it will thrive, copacetic host
Deploy any navigators, keep the virus from the brain
Breathe deep, pill bug down, wait for recalibration
Calculate countermeasures, tingling mixture
Intravenous specimen
Unnerve, merge
Calibration instilled, instilled
Mimeofactured virus in multifarious order
Morphing into new elite, self-engineered corrosives
Not unlike nature, the biohybrid adapter
Crumble
Delayed message to the pilot, insurmountable confluence to harness
Beyond salvation, this vessel cannot withstand
Blight visions replay, disowned body convulsing in brine
Irreversible damage complete in time
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Arcane Benthic Umbilicus
05:32
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Anomalous trawl revealing floodpits, old creation
Reel it in, large fragment of mossy steel, seafloor disguise
Rows of filmy barnacles, faint glow of light beneath, slowly blinking blue
Subsea
Further submersion required, assemble channels of fathom seers, ruin divers, and lastly lucid dream engineers
Deep operatives of reality and dreams
Benthic
Umbilicus
Navigating the sludge
Dank, root-made maze
Coralsmiths lurking, approaching with suspicion
Tendrils refract
Enclave darting, surrounding us
Scattering strokes of ambush, sinister dashes of calculated stabs
Telekinetic tanglers
Drowners guiding us down a gullet, fin blades locked into our suits and skin
Inescapable tricksters, force feed
Dream engineers stay wary, yet ready to engage in the astral slipstream
Descend
Blue dream
Deceptive visions flood and mesmerize
Dreamtide speakers
Shape pseudowater
Hypnotic thirst
Breathing false air and water even in this astral state, lucidity reversed causing insanity to weigh down
A large gullet will be an intruder’s watery grave, forever ensnared in a benthic nightmare
Swallowed by something unknown, it plumbs the depths of oceans and the
Psyche
Body and mind digested
Umbilicus
Metabolize
Benthic
Umbilicus
Benthic
Umbilicus
Feed on the rest
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Polymorphic Gnaw
05:01
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Remnants of life and death and beyond
Constructed by ancient fire and ice and steel and potions unknown
Fluids melded deep
Fluids in my sleep
Thaumaturgic destination revealed
Atoms split, mind sprung from the cauldron
Self sacrifice unintended
Oolech overdose
No longer a body, now inanimate, a weapon of some sort
Or a utensil for specific forms of mastication
Perhaps I am both, but why can I think
Cursed
Object
Void of nerve endings
Destined for utility
Rigid, yet pliable, intrepid
Transfiguration unchangeable
Acceptance
Into the guts of my wielder’s enemies
The mouths of warriors elite
Slashing and prodding beasts with ease
A feast far from home, forever long gone
Gone forever
Unheard scream from a sharp blade, life thrown away
Bittersweet existence
Eaten from mortality
Shine
Concede
Bittersweet existence
Eaten from mortality
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Hydrophilous Brood
04:13
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Remains of the exiled, scattered into the waters of strange worlds
Years later, wet surfacing
New larvae, new food chain
Frenzy in the deep, deep
Distribution in the flow of parasitic waters, streams nurture
Receive
Special plating
Impervious to weapons
New brood, designed to take pain
New reign
Next phase to develop, bend dreams by agency of water
Imprinting from cohabitants
Disembark now
Disembark now
Exceeding trajectory
Ability to travel from bodies of water, one world to another
No matter the distance or size, a metastasis
Hydrophilous omnipresence
Bathe in us
Drink from us
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Serene Aqueous Leech
05:01
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Syphon death
Leftovers miasmic
Beyond the blood, beyond any armor
Exhaustive procession, a blessing gift-wrapped
Hivemind social structure
It’s your memories we want
After you’re long gone, cinema exmortal
Brain sing, preserved for our own methods
Encrusted gems flicker, tinker with the fallen
Dead or near-dead, no difference
Abundance
Of the drowned and eaten
After submersible circumstance
Extracting, extracting
It’s peaceful
No one hinders
Never tired
Of feeding
Consuming
Consign memory to our own, drone
Post-mortal squelch, why
Liquidity
You are remembered
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Sallow Moth Dallas, Texas
est. 2016. Concept project from Garry Brents. Sci-Fi/Horror themed death metal with original story arc. In late 2025, Allen Gingerich joined on drums and additional writing. New album ‘Hydrophilous Brood’ out July 24, 2026 on Willowtip Records.
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