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artist: Sallow Moth
title: Stasis Cocoon
year: 2021
genre: Death Metal
type: Album
label: Independent
language: English
rel. date: 2021-07-02
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:31:29
size: 81.57 MB
rip date: 2025-08-02
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/242558862
tracklist:
1. Chalice of the Void 3:06
2. Stasis Cocoon 3:45
3. Seal of Primordium 3:15
4. Fevered Visions 1:23
5. Phantasmal Sphere of the Shadowmage Infiltrator 7:14
6. Birthing Pod, Chaos Orb, Mindslaver 5:04
7. Drowner of Secrets, Bring to Light 7:42
release notes:
est. 2016. 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.
This album continues the story directly after The Larval Hope.
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...