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I, Defiler is the brutal duality of man. Of the search for knowing, while being blind to our own instincts and ambitions. It is of poisoning one’s self to be able to see clearly. It is the beauty and loss of the endless night sky. It is seeing one’s self and being repulsed by the hollow behind our own eye. It is despairingly Industrial, always changing, relentless in its own turmoil; shifting between grinding guitar work and guttural screams to unnerving digital cleans backed by melodic programming.
With the music video, I am expressing an authentic view into a day in my life during my mental struggles over the past few years; depressed, addicted, lost. I was using drugs as a coping mechanism for the mental anguish I didn’t comprehend, all the while dissociating further from myself. Visually we are keeping up with the 70’s horror styling of the album art.

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In the deep, in the dark lurks my destroyer.
We are the Watcher.
In the deep, in the dark I've lost my protector
I am defector
In the deep in the dark, apathy slumbers,
we are despoiler.
Asperity burns and fights to be free
this cycle of agony.
Delirium closest to god I can be.
If I'm not myself, than who can I be?
Hold fast hope,
When this is done we'll be gone out of our minds,
but back in our lives.
When all felt lost I sought with diamond eyes;
searching for meaning in despair.
but the path was washed aside
Buzzing and boiling,
I’m drowning in failure
I am my own betrayer.
my own betrayer
devise deconstruction , I am the creator
name me defiler
Name me defiler.
Becoming the villain I've been warned about
Suffer in silence, suffer in doubt.
So far underwater I'll never swim out
Lost in myself.
Hold fast hope
When this is done I will be
gone from my life,
but back in my mind.
When all felt lost I sought with diamond eyes;
searching for meaning in despair.
but the clouds will not subside.
(Poison my body, just for a glimpse)
hope interred.
(withering anger and constant frustration)
But the path was washed aside
Slide the scale, traverse the abyss.
Broken down, and I slumber in defeat.
Consumed in boundless self destruction.
control is but a fleeting notion
Bones to dust, scattered to the hills.
Burn the fucking bridges that I have yet to build.
When all felt lost I sought with diamond eyes;
searching for meaning in despair.
but the clouds will not subside.
(Poison my body, just for a glimpse)
hope interred.
(withering anger and constant frustration)
But the path was washed aside

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from The Incident at Black Lake, released September 30, 2022

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All Else Fails Edmonton, Alberta

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"The epic twelve track album [The Oracle] explores their most extraordinary sound to date." – PureGrainAudio.com

“Obsidian Walls” is a colossal song”– Planet Mosh
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