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Grief

by Everson Poe

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1.
Denial 10:42
The point of god’s arrow Aimed at your back The ruins surround A pyramid in tact This power was never meant to be wielded This magic is far beyond your grasp This malevolence has burrowed deep inside you This malfeasance born out of your wrath I can not forgive you Not of this trespass I have no divine insight To cleanse you of your past God will not forgive you Of your greatest sin Swallowed up by hell’s inferno Frozen from within You are my You are my demon Possess me And no one else I am your I am your instrument You play me So very well Mine is to behold CHOKE, CHOKE, CHOKE, OFFAL AND SAND CHOKE, CHOKE, CHOKE, BILE AND BLOOD CHOKE, CHOKE, CHOKE, POWER REMAND CHOKE, CHOKE, CHOKE, YOU SHALL BE JUDGED (PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM DAMN HIM, DAMN HIM, DAMN HIM SEEK HIS SPIRIT IN HELL CAST ME INTO THE FLAME)
2.
Anger 03:44
In Time Lost Grace I am but a witness This blasphemy unturned He gathers up the wretched And leaves the world to burn Righteous Anger Replaced By shame I am but a witness This blasphemy unturned He gathers up the wretched And leaves the world to burn (Virtue Silenced By your hate You have Become The apostate)
3.
Bargaining 10:06
There’s no returning From hatred’s grasp From purest vengeance His holy wrath There’s no forgiveness For fallen sons The gates of eden Are rusted shut There’s no reclaiming Humanity There’s no salvation By his decree There’s no forgiveness For fallen sons The gates of eden Are rusted shut Crows fly from your belly Bees burst from their skulls The demons in your body Bring the harbinger to cull And he shall rise up from the sea And he shall take you in his arms From the caves emerges he Singing soft his putrid psalms He crawls in through your mouth And settles in your veins To do the devil’s work And feast on your remains “O, holy father The demon’s taken hold My body weakens It desecrates my soul O, holy father Forgive me my mistakes Abandoned virtue Apostasy and hate I am damned”
4.
Depression 14:02
Dethroned Displaced You wretch and claw your face We fall Descend We cannot comprehend No word Can bind The will of the divine My loss My grief Abandon all belief (Your scripture Is worthless The demons Will stay Your lies will Consume you Abandon Your faith) Will they vanquish All who stand to fight? Will they vanish Raptured by their christ? Would you punish Those who seek to heal? Will you perish Lashed upon the wheel? (Dethroned Displaced We fall Descend No word Can bind My loss My grief) Will they vanquish All who stand to fight? Will they vanish Raptured by their christ? Would you punish Those who seek to heal? Will you perish Lashed upon the wheel?
5.
Acceptance 10:14
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"This is the type of album that utterly consumes you by benefit of narrative and sheer emotive heft. It's desperately sad, and possesses a sincerely tangible weight." -Sleeping Village Reviews

Everson Poe’s new album, "Grief", was recorded in the summer & fall of 2020, making it the fifth album created last year by Mae Shults. It owes its genesis to a Catafalque song which sampled The Exorcist III, in which a serial killer is possessed by the same demon from the first film in the series. The first piece of resulting music is the song that closes the album, “Acceptance", and from there was born a concept: A devout Christian serial killer who believes it is his duty to rid the world of those who practice witchcraft, who are possessed by demons, or who simply turn away from the Christian faith. But after committing so many horrific crimes, he begins to question his own faith; Is he, himself, possessed by a demon? Eventually he comes to the realization that his actions were wholly his own, that there is no god, and that he has damned himself to a life of suffering.

Employing heavy use of dialogue samples—preachers discussing witchcraft and demons, an Aleister Crowley ceremony, and interviews about mass murderer Richard Speck and with “Co-Ed Killer" Ed Kemper—Everson Poe has created something unique in her catalog. To add to that uniqueness, this is the first Everson Poe material to ever be mixed & co-produced by someone other than Mae. The sole member behind The Sun Came Up Upon The Left—with whom Everson Poe released a split at the end of January that was recorded after Grief—and one half of doom-violence duo Revered And Reviled Above All Others, db has taken the signature sound that Mae has developed over the last 12 years and given it new character.

Grief is Everson Poe’s heaviest album to date, and the first to employ a concept not just in theme, but in telling a complete story—of how religion is often twisted by those who place their own supposed salvation over the lives of others—from beginning to end.

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released April 2, 2021

Written, performed, produced, + recorded by Mae Shults
Hell's Half Acre Studio, Chicago, Summer-Fall 2020
Co-produced + mixed by db
Keyboard drones on Anger by db
Cover photo by Ellie Lane

All samples taken from archive.org

Thanks: Dan @ Trepanation, db, Ellie, Stephen / Unknown Relic, Meg / Sludgework, Sarah, Nina, Justine, Erik, Matt + Eric, Stacy, Abe, Mom + Dad, and Catafalque for inspiring the genesis of the album

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Everson Poe Chicago, Illinois

Everson Poe is Mae Shults: a trans, queer, multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. Often in collaboration with various vocalists, she balances elements from many diverse genres while maintaining the goal of merging beauty with loudness. She has been releasing music as Everson Poe for over a decade.

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