#david wagner

EVOKEN "Mendacium" LP 2025

1. Matins 2. Lauds 3. Prime 4. Terce 5. Sext 6. None 7. Vesper 8. Compline

"In cavern shadows (deep) where your mind will dwell. There is a fear that grips, a whisper to tell. If there is naught beyond life's knell? Myth is heaven's gate, a non fiery cell.

Will hideous angels soar or inner demons dwell? The unknown lurking, I seek thee through a daunting spell. Summoned hopes and fears rebel.

Life's own journey is an appeasement of dogmatic will. Submit to your heaven, within ourselves, And banish known fears and give rise of no heaven or hell."

"Mendacium tells the tale of a 14th century elder Benedictine monk with malady from illness preventing him from leaving his room within the monastery he dwells within. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind ?"