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Brian Fowler- Guitars,Bass,Vox Sloan Leavens -Lead Vocal,Bass,Keyboards, Guitar,Producer Jim Dunn- Drums
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Brian Fowler- Guitars,Bass,Vox, Octave mandolin,Mandolin Sloan Leavens -Lead Vocal,Bass,Keyboards, Guitar,Producer Jim Dunn- Drums, percussion
AGE I “Plague Unit (1349) The Black Death devoured the kingdoms of Europe. Amid the funeral pyres rose a young plague doctor named Erasmus, barely past twenty, wearing a long coat, leather gloves, and the bird-beak mask stuffed with herbs. Every day he saw bodies piled higher than the cathedral steps. Every night he begged the heavens not to take him. The sky was the only untouched thing leftpure, blue, mocking. Erasmus believed that if he could understand the sickness, he could save people. But as the dead multiplied, he began noticing something else: the plague behaved like it was guided. Villages fell in perfect spirals. Patterns appeared in the spread, as if drawn by an unseen hand. One night, as he burned another row of corpses, he whispered: “This is not God’s hand. Someone is orchestrating the fall. The plague was not random. It was a testa first attempt. And Erasmus, unknowingly, would become the seed of a future catastrophe. AGE II “Project Fear (The Present Day) Centuries passed. The world changed, but fear did not. Governments and corporations discovered what the ancient plague masters learned: Control the fear, and you control the people. Enter Project Fear, a covert global program built on psychological warfare. Erasmus’s journalsrecovered from a monastery in Franceformed the foundation. What began as a medieval observation had become a modern playbook. Green tides poisoned coastlines. Birds fell from the sky with the same dead-eyed stare Erasmus described. Citizens signed dotted lines without reading them. Screens whispered the new religion of compliance. Most people didn’t notice the shift. They were too distracted, too divided, too tired. But some began to see patternsspirals of events repeating across decades, just like 1349. A man named Alden, a historian obsessed with plagues, discovered Erasmus’s symbol hidden inside government documents, weather reports, and financial systems. He realized Project Fear wasn’t about power. It was about preparing the world for something approaching AGE III “Ball of Confusion (The Future) When the meteor finally appeared in the sky, humanity spun into chaos. Time began to blur. People saw moments from their past and future happening simultaneously. The entire world became a ball of confusion, perception shattering doorways into other realities. Alden was one of the few who understood what was happening. The meteor wasn’t just a rockit carried the same force that shaped the plague, manipulated history, and influenced human fear. It was a cosmic intelligence, drifting through the galaxy, learning through destruction. Earth was simply the next host. As cities crumbled and the green tide swallowed the oceans, Alden found himself standing beneath the same untouched sky Erasmus once stared at. In that final moment, time foldedand the young plague doctor from 1349 stood beside him, separated by centuries but united through the entity that had shaped both their worlds. Erasmus whispered: “Fear was the infection. We were never fighting a disease. We were fighting the mind behind it. The meteor struck. Earth shattered into particles of glowing emerald light. Humanity ended. But consciousnessinfected, reshaped, and evolvedwas carried into the stars. The plague, the fear, and the confusion were all chapters of one cosmic design.
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Peak #63
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Fowler
Uploaded
January 30, 2024
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MP3 8.3 MB 320 kbps 3:37
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Story behind the song
Plague Unit" Themes: Historical reflection, pandemics, societal decay Analysis: This song takes us to the Black Death of 1349, reflecting on plague doctors and the fears that gripped societies during pandemics. The "Plague Unit" could represent the medical or governmental response, which often struggled to cope with the scale of such disasters. The "leather bird beak mask" and the imagery of "funeral pyres" evoke the iconic look of historical plague doctors, who were thought to protect themselves from the disease through their long beaks filled with herbs. This symbolizes both the hopelessness of trying to fight such a pandemic and the dehumanizing nature of mass death. The line "1349 was a bad year" grounds the song in a historical context but also suggests that such fears of death, contagion, and societal collapse are timeless. "The only thing not infected is the sky" can be interpreted as a metaphor for nature or the universe, which stands indifferent to human suffering and folly. The narrator's desperation to save others but their own fear of "catching it" highlights the human fear of mortality and isolation.
Lyrics
Plague Unit ( Fowler) Welcome to the Plague Unit What will be our fate? Leather bird beak mask Lives Fading Fast Smoke is Rising from the burning fires Endless Bodies in the Funeral Pyres We want to save the sick Leave this place where death is thick 1349 was a bad year Kings and Queens, Rats and Fear The only thing not infected is the sky I scream to the heavens why? Can I heal them of the plague And not catch it I beg I am too young to die Plague Doctors never cry
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JeffHill
Jul 24
Excellent Tune