Evoken - Mendacium 2LP Punk The title MY SWORD LEANS

The title MY SWORD LEANS AGAINST THE SKY is taken from a death poem by the Zen monk Sōki Shunpo (しゅんぽ そうき)

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Evoken - Mendacium 2LP Punk The title MY SWORD LEANSMendacium 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