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lyrics

And so, this story begins
Of the pepsis genus reproduction
A horror to spiders, an obsession for entomologists
They represent a lifetime of research to be done

The tarantula hawk is on the hunt for a nursery
To raise her young free of any charge with nutritious food
She knows of one, a juicy spider, full of calories
First she must find a tarantula, the wet-nurse for her brood
But she has a trick, using pheromones, she sniffs out her prey
She locates, and navigates to the burrow
The clever wasp knows a way to get its prey out:

It tears the webs
It wrecks the spiders home
Forced into defense
The spider flees to the surface

Sizing each other, scuttling across the ground
The wasp tries to insert her ovipositor, the stinger into the spiders abdomen
The tarantula ever-wary nearly avoids certain death...
...if only for another moment - as that fourth inch long stinger shall penetrate it before the day is done

The wasp takes it victim down a hole to be entombed
Using its ovipositor the pepsis lays an egg on the spider
She surveys the nest; spider she inspects; which is left to rest
It then covers the tomb and leaves, having done its job the pepsis can finally be at ease
The egg will hatch soon and feast upon the flesh
Ravaging its organs, leaving the vital ones for last

The egg hatches
One life starts
And another will soon end
Searing, blinding pain takes it as the larva desecrates it
Death, where art thou? The creature beckons for it.
But death is a tease...in three weeks the tarantula will be dead...

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from Evoke​.​Contrast​.​Evolve, released May 18, 2019

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The goal of Escaping Aghartha is to educate people about specific examples of ongoing destruction in the biological world, using extreme music as an educational tool.

Avery, a biologist, started Escaping Aghartha as an experimental solo project. Now Escaping Aghartha has started to feature skilled musicians on some releases. ... more

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