The Wicked Ones (2024)

Released in stages across 2024 and early 2025, The Wicked Ones marks Devourer fully realized. The album was first unveiled in full on YouTube on May 7, 2024, as a singular act of release, before reaching streaming services the following day. Its physical form followed later, issued as a digipack CD on January 15, 2025 by Iron, Blood & Death Corp. — the Mexican label that has carried earlier Devourer works. Co-composed by John and Sanna Falk, the songs are carved from a stripped two-guitar framework rather than the four-layered storms of previous albums, a reduction that only intensified its force, resulting in the heaviest and most commanding sound Devourer has achieved.

Sanna’s lyrics on The Wicked Ones form a unified descent through extinction, inner collapse, and merciless cosmic indifference. Across visions of ancestral corruption, nuclear purification, frozen wastelands, and post-human aftermaths, the words blur the line between external annihilation and psychological ruin. Humanity is portrayed as both perpetrator and fertilizer—consumed by war, fear, decay, and obsession, only to be erased and repurposed by colder forces that neither judge nor mourn. Recurring images of rot, radiation, ice, and self-devouring consciousness bind the album together, presenting death not as an ending but as a process already underway, observed with grim clarity and absolute lack of consolation.


Tracklist
1. The Wicked Ones (4:13)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
The ancestors of barbarous scums
The heirs of the wicked ones

The sapless cluster of spiders creeping through the cracks in the skin
Makes the phantasms shudder and wake up from a nightmare
Nocturnal screams of inchoate turmoil that comes from within
Shatter against the silence and freeze up in the air

The wicked ones
Wrath of the dead

How do you sleep in your cozy tomb?
What is it the deceased dream about?
Your only wish was being laid to rest in the gloom
With no mortal bullshit pulling you out

Behind closed eyes is where the horror begins
Dark thoughts are growling and spreading like a thousand ants
This is a war where nobody wins
There will be none but us, the spawn of the wicked ones
2. Spirit of the North (4:19)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
Desecrate, destroy, deplete
Put the maggots in their flesh
Fill their eyes with mud and sludge
A vision quest is a manifestation of deceit
The drum of death is calling on the purge

Spirit of the North
The ruler on Earth

Devastate their pointless lives
And lock them up in ice and dusk
Demonic whispers numb their minds
The brittle bones crumble
Turning into icy dust
Eternal night distorts and blinds

They're dancing 'round the pyre which has long faded
Begging for the warmth of Muspellheim
But there is no hope for their prayers to be heard
They’ll all be buried under the layer of rotten snow

The shadows lurking out of sight
Drag the dawn along into the lower world
The hands of the shaman closed around waning light
Release the reign of the unbounded cold

Demonstrate sublime power
Whilst still not saying a single word
Silently kill them one by one
Stigmatize their stiff bodies
Spread out the spores of white mold
Horrific things are to be done
3. The Atomic Redeemer (4:20)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
Mesmerized by the death throes
We watch them brawl and slit throats
The shrieks develop into nothingness
Stifled by the awe of the mass

We're no longer writhing in torment
All the pain is coming out with our vomit
The venom penetrates our cores
Painful swellings and deep open sores

The poisoned soil shakes off the dirt bags
Leaving space for the charred snags
Mutated genes of the ones that shouldn't be
Undismayed by the silent screams of agony
Drink the noxious water greedily
And imagine its' taste vividly
The gizzard's filling up with wet rot
Chug it, chug it!

Suckled by wars and destructions
Hell-bent on the absence of life
Cold-blooded in its dire actions
This world is doomed to wallow in conflicts and strifes
Breath of fire that seems to be saving
This heinous hellscape is forever decaying
But not for those who are already dead

Observing a great mushroom cloud
Is a mental orgasm of the dreamer
Grant us a disastrous fallout
The atomic redeemer

The flesh is melting off the bones
As the emitted radiation glows
The fiery tongue licks up the frightened sky
Exhaling stench onto the ones who die
4. Fear Incarnate (4:17)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
A rampant blooming of decay feeding on the living cells
The plenteous harvest
A silent killer stalking prey applies ingenuity and stealth
The great feast for Barghest

The soil beneath our feet drains the vitals
Obscenely sucking our filthy blood
Humankind that is completely mindless
Was born to fertilize the famine ground

Fear incarnate

Fierce, chaotic, merciless
Deep dread in the minds of the ignorant masses
Faeces, humus grass, mess
No one’s to save your piteous asses

Drowned in our own shit
Choking on the dirt clods
We grab the graveside
We can't get out of the pit
Nor can we untie the knots
We are locked from the outside
A tree will sprout through us
As freely as ever
New species will step on the dead grass
Good luck in your endeavor

The mouths are filled with mud and worms going through our fetid throats
To nourish the vicious seed
The exquisite world built on our bones
Will flourish and seethe

Drowned in our own shit
Choking on the dirt clods
We grab the graveside
We can't get out of the pit
Nor can we untie the knots
We are locked from the outside
A tree will sprout through us
As freely as ever
New species will step on the fresh grass
Oh fuck your endeavor

This is the end
We're fading to black
The changes impend
There is no way back
5. Thanatomaniac (3:53)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
A dismal place to stay sane and lucid
Obsessed with death, I won my life to lose it
The moldy eyes of the dead men can't see the beauty of extinction
The disembodied voice that calls me will remain a mystical affliction

Disdained by inner sight
Misplaced - disgraceful
My blood is pouring down
The mud devours it

I long for someone I can stab
With no regrets or fear of failure
There was a corpse, I heard its throb
It was my body lying there

I loathe to touch my vile remains
I might throw up from seeing what I've done
I didn't long survive my disgrace
No one will care when I'm gone

The moldy eyes of the dead men
The moldy eyes of the dead men can't see the beauty of extinction
The disembodied voice that calls me will remain a mystical affliction

I follow myself to the last way
I crawl on all fours eating rancid dirt
I've realized I've been my own prey
My guts are my worthwhile dessert
6. Folly of Two (5:02)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
A hale encephalon inseminated by derangement
Ferocious, like two colliding nebulae
Spurred on by hatred, ire, and resentment
Pervaded by contagious malady

We are to wreak chaos
Until we drop dead
The demons inside us
Are going mad
It's no longer clear
What's false and what's true
We split up the fear
Folly of two

My soul is broken in half

A foul odor ascending from the ravenous abyss
Shrouds my mind with a cloud of stellar debris
As soon as I inhale my psyche splits into fume and mist
I'm gonna die by the poison of a mental ennui

Outright insanity spreading through the hollow veins
My abnormality is what your coherence craves
Our singularities create a new duality
My personalities collapse under their gravity

Folly of two

After I took the darkness inside of me
The psychic havoc is the final frontier
The outside existence is unspeakably dreary
A nuke went off in my psycho sphere

A foul odor ascending from the ravenous abyss
As soon as I inhale my psyche splits into fume and mist
7. Dystopian (4:29)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
No blithesome child was begot
From the hideous womb
And though we all were left to rot
Neither one of us fled our tomb

The mutilated bodies of aliens
Have been washed up onshore dead
And for countless eons
The altered humans will pose a threat

Welcome to a deadly dystopian nightmare
The expanse keeping all missing at bay
You are paving your way to nowhere
But the doomsday

A fossil imprint of the mortal remains
Is revealing the end of our era
No living thing is gonna replace
The soulless, faceless chimera
The land desolated by darkness
Was wiped off from the pages of history
The individuals, pointless and bloodless
Put them through the violent misery

The abstract entity
The apotheosis of war
The ancient deity
With a titanium core
The lifeless aseity
With the bionic mind
The utter futility
Of the eternally blind

It's neither birth nor demise
Neither existence nor nihility
In-animation with the hollow eyes
No longer hides its hostility
The deadly dystopian world
For the now-extinct human race
It was either ruined or burnt
The joyless, doleful place
8. The Crimson Serpents (6:00)
music: john & sanna Falk – lyrics: sanna falk
“Summon the flame of the burning death
Fire gets hotter depending on what they did
So show them what it's like to die
When it's over they've been told deathly lies
This is my will so mote it be"

Every strike of the blade
Reanimates a dead chasm
Life is starting to fade
Exposing a dormant miasm

The snakes are coiling 'round my hands
Hissing through the mouth of death
It's like a never-ending trance
It taunts me with my breath

A narrow ribbon of blood
Is crawling down the pale chest
The crimson serpents cut my throat
They carry me inside their nest

The end is destruction
I'm smiling and I'm feeling damn great
A malefic mutation
Everything is cold and dead

The crimson serpents burning skin
Yell out the curses of death
My face distorts a wicked grin
Life begins where it ends

I'm drowning in a bloody mass
And dragging down the creeping things
They'll be the masters on my death
Comforting me with ghastly dreams
Details

Written between 2023 and 2024
Produced by John Falk
Cover artwork by Valdemar Rychkov

Sanna Falk – vocals & bass
John Falk – guitars

Releases

May 7th, 2024

May 8th, 2024

January 15th, 2025


Booklet

Live Stream Performance

On September 12th, 2024, Devourer performed The Wicked Ones in its entirety as a live stream, accompanied by the debut of a newly written song, All Adust. Together, these works translated the album’s controlled ferocity into a stark and focused visual and sonic event.

Sonically, the stream remained almost indistinguishable from the studio version. Vocal and guitar effects were fully automated within the live mix to mirror the album’s exact textures, while the entire performance was mastered in real time using a lighter mastering chain, allowing the sound to breathe without sacrificing impact or clarity.

The result was not a reinterpretation, but a precise manifestation — The Wicked Ones performed as intended, intact, unsentimental, and coldly exact.


Folly of Two music video single

Released on July 8th, 2024, the music video for Folly of Two stands as a visual extension of The Wicked Ones, translating the song’s inner tension into a focused and unadorned moving image. The video was filmed by John and Sanna Falk, capturing Devourer in a controlled, intimate setting stripped of excess and distraction.

The video’s concept and editing were realized by Stéphane Bélanger, shaping the footage into a severe and deliberate visual narrative. Through pacing, repetition, and controlled austerity, Folly of Two becomes not a story, but a confrontation — two forces bound together, eroding each other in silence and sound.


The Wicked Ones music video single

Released on January 23rd, 2024, ahead of the album bearing the same name, the music video for The Wicked Ones served as the first public manifestation of Devourer’s then-emerging form. Filmed by John and Sanna Falk in a rehearsal space, the video rejects narrative and ornamentation, presenting only the act of performance itself.

Shot in stark black and white, the visual language sharpens contrast and removes distraction, allowing movement, expression, and intent to carry the weight. The result is simple, but deliberate: a document rather than a spectacle, and a declaration of what The Wicked Ones would become before the album was formally revealed.


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