Album Notes

Snowman-RNA presents: "Pestilence"

Description: "Pestilence" is a five-song retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death". In the grand tradition of rhyming story-tellers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and the bards of old, this retelling will be told completely in rhyme form. During the creation of "Pestilence", some artistic liberties were taken in order to make "The Masque of the Red Death" more suitable for a poetic musical retelling. The Majority of the songs are coming from the mouth of Prince Prospero. In the following section, a quote is listed from each song. These quotes carry with them the main essence of their respective songs.

Lock Me Down:
"Right now, I don't know what to say, Except I hope you all find peace in your graves"
-Prince Prospero

The Stalking of the Dreams:
"Masquerading--sweet deception! Awesome form of self-expression!"
-Prince Prospero

The Ticking of the Ebony Clock
" Why does this musical, whimsical, thing seem diabolical? Because it reminds us that we really are not immortal"
-Prince Prospero

An Unexpected Visitor
" The real joke is not my suit so scary, but rather this 'safe sanctuary', and that you thought that you'd be safe from that which is every human's fate"
-The Visitor

A Kingdom of Cobwebs
"Accomplishments, possessions...do they really matter...when our skeletons are homes for the spiders???"
-The Ghost