So wrong, but so rite Deep beneath the city in the bowels of a centuries-old cathedral lies a terrible secret. Through winding stone passages illuminated by sickly torchlight rests the last vestige of a secret inquisition: a chamber lined with instruments of pain, a stark medieval vision below the polished modernity of the metropolis’s surface. A lone figure stands before the rack, his victim carelessly strapped in, flogged, sweating in pain and choking on the chamber’s thick air. “God’s will,” mutters the torturer, turning the crank with aloof deliberation. As tendons snap and the freshly-carved Enochian symbols in his skin … Continue reading Premiere: Vaticinal Rites – “Plead For Termination”