Album Descriptions: Black Rabbit - Warren Of Necrosis (2025)

I. Initium Finis:

Setting and Atmosphere

The story begins with Black Rabbit as a human priest, consumed by his obsession with power and the desire to gain divine favour. His early sacrifices, offered to an indifferent deity, escalate from animals to humans. This marks the beginning of his downfall and rejection by his god.

Visual description

The human priest is in a dark temple hall, which is decayed and covered in soot and blood. The walls are adorned with primitive symbols, faded with time, bearing signs of degradation that hint at divine rejection. The altars are cluttered with blood, animal bones and half-burned candles. Still in his human form, the priest is dressed in tattered ritual robes. His hands are bloodied from the sacrifices, and his expression is restless and hungry, almost possessed by his desire for power. In the distance, shadows of the deity he seeks to please emerge, threatening, elusive silhouettes exuding disdain or disapproval. A subtle glow from the altar hints at the awakening of a dark power.

Lyrical description

A twisted retelling of Genesis where creation is born from darkness, not divinity. Light becomes a weapon of deceit, innocence withers, and chaos reigns as the world is shaped by corruption—marking the true beginning of the end.

II. Apprehension:

Setting and Atmosphere

After his banishment, Black Rabbit wanders through a desolate wilderness, a place full of death and decay. Here, he encounters a demonic entity at a black, ghostly lake and makes a pact with it. This marks the beginning of his physical and spiritual transformation.

Visual description

The priest finds himself in a barren wilderness, a landscape of dead trees and muddy ground strewn with bones and animal remains. A polluted lake, black as soil, reflects an ominous sky filled with dim light and mist. Crouched at the lake’s edge, his face reflects doubt and despair. His human form shows subtle signs of transformation. In the lake’s reflection, an early version of his demonic rabbit form can be seen, as if his future is already sealed. Rising from the lake, a demonic being. It is an amorphous, shadowy figure, his hand outstretched, reaching toward the priest’s reflection.

Lyrical description

A blasphemous inversion of divine law, where commandments are broken and morality is undone. Order decays into chaos as corruption spreads under the guise of liberation. What was meant to be free becomes another form of bondage—faith twisted, hope extinguished, and humanity consumed by its own darkness.

III. Null and Void:

Setting and Atmosphere

With his newfound powers, Black Rabbit begins gathering and manipulating followers to establish his own religion. They work on constructing the Warren of Necrosis: an endless network of underground tunnels where sacrifices and rituals take place.

Visual description

Black Rabbit watches over his followers, standing atop a rocky ledge. His followers, clad in coarse robes, their faces obscured by handmade animal masks, dig a massive tunnel opening in a rocky landscape with primitive tools. Surrounded by shadows and candlelight, they work in a trance-like state, entirely under his control. The landscape itself appears hollowed out and ruined, as though succumbing to Black Rabbit’s dark influence. He adopts a priestly stance, with his Hammer of Corruption beside him as a symbol of power. His transformation has advanced: sharp ears start to form, and his silhouette is tall and menacing.

Lyrical description

A descent into the hollow sanctity of Leviticus, where faith becomes imprisonment and purity an illusion. Shackled by divine law, humanity bleeds in endless cycles of sin and atonement. As priests revel in their false holiness, the world collapses into emptiness— its devotion feeding only the shadows.

IV. Insurrection... liberation:

Setting and Atmosphere

Black Rabbit has now fully transformed into a demonic entity. The warren of Necrosis has given birth to a tree, the Tree of Eradication, fed by the souls of its victims. This is the centre of his power and corruption.

Visual description

Now, inside the deepest part of the warren, an underground cavern with a massive, black tree in its centre. The tree’s gnarled branches resemble claws. The bodies of its victims hang from the branches, their soul-like glow being sucked into the roots below. At the centre of the scene, Black Rabbit appears in his final form: a grotesque, demonic rabbit creature with glowing eyes, a distorted face, and dressed in tattered priestly robes; his Hammer of Corruption is massive and dripping with blood. The roots of the tree coil around human remains, a red flow emanating from the tree’s core. It feels alive but deadly, a symbol of annihilation and darkness. Masks of the followers are carelessly strewn on the ground, symbolising their replacement by pure sacrifices. The cavern’s air glows red, as if hell itself is near.

Lyrical description

A relentless hymn from the wilderness: a shadowy corrupter watches the lost suffer, stoking doubt, rebellion and despair until faith crumbles. Hope withers into ritualised fear—death and sacrifice become the price of defiance—while the Black Rabbit feasts on the chaos, turning insurgency into another form of control.