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This is a strange one. A single – if that term is even applicable these days – is usually a song chosen by an artist to lead the way for an album; chosen first because the artist feels it will make the best first impression, naturally. This single, however, was not chosen to be first for this reason. In fact, it wasn’t ‘chosen’ at all... it is first because it is first. Swallowed By The Earth marks the beginning of a narrative constructed across all of The Osiris Corporation’s songs – each of them linked, and each in an order. Chronologically, Swallowed By The Earth is the opening chapter of a greater story that is written, and will be told in a weave of music, lyrics, images and text. And so, here at the beginning, we on the outside looking in can explore and analyse... try to make sense, in our own way, of someone else’s artistic vision. To think of The Osiris Corporation’s songs in a traditional sense is all but pointless – and to that end, art created at commercial expense to