The third album to include lyrics was NueroMorgue's 1993 album Devis Tortura. The booklet was titled "Devastation and Minim Opi" and was eighteen pages long. This was the first lyric booklet to have its own title. It was typed on a word processor and printed out.
This "lyric booklet" did provide lyrics to all of the songs that were on the album but you had to work to find them for they were buried within the story or hidden in secret codes. All the lyrics of the songs were chopped up and rearranged, and this story was written around that.
The booklet started with the table of contents followed by a forward. Following that was the 5-part story titled "Devastation" which contained lyrics to ten of the songs on the album. The other seven songs had their lyrics hidden in seven short stories at the end of the booklet. After the minim opi was an epilogue. And the booklet ended with a full-page drawing called "Primordial Water and Lotus".
This booklet was meant to be released with the album but it actually came out on March 22, 1994, three months after the album was released. The cover credited the booklet to Gargoyle.
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