Metal Monday CCLIII - Ravens of the Burning God (Part 1)

4/1/2019

The Howling Void... now there is a Metal name for damn sure. This is going to be an unusual Metal Monday due to a few reasons. First, Darkness in the Daylight is a track from a split with Nyss (who shall be showcase next week as the second part to this). Second, I cannot find anything else relevent to this track so there is nom video or lyrics to present which leaves this a tad hollow. So, since The Howling Void is about to release a new album I will put the prerelease track below as bonus for this weeks artist.
Ravens of the Burning God is a three track release with one from The Howling Void and the other two from Nyss. I was unfamiliar with both these artists until I stumbled on this dark treat. This week, we choose the more doomed of the two artists, letting this lengthy track build into something powerfully haunting. Vocally, and somewhat instumentally, I feel the same energies I have become familiar with from Swallow The Sun which makes this all the more alluring.
Let The Howling Void carry you into this week a determined and dark energy, luring you deeper into the days beyond. If you enjoy this track then give Bleak and Everlasting a whirl to give you more of this chilling artist. Links below for albums:
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ravens-of-the-burning-god
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-and-everlasting

No lyrics or video (?) This is indeed a dark gift...

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THE MAD BARRON

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)