Metal Monday CCLVII - Unhallowed Rites

6/3/2019

Something stirs in Germany, some thing unholy. This Metal Monday belongs to the Cult of Salem. A melodic voice to lull you in all so the dark, growling thing beyond can bellow upon you. Cult of Salem is quite different, a mixture of heavy, death metal vocals hidden by a doomed, operatic voice beckoning you to listen. Throw in some Lovecraftian thematics and what arises is an artist that offers mind shaking music.
Unhallowed Rites is an album full of delicious treats. Epic and horrific, these tracks churn and crush with blackened danger, crawling with things just behind the scenes waiting to creep in and shake your world. The showcase for this week will be I Saw The Devil (No, not the movie but just as dark and dangerous) which opens thunderous and ominous slowing down just enough to catch you off guard with a monstrous return. However, the piece below will be Anthem to an Outer God, the first track that hooked me and one that is worthy of showcase (Shub Niggurath demands it so). Do check out the other tracks as well to grasp the full prowess of this stellar artist.
This week is going to be a wicked one, wretched things stir just behind the scenery and they wait for us all to drop our guard. Keep your eyes on the shadows... lest they replace you. /,,/
https://cultofsalem.bandcamp.com/album/unhallowed-rites

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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)