Metal Monday CCLVIX - Princesse Terre

5/13/2019

NYSS is back with this weeks showcase album Princesse Terre (Three Studies of Silence and Death). Translating to "Princess Earth" this three track album is wicked dark and explosive. Pepper in some Alan Watts in the intros of the songs and the build ups are riveting and raw. Track II is by far my favorite pick of the three but the trio is one hell of a journey when played in succession. And check out that album cover, dark, ominous, and unnatural...just like my dates!
As we revisit Nyss once more with Princesse Terre, I must promote their newest release as well which I have only briefly visited. Dépayser sounds just as promising as the previous works I have visited and I look forward to what grim adventures Nyss has in store. This week though we pay homage to its predecessor, giving us topics of thought that many may avoid or not want to ponder on, silence and death. My recent ride with the reaper was too close for comfort yet the living silence I enjoy now is due to my avoiding a horrid end, a black, all consuming kind of silence.
Nyss is giving us some blackened fuel for this week and that means we should listen well. Check out Princesse Terre as well as the newest release to satiate your metal needs! /,,/
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/princesse-terre-three-studies-of-silence-and-death
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/d-payser

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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)