Metal Monday CCLXII - Hymn of the Wood

7/8/2019

In 2005, a demo was released called Hymn of the Wood by Noltem. Now, there isn't a whole lot to summon up as far as videos or information yet I stumbled onto this gem and found it haunting and melodic. Sorrowful, serene, and stirring, Noltem debuted with a beautiful demo. Rivers Held In Ice, Hymn of the Wood, and The Final Dawn are winding tracks that keep calling you back for more, pulling you into the black woods that only some venture. Give these three a listen and let yourself escape to the cold woods instead of the heat of the summer. Let these Connecticut wood wraiths lure you into the recesses of the trees, where all the wild things dwell. /,,/
https://noltem.bandcamp.com/album/hymn-of-the-wood
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Noltem/Hymn_of_the_Wood/65336

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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)