Metal Monday CCXXIII - Fimbulwinter

7/23/2018

The first full length, and self-titled, album from the wild and wind born wraiths known as ALDA. Emerging from the heavy forested depths of the northwest, ALDA's first album is rich with black metal in the same vain as BARROWLANDS, Gallowbraid, and Wodensthrone. However, this will evolve over the next two albums into something more, something untamed and unfurled, yet for now we dwell on this cascade of power. Each albums first song has a certain allure, haunt, to it, puling you in and rooting you in place to weather the storm ALDA is about to unleash. Showcasing this week is Fimbulwinter, a monumental blizzard of energy that will not cease for three whole winters...Any ode to the Old Norse Gods is always a worth choice in my book. Enjoy, you tree dwelling maniacs!

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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)