Metal Monday CCXXXII - Smoldering Embers

10/15/2018

"Skagos is an altar of life, crafted by living hands, guided by a living mind, in a world dead, but ever dreaming" These wild, woodland wraiths are most impressive. They bring about fire and sorrow, strewn about in the dark, cold forests. The pace and creativity reminds me of that of ALDA and Agalloch, which many few seem capable of capturing that timberland essence such as they. This track comes from a split with Panopticon, an I have heard of during my journeys but only recently have I given my due attention.
As the weather begins to cool and the rains take hold of the land, I gaze out into that black forest just outside the window and listen for the sounds of madness that spawn such creativity. Away from the cities, among the trees, the darkness is near absolute and ones mind begins to wander. Will you join me this week, out here beneath the silver coated sky, and summon the fires of old to warm your weary and wet bones? The cold creeps closer with each day so let us bolster our resolve and prepare for the darkness ahead.

https://skagos.bandcamp.com/album/skagos-panopticon

Worldeater- swallower of worlds and devourer or the biosphere:
my wounds are salted by every lapsing second
of thy malevolent subsistence.
The earth is darker than conception, and yet the lights never fade.
False stars cast forged light across the faces of hollow, ecclesiastic deities.

May you wade through the entrails of your enemies.
The drought earth thirsts for man's blood
Nefarious whittling in the worship of progress...

The last communities dance with the guile of wraiths,
drowning in miserable rebellion,
wading through the entrails of an artificial beast.
Ancient fires are eclipsed,
but never are they extinguished
as the embers of atavism smolder.

Redemption is a ship sunk thousands of years ago:
New beginnings must be found.

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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)