Metal Monday CCXXXIII - A Night That Ends, As All Night End, When The Sun Rises

10/22/2018

We return this week with Skagos again, as I myself return home. It feels only natural that I should choose such a wild and earth driven band for this weeks showcase as I find my way home again from a remote stint. I appreciate listening to this album more having just dwelled amongst the trees and animals, alone under the star strewn sky, the quiet of the house surrounded by the untamed land. I can feel in this album that same energy, that unique call and allure the forests and mountains have, the draw of a distant mountain and the serenity of lakes and rivers. It is power, force, yet all balanced within itself, raging, however calm as well. It is deliberate although seeming chaotic, and in this is a depth of beauty, one that enthralls and haunts those that dare to look upon it and wonder. Let this week be one of reflection and reality, the weight of yourself and the world, how it all fits even though all seems random, unbound. As the title suggests such cyclical balance "A Night That Ends, As All Night End, When The Sun Rises," as do we have a pattern to complete, a place in this world, whether known or not.

We, who built ourselves to paradigm.
We, who wore a colossal weight with pride.
In a niche of faunus extravagance
we ruled a tundra of malice.

Providence trades hands with exigence
as the wolves chase us in to the thicket.

Oh, the weight of it!

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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)