Metal Monday CCXXXVIII - Loneliness Of The Wolf

11/26/2018

Now there is an album title I can relate to...Eternal Crypt brings forth a powerful combination of Melodic Black Metal, Power Metal, and Folk elements as well. I would often overlook some of the things featured within however somehow this artist binds it together in a way that is quite enchanting, haunting yet sometimes epic. The showcased track for this week is the album titled track as well, Loneliness Of The Wolf, but do not shy away from the rest of the album. Take a journey with these blackened wood wraiths and let them regale you with dark tales and sorrowful melodies.
This week I have much to look forward to however I find myself much like the cover art, staring into the distant darkness, a solitary wolf belonging to a scattered yet strong pack. I will push on, with tracks like these to drive away the feeling until I can roam with those I call my own. Steel yourselves this week, folks. Be wary of illusions and devils alike.

https://eternalcrypt.bandcamp.com/album/loneliness-of-the-wolf

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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)