Metal Monday LXXX - Portrait of a Headless Man

9/4/2017

I knew this album was going to release but had not preordered it (as I had DRUDKH and The Wolves In The Throne Room). This was due to the entire album not being able to be listened to, the few tracks presented were choice though. I was in error for not anticipating how monstrous this album would be, instantly being consumed by its orchestrated assault. I am struggling to find a track that I can find as my favorite. For now, due to being one of the most astounding pieces and its bonus instrumental track, I chose "Portrait of a Headless Man." Still yet, Dark Art, Faceless Queen, and Martyr have my attention, yet the whole damn release has my head occupied. Behold....SEPTICFLESH!!!!

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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)