The Riot Room

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The Riot Room

4/5/2017

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Drawn again to Kansas City, returning to a familiar haunt known as The Riot Room. Beckoned by the Doomed giants, Khemmis. Powerful wizards that summon sounds mighty enough to sunder mountains and churn the oceans. This was the reason for this trip, however, to my surprise, I bore witness once more to the band called Existem. Hailing from the surrounding area, their sound has grown stronger, fiercer, their dedication showing greatly.
Shirts were purchased to support not only these bands, but for the survival of Metal everywhere. Withstanding the oxidation of time and tastes, carrying the torch that shall not extinguish so long as the primal call exists. It was a total of eight hours of driving, yet the call was answered, honored, and carried back to the reaches unknown.
A mighty thanks to the band members of Existem and Khemmis for your labor and love for the Metal scene. Your sigils have been carried to vast places so that your name and deeds may be known. Safe travels to Khemmis as they continue their tour with Belgium's Oathbreaker.

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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)