tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355108483588914160.post7283155359672668829..comments2023-10-24T00:24:11.707-07:00Comments on Poetry of Subculture: I'm not done yet.Helmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584102280299430293noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355108483588914160.post-73569305037551237112017-12-14T19:10:44.461-08:002017-12-14T19:10:44.461-08:00Mechabarbarian:
Atlantean Kodex did a very revea...Mechabarbarian: <br /><br />Atlantean Kodex did a very revealing interview with the Bardo Methodology guy where they go on about their love of Europa and how 'actually Evola had some good points'. So, yeah. Very disappointing. I had gotten the idea that this is where they were heading from the first album, which - at the time - I read as a deliberation on Fates Warning 'bow to kings of yesterday, they've given you wings to fly away, what have the phantom queens but deceived you?' but it still smelled fishy and a few years later it turned out, yup, it smells like what it is.<br /><br />re: metal brotherhood, you know me, I didn't get into heavy metal to make friends, right? It's time we start readdressing the need for - not brotherhood - but community. We're not going to get through this unscathed as free agents anymore.<br /><br />Thank you for the kind words for the record and also, overall. Glad to have you back.<br /><br />Knifetooth, thanks. And yeah, if you should be doing something, do something, there's no other way about it, I feel. <br /><br />If you're not interested in nationalism in heavy metal, you'll find the blog quite boring for the next few months. <br /><br />re: 17 year old delusions of grandeur, we all know that's exactly what heavy metal is, but that doesn't mean it's all it could be. We're getting olddd. There must be some olddd metal we can make.<br /><br /> Helmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00584102280299430293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355108483588914160.post-4439765455035886572017-12-07T02:28:44.121-08:002017-12-07T02:28:44.121-08:00Yes, welcome back, Telemachus!
I found A Subtle...Yes, welcome back, Telemachus! <br /><br />I found A Subtle Kind of Light immediately intriguing. I have the cd version. Great cover image and there's no band logo - all the more allusive. Locust Leaves made many interesting aesthetic choices. <br /><br />The main drawback for appreciating the album further, in my case, is me being the "master of not doing," to borrow from Unholy or Castaneda. At least that's how I sense it. <br /><br />Ablation is in order, perhaps. Something different, more likely. There seems to be no exit from creating some body of creative work to appease the itchy skin.<br /><br />Nationalism in "my" metal or our Heavy Metal isn't a priority for me. I'll be reading your posts, likely. My multi-ethnic family and I have our own migratory issues to deal with. I'll chime in when I can.<br /><br />Also, I think Mechabarbarian is on point with the idea that HM's defining feature being the ambition of a 17-year old, recording an epic and being effectively transformative. Sounds like a sorcerer to me. I was hearing some of that in Accept's "Aiming High" song, today.<br /><br />Come to think of it, Unholy has a song called Colossal Vision. I think I'll go consider that in the context of a 46 year old continuing a 17 year old's unfinished business.<br /><br /><br /><br />knifetoothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626123032500629329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355108483588914160.post-66502422781667298872017-11-21T16:02:35.050-08:002017-11-21T16:02:35.050-08:00Welcome back.
Nothing has been more heartbreaking...Welcome back.<br /><br />Nothing has been more heartbreaking than this trend of nationalism. Did you listen to Atlantean Kodex's second full-length? It takes a huge page out of the Awaken the Guardian playbook.<br />Musically, some of the most successful adaptations of that particular record. I was enthralled for my first few listens. But the more time I spent with it, I felt something was off. So much of the sub-text and not-so subtle-text could be understood as "europeans unite against foreign immigrants", west vs east muslim hordes bullshit. <br /><br />Sure enough, I tracked down some interviews, which sadly confirmed my suspicions. How short-sighted for, especially a German band. <br /><br />It just sickened me, to hear the influence of an album, and a song such as Guardian and morphed into something so blatantly racist. It just cheapened it all. You have crafted these beautiful songs, you had the possibility to layer them with any virtue and meaning your heart desired, and you've settled on something so small? <br /><br />I think the music is divine, some of the best of its kind from this last decade. But I cannot divorce it from it's intent. <br /><br />And I have many times reflected on how my reactions to these bands is not at all parallel to my disgust for stuff like Burzum or Dissection who's malice is more outlandish and distant ( or at least used to be). The current far right creeping into my Heavy Metal makes me uncomfortable in another way. As if the metal brotherhood wasn't bullshit enough, trying to make sure it's an aryan one doesn't make it any more appealing to me. This is where that metal brothers manowar shit lead us.<br /><br />Go back to the zines of the nineties. How many now beloved mainstream metal artists" spoke their mind on immigrants and "niggers"? This shut runs deep.<br /><br />I look forward to what you have to say on the subject, there is room for love in Heavy Metal.<br /><br />On the subject of your guitar skills; I think what has become clear to me, is that Heavy Metal's defining feature is how it's ambition remains totally undaunted by it's limitations. It's a 17-year old recording an epic while barely knowing hot to play. Some of my favourite music in the world is flawed, was written and performed by amateurs. Yet if they hadn't performed it the way they did, I would never have heard it at all. Romantic ambition can transcend any false note or shitty production job. Heavy Metal, transcends.<br />Not that it even applies here, I've enjoyed your album immensely this past year. Thanks for making it!<br /><br />On a final note, I was very happy to have discovered Memento Waltz by way of you just a few weeks ago. Thanks for that too, I stumbled on it while in a manic period obsessed with Progressive Metal. <br /><br />Mechabarbarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188362750510531794noreply@blogger.com