"Excess makes the heart grow fonder"
The day as I'm writing this, February 16th 2021, would have been John Balance's 59th birthday had his tragic death never transpired those 16 years ago. Anyone who's dabbled into Coil's myriad efforts knows how the story goes, his falling from a two story window and immediate passing there afterwards, with much of the material Black Antlers onward being posthumous release, even Black Antlers itself getting a re-release in 2006 with new songs and ... read more
well i'm sure there ain't a heaven
but that don't mean i don't like to picture you there
after weeks of agonizing and deliberating, my family and i chose to put down my dog of 14 years today, after he had been slowly atrophying over this past year and we came to a realization that this was basically it before he truly began to take a turn for the worst. and we didn't want him to suffer
i don't know why i chose this album to listen to, to channel my grief through, but i did, and every second i let this play i felt that unexpressed love, that smothering grief, ebb through me and ... read more
“I want to play all music. Not rock, not jazz, not classical: everything. Once you’re aware of this, the only answer is total freedom.”
No short secret to anyone who's followed my account since approximately the end of April or so, I've been on a huge Keiji Haino discography binge. From his main rock outfit in Fushitsusha, to collaborative efforts he's made with other artists, to his solo efforts which see him explore all sorts of musical realms. From crushing noise rock to ... read more
Do you dream of death, the eternal sleep?
Staring into the muddied soil liquefied and running from an eternal rain, God's tears endlessly cascading down your abyss black form, the unknowing intangible nexus of something that is but something that should not be. What lies before you is the endless ocean of graves, eternal resting places of every form and every kind you could think. Carved out in jewels and bloodied reverence for the life that was, unmarked and lazily uncovered to signify a ... read more
Have you ever heard the sound of a universe dying?
Stars fragmenting and splintered apart in their kaleidoscopic death of fission, the synapses of God's molten concoctions shattered in an instant, the divine eradicated in the anointment of the irreverent. Pillars of flame wreak their scorching vengeance upon the cold abyssal blackness of dark matter, staining the midnight sea with the irrevocable spilling of blood; an apocalyptic yet amorphous wreathing of coiled snakes carving their ... read more









