I am in full swing mood in this moment to brag about an experimental heavy [heaviest] doom metal band named “Sunn 0))),that is specially designed for mortals who have an abyss in their soul. The sound of Sunn 0))) songs, especially a number like ‘Candle goat’, emotes the beastly instincts in you with the help of a couple of heavily distorted guitars. First of all, you need to know the dangerous depths of your mind, if you want to comprehend their songs.
I, as a matter of fact, was a fan of ‘Burning witch’, the experimental doom metal band that dealt with the concepts of doom and hell in Christianity in their lyrics. I personally prefer that kind of sound in metal- Slow, Heaviest and total horror. “Burning Witch” was dismantled soon after it is formed and members of it gave cranks to another bands. One of them were ‘Goat snake’ in which Greg Anderson was the lead guitarist. Stephen O’malley of “Burning Witch’ went on to find this special band ‘Sunn 0)))’ that is heavier and slower in tempo than “BW’. Greg Anderson has also joined that band later and I believe that’s enough for a preface.
I wish to write about my perception of their song ‘Candle Goat’. It is a shock to me that the music of ‘the song accurately harmonized with its lyrics. I would like to share those lyrics with you –
“Alone, unalive, forgotten and abandoned where only the discarded dwell,
the scurrying of footstpes so large planets fall into the great pit,
entire civilizations consumed in the slow frenzy of despair,
an unholiness that judges without reason, digested by something so hungry,
so insatiable, a gleeful darkness that knows you have arrived,
and has always known, something that should never have been,
something waiting with a patience truly terrifying,
that is everything and nothing,
a darkness that binds all together in fear and eternity. Await.”
My Interpretation Of This Scream
‘Alone, unalive, forgotten, and abandoned where only the discarded dwell’
What could be the most exciting, horrifying and adventurous place to be – I would say, without any doubt, it is a lone, wide space where dead humans are buried. You can call it a ‘cemetery’, for the facilitation of comprehension. However, Can you imagine a world- yes I mean the fucking modern world, where we wage the corporate wars- itself become a cemetery and everyone of it is dead except one destined god damned child and that’s –“You”.
In such a state of affairs, you feel dead even though you are able to breathe. There you sit near the future tombstone of yours –‘”unalive and forgotten, abandoned and discarded”. Meditate on these lines, my folk - Aren’t you unalive, forgotten, abandoned, and discarded even when this world runs in its epitomized momentum. Yes, you are dead, in a sense, my friend. These lines reminded me of Nietzsche’s Zarathushtra who just sat there with the first companion he got from the buzzing town, a dead one. It would be terrific if Zarathustra act this part for a music video version [ he he ].
‘the scurrying of footstpes so large planets fall into the great pit’
This could be the end of the world- The distorted guitar buzz goes beyond weirdest horizons- A force that could burn your state of art technological civilization into ashes within a flash. People worship things that are afar their reach and control because there are no other ways to understand and beat them. Human beings will try their best to break things and thus reveal them in their sore nakedness. They worship a power that can’t be broken or revealed because they are, in their core crom, nothing but cowards. So when a power that has footsteps larger than your planets, you start to worship it, out of ‘fear’.
Yes, ‘fear’ is the key foundation of any worship for most people. We fear god more than we fear Satan, right ? That is the sole reason,for us to worship him. Here in the above scene, you don’t know the character and quality of the rising power that can crush your universe. You have no idea whether it is good or evil but I am sure indeed, that you will soon build a structure for worshipping it, you coward monkeys [read ‘human beings].
[Will be continued soon]
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