Lockdown Chronicles II - P. 1

"The exercise of meditation and memorization requires nourishment. This is where the more specifically intellectual exercises, as enumerated by Philo, come in: reading,  listening, research, and investigation.  It is a  relatively simple matter to provide food for meditation: one could read the sayings of the poets and philosophers, for instance, or the apophthegmata. "Reading," however, could also include the explanation of specifically philosophical texts, works written by teachers in philosophical schools. Such texts could be read or heard within the framework of the philosophical instruction given by a  professor.

Fortified by such instruction, the disciple would be able to  study with precision the entire speculative edifice which sustained and justified the fundamental rule, as well as all the physical and logical research of which this rule was the summary. "Research" and "investigation" were the result of putting instruction into practice. For example, we are to get used to defining objects and events from a physical point of view,  that is, we must picture them as they are when situated within the cosmic Whole. Alternatively, we can divide or dissect events in order to  recognize the elements into which they can be reduced."

Track listing:

1. Iskandr - Verban
2. Horseback - Invokation
3. Apognosis - The Failure of Man
4. Harvestman - Oak Drone
5. Bongripper - Hate Ashbury Part II
6. Trap Them - Organic Infernal
7. Indian - Directional
8. Palehorse/Palerider - Sundowning
9. Bruce Lamont - The Crystal Effect
10. Merkabah - Pitchblende
11. Djevel - Naa er hele livet paa ravnens bord
12. Antediluvian - Luminous Harvest
13. Abyssal - A Casual Landscape
14. Cloud Rat - Seven Heads
15. Saligia - Draining the Well

Lockdown Chronicles #8

Art: Julius von Leypold - Wanderer in the Storm

Playlist:

1. Zhrine - The Syringe Dance

2. Gråinheim - Kannibale

3. Infernal War - Eater Of Hope

4. Trespasser - Tachanka

5. Glorior Belli - World So Spurious

6. Katharsis - Black Lust

7. Wrathprayer - The Darkest Fyre

8. Kringa - To Sleep In Vermin Velvet

9. Malign - Entering Timeless Halls

Total run time: 00:49:44

Lockdown Chronicles #7

Bran Castle

"It is true that since long before the classical age, and for a series of centuries that has probably not yet come to an end, passion and madness have been kept in close proximity. But the classical age did have a genuinely original approach here. Moralists in the Greek and Latin tradition had thought it quite fair that madness should be the punishment for passion, and to confirm it they declared that passion was a provisional or attenuated form of madness. 

But the classical age created a relation between passion and madness that was neither wishful thinking, nor pedagogical threat nor moral synthesis. There was a break with tradition in that the terms of the argument were reversed, and henceforth the chimera of madness were to be based on the nature of passion, and the determinism of the passions was nothing other than the freedom offered to madness to penetrate the world of reason. If the unquestioned union between body and soul showed in passion the finitude of man, it also simultaneously opened man to an infinite movement that was his undoing."

Playlist:

1. Deus Mortem - Emanation

2. Ofermod - Chained to Redemption

3. Abyssgale - Anoint the Wounds with Poison

4. Urgehal - The Necessity of Total Genocide

5. Armagedda - Endless Fields of Sorrow

6. Demoncy - The Obsidian Age of Ice

7. Odal - Tausend Wüsten

8. Bestia Arcana - The Poison of Mannaseh

9. Zarathustra - Embrace Your Insanity

Total run time: 00:52:50

Lockdown Chronicles #6

Art: John Anster Fitzgerald - The Artist's Dream

"I think that in bringing sanity to our intoxicated age, history has an important part to play. I do not mean that this is to be brought about by any supposed ‘lessons of history’, or indeed by anything easily put into a verbal formula. What history can and should do, not only for historians but for all whose education has given them any breadth of outlook, is to produce a certain temper of mind, a certain way of thinking and feeling about contemporary events and their relation to the past and the future. 

I do not know whether one should accept Cornford’s thesis that Thucydides modelled his history on Attic tragedy; but, if he did, the events that he recorded fully justified his doing so, and the Athenians, if they had seen themselves in the light of actors in a possible tragedy, might have had the wisdom to avert the tragic outcome. It is an ancient doctrine that tragedy comes of hubris, but it is none the less true for being ancient, and hubris recurs in every age among those who have forgotten the disasters to which it has always led. In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages."

Playlist: 

1. Gnaw their Tongues & Dragged Into Sunlight - Alchemy In The Subyear

2. Asagraum - Black Sun Prayer

3. El-Ahrairah - Stone Throwers

4. Nocternity - Opaline Eye of Death

5. Gormanudr - Portal

6. Hæthen - Taking the Auspices

7. Vilkacis - Defiance

8. Black Vice - Emergence

9. Ildjarn - Eksistensens Jeger

Lockdown Chronicles #5

Art: Arnold Böcklin - Attack by Pirates

"It merely means that we limit ourselves to a reliance upon that which is within our wills, or within the sum of the probabilities which render our action feasible. Whenever one wills anything, there are always these elements of probability. If I am counting upon a visit from a friend, who may be coming by train or by tram, I presuppose that the train will arrive at the appointed time, or that the tram will not be derailed. I remain in the realm of possibilities; but one does not rely upon any possibilities beyond those that are strictly concerned in one’s action. Beyond the point at which the possibilities under consideration cease to affect my action, I ought to disinterest myself. For there is no God and no prevenient design, which can adapt the world and all its possibilities to my will. When Descartes said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world,” what he meant was, at bottom, the same - that we should act without hope."

Playlist:

1. Misþyrming - Hof

2. Kampfar - Fortapelse

3. Ravencult - Hail Revenge

4. Helheim - Altered Through Ages, Constant In Time

5. Den Saakaldte - Audhumla

6. Marduk - Vanity of Vanities

7. Blut aus Nord - A Few Shreds of Thought

8. Grafvitnir - Vessels of Serpent Fire

9. Ad Hominem - The Upper Art

10. Morgul - Author of Pain

Total run time: 00:46:47

Lockdown Chronicles #3

Art: Franklin Stanwood - Moonlight Marine

Death toll rises.

Track listing:

1. Akrotheism - Virtue of Satyr

2. Fluisteraars - Zijsselt

3. Spectral Wound - Slaughter of the Medusa

4. Human Serpent - Funeral Grimness

5. Arckanum - Eldkviner

6. Thrall - Diseases Maiming Caress

7. Aptorian Demon - Ordets Makt

8. Ninkharsag - Dawn of the Age of Horus

9. Gjendød - Amputasjon Av Vranglæren

10. Impending Doom - Frozen Empire

Total run time: 00:48:28

Lockdown Chronicles #2

Art: Emile Claus - La route après l'orage

The time of isolation has arrived. Stay away from everyone.

Track listing:

1. Monarque (Can) - Vigor Mortis

2. Sun Worship (Ger) - Castle High

3. Baptism (Fin) - Esoteric Spheres

4. Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult (Ger) - Fundaments of Seminal Knowledge

5. Kathaaria (Ger) - Venus Dementia

6. Angantyr (Den) - Krageben

7. Gardsghastr (Swe / US) - Of Crimson Eyes

8. Ondskapt (Swe) - Vehicle Of Stone

9. Grá (Swe) - Där skuggor dröjer kvar

Total run time: 00:57:22