Saturday, October 13, 2018

My Top 5 Doom Metal Albums


1- Evoken: Atra Mors (2012)
2- Evoken: Antithesis of Light (2005)
3- Daylight Dies: Dismantling Devotion (2006)
4- Saturnus: Saturn in Ascension (2012)
5- My Dying Bride: The Dreadful Hours (2001)

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

How Clear, How Lovely Bright


How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
    Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
    Soars the delightful day.
To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
    Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how,
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
    I never kept before.

Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
    Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
    Falls the remorseful day.

by: Alfred Edward Housman

Sunday, September 16, 2018

1000 Shards

Into the truth
Let myself burn
Now it's written
1000 Shards


Aaron Turner
Song: 1000 Shards
Album: In the Absence of Truth
Band: Isis

Sunday, May 13, 2018

The Beckoning Change

Music is the joy of my life and my constant companion in almost all periods of my life.
Such an integral part of one's life is inevitably affected by the ebbs and flows of life.
I now re-defined my relation with music. I tried to learn and discuss music with people with deeper knowledge about music. A guitar instructor's lesson was a game-changer as it inclined me to change my attitude about a lot of music I used to carelessly under-appreciate.
In music, I don't believe at any time-point we should form a solid attachment to a genre. Beyond the tunes, lies a concept and a framework which we must understand. A true enjoyment is only fulfilled when we dig deep and engage at all different levels with a phenomenon. Of course in art the definition of right and wrong is meaningless, yet there is an preference in each person for a genre, band, artist or concept. I believe a trained mind should have a cultivated ear in music as one of person's cognitive experiences.

Jazz was always a sound far from my ears' preferred tunes. I deemed the music consisted of disjointed micro-melodies. In the road map of my life we will be always in pursuit of a resolute perception. Always surrogate carriers of truth.
So here Jazz is the paradigm of change. A change in my perception. I think the same paradigm applies to various cognitive experiences. You embrace the new idea, you analyze and learn. Then you either absorb or reject that new idea. But the key is keeping the door open.
We all face and experience similar materials over and over in our lives. However, the way we mentally execute the meaning of experiences is always changing. Partly this is related to our ageing and our relative stance toward death and mortality. Partly, due to our sentimental ebb and flow. And, partly due to our knowledge. The one parameter some bleed and sweat for. In this evolving understanding, different factors are at work. The proportion varies in each person depending on the balance of knowledge, emotional stability and maturity of character. But change is there as a natural end result of our evolution.
In the end I recognize intelligence a selfless quality in itself, it tends to serve as a conduit for unlimited thoughts. The true intelligence is wild and limitless.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Drift

















Extinction looming.
I feel life is swallowing me and there is nothing that will remain of my existence.
There is an unceasing wind against which I stand.
Sword in hand,
and,
...
maybe a melody...
...in my ears.

Thursday, January 18, 2018