Memoir

Tired
Burning
I'm burning!

"Are You Committed?"

"Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?"

Atra Mors On Its Way

Profound Lore Records finally confirmed: Evoken Breaks its 5 year silence with their new album "Atra Mors"(terrible death or dark death). There's no secret: i'm huge fan of Lyndhurst-based pioneers of funeral doom. Like many fans anticipating another spectacular album, i'm psyching about the content and style of Evoken in their latest work. Hopefully they won't back up and follow their solid trend. Evoken has been a permanent part of my life, i can remember each day of my internship listening to "Antithesis of Light" late at nights...

Seen as one of America’s forefathers of the death/funeral/doom metal movement and having forged in the early nineties where the New Jersey outfit, by incorporating such influences as old-school Paradise Lost, Disembowelment, Thergothon etc. would carve their own legacy in the annals of the doom metal movement as one of its pinnacle and essential bands.  With a career spanning almost 20 years and four unparalleled full-length albums, all essential and classic in their own right, that define EVOKEN’s repertoire, “Atra Mors” (the Latin translation for “Black Death”) signals a new chapter and turning point in the EVOKEN legacy.

Recorded and committed to tape over a six-month period at Sound Spa studios in Edison, New Jersey, “Atra Mors” sees EVOKEN comprise their most ambitious album to date.  While still upholding the utterly colossal, apocalyptic, and extraordinary heaviness the band have become synonymous for, “Atra Mors” sees EVOKEN embrace new ground by experimenting a bit more with the use of ambience and atmosphere, deploying a stronger sense of melody (and moments of tranquility) during some of the album’s discourse along with delivering moments that harken back to the ancient days of pure old-school death metal.

@Profound Lore Records

Written in Our Scars

Remember!
The hopeless abyss!
Where we built our temple of pain!


Remember!
How Torturous Screams,
Resonated like heavenly chorus
In our ears!


Remember!
Joyous effigies
Once we were!


pedram
photo: Newsha Tavakolian

Gerry

Gerry: A brilliant sequence!

Movie: Gerry
Year: 2002
Written by: Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
I watched Gerry in march and since then the ideas flew to my mind about the haunting picture. The movie progress in the absolute absence of action. Thus the poor response from audience and critics was not surprising. The dialogues are so limited and totally improvised by two stars. Personally i found Gerry moving. Imagine watching two young boys crossing the desert with no water, food,...and most importantly no motive can be noticed. It's the journey itself that matters: the journey, the adventure and the depth of a relationship that emerges through simple plot, that's all. I liked it.

Ciel errant

En ouvrant les yeux le matin
Aussitôt la peine m'emplit
Mais parfois je ne ressens rien
Ou juste le vif sentiement
De ne pas être d'ici...
J'aime alors contempler le ciel
Avoir l'impression de m'envoler
Vers les nuages qui passent puis s'effacent
Dans le bleu d'une mer sans fin

Alcest

Lunch!

10:10

Carry on!
Stay Strong!