Metal Monday LVII - Der Wanderer Part I

3/27/2017

I stumbled onto a peculiar album whilst searching for more of my beloved Gallowbraid. Like the veins of a mighty tree, I followed the roots until it lead me to a compilation album with single tracks from various artists. Two my dismay, Agalloch and Gallowbraid sat next to one another, as if waiting for me to find them, wanderers in a forest with others in their respective genre and soundscape. However, this journey also gave me a growling track by the artist called Wandar. They hail from Germany but are no strangers to the mystic expanse that the previous two dwell upon, tree dwelling furies haunting the old places, the natural ones, the mountains on high. And so, I give them their due respect, churning up a track that has kept me in its grasp for a few weeks now. Behold, Waldganger!

Album Info:
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/der-wanderer-ber-dem-nebelmeer

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THE MAD BARRON

"It takes a certain kind of madness to trek alone into the wilds however I find it far safer and less stressful compared to the trappings of cities and men." - Barron

TITLES GIVEN:
-Rocket Sniper
-Witch King
-Pilgrim
-Animal Whisperer
-Mountain Man

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)