Metal Monday XLVIII - Past The Quiet Forest

1/23/2017

Another week, another installment of Hermodr. The select first track of this three part album stirred me, its wild form and pace tinged with echoing howls surprised me, almost forcing me to listen. Beyond the weekly solo track embedded, the link below is for the entire album, should you become as enthralled as I have with this artist.
With more albums than I imagined, this romp through the world of Hermodr will continue for some time, a metal journey to begin this new year.

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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)