A creative journey through adversities and obstacles personified through the elements of the earth, and sinister internal forces the imminent wrath of which is unleashed to test your will to get to the end. To claim your Emerald. The main theme is obtaining self-completion, making it by experiencing self-awareness and spiritual elevation by facing the good, the ugly and the evil that is inside us, the bag of Aeolus that is buried in each of our souls. With an album that is intelligently full of melodic intricacies, controversies, paganistic atmosphere and metal weight, it also has vision and pours insight into the sweaty strenuous processes of creation, having to the go through its 40 waves with you being at Those Winds mercy.
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door… Layne Staley
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 23, December 2014 features Layne Staley, pg. 12-13.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7694-december-2014
Words vs Music
What is it about melodised words that get us going? That gets me going? That triggers a strong emotional reaction that the same words, unmarried to a set of notes, may in certain cases leave me, well not indifferent entirely depending on content, but with such a watered down version of the same feeling.
Number one: for sure it’s the Words. The Words create lines of verse in our heads, prose or poetry, other peoples’ thoughts and concerns that form a story every time, that are somewhat open to interpretation within the boundaries the Words themselves set.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door…Marvin Gaye
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 21, October 2014 features Marvin Gaye.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7517-october-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door… Frank Zappa
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 22, November 2014 features Frank Zappa.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7586-november-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door … Rory Gallagher
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 19, July 2014 features Rory Gallagher, pg. 12-14.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7211-july-2014
Josh Homme article and QOTSA ‘…Like Clockwork’ album review
Mahakala, Black Hat Bones, Forsaken Memoriam, Burn the Sun @ Six D.o.g.s, 29/06/13, Athens, Greece
On Saturday G.U.M (Greek Underground Music) presented the first of (what we assume to be) more fests, consisting of four bands that roughly played between 40-50 minutes each. Two, I knew already: Mahalaka have been high profiling my musical preferences for some time now, and having released their new concept album two months ago, I could not resist paying close attention to the occult thematology which I find mischievously engaging. Black Hat Bones I had seen once before, receiving their promo four track teaser (from their upcoming album) in late 2011. The album is still under construction two and a half years later. The other two bands Burn the Sun and Forsaken Memoriam were new additions to my Greek band database. Continue reading Mahakala, Black Hat Bones, Forsaken Memoriam, Burn the Sun @ Six D.o.g.s, 29/06/13, Athens, Greece
ORANGE GOBLIN, Stonebringer live @ AN Club, 14/11/13, Athens, Greece
This would be the second time I was going to see the Orange Goblin psych-up the AN Club stage; I remember their last appearance at that same small venue just over a year ago and it was literally ground-breaking, so this is what I expected to experience again. They are monoliths in Stoner Metal and have been active since 1995, and one of the first bands that introduced me to the Stoner scene. In my book, these Brits combine as much Doom as Stoner metal requires. The opening act was Stonebringer, a band whose journey I have followed over the past year and it is always a pleasure to see them play. Word on the street was that Orange Goblin did not want to share the crummy backstage restroom with the local opening act.
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