#elegy — Public Fediverse posts
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... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:
https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542
Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!
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... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:
https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542
Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!
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... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:
https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542
Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!
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... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:
https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542
Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!
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... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:
https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542
Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!
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Poet, the flowers are open
even when we are dead…—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Funeral of Robert Garioch”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)Robert Garioch (1909–81), one of the greatest figures in 20th-century Scottish poetry, died #OTD, 26 April
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/
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https://www.europesays.com/be-nl/49248/ Structure – Heritage | Zware Metalen #Amusement #ArduaMusic #ayreon #BE #België #Belgium #BramBijlhout #DirkBruinenberg #DoomMetal #elegy #Entertainment #grafjammer #heritage #jammerhout #Music #Muziek #Nederland #OfficiumTriste #PimBlankenstein #RobertSoeterbeek #StarOne #structure #VanEigenBodem #ZwareMetalen
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https://www.europesays.com/nl/191440/ Structure – Heritage | Zware Metalen #Amusement #ArduaMusic #ayreon #BramBijlhout #DirkBruinenberg #DoomMetal #Dutch #elegy #Entertainment #grafjammer #heritage #jammerhout #Music #Muziek #Nederland #Nederlanden #Nederlands #Netherlands #NL #OfficiumTriste #PimBlankenstein #RobertSoeterbeek #StarOne #structure #VanEigenBodem #ZwareMetalen
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.
Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,
Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.
You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,
Digested with pride at dawning.
No grave for you, no stone, no weep -
Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…
Though I still hear your final beep -
Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.
The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.
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‘Tichborne’s Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne
#poem #poetry #english #literature #elegy
https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/chidiock-tichborne-poem-tichbornes-elegy
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Happy to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/79060/ Gayton vs Goliath — minister’s machinations to cancel Venice Biennale artwork head for court showdown #BeyondTheFrames #BiennaleCatalogue #CampaignForFreeExpression #CourtDeadlines #Elegy #GabrielleGoliath #GaytonMcKenzie #NirenTolsi #NosiphoJezile #SouthAfrica #VeniceBiennale
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/76592/ Gayton vs Goliath — minister’s machinations to cancel Venice Biennale artwork head for court showdown #BeyondTheFrames #BiennaleCatalogue #CampaignForFreeExpression #CourtDeadlines #Elegy #GabrielleGoliath #GaytonMcKenzie #Namibia #NirenTolsi #NosiphoJezile #VeniceBiennale
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Sad to hear of the passing of Tasmanian political cartoonist Jon Kudelka https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/09/jon-kudelka-dies-aged-53-death-cartoonist Jon Kudelka had a lively interest in copyright law - both in terms of the defence for parody and satire, and the need to stop political misappropriation of his own work under economic rights and moral rights https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-drive/intellectual-internet-cartoon/8957682 #cartoon #parody #satire #elegy #copyright
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"Elegia Pacis"
Inventor of the Forge, I swear
The Day you forced a breath of air
Across red coals is cursed for all.
For Axe has yielded to the Maul,
And Farmer to the armored Knight.
The Shield and Sword are shining bright
While Rake and Plow are left to rust…
And all our dreams are turned to Dust. -
“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
- Christina Rossetti, 1862 -
“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
- Christina Rossetti, 1862 -
“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
- Christina Rossetti, 1862 -
“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
- Christina Rossetti, 1862 -
“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
- Christina Rossetti, 1862 -
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An Elegy for TikTok
======================#TikTok is 💀 dead
💀 dead 💀 dead.Tiktok got bought
by bloody-pilled MAGA Red 🚱 🚨
(and now data-mining your ethnicity
and 💊 Meds)Big-name influencers walkin' away ...
walkin' away sayin' :"Hey WTF happened to my payday?" 🤬 📉
Tiktok won't let you describe the word "Zionist"
or type the word Epstein in chat,Nope, you gonna get blatted for that.
MAYDAY 🆘
#TikTok is 💀 dead
💀 dead 💀 dead.Because Larry Ellison the dreaded is
the number one donor to IDF dopies.And he wants to breed a race of Stepford wives to turn into his trophies. 🏆
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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#TTRPG #CharacterCreationChallenge2026 #Elegy
New editions always add new complications in terms of game design. Some steps forward, some steps back. It's character creation time again for *Elegy*.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Character+Creation+Challenge/2026/11+-+Elegy
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A memorial song can be heartfelt and still fall short of remembering the person it’s meant to honor. Demi Lovato’s “Unforgettable” feels sincere, powerful—and strangely anonymous.
#MusicCriticism #PopMusic #DemiLovato #Unforgettable #SongAnalysis #Elegy #LyricAnalysis #CriticalWriting #PopCultureCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/demi-lovatos-unforgettable-tommy-we-hardly-knew-ye/ -
I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/about/histor... #Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2025
#Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
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Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy.
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'[Lehrer] was indifferent to money – he had enough for his needs, and no interest in acquiring more – so he put a legal instrument on his website allowing anyone to do anything they liked with his work, without paying him royalties. This is in amazing contrast with most high-profile performers, who have international legal teams to guard their intellectual property.' https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/wit-of-tom-lehrer-by-those-who-knew-him #copyright #music #elegy
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Today we bury
the last wordsmith
in captivity
who wrote
in an archaic format
formerly known as poetryWe perform this somber #elegy
in the shadows of anonymity
for as you all know
freestyle writing
(in fact freestyle anything)
was banned long ago
by those beasts now in control
who fear the power of creativity
more than terrorists with gunsSo truth me told
(another dangerous commodity)
this burial ceremony
is really a requiem for us
trapped in a stagnant society
that has gone flat line -
By Thus Spoke
I’m sure most people reading have experienced that exchange where a friend, colleague, or family member, having caught wind of one’s enjoyment of heavy music asks incredulously, “how do you listen to that?!” It’s an interesting insight into the strange phenomenon of artistic taste,1 how a complex and disharmonic combination of notes and time signatures can be “just noise” to one pair of ears and a thrilling musical experience to another. It therefore amuses me that I can sit here and talk about Burning Palace, who craft progressive, technical, dissonant death metal that’s brutal, loud and restlessly dynamic. But, who pitch it perfectly in that golden zone of melodicism and lethality. Because—as is no surprise to us here, but likely baffles outside observers—there is a great deal of nuance between ineffectual disorganization and potent convolution.
Elegy falls into that specifically American brand of techy, dissonant death metal whose brutality is more corollary than intention. That which is thoughtful, and unexplainably “happy”-sounding despite its surface-level hostility. Jaunty, acerbic, riffs, imagined by an Artificial Brain, clamber to the fore out of formations where the same guitar lines melt into an indistinct yet driving ebb and flow. Sunless, paradoxically major scales spring up out of dissonance and the Afterbirth of inter-assault meandering, to which the occasional lapses into resonant, mournful melodies create gorgeous contrasts. But Burning Palace aren’t copycats, and Elegy actually demonstrates a transition from the grindier brutal death metal of Hollow into this more precise—but absolutely no less heavy—interpretation. As an example of technical sophistication meeting simple enjoyability, the record stands as perfect proof of the aesthetic value of supposedly impenetrable music.
What strikes particularly strongly about Elegy is the expertly deft way Burning Palace poised violence, intricacy, and beauty to craft it. Though occupying a category that in many senses eschews the adjective “catchy,” it has led to some frustration in my time with it, due to the fact that I’m unable to adequately sing, hum, or otherwise externalize its songs that have lodged themselves in my brain, thanks to their emphasis on riffs and time signatures that my unschooled vocal chords cannot copy. Ludicrous and ludicrously fun scale ascents, tempo switches, and rhythmic interplays abound (“Traversing the Black Arc,” “Awakening Extinction (Eternal Eclipse),” and clever dynamism and selective ambience make certain riffs stand out dramatically (“Birthing Uncertainty,” “Sunken Veil”). Burning Palace take the broadly progressive approach to songwriting via tangents and explorations of themes, but always reprise the key elements of those themes through escalation (“Traversing the Black Arc”), or evolution (“Birthing Uncertainty”), or just a snappy, definitive conclusion (“Awakening Extinction…”). Melody is, importantly, never actually absent, and the genuine beauty of the explicit refrains that slink in as a lone guitar takes centre-stage (“Malignant Dogma,” “Suspended in Emptiness,” “Sunken Veil”) are just the pinnacle of the shifting interplay that undergirds them, arising naturally and not as mere contrast to some ugly, dissonant mass.
There is nothing specifically within Elegy that one could single out as lesser in quality; the record is remarkably consistent, and if anything, Burning Palace save some of the best for its latter end (“Sunken Veil” is probably my personal favorite, and it comes second-to-last). There is a vague sensation that tracks share a little too much in common, but I’ve found that the more time spent in their company, the more personality each of them shows. But even if they do tend to melt a little into the realm of indistinguishability, the quality is invariably high, so I, for one, don’t really care—what does it matter, when you’ll be spinning it repeatedly in full anyway? That inkling of indistinctness runs the opposite direction and speaks somewhat to Elegy’s flow, as many songs pick up a similar riff or percussive pattern to that which closed their predecessor (“Malignant Dogma”).
Burning Palace might not be the average person’s idea of a great musical time, but it’s mine, and likely many of yours too. Elegy demonstrates the breadth of dissonance and complexity in extreme metal in its thoughtful yet exuberant form. Not cerebral, but clever, and never neglecting to dazzle with superb musicianship as worthy of the adjective “gnarly” as “technical.” Burning Palace have made subtly complex and repeatedly rewarding compositions, full of energy and ardor, and that you actually want to listen to, not just because you feel smart doing so. Those who can’t appreciate the style truly are missing out.
Rating: Very Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: wav
Label: Total Dissonance Worship
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: March 14th, 2025#2025 #35 #Afterbirth #AmericanMetal #ArtificialBrain #BurningPalace #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #Elegy #Mar25 #ProgressiveTechnicalDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #Sunless #TechnicalDeathMetal #TotalDissonanceWorship
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By Thus Spoke
I’m sure most people reading have experienced that exchange where a friend, colleague, or family member, having caught wind of one’s enjoyment of heavy music asks incredulously, “how do you listen to that?!” It’s an interesting insight into the strange phenomenon of artistic taste,1 how a complex and disharmonic combination of notes and time signatures can be “just noise” to one pair of ears and a thrilling musical experience to another. It therefore amuses me that I can sit here and talk about Burning Palace, who craft progressive, technical, dissonant death metal that’s brutal, loud and restlessly dynamic. But, who pitch it perfectly in that golden zone of melodicism and lethality. Because—as is no surprise to us here, but likely baffles outside observers—there is a great deal of nuance between ineffectual disorganization and potent convolution.
Elegy falls into that specifically American brand of techy, dissonant death metal whose brutality is more corollary than intention. That which is thoughtful, and unexplainably “happy”-sounding despite its surface-level hostility. Jaunty, acerbic, riffs, imagined by an Artificial Brain, clamber to the fore out of formations where the same guitar lines melt into an indistinct yet driving ebb and flow. Sunless, paradoxically major scales spring up out of dissonance and the Afterbirth of inter-assault meandering, to which the occasional lapses into resonant, mournful melodies create gorgeous contrasts. But Burning Palace aren’t copycats, and Elegy actually demonstrates a transition from the grindier brutal death metal of Hollow into this more precise—but absolutely no less heavy—interpretation. As an example of technical sophistication meeting simple enjoyability, the record stands as perfect proof of the aesthetic value of supposedly impenetrable music.
What strikes particularly strongly about Elegy is the expertly deft way Burning Palace poised violence, intricacy, and beauty to craft it. Though occupying a category that in many senses eschews the adjective “catchy,” it has led to some frustration in my time with it, due to the fact that I’m unable to adequately sing, hum, or otherwise externalize its songs that have lodged themselves in my brain, thanks to their emphasis on riffs and time signatures that my unschooled vocal chords cannot copy. Ludicrous and ludicrously fun scale ascents, tempo switches, and rhythmic interplays abound (“Traversing the Black Arc,” “Awakening Extinction (Eternal Eclipse),” and clever dynamism and selective ambience make certain riffs stand out dramatically (“Birthing Uncertainty,” “Sunken Veil”). Burning Palace take the broadly progressive approach to songwriting via tangents and explorations of themes, but always reprise the key elements of those themes through escalation (“Traversing the Black Arc”), or evolution (“Birthing Uncertainty”), or just a snappy, definitive conclusion (“Awakening Extinction…”). Melody is, importantly, never actually absent, and the genuine beauty of the explicit refrains that slink in as a lone guitar takes centre-stage (“Malignant Dogma,” “Suspended in Emptiness,” “Sunken Veil”) are just the pinnacle of the shifting interplay that undergirds them, arising naturally and not as mere contrast to some ugly, dissonant mass.
There is nothing specifically within Elegy that one could single out as lesser in quality; the record is remarkably consistent, and if anything, Burning Palace save some of the best for its latter end (“Sunken Veil” is probably my personal favorite, and it comes second-to-last). There is a vague sensation that tracks share a little too much in common, but I’ve found that the more time spent in their company, the more personality each of them shows. But even if they do tend to melt a little into the realm of indistinguishability, the quality is invariably high, so I, for one, don’t really care—what does it matter, when you’ll be spinning it repeatedly in full anyway? That inkling of indistinctness runs the opposite direction and speaks somewhat to Elegy’s flow, as many songs pick up a similar riff or percussive pattern to that which closed their predecessor (“Malignant Dogma”).
Burning Palace might not be the average person’s idea of a great musical time, but it’s mine, and likely many of yours too. Elegy demonstrates the breadth of dissonance and complexity in extreme metal in its thoughtful yet exuberant form. Not cerebral, but clever, and never neglecting to dazzle with superb musicianship as worthy of the adjective “gnarly” as “technical.” Burning Palace have made subtly complex and repeatedly rewarding compositions, full of energy and ardor, and that you actually want to listen to, not just because you feel smart doing so. Those who can’t appreciate the style truly are missing out.
Rating: Very Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: wav
Label: Total Dissonance Worship
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: March 14th, 2025#2025 #35 #Afterbirth #AmericanMetal #ArtificialBrain #BurningPalace #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #Elegy #Mar25 #ProgressiveTechnicalDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #Sunless #TechnicalDeathMetal #TotalDissonanceWorship
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By Thus Spoke
I’m sure most people reading have experienced that exchange where a friend, colleague, or family member, having caught wind of one’s enjoyment of heavy music asks incredulously, “how do you listen to that?!” It’s an interesting insight into the strange phenomenon of artistic taste,1 how a complex and disharmonic combination of notes and time signatures can be “just noise” to one pair of ears and a thrilling musical experience to another. It therefore amuses me that I can sit here and talk about Burning Palace, who craft progressive, technical, dissonant death metal that’s brutal, loud and restlessly dynamic. But, who pitch it perfectly in that golden zone of melodicism and lethality. Because—as is no surprise to us here, but likely baffles outside observers—there is a great deal of nuance between ineffectual disorganization and potent convolution.
Elegy falls into that specifically American brand of techy, dissonant death metal whose brutality is more corollary than intention. That which is thoughtful, and unexplainably “happy”-sounding despite its surface-level hostility. Jaunty, acerbic, riffs, imagined by an Artificial Brain, clamber to the fore out of formations where the same guitar lines melt into an indistinct yet driving ebb and flow. Sunless, paradoxically major scales spring up out of dissonance and the Afterbirth of inter-assault meandering, to which the occasional lapses into resonant, mournful melodies create gorgeous contrasts. But Burning Palace aren’t copycats, and Elegy actually demonstrates a transition from the grindier brutal death metal of Hollow into this more precise—but absolutely no less heavy—interpretation. As an example of technical sophistication meeting simple enjoyability, the record stands as perfect proof of the aesthetic value of supposedly impenetrable music.
What strikes particularly strongly about Elegy is the expertly deft way Burning Palace poised violence, intricacy, and beauty to craft it. Though occupying a category that in many senses eschews the adjective “catchy,” it has led to some frustration in my time with it, due to the fact that I’m unable to adequately sing, hum, or otherwise externalize its songs that have lodged themselves in my brain, thanks to their emphasis on riffs and time signatures that my unschooled vocal chords cannot copy. Ludicrous and ludicrously fun scale ascents, tempo switches, and rhythmic interplays abound (“Traversing the Black Arc,” “Awakening Extinction (Eternal Eclipse),” and clever dynamism and selective ambience make certain riffs stand out dramatically (“Birthing Uncertainty,” “Sunken Veil”). Burning Palace take the broadly progressive approach to songwriting via tangents and explorations of themes, but always reprise the key elements of those themes through escalation (“Traversing the Black Arc”), or evolution (“Birthing Uncertainty”), or just a snappy, definitive conclusion (“Awakening Extinction…”). Melody is, importantly, never actually absent, and the genuine beauty of the explicit refrains that slink in as a lone guitar takes centre-stage (“Malignant Dogma,” “Suspended in Emptiness,” “Sunken Veil”) are just the pinnacle of the shifting interplay that undergirds them, arising naturally and not as mere contrast to some ugly, dissonant mass.
There is nothing specifically within Elegy that one could single out as lesser in quality; the record is remarkably consistent, and if anything, Burning Palace save some of the best for its latter end (“Sunken Veil” is probably my personal favorite, and it comes second-to-last). There is a vague sensation that tracks share a little too much in common, but I’ve found that the more time spent in their company, the more personality each of them shows. But even if they do tend to melt a little into the realm of indistinguishability, the quality is invariably high, so I, for one, don’t really care—what does it matter, when you’ll be spinning it repeatedly in full anyway? That inkling of indistinctness runs the opposite direction and speaks somewhat to Elegy’s flow, as many songs pick up a similar riff or percussive pattern to that which closed their predecessor (“Malignant Dogma”).
Burning Palace might not be the average person’s idea of a great musical time, but it’s mine, and likely many of yours too. Elegy demonstrates the breadth of dissonance and complexity in extreme metal in its thoughtful yet exuberant form. Not cerebral, but clever, and never neglecting to dazzle with superb musicianship as worthy of the adjective “gnarly” as “technical.” Burning Palace have made subtly complex and repeatedly rewarding compositions, full of energy and ardor, and that you actually want to listen to, not just because you feel smart doing so. Those who can’t appreciate the style truly are missing out.
Rating: Very Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: wav
Label: Total Dissonance Worship
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: March 14th, 2025#2025 #35 #Afterbirth #AmericanMetal #ArtificialBrain #BurningPalace #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #Elegy #Mar25 #ProgressiveTechnicalDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #Sunless #TechnicalDeathMetal #TotalDissonanceWorship
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By Thus Spoke
I’m sure most people reading have experienced that exchange where a friend, colleague, or family member, having caught wind of one’s enjoyment of heavy music asks incredulously, “how do you listen to that?!” It’s an interesting insight into the strange phenomenon of artistic taste,1 how a complex and disharmonic combination of notes and time signatures can be “just noise” to one pair of ears and a thrilling musical experience to another. It therefore amuses me that I can sit here and talk about Burning Palace, who craft progressive, technical, dissonant death metal that’s brutal, loud and restlessly dynamic. But, who pitch it perfectly in that golden zone of melodicism and lethality. Because—as is no surprise to us here, but likely baffles outside observers—there is a great deal of nuance between ineffectual disorganization and potent convolution.
Elegy falls into that specifically American brand of techy, dissonant death metal whose brutality is more corollary than intention. That which is thoughtful, and unexplainably “happy”-sounding despite its surface-level hostility. Jaunty, acerbic, riffs, imagined by an Artificial Brain, clamber to the fore out of formations where the same guitar lines melt into an indistinct yet driving ebb and flow. Sunless, paradoxically major scales spring up out of dissonance and the Afterbirth of inter-assault meandering, to which the occasional lapses into resonant, mournful melodies create gorgeous contrasts. But Burning Palace aren’t copycats, and Elegy actually demonstrates a transition from the grindier brutal death metal of Hollow into this more precise—but absolutely no less heavy—interpretation. As an example of technical sophistication meeting simple enjoyability, the record stands as perfect proof of the aesthetic value of supposedly impenetrable music.
What strikes particularly strongly about Elegy is the expertly deft way Burning Palace poised violence, intricacy, and beauty to craft it. Though occupying a category that in many senses eschews the adjective “catchy,” it has led to some frustration in my time with it, due to the fact that I’m unable to adequately sing, hum, or otherwise externalize its songs that have lodged themselves in my brain, thanks to their emphasis on riffs and time signatures that my unschooled vocal chords cannot copy. Ludicrous and ludicrously fun scale ascents, tempo switches, and rhythmic interplays abound (“Traversing the Black Arc,” “Awakening Extinction (Eternal Eclipse),” and clever dynamism and selective ambience make certain riffs stand out dramatically (“Birthing Uncertainty,” “Sunken Veil”). Burning Palace take the broadly progressive approach to songwriting via tangents and explorations of themes, but always reprise the key elements of those themes through escalation (“Traversing the Black Arc”), or evolution (“Birthing Uncertainty”), or just a snappy, definitive conclusion (“Awakening Extinction…”). Melody is, importantly, never actually absent, and the genuine beauty of the explicit refrains that slink in as a lone guitar takes centre-stage (“Malignant Dogma,” “Suspended in Emptiness,” “Sunken Veil”) are just the pinnacle of the shifting interplay that undergirds them, arising naturally and not as mere contrast to some ugly, dissonant mass.
There is nothing specifically within Elegy that one could single out as lesser in quality; the record is remarkably consistent, and if anything, Burning Palace save some of the best for its latter end (“Sunken Veil” is probably my personal favorite, and it comes second-to-last). There is a vague sensation that tracks share a little too much in common, but I’ve found that the more time spent in their company, the more personality each of them shows. But even if they do tend to melt a little into the realm of indistinguishability, the quality is invariably high, so I, for one, don’t really care—what does it matter, when you’ll be spinning it repeatedly in full anyway? That inkling of indistinctness runs the opposite direction and speaks somewhat to Elegy’s flow, as many songs pick up a similar riff or percussive pattern to that which closed their predecessor (“Malignant Dogma”).
Burning Palace might not be the average person’s idea of a great musical time, but it’s mine, and likely many of yours too. Elegy demonstrates the breadth of dissonance and complexity in extreme metal in its thoughtful yet exuberant form. Not cerebral, but clever, and never neglecting to dazzle with superb musicianship as worthy of the adjective “gnarly” as “technical.” Burning Palace have made subtly complex and repeatedly rewarding compositions, full of energy and ardor, and that you actually want to listen to, not just because you feel smart doing so. Those who can’t appreciate the style truly are missing out.
Rating: Very Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: wav
Label: Total Dissonance Worship
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Update on the "#Elegy in translation"-project phase II (1806-1850): 55 early #c19 #translations in 12 #languages (Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh):
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Star Soul Of Planet Earth
Elegy for David Bowie 1947-2016
While trudging lost in meaningless waste land
I see blind Star Soul on hill of cracked skulls
who weaves wings so we can pretend to fly
so return to Heaven and ask me why.https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2016/01/star-soul-of-planet-earth.html
#Poetry #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #MetaRomanticism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism #Elegy #DavidBowie
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2024 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2024
#Elegy #translations #c18th #poetry #digitalhumanities #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2024 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2024
#Elegy #translations #c18th #poetry #digitalhumanities #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
