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A matéria é o laboratório onde o espírito prova sua capacidade de permanecer íntegro, mesmo sob a pressão das sensações mais densas. #Spirituality ✨
#Consciousness
#Awakening
#InnerJourney
#HigherSelf
#Mindfulness
#SpiritualGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#Wisdom
#SoulJourney
#UniversalTruth
#Philosophy
#Metaphysics
#HumanExperience
#Energy
#DeepThoughts
#Existentialism
#Meditation
#CosmicPerspective 🌌
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A matéria é o laboratório onde o espírito prova sua capacidade de permanecer íntegro, mesmo sob a pressão das sensações mais densas. #Spirituality ✨
#Consciousness
#Awakening
#InnerJourney
#HigherSelf
#Mindfulness
#SpiritualGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#Wisdom
#SoulJourney
#UniversalTruth
#Philosophy
#Metaphysics
#HumanExperience
#Energy
#DeepThoughts
#Existentialism
#Meditation
#CosmicPerspective 🌌
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A matéria é o laboratório onde o espírito prova sua capacidade de permanecer íntegro, mesmo sob a pressão das sensações mais densas. #Spirituality ✨
#Consciousness
#Awakening
#InnerJourney
#HigherSelf
#Mindfulness
#SpiritualGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#Wisdom
#SoulJourney
#UniversalTruth
#Philosophy
#Metaphysics
#HumanExperience
#Energy
#DeepThoughts
#Existentialism
#Meditation
#CosmicPerspective 🌌
#Esoteric -
A matéria é o laboratório onde o espírito prova sua capacidade de permanecer íntegro, mesmo sob a pressão das sensações mais densas. #Spirituality ✨
#Consciousness
#Awakening
#InnerJourney
#HigherSelf
#Mindfulness
#SpiritualGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#Wisdom
#SoulJourney
#UniversalTruth
#Philosophy
#Metaphysics
#HumanExperience
#Energy
#DeepThoughts
#Existentialism
#Meditation
#CosmicPerspective 🌌
#Esoteric -
A matéria é o laboratório onde o espírito prova sua capacidade de permanecer íntegro, mesmo sob a pressão das sensações mais densas. #Spirituality ✨
#Consciousness
#Awakening
#InnerJourney
#HigherSelf
#Mindfulness
#SpiritualGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#Wisdom
#SoulJourney
#UniversalTruth
#Philosophy
#Metaphysics
#HumanExperience
#Energy
#DeepThoughts
#Existentialism
#Meditation
#CosmicPerspective 🌌
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Children of Osiris - Abramelin 9
"The Abramelin cycle continues its enfolding..."
#ambient #electronic #electronica #industrial #drum bass #esoteric #music
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If you want something interesting and atmospheric to paint or meditate to, this reminds me of John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Pink Floyd, but also electricity, rocks, and bats. #bandcampfriday #originalmusic #horror #folklore #mythology #esoteric #nature
Celebrating The Bat Chapter 1:... -
When a spirit of mankind got ascended due to the fall of hierarchy, when revolution has made one’s mind open to the prospective of a new world – the idea of a new form of harmony, between individuals and between people and nature had risen. One that is based on an ability, that was suppressed the same way, as entire proletariat was suppressed – by the hierarchy of greed and egoism. That ability was telepathy. A daring concept was pursued by group of mystical anarchists after Russian revolution of 1917.
No one knows back then, that a promise of a new world by soviet bureaucracy is a terrible lie, that is hiding a terror, mass death and in the end – the return of capitalism in its full imperialistic power.
First order of mystical anarchists – a vanguard of occult in Soviet Union was one of the first victim of Stalin’s executioners. Alexey Solonovich – a leader of the order was tortured day and night and died because of that – he hadn’t even survived long enough to face a firing squad. His wife was also executed. Almost everyone connected to them – arrested and killed.
Only few exceptions such as Vasilev was spared – to continue the search for the paranormal abilities in humans – but for soviet military and in a much lesser scale.
Theoretically USSR had more chances to successfully implement and spread telepathy methods among the masses, then USA. In the 1920-s so much work and experiments were made, that one may think – that only one tiny step was needed to do so. In reality – it is not like that. Only a society, that truly strives to equality could safely and effectively spread telepathy among its citizens. USSR was not like that.
That thesis has showed itself in its full force, when in 1932 one of the order`s branches «Ashem redivivous» tried to use telepathy to kill Stalin. Funnily enough, that state looked at this threat seriously and executed all the members of the branch with swift brutal action.
You can find links to this in the book «Psi wars: West & East». Also in the materials gathered by Nikitin – one of the order member`s grandchildren, who tried to find info about his grandfather`s fate in political police archives in 1990-s, after the fall of Soviet Union.
That is a little part of Soviet esoteric underground history – quite an obscure and unknown topic in the west, that contains an interesting bits of knowledge. How a daring idea to give everyone new paranormal powers has smashed by the hammer of Stalin’s great terror.
I hope, that you, dear comrades, who are reading all this would learn the lesson and won’t repeat first anarcho-mystical order`s mistakes – only in the society without state and capital, in a true communism we could see a person with telepathic abilities, that are used freely and known to everybody, just as we now use our speech. Until then – learn and use telepathic techniques to your advantage in your day-to-day struggles, but don’t try to prove its existence to state`s institutions.
Photo - Alexey Solonovich and his wife Agniya Solonovich.
#anarchism #anarchy #USSR #history #rare #telepathy #parapsychology #esoteric #occult #paranormal #left #mysticism #anarchomysticism -
When a spirit of mankind got ascended due to the fall of hierarchy, when revolution has made one’s mind open to the prospective of a new world – the idea of a new form of harmony, between individuals and between people and nature had risen. One that is based on an ability, that was suppressed the same way, as entire proletariat was suppressed – by the hierarchy of greed and egoism. That ability was telepathy. A daring concept was pursued by group of mystical anarchists after Russian revolution of 1917.
No one knows back then, that a promise of a new world by soviet bureaucracy is a terrible lie, that is hiding a terror, mass death and in the end – the return of capitalism in its full imperialistic power.
First order of mystical anarchists – a vanguard of occult in Soviet Union was one of the first victim of Stalin’s executioners. Alexey Solonovich – a leader of the order was tortured day and night and died because of that – he hadn’t even survived long enough to face a firing squad. His wife was also executed. Almost everyone connected to them – arrested and killed.
Only few exceptions such as Vasilev was spared – to continue the search for the paranormal abilities in humans – but for soviet military and in a much lesser scale.
Theoretically USSR had more chances to successfully implement and spread telepathy methods among the masses, then USA. In the 1920-s so much work and experiments were made, that one may think – that only one tiny step was needed to do so. In reality – it is not like that. Only a society, that truly strives to equality could safely and effectively spread telepathy among its citizens. USSR was not like that.
That thesis has showed itself in its full force, when in 1932 one of the order`s branches «Ashem redivivous» tried to use telepathy to kill Stalin. Funnily enough, that state looked at this threat seriously and executed all the members of the branch with swift brutal action.
You can find links to this in the book «Psi wars: West & East». Also in the materials gathered by Nikitin – one of the order member`s grandchildren, who tried to find info about his grandfather`s fate in political police archives in 1990-s, after the fall of Soviet Union.
That is a little part of Soviet esoteric underground history – quite an obscure and unknown topic in the west, that contains an interesting bits of knowledge. How a daring idea to give everyone new paranormal powers has smashed by the hammer of Stalin’s great terror.
I hope, that you, dear comrades, who are reading all this would learn the lesson and won’t repeat first anarcho-mystical order`s mistakes – only in the society without state and capital, in a true communism we could see a person with telepathic abilities, that are used freely and known to everybody, just as we now use our speech. Until then – learn and use telepathic techniques to your advantage in your day-to-day struggles, but don’t try to prove its existence to state`s institutions.
Photo - Alexey Solonovich and his wife Agniya Solonovich.
#anarchism #anarchy #USSR #history #rare #telepathy #parapsychology #esoteric #occult #paranormal #left #mysticism #anarchomysticism -
When a spirit of mankind got ascended due to the fall of hierarchy, when revolution has made one’s mind open to the prospective of a new world – the idea of a new form of harmony, between individuals and between people and nature had risen. One that is based on an ability, that was suppressed the same way, as entire proletariat was suppressed – by the hierarchy of greed and egoism. That ability was telepathy. A daring concept was pursued by group of mystical anarchists after Russian revolution of 1917.
No one knows back then, that a promise of a new world by soviet bureaucracy is a terrible lie, that is hiding a terror, mass death and in the end – the return of capitalism in its full imperialistic power.
First order of mystical anarchists – a vanguard of occult in Soviet Union was one of the first victim of Stalin’s executioners. Alexey Solonovich – a leader of the order was tortured day and night and died because of that – he hadn’t even survived long enough to face a firing squad. His wife was also executed. Almost everyone connected to them – arrested and killed.
Only few exceptions such as Vasilev was spared – to continue the search for the paranormal abilities in humans – but for soviet military and in a much lesser scale.
Theoretically USSR had more chances to successfully implement and spread telepathy methods among the masses, then USA. In the 1920-s so much work and experiments were made, that one may think – that only one tiny step was needed to do so. In reality – it is not like that. Only a society, that truly strives to equality could safely and effectively spread telepathy among its citizens. USSR was not like that.
That thesis has showed itself in its full force, when in 1932 one of the order`s branches «Ashem redivivous» tried to use telepathy to kill Stalin. Funnily enough, that state looked at this threat seriously and executed all the members of the branch with swift brutal action.
You can find links to this in the book «Psi wars: West & East». Also in the materials gathered by Nikitin – one of the order member`s grandchildren, who tried to find info about his grandfather`s fate in political police archives in 1990-s, after the fall of Soviet Union.
That is a little part of Soviet esoteric underground history – quite an obscure and unknown topic in the west, that contains an interesting bits of knowledge. How a daring idea to give everyone new paranormal powers has smashed by the hammer of Stalin’s great terror.
I hope, that you, dear comrades, who are reading all this would learn the lesson and won’t repeat first anarcho-mystical order`s mistakes – only in the society without state and capital, in a true communism we could see a person with telepathic abilities, that are used freely and known to everybody, just as we now use our speech. Until then – learn and use telepathic techniques to your advantage in your day-to-day struggles, but don’t try to prove its existence to state`s institutions.
Photo - Alexey Solonovich and his wife Agniya Solonovich.
#anarchism #anarchy #USSR #history #rare #telepathy #parapsychology #esoteric #occult #paranormal #left #mysticism #anarchomysticism -
When a spirit of mankind got ascended due to the fall of hierarchy, when revolution has made one’s mind open to the prospective of a new world – the idea of a new form of harmony, between individuals and between people and nature had risen. One that is based on an ability, that was suppressed the same way, as entire proletariat was suppressed – by the hierarchy of greed and egoism. That ability was telepathy. A daring concept was pursued by group of mystical anarchists after Russian revolution of 1917.
No one knows back then, that a promise of a new world by soviet bureaucracy is a terrible lie, that is hiding a terror, mass death and in the end – the return of capitalism in its full imperialistic power.
First order of mystical anarchists – a vanguard of occult in Soviet Union was one of the first victim of Stalin’s executioners. Alexey Solonovich – a leader of the order was tortured day and night and died because of that – he hadn’t even survived long enough to face a firing squad. His wife was also executed. Almost everyone connected to them – arrested and killed.
Only few exceptions such as Vasilev was spared – to continue the search for the paranormal abilities in humans – but for soviet military and in a much lesser scale.
Theoretically USSR had more chances to successfully implement and spread telepathy methods among the masses, then USA. In the 1920-s so much work and experiments were made, that one may think – that only one tiny step was needed to do so. In reality – it is not like that. Only a society, that truly strives to equality could safely and effectively spread telepathy among its citizens. USSR was not like that.
That thesis has showed itself in its full force, when in 1932 one of the order`s branches «Ashem redivivous» tried to use telepathy to kill Stalin. Funnily enough, that state looked at this threat seriously and executed all the members of the branch with swift brutal action.
You can find links to this in the book «Psi wars: West & East». Also in the materials gathered by Nikitin – one of the order member`s grandchildren, who tried to find info about his grandfather`s fate in political police archives in 1990-s, after the fall of Soviet Union.
That is a little part of Soviet esoteric underground history – quite an obscure and unknown topic in the west, that contains an interesting bits of knowledge. How a daring idea to give everyone new paranormal powers has smashed by the hammer of Stalin’s great terror.
I hope, that you, dear comrades, who are reading all this would learn the lesson and won’t repeat first anarcho-mystical order`s mistakes – only in the society without state and capital, in a true communism we could see a person with telepathic abilities, that are used freely and known to everybody, just as we now use our speech. Until then – learn and use telepathic techniques to your advantage in your day-to-day struggles, but don’t try to prove its existence to state`s institutions.
Photo - Alexey Solonovich and his wife Agniya Solonovich.
#anarchism #anarchy #USSR #history #rare #telepathy #parapsychology #esoteric #occult #paranormal #left #mysticism #anarchomysticism -
When a spirit of mankind got ascended due to the fall of hierarchy, when revolution has made one’s mind open to the prospective of a new world – the idea of a new form of harmony, between individuals and between people and nature had risen. One that is based on an ability, that was suppressed the same way, as entire proletariat was suppressed – by the hierarchy of greed and egoism. That ability was telepathy. A daring concept was pursued by group of mystical anarchists after Russian revolution of 1917.
No one knows back then, that a promise of a new world by soviet bureaucracy is a terrible lie, that is hiding a terror, mass death and in the end – the return of capitalism in its full imperialistic power.
First order of mystical anarchists – a vanguard of occult in Soviet Union was one of the first victim of Stalin’s executioners. Alexey Solonovich – a leader of the order was tortured day and night and died because of that – he hadn’t even survived long enough to face a firing squad. His wife was also executed. Almost everyone connected to them – arrested and killed.
Only few exceptions such as Vasilev was spared – to continue the search for the paranormal abilities in humans – but for soviet military and in a much lesser scale.
Theoretically USSR had more chances to successfully implement and spread telepathy methods among the masses, then USA. In the 1920-s so much work and experiments were made, that one may think – that only one tiny step was needed to do so. In reality – it is not like that. Only a society, that truly strives to equality could safely and effectively spread telepathy among its citizens. USSR was not like that.
That thesis has showed itself in its full force, when in 1932 one of the order`s branches «Ashem redivivous» tried to use telepathy to kill Stalin. Funnily enough, that state looked at this threat seriously and executed all the members of the branch with swift brutal action.
You can find links to this in the book «Psi wars: West & East». Also in the materials gathered by Nikitin – one of the order member`s grandchildren, who tried to find info about his grandfather`s fate in political police archives in 1990-s, after the fall of Soviet Union.
That is a little part of Soviet esoteric underground history – quite an obscure and unknown topic in the west, that contains an interesting bits of knowledge. How a daring idea to give everyone new paranormal powers has smashed by the hammer of Stalin’s great terror.
I hope, that you, dear comrades, who are reading all this would learn the lesson and won’t repeat first anarcho-mystical order`s mistakes – only in the society without state and capital, in a true communism we could see a person with telepathic abilities, that are used freely and known to everybody, just as we now use our speech. Until then – learn and use telepathic techniques to your advantage in your day-to-day struggles, but don’t try to prove its existence to state`s institutions.
Photo - Alexey Solonovich and his wife Agniya Solonovich.
#anarchism #anarchy #USSR #history #rare #telepathy #parapsychology #esoteric #occult #paranormal #left #mysticism #anarchomysticism -
🚀 Behold, the maverick who invented a language to write a CHIP-8 #emulator, because apparently existing languages weren't *esoteric* enough! 🤓 Dive into #GitHub for a thrilling adventure in reinventing the wheel, but with extra edges. 😂 #BecauseWeCan
https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu #CHIP8 #Esoteric #Programming #Innovation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
This Is A Formica Table – Crowned and Conquering Child
#Experimental #SoundBathsForTheNihilistic #ambientnoisesoundscape #ambientnoisewall #avantgarde #esoteric #harshnoise #harshnoisewall #hnw #industrialdrone #noise #ritual #thelema #Leeds
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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This Is A Formica Table – Crowned and Conquering Child
#Experimental #SoundBathsForTheNihilistic #ambientnoisesoundscape #ambientnoisewall #avantgarde #esoteric #harshnoise #harshnoisewall #hnw #industrialdrone #noise #ritual #thelema #Leeds
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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This Is A Formica Table – Crowned and Conquering Child
#Experimental #SoundBathsForTheNihilistic #ambientnoisesoundscape #ambientnoisewall #avantgarde #esoteric #harshnoise #harshnoisewall #hnw #industrialdrone #noise #ritual #thelema #Leeds
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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This Is A Formica Table – Crowned and Conquering Child
#Experimental #SoundBathsForTheNihilistic #ambientnoisesoundscape #ambientnoisewall #avantgarde #esoteric #harshnoise #harshnoisewall #hnw #industrialdrone #noise #ritual #thelema #Leeds
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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This Is A Formica Table – Crowned and Conquering Child
#Experimental #SoundBathsForTheNihilistic #ambientnoisesoundscape #ambientnoisewall #avantgarde #esoteric #harshnoise #harshnoisewall #hnw #industrialdrone #noise #ritual #thelema #Leeds
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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#esotericebb is one hell of a good game so far. Simple principles, but excellent execution: wonderful design, capturing story.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2057760/Esoteric_Ebb/
#esoteric #ebb #gaming -
From The Vessels of Hermes (ca. 1700).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5e5eb8a5-af1c-4125-b69d-c52e13901e0b
#watercolours #symbolism #alchemy #hermes #esoteric #heraldry #knights #shields #art #publicdomain
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A full Tarot de Marseille Major Arcana set — clean, consistent, and rebuilt for print.
No noise, no aging, just the essence of each card.https://oddsquidco.etsy.com/listing/4475701648/tarot-marseille-stickers-major-arcana
#tarot #tarotdeck #tarotart #marseille #stickers #stickerdesign #esoteric #symbolism #papergoods #sticker #etsy
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A full Tarot de Marseille Major Arcana set — clean, consistent, and rebuilt for print.
No noise, no aging, just the essence of each card.https://oddsquidco.etsy.com/listing/4475701648/tarot-marseille-stickers-major-arcana
#tarot #tarotdeck #tarotart #marseille #stickers #stickerdesign #esoteric #symbolism #papergoods #sticker #etsy
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A full Tarot de Marseille Major Arcana set — clean, consistent, and rebuilt for print.
No noise, no aging, just the essence of each card.https://oddsquidco.etsy.com/listing/4475701648/tarot-marseille-stickers-major-arcana
#tarot #tarotdeck #tarotart #marseille #stickers #stickerdesign #esoteric #symbolism #papergoods #sticker #etsy
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Ennui – Qroba Review By GrymmGot a question for you all: when’s the last time an album just absolutely, from out of nowhere, blindsided you and kept you enthralled for the entirety of its length on the first play? I don’t mean from your favorite bands (though that’s pretty damn cool, too), but from a completely out-of-left-field pick in the promo sump?1 Georgian funeral directors Ennui have been toughing it out with their craft since 2012’s Mze Ukunisa, with the then-duo working with what they had available. Now, the duo is a full-fledged band, and on their fifth album, Qroba, they hit graveyard paydirt.
From the very first moment the keyboards swell in opener “Antinatalism,” you know you’re in for some fun(erally dismal) times. Creeping at the pace of a drugged-out snail in the Antarctic region, “Antinatalism” brilliantly glistens while also dragging you through the icy snow with its crashing (and crushing) riffs and methodical drumming. When founder David Unsaved growls, it’s with the force of the bear from Annihilation after freshly devouring Daniel Neagoe (Eye of Solitude and a fuckton of other bands), further throwing the listener into a pit of existential despair and woe. Most impressively, at over 10 minutes, the time flies by effortlessly, due to its ability to draw you in and keep you enthralled for the entire length.
The other four songs on this 62-minute behemoth hold up pretty damn well themselves. The album centerpiece “Decima,” which features mournful melodies from a panduri (three-stringed lute) that accentuate the sorrow midway into the song, giving the album even more breathing room to expand and envelop you in its snare. “Becoming Void” sounds like Canto III on steroids, picking a fight with Turn Loose the Swans-era My Dying Bride for lunch money, and again feels like a six-minute song at over 15 minutes due to how well-crafted it is. None of the songs overstay their welcome, but they still feel like soulful journeys to a mournful end.
Produced by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), Qroba does an amazing job of giving breathing space while also smothering the listener. The drums feel cavernous and monstrous, plodding with intent. The scant few leads2 amplify the dour vibes a thousandfold, making damn sure there’s no light escaping this realm. If there was a nitpick to be had, this is the epitome of mood music. You’re not going to grab this on a warm, sunny day out in the sun with some lemonade and a book to read.3 Qroba is solemn, reflective music if there ever was some.And this fits in quite well with other solemn, reflection-time music from the likes of Skepticism and Shape of Despair. Qroba came at a time when I didn’t know I needed it, with all the chaos going on around the world as well as in my own circle, but I’m glad it did, as this has been playing non-stop since I first laid ears upon it. If you’ve never taken to funeral doom ever, Ennui won’t change your mind, as this is sorrow personified and exponentially amplified. However, if you need a severe purging, welcome to your new favorite band.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #Ennui #Esoteric #EyeOfSolitude #Feb26 #FuneralDoomMetal #GeorgianMetal #MeuseMusicRecords #MyDyingBride #Qroba #Review #Reviews #ShapeOfDespair #Skepticism
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 319 kbps mp3
Label: Meuse Music Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
Ennui – Qroba Review By GrymmGot a question for you all: when’s the last time an album just absolutely, from out of nowhere, blindsided you and kept you enthralled for the entirety of its length on the first play? I don’t mean from your favorite bands (though that’s pretty damn cool, too), but from a completely out-of-left-field pick in the promo sump?1 Georgian funeral directors Ennui have been toughing it out with their craft since 2012’s Mze Ukunisa, with the then-duo working with what they had available. Now, the duo is a full-fledged band, and on their fifth album, Qroba, they hit graveyard paydirt.
From the very first moment the keyboards swell in opener “Antinatalism,” you know you’re in for some fun(erally dismal) times. Creeping at the pace of a drugged-out snail in the Antarctic region, “Antinatalism” brilliantly glistens while also dragging you through the icy snow with its crashing (and crushing) riffs and methodical drumming. When founder David Unsaved growls, it’s with the force of the bear from Annihilation after freshly devouring Daniel Neagoe (Eye of Solitude and a fuckton of other bands), further throwing the listener into a pit of existential despair and woe. Most impressively, at over 10 minutes, the time flies by effortlessly, due to its ability to draw you in and keep you enthralled for the entire length.
The other four songs on this 62-minute behemoth hold up pretty damn well themselves. The album centerpiece “Decima,” which features mournful melodies from a panduri (three-stringed lute) that accentuate the sorrow midway into the song, giving the album even more breathing room to expand and envelop you in its snare. “Becoming Void” sounds like Canto III on steroids, picking a fight with Turn Loose the Swans-era My Dying Bride for lunch money, and again feels like a six-minute song at over 15 minutes due to how well-crafted it is. None of the songs overstay their welcome, but they still feel like soulful journeys to a mournful end.
Produced by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), Qroba does an amazing job of giving breathing space while also smothering the listener. The drums feel cavernous and monstrous, plodding with intent. The scant few leads2 amplify the dour vibes a thousandfold, making damn sure there’s no light escaping this realm. If there was a nitpick to be had, this is the epitome of mood music. You’re not going to grab this on a warm, sunny day out in the sun with some lemonade and a book to read.3 Qroba is solemn, reflective music if there ever was some.And this fits in quite well with other solemn, reflection-time music from the likes of Skepticism and Shape of Despair. Qroba came at a time when I didn’t know I needed it, with all the chaos going on around the world as well as in my own circle, but I’m glad it did, as this has been playing non-stop since I first laid ears upon it. If you’ve never taken to funeral doom ever, Ennui won’t change your mind, as this is sorrow personified and exponentially amplified. However, if you need a severe purging, welcome to your new favorite band.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #Ennui #Esoteric #EyeOfSolitude #Feb26 #FuneralDoomMetal #GeorgianMetal #MeuseMusicRecords #MyDyingBride #Qroba #Review #Reviews #ShapeOfDespair #Skepticism
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 319 kbps mp3
Label: Meuse Music Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
Ennui – Qroba Review By GrymmGot a question for you all: when’s the last time an album just absolutely, from out of nowhere, blindsided you and kept you enthralled for the entirety of its length on the first play? I don’t mean from your favorite bands (though that’s pretty damn cool, too), but from a completely out-of-left-field pick in the promo sump?1 Georgian funeral directors Ennui have been toughing it out with their craft since 2012’s Mze Ukunisa, with the then-duo working with what they had available. Now, the duo is a full-fledged band, and on their fifth album, Qroba, they hit graveyard paydirt.
From the very first moment the keyboards swell in opener “Antinatalism,” you know you’re in for some fun(erally dismal) times. Creeping at the pace of a drugged-out snail in the Antarctic region, “Antinatalism” brilliantly glistens while also dragging you through the icy snow with its crashing (and crushing) riffs and methodical drumming. When founder David Unsaved growls, it’s with the force of the bear from Annihilation after freshly devouring Daniel Neagoe (Eye of Solitude and a fuckton of other bands), further throwing the listener into a pit of existential despair and woe. Most impressively, at over 10 minutes, the time flies by effortlessly, due to its ability to draw you in and keep you enthralled for the entire length.
The other four songs on this 62-minute behemoth hold up pretty damn well themselves. The album centerpiece “Decima,” which features mournful melodies from a panduri (three-stringed lute) that accentuate the sorrow midway into the song, giving the album even more breathing room to expand and envelop you in its snare. “Becoming Void” sounds like Canto III on steroids, picking a fight with Turn Loose the Swans-era My Dying Bride for lunch money, and again feels like a six-minute song at over 15 minutes due to how well-crafted it is. None of the songs overstay their welcome, but they still feel like soulful journeys to a mournful end.
Produced by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), Qroba does an amazing job of giving breathing space while also smothering the listener. The drums feel cavernous and monstrous, plodding with intent. The scant few leads2 amplify the dour vibes a thousandfold, making damn sure there’s no light escaping this realm. If there was a nitpick to be had, this is the epitome of mood music. You’re not going to grab this on a warm, sunny day out in the sun with some lemonade and a book to read.3 Qroba is solemn, reflective music if there ever was some.And this fits in quite well with other solemn, reflection-time music from the likes of Skepticism and Shape of Despair. Qroba came at a time when I didn’t know I needed it, with all the chaos going on around the world as well as in my own circle, but I’m glad it did, as this has been playing non-stop since I first laid ears upon it. If you’ve never taken to funeral doom ever, Ennui won’t change your mind, as this is sorrow personified and exponentially amplified. However, if you need a severe purging, welcome to your new favorite band.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #Ennui #Esoteric #EyeOfSolitude #Feb26 #FuneralDoomMetal #GeorgianMetal #MeuseMusicRecords #MyDyingBride #Qroba #Review #Reviews #ShapeOfDespair #Skepticism
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 319 kbps mp3
Label: Meuse Music Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
Ennui – Qroba Review By GrymmGot a question for you all: when’s the last time an album just absolutely, from out of nowhere, blindsided you and kept you enthralled for the entirety of its length on the first play? I don’t mean from your favorite bands (though that’s pretty damn cool, too), but from a completely out-of-left-field pick in the promo sump?1 Georgian funeral directors Ennui have been toughing it out with their craft since 2012’s Mze Ukunisa, with the then-duo working with what they had available. Now, the duo is a full-fledged band, and on their fifth album, Qroba, they hit graveyard paydirt.
From the very first moment the keyboards swell in opener “Antinatalism,” you know you’re in for some fun(erally dismal) times. Creeping at the pace of a drugged-out snail in the Antarctic region, “Antinatalism” brilliantly glistens while also dragging you through the icy snow with its crashing (and crushing) riffs and methodical drumming. When founder David Unsaved growls, it’s with the force of the bear from Annihilation after freshly devouring Daniel Neagoe (Eye of Solitude and a fuckton of other bands), further throwing the listener into a pit of existential despair and woe. Most impressively, at over 10 minutes, the time flies by effortlessly, due to its ability to draw you in and keep you enthralled for the entire length.
The other four songs on this 62-minute behemoth hold up pretty damn well themselves. The album centerpiece “Decima,” which features mournful melodies from a panduri (three-stringed lute) that accentuate the sorrow midway into the song, giving the album even more breathing room to expand and envelop you in its snare. “Becoming Void” sounds like Canto III on steroids, picking a fight with Turn Loose the Swans-era My Dying Bride for lunch money, and again feels like a six-minute song at over 15 minutes due to how well-crafted it is. None of the songs overstay their welcome, but they still feel like soulful journeys to a mournful end.
Produced by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), Qroba does an amazing job of giving breathing space while also smothering the listener. The drums feel cavernous and monstrous, plodding with intent. The scant few leads2 amplify the dour vibes a thousandfold, making damn sure there’s no light escaping this realm. If there was a nitpick to be had, this is the epitome of mood music. You’re not going to grab this on a warm, sunny day out in the sun with some lemonade and a book to read.3 Qroba is solemn, reflective music if there ever was some.And this fits in quite well with other solemn, reflection-time music from the likes of Skepticism and Shape of Despair. Qroba came at a time when I didn’t know I needed it, with all the chaos going on around the world as well as in my own circle, but I’m glad it did, as this has been playing non-stop since I first laid ears upon it. If you’ve never taken to funeral doom ever, Ennui won’t change your mind, as this is sorrow personified and exponentially amplified. However, if you need a severe purging, welcome to your new favorite band.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #Ennui #Esoteric #EyeOfSolitude #Feb26 #FuneralDoomMetal #GeorgianMetal #MeuseMusicRecords #MyDyingBride #Qroba #Review #Reviews #ShapeOfDespair #Skepticism
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 319 kbps mp3
Label: Meuse Music Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026 -
1/13. If the Gospel of Judas is the extraction and Thomas is the code, adding the Gospel of Mary and the Apocryphon of John turns this from a simple heist into a full-scale galactic intelligence operation. 🌌 In this expanded file, the mission isn't just about escaping the physical body; it’s about a cosmic counter-insurgency against a hijacked reality. Buckle up, because the "Spionage" gets much deeper when we look at the other "Suppressed Files." 📂🕵️♀️ #Gnosticism #SecretHistory #Esoteric
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Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules
So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate
A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:
“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”
— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)
I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.
ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.
Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.
Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.
What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.
Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!
On to the convo:
A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.
By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.
This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.
Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?
The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.
The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.
It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.
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Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules
So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate
A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:
“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”
— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)
I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.
ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.
Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.
Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.
What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.
Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!
On to the convo:
A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.
By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.
This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.
Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?
The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.
The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.
It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.
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Golden Dawn teaches you the rules. Thelema teaches you when to break them. Which path fits you? https://youtu.be/AKrwelin1Bo
#OccultTok #WitchTok #Thelema #GoldenDawn #CeremonialMagick #Spirituality #Esoteric #DarkAcademia
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Golden Dawn teaches you the rules. Thelema teaches you when to break them. Which path fits you? https://youtu.be/AKrwelin1Bo
#OccultTok #WitchTok #Thelema #GoldenDawn #CeremonialMagick #Spirituality #Esoteric #DarkAcademia
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Top ten posts in November 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/01/top-ten-posts-in-november-2025/
#alchemy #art #astrological #aulaLucis #bestPosts #bestTen #biography #blackMoonPublishing #brianCopenhaver #cGJung18751961 #carlGJung #carlJung #codex #craft #crescendo #dPWalker #darkStarMagick #demonic #destroy #devil #dionysiaSoleil #discordian #elizabethMarshall #elsieGrayParker #esoteric #founding #francisBacon #genealogy #giovanniPicoDellaMirandola #glamour #god #godCard #goldenStar #hakimBey #innerTraditions #jMichaud #jMichaudArchive #jacquesLefevreDetaples #jeanBodin #judithVonHalle #kabbalah #lilith #magic #magicInHistory #magician #magus #map #marlaSegol #marsilioFicino #medicine #melekTaus #music #mystic #mythical #newMysteries #nicholasLiterski #november2025 #occult #package #path #paulKing #peacockAngel #pennStateUniversityPress #peterLambornWilson #poetry #religion #renaissance #ritual #rudolfSteiner #satan #sergeiOProkofieff #sexMagic #shadow #simonBlaxlandDeLange #spiritual #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #templeLodge #tommasoCampanella #topPosts #topTen #tradition #twelve #umaPress #visions #warburgInstitue #weirdoverseGiftShop #whiteLodge #yezidis
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Top ten posts in November 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/01/top-ten-posts-in-november-2025/
#alchemy #art #astrological #aulaLucis #bestPosts #bestTen #biography #blackMoonPublishing #brianCopenhaver #cGJung18751961 #carlGJung #carlJung #codex #craft #crescendo #dPWalker #darkStarMagick #demonic #destroy #devil #dionysiaSoleil #discordian #elizabethMarshall #elsieGrayParker #esoteric #founding #francisBacon #genealogy #giovanniPicoDellaMirandola #glamour #god #godCard #goldenStar #hakimBey #innerTraditions #jMichaud #jMichaudArchive #jacquesLefevreDetaples #jeanBodin #judithVonHalle #kabbalah #lilith #magic #magicInHistory #magician #magus #map #marlaSegol #marsilioFicino #medicine #melekTaus #music #mystic #mythical #newMysteries #nicholasLiterski #november2025 #occult #package #path #paulKing #peacockAngel #pennStateUniversityPress #peterLambornWilson #poetry #religion #renaissance #ritual #rudolfSteiner #satan #sergeiOProkofieff #sexMagic #shadow #simonBlaxlandDeLange #spiritual #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #templeLodge #tommasoCampanella #topPosts #topTen #tradition #twelve #umaPress #visions #warburgInstitue #weirdoverseGiftShop #whiteLodge #yezidis
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Doubtsower – The Past Melts Away with a Sneer Review
By ClarkKent
It’s amazing how quickly November, and my month of doom, has flown by. It seems the constant exposure to slow-paced music has made the days move faster, not slower. For my final November doom promo, what could be more appropriate than one described as “one long song funeral doom?” While the Welsh doom band containing this descriptor, Doubtsower, is new to me, the man behind the project, Matt Strangis, has three previous releases dating back to 2021. Although most of these earlier albums cross the one-hour mark, none of the songs run longer than fifteen minutes 1, so this is new territory for Doubtsower. Strangis describes his own songwriting process as “punk DIY,” and he does much of his recording at home, with some mastering help from Greg Chandler of Esoteric. For insomniacs, one long funeral doom song sounds like the perfect cure, but be careful, this doesn’t backfire and instead keeps you hooked and wide awake.
While the premise of a 48-minute funeral doom song brings to mind other ambitious projects from Bell Witch and Oak, Doubtsower’s The Past Melts Away with a Sneer turns out to be one weird beast. Doubtsower isn’t exactly a funeral doom band, but an experimental doom band. Strangis keeps his one song’s tempo slow—funeral doom slow—yet it has much more in common with the avant-garde music of John Cage than My Dying Bride or Esoteric. It makes use of syncopated riffs that cut short and disorient listeners, as well as some unusual noises, such as static scratches and the clicking and rattling of ratchets. “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” also makes use of silences, though they’re not as lengthy as “4’33,” largely as a transitional tool. This use of odd sounds, silent moments, and suspenseful repetitions of short riffs creates an unsettling mood early on, and with the mix of sludge, I couldn’t help but think of experimental sludge/horror/doom outfit When the Deadbolt Breaks.
Over the course of its 48 minutes, The Past Melts Away with a Sneer is an ever-shifting amalgamation of styles, an amorphic blob that somehow holds everything together as a cohesive whole. Sounds often shift minute-by-minute despite the glacial pacing. While the early goings have the John Cage thing going, at the 8-minute mark, the track breaks out into the one segment that sounds like traditional funeral doom, with plodding drum beats, crushing guitars, and a low, harsh growl. Yet just as you think this is the direction it’s going, the song goes silent and then shifts into a new form. The extensive use of silence and light droning makes the sudden bursts of energy peppered throughout all the more striking. About 20 minutes in, “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” morphs into industrial dance, snapping you awake and commanding your body to move. The song morphs yet again, this time into something hopeful and poppy, with light, Weezer-like strums. However, even this segment doesn’t last long, and somehow Strangis is able to convince us that these disparate sounds all form one coherent tune.
It’s pretty impressive how “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” is able to remain engaging for its entire run, but some moments of repetition do derail portions of the track. This is most egregious at 29 minutes as Doubtsower transitions into a lengthy portion of sludge/doom. Throughout this approximately eight-minute segment, there’s a consistent, repetitive riff that grows tiresome over time. Still, the song rights itself for the finale with the return of a catchy piano/synth melody from the beginning. As this melody begins to fade into silence and lulls you into a sense of closure, the track gains a second wind and hurls forth an energetic set of industrial riffs and blast beats. There’s an unpredictability that catches you off guard and keeps the record fresh.
If the album I described above sounds like a nightmare, that’s the whole point. It’s meant to be a “disorienting descent into a nihilistic free-for-all,” and Strangis succeeds in making that vision come to fruition. It may not always be easy listening, but it’s rarely boring. Having spent some time with the prior Doubtsower records, this one stands out as Strangis’s most engaging and best-written. The Past Melts Away with a Sneer has caused me to question my usually negative relationship with experimental metal. It has left me feeling disoriented, but in a good way, and it’s an experience that I recommend for the curious and lovers of the weird.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: WAV
Label: Self-Release
Website: Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: November 28th, 2025#2025 #30 #avanteGarde #bellWitch #doomMetal #doubtsower #esoteric #experimentalMetal #funeralDoom #industrialMetal #johnCage #myDyingBride #nov25 #oak #review #reviews #selfReleased #sludgeMetal #thePastMeltsAwayWithASneer #weezer #welshMetal #whenTheDeadboltBreaks
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Short magic performance with knots.
Based on the work of Melbourne Christopher, Harlan Tarbell and Ralph Chefalo.
Script inspired by the book 'Knot Magic' by Tylluan Penry
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Hype for the Future 9B: Verfunctions in Trigonometry
The graph attached below showcases eight distinct and antiquated trigonometric functions regarding "versed" functions. Haversine in particular has historically been of importance in navigation, sailing, and perhaps even in communities such as fishing and whaling as well. From top to bottom, the functions listed in the legend correspond with the versine, vercosine, coversine, covercosine, haversine, havercosine, hacoversine, and hacovercosine, respectively.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/hype-for-the-future-9b-verfunctions-in-trigonometry/
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Arcanvm Podcast
> Arcanvm Podcast sets the table for real discussions with practitioners, scholars, and researchers in the fields of spirituality, ceremonial magic, occultism, and more. Practitioner and author Ike Baker hosts discussions spanning the spectrum of the occult, and esoteric. For more visit: ikebaker.com
https://anchor.fm/s/d941c6c8/podcast/rss
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The review of an #esoteric tome on #continuations blunders on like an over-caffeinated grad student's fever dream 💤💻. The author can't decide if it's groundbreaking or a $100 paperweight 📚❓. Spoiler: it has no exercises - because who needs practice when you've got #theoretical #ramblings, right? 🤷♂️
https://swatson555.github.io/posts/2025-09-16-compiling-with-continuations.html #literature #HackerNews #gradstudent #HackerNews #ngated
