An ominous atmosphere of impending ruin pervaded the sound of many Death Metal bands, whose worldview afforded them an acute awareness of declining modernity. These artists understood that the course of civilization is subject to decay as much as any organic matter, despite the prevailing belief that human constructs are entirely seperate to the natural world that they operate within. Ancient Indo-European peoples predicted the nature of this downfall with great accuracy, as they believed in a cycle of creation and dissolution in which the same ego-principles slowly manifest time and time again. The 3000 year old Vedic text known as the Srimad Bhagavatam provides one of the more detailed explanations of how the last age of the cycle – the Kali Yuga – reaches it’s apex; extracts from which the Death Metal music in the video accompanies as inheritors to this cosmic vision of the world.
Filed under: Death Metal Art and Death Metal Images — Tags: Death Metal, History, Religion — ObscuraHessian @ June 28, 2009 22:05 — Comments (0)
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