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| Suffer The Cold |
In my youth that was the weather in Mid-September. It's amazing how things have changed in that time.
Our definition of what is and isn't cold is changing by the day, because our weather and our climate is changing.
As my home is now, and basically always has been, St. Louis, MO in the middle of the United States, we've never had the winters of Minnesota, northern Illinois, or even Iowa, our neighbor to the north.
As each year passes, we wonder, will there be winter in St. Louis? Are we going to get snow? These days, it seems like we have ice storms more than snow. Well, at least in some ways our world is still grey at the proper time of the year....
As this is being written, it's 37 degrees F in Montreal. What if he's in a northern Quebecois city? Being as I don't know the names of any of them, there won't be any eye witness weather accounts.
Circle of Salt isn't just the standard solo project, but a one man band of doomy, atmospheric black metal.
It's another one of those two track LPs that I just love so very, very much.
As I've discussed many times, the location influences the music.
There's a great short story by Jack London that nearly everyone in the States has read called To Build A Fire.
It's a story about dying in the cold, but without suffering.
Albums like this always take me to that snowy path London created in the Northwest Territories of Canada and how the protagonist drifts off to death.
What would it be like if the cold is so penetrating, so strong, and so unflappable that it burns rather than freezes? That's what this album represents to me.
There's the slow passages full of open, breathy movements, but they yield to angry moments sung by a man who sounds like he's on fire....
Or maybe this is the song sung by the man expelled to the surface on Rura Penthe?
If you add time to the cold gloom, it can yield white hot anger.
Release: 12/15/17
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Avantgarde Music
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