Symphonian played a melodic and emotional style of gothic metal with a slightly more contemporary sound than other bands in the genre. Their music featured crushing downtempo guitars and harsh growls offset by symphonic keyboards and powerful female vocals. Product details: † 80% ring-spun cotton,…
☩ DetailsA criminally underrated product of the early gothic metal scene, Fear of God took the genre to new and unheard of extremes. Featuring incredibly expressive female vocals, their music was a dynamic blend of alternative and gothic metal, at times subsiding into ambient desolation before…
☩ DetailsFrom its starkly beautiful contrast of half-whispered male vocals with a ghostly female soprano to its tastefully understated atmospheric keyboards and melancholy doom metal riffs, Aegis by Theatre of Tragedy brings together diverse influences into a brilliant synthesis of gothic metal and alternative rock. Product…
☩ DetailsMany newer gothic metal bands feature harsh growls and operatic female vocals, but when By Time Alone was released in 1996, Orphanage delivered something quite unique and visionary. The album is a mixture of straight death metal tracks on one hand, and more epic gothic…
☩ DetailsTrees of Eternity was a side project from Swallow the Sun’s guitarist and founding member Juha Raivio and his partner Aleah Stanbridge on vocals. Originally an acoustic project, it expanded into a fully fledged metal band with the addition of Kai Haito (Wintersun, Nightwish) on…
☩ DetailsThe conclusions arrived at by the author of this extensive dissertation on the problem of Loki are in great part of a negative character. Here, Jan de Vries critiques the identification of Loki with Prometheus based on etymological evidence pointing to Loki as god of…
☩ DetailsA study of the Demiurge figure by pessimist philosopher Emil Cioran. There is no way to reconcile the idea of an honorable god with the obvious omnipresence of evil. In the beginning, something unspeakable must have happened, vitiating existence forever. We cannot accept that the…
☩ DetailsThe Metaphysics of Sex by Julius Evola is a topical work on the Tantric maithuna and related philosophical perspectives regarding transcendent sexuality in the esoteric tradition. Pages: 333 Binding Type: Paperback Perfect Bound Interior Color: Black & White Dimensions: US Trade (6 x 9 in…
☩ DetailsMagic: History, Theory and Practice is a study of the occult by Ernst Schertel originally published in Germany in 1923. Schertel identifies heavily with the "demonic" in Magic, espousing the belief that "communion with the demon" is the most important aspect of magical/religious practice. Pages:…
☩ DetailsJürgen Spanuth is best known for his thesis of a prehistoric catastrophe in the North Sea that led to the submergence of an island nation, which he interpreted as the mythical Atlantis. From a comprehensive study of historical and archeological evidence, Spanuth proceeded to identify…
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