Balor

CD collection as it now* stands (including quite a lot of non-metal):


 
*photo updated February 2024

Nice, but I think I still lack something I want, more heavy rhythm. I'm trying to create a song like this

balor i hope reading antigone helps make sense of Heidegger's introduction to metaphysics. did it help? and at least you read a good book/play.  
 
re brother karamazov. thats one i need to read again as its been over a decade since i read it. it left a lasting impression on me though also the grand inquisitor sounds memorable character except for me sieve brain who completly forgot😂 
have you every read dantes divine comedy.was quite interesting as i remember. 
 

Antigone was great, though I mainly read it as some context for a section of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.  It was actually pretty short, and it only took me about two hours or so to read.  I would definitely recommend it!
It has been a long time since I read The Brothers Karamazov, but I always remember liking the scene with the Grand Inquisitor.  I need to read it again too.

balor its a very interesting read that er antigone by Sophocles i assume i got that right. i read a quick summary. alot happens. how are you getting on with this book. are you still reading it? would you recommend it so far. 
brothers Karamazov is really good. its very long. think thats whats put me off reading it again. read synopsis again. its definitely one i should read again. alyosha and his naughty brother Dmitry left a strong impression when i first read it especially a bit near the end where they both have a dialogue. which is your best bit? its hard without giving plot away. 😂

Speaking of Greek stuff, I actually just started reading Antigone last night!  I have wanted to read Crime and Punishment for a while, but have never gotten to it.  However, I did read The Brothers Karamazov, and I enjoyed it greatly.

This is a great line for pretty much any situation

There are so many, it's hard to know where to start. What I've been playing nonstop recently:
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Abigor - Totschläger
Deathspell Omega - Drought; Chaining The Katechon; Paracletus
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory (finally got into this amazing band over the past year or so)
Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before; Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy (RIP Chick Corea)
Other relatively new or new-to-me stuff that's been in heavy rotation at some point over the past couple years:
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry; Hallucinogen
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still; Shrines Of Paralysis
Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
Atheist - Elements (never liked this album much, and then last year, bam, I loved it all of a sudden)
Disaffected - Vast
Slidhr - The Futile Fires Of Man
Svartidaudi - Revelations Of The Red Sword
Enslaved - Utgard; E
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness
Grey Heaven Fall - Black Wisdom
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet
Khonsu - The Xun Protectorate
Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts
Fates Warning - Parallels; No Exit
Running Wild - Port Royal; Death Or Glory
Pagan's Mind - Infinity Divine
Crimson Glory - s/t
Lethal - Programmed
Titan Force - s/t
Some recent albums I've done artwork for that I thoroughly enjoy:
Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh; The Time Traveler's Dilemma
Rannoch - Reflections Upon Darkness
Marrowfields - Metamorphoses
In Human Form - III

I've been bored out of my mind thanks to the pandemic. I have a very morbid fascination so naturally a few weeks ago I started binge watching documentaries about serial killers and spending all day reading about them. No surprise the night before last I woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming that one of them was after me. 🤣
I just scrolled up and saw this. Apparently nightmares about serial killers isn't all that uncommon.

We binged the crap out of the Great British Baking Show over the winter and wouldn't you know it, I had tons of relaxing and even fulfilling baking dreams. Definitely a better night's sleep than I got with murder mysteries

Right place at the right time, I guess.
I've been very alone all my life. I've always felt like I can't relate to most people or like there is some sort of disconnect from me at a fundamental level. I often feel like I'm trapped in a glass box and the other people are on the side of the glass, and I can see them and they can see me, but I can't really pass through the glass to join them...I don't know if that makes sense, but I've read about other people who feel like this, too. I grew up in isolation and I've had to move around a lot ever since I was a kid, so it was very difficult to meet people and get close enough to them because I was never in a place for more than a few years. I've always been a drifter. The few times I felt like I was able to connect with someone, either they or I had to move away a year or so later and the relationship wasn't deep enough for them to maintain it despite my efforts. Right now I only have 2 or 3 acquaintances and none of them live nearby. 
Being alone so much, I filled my time with solitary pursuits, but as I've gotten older I realize that's just made me even more isolated. I feel very lonely all the time. But I've also had a lot of bad experiences with people so when I sometimes think of trying to make myself meet people, I remember those things and it makes me think that it's better to be alone...
I haven't started reading this yet. Actually I'm not quite finished with Brave New World yet so I'm trying to finish that before I begin The Invisible Man.  

thats cool you got to meet and have conversations with some famous people and public figures including that Guantanamo bay author. most cant say make that claim. also believe me you aren't the only one who doesn't have that many friends.  
hg wells. the invisible man. i read that book 20 years ago. i liked it. have you had chance to start  reading  it yet depraved.  
apart from the greek stuff balor. have you ever read crime and punishment by Dostoevsky. a classic book imo

My first attempt at digital art.

Yes! It's a very shocking and eye-opening read, especially for me (since I'm an American...) and many of the things the government tried to lead us to believe post 9/11 were exaggerated or fabricated or half-truths, trying to justify their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and "the war on terror". I actually got to interview the author for my thesis via Twitter and Skype, which was awesome. At the time I remember him talking about a new book he was working on called Portable Happiness but to my knowledge it hasn't been published yet. I know that there have to be a lot of legal proceedings and such so that his work can be published. Guantanamo Diary was only allowed to be published if a lot of information about the US government and certain conditions at the prison were omitted because it's evidence of the US violating international human rights law (which for some reason they're allowed to do, just shows you how corrupt this country is and how money and power can let them side step the law when other, smaller or poorer countries would be punished), so you end up flipping through pages upon pages of redactions with footnotes from the guy who helped him publish it explaining what information was likely redacted since he'd done a ton of research about Guantanamo and the justice system.
It always amuses me that I'm pretty much completely alone, I've never really had any friends and average people always accuse me of being "boring", yet I've gotten to meet and/or have conversations with several famous people and public figures over the years lol.

I really enjoy it so far, although I'm going to take out some other translations and see if I can find one I like better. I keep getting knocked off track. Maybe now that my son is back in school during the week, I can carve out some reading time again.
@Balor, you might like Roberto Calasso's "The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony". It's chock full of great insights into the Greek myths.

I think it might be possible, but that would be very dependent upon the quality of the music that you are producing.   It can't hurt to upload them and see what happens!
It might also be worthwhile to consider playing live when you can (when things begin to reopen of course), and maybe produce some merch to sell as well.

Yeah there's some mythology in odyssey. Well worth a read. Not too long either about 300 pages as I remember which is good and easy read too. What's the illiad like to read. Would you recommend this.  

Thanks, I'm really not sure where I'm going to start, I want to read all of them at once because they all sound so interesting but that would be impossible lol. I really need to finish the books I'm reading now first, honestly. I have a really bad habit of starting books but hardly ever finishing them. The last book I read all the way through for the first time was Guantanamo Diary  for a university seminar back in 2017 (which is excellent, by the way).

I have never read The Odyssey, but I really should - if only for cultural literacy.  I am pretty ignorant of mythology in general, so I should probably work to fill in those gaps!

there’s not really a thesis, i’m just writing about the website as a whole, basically a research paper. 

Lots of good books on this list!  I a few of the Sartre/Camus books a few months ago, and they are interesting.  If you want any input on what to go to first on your to-buy list, then I cannot recommend getting into Kafka enough!
As to what I am currently reading:
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger The Temple of Dawn - Yukio Mishima The Illiad Book I - Homer

I have a list of books I've been wanting to read for years but never seem to get around to actually reading them. Trying to change that though. Currently have 3 going at the moment:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels (nonfiction) by Valery Rees
Mossflower by Brian Jacques (childhood favorite but kind of lackluster rereading it as an adult, oh well)
Also on the shelf but haven't started reading yet:
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (yeah, yeah can't believe I've never read them, I grew up with the films, which I think are great adaptations despite never reading the original source material)
I have the Book of Enoch as a PDF somewhere...
To acquire:
Nausea and The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
The Idiot and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Paradise Lost by John Milton (have read Part I but want to read the entire work)
The VALIS trilogy by Philip K. Dick
"The Masque of Pandora" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot 

Various releases by Black Mass of Absu might fit into this thread as well:
 

Nothing wrong with a vege burger. Only recently I started googling how long animals for meat last typically,living conditions and method of slaughter. It was an eye opener for sure but not total shock at all. I'm not a big meat eater anyway but definitely made me think. One site reckoned male chicks were thrown into a high speed grinder with no pain killer. Ouch if true
 
Definitely. One reason why 100% Chocolate is nice for me is my sinuses need draining. 😂 Conversation slayed. For normal people little pieces like a grain of sand are enough due to its strength. Well to start with. Have you got any food balor you didn't like much to begin with but like now? 
 
 

It's really no big deal, but a little goes a long way. If you can get your hands on good roasted cacao beans, they just rule, they're so complex it's kind of like tasting a wine.
 
I'm about to tuck in to a microwaved veggie burger, woo hoo.