Fragments in Flame
from “Paradise Lost” by: John Milton (1667)
“Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.”
“I sung of chaos and eternal night taught by the heavenly
muse to venture down the dark descent and up to reascend”
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
“All is not lost, the unconquerable will,
and study of revenge, immortal hate,
and the courage never to submit or yield.”
“Oh sun to tell thee how I hate thy beams
that bring to my remembrance of which state I fell”
"... Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor
“Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.” “A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater?" “This horror will grow mild this darkness light”
Channeling philosophical quandaries into cavernous death metal, the Australian trio turn modern power struggles into an aural advantage. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 13, 2022