#judicator

Chat I don't think this is just an AU anymore I might just incorporate this dysfunctional family into the canon storyline

Ah'raam is closer to his terran counterpart, Abraham, than Erun is to hers. Just like him, he's an overly ambitious asshole that sees others as either obstacles or tools and does not care about anyone but himself. Only difference is that he's no longer an oligarch owning and entire planet, rather a crusty old man that wants a seat in a crusty old parliament please please can he have it he's asking so nicely!!!

Being unified to a Preserver is great honour that is very rarely done among the Khalai and instead of taking it for the honour it was, he's instead mega mad his wife is seemingly regarded with more respect than he is, given she's a preserver, and is further mad when the unification doesn't seem to boost him up the Judicator political ladder. So he then turns his crusty lil eyes towards his eldest child, Adan, who is meant to be trained into a Preserver as well, and get glory through him

Except that, oopsie poopsie, that doesn't end so well and his child snaps, cuts his cords off and peaces out into god knows where, and he then has to deal with his very very angry wife, who's 1000% ready to gut him after she drags him through mud. And were it not for his cunning nature, she probably would have succeeded

Figuring him out will be a challenge because this man breathes lies and manipulation and...you can't really do that within the Khala. "I love my wife and my kids and care about them deeply and would never manipulate or abuse them" isn't going to fly because everyone else will be able to tell that's bullshit, since there are no lies or blatant deception within the Khala. So I'm thinking how he'd instead spew out a bunch of half-truths or deliberately not tell the whole story of how things went down and very carefully rely on his unified's fragile state of emotion and mind to spin the story further. He manages to clear himself of accusations, painting himself as a strict but loving father who just wanted to push his child to better serve the people and as he goes, he manages to paint Erun as an emotional, hysterical mess that's trying to pin their child's weakness onto him now that he's gone. He manages to stain her reputation significantly during this, further running with his point about the established tradition that Preservers cannot marry or have children or families because something like this always happens. Totally. This is the reason. Trust. Just a mild case of Being A Woman Disease. It is fine though, because in his infinite grace, he's willing to overlook this mess and move past it as if it never happened...

Tiamir

There’s nothing here that will remain, and yet our lives somehow resound

Our fleeting lives are meaningful

Nothing you do doesn’t matter

Après la mort du frère John Yelland en 2022, du départ de la guitariste fondatrice Alicia Cordisco et d’un opus très mélanco-progressiste« The Majesty of Decay », Judicator parvient à canaliser le mojo du power epic metal avec un amour sincère, un enthousiasme fédérateur, et l'impulsion d'un nouveau batteur et guitariste.

Pour « Concord » Judicator s'attaque au mythe de l'Ouest américain. Les paroles racontent des histoires de bravoure perdue (« Call Us Out Of Slumber »), l'appel de la nature sauvage (« Sawtooth »), le massacre de Wounded Knee (« Imperial ») et l'épopée poignante de Cormac McCarthy « Blood Meridian » en épopée finale.

51mn pour 9 titres où la grandiose orchestration de Blind Guardian rencontre le thrash d'Iced Earth avec une sensibilité heavy metal proche des titans Judas Priest ou Iron Maiden. Munit de refrains puissants et accrocheurs, le groupe a rationalisé son approche de la composition avec John Yellend en unique membre fondateur. Des hymnes émaillent l'album moins kitsch que la variété italienne (Beast In Black) et plus proches de la musculature décomplexée de Manowar, en éloignant la réputation « cringe » du power metal tout comme son aspect soap opéra.

Le ténor John Yelland porte une indéniable ferveur dans les passages power metal traditionnels et percutants (« Call Us Out Of Slumber », « Concord ») avec le coloris de Warlord, Wytch Hazel.

The crown you wear

It burns your hair and sears your skin