#thelostyear

To Dust// Chasmal Fires

It’s Release day! Trisagion is out:  https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/trisagion

Today I’ll share this piece, the second of three I created for Ethereal Shroud’s new album Trisagion.

This one was also a part of “The Lost Years” ink series, still on-going, and like the other was created with some general direction from the band, and after hearing an early demo.

The First song off the album it’s bold aggressive and dealing with the all consuming-fires of hatred. It’s both the first demo I heard while working on these, and the longest track on the album at a whopping 27 minutes.

As stated above, the album was released today, and you can hear and purchase it here: https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/trisagion

 For me this piece was about despair, and horror with the world around us continuing to drift in the wrong direction - something that still seems to happen faster every day. There’s a lot of fury and anguish in the song, and yet passages of hope weave in and out. A monument to folly seemed like the best piece to accompany the song - a dread idol we hope to see crumble away.

To Dust

three systems of age reckoning (diff of up to 2y) solar vs lunar system  east vs west || aging together on CNY  ordinal numbers vs. cardinal numbers; order vs. quantity chinese zodiac vs. other 

grandfather celebrates birthday ?? times a year, whenever convenient  memories: WWII, same week as girl he loved, riots, immigration papers on 50th, every time -> noodles, white rice (at least once a year, twice when he was lucky and the store was doing well)

question of aging, maturity -> base rules/laws/privileges off it, based on how you count rotations of sun, when start the long race of life

doesn’t know how old he is, every birthday has been so different and in some ways so remarkably the same - 

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_numeral