#themantle

#OnThisDay August 13, 2002 AGALLOCH released their second studio album #TheMantle. (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CShaSHIl5aL/?utm_medium=tumblr

«... “Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?” In these moving words, other words resounded—“I am thy brother.”» ~ «... how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savage coarseness is concealed beneath delicate, refined worldliness, and even, O God! in that man whom the world acknowledges as honourable and noble.» ~ «In Holy Russia all is thus contaminated with the love of imitation; every man imitates and copies his superior...» ~ [All of the quotations were taken from Constance Garnett's English translation] ~ #Finished: #TheOvercoat (also translated as #TheCloak and #TheMantle) by #NikolaiGogol. • Rating: 9/10 • The narrator begins his #story hinting it is a critical one and may offend the officials, whom he calls irritable, so he says he is cautious not to give particulars. Hardworking, humble yet unsociable and alienated, #AkakiyAkakievitchBashmachkin is a titular councillor (a lower rank of civil officers in Imperial Russia) who copies documents, and is bullied even by his younger co-workers and inferiors. His often-mocked #overcoat has been too worn and ragged to be mended, so he needs to have a new one made, and to save money, he must live within a strict budget. He eventually buys the new overcoat, and starts to be admired but shortly afterwards gets very unfortunate... The mostly-realistic story ends with surreal events, which feel grotesque and absurd, making the story quite an interesting one. This one is a satirical, bitter criticism of bureaucracy in the Tsarist Russia, a corrupt system full of obsequiousness, discrimination, vanity, favoritism and unfair promotion, in which the weak and the poor are insignificant and doomed to be crushed, but also indicates that those who are insignificant and abused may revenge upon those who are powerful or of higher social status. ~ «... there are such puzzles in the world, and it is not our place to judge them...» ~ «... But there is always a circle of people to whom what is insignificant in the eyes of others, is important enough...» ~ #Gogol #NikolayGogol #AkakyAkakievich #AkakiyAkakiyevich #Bashmachkin #russianliterature #book #books #bookstagram #literature #bibliophile #reading #read #bookworm #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/CINpewLAq1k/?igshid=flyn4rus8kn7

Lost in the desolation of love The passions we reap and sow Lost in the desolation of life This path that we walk #agalloch #themantle #adesolationsong (at Guanella Pass)

Through vast valleys I wander To the highest peaks On pathways through a wild forgotten landscape In search of god, in spite of man 'Til the lost forsaken endless This is where I choose to tread Fall… so shall we fall into the nihil? The nothingness that we feel in the arms of the pale In the shadow of the grim companion who walks with us Here is the landscape Here is the sun Here in the balance of the Earth Where is the god? Has he fallen and abandoned us? As I'm stalked by the shadow of death's hand The fire in my heart is forged across the land Here at the edge of this world Here I gaze at a pantheon of oak, a citadel of stone If this grand panorama before me is what you call god Then god is not dead I walked down to a river and sat in reflection of what had to be done An offering of crimson flowed into the water below A wound of spirit from which it floated and faded away Like every hope I've ever had Like every dream I've ever known It washed away in a tide of longing, a longing for a better world From my will, my throat, to the river, and into the sea Wash away Fade away, ah... Here is the landscape Here is the sun Here at the edge of the Earth Where is the god? Has he fallen to ruin? As I'm stalked by the shadow of death's hand My heathen pride is scarred across the land #agalloch #intheshadowofourpalecompanion #themantle #postblackmetal #neofolk #postrock #postmetal

I walked down to a river and sat in reflection of what had to be done An offering of crimson flowed into the water below A wound of spirit from which it floated and faded away Like every hope I've ever had Like every dream I've ever known It washed away in a tide of longing, a longing for a better world From my will, my throat, to the river, and into the sea Wash away Fade away... #agalloch #themantle #intheshadowofourpalecompanion (at Guanella Pass)

In the shadow of our pale companion #agalloch #themantle #intheshadowofourpalecompanion (at Guanella Pass)

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Coming out THIS AUGUST!!! #themantle #summer2018 (at Hartford, Connecticut)

My personal favorite Halo campaign. #halo #longtimecoming #cryptum #tomb #buriedandforgotten #forerunners #themantle #343industries #legacy #culture #legend #geometry #architecture #orb #glyphs #power #videogames #xbox #microsoft #conceotart #hplovecraft #cosmichorror