Wereju - Older Gods

Now Streaming 'A Darkness Deeper Than Night's Darkness', the opening track to the new 3CD album 'Older Gods'.. Release details remain somewhat vague...

 Wereju

Older Gods

I

A Darkness Deeper Than Night's Darkness (Part One) 06:01

Older Gods (Part One) 05:53

A Darkness Deeper Than Night's Darkness (Part Two) 07:16

Older Gods (Part Two) 06:42

The Bleeding Stinking Mad Breath of Circumstance 10:13

Older Gods (Part Three) 09:10

II

Never Dared To See This Far (Part One) 10:00

Occultation (Part One) 04:50

Never Dared To See This Far (Part Two) 04:12

Occultation (Part Two) 03:40

Older Gods (Part Four) 16:53

Occultation (Part Three) 02:48

Never Dared To See This Far (Part Three) 06:40

III

Dreams of Shreds and Tatters (Part One) 06:35

Some Things Are Better Left Buried (Part One) 08:41

Older Gods (Part Five) 05:12

Some Things Are Better Left Buried (Part Two) 06:48

Dreams of Shreds and Tatters (Part Two) 07:45

Recorded in the Banagher Caves

Feb - July 2024

Guitar. Synth. Electronics.

Sonic Drift · A Darkness Deeper Than Nights Darkness (Part One)

He Whom Mistakes Made Wise

 In one telling of the tale it was Epimetheus who opened the jar of Pandora, unleashing all the ills of the world upon mankind. The name Epimetheus means 'Afterthought', or as Hesiod puts it; "he whom mistakes made wise".

Maybe one day our collective mistakes will help make us wise???

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The Fragment

 'Light came from the east,' he sang,

'Bright guarantee of God, and the waves went quiet.
I could see the headlands and buffeted cliffs.
Often, for marked courage, fate spares the man
It has not marked already.'

And when their objection was reported to him --
That he had gone to bits and was leaving them
Nothing to hold on to, his first and last lines
Neither here nor there--

'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'

Banagher Caves

For the past two weeks I've been working on building a rehearsal / recording space in the back garden.. 

In an attempt to be ecologically "friendly" I decided to attempt to build it using Earthbag Construction.. 

The work is back-breaking and labour intensive.. Just like all the best things in life I guess!!

Day 3

The Banagher Caves will soon be its own distinct location..

Day 7

Existentiell ≠ Boundaries and Paradigms

After over 2 years of work I can now offer a new anthology of interviews in Existentiell form. 402 pages of musings on consciousness, imagination, metaphor, mysticism, mythology, psyche, soul, symbolism; and how any or all of these things might be applied to modern culture in general and Heavy Metal in particular

€17 plus P&P
Postage for a 400 page book is quite spicy!!
Works out at €10 for Ireland, €12 for EU and €17 Rest of the World.
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Interviews with:

Chaos Echœs  Avant-Garde Metal.  (France)

Chimere Noire  Artist and Graphic Designer (Canada)

Culted  Blackened Doom Metal (Canada / Sweden)

Edasi  Avant-Garde / Psychedelic Metal. (Estonia)

El-Ahrairah  Black Metal (USA)

Hail Conjurer  Black Metal (Finland)

Hornwood Fell  Black Metal (Italy)

Paul Thomas Kearns  Arcane Sun / Solstice. (Ireland)

Antti Klemi  Kaleidoscope / Arise! Magazines (Finland)

Lingua Fungi  Drone / Ambient. (Finland)

Jim Matheos  Fates Warning / Tuesday The Sky. (USA)

Mekigah  Doom Metal / Dark Ambient. (Tasmania)

Mourning Dawn  Doom Metal (France)

Of Spire & Throne  Doom Metal. (Scotland)

Peter O’Leary  Poet & Scholar of Religious Poetry (USA)

Opium Warlords  Outsider/ Experimental. (Finland)
 
Pray U Prey  Crust / Death Metal (England)

Ruho  Black Metal. (Finland)

Striborg  Blackwave. (Tasmania)

ThrOes Dissident Metal. (Tasmania)

Tyranny Funeral Doom. (Finland)

Unearthly Trance Sludge / Doom Metal. (USA)

Venusian Death Cell   Outsider Metal. (Ireland)

Wyrding  Funereal Doom. (USA)

Destination

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Temple of Silence 2018

This weekend I head to Poland to play at Temple of Silence 12

Here is a snippet from my previous gig at Edge Hunters in Dublin

The Architecture of Art

I'm currently reading Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves for the second time.. really love the following section:

"There are seven incarnations (and six correlates) necessary to becoming an Artist: 

1. Explorer (Courage) 2. Surveyor (Vision) 3. Miner (Strength) 4. Refiner (Patience) 5. Designer (Intelligence) 6. Maker (Experience) 7. Artist.   First, you must leave the safety of your home and go into the dangers of the world, whether to an actual territory or some unexamined aspect of the psyche. This is what is meant by 'Explorer.'  Next, you must have the vision to recognize your destination once you arrive there. Note that a destination may sometimes also be the journey. This is what is meant by 'Surveyor.'  Third, you must be strong enough to dig up facts, follow veins of history, unearth telling details. This is what is meant by 'Miner.' Fourth, you must have the patience to winnow and process your material into something rare. This may take months or even years.  And this is what is meant by 'Refiner.' Fifth, you must use your intellect to conceive of your material as something meaning more than its origins. This is what is meant by 'Designer.' Six, you must fashion a work independent of everything that has gone before it including yourself. This is accomplished through experience and is what is meant by 'Maker.' At this stage, the work is acceptable. You will be fortunate to have progressed so far. It is unlikely, however, that you will go any farther. Most do not. But let us assume you are exceptional. Let us assume you are rare. What then does it mean to reach the final incarnation?  Only this: at every stage, from 1 thru 6, you will risk more, see more, gather more, process more, fashion more, consider more, love more, suffer more, imagine more and in the end know why less means more and leave what doesn't and keep what implies and create what matters. This is what is meant by 'Artist.' 

(Cassandra Rissman LaRue, The Architecture of Art, Shambhala Publications, 1971 p.139; Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, Patheon Publications, 2000 p. 420)