What is life? A frenzy.
What is life? An illusion,
A shadow, a fiction,
And the greatest profit is small;
For all of life is a dream,
And dreams are nothing but dreams.
¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesÃ.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño;
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.
(La vida es sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
Schon ist halb Europa, schon ist zumindest der halbe Osten Europas auf dem Wege zum Chaos, fährt betrunken im heiligen Wahn am Abgrund entlang und singt dazu, singt betrunken und hymnisch wie Dmitri Karamasoff sang. Ueber diese Lieder lacht der Bürger beleidigt, der Heilige und Seher hört sie mit Tränen. (Hermann Hesse, Blick ins Chaos)
Unfortunately it's a question of words, of voices, one must not forget that, one must try and not forget that completely, of a statement to be made, by them, by me, some slight obscurity here, it might sometimes to be wondered if all their ballocks about life and death is not as foreign to their nature as it is to mine. The fact is they no longer know where they've got to in their affair, where they've got me to, I never knew, I'm where I always was, wherever that is, and their affair. I don't know what is meant by that, some process no doubt, that I've got stuck in, or haven't yet come to, I've got nowhere, in their affair, that's what galls them, they want me there somewhere, anywhere, if only they'd stop committing reason, on them , on me, on the purpose to be achieved, and simply go on, with no illusion of having begun one day or ever being able to conclude, but it's too difficult, too difficult, for one bereft of purpose, not to look forward to his end, and bereft of all reason to exist, back to a time he did not. Difficult too not to forget, in your thirst for something to do, in order to be done with it, and have that much less to do, that there is nothing to be done, nothing special to be done, nothing doable to be done. (Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable)
Wodinaz, Baldr, Thor, other ghosts wandering through endless streets and dark passages of life.
Traditional Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, Death Doom, Drone Doom, Neofolk, Acid Folk, Neoclassical, Martial, Industrial, Experimental, Noise, Avant-garde, Post-Rock:
Triarii, Dernière Volonté, Angizia, Calle Della Morte, Von Thronstahl, H.E.R.R., Karjalan Sissit, :of the Wand and the Moon:, Current 93, Bethlehem, Anathema, Jim Morrison, Novembers Doom, Void of Silence, Duo Noir, Dead Can Dance, Camerata Mediolanense, Argine, Mourning Beloveth, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Hagalaz' Runedance, Nebelhexë, Fire + Ice, Madder Mortem, Changes, Rome, Nortt, Acid Bath, Ordo Equitum Solis, Antony and the Johnsons, Spiritual Front, Der Blutharsch, Bleiburg, Puissance, Brighter Death Now, Unexpect, Skepticism, A Challenge of Honour, The Days of the Trumpet Call, Diamanda Galás, Primordial, Shadow Project, Devil Doll, Yndi Halda, Letum, Tony Wakeford, L'Orchestre Noir, Nick Cave, The Well of Sadness, Esmerine, Shirley Collins, Elend, Coil, Allerseelen, Harvest Rain, Mastodon, Tom Waits, Tenhi, Stabat Mater, Unholy, Lumsk, Reido, The Funeral Orchestra, Disillusion, diSEMBOWELMENT, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Syd Barrett, Test Department & South Wales Striking Miners Choir, Celtic Frost, Nico, Lux Iterna, Boyd Rice & Friends, Forseti, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Joy Division, Cold Fusion, Einstürzende Neubauten, Maudlin of the Well, A Silver Mt. Zion, Backworld, Agnivolok, Regard Extreme, Magnet, Nest, Angelo Badalamenti, Hekate, The Soil Bleeds Black, Tapio Kotkavuori, Nurse with Wound, Mother Destruction, Swans, Comatose Vigil, Volksweerbaarheid, Beatrik, Morgion, Corvus Corax, Eluveitie, Gae Bolg, Fin De Siecle, Dornenreich, Max Richter, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Pantheist, YOB, Officium Triste, Until Death Overtakes Me, Shape of Despair, Howden-Wakeford, Estatic Fear, Pelican, Deinonychus, Daylight Dies, Ahab, Evoken, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Empyrium, Mar de Grises, Lacrimosa, My Dying Bride, Omne Datum Optimum, Strength Through Joy, Agalloch, Esoteric (UK), In Slaughter Natives, Draconian, Ocean, Winter, Catacombs, Remembrance, Runemagick, Haggard, Xasthur, Mournful Congregation,The Protagonist, Intaglio, Avrigus, Skumring, Minsk, Aarni, Wolves in the Throne Room, ODROERIR, Khanate, Saturnus, Drudkh, Earth, Reverend Bizarre, Longing for Dawn, Burning Witch, Wormphlegm, Worship, Hyponic, Sunn O))), Falkenbach, Ulver, Strurmpercht, Ataraxia, Blood Axis, Arditi, Sieben, Waldteufel, Storm of Capricorn, Thergothon, Foresta di Ferro, Neither/Neither World, Ordo Funebris, Neun Welten, Les Rallizes Denudes, Nature and Organisation, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, EA, Der Arbeiter, Paul Roland, Death in June, Rose Rovine e Amanti, Belborn, Espers, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Deadsoul Tribe, Turisas, Led Zeppelin, Fields of the Nephilim, Hel, Autopsia, Birch Book, In Gowan Ring, Trobar de Morte, Orplid, Darkwood, The Doors, Angelo Badalamenti, Gae Bolg & the Church of Fand, Faun, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Nocte Obducta, Archon Satani, Flower Travellin' Band, Omnia, Sol Invictus, Arcana, Andrew King, Werkraum, Autunna et sa Rose, OM, Zaraza, Ain Soph, AIT!, Allerseelen, Cawatana, Deutsch Nepal, Georg Friedrich Handel, IANVA, Johann Sebastian Bach, Doom:VS, Neutral, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luftwaffe, O Paradis, Coph Nia, Swallow the Sun, Romowe Rikoito, 16 Horsepower, Sangre Cavallum, etc.
The works that leave you with many unanswered questions in the end. David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Agnès Varda, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Louis Feuillade, Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñuel, Kenneth Anger, Raúl Ruiz, dario Agrento, the Dogme 95 Collective (Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring), Beckett on Film, Hitchcock, Shooting Livien, Der Himmel über Berlin (1987, Wim Wenders), Pandaemonium (2000), The Hunger (1983), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), The Cube, Tesuo, The Wicker Man (1972), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Dellamorte Dellamore, Waking Life, Metropolis, films made in Weimar era and the Third Reich era in general ,surrealistic charades, Coffee and Cigarettes, etc
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The literature that uncovers the paralised and helpless nature of society and human kind. James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, Reiner Maria Rilke, H.D., William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Bertolt Brecht, Guenther Grass, Samuel Beckett, Paul Valery, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ezra Pound, Friedrich Nietschze, Stephane Mallarme, Carl Gustav Jung, Albert Camus, E.T.A. Hoffmann, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Süskind, Les Chants de Maldoror, etc
Misanthropy, antireligionism, anti social, black humour, satire, cynism, intellectualism, apocalyptic stories and haunting poetry, demonic and esoteric, ghost images, decayed places and deserted buildings (cement, metal, steel, dust), existencialism mixed with nihilism, Europe, mythology, incense sticks, puh-erh tea, uniforms, vintage, back & white, feministm individualism, ideologies, history, culture, phylosophy, literature & linguistics, Germanic heritage, Roman times, industry, machines, techniques of controlling human mind, dreams, rainy days, cellars, bunkers, underground passages, autumn, unconventional music, sad ladies in long gowns wandering alone in the woods when night falls, radiant mist, the smell of jasmine, il teatro dei morti