From Book X of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which a newly enthroned Satan tells his minions that God has abandoned Earth and given it to them to rule (and that it's not half bad, even compared to Heaven).
lyrics
Their great adventurer ascended his high throne
clad with permissive glory since his fall.
Their mighty chief returned, and
and with these words attention won:
I call ye and declare ye forth triumphant
out of this dungeon of our tyrant as Lords;
a spacious world, to our native heaven little inferior.
Thine now is all this world.
The new world, which fame in Heaven foretold
a fabric wonderful of absolute perfection,
therein man placed
in a paradise by our exile.
His creator hath given up both man and his world
to Sin and Death a prey, and so to us,
to range in over man
to rule as he should have.
A collaborative ode to the mythology and culture of the Czech Republic, pairing meditative poetry with menacing sounds. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 12, 2022
Portland's Dao Strom describes her work as "song poems," gorgeously layered dark ambient folk soundscapes with a heavy sense of foreboding. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 6, 2020
The experimental rock band's new record is as melodic and inventive as ever, but now with an even more honed sense of play. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2024
Ross J. Farrar of Ceremony creates dubby outside punk evoking the minimalism of Young Marble Giants on his second solo record. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2024