I’m living in a time when visual stimulation is ubiquitous and the art of storytelling sometimes feels lost in capitalist desires. I like to send my mind back in time to when my city was a forest, and people used their minds to see the mystery and magick of the world around them. My people weren’t here, they were thousands of miles away hiking wind-swept moors and swimming in northern seas, but like our human ancestors everywhere, they also shared stories of joy and terror as they sat around peat fires. Listening to THEY CAME FROM VISIONS makes me think about how human beings have always found ways to rise ire and fear in each other with sound and story. Watching their new video for “The Blissful Defeat,” I’m lost in the suffocating tones of their folk-horror inspired black metal, suddenly swept away from my technical world to a simpler time. It’s off their recently-released record, The Twilight Robes, out now via Eisenwald — get it here. Right now, hit play on our premiere of “The Blissful Defeat” here:
The world is now no less horrible and violent than it was in the medieval times.
THEY CAME FROM VISIONS
