Working Titles

I suppose this post will be more of a reminder to myself than anything. I've been thinking up titles for songs and throwing around ideas for their lyrical content. Here are some of the ones I've come up with.

1.) For We Are Many - A rebuttal to the common perception that adherence to Christianity is a necessary commitment to herd mentality, and turning the accusation on the thousands (millions?) of so-called individuals who listen to black metal, who all happen to act, speak, and think remarkably similarly for Übermenschen.

2.) Give Us Barabbas - An observation/indictment of how people, either knowingly or not, choose murder and unrest over peace. The criticism of Christians is that they choose Barabbas with a sense of religious righteousness, wreaking havoc while abdicating responsibility by claiming it's God's will, and in the end they will bring the judgment on themselves, not God (John 12:46-48). The criticism of black metal enthusiasts is their collective, fanatical obsession with death and destruction, and while that may make for some kind of odd psychological empowerment when it is limited to music, it leads to horrors that they could not bear in real life.

3.) Odium Theologicum - A history of the repugnant theological hatred that's been woven into Christian literature since the time of Paul.

4.) Usurpers - A narrative of the regaining of subjective meaning in Christianity in a world where religion has gone bankrupt.

5.) Askesis - The importance of ascetic practice as a means of Christification

6.) In Hoc Signo Vinces (title track) - A history of division in the church and a call to restore unity.

7.) Vade Retro Satana - overcoming temptation.
That's about all I've got so far.

Screenshot of practice version of a new song I've been writing, entitled "For We Are Many."

Staring Into The Abyss

What exists is far-reaching; it is deep, very deep: who can find it out?

Bereishit

I've decided to take Eulogium to the blogging world, as the pace begins to pick up with writing new material. This blog, I suppose, will be a kind of chronicle of the writing (and eventually recording) process. I will also post musings from time to time that I think are relevant to the journey at hand. Things that I think are of importance, spiritually or otherwise. I begin with the consciousness that from the outset, I will disagree with some (maybe most), and they will disagree with me; and so I will be little troubled if something I feel to be true might strike someone as patently false and absurd - regardless of their own ideology. This may evolve to be a glimpse into the particular facet of my life that is Eulogium, for fans and onlookers.

Or perhaps no one at all.

Dominus Vobiscum