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Blood and Destruction Demo Studio Notes and Diary Blood and Destruction Diary The song blood and destruction has a strange little story attached to it. Heathyre and I (my girlfriend of many wonderful years) had been visiting an ancient pyramidal mound in southern Wisconsin. This place is called Aztalan, after the man who found it attributing its location to pre-olmec (which is pre-maya) history. Several groups had lived in a fortified stockade with 3 large pyramidal mounds. The site's reputed to contain literally a font of psychic energy at the apex of one of the mounds and I, being interested in non tangible energy stepped up to the top of it. Immediately I fell over. It was that strong. I have no other way to describe it. It was like downing an entire case of mountain dew in an instant. Raw power. The local Indians say the mound I stood upon was a center of a cannibalistic cult. Where I was standing was where the sacrifices were held. I could see why. Modern day pagans use the spot for rituals as well, so the energies in that place are very very very very strong. While I was standing there finding it hard to breathe after getting up, a man approached me and told me that the great spirit had told him to meet me there, and give me a CD, of all things. I took it, and listened to it when i got back home. Traditional Indian music with a tinge of country. It got shelved after i listened to it, and the song the man bade me hear. For its type of music, it wasn't too bad. and the tribal drumming caught my ear. I'm digressing though, the CD is not the main issue at the mound. Anyway after a short discussion about the cannibals that had once lived here, the old Indian man left with friend, and I watched them drive away. We then proceeded to rest on the mound basking in the energies there. After an hour I decided to "ask" the mound a question. Mind you, I was not on any form of psychedelic. It told me I could have some of it's power to take with me. So I removed some dirt and grass from the hill and stuffed it into a film canister. This day was weird, it just could not get any weirder. It was picturesque though, you could see for miles and the sky was a beautiful azure, freckled with clouds. I have pictures I may upload if I get a chance to use a scanner. We left near sunset, and traveled to Rock lake where a city is said to be sunken underneath the waves, and guarded by a serpent(uh, ok, people have weird myths). Heathyre waded in the lake which we found out later to be host to a number of parasitic worms, luckily she did not have any attached to her when we left. So, where was I? Oh yeah, we came back home, discussed our field trip and the effect it had on us. We'll be going back there. To many questions, and not enough answers. We set the energized earth on a bookshelf where it sat for a week or two, I'm not sure. Late one night Heathyre decided to turn in, and I grab the dirt of the shelf opened up and nearly fell over. I guess the mound was right. I left it sitting in front of me the whole time I was composing the song, and everything just fell into place, riffs, drums, percussion. At 7am, I stopped. I could have continued for another 12 hours like that, but what came out was so visceral and raw and blood hungry it got that name. Later I wrote lyrics to fit with the images and emotions I felt standing upon that pyramidal mound looking over acres of rolling grasslands. Some people go to Israel to kiss the wall christ supposedly leaned on. Egyptophiles go to Egypt to embrace the spirits of long forgotten gods. I went to Aztalan, and had a spiritual experience, which led to the frantic hyper song called Blood and Destruction |