Les pérégrinations
artistiques d’une métalleuse
The Artistic Peregrinations of a Metalhead Girl
Be'lakor 'Held in Hollows' - Oil painting on canvas.
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| 'Held in Hollows' - Be'lakor |
Be’lakor is one of 21st century genius Australian
band, playing amazingly creative melodeath –Melodic Deathmetal- , with
incredibly rich musical compositions, seductive vocals and poetic lyrics. Yes,
poetic. Collective unconscious sees metal music as coarse, vulgar, aggressive
or violent. Violence there is, at least as far as emotions are concerned, but
no aggression or vulgarity will be found in Be’lakor’s outstanding work, only
modern romanticism as was intended when actual romanticism movement touched the
world of Arts in the 19th century. Romanticism pictures turmoil,
passion, distress or even folly, either in words, notes or colours.
One of my favourite songs in album ‘Stone’s Reach’
(2009) is the fantastic ‘Held in Hollows’, which inspired me above artwork.
Held in Hollows – Lyrics – By Be’lakor:
Through tainted mass
A scourge unseen
Brought three winters forth
And set between
After these hundreds of years
The embers and fate will collide
Her rotten heart has burst
And shattered through dead wood
When they drank from the earth, the end was near
Tracing paths that once ran alone and pure
Suffused within, the blighted decay
Now snapped into dust, their splinters fall
But a tithe to the wind, his frail grasps
Clawed for the moon then came undone
When all hope fails in the last broken bough
Her strength will be gone
Churning ash and husks in the bitter winds
Crack the earth and burn the sky
A wry procession of hubris
Where nothing remains
But everything changes...
In destruction she will create
Arising in glory, the searing gaze
Crimson-handed specter of death
Under the blood eye of furies
Bury their feeble hearts
