MEDOLUS

Strange times with my strange bands Two circumstances not planned have converged at the same moment of time. We have been locked at home worldwide the main part of this spring due to the horrific COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of emotions have risen, including fear, rage, solitude, sadness, despair, filthy…and you could probably agree with me that my beloved bands, My Dying Bride, Katatonia and Paradise Lost are masters creating those emotions in their music. Oh, Alas! Their new albums have appeared in this surrealistic period: The Ghost of Orion – My Dying Bride, March 6 th 2020 City Burials – Katatonia, April 24 th 2020 Obsidian – Paradise Lost, May 15 th 2020 They have been part of my life since my teens with highs and lows and their music has been truly important for me in this horrible period, lightening it (with their dark light of course). My approach to their art has been different this year, not only for the special situation. I returned to Facebook last January, aft...

DOOOOMMM! A lot of years ago, Black Sabbath started something they really weren’t aware of their grandiosity and deepness, something which touch your feelings and make the music an important part of your life. For some circumstances I didn’t choose, I finally went ALONE to the show at MEPHISTO, but I really recommend that. It is a way to enjoy a deep listening of the Doom Metal show, putting all the attention to the music and all the details and, in addition, connecting with deep feeling inside of you. It was the first time I went to that place in the centre of Poblenou, a strange industrial area of Barcelona. I arrived a little bit late and I can not attend to the show of Moonlop, a local act. AUTUMNAL. They are great! I really bought the tickets to see this band from Madrid. I have “Grey Universe” CD from one year ago and it has been, step by step, going up in the list of my favourite releases. Their long songs have a lot of influences but they were transformed into really origina...

Gateways of Bereavement! After a good Fintroll Folk Metal crazy show Katatonia appeared. They wear black dresses and black soul. It was a fantastic show that takes us to the deepest of our emotions. Katatonia are one of my favourite acts of all times. They have a great mix of darkness, feeling, cold and good music. They have created a great Palace of Frost and from that place shows to the world the dark side. Melodic intermezzos, crying voices, guttural screaming and superb guitars are part of Katatonia. They go far away of the music, they are pure feeling. I like to be depressing with their music. Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström are masters. A grey cold day, full of rain is the better one to listen to this band and dance with December Souls. They arrive to Barcelona to present Viva Emptiness, another “magna opus”. They started with “Ghost of The Sun” (superb Nyström screaming) and “Sleeper”. They follow with their better songs from “Last Fair Deal Gone Down”, “Tonight’s Decision” and...

An ode to woe My dying bride brings me, another time to the abyss From a beautiful place, a cold distant Show Nothing new but always superb You bring to me another time to darkness I had rediscovered briefly the light to felt another time in the deepest cavern Sear me please to see The light at the end of the world. I have never felt so cold like with Turn Loose the Swans With the crown of sympathy, I govern my feelings A Sea to suffer in was my desire She is the dark, I know now But not then in the Dreadful Hours When my only hope was the Destroyer. The seed of The Blue Lotus grow in my heart Like at Catherine Blake’s one My Wine in Silence I drunk another time Moreover, I walk with them Deeper Down To live with The Wine, The Blood and The Roses. Thank you for shows me the path of emotion, darkness and oblivion. My Dying Bride Because this is for you Angel and the Dark River.