Here is a live recorded song from our forthcoming album Written in the darkest months of 2019 The present has one name and the dilemma of how to embrace it or burn with it also Actually, Schopenhauer gave probably the best explanation about this song: Finally, we should bring clearly to a man's sight the terrible sufferings and miseries to which his life is constantly exposed. He would be seized with horror; and if we were to conduct the confirmed optimist through the hospitals, infirmaries, and surgical operating-rooms, through the prisons, torture-chambers, and slave-kennels, over battle-fields and places of execution; if we were to open to him all the dark abodes of misery, where it hides itself from the glance of cold curiosity, and, finally, allow him to glance into the starving dungeon of Ugolino, he, too, would understand at last the nature of this “best of possible worlds.” For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. And when, on the other hand, he came to the task of describing heaven and its delights, he had an insurmountable difficulty before him, for our world affords no materials at all for this. Therefore, there remained nothing for him to do but, instead of describing the joys of paradise, to repeat to us the instruction given him there by his ancestor, by Beatrice, and by various saints. But from this it is sufficiently clear what manner of world it is. Certainly, human life, like all bad ware, is covered over with a false lustre: what suffers always conceals itself; on the other hand whatever pomp or splendour any one can get, he makes a show of openly, and the more inner contentment deserts him, the more he desires to exist as fortunate in the opinion of others: to such an extent does folly go, and the opinion of others is a chief aim of the efforts of every one, although the utter nothingness of it is expressed in the fact that in almost all languages vanity, vanitas, originally signifies emptiness and nothingness. But under all this false show, the miseries of life can so increase—and this happens every day—that the death which hitherto has been feared above all things is eagerly seized upon. Recorded live by Yves Fontanille in Berlin, Kreuzberg 2019, mixed by Björn Mauder. Special thanks to Björn for the help with the mix, to Yves Fontanille for recording us and to Maryna for letting us use your practice space. All movies used for this clip are in the public domain, here the credits to the directors and all artists involved: - L´ Inferno (1911) inspired by Dante Alighieri realized by Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan - Mondo Cane( 1962) realized by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Paolo Cavara - Mondo Cane 2 (1963) realized by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi - Messiah Of Evil(1973) realized by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz - Night of the Living Dead (1968) realized by George A. Romero- screenplay by George A. Romero and John Russo - The Devil's Hand (1961) realized by William J. Hole Jr- screenplay by Jo Heims - Carnival of Souls(1962) realized by Herk Harvey - Grave of the Vampire(1972) realized by John Hayes - Plan 9 from Outer Space(1959) realize by Ed Wood - Dead Men Walk (1943) realized by Sam Newfield- screenplay by Fred Myton - All other footages courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine See you next year, burn the evil of this last decade and rise from your ashes in 2020- that’s all we wish for you and this world before it destroys itself. Happy New Year – Welcome to the twenties. Love. Hello Pity, Berlin 2019.
