Man has pondered about the cosmos ever since he could look up and understand that there is more out there. Philosophers have struggled with with our very existence for millennia, at best coming up with Descartes' claim of "Cogito ergo sum", 'I think, therefore I am'. But in reality all of it doesn't matter. We as humans might understand how we operate, but we will never comprehend the cosmos.

However, let me illustrate a point, because a picture says a thousand words. You have to view the whole image.

Remember you have to read this slowly and absorb each step…

This will be a journal of several parts appearing weekly until we are finished with our journey. Distance will be explained when needed, such as AUs, and given as rounded and . Imagination is required, psychedelic trance music is recommended.

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Let's begin by imagining ourselves as giants, titans of the skies if you will. In fact we are so large that the Sun is as big as a basketball to us. Our journey begins here.

The Sun
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This is our star, without it life on Earth would be impossible. It is a fairly small star, as there are…

Gotta give it to Fenriz. In every single interview I've ever read or watched with him, I've thought nothing else but that "this is the type of guy I'd like to buy a beer for and just talk." Most black metal musicians have an aura around them, and bring it about obnoxiously sometimes, not mentioning Burzum's Varg. Fenriz on the other hand, seems like a genuine guy.

Aside from the fact that Fenriz has been in one of the most (or arguably the most) influential black metal bands,Darkthrone, he has been in several side projects as…

The question is, what are the popular or highly acclaimed and influential bands, that you just have not checked out. Despite recomendations and accessability. I think it's an interesting topic that not many people discuss for whatever reason. Maybe it's shame or maybe it's just psychologically locked away for whatever reason. But I'll be the first to admit that these are the popular metal bands that I have not checked out yet. If this makes me less "Metal" then so be it.

Blind Guardian
Dark Funeral
Edguy
Grave Digger
Jag Panzer
Nightwish
Pentagram
Root
Virgin Steele
W.A.S.P.
Watain

Anymore and…

As many would argue, the 3rd wave of Black Metal was the suicide of the genre. Not that it destroyed the morbid sounds of Black Metal beyond recognition, but that it saw a chink in the armor of the ideology and exploited it.

When Black Metal formed and eventually matured in the early 90s, these ideologies were born with it in the music. The total rejection of the belief system of modern society was an emphasis on the already rejective ideology of heavy metal music until that point. This ideologically nihilistic approach however was much more than refusing to trust…

I've had this on my mind for some time now, I was wondering which scene is most favorable amongst Black Metal listeners, although you can answer anything you wish, here are the choices are present you with, list your top 10 and I'll add everything up and see what the most favorable one is. Obviously we all know that the Norwegian scene is going to be in the top 5 if not number 1, so let's try to think about this subjectively rather than objectively.

The bands for each country are just examples of the more prominent and important ones,…