Neither Crowley or Baudelaire are really actually all that evocative of crumbling, corrosive, and sinister. But, sure. Okay.

“The common thread linking these bands is founding member and main songwriter, Tom Gabriel Warrior (née Tom Gabriel Fischer, voice/guitars). Concurrently primitive yet curiously intricate, Warrior”s compositions evoke stark and compelling vistas reminiscent of writings of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Aleister Crowley, and Charles Baudelaire. Lyrically, Warrior delves into all areas associated with civilizations crumbling into decay, drawing corrosive, sinister parallels between perpetual annual seasons and the recurring collapse of human empires.”—”Tom Gabriel Warrior’s Death Mask Exhibition at Sweden’s Time to Rock Festival”

Passing mention of Aleister Crowley‘s writing, though I’m not sure the author of the article is really writing about the writing per se, but relying on the facile stereotype too common when Crowley’s figurative corpse is adopted as ersatz patron of spooky for desperate edgelords who probably haven’t read all that much of his actual full corpus. Also, neither Crowley or Baudelaire are really actually all that evocative of crumbling, corrosive, and sinister. But, sure. Okay.

Well, Time To Rock Festival 2023 is definitely a festival of music, over 4 days with 3 stages and 45 bands; and a trilogy of Tom Gabriel Warrior shows on three of those nights. Either way, that’s not nothing.

“Time To Rock Festival 2023 is scheduled for July 8 – 10 at Knislinge Folkets Park in Knislinge, Sweden.

The fury captured in the music by Swiss groups Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Triptykon ranks among the most pivotal influences on the extreme, black, gothic, doom and avant-garde metal genres.”

Hermetic Library Omnium Neither Crowley or Baudelaire Are Really Actually All That Evocative of Crumbling Corrosive and Sinister but Sure Okay 30apr2023

But, there’s also mention of two books by Tom Gabriel Fischer: Are You Morbid? Into the Pandemonium of Celtic Frost and Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981–1985.

Fisher Are You Morbid

Fisher Only Death Is Real

Consider also:

  1. Babalon Eyes
  2. “TRANSCEND, O Mage, thy soul redeemed! Her mercy shone where sorrow steamed. Exalted in the skies of even Virtue hath cleared thy way to Heaven.”
  3. “There are many ways of abusing the Sacrament. One of the best known of which is the ‘Mass of Saint Secaire,’ the purpose of which is to cause an enemy to wither away.”
  4. “Ideas have no status except through forms that are accepted symbols of sentience and are spatially and outwardly self-indulgent. Excarnation of an inspired or superimposed concept may be induced and orientated by ‘space-apperception’. The whole body and being must suspire… This total effluxion makes everything reciprocal and becomes a re-orientated sequence of focused nexity. Through this harmonic relation with Ego one becomes the qualitative mediator of the hypothetical or real propensity: any position giving vastness or panorama, and, by abstractive gazing beyond distance, allowing and following the flow of thought until there is an intrusive and more cognate idea. This idea is held and projected into the ‘vista’. Nothing innate is permitted to be subtracted from the visualization.”
  5. A humble introduction to Thoth