With so much real darkness and violence happening in the world, why turn to such esoteric and occult themes for Nightbringer’s music? Do you think there’s a risk of being seen as engaging in pure escapism?
Real darkness, is the subtle and living darkness, which we praise by way of our art, should not be confused with the worldly “evil,” perpetuated by humanity, of which you are referring. Our darkness is beyond conceptions of “good” or “evil,” which are purely humanistic ideas, and any evil perceived arises by way of one’s unfavorable disposition towards that which they are not equipped to understand, let alone face, and not arising from the darkness itself. The very heart of this darkness is absent of violence, as it is absolutely still, silent and outside of time. Yet to approach this darkness while still “chained to the earth” is to enact profound violence upon one’s self unless one learns the means of proper approach, via a singular and narrow road of ingress which can only be accessed by obtaining the same state of absolute stillness and silence within one’s self, the knowledge the ancient practitioners of incubation in Greece referred to as “dying before one dies.” This is precisely what we seek. Now it can be said that the rampant worldly “evil” we see about us every day is, in large, a consequence, yet again, of modern man’s unfavorable spiritual disposition and overall instability within an age pregnant with dark and daemonic forces, i.e., the close of the Kali-Yuga. Such forces are necessary to bring a close to the cycle. Anyhow, back to your question, we again are ambivalent as to how others might (mis)interpret our message and in truth what is dubbed here as “escapism” is in truth reality, a reality more real than most could possibly conceive, and what you have thought to be reality is the greatest escapism of all.
