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The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part II

by Death Karma

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Ädäm
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Ädäm This special topic of the various death rituals alone is worth listening into this album a little more closely. But also considered on its own, the music is simply brilliant and awesome! Favorite track: Tibet - Sky Burial.
Jamie Welch
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Jamie Welch I have all these on vinyl and I have to say these are some of the most beautiful LP's I own. Each song is an amazing adventure 🖤 Favorite track: Haiti - Voodoo.
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Oxley This goes beyond music. It's a fantastic journey transporting the listener to different countries of the globe, sprinkled with the musical practices of each culture's mourning and celebrations of life. Voodoo is phenomenal. We certainly need more metal infused with the rhythmic beats and chants of that culture. Truly, a wondrous feat. Incredible. Favorite track: Haiti - Voodoo.
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1.HAITI - Voodoo
Under the influence of narcotics, I follow the rhythm of psychedelic drums, where the dance, death and sacrifice can wake up the dead body from the ground and no other can speak with them like Baron Samedi - A Loa of the Dead.

2.TIBET - Sky burial
Mantras are spreading over the Tibetan mountains where dead bodies float in the
vultures' stomachs. Om Mani Padme Hum.

3.SCANDINAVIA - Ship burial
Strength, pride and bravery are sailing to Valhalla under the wings of valkyries where Odin is waiting for them.

4.NEW ZEALAND - Mongrel Mob
Maori rebels, pacific devils, fierce death dealers, savage robbers. United they stand, they would never bend. Howling in the night, wooden coffin in the air… Outlaws, rise! Unite! Mighty Mongrel Mob.

5.EGYPT - Pharaohs
Eternity is the destination of every pharaoh's soul which is hidden under the pyramid.

6.INDONESIA - Tana Toraja
The dead ancestor shares the same roof, the same house. This is great respect and act of boundless love in Rambu Soloq ceremonies in Tana Toraja.

7.CZECH REPUBLIC - Ossuary
The half-blind monk arranges skulls and bones overnight in the lower part of the church. With the sound of organ he creates beautiful death patterns in the shadow of the candles, in the name of God.

8.JAPAN - The Sea of Silent Trees (bonus track for Japan vinyl version and CD)
High demands, no privacy, no love, no human touch, no dreams, hopelessness, aimlessness, it's not the right way in life, but it's the right path to Aokigahara forest, where the deliverance is waiting for them.
“your life is a precious gift from your parents”, “please, consult with the police or call your family before you decide to die”



Infernal Vlad: On the Origins of his Fascination with Death

The first touch of death I experienced in the first second of my life, at birth, when I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped twice around my neck, like a noose. They told me I was completely blue; or maybe it was because the blue goddess of death, Kali, stood by me…
The second deep touch of death occurred when my grandfather died unexpectedly. He was an extremely important person in my life, from whom I draw today. This wound has not yet been healed, and will be the subject of a fully-fledged solo album in the near future.
The third touch shapes me to this day and I am what I am because of it. It started eighteen years ago. I was working in the hospice department in the hospital in the town I come from. Since there were mostly elderly patients and patients after severe surgery, the mortality rate was high. According to my statistics, death came to take its toll every fourth day, and most of the patients died in room number seven. It was here I encountered my first exitus: a 130kg gypsy woman. I weighed at that time about 65kg, so to carry her out of the room to the morgue was incredibly challenging. The work there was at once beautiful and terrible; sometimes still, sometimes totally chaotic. But it was the greatest school of death I had received.
My work involved a lot of activities, such as helping with morning hygiene, feeding, carrying samples to the laboratory, and spending time with the patients. With astonishment I listened to their narratives – beautiful memories and sad stories – or just sat beside them in a half-empty room with one bed on which the patient lay, already oblivious to this material world. The body doesn’t want to give up easily. It tries to breathe as hard as it can, gasping. I sat waiting for the final breath that would announce the time of exitus. I sometimes still hear that gasping sound now.
After the last exhalation, the whole body and muscles are relaxed and usually some bodily fluids are exuded. It was my duty to wash the body thoroughly afterwards, so one could fully see the anatomy of the person. But it never occurred to me that the dead body was disgusting. Each body has its life story written on itself, and if you really want to, you can read it there. After washing, the patient’s name and year of birth is written with potassium permanganate on the body and they are then wrapped in clean sheets, like a mummy. Two hours later the ‘black ambulance’ is called to transfer the cadaver to the hospital morgue. I remember once, there was a very heavy snowfall and the van couldn’t drive up the hill to the building where our department was. So I took the mummy in my arms and as half-dead lovers we walked through the deep snow to the morgue, which was about 300 meters away. The nurses hysterically screamed at me from the window that I was mad, but I replied that the rules were the rules and that after two hours the body has to be taken away to the morgue, regardless. Of course, I made a copy of the morgue’s key and spent almost every evening and weekend there, in the company of my closest in life, paradoxically, the dead. What I experienced behind the locked doors and gridded windows, I keep to myself.
So death is, for me, my life’s love, inspiration, terror and teacher, as well as my path through this life. That is why I want to make death more familiar to people all around the world through my music: so that the traditions, rituals, the perception of death itself, the different techniques of burial, and the history of death, will not be forgotten.
“Death is a wiser teacher than life.”
Vladimír Pavelka
Anno Domini 2018

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released November 24, 2018

Vladimír Pavelka - music,concept
Dávid Glomba - artwork
Tomaš Corn - drums
Jan Pavlas - lyrics

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