So, this is it, 2017 is here and things are off to a grand start. As of this post, still in the studio, making a return to the booth to complete "Post-Apocalypse" and trying to reach as many dans as possible. I feel as though this is the time to push my way into the future and barge my way into the world. The end is always near, yet immortality is just beyond reach, only if stop reaching. It is not something easily ignored, unless you are so content that the mundane is a relief. I suppose I could never be…Read more

Yes, the title is plural because there are many stories of origin, even within a singular individual.  Mine, for instance, is born of several pivotal moments that have each contributed a branch to the trunk, or foundation of my origin.  There is something honest about not having to pinpoint a single instance of one's origin, as if to break down every moment and draw back to it somehow.  I do, however, look at choices made and perspectives gained often as a result of these origins, thinking that they would…Read more

I know it has been a long time and it pains me to think about it when I can't avoid it.  I think there are times in everyone's life when their dreams take a backseat to their reality.  It isn't pleasant and often feels quite depressing, but it is an inevitability we cannot ignore.  We have to fight for our dreams, they will not just rest on our shoulders and make themselves obvious when we have dreamed long enough.  I had to come to this realization once again as I break out of this 2+ year slumber.  There…Read more

Interestingly enough, punks apparently take on various forms and functions depending on the time and space you refer to. There are even those that exist in alternate realities in parallel universes. Steam Punks and Cyber Punks are some of my brethren, yet I tend to be more of an amalgamation, a bastardization of the intertwined souls of these Punks having gone beyond beyond and found OverHorde at the end of darkness just before Oblivion's Abyss. These things pour out of my mouth and gush out of my pores…Read more

They are only words when you think about how many holes there are in your bible, the timelines, the impossibilities, the lack of any substantial evidence that any of it actually occurred in reality and all of the evidence on how the life as we know it really came to be. I have read science texts and felt the same feeling you speak of because I once believed, it is comforting and warm, but it is nothing but a mental projection based on your continuous bombardment of scripture. It is the same rush you get…Read more

Every few years or so there is another prediction that is to come to pass and end the world as we know it. This year however, is the big one, the really big one. That is one reason I live life as if there will never be a tomorrow because yesterday is gone. Today is all you have, so live like it and you won't have to worry about when the world ends. Truthfully, it really only matters when you end if you want to be technical. Even if you believe in an afterlife, other than being delusional, you are also…Read more

People all over the world believe in some sort of afterlife, some sort of existence beyond this one in one way, shape, form or another. The possibilities are endless, and although it is fascinating to think about, we must not loose sight of the life we have, the only life we have that is beyond conjecture and theory. It is the practice of life that one should focus on in order to find fulfillment. Your purpose is to live, for better or worse, to make something out of yours that will not go unnoticed even…Read more

I am destined to go against the grain. It is an uphill battle to challenge and conquer what the mainstream deems appropriate or normal. Just as I was told growing up when I would rarely get a C on a report card - "you're not average." This, as with anything else is a state of mind, which like anything else, if programed in at an early age will be ingrained in the mind and remain prevalent throughout one's life unless it is stricken with something so overpowering to the mind, body and soul it shakes the…Read more

The Future has finally arrived and it is a beautiful display of horrible things that come for you when you are at your weakest.  You refuse to give in yet you are not willing to fight any harder than you need to in order to survive the dispair.  It is grim, but nothing to compare to Post-Apocalypes.  It is the beginning of the end of everything you know and love in favor of a glimpse at the impossible that you might find at the edge of darkness is the brightest light.  You will not see it with your eyes…Read more

Shrouded in a cloud of darkness is more than just what becomes me, it is me. The fiber of my being is blackness, endless darkness from birth. My peaks are heaven, my valleys hell and I dwell somewhere in between life and death. I see the light across a vast plane of existence and seek to bring it to you through music, an epic war in a black hole where everything is nothing and the beginning is the end. This is a space opera that transcends alternate realities while embarking on everlasting…Read more

I will speak my mind and show you those of us who cherish free thought will not just sit back and let the sheep continue to drag us down. Just because some view something as sacred doesn't make it so, it too shall stand up to scrutiny or fall under the pressure of dissection from within. For far too long the loud voice of faith has drowned out the unimpressed and indifferent muttering of the voice of reason. If this continues soon it will be to late for us to fight back as we will be engulfed in the…Read more

You assume that rhyme and reason are defined by god and heaven. Nature and science are based in rhyme and reason, not fantasy and fable. No one knows what happens after death and to proclaim to is nothing more then speculation based on superstition and fear. The mind is more powerful then you give it credit for and just as people see jesus in a piece of toast there are those conditioned to see "heaven's gates" in a moment of massive trauma. I have heard this explained by both religion and science in various…Read more

Beyond Beyond is the destination at the end of the trip that is more of a quest into the unknown just past the furthest you ever could possibly imagine you would dare to venture.  I like to live there in a dwelling made of fire and ice with lightening for a roof and thunder for the floor.  The four elements in a whirlwind of destruction is the entertainment in the living room where blood covers the walls like crimson nectar with bits and pieces of flesh for pulp.  I sometimes turn my head around backwards…Read more

Some hip hop heads say I am not Hip Hop. Some goths say I am not Gothic. I say I am everything and nothing, the past and the future, the negative and the positive, love, hate, heaven, hell, god, demon, life and death. I see the darkness in the world because it is all around me, it surrounds me in time and space. The music I hear in my head will always be dark, melancholy and epic. A master storyteller with a wild, ethereal imagination of boundless proportions was born. When I was a kid listening to…Read more

If you are listening to today's pop music, you are probably a romantic comedy or a dance movie, maybe with a little hood movie on the side.  There are plenty of ganster flicks and even some underdog, drama, horror, and so on.  I am war, horror, science fiction, epic, fantasy, espionage in a whirlwind of tragedy and desaster of apocalyptic purportions.  These are the things that stimulate me beyond the everyday, for that is where I live and yet underneath the surface there is a story that could not possibly…Read more

Some people are strange, others are odd. Many think these terms are interchangeable, but I see a difference. I believe the Odd are at least a bit more unique rather then just a set of quirks. It is the collective of oddities that parts these to persona's of abnormality. I submit that I am Odd in the sense that I recognize that as a person, you are who you say you are if you live life true to yourself. I am the combined elements of nature and time, the nexus of an intergalactic vortex that shakes the…Read more

This title has been given to me on more than one occasion and perhaps it is appropriate in some instances. In others more like MedievalCore or SciFiCore, an epic warrior's tale of courage and valor. I am a broad dreamscape intertwined with a melancholy tendency towards violence. I live in the beyond beyond with a brain touched by drugs and a body drenched with pain. These are the mingling warlocks who cast spells on fortune tellers so they see that the past is the next best thing before the afterlife…Read more

Does everyone truly have their cross to bear? It seems as though there has been a flurry of crosses throughout hip hop and music in general as if it is the thing to do, a trend or fad. Truthfully, this might not be far from the truth. The idea of flaunting how much money you have, or had rather, by paying tribute to a supposedly divine martyr, a selfless soul who died that we might live. It is absolutely brilliant to have captivated so many for the past two thousand years. The problem is that this is…Read more

The Darkest Hip Hop Album Ever Recorded?

I don't know and I really don't care, that is not the point and the darkness is a product of me through no fault of my own. These are just the words I have heard from critics, friends, listeners and fans. It is what it is and that's just how it's supposed to be, what is meant to be. This is no attempt to "be" anything. I am morbid by nature and my heart has become blackened over time. This album chronicles the horrid visions that over came my existence in all…Read more

This just in, Chicago rapper Etare Neged has defied death yet again, this time surviving an extremely rare form of cancer: nasopharyngeal (the demon) carcinoma. Diagnosed during Thanksgiving of 2002 after a multitude of tests and examinations, he underwent 4 months of rigorous treatment culminating in 8 weeks of intense radiation therapy to the head, neck and face. At several points treatment became so intense that his flesh began to melt away, causing a number of complications, which left him clinging to…Read more

You can check out any of my songs or chronicles to find out what I am about, but in a nutshell, I am about opening minds to discover an alternate reality. Too many of us are following the paths set for us by others whether they be in the government, religion, society at large and I think more of us need to carve our own paths and discover what the world has to offer. I believe in absorbing everything around me and formulating my creed on a combination of all, instead of being shackled into one mode of…Read more

I know I am not yet there, but I feel I am on my way. My life has been filled with love and hate, pain and pleasure. "The Introduction of Mau Fatt the Rotgut" is a journey down the dark path of purification by pain. When I use the term "god" it refers to the conceptualization man has created. I believe in nothing as a whole, yet everything omnipresent and all encompassing, positive and negative energy that surrounds us all every moment we exist. I need not give these forces a name, for they live within…Read more