#cruciamentum

[drondskaath]

Cruciamentum | Obsidian Refractions | 24th November, 2023

International Death Metal

Artwork by David Glomba

[metal-patches-vinyl]

New patch day: Cruciamentum and Gatecreeper.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔯𝔲𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔪 - 𝔑𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔤𝔬𝔲𝔰 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔬𝔫

[triste-guillotine]

CRUCIAMENTUM "Obsidian Refractions" LP 2023

1. Charnel Passages 2. Abhorrence Evangelium 3. Necropolis of Obsidian Mirrors 4. Scorn Manifestation 5. Interminable Rebirth in Abomination 6. Drowned

"Quietly the tides consumed Taking hold, their cold embrace Enveloped and overwhelmed Drifting, interred within the food

Dragged by the tide to the deepest abyss Where shadows dance in the lightless gulf

With each breath, a deluge, An inexorable force Lungs overwhelmed and immersed Stifled, fading beyond

Adrift, carried by the tide Veins filled with sediment

The body erodes like leaves in the wind At the pull of the undercurrent

To the end, dark waters carry me forth Spread across the abyssal plains"

CRUCIAMENTUM on "Obsidian Refractions" are : C.E. – Lead Vocals / Bass D.L. – Guitars/ Keyboards / Backing Vocals D.R. – Guitars M.H. – Drums

Artwork by David Glomba. Mixing and Re-Amping by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studio. Mastered by D. Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studios.

Obsidian Refractions | CRUCIAMENTUM | Cruciamentum (bandcamp.com)

[radiophd]

cruciamentum -- abhorrence evangelium

[weepingchoir]

I promise you the bands are coming up with their own words

they need to come up with more words like necrosis and miasma and mausoleum and cadaver and morose and decrepit and stuff like that just so metal bands can expand their vocabulary

[lesdeuxmuses]

Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages (Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Profound Lore Records, 2019)

[proofhead]

Chaos Magazine 11. ve 12. Sayılar

Aylar önce Chaos Magazine’in geri dönüş sayısının haberini yaptıktan sonra, yıl bitmeden bir yeni sayı ve devamında da yepyeni bir 12. sayı daha yayımladı Lainmeun – Murat Chaos Gökbulut. Derginin 10. sayısıyla birlikte başlayan renkli ve ciltli bookazin formatı öylesine sevildi ki geriye dönüp yıllar önce siyah beyaz çıkan 9. sayıyı bile “yalandan renkli” bastı. Dolayısıyla bu yepyeni renkli ve…

[metal-patches-vinyl]

Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions (2023). I discovered this way late in the year, so I’ve only been able to spin it a couple of times. But this is really good. Reminds me of early Decapitated in a lot of ways. Production is so good! Highly recommended.

[coraniaid]

It's somewhat criminal that Faith wasn't there in Checkpoint to be able to appreciate Buffy dressed in a black leather jacket (or, honestly, any of Buffy's various mostly-black outfits this episode) or Buffy coming close to killing a human being in an alleyway after a fight (and helping herself to a cool new weapon afterwards) or Buffy threatening the Council when they tried to give her orders or Buffy throwing sharp objects at members of the Council when they tried to interrupt. Because, you know, these are things Faith would have understood the appeal of.

It's somewhat fitting, on the other hand, that this was the one episode to air in a continuous run of almost one thousand days (well, 938 days exactly, between Season 4's Restless and Season 7's Bring on the Night) in which the writers remembered Faith even existed Buffy said Faith's name. And that she does so by bringing up the time when she "was" Faith.

[rachaeljurassic]

So good and I thought I'd link a post I made a while back if you're interested. It was like you'd crawled inside my mind lol

It's just, I'd never 'met' anybody with the same take before so, hello 😊

Thinking more about the Tento di Cruciamentum and how it’s a test for Watchers and Slayers, and I do believe it is developed for slayers to fail - for the Council to get rid of a slayer that will become harder to control as she reaches maturity. But a thought occurred to me that it could also potentially be a way of culling Watchers who have stepped out of the accepted dogma.

Giles says in Fool for Love that the journal entries regarding slayers’ deaths are, in general, painful to record for their Watchers, which means he’s not the first to become emotionally entangled with his slayer. That entanglement is almost inevitable. Who would be the people who would or could speak against The Watcher’s Council’s creed of using slayers as an war inexhaustible resource? It would be the watchers in the field. Giles is isolated from The Council in so many ways that don’t make sense if The Council wasn’t concerned about the reach and the pull of their field watchers. To be the Watcher to an active Slayer seems to be a privilege - Wesley is happy to be sent to Sunnydale, Giles is practically giddy in Welcome to the Hellmouth. But it’s a double edged sword. Now, the Council is worried about the outside influences, about emotional ties, about what these watchers witness. How they see the slayer, how she becomes a person to them. A person they care for. A person, in Giles’ case, he would go to incredible lengths to protect. Giles says it himself - “If any one of the Council still had any contact with a Slayer, they would see”. But what Giles doesn’t see - can’t see, because he still has faith in the institution - is that is in itself a primary feature and not the bug he assumes it to be.

And so the Cruciamentum is to make sure the Watcher responsible for the Slayer is still adhering to the worldview that she isn’t a person. That she is solely a weapon. To be used and discarded as needs fit. And the Council goes one farther toward breaking these Watchers who do see their slayer as more than a weapon. “If this girl is everything you say, then you’ve nothing to worry about”. Just like a belief in miracles, if your slayer doesn’t make it, it’s on you. You didn’t believe hard enough, train her well enough, prepare her enough. You devoted your time and energy to a girl who wasn’t enough. Devastating to the Watcher who doesn’t warn his Slayer; who Believes and loses her anyway. Devastating and demoralizing for the Watcher; and proof that this slayer wasn’t worthy, so her watcher shouldn’t be listened to for the rest of the Council. Because what happens to watchers who lose their slayers? I imagine they can be invited back into the fold, if they pass the actual test; or they can be let go, to mourn the loss of the girl they had dedicated some part of their lives to. And the Council needs so many of them to not gain access to those halls again, to not exert influence over the rank and file. To not express the heterodoxy that the Slayer is the one fighting the war. To not convince other Watchers that the slayer is a person who needs protecting. That she should be treated as a person, and given the tools to succeed in this world for as long as she can stay alive.

The Watcher’s Council loathes the idea of an uncontrollable slayer, but it is frightened to death of that slayer’s Watcher. And the Cruciamentum solves both of those problems, 9 times out of 10, with brutal efficacy.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

You know what's sad? Even if Kendra hadn't been killed by Drusilla and had survived season two, there's a good chance she wouldn't have survived her Cruciamentum when it eventually came up--since a Slayer, without her strength there, needs to be clever and to be able to think outside the box, in order to do so: everything Kendra had been raised and taught not to do, while living within the Council's strict guidelines the Council had imposed onto her life from her birth.

Maybe there's a chance she could have survived, if she had gotten to spend more time with Buffy--as we did see that Buffy was already starting to have small influences on her--but I don't know.

[jannacalendar]

If Jenny had survived the events of Passion I am confident she would have gotten Giles into Even More Trouble with the Council by immediately leaving the library in the wake of Buffy's test to go and warn Faith about the Cruciamentum.

[evermore-grimoire]

The Evermore Grimoire: Slayers

Nikki Wood was a Slayer based in New York City during the 1970s and was trained by a Watcher named Crowley. She was notable for being one of the few Slayers known to have been a mother. In 1973, Nikki participated in her Tento di Cruciamentum, much to the disapproval of Crowley, who was appalled that the Watchers Council forced her to undergo it as she was pregnant at the time. Upon surviving her Cruciamentum, she gave birth to her son named Robin. She didn't know exactly who his father was as she "didn't take names when blowing off steam." Crowley arranged for Nikki to go into hiding and live a normal life with Robin. Nikki took Robin and lived in South America as well as Mexico for a while. However, she couldn't dismiss her calling, and returned to New York and her duty as the Slayer. Sometime in 1977, the vampire Spike tracked Nikki down, wanting to challenge and kill his second Slayer. They met and fought in Central Park for the first time with Nikki's young son Robin watching from behind a park bench. The fight came to a stand still and Spike fled the scene. Before he left, he complimented her coat. In the same year, Nikki and Spike had their final showdown inside a New York City subway train. Nikki was able to pin Spike to the floor and repeatedly punch him, but, as the train went through a dark tunnel, Spike took advantage and switched positions. Nikki begged to be able to return home to her son, but he strangled her, before breaking her neck and stealing her coat which he wore until its destruction 26 years later.

artwork by bofenglin