#the medea project

[doomanddead]

Embrace the Unexpected with The Medea Project’s ‘Reflections’

The Medea Project is an anomaly. For 20 years the band has resisted conforming to any one style. Black metal growls, sweeping gothic interludes, raspy crust punk edges, and walls of doomed distortion are equally at home in a Medea Project composition. For a band with a reputation for dynamic songwriting, maybe the most dissident move of all is to come out with an EP full of covers. Strap in with me and expect the unexpected as we explore the band’s latest offering, Reflections. 

Reflections by The Medea Project

The first track, The Ghosts of St Augustines MMXXII, is a wrathful rendition of a track from the band’s first album. The piece takes its name from an old psychiatric hospital in Kent. This song has the same character as the original, but boasts many subtle refinements. New guitar runs swoop and dive over the plodding rhythm, adding new texture and depth to an already-intense offering. Brett Minnie’s vocals are as dark and brutal as ever, invoking the multitude of spirits that struggled in the place. Pauline Silver raises the dead with drum work that’s even tighter and more vivid than the previous iteration.

Next up is the band’s rendition of Venom’s 1984 single, Warhead. It’s everything I could want from a Venom cover: a sneering, devilish jam that’s been rolling in its own filth. If this one doesn’t get you foaming at the mouth, then nothing will. The Medea Project expands on the original, rocketing up tension with a slow build. Sections of growled vocals smear things oily and black. This track is a caged tiger—muscular, on edge, and ready to rip into you the moment you look away. 10/10.

The Ghosts of St Augustine (Video Edit) is a more radical reconfiguration of the track. This one has been hacked apart and sewn back together to create a whole new unholy abomination over two minutes shorter than its predecessor. Sometimes you have to break things down in order to build them back up anew. This is necromancy at its finest. 

Next the duo tackles Cain, a song penned by Swedish goth metal act Tiamat. It’s an eccentric and totally unexpected re-imagining. The romance and woe of the original are traded in for a hearty helping of avant-garde grit and desperation. The drums set the pace of this dour slog, while the vocals play up tortured content of the lyrics. It’s the kind of unique angle that could only come from The Medea Project. 

The EP closes on a cover of Motörhead’s Nightmare/The Dreamtime, and boy is it a doozy! The Medea Project’s version plays up the slinky qualities of the song, dressing this devil as a seductive and creeping gothic ballad. The guitar lingers on the scene with a desert twang, hissing doom metal into your ear. Where Lemmy was all gravel and tar, The Medea Project is velvet, smoke, and poisoned drinks. This version of Nightmare/The Dreamtime is entirely novel, and every bit as dangerous. 

The songs on Reflections are unyieldingly bohemian deviations… exactly what makes a cover worth listening to. The EP is available now on Bandcamp, or wherever you buy music.

[gbhbl]

EP Review: The Medea Project - Reflections (Trepanation Recordings)

Oozing dark and demented atmosphere, The Medea Project return to haunt the listener’s nightmares with a vast cacophony of blackened doom-infused sinisterness.

Blackened raw and primal goth/doom metal band, The Medea Project will release their brand-new EP, Reflections, digitally and on cassette by Trepanation Recordings on April 28th, 2023. Photo by Tina Korhonen, 2021 – all rights reserved Oozing dark and demented atmosphere, The Medea Project return to haunt the listener’s nightmares with a vast cacophony of blackened doom-infused sinisterness.…

[a-bizarre-doll]

As we wait fretfully for Chapter 207, may I offer Hannah looking majestic AF in these trying times?

[fefeman]

I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity if you make a work of fiction that uses Mythological/historical/literary characters but you almost only use male characters and works of male authors.

Like, Limbus Company has a playable cast of 12 characters, all based on literary figures. While the cast is 50/50 men & women, almost all their sources are male characters (for one it's ambiguous on which character she is based, last time I checked), and all but one of the stories it pulls from are from male authors (the exception being Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë).

This isn't a problem, and since it's a limited cast, there can't be an infinity of references, but I feel it would have been cool if there was a more even mix of male & female characters and more literary work by women as inspirations.

Marguerite Duras' "Un barrage contre le Pacifique" (The sea wall), for example, would fit right in with the setting and could make some interesting springboard to talk about colonization. For older stuff, there's the work of the Countess of Ségur, like "Les malheurs de Sophie" (Sophie's misfortune) which touches on child abuse and its consequences.

That's two works I'm somewhat familiar with, in my native language, but in other languages, there's Murasaki Shikibu (already present in Fate), Mary Shelley (I guess her most famous work is already pretty close to Angela's backstory), Ursula K. le Guin (maybe too recent?), and plenty of others.

And that's just counting authors, there's also the matter of the characters.

I'm not gonna psychoanalyze PM and presume why they chose their roster and what it means. I believe it says more about the bias in our society and the literary world than PM's belief.

I just think it's a missed opportunity.

[withasideofshakespeare]

trick or treat! requesting a horatio costume?

He'd absolutely go as a character from a classic book. Which one? Not sure. I can see maybe... Dorian Gray? Jonathan Harker mid-Dracula murdering era? This is his one and only chance to go a little feral. He might even be able to get Hamlet on board for a duo costume.

I can also see him going as an author or poet who he likes. I think he'd like Virgil. Maybe also some of the Romantic poets? I can see a modern Horatio getting really into some good ol' nature poetry from the 18th century.

He would show up to class in costume, especially if his costume was someone from/the author of something being read in class. Maybe he's buttering up his profs a little, maybe he's just Like That.

Nobody knows who he is so he has to explain it to everyone he talks to.

[finelythreadedsky]

I have completed my regularly scheduled reread of medea and it is still so damn good. like yes I’m a sophocles person now but medea is perhaps the tragedy of all time.

[sacrificialcrisis]

my baba yaga costume is going to fuck so hard btw. im going to pin a scarf that i have that completely coincidentally looks a lot like slavic folk motifs over a tiered black floor length skirt and then i actually think i have enough white linen to sew a top for it if I can't thrift anything that suits

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

Libra: All problems can’t be solved with murder

Pollux: I don’t know, we knew someone who that went pretty well for

[artimul]

jason: i wanted to give my sons royal siblings

medea, a princess, mother of said sons: ⁉️

[fennel-tea]

i saw beyond the veil and came back with this. please consider.

[gobs-o-cs]

"So, here's the thing - You're definitely gonna want my help on this, whatever it is, right?! You want someone who's capable, smart, and knows this city, and well, that's me, 'kay? Shhyyeah... Don't even worry about it! I can totally handle myself. You think I would have made it on these streets if I didn't have some good tricks up my sleeve? Stick with me, and you'll have practically nothing to worry about!"

Morana Medea

(She/Her)

Human Warlock, Fiend Patron, Pact of the Tome

Chaotic Neutral

Haunted One Background - Cursed Tome/Possessed by a Fiend [As an adult, though - So not *strictly* 1:1 from the Harrowing Events list] [Could also qualify for the Urchin Background]

Dice Set #8 - Purple and Blue

[apollonianmouth]

Greek women: "Medea", 16.10.2023 - Tór Ster

[dukemira]

Heyya! I'm Mira! And i'm thinking to start writing hc, scenario and other.

My masterlist

This is the rules.

£ I write for angst, fluff, and etc.

£ NSFW is allowed(I'm bad at this actually) BUT only for a major character.

Note :

¢ I'm bad at English, If there any wrong pronoun, please forgive me.

¢ I can't do yandere.

¢ Kinda slow writing because I'm in collage.

This is what i write for :

♬ Bang Dream! (Anime/Game)

♬ Project sekai (Game)

♬ Roxana (Manhwa)

♬ The Villainess is a marionette (Manhwa)

♬ Your throne (Manhwa)

That's all!

[gachagachaart]

[astrologydayz]

ASTRO EVERYTHING NOTES💘

Planets/asteroids/points aspecting Vertex = 3°ORB MAX, unless it’s a minor aspect, then it’s 2🩷!

VERTEX is fate. In SYNASTRY = whatever that's conjunct your Vertex, will be brought2yo ass by that person! Either by being with them, or just by knowing them. No matter what. If it's something "good", amazing!! If it's something like Chiron?? U Betta run, and u betta run fast🗣. Watch out for Medea - 212 in synastry!!! This asteroid is about EXTREME REVENGE!!!🩸

If you're a woman, and another woman is jealous of u/hates on u in public or in "secret"= check out if their BML is conjunct something in your chart!!! It's something I've seen4years. BML aspects are prominent in a synastry chart with a woman who's jealous of u/hates on u/"fake friend". Which is not surprising, actually. BML Is also where u feel the most "left out"/"exiled"2. So it makes sense, that you'll feel jealous of a woman who has all of those things u never had/Will have. just her living nice, & comfortable with whatever it is you're struggling with/struggling2get. Let's say someones BML is conjunct your Venus = they'll be jealous of your lovers, relationships/material things u own/your money/your art - if your job is Venus related - singing/modelling/dancing/working with beautiful things - Venus work)/because of the love u give out/or because YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!! Always look at house/s/sign/s & both natal charts!! That will reveal everything!😘

WOMEN with Mars conjunct/square/quincunx BML usually get a lot of hate from men, because they won't put up with shit! Men are intimidated, but sexually attracted 2 them because of the "I don't give a fuck, I'll say&do what I want attitude"💋. They can also have a lot of pent up rage, when it comes 2 men and their experiences with them. Men can have "used, &abused" them. Many men won't have the guts 2 go for her, hell, they can’t even look her in the eyes 4too long. And she's completely fine with that. She c those men as weak, anyway.

MEN with Venus conjunct/trine/quintile Jupiter. Can get a lot of sexual attraction from women!!! They’re talented when it comes 2 gaining female attraction - and they know it. They naturally excude this magical appeal, that women can’t stand for.

MEN with Moon conjunct Chiron have a very deep scar, when it comes 2 their mom. Their mom was highly likely not really “there" 4 them as a child, especially emotionally. Their mom usually also had to take care of someone else/or something else. They didn't get the mothering love&care they needed from her, so now they go around with, let's call it a 'grudge" towards women. They want to hurt women/their partners, like they've been hurt. & the next problem is that it's all in the back of their subconscious, they're not even "really aware of it". So Until they acknowledge their pain&hurt = They'll keep on projecting their mommy issues onto their partner&keep on hurting themselves❤️‍🩹.

Venus conjunct/trine South Node in SYNASTRY = lovers/married in a past life! They have karmic lessons that needs taken care of, look at house/s, sign/s & both natal charts! Borderline physical attraction between them, &deep deep love&appreciation4each other. SN is typically the one 2 recognise Venus 1st! Venus is usually also South Nodes ideal type. South Node 2 Venus - “I’ve been looking for you for way too long", “we belong together, you and I”, "we're soulmates, I just know it”. Mars conjunct/trine South Node in SYNASTRY = sexual partners from a past life! That's why they're so comfortable with doing sexual things together in this life, when they finally get into it👅. SN knows EXACTLY how the Mars person's body should be devoured/touched. SN is instantly attracted 2 Mars! Karmic lessons here2!!! Look at house/s, sign/s & both natal charts 2 see what kinds of lessons. South Node loveeees the Mars persons body2!! Kinda ideal. And again, South Node is typically the one that recognises their partner 1st - "your touch feels familiar"🫦.

Venus conjunct/trine/quintile Black Moon Lilith In SYNASTRY = crazy sexual attraction because of their intense differences. They can be from two different countries/or one could also "have it all", and the other one? Not so much. It can also show a secret, passionate love affair, between two married people🔞. Or one is married, & the other one isn't. Venus can get obsessed with Lilith pretty quickly - Wanting 2know everything, nothing left out. Venus NEEDS 2 be with Lilith, A LOT. Which is a little dangerous, as Lilith is free & doesn't like it when people try2 control her.

Jupiter conjunct/trine/sextile/quintile Vertex in a NATAL CHART can show fated fame/success! Either material, or spiritual success✨🍀💚.

Neptune trine/sextile/quintile Vertex in a NATAL CHART = a bohemian kind of lifestyle, never really "settling down in one place". & they'll have fated meetings with artistic/creative, or spiritual souls throughout their journey, who will help them achieve their dreams!!!💙

WOMEN with Black Moon Lilith conjunct their Vertex will be put in a lot of "Lilith situations". Like them being in situations where they feel abandoned/alone/ - them being the other woman - getting hated on because of it/being sexualised a lot by men/men testing their boundaries/fighting for their rights - won't bow down2anyone/people trying to undermine them. Most of the time, these women won't put up with anyone trying2 tell them anything. They're independent, &have no problem with being alone💋.

Your ASC in synastry is what u immediately think about someone!!! If your Lust asteroid - 4386 is conjunct someone's ASC = they would have hard time controlling themselves around u/wants 2 rip your clothes off, A LOT. NOT the other way around. IT'S THEIR 1ST HOUSE, NOT YOURS BABE😘. It's something that's always "in your face", 4the ASC person. Venus conjunct ASC IN SYNASTRY = ASC person will find the Venus person beautiful af/VERY physical attractive, as I wrote! "beautiful painting", "are you even real?", "you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen", things like that! Mars conjunct ASC IN SYNASTRY = ASC person is REEEEEAAALLLYYYY sexually attracted 2 Mars persons body/physical looks😽. Sexual chemistry, can be crazy here🫦.

Eros - 433 conjunct ASC in SYNASTRY = Asc person is sexually attracted2 Eros person from first meeting👅 - "Can't keep their hands 2themselves"🔞.

THANKS4READING BEAUTIFUL!!! I APPRECIATE U& Wouldn't do this without you🖤.