Following the Forest Passage

👆Absolutely true, yet hardly anyone on "the right" ever listens to classical music, or even knows anything about it.

“We consider classical music to be the epitome and quintessence of our culture ... In this music we possess the heritage of classical antiquity and Christianity, a spirit of serenely cheerful and brave piety, a superbly chivalric morality.” Hermann Hesse

The new film Late Fame is a profound and subtle meditation on the death of true culture and authenticity that is happening all around us, as well as the impossibility of going back. It's told through the eyes of a relic poet from a bygone age (Willem Dafoe), who is thrust into a relationship with a group of zoomers and millennials who can only yearn for a taste of what he experienced. Plus on the most basic level it's a very enjoyable film. Highly recommended if you're interested in such things.

“Year after year, I was increasingly burdened by a sorrow that Hölderlin attributes to Hyperion: the feeling of being a stranger in one’s own homeland. This is borne out by the scars and stigmata, both of mind and body, left by an unhappy yet indelible love—love for the people, and not for political faction.” — Ernst Jünger on his 80th birthday, 29 March 1975.

«La frite reste nostalgique, patriote comme le bifteck.» Roland Barthes

"Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' (1975) is a film that produces in us the same kind of emotion that we feel in the presence of great masterpieces of art and literature." Federico Fellini

NEW BOOK — The Culture of the Teutons: The Restored Edition A view of pagan Germanic culture from the inside—Grønbech’s masterwork places us into the mind and world of the ancient Men of the North. https://imperiumpress.org/shop/the-culture-of-the-teutons-the-restored-edition/ ​Vilhelm Grønbech’s The Culture of the Teutons is a landmark reconstruction of pagan Germanic life. ​ The Germanic worldview could hardly be more different from that of the post-Enlightenment West. In this world, the kin, rather than the autonomous individual, is the fundamental human unit. This world must be understood on its own terms, rather than through our familiar categories of individual conscience, abstract justice, personal honour, or religious belief. Grønbech insisted that we start from scratch, understanding Germanic culture from the inside. ​ The Imperium Press Restored Edition presents the first English translation of the original four-volume Danish edition, with Grønbech’s full text, original structure, and scholarly notes. This new translation preserves terms like Frith, Aera, and Hamingja rather than rendering them into English peace, honor, and luck, which do not always translate. Just as Grønbech recovered a lost worldview from the original sources, this edition recovers these concepts for the reader using the original language. ​ The Culture of the Teutons is a book that serious students of Germanic life cannot ignore. Those students will find a rich, alien, and compelling world inside Grønbech’s masterwork. https://imperiumpress.org/shop/the-culture-of-the-teutons-the-restored-edition/

"It is possible to conceive of the political unity of humanity through the victory of one industrial superpower over the other or through the union of both with the goal of politically subjugating the total industrial power of the earth. That would be a planetary appropriation of industry. It would differ from the old methods of conquest — land and sea appropriation — only in being more intensively aggressive and of greater destructive potential in terms of die means of power utilized." — Carl Schmitt, The Legal World Revolution (1978)

The key to Blood Axis is simply: Will to Power. This, in my belief, is the key to all art, and indeed to higher evolution itself. My beginnings in music go back to the influence of my father, who exposed me to the music of Wagner, Beethoven, Bruckner, Strauss, and the other titans of European Classical Music. As I grew up I became interested in underground music at a young age, and this eventually led to the early industrial music of Throbbing Gristle, Monte Cazazza, and SPK. When I was about 14 or 15 years old, I started recording “music” itself, although is was very primitive. Some years later I decided that my real desire was to try to create sound of a more epic, disciplined nature - organic and forceful. It would have to combine both the modern or futuristic and the archaic. This is what I’ve trying to do with Blood Axis. It is a union of the ancestral and the Technological, and this is the “axis of the blood”, for the same European blood from which arose the myths of ancient days, also created those innovations which surround us now.

Most Valkyries are remembered for choosing the slain… but Brynhildr is remembered for something far more dangerous: she disobeyed Odin himself. In the old sagas, Brynhildr was ordered to decide a battle a certain way. Instead, she followed her own heart and granted victory to the wrong warrior. For that defiance, Odin cursed her with a magical sleep and surrounded her with a ring of fire. Only the bravest hero could reach her. Sigurd did. He walked through the flames and woke her with truth and steel, and for a moment they burned brighter together than any legend before or after. But love and fate in Norse lore rarely end gently… Oaths broke. Jealousy rose. And Brynhildr’s fury helped bring down kings and heroes alike. She is remembered as the Valkyrie who chose freedom over obedience, love over fear, and authenticity over destiny even when it cost her everything. @eurasianvolk

"The masses, devoid of spirituality and poetry, are cursed." — Louis-Ferdinand Céline, The School for Corpses (1938)

Hannes Bok