One of my favorite bit of words
that I ever wrote for space rock metal masters, Spaceseed, is The Empire of
Night.
People may get different things out
of this track and most of the time I loathe over explaining my scribblings
because when I read something I like to take my own interpretation of it just
as I do with any other piece of art, but after some reflection I figure it is
worth chatting about this piece a little.
What Empire was about for me when I
wrote it is quite simply, paranoia’s prophecy becoming self-fulfilled.
When you get so paranoid that
something is going to happen, often you make it happen just to validate
yourself, even though you could never face that fact.
The character in Empire was never
on the “government watch list” until he put himself there, and would never have
his machine taken from him until he put it out there about the things he
claimed it could do. Then of course he destroys himself and the entire world
just to free himself and vindicate himself at the same time.
That’s what paranoid prophecies can
do to you folks. Sadly it’s in the headlines all the time now. Don’t give in to
those delusions.
-Yours in Bunker based living,
Count Robot
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