Mazes For Sale

This is how it feels right now

A while ago (about 9 years now) I have my first encounter with what I felt it was the real deal. I had some friends who were trying to play guitar and go "for the next level", when I met a guy who at that time I thought he was a sort of demigod of guitar. He played classical pieces (without using any pick) and had a complete mastery of the instrument, it was so that that was the first time I felt really blown away.

Apart from classical stuff he played a lot of flamenco pieces and he taught us some of his repertoire and the essence of the fine and complex art of the flamenco guitar (I still remember some of that), but most importantly, he showed us the master, Paco de Lucía. That changed my life.

Some years later, and probably I'd say this, I began listening to Metallica and that changed my paradigm of music. From then, I follow the path of "Metal" until 2008 when I met two crazy guys who showed me "Death" and of course Chuck Schuldiner. That changed my life again, I began to listen more obscure stuff and one thing led to another and I started writing my own shit and have my first band.

Those were happy, crazy years where I met a lot of interesting people and learnt a lot of things.

After that, about 1-2 years ago, I began to put attention to some of the MP3 files I had for a long time and entered a world called "The Jazz Ocean". ANOTHER CHANGE FOR FUCKS SAKE! I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND JAZZ AT A COGNITIVE LEVEL AT ALL!

For all the changes I've been through this is the most hard and chaotic of all. But that's fine, that's not a problem for me per se, the problem is that my thirst for composition it never quenches. So what do I do? Continue writing Thrash/Death? Try to understand Jazz better and then take off? My inner shit says that I belong to distortion and speed, but that could be only because I've doing this for so long?

That puts my whole life in a sort of limbo, where nothing can happen. And that's what happens. Nothing.

That's it. Flatuleitor out.

The Overlord EP

About the EP itself I must say... the songs were fine (?) but the lyrics were something else (this is related with Christianity). My musical mood at that time was very frantic, unpolished and sometimes repetitive.

At that time I was still into Christianity (but with serious doubts), my inspirations at that time were, for instance, Mortification, Vengeance Rising, Believer, and the like. Even though they put out some serious albums back in the day (Believer's "Dimensions" is a total technical holocaust), today I don't share their "worldview" at all. Anyway, I was very influenced back then.

About the EP itself, sometimes I try to listen to it, but I can't. I just can't. Not because of the music/sound of it (even though it sounds very raw and unpolished) but because of the lyrics. They were wrote in Spanish and it dealt with the superiority of GAWD and how everybody must tremble before his holy douchebagness.

Sometimes I think how incredible the human being is, how someone can turn 180 degrees from the most essential aspects of his life. I born in Christianity, I was indoctrinated everyday since then, mixing nonsense with feelings everywhere. It was atrocious. That's why even though it's part of someone process or "spiritual journey", I can't help but feeling awkward about this EP everytime I try to listen to it.

Anyway, after released, I began the search for musicians (at that time I wanted Overlord to be a full-member band). That search took place on the internet in many different forums and then finally two guys from a band called "Mashet" responded to the call and contacted me in order to play together and smash some asses, destroy the cosmos... you know... Thrash Business. Unfortunately, after a few rehearsals and never finding "a proper drummer", Overlord as a full member band concept went to shit.

After that, I felt somehow miserable because I felt that as a failure. But in March of 2011 after entering University for the first time, I decided to fuck on everybody and do all the shit by my goddamn own. That's when the "Tiempos Antares" sessions began. But that's another story.

This fucking EP, even though it appears on Overlord's official discography, it doesn't represents me neither lyrically nor conceptually. At all.

Here're some pictures from that time:

One of my best friends "Chocho Necromoco"

Recording vocals. Look at the microphone.

Some of the gear.

Marshall Valvestate II

That's it. Flatuleitor out.

Human States... A Utopia

HSNA: "Human States of Nowhere/Anywhere"

We all have dreamed with the perfect place. In fact, if I'd ask you about your ideal or utopic place, immediately you'd think about material matters, let's say, a forest, a green field, an afternoon at the beach, or even a full week blasting casino machines (surrounded by high-class-whores/suspiciously gentle putos). But why am I doing this assumption?

The material world we live is in some aspects completely the opposite: Things most of the time never work as expected and people you trust finally end up disappointing you. So, what's up with the "Human States"?

There's a place, let's say a landscape. The inner landscape. Sometimes that place is unknown and obscure and blurry, even hostile (at first). Some of us know that place and we've been there many times, when we are tired of dealing with conformists uni-dimensional shitheads. Of course that place can be seen as hostile at first, because as humans we have the inherited fear of the unknown, but what does separate us from, let's say, the neanderthals? We can rest upon the shoulders of previous generations and trust in the investigations and empiric data collected through the centuries.

People, I mean, weak minded people are still afraid of changes, afraid of the unknown, afraid of those different from them. That fear is "rationalized" and transformed into hate. A extensive list can be made.

Here it comes the planeee

That's why nobody is talking about this inner landscape anywhere in the media. It seems like no one cares. Apart from this fact we can add some more, here in Chile the school hours of History and Arts were reduced to give more space to Math. Numbers. Does that contemplate such a life-important concept as to know your inner landscape?

The utility is more than the inherent value of the human being who knows him/herself. That's the order, that's the reality. Society values you for what you give to them, what you are able to produce or deliver.

All things considered, I don't want to be esoteric or write about pseudo-scientific nonsense. I'm just simple saying: all of us can live in a common nation, something that some people say "I'm a citizen of the world", to live in one state, where you control your fate, and please don't be confused with alienation from reality, just know what's inside of you.

When you do that, when you know you inner landscape and when you are able to go there anytime you want you will find more people like you there, and you'll realize you are finally in the Human States. Enjoy yourself.

That's it. Flatuleitor out.