“The ghoulish, omnipresent nature of the Protestant work ethic is everywhere you look in these last days of our dying empire.” ~Keith Spillett

“Globalization is a metaphorical magnification of the quest for spiritual identity in all humans.”

~Keith Spillett

“Death awaits us all, and those who are pious and righteous are rewarded with the same eternal darkness as those who pillage the world blind. The meek will be buried right alongside those who engage in a Dionysian life of personal excess and unabated greed. The ground cannot tell the two apart.” ~Keith Spillett

“Heavy metal, for all intents and purposes, is a death factory.” ~Keith Spillett

Rating: 5/5
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This is the purpose for which rock ’n’roll was intended. Not to be background music in the local Target or to be recited soullessly by an army of never-ending American Idol contestants, but to remind us of what visceral chaos lives just below the surface of our pristine, orderly world.

Keith Spillett explores the underlying meaning and symbolism within “Heartwork”—the evolutionary album from the seminal English band, who progressed from grinding death metal into more melodic territory on their divisive fourth full-length. Delicate heartstrings are plucked on “No Love Lost”, as Keith and Jeff de-romanticize a notion taken too easily for granted.

Keith Spillett explores the underlying meaning and symbolism within “Heartwork”—the evolutionary album from the seminal English band, who progressed from grinding death metal into more melodic territory on their divisive fourth full-length. We now enter the “Carnal Forge” to examine human attitudes toward war and massacre.

Keith Spillett explores the underlying meaning and symbolism within “Heartwork”—the evolutionary album from the seminal English band, who progressed from grinding death metal into more melodic territory on their divisive fourth full-length. We start with the song “Buried Dreams” and will go track by track in the weeks to come until all cuts are covered.