The Black Dahlia Murder "Mammoth's Hand" from the album "Servitude"

The Black Dahlia Murder "Mammoth's Hand"

"Fool For You"

In our latest Cover Story, Ryan Knight, guitarist with The Black Dahlia Murder discusses the loss of their frontman and friend Trevor Strnad, why they decided to continue and their new album 'Servitude'.

https://v13.net/2024/09/the-black-dahlia-murder-ryan-knight-interview-cover-story

Cover Story: The Black Dahlia Murder Ryan Knight

Savez-vous ce qu’est la servitude de tour d’échelle ? C’est une autorisation temporaire d’utiliser le terrain de son voisin pour réaliser des travaux chez soi.
Quelles sont les conditions de cette autorisation mais aussi ses enjeux juridiques et pratiques ? Qu’est-ce qu’elle implique pour les propriétaires et les voisins ?
Écoutez notre dernier podcast pour en connaitre davantage sur cette autorisation.

Vous pouvez aussi retrouver ce podcast sur le site dédié aux podcasts de l’ADIL : https://podcast.adil13.org/servitude-tour-d-echelle/

La servitude de tour d’échelle

Dans le cadre de ses apéro livres, ARTCENA recevait jeudi 30 janvier 2025 le philosophe Jacques Rancière, à l'occasion de la parution de son ouvrage « Au loin la liberté, essai sur Tchekhov », aux éditions La Fabrique. Il était interviewé par Gwénola David, directrice générale d'ARTCENA.

Crédits :
Production : ARTCENA
Son et montage : Margaux Coratte
Création sonore : Marc Sayous

Rencontre avec Jacques Rancière, à propos de Tchekhov


- 1611 bible had 80 books with apocrypha. Now 66. Works like Enoch have direct warnings for today.
- Ritual of Mollech and ritual of Lucifer- Eating animals sacrificed to idols. Symbols on food products. Gives Lucifer power.
-Obey for answer to prayer. All is purposed, even injury. Purpose yourself in servitude regardless.
- Method of living- without exposure that man have. Must have sight of the Lord to escape. We will hide for a time. Things are becoming random and un-trackable.
-Do you belong to Christ? Choice, not obligation. Fright pride/ego. Can look like we have no consequences. Prosperity, Satan's tool is ahead for many.
AI- Will govern everywhere. "Not a robot" allows perusal of all history. Can tell intent and position with brain waves. We'll be unable to lie. "Agree" suspends all privacy. AI learns and grows and fabricates normalcy.
- Rev. 13- power= strength. Seat=kingship, command of spiritual realm, power center. Great authority= over darkness. 1st beast is a collection of nations. Dragon is Satan. False prophet is AC.

05 14 2025  Symbolism - Prosperity - The Beast System - A I

Here is a protest song that I wrote the lyrics for on Christmas Day, 2024, about how those in control want us to be joyous in our servitude, to be willing workers, and not be critical thinkers.  Here is the music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTnRJe0ZpB0

And here are the lyrics:

People do not change (they just die off)
Things get rearranged (cosmetic tweaks)
The world goes through the drill (rinse and repeat)
Nothing changes all that much

Call me a fool, if you wish 
It don’t matter all that much
They want us to be willing workers
They don’t want critical thinkers 

Happy in your place
A smile upon your face
Be joyous in your role
And do as told as you grow old

Work hard every day (for some huge enterprise)
Mediocre pay (good luck buying groceries)
One third taxed away (to pay for God knows what)
It costs a lot of money to build bombs and go to Mars, they say

Happy in your place
A smile upon your face 
So joyous in your role
Believe the narrative you are told

Those who disagree ignored or laughed at
Thinking for yourself is not approved
Doing your own thing ends badly, try it if you dare
Future predetermined, and I find it hard to care

Happy in your place
A smile upon your face 
Happy is your place 
A smile you won’t erase

Happy in Your Place

- Sometimes we go forward on our own without the Lord. Paul went all the way to Caesar. We can be disappointed if we expect the Lord to clear the way. It's normal to be opposed for the Word of God and the world to hate us. 
- Acts and apostles- Instructed to wait for Holy Spirit. Their opposition was that preaching the Gospel was against the law. Paul saved his captors and made conversions. Angels of the Lord gave good cheer. Charges against Paul were disputed. Paul never spoke against the authorities and some didn't think he deserved death and even respected him. His captors provided livelihood as he finished his calling and went forward. Can't second guess your calling. Your uphill climb is the Lord's cataylist. Just obey. Supernatural favor on the cheerful giver whom He loves. Same for servitude. Working for obligation is for the return. The Lord will show you the dangers ahead. We are never sent blindly. Men like Peter and Paul went forward anyway. Faith and sacrifice go together. Some tried to go as apostles and were torn up due to the wrong condition of their hearts. Consequences if you go forward by yourself. Be authentic and go in truth. Gospel = good news of Jesus Christ. 
Acts/Romans perspective of the law requires the Gospel to comply by His grace and our faith. 
- Essene's wrote books of secret knowledge. 
- We aren't expected to be perfect. Jesus forgives. Grace = room to grow. We see 05% of a person. Don't emulate worldly courts. 
- It was Rome that adopted Christianity. Paul knew they believed. Some in Congress haven't reached full conversion. God intentionally opens your eyes slowly. We can be ignorant of sin. We consider some things harmless or neutral.
- Massive changes and uncertainty with indeterminate outcome. Recent activity, arguments, shutdown, etc. will decide some things. Threats everywhere. We sit on a precipice The severity of it depends on our treatment of the unfortunate among us. Situations are kept in utter silence. Dirty hands all over and people will be angry. 
Story - Michael felt a black widow spider in his pocket all day without being bitten. He also held his temper that day. Be covered in your temperance. 
- Quantitative computers- Critical, but we don't understand and it's well underway. China has quantum satellites. Ultra speedy for inscription against hacking. Soon no logins. Will use bio implants. We'll otherwise be compromised in 6 mos. from now. Nations could be held hostage. We need our Father's guidance.  


10 03 2025  The Critical Crossroad - Opposition - Go Forward Cheerfully

This panel contextualized slavery and unfreedom before the age of explorations highlighting various early geographies and communities from the classical world to the Americas. It covered key aspects that shaped servitude and linked to how these materialized through class, gender, culture and law lenses.

Panelists:
Peter Hunt, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado-Boulder
Gabriel Kruell, Research Associate, Institute of Historical Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Professor of Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies, The Ohio State University 

Moderator: Bert Harrill, Professor of History, The Ohio State University

03:37 Peter Hunt, “How is the Water for Running Away? The Gender of Fugitive Slaves in the Classical World” 

38:37 Gabriel Kruell, "Tlacoyotl: Pre-Hispanic Slavery among the Mexica"

01:06:46 Paloma Martinez-Cruz, "Women Healers of Tenochtitlan: Mexica Rites and Female Warriors"

01:44:37 Q&A 

This is an Ohio State University Center for Historical Research (CHR) presentation and part of the "Bridging Global Lenses on Servitude & Unfree Labor: From Ancient Times to the Present" Series. For more information about CHR and this Series, please visit https://chr.osu.edu 


Comparative Perspectives on Slavery Before the Age of Exploration Panel

A Center for Historical Research presentation featuring Ceyda Karamursel, Lecturer in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London.

Shaped by successive military and diplomatic conflicts, the second half of the nineteenth century witnessed large-scale forced displacement across the Ottoman Middle East. With it came a protracted crisis that unsettled established legal and ethical frameworks, producing a volatile environment in which the slave trade persisted and adapted, even as formal efforts to suppress it were put in place. This paper focuses on a key moment in this prolonged crisis—the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877–78 and its aftermath—to examine the practices of Ottoman slaveholders and traders, many of them women, operating at various scales, from elite mistresses to small intermediaries. In doing so, it sheds light on how local structures and practices—social, economic, and legal—collided with the emerging global moral order that reframed legal distinctions of race, ethnicity, religion, and state-belonging, with long-term implications for the decades that followed.

About Ceyda Karamursel: 
Ceyda Karamursel is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on slavery and the contested meanings of freedom in the late Ottoman Empire. Her work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Gender & History, among others. She is currently completing a book titled The Sack and the Bowstring: A Global History of Ottoman Slavery and Freedom. 

Learn more about the Ohio State University Center for Historical Research at https://chr.osu.edu.

Global Moral Order, Local Legalities, and the Gendered 'Business' of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire

The Ohio State University Center for Historical Research provides a stimulating intellectual environment for studying important historical issues around the world.  Each year the Center brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine issues of broad contemporary relevance in historical perspective.

4/20/2025: I updated my profile to accept direct messages only from those that I follow. Most of the direct messsages were from people who heaped overly exaggerated flattery and praise on me, only to ask me to pay them to increase my popularity. And none of them have left similar comments at my songs so that all can see. Which makes me question their sincerity.

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

Read more: http://www.metalblade.com/us/about-us/

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