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# Mikael Stanne

Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as the vocalist, primary lyricist and a former guitarist for the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity.

## Quotes

* I first got into extreme metal through trading tapes and reading fanzines. When I was fourteen, I went with one of my neighbours, Shamaatae, to sit in on a rehearsal with his new band. That band was Grotesque and seeing them rehearse was incredibly cool. The intensity and speed of the music being played at maximum volume impressed me like very little had up until that point. My favourite song quickly became 'Blood Runs From The Altar', from their second demo The Black Gate Is Closed. I was already a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, so this was just perfection to me.
** "DARK TRANQUILLITY Frontman MIKAEL STANNE Names The 10 Death Metal Albums That Inspired Him", BraveWords (October 10, 2024)
# Jonas Åkerlund

Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund (born 10 November 1965) is a Swedish filmmaker and musician who is best known for his work in music videos. Åkerlund was a member of the Swedish black metal band Bathory.

## Quotes

* The sound we created was a mix of what we liked [...] And the whole punk thing, but playing it fast, which really wasn’t what metal was about back then.
* I don’t think they had a political agenda. I know that some of them are very extreme in their political agenda today, but they were young boys. I think they stopped thinking as individuals and started thinking more as a group, to impress each other, and to shock. They were in this bubble where, finally, you get immune: you take one step further, and then another, and before you know it, it’s not a big deal to kill a man.
# Varg Vikernes

Louis Cachet (born Kristian Vikernes 11 February 1973), better known as Varg Vikernes, is a Norwegian musician and author best known for his early black metal albums and later for his crimes. His first five records, released under the name Burzum from 1992 to 1996, made him one of the most influential figures in the early Norwegian black metal scene. He was convicted of murder and arson in 1994 and sentenced to 21 years in prison, being released after serving 15 years.

## Quotes

* Our purpose is to spread fear and evil.
# Rune Eriksen

Rune Eriksen (born 13 January 1975), also known by his stage name Blasphemer, is a Norwegian musician best known as the former guitarist and songwriter of black metal band Mayhem.

## Quotes

* The cops came to my parents’ place late at night, just to go through my room. I was 17. They were trying to find something that connected me to something. They left empty-handed, but they’d found some strange imagery on CDs and were nodding to each other like: ‘Jackpot.’
* Mayhem has death and destruction in its past. And you can let yourself become a part of that thing and ride the waves of it, seeking extremities.
# Cynic (band)

Cynic are an American death metal band.

## Quotes about Cynic

* Like Atheist, Cynic used death metal’s framework as a mere springboard to devise a wholly original, genre-straddling new sound, as alien as the creature gracing their sole full-length of the 1990’s now legendary ‘Focus.’ Vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert had already showcased their skills on Death’s 1991 triumph ‘Human,’ and yet not even that prepared the metal world for this startling mutation, built on unorthodox riff/drum combinations, jazz-like improvisations, and vocal styles that ranged from a death growls, to female and robotic vocals, all intoning esoteric lyrics. Without any hyperbole, the end results were so brilliant that it simply couldn’t last, and Cynic soon disappeared for over a decade.
** Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire

## See also

* Florida death metal
# Immolation (band)

Immolation is an American death metal band from Yonkers, New York.

## Quotes about Immolation

* We did kind of leave the religious themes alone, because we were very passionate about that for the first number of records. And once Unholy Cult came out, that was where we branched off. That's where the shift happened, 'cause that was right after 9/11, as you know! I saw it, I went down there, I had family that got killed in the towers, and it was a life-changing event in a lot of ways. And I knew at that point that things would never be the same, in our country or in the world. And that's where the shift happened, and we started to focus more on the darker side of humanity. Which we did already with the religious themes, of course, because that was a very dark part of our history. I mean not to knock anybody who's very passionate about their religion, but in my personal point of view, I've always thought of it as a very controlling and negative force. It serves as a division in our world, it divides people, just like so many other things! So that's where we are, and that's where that shift started, away from religion and into something more socially relevant and looking more deeply at ourselves.
** Ross Dolan of Immolation
* When we touch on religion with this record [...] I think it’s done in a new and fresh way [...] religion is still a big force in the world, it’s not something I care for, but I see how it impacts people. It’s something we are always fond of exploring, that mindset and how it affects people, and also the institutions themselves and the corruption within and the horrible things done in the name of religion [...] I have a lot of friends and we know a lot of people and fans we’ve met over the years who are pretty blunt and say “Hey, I’m not down with the anti-religious thing, but I get it” – I think they appreciate our take on it because we don’t attack so much the individual spiritualism that people find – we attack more the institutions [...] I respect anybody’s right to believe and feel and listen to and follow or do whatever they want. My only problem is when that creeps into my world and religion becomes a thorn in my side when I’m not a religious person at all. When religion works into how laws are passed and how it dictates certain things in our society – that should have zero place in my world and any who chooses not to believe’s world.
** Ross Dolan of Immolation
# Nocturnus

Nocturnus is an American death metal band.

## Quotes about Nocturnus

* Ah, but there was more to Floridian death metal than pure savagery, and Nocturnus, from – where else? - Tampa, proved it with their daring and progressive style. First formed in 1987, Nocturnus were among the first death metal bands to incorporate keyboards into their sound, and their lyrical focus on science-fiction offered a refreshing alternative to death metal’s prevailing preoccupations with Satan and gore during those early years. Heck, even today, 1990’s ‘The Key’ remains an awesome achievement, well ahead of its time, and Nocturnus would deliver a second worthy LP in ‘92’s ‘Thresholds,’ before sadly losing steam and shutting down their space station for many a year.
** Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire
* It wasn't unusual for mainstream metal and hard rock bands to use keyboards, but it was hardly typical in the underground world of death metal, thrash, and grindcore. Nocturnus, of course, didn't want to be typical, which is why The Key is among the more interesting death metal releases of 1990.
** Alex Henderson of AllMusic

## See also

* Florida death metal
# Nile (band)

Nile is an American death metal band.

## Quotes about Nile

* This comes from a guitar lesson I had with (legendary shredder) Rusty Cooley where we were dissecting two concepts. The first one would be ‘Nephren-ka’; during the years that we were doing the early Nile songs, there was no scale that actually fit those songs, so we had to make what’s called a synthetic scale, which is basically it’s not a scale that exists, but you need one, so you make it up that’s specific to those purposes. So a lot of those songs on that album – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka – use the ‘Nephren-ka’ scale. Because we made it up, necessity is a mother of invention, the ‘Nephren-ka’ scale is a six-note scale. It’s not seven. It’s only got six notes. And it’s kind of like a Locrian mode with no sixth degree. The other part of this story, the ‘Pentagrammathion’ part, is yet another lesson I had with Rusty Cooley, where if you take any five-note scale, through the magic of how those notes are laid out, if you take out any one of those notes, maybe it’s this Note, maybe it’s this note, maybe it’s this note. You’re left with a four-note scale, which just happens to be a quartal minor, 11th chord, no matter which one of these notes you take out, which is kind of fascinating. So if you’re left with this four-note chord, if you add back in a fifth note, and it doesn’t have to be the same note that you took out, it could be a different note. Now we got five notes again, but depending on which note you stick back in there, you get an entirely different mode or tonality and a different set of chords that you can derive from this new artificial five-note mode. This is the pentagrammathion, because there are so many possibilities that it’s kind of like having a dial that’s got five points, and you can spin it around and wherever you spin it and add something random in, you get something new. That concept of yeah, it just changes every time. So ‘The Pentagrammathion Of Nephren-ka’ is where we took the ‘Nephren-ka’ scale and put it inside this pentagram wheel and spun it around and see what chords and tonalities and melodies are derived from, wherever the five-pointed dial ended up.
** Karl Sanders of Nile
* If we were using the music of the local area here, it would sound nothing like a Nile album. In a way it’s a form of escapism. There are a lot of Eastern modalities and tonalities adapted into the guitar playing, but it’s not purely authentic because it can’t be. In the same way that the soundtrack for a Mummy movie or whatever is not all ancient stuff from 5000 years ago, it’s music that puts you in that mindset, which is a different thing. Are you scoring a Hollywood movie, or being a musical preservation society? We’re a metal band, so we lean towards the ‘Hollywood making a horrific Ancient Egypt movie’ [approach].
** Karl Sanders of Nile
* Every song that gets written is filtered through our own lens and our life experiences. [...] You can’t help it that whatever glasses you’re wearing are going to filter how you look at history.
** Karl Sanders of Nile
# Denis Florence MacCarthy

Denis Florence MacCarthy (26 May 1817 – 9 April 1882) was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, from Dublin.

## Quotes

* The cherished traditions of a people, however extravagant they may appear, are in every instance valuable sources of information. No matter what amount of error may have been heaped upon them in their downward course through ages—no matter what incrustations may have formed around them—still like the statue in the block of marble the original form of truth is there, and requires only the discriminating hands of the historian to reveal.
** The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland: With an Introduction on the Early Religion and Literature of the Irish People, Volume 1. Dublin: James Duffy. 1846. p. 18.
* The pillar towers of Ireland, how wondrously they stand By the lakes and rushing rivers through the valleys of our land; In mystic file, through the isle, they lift their heads sublime, These gray old pillar temples, these conquerors of time!
** From "The Pillar Towers of Ireland" in Poems (Dublin, 1882); quoted by Sean McMahon in A Book of Irish Quotations (1984), p. 91
* Youth’s bright palace Is overthrown, With its diamond sceptre And golden throne; As a time-worn stone Its turrets are humbled— All hath crumbled But grief alone!Whither, O whither Have fled away The dreams and hopes Of my early day? Ruin’d and grey Are the towers I builded; And the beams that gilded— Ah, where are they?Once this world Was fresh and bright, With its golden noon And its starry night: Glad and light, By mountain and river, Have I bless’d the Giver With hush’d delight.Youth’s illusions One by one Have pass’d like clouds That the sun look’d on. While morning shone, How purple their fringes! How ashy their tinges When that was gone!As fire-flies fade When the nights are damp— As meteors are quench’d In a stagnant swamp— Thus Charlemagne’s camp Where the Paladins rally, And the Diamond valley, And the Wonderful Lamp,And all the wonders Of Ganges and Nile, And Haroun’s rambles, And Crusoe’s isle, And Princes who smile On the Genii’s daughters ’Neath the Orient waters Full many a mile,And all that the pen Of Fancy can write Must vanish in manhood’s Misty light; Squire and Knight, And damosel’s glances, Sunny romances, So pure and bright!These have vanish’d, And what remains? Life’s budding garlands Have turn’d to chains— Its beams and rains Feed but docks and thistles, And sorrow whistles O’er desert plains.
** "Lament" in Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics (1850), p. 126
# Sāyaṇa

Sāyaṇa was a 14th-century Sanskrit Mimamsa scholar from the Vijayanagara Empire of South India, near modern day Bellary, Karnataka. An influential commentator on the Vedas, he flourished under King Bukka Raya I and his successor Harihara II. More than a hundred works are attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Vedas.

## Quotes about Sāyaṇa

* The commentary of Sayana closes the period of original and living scholastic work on the Veda which Yaska’s Nirukta among other important authorities may be said to open. The lexicon was compiled in the earlier vigour of the Indian mind when it was assembling its prehistoric gains as the materials of a fresh outburst of originality; the Commentary is almost the last great work of the kind left to us by the classical tradition in its final refuge and centre in Southern India before the old culture was dislocated and broken into regional fragments by the shock of the Mahomedan conquest. Since then we have had jets of strong and original effort, scattered attempts at new birth and novel combination, but work of quite this general, massive and monumental character has hardly been possible.
** Sri Aurobindo The Secret of the Veda
* Nevertheless, if Sayana’s work has been a key turned with double lock on the inner sense of the Veda, it is yet indispensable for opening the antechambers of Vedic learning. All the vast labour of European erudition has not been able to replace its utility. At every step we are obliged to differ from it, but at every step we are obliged to use it. It is a necessary springing-board, or a stair that we have to use for entrance, though we must leave it behind if we wish to pass forwards into the penetralia.
** Sri Aurobindo The Secret of the Veda
# German idealism

German idealism was a speculative philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was a reaction against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and was closely linked with both Romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. The most notable thinkers in the movement were Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, while Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Friedrich Schleiermacher also made major contributions.

## Quotes

* Kant himself says that he is drawing the limits of knowledge to make space for religious faith, but it is now pretty clear that the modern world has been unable to fill that space. In the philosophy of J. G. Fichte, F. W. J. Schelling and G. W. F. Hegel, known as 'German Idealism', which begins in the 1790s, the space is often filled with aspects of what Kant proposes which are given a more emphatic status than Kant himself thinks possible. Fichte, for example, will make the activity of the I the source of the world's intelligibility in a way that Kant rejects. Development of some of these thinkers' ideas will be germane to Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche, who, though, reject many of the central philosophical contentions of German Idealism. However, the structures which inform much of what these thinkers say still depend upon what might initially appear to be rather specialized aspects of Kant's philosophy.
** Andrew Bowie, Introduction to German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas (2003), Ch. 1. The Kantian Revolution
* German Idealism seems to have exerted another enduring influence on Weber, discernible in his ethical worldview more than in his epistemological position. This was the strand of Idealist discourse in which a broadly Kantian ethic and its Nietzschean critique figure prominently.
** Sung Ho Kim, "Max Weber", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
* The story of German idealism is the story of Kant and the aftermath.
** Merold Westphal, "Kierkegaard and Hegel", in The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard (1998)
* So much the worse for the facts!
** A supposed idealist retort against factual contradiction, attributed by György Lukács to Fichte, but by others to Hegel or an unnamed follower.
# Tiffany Haddish

Tiffany Ronelia Haddish (born December 3, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Her breakthrough came in with a leading role in the comedy film Girls Trip (2017), which earned her several accolades and was included on The New Yorker's list of the best film performances of the 21st century. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2018, and The Hollywood Reporter listed her among the 100 most powerful people in entertainment in both 2018 and 2019.

## Quotes

* "I program the water to get me jobs. I program the water to bring me adventures. Whatever energy you put out, that’s what you get back."
* "I want to get paid because I know that if I’m getting paid a certain amount, that’s going to raise the price for everybody."
* "People get so mad at me because I’m being myself. They’re jealous."
* "“When I was trying to be something I wasn’t, my soul was screaming at me. ‘What are we doing? This is not who we are. Stop it!’"
* "Be you. You might actually find somebody that really loves you."
* "We woke up successful today."
* "If I feel like crying, I just cry. It scares people sometimes, but I’m not keeping secrets either"
* "I don’t have the capacity for keeping secrets. If somebody ask me, I’m telling. Period."
** Tiffany Haddish Lives on High Vibrations by Lola Ogunnaike. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 10/11/2023.
* "Every time you make a movie, the smallest crew could be 50, and the largest crew could be 500 people. That's, how many jobs are you creating? How much generational wealth are you creating when you get to tell and give other people the opportunity to tell that story with you?"
** Tiffany Haddish Stays Busy: 'I Want to See Our Stories' by Sam Sanders, Andrea Gutierrez, Jordana Hochman, Manuela López Restrepo. July 6, 2021. Retrieved 10/11/2023.
* "Everything I said I wanted to do, I'm literally doing"
** There’s Something Funny About Tiffany Haddish by Caity Weaver. March 26, 2018. Retrieved 10/11/2023.
# Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic.

## Quotes about Winchell

* At the height of his popularity, in the late 1930s, 50 million people—two-thirds of American adults—read Winchell's syndicated column and listened to his Sunday-night radio broadcast.
** Sam Kashner in "Sweet Smell of Success: A Movie Marked Danger". Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood.
* Hated, feared, and revered, he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club on East 53d Street in Manhattan, creating and destroying celebrities at the drop of his trademark gray snap-brim fedora.
** Mervyn Rothstein: (12 June 1990)"That Loathsome Winchell. A Natural for a Book". NY Times. (review of Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr)
# Bernard Hopkins

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins (born 15 January 1965) is an American boxer and the reigning Ring magazine light heavyweight champion.

## Quotes

* Let him leave his home town and try to invade the United States and beat Bernard Hopkins, a great champion, a legend.
** On Joe Calzaghe, as quoted in "Hopkins turns up heat on Calzaghe"at BBC News (14 November 2007)
* I've never ducked anyone. Bernard Hopkins has beaten people that nobody else wanted to fight — Winky Wright, Antonio Tarver. I knocked out Felix Trinidad easily, Oscar de la Hoya with a body shot, I had world title 20 defences.
** As quoted in "Hopkins turns up heat on Calzaghe"at BBC News (14 November 2007)
* I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
** As quoted at "Calzaghe nicks round one" at BBC Sport (8 February 2008)
* I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.
** On a scheduled fight with Joe Calzaghe, as quoted in "Hopkins issues chilling warning" (19 February 2008)
# 2024 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

Following the Non-Cooperation Movement on August 5, 2024, a series of attacks targeting the Hindu community in Bangladesh began.

## Quotes

* They want to divide the country, they want the country, our country, our nation to burn like Bangladesh. They are so upset they are not in power, they don't care. They would want the country to burn, to be divided.
** Arnab Goswami, at Does INDI Want Bangladesh Like Situation In India? Nation Sharpest Opinion Republic, Aug 7, 2024
* The situation of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh is not good. What has been happening for the past 50 years is not right. What is their fault? Why are they being selectively killed? Why are their temples being destroyed?
** Dwarka Shankaracharya Swami Sadanand Saraswati , in Hindu Dharmic gurus speak up for Bangladeshi Hindus; Unite in call for action to protect them August 23, 2024
* Hindus must be protected in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh government must not forget that thousands of Bangladeshis live in India. We request the government to provide land and security for them, and we will take care of their food and other requirements and won’t let the burden come on the government.
** Jyotirmath Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati , in Hindu Dharmic gurus speak up for Bangladeshi Hindus; Unite in call for action to protect them August 23, 2024
* We need to restore peace and stability in Bangladesh... The presence of historic temples and a large Hindu population makes it essential to address the current turmoil.
** Kanchi Shankaracharya Shankara Vijayendra Saraswati, in Hindu Dharmic gurus speak up for Bangladeshi Hindus; Unite in call for action to protect them August 23, 2024
* Throughout history, Bharat has consistently championed peace and righteousness. In these challenging times, it is crucial that all practitioners of Sanatana Dharma unite. We support all such endeavors. Bharat has never initiated an attack on any other country; if it has engaged in conflict, it has only been in self-defense. We offer our blessings to the Sanatanis who are suffering abroad, praying that they will soon overcome their hardships and lead good lives.
** Sringeri Sharadha Math Jagadguru Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Sannidhanam , in Hindu Dharmic gurus speak up for Bangladeshi Hindus; Unite in call for action to protect them August 23, 2024
* Such violence in Bangladesh is a conspiracy of China. Mosques are being destroyed in China, and Muslims are being expelled from the country. Now, China is using Bangladesh to destabilize India. If Bangladesh fails to understand this, its existence will crumble into dust in the coming days.
** Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalanand Saraswati , in Hindu Dharmic gurus speak up for Bangladeshi Hindus; Unite in call for action to protect them August 23, 2024
* I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos.
** Donald Trump, 31 October,2024 Trump on X