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Femur

by Gaunt Emperor

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Anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.
— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (Avery, 2012)

"Femur" portrays the immutable passage of time in cosmological progression. It attempts to convey the abstract expressions of existence as experienced through the phases of creation - predating consciousness and intent - ultimately leading to the creation of the self and ego, and its emergence from the ether.

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released January 22, 2021

Music & Recording: Gaunt Emperor
Mastering: Jerik Centeno

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Gaunt Emperor San Diego, California

Drone Metal // Doom // Shoegaze

Gaunt Emperor writes "heavy" music. Heavy as a feeling, as a mood, a sensation beyond the scope of purely distortion.

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