Reward Music

This is my first real attempt at recording a full body of work by myself. I wrote all of the lyrics and composed and played all of the music heard on this record. Admittedly, I was learning as I went while recording this one so the end product is still a little raw but I feel that gives it a bit of unintended, black metal character.

The concept of this album essentially follows a tragically naive and impressionable young man who strikes out westward to claim success and wealth in the promised lands that lay in the mountains as opposed to his barren / frozen hell-scape he once called home. Only to be met with soul crippling disappointment and rejection and shameful failure. Resulting in a dead eye'd, souless, drug addicted homeless "Fiend" where once was a barely grown young man. Once full of so much wasted potential, now full of meth and whatever else he can get his hands on to quell the pain of the shame of his failure and eventual exile from the land of the adventurous and rich. Back to the frozen waste land which now looks distorted and even worse than before he left because he touched greatness and saw a place where everyone lived comfortably and beautifully. This leads to a shamefully fuelled, fast downward spiral; leading to his obviously inevitable yet painfully lonely death via overdose. His name was never really all that important to most. Everyone eventually forgot it all together and eventually simply referred to him as "The Fiend".