Prologue: Lost They say that you can’t step in the same river twice. But I would give anything just to swim back up the river and go back to the world…
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Andrew Bennett
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2018 was supposed to be the year everything finally fell into place. Professionally successful, no longer alone, and at last truly happy and fulfilled. Yet it did not come to pass…
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What separates human from machine? In 2016, humans seem able to program a machine to do almost anything. And yet even well before now, countless authors such as Isaac Asimov hypothesized…
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The word redemption means deliverance, rescue, or in a theological context, salvation from sin. Every quality of the Los Angeles progressive metal act Redemption featuring the inimitable Ray Alder is designed…
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Featuring a human brain inside a glass laboratory sphere, the album cover is an exercise in understated elegance and represents the pure, unadulterated human identity sought by the narrator. The concept…
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Among many traditional Christian symbols, fire’s most famous biblical appearances are the Burning Bush from Genesis 3, and Pentecost from Acts 2. It represents light, warmth, passion, and power. Music based…
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THE PASSAGE “It was then that I experienced what we call a near death experience. For me, there was nothing near about it; it was there. It was a total immersion…
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In the Christian tradition, Lucifer is sometimes believed to be the former music ministry leader in heaven, based off Ezekiel 28:13b-14. Such a belief implies an affirmation of the ongoing creation…
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The last time I reviewed the Bulgarian progressive metal masters Pantommind, I listed them as one of my three favorite products of the Balkan Peninsula. Like the two culinary delicacies which…
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The existence of the widespread stage of life notoriously called a midlife crisis due to associated upheaval is debated and even questioned altogether by psychologists. A dramatic turn of events such…