Nebular Spool - Excerpts From New Album "Shul" by GMM

The next Nebular Spool album "Shul", is deep, dark, post-apocalyptic cthulhutronica. Ghosts for grown-ups. I think All Hallows Eve, October 31st, is a most suitable date for release.

The album is very dark, as in the depth-of-utter-loneliness-dark. One minute previews of two tracks embedded above.

I grew up during the eve of the cold-war, at any moment the US and the USSR could annihilate us all at the push of a button. The apocalypse never came, the sudden atomic winter turned into a creeping global warming. Then why do we feel cheated? What are we still waiting for?

Perhaps there are unspeakable monsters just around the corner, or perhaps there are unspeakable monsters right inside. If only one person survived the apocalypse, must this person live with the guilt of everyone? What to do when there is no-one around to share your fears? And how do you know you really are alone?

"Emptiness" said the Tibetan philosopher Tsongkhapa, in 1397,  "is the track on which the centered person moves." The word he uses for track is shul. This term is defined as "an impression": a mark that remains after that which made it has passed by; a footprint, for example. Shul is used to describe the scarred hollow in the ground where a house once stood, the channel worn through rock where a river runs in flood, the indentation in the grass where an animal slept last night, the torn ruins of a lost civilization. All these are shul: the impression of something that used to be there.

(PS. Did you know, this is post number 1000 in my journal.)