u/Kdilla77

As we get ready for Inferno, I remember a dear friend and fellow BoC fan (and fellow Canadian) who died late last year…

Music Has the Right bathed me in nostalgia for the sense of wonder I experienced in my 1970s/early 80s childhood… I remember when Geogaddi came out, it seemed like a complete 180… evocative of the past, again, and the cultural/spiritual “opening up” of the West in the 70s, but there was an undercurrent of darkness, dread, and chaos there.

With the 60s, we’d re-opened doors that Christianity and the European Enlightenment had closed shut in the past... No longer sheltered from “irrational” Pagan forces we’d kept under lock and key for so long, we suddenly had the chance to become wiser and more mature as a culture, but there was tremendous risk there, too. Would we still be able to recognize Evil when we saw it?

I remember my now-deceased friend saying “the sixties won, and the seventies was the victory party.”But Geogaddi didn’t sound like that.

I read up on Geogaddi and found rabbit holes that seemed to lead nowhere… I asked my friend, whose intelligence I respected more than anyone’s, if he thought there were clues in this beautiful, witchy album that pointed toward the occult or even Satanism. “Fuck no,” he said. “That’s just their Scottish sense of humor!”

What do you think? And are you expecting another dark turn from Inferno? In honor of my friend who can’t be here to share it with me, that’s truly what I’m hoping for.

I want Inferno to bear the same relation to Geogaddi that Tomorrow’s Harvest bore to Music Has the Right. Does that make sense?

As we get ready for Inferno, I remember a dear friend and fellow BoC fan (and fellow Canadian) who died late last year…

Music Has the Right bathed me in nostalgia for the sense of wonder I experienced in my 1970s/early 80s childhood… I remember when Geogaddi came out, it seemed like a complete 180… evocative of the past, again, and the cultural/spiritual “opening up” of the West in the 70s, but there was an undercurrent of darkness, dread, and chaos there.

With the 60s, we’d re-opened doors that Christianity and the European Enlightenment had closed shut in the past... No longer sheltered from “irrational” Pagan forces we’d kept under lock and key for so long, we suddenly had the chance to become wiser and more mature as a culture, but there was tremendous risk there, too. Would we still be able to recognize Evil when we saw it?

I remember my now-deceased friend saying “the sixties won, and the seventies was the victory party.”But Geogaddi didn’t sound like that.

I read up on Geogaddi and found rabbit holes that seemed to lead nowhere… I asked my friend, whose intelligence I respected more than anyone’s, if he thought there were clues in this beautiful, witchy album that pointed toward the occult or even Satanism. “Fuck no,” he said. “That’s just their Scottish sense of humor!”

What do you think? And are you expecting another dark turn from Inferno? In honor of my friend who can’t be here to share it with me, that’s truly what I’m hoping for.

I want Inferno to bear the same relation to Geogaddi that Tomorrow’s Harvest bore to Music Has the Right. Does that make sense?