The tale of the theme and the tower
Introduction
Some one said that the rational world is like a the skin
over muscles and bones that we can not see.
It is not the skin that makes the body move, but it is the skin that we see.
there is a thin line between the physical world and the others. the songs of this production are a thin thread between the worlds and it vibrates on both sides.
Since we allowed the "Ordo Aurum" (TGO OTA)
to pass from the world of inspiration to the world that we can touch with our hands the line has been very thin.
Now when we are working with the Incarnation, the manifestation of the spirit in the flesh
things have changed.
It is no longer a line or a skin, it is more like a mist, you can not see through it, but you can follow the
thread through the mist to the other side.
The tale of the tower is like the theme and the songs, it vibrates on both sides.
on this journey back and forth along the thread we have
had a lot of experiences and met strange characters that few are allowed to meet.
Prologue 2007-2009 after the release we tried to start writing the new album, a lot was done but nothing really happened, we started with a lot of songs but finished with none. some time in 2008 or 2009 Rickard wrote 2 songs with a beginning a middle and an end. then everything collapsed in to this inferno or writing rehearsing and refusing songs again. in the spring or early summer of 2009 we decided we had to isolate ourselves from family and everything in order to get anything done, we borrowed a house from a couple within the Ordo Aurum near to an assumed hell gate and spent a weekend in summer there. we wrote 95% of two new songs and talked a lot. This was when we found the hole in the pocket of our writing. we had started to grow up, for some people that is a good thing, when it comes top metal that is a disaster. when metal musicians talk about a mature album it means that it is far gone of the road to complete ass-sucking, after ripe comes rotten. everyone of us had developed a sense that nothing we did was good enough for the others. we had lost the faith in each others faith in each other so to say. This was when we started to turn the the bat sh#t around. we formulated some fundamental Pantokrator doctrines: .It (the song) shall feel good. .The songs are good enough until the opposite is proven. .The songs we write will be good, we must let the grow up and give them a chance to stand on their own legs before we judge them .Dubblekick will make any song or riff even better. the only reason to stop the low rumbling from to time is that to get the chance to make the "come" again. We were supposed to play at Greenbelt festival later that summer but we never got there. We were kidnapped by two men and locked into a tower hidden in the mists of Avalon. in order to protect us from "the others" during the sensitive work with a dangerous theme. We were released just before Christmas after reaching an understanding with their kidnappers. we have been under constant surveillance, and can be called back at any time. From the search blog: Band disappeared: Pantokrator disappeared on a trip to England where they went to play on the Greenbelt festival. organizers deny that they ever had contact with/or heard of the band. There are no other traces of them than a tent left at the London airport parking. Unfortunately, this is a somewhat old picture of the band, but we hope that someone will recognize them. More detailed discussions between the band's legal representatives and festival organizers have revealed that there where an unknown person about 40 years of age sat in committee meetings, all assumed that the others knew who he was as he sat there with such an confidence and was greeted all welcome. We believe that this man has had something to do with the band's disappearance. His descriptions are: black semi-long hair brushed straight back, bright blue eyes and a long and skinny stature around 190 cm if you have seen the band or the perpetrator please turn to: info@pantokrator.com with information Tube said... I saw a small print of this in the London Times a while back so i suppose it has some substance. The police were looking for clues but they were unsure whether or not to take it seriously. However, i have had a deep involvement with the band and i know they were about to step on some very large toes...wonder if it could be related to that. God be with them as they walk in faith believing in our sovereign Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.... During the absence of "the five" the shop will be managed by Mr Z and Mr Bj. update of information on this site will be managed by Klerk. Z will handle the office of DM. We have asked our contact within British Government Communications Headquarters to keep his eyes and ears open to mayday/sos signals from the five. we must have hope, they have the DM with them, if anything can be don with improvised technology he can do it. The search team of TGO OTA are confident that they will find out where "the five" are located in a matter of weeks. We are closeThe readings of the dimentionals are unanimous, everything points to a figurative tower
of metaphorical stone that exists on both sides of the mist somewhere in England,
how many places like that can there be ?
it must be a matter of days now before they are found.
count nameless said..
I got this document from a old uncle. (not my uncle though)
Words from the tower
We are locked up inside a tower because of an album that would have been recorded a year ago if we understood then what we understand now. / PANTOKRATOR This has happened: We were met at the airport by Limousin a taciturn chauffeur long and skinny. After he closed the door to us there was a strange smell and everyone was very tired then there was a big gap of amnesia. It was Mattias who awakened us, it seemed like we were in some sort of tower, the only thing visible through the small windows were green hills and a cloudy sky. Our captor is talking to us through a pipe from the roof now and then, he is a pretty surly nature, he sounds a lot older then the man who picked us up and he has a terrible wheezy cough, we hear him saunter to and fro on the floor above. Karl believes that it is the same person that Claudio found traces of in Berlin, he speaks Swedish with German accent when he talks to himself, we have heard him through the floor. However he does not speak Swedish when he speaks to us through the pipe, when he tries to sound British. he knows painfully much about "the five" and the history of the order, he informed us that we will not get out until we have helped him to get his message out - "there will be music," he says - "music spreads over the damn web that they have built to trap us, music spread like a plague. The lawless will come, yes he is on his way! you boys be so kind and help me to shed light on all this, all of my research on these things, I have at your service, 40 years of work for free, it is in the Zoega box there on the floor. Jansson: - "What are you talking about? The voice: - The lawlessness, SON OF DOOM, THE BEAST, YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THIS!!! YOUR ORDER HAD THE BLOODY KNIVES UNTIL they disappeared in 1939. Jonas spoke to him in his strict negotiating voice and asked why he would not be able to do it himself. He said: "first of all: I have decided that there should be music, if it can be called so, and I myself am unmusical. secondly: they are on to my trail, I had to flee head over heals and leave all my research on you, God knows where it ended up. Thirdly: we'll take the risk, you are already stupid enough to be in the public, flat out on your network as if it were no risk whatsoever, you get up on stage with the spotlights in your eyes without knowing that you have their spies among the audience. To make a long story short, they did not take Rickard's psp, probably by pure compassion and for because they did not see any risks with it, now Jansson has been using it to construct something that is not completely different a computer, a little chicken wire, a broken radio, tin from a candlestick etc we helped one other to construct, read and, wish a communication link into existence. here we are. send our regards to our families if you can find this online. our anonymous brother in the British signal intelligence has managed to intercept it and turn it into understandable signs. it takes a lot of time for us to write as we must write everything in ascii-code, but we will update you as often as we can and when it seems safe./ The five Prisoners log II If there is anyone wondering about the food and privy, it is not an issue... Shit we can leave aside, it is not a nice topic, let's just say that he seems to have thought of everything, we have access to three floors, in the upper, we work with study and writing, in the middle he has stored up a lot of dry food and large amounts of water, at the bottom is a red door that is locked or opened from his hiding place with a little electric buzz and the room on the other side always contains pleasant surprises (since the actual writing began) sometimes it has been a long table with real food, real festive meals, sometimes it has been a steamy bathtub, either it is well meaning hidden behind his grumpy ways, or it is just that he has a proper understanding of the creative environment. This is the foundation of his system: He knows that we recognize that if we would refuse to leave the room it would only mean that the room could not be prepared with new pleasant surprises no new "real food, new bath, etc., no one would take away our food scraps and garbage. as an additional Insurance that we will be going up again, he screwed the coffee maker to the workbench up there and filed away the tracks from the screws. it is shamefully low to use such methods Prisoners log III The first week were the necessities, just dry food and hardly any opportunity for public hygiene, he left us alone to study his material and ponder our fate. Mattias came up with a theory that we could all agree with: This is rather a treatment as a safeguard hidden behind a mask of force and arrest. The theme that he wants us to pass on his behalf is exactly as in the four songs that we had almost finished when we were abducted. We found even the early drafts of these texts in his material, It concludes that he must be well aware that we intended to row this ashore even without his criminal prank, and he knows us so well that all the indications show (especially if he is the one that Karl is becoming more convinced that he is) that he must have calculated that it would be useless to try to frighten us to prudence. This is his apparent paranoia, he is the kind that would consider the mere existence of medication for paranoia as a clear evidence of "their" power on earth, and their ambition to keep us in a naive illusion, why should an honest rulers like to medicate away the single lucid state when it appears in public, if not to facilitate the new world order total victory? In their research on us and our words, they may find out what we are preparing. He believes that it will attract their interests in a most undesirable way, So what is he doing? He makes sure that we will be out of sight for them, he gives the job as our patron to the only one he trusts in that respect, that is ti say: Himself. The unanswered question is why our activities are so important to him, he is clearly not the Order's enemy, but why is he not a member? The wisest thing for us is to not show how much we understand. Prisoners log IV On the 8th day, we heard him walking around upstairs again, we tried to contact him but in vain. He wandered up and down and had his conspiratorial monologues: "1919, 1919, damn! what is the answer, how will this fit into the picture, how does it relate, how to interpret the word sibyl?, why mölntapp? Gaaahhh 1919 , 1996 ... "after an hour or so we heard the coffee bubble up there, then he played Carl Hjärald on a Gramophone," The mysterious horse from Troja' then there was silence again. Suddenly he began to speak from the tube: - Hello boys (happy as a lark) Get down to the bottom floor. We had not much else to do so we did as he said, that was when we first heard the blessed buzz of the red door. When we came into the room we found our instruments, together with five chairs and a small table with coffee and some biscuits. We took a coffee break in silence, and when we came back up with our instruments, all our stuff were pushed to the sides, so that there were a large, almost empty, space. In the middle of the room was a briefcase. From the pipe came a clear voice - "Open the briefcase if you dare, I call it the Holy Grail, it is something you will have much benefit of in your work. Prisoners log V Karl has been convinced that it is Joseph Nimrod Farel, who holds us captive He has had quite many and long talks with him in order to feel his pulse, every time Karl mentions events in the history of the Order that has something to do with Nicholaus he becomes strangely sentimental, sometimes he stops talking abruptly maybe to stop himself from saying too much. Prisoners log VI On the 12th day, we told him about the material we already had before we came to his tower, and we took the opportunity to play them for him. He seemed not the least bit surprised by the "coincidence" with his message and our theme, this confirms our belief that Mattias theory is 100% correct. Now we just hope the Muses finds us so that we can get out of here. We have what we need to survive and get all the time to socialize that we usually lack, but it is starting to get on our nerves that we have only these floors to move around on. Moreover, we miss our homes. We have also been playing old songs, bitterly weeping. Prisoners log VII / Day 117 of captivity On the 40th day we started working with "computer" as soon as we heard he had gone down the stairs and left the tower, we hid our experiment under our heap of laundry ; it is something about men's underwear that makes what lies beneath them pretty safe from other men, there is nothing like it, you do not want to look for stuff there..unless you are a pervert. on the 49th day, we got it to work. the 52nd day it was confirmed that we had reached out to the outside world through our British signal spotter. On the 117th day (today) Nimrod revealed his final grip on us, he told us the name of our Grandmaster. the bright side of things is that we can go home for Christmas. He knows we are not going any ware.. We will be blindfolded and transported through the mist. he will drop us of at the airport. We have promised to return at his bidding. he said: " - in the mean time I will send the wolves to keep thee safe." ..whatever that means ? he is all in all a friendly, paranoid and scary guy. / PANTOKRATOR On some level, in some way this has really happened... Back to the tower After the release from the tower the DM ( I think ) found some kind of recording program that gave us the possibility to work with the songs in a new way,
after this it really started to happen, the wheels are really turning now.
On the weekend of or Lords ascension we will return to the secret tower make some sense of all the new material for the new album that we now have by the bucket load. This time we will not go as prisoners since we have reached a level of understanding with our selfappionted watcher, still we have no way to contact him, that would be to dangerous for his taste. We received words from him by a carrier raven some weeks ago. We have negotiated the right to bring a real computer this time so that we can update you on the progress, he gave his permission provided that we use our dimensionals to create a safe connection, they have now constructed a mulitileveldimentionalcryptodevice than can be conjured into the software and thus create an untraceable pathway to the "real world". /Karl in the name of the five Day 253 More ravenmail We have got some directions, we will go from different places at different times, when we arrive each to our appointed destinations we will get further directions. Nim says that the day is nigh and that the five can not travel together if they shall go unnoticed. I for example will go to my parents together with my sons as a diversion, it is to look like a regular visit. We have been told that we do not have to go overseas in order to get to the tower this time. He says: it may not look the same and you may travel different paths to reach it, there are many doors, but the tower will always be the tower. that sounds like bullshit to us but since this is a one way communication we have no way to respond, and if we could the old bastard would just answer with something even more cryptic or insane. |
torsdagen den 13:e maj 2010
Tomorrow we will all be together
Some of us arrived to the tower yesterday.
I got contact with one of them through cellphone net.
I (Karl) will start my journey tomorrow and wait for further instructions
when i come to my parents house.
I await some repport later today.
fredagen den 14:e maj 2010
More rehearsing of new material today.
Karl arrived 20:00.
Nim still won´t show his face, but the pale driver came down to us.
He carried a TV and a dvd-player.
Jonathan asked: What is that for?
He just looked at us in a disgusted way and said:
I do not know what makes you sick fu##ers tick
but what Nim seems to think of you is just shameful,
this is just too ..strange.
then he threw "Bruno" on the table,
turned on his heels quick as a cat an ran up
the stairs.
lördagen den 15:e maj 2010
Yes there was more rehearsal,
and it was pretty late.
There will probably be one or two new songs preformed on the next gig.
we will be let out from here tomorrow.. until the next calling.
Upplagd av Dark tower kl.
Breakfast, photoshoot, near by the tower.
We found one of those ..doors.. in an old factory.
BBQ in the gloomy weather.
Rehearsing, a lot of rehearsing.
Pause for pizza.
Probably more rehearsing after.
onsdagen den 9:e juni 2010
The work with the new material proceeds rather slowly right now, we are now designing
merchandise for the next album and for our next gig.
we have heard nothing from Nim and Hark for some time now,
we never thought we would miss such as them.
I found this blog on Vampyrism http://ingenpuls.bloggplatsen.se/
and I saw that Harker has left traces there, he is an angry and unreasonable fellow.
Karl of The Five
tisdagen den 3:e augusti 2010
10.07.29
The five gathered in the tower for the 4:Th time.
We are now entrusted with the location of the tower
and can come and go at our own liking,
but we know that he is watching us.
10.07.30
We drove down to Germany for a field-test
of the new material.
10.08.02
About 2600 kilomiters later we returned to the north
with a plan for the recording of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
/Karl of the five
måndagen den 13:e september 2010
Into the studio early next year ??
About a week ago Karl (II) and Jonas (IV) went to the studio to talk to the Warlock about studio
time and the price for a new recording.
yesterday we received a proposition, the studio is unbooked early next year, the deal is really
good but we are about a hundred grand short for the moment, and we have to except or say no pretty soon
Now we guess some smartass says: "what about the Nebuchadnezzar gold?"
The answer is that the Grandmaster would not allow such a thing in this case, that would be yielding
to blackmail since we are threatened by Nimrod and his associate as you all know.
releasing this thing is our desire to, but it has become a Question of honour, TGO OTA does not respond to blackmail.
So this is a problem of Pantokrator not a problem of "The five", we are on our own.
we are thankful for any help or advice we can get. / Pantokrator
måndagen den 4:e oktober 2010
We plan to first make a pre-production as good as we can,
cut it up in parts and send around to various labels , hoping for a deal.
then in spring or summer ( that depends of more then one factor)
choose ten songs or so and come to the warlock to record the final
production. If nothing prevents it three of us will go to IV up in Babylon to record the music for two songs.
pray for us / The Five
måndagen den 1:e november 2010
New direction
The writing has exploded and we are now sitting on about 18 new songs that
needs to be recorded. we have decided that one bird in your hand is better than ten birds in the
forest, it seems we can not come up with the ransom for the warlock, we will attend to him later.
Now we are in the market for some kind of magic device that will make our recording possible.
Harker appeared to Mr III and called us to the tower the upcoming weekend,
our exile in Babylon (Mr IV) will not be able to make it this time.
torsdagen den 18:e november 2010
Time to return
Two days ago I (II) met with a band member from a band partly included in the brotherhood.
the goal of this mission was to test out vocals for the new record.
I think it turned out fine but there is no decision yet from the high council.
when I walked to the car to go home suddenly a shadow appeared between me and the car,it was Hark, he said: - I have a message from the old man, its time for you to return to the tower and do your f***ing job, you will go on Friday,
someone will wait for you in the forest some miles from your parents home,
make it look like a family trip, bring a kid or two..AND DON`T SCREW UP !!
Sammath
I ( II ) left the my parents place this morning and drove according to the instructions.
When I arrived i found out that I would get the opportunity to work with not just one but three of the brethren.
I, III and Isak.
We made a demo version for a son with the project name Sammath-Naur.
it turned out fine.
Maybe there will be a chance to make another one before departure tomorrow.
söndagen den 21:e november 2010
We are spread again to the five corners of our world.
we managed to lay down vocals for another song, it needs another guitar before it can be considered a finished song.
all in all this trip to the tower was fruitful.
there will be sound clips and such further on, but when is the right time to open the red door for a sneak peek?
That is for the five to decide together. maybe in the spring?
Time is short, we have ti leave in one hour before they pinpoint our location.
Mr 1 left yesterday, III is in a meeting, hope it ends soon so I ( II ) Can get a chance to
lay down the vocal track for another song. Time is short, we have to leave in one hour before they pinpoint our location.
Mr 1 left yesterday, III is in a meeting, hope it ends soon so I ( II ) Can get a chance to
lay down the vocal track for another song.
torsdagen den 6:e januari 2011
today 4/5 hath come plans will be made...record....deals......touring.....!!
lördagen den 15:e januari 2011
2 out of 5 is working in the tower
The first drums for the album was recorded the past week.
Rickard(3) went to the tower to meet Karl (2) on Friday.
We have taken photography's of Nims desk.
these pictures may be used in the booklet for the album.
we feel satisfied with the result but we wait for the response from 1, 4 and 5.
söndagen den 30:e januari 2011
RECORDING
The recording hath begun !!!
BEHOLD I SEND YOU OUT AS SHEEP AMONGST THE WOLVES....
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pantokrator/10173313293
fredagen den 4:e februari 2011
Vocals
I (II) went somewhere yesterday to work with the vocals for the first recorded
song, we should get some results in a few days I think.
Fredagen den 15:e april 2011
Recording in the south
mr III says:
Off to the southern tower and Jonathan Jansson to continue recording of "pantoplattan" together with Mattias Johansson..
söndagen den 17:e april 2011
One new song
Videoclip from one of our new songs for the upcoming albumRecording the new Pantokratoralbum
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http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150156976930698
A new song for the upcoming Pantokratoralbum it's one of the happiest tunes on the album but we hope you'll love it anyway ;)
Revolution
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http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150157163000698
tisdagen den 19:e april 2011
Revolution
for the song that was recorded in the south last weekend.
I think this mic is the best of these three when it comes to
my voice. I also did some new vocals for the first song,
I have not heard how that turned out,
I had to leave,
I hope we get to hear it in the end of this week.
tisdagen den 14:e juni 2011
Behold I send you out
This was about one year ago before we went to Germany,
now the roads are calling us again. we will pass through Germania and enter the
land of Bohemia.
torsdagen den 7:e juli 2011
A journey:
first to a lovely country, and then to a another country that just burned away from our map
We met little Frank at freakstock last summer. He said that he would like us to come
to kraslice next year ( this year)
we were contacted again and we started to plan the event.
a few weeks ago our Bas player Jonas had to flee from Stockholm, he would not tell us why.
I went to met him at his new place and we talked about rehearsing for the gigs.
Suddenly he was very vážný and told us that if he would disappear we would have to contact our contact within
"the Legion" to save the gigs from disaster, I tried to ask him what he meant but he would not say more.
At the day of the rehearsing he never came, we called him and we called his wife but in vain.
then we contacted Papa T of the legion and asked him to fill in for Jonas, and he said yes.
We had some successful rehearsings with PT and suddenly we were contacted by little Frank.
He told us that We had to Go to Praha after the gig in Sokolov.
He had been contacted by a man in Praha that said that he knew about our misplaced bas player.
frank told us that the man he spoke to refused any contact over the Internet or over phone lines of any kind.
we had to come to Praha and meet him if we wanted his help, and he said that we would be unforgivably stupid to leave
our women at home when we left the country.
We asked frank about where we should find this man.
Frank told us that he had been confronted on the Charles bridge and that he had said that our emblem in itself ( the covenant sun of twelve rays )
then he had said some cryptic shit about a tower and about the universe.
our map master figured out the clue and we left our beloved north together with PT and three women on the first of July.
To be continued.
Videoclip from one of our new songs for the upcoming album
Recording the new Pantokratoralbum
Length: 0:08
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150156976930698
A new song for the upcoming Pantokratoralbum it's one of the happiest tunes on the album but we hope you'll love it anyway ;)
Revolution
Length: 0:47
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150157163000698