![]() A glitch, then the chime of an eldritch church bell calls you to the congregation. The cello continues to growl at you, as a menacing bass guitar throws ominous lines at you. Let the light of the lamb guide me through the shed of ignorance.” Your word is the truth, Your way is the pure, You are a doctrine and can carry us forth through times like these. The youth are diligently listening and await for You, Lord, to guide them through me. All of these sacrifices, were they not Your intention? Consistently, I am meeting the spite and scorn of the elders when I proclaim Your word, but the people thirst for Your word, and You speak through me. Everything I have done, everything I have seen, everything I have heard, is for naught. Why am I so terrified, and why does doubt rise up from my heart? Like the wave of the sea that is driven by the winds, thrown hither and dither, I am seeking Your answer. Like a broken lyre, the feeling in my breast chimes falsely, and no matter how I twist and tune the strings, I hear no clear tone. “Something is not as it is supposed to be. The thud of a drum, and a massive burst of static distortion washes over you, a desolate cello growls as if from the depths of hell, and a ghostly voice starts preaching to you in Swedish: ![]() Society eventually caught on to this as the sect grew to 600 people, and 60 people were incarcerated for acts of varying inappropriateness, including sex rituals with minors. After being institutionalised in a mental asylum for two months in 1935, he made the sect go off the rails in the most extreme counter-reaction to Laestadianism, preaching debauchery, intoxication, and pederasty, in ecstatic ritual preparation for the return of God upon which only the 666 chosen ones would be allowed a place in… hell. ![]() Having been banned from Finland due to their profane beliefs, they grew into a proper sect in northern Sweden in the 1930s, that after Korpela’s exit was taken over by Sigurd Siikavaara. Korpelarörelsen, not unlike Vainaja, have based their music on the high-concept of Toivo Korpela’s Korpela movement (or Siikavaara sect), an infamous and honest-to-god Satanic apocalypse cult grown out of the conservative, abstinence-preaching Laestadian Christian denomination in Swedish Norrland. It is entirely necessary to understand the concept behind this album, and for all you non-Swedes out there who might enjoy this, some translation couldn’t hurt, so excuse the verbose dialogue excerpts, and feel free to skip over them in case you don’t care (although I really think you should). This is the definition of a challenging listen (and review), but if you’ve got 80 minutes to spare, of which half are post-cum-avant-black metal passages, and half are acoustic folk ambiance and menacing drones with deeply disquieting Swedish Satanic suicide UFO paedophile sex cult evangelical preaching based on a true story, there’s only one thing to do: join the Korpela movement. ![]()
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