While normally I am a person with whom it is easy to get along with, however, I’m absolutely never tolerant to sounds that I hate to hear — especially this is true about what is called gangster rap, or hip-hop. Anyone who listens to such “monkey-barking” isn’t worth my tolerance or respect, so if I hear any neighbor listening to rap, I call the police immediately, no pity or understanding whatsoever. I don’t care if such obscene “music” is considered “cool” or “popular” here, because to me it’s nothing but filthy crap, and that’s that, no lame excuses will make rap any better. For those of you who don’t already know this, gangster rap has lyrics glorifying the life-style of black criminals and drug dealers. It glorifies their violence and other aspects of criminality, which it promotes as being very “cool” and fashionable. Gangster rap has been pushed hard by the entertainment media, such as MTV, in an effort to get white kids hooked on black “culture” and alien life-styles. To me it is the filthiest of all filth... The way the media today promotes not only filthy rap, but also cheesy American pop music absolutely disgusts me. The most watched TV channel by youth around the world is MTV which brainwashes mainstream teenagers into believing that those kinds of American music are very fashionable and that they would be social outcasts and not popular if they don’t listen to it. It’s unbelievable how commercialized and promoted are such performers as, for example, someone like Britney Spears, when she’s no more then a bubble-headed crooner who, in my opinion, has no talent whatsoever. Even worse, think of that recently-deceased, perverted, child-molesting Michael Jackson, with his nose rotting off his sick face so that he looks like an exhumed corpse. Although I think with all the artificial crap in his skin, if we were to actually exhume his corpse ten years from now, he would probably seem as fresh as if he was just buried.He used to be all over the media in his heyday and his frightening ruin of a face is still, even though he's long dead, looking out from magazine covers in every supermarket. And there are more bizarre creatures of this kind, such as the infamous Eminem, and the rest of the zoo. These today are the idols of brainwashed teens worldwide... It makes me very angry that this American pop “culture” is destroying all traditional ideas in young people’s minds of what is right and just and noble and beautiful, and replace those traditional ideas and values with a concoction of filth and degeneracy designed to make them accept the reality of so-called “diversity,” which actually means a pigsty society... Not long ago, I ran across the story about two American teen-age girls, Monique and Kelli. Both were 13 years old and from California. They heard, through the local newspaper, that a new MTV show was being filmed near where they lived. So they decided to check it out. When they got to the filming, they were ushered close to the stage. Looking around, the girls realized something was wrong, but they couldn’t quite put their finger on it. Maybe it was because the cameras were covered with plastic… So, the show went on to the delight of the girls. “We were having a good time until the second act of Dude, This Sucks went on,” one of the girls remembered later. Then, an act calling themselves the Shower Rangers took the stage. According to the news story, the girls were then steered to the side of the stage by MTV staffers. The “Shower Rangers” were two men dressed as Boy Scouts and they appeared to be acting out some kind of campfire scene. They came on stage, turned their backs to the camera and to the teen-aged spectators on the stage, dropped their trousers, bent over, and let fly with a shower of semi-liquid feces, spattering the unsuspecting girls from head to foot. (Apparently they had dosed themselves with some powerful laxative prior to the performance.) “All of a sudden I was smelling something disgusting and I started to gag. I looked around at my friends. They were covered in something. As I looked down at myself, I realized I was, too,” one girl complained. It seems that those MTV Shower Rangers had decided it would be funny to cover the crowd with excrement. Yeah, that’s right, fling poo on the crowd. The truth is, MTV has been throwing “dung” at audiences for years, but I think it’s safe to say now that MTV has effectively pushed the envelope off the cliff of human decency and into a pile of what the Shower Rangers threw from the stage. I chose this gross story here as an example, not just because it is so shocking, but because you can verify all the details for yourself. Just check out this link. This is what American pop “culture” is all about. A few years ago I couldn’t understand why any sane parents would expose their kids to such filth. Why do they go to such “concerts” where they get showered with feces? Now I have a better understanding of the lemming phenomenon. Part of the answer is obvious. Most such teen-aged kids will do anything — and I mean absolutely anything — which is fashionable. But I understand that not only teenagers, but many adults today as well, would also do anything (no matter how disgusting or depraved or self-destructive) that they believe is fashionable. If the media, such as filthy MTV, promotes it, a substantial portion of the people will do it without a second thought. MTV has already infected many millions of teenagers, not only here in America but also around the world, spreading filth across the planet. Thousands of innocent young minds are being corrupted by the endless flow of all kinds of perversion which MTV feeds to the public. It has been described as the single most powerful influence on the attitudes and behavior of teenaged girls and boys today. But it is not a natural or accidental development. It has been planned and orchestrated. It is deliberate. Among all those evil people, who control America’s entertainment media, probably the most powerful is Murray Rothstein, also known as “ Sumner Redstone.” He is the one who owns MTV. He is perhaps the most destructive and hate-filled of all the media bosses. Redstone’s aim — and the aim of the media masters generally, whether they’re in Hollywood or in New York — is to brainwash young people, to uproot them, to destroy their sense of identity, to confuse them, to make them forget their traditions and their culture. That’s why Redstone and his fellow tribesmen promote rap “music” so heavily. Their ultimate aim is to destroy our people, our race. That’s why the media bosses are deliberately pushing their filth, and they don’t want us to put up any resistance. All those diversity-mongers want us to feel that it would be immoral for us to resist any of their schemes for more so-called “diversity” and “multiculturalism”... They want us to believe that more and more of such filthy “Shower Rangers” is the irresistible wave of the future, and that no normal person should want to resist this wave anyway because it’s good and, oh, so wonderful...

When I was about six years old, I liked classical music. I would listen to the commercial-free classical music channel on the radio all day, and my favorite composers were Wagner and Beethoven. I still love them. Then I naturally progressed from true classical music to classical-inspired music, which introduced me to the gothic genre. Around that time, I had a little moment where, probably through peer pressure, I tried out pop music, all the teeny boppers and boy bands that were fashionable when I was about 10 years old. Luckily, I got over that really fast, and to this day I can’t stand almost all popular music. So, I spent a couple years as a teenage Goth, listening to Lacuna Coil and Within Temptation. But somehow I wasn’t happy with the majestic symphonic tunes of the epic metal bands I was listening to, or the moody and gloomy darkwave and gothic metal rhythms that I enjoyed as well. Of course, I never dumped that music, and never will, I still get shivers down my spine every time I listen to Nightwish, but I’ve finally reached the age where tragic romantic lyrics have started to sound a little cheesy. Now I need music that inspires me, music that is pagan and magnificent and with a message of rebellion against the degeneration of the modern world. That’s why I can easily say that my three favorite bands are Bathory (I truly think the Nordland CD’s are masterpieces), Obtest (the best band in Lithuania), and Finntroll (sometimes I need a little fun in my life too). And I listen to all other music of similar genres, particularly the many many excellent Scandinavian bands that fall under the genre of Viking metal. This is almost the only type of music left which still promotes original European culture, not damaged or distorted by Judeo-Christianity. If you click on the link below, you will see a very small sampling of my favorite bands, mostly the more obscure ones.

— Since this is only a small sampling of the music I like (listing absolutely everything would just be ridiculous, since I literally have tens of thousands of CD’s), feel free to visit my last.fm page for a much broader look at what I like. I’ve actually discovered quite a few bands through this website, and for newbies to the music scene of the genres that I like, the opportunities here for free listens to songs from all sorts of bands is really helpful.

One genre of music, closely related to the metal music that I like, is Folk. I am a really big fan of folk music from around the word, but mostly Lithuanian pagan folk. I already wrote on the About Me page what folk music is to Romuva, Lithuania’s pagan religion. Before I became involved with Romuva, I used to think that the music of Kūlgrinda was interesting, but hopelessly boring. The monotonous chanting, complicated glees (known as sutartinės), and shamanic drumming sounded weird on a CD, so it took seeing Kūlgrinda live to finally make me understand just how beautiful Lithuanian folk music really is.

When I visited Lithuania in 2009 summer, that year marked the 1000th anniversary of Lithuania as a nation under such a name, since it was mentioned for the very first time in the Quedlinburger Annalen in the year 1009, regarding the martyrdom of St.Bruno, a missionary killed by the Baltic pagans for trying to preach his message of Christianity in Lithuania. To honor this occasion, the Song Festival (Dainų šventė) that takes place every four years was organized into a particularly spectacular and patriotic event. I was honored to be a part of this festival, since I sang with Kūlgrinda on the so-called “Day of Folklore.” Early in the morning, hundreds of singers gathered in the city square for a ritualistic “awakening” of Mother Earth — the goddess Žemyna. We had wreaths of wild flowers and wooden staffs that we beat against the cobblestones, shouting and singing for the Earth to come alive. The rest of the day continued with arts, crafts, dances, small concerts and other events in the park next to the main cathedral in Vilnius, which is actually built on the spot of what was once one of the most important temples for the ancient Baltic pagans. After blessing the sacred oak tree, we climbed up Gediminas Hill, singing ancient hymns and beating drums, up to where a modernized altar had been built for the lighting of the sacred flame. As we sang one of the most important Romuva glees, three circles of people walking in different directions around the altar united their voices into a truly awe-inspiring song that seemed to resonate from the depths of the hill, where hundreds of years ago Grand Duke Gediminas dreamt of an iron wolf with a howl so powerful, it could be heard in all corners of the world. This was a symbol for the city of Vilnius, and the Song Festival seemed to bring back at least for a few days that glory of old Lithuania, having once been one of the most powerful nations in Europe.

This was my first immersion in Lithuanian folk music, and as the weeks went by in my stay in Lithuania, I was surprised to see that I didn’t know a single person who couldn’t sing. Of course, not everyone had good voices, and not everyone knew a repertoire of hundreds of ancient folk songs (although spending evenings by a bonfire with Kūlgrinda’s amazing singers was a truly memorable experience), but everyone loved to sing. After living in America all my life, I’m used to going to parties where everyone just wanders around the room, exchanging a few words here and there with random people, but there’s no real connection as a group. In Lithuania, any party I went to, any gathering I took part in always began and ended with singing, either everyone joining in a rowdy drinking song or war chant, or one soloist performing a lament or love ballad. A few times I was even surprised to be cut off mid-sentence in the middle of a conversation: “We’re talking too much, let’s sing instead.” This is how important singing is to the youth of Lithuania who want to keep the ancient traditions alive and who are supporting the rebirth of Romuva.

After these experiences I can say that I’ve been rather intensely learning to sing the folk songs myself. I know nearly all the ritual hymns and glees, but it’s somewhat a status symbol to be able to sing a song that no one else knows, since through Kūlgrinda’s and other performer’s CD’s, lots of people are familiar with the most important and popular songs. I’ve discovered that the trick is to learn songs either in the long-dead (but now being reborn) language of ancient Prussia, or in the difficult dialects of Lithuania’s four distinct regions. There are so many various and beautiful folk songs in Lithuania, Latvia, and Ancient Prussia, that many new musicians and bands have emerged in the past few years, all of whom perform either authentically or with modern reinterpretations. The annual music festival of Mėnuo Juodaragis (Black-Horned Moon) is one of the best places to see and hear Lithuania’s many folk and neo-folk groups. Some of my favorites, besides Kūlgrinda, are:

(many of these groups are so new, that they only perform live and have no CD’s released yet. So sometimes I have to provide links to last.fm or Facebook pages when there is no official website)

Some metal bands that heavily utilize Lithuanian folk music are listed in the Bands page.

To read an essay that I wrote for my Scandinavian Mythology and Sagas class at university, click on the image below. This essay is relevant because it examines Lithuanian folk songs and the images presented within them in relation to the cosmology of the Vikings, which we know from the Eddas and other texts. There are several examples of Lithuanian folk songs, as well as a free download of the hymn of Romuva, “Šaly kelio jovaras…” as performed by Kūlgrinda in their CD Ugnies Apeigos (Rites of Fire).

If you're interested about my opinions regarding pop music, hip hop, WP, black metal, and other things, click on the image below to read my article about youth rebellion through music, both in its negative and positive forms.

Not only myself would I never ever fall so low as to listen to music of any band that is somehow connected to the Recording Industry Association of America, but I also encourage anyone to boycott such bands and their record labels. They are not worth listening to! Find out more HERE.

Also, if you want to see real-life “orcs” — all those “diversity mongers” behind the entertainment media nowadays...

Read about one of my favorite CD's!!!!
Therion — Secrets of the Runes
Click here to read the lyrics to the CD.