2021-03-12 |
70 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Apeiron" |
single |
But the universes are inside of us, still. |
2020-11-27 |
82 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Alpha Devil" |
Alpha Devil +1 |
measuring the precise intervals between our snares, |
2020-10-30 |
89 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Feral" |
single |
no to doom. |
2020-05-29 |
58 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Extinction" |
Extinction 5 |
The way out is recognizing that we can't live inside of these same spaces any more. |
2020-03-27 |
78 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Strong" |
single |
We may still escape this plague without millions dead, |
2019-10-25 |
81 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Outcast" |
single |
and begin again unstoppably. |
2019-10-11 |
60 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Cortex" |
Nexus |
But it is hard to listen when you think a God has commanded you to talk. |
2019-09-06 |
71 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Cyber God" |
Dominion - Single 3 |
teaches us about paradigms and lighting techniques, |
2019-08-02 |
44 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Chaos Lords" |
Overworld |
It's always possible to stipulate that justice will accumulate the best gods, |
2019-07-05 |
49 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Maverick" |
single |
and the world will be different again in a moment. |
2019-06-14 |
59 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Edge of Time" |
single |
and then wrote wordless songs about the occult bases of those codes. |
2019-06-07 |
50 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Cymatic" |
single |
except we're good with chowder, |
2019-05-17 |
47 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Sentient" |
single |
and then you become its humanity. |
2019-04-26 |
70 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Stronghold" |
Stronghold |
Take up a bright sword and leave behind these walls. |
2019-04-05 |
59 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Respawn" |
single |
These sidewalks are not to her scale, |
2019-03-15 |
72 |
Erik Ekholm |
"World Breaker" |
single |
not cages for our children. |
2019-03-01 |
27 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Stratos" |
single |
and then deftly flicks away glory |
2019-02-15 |
55 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ionized" |
single |
Not stentorian motivational habits |
2019-02-01 |
41 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Unbroken" |
Millennial |
and anywhere you go, the robots want to dance. |
2018-12-21 |
37 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Shadowless" |
single |
You only need to keep checking your list twice when it's filled with shit you made up. |
2018-11-09 |
45 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Black Core" |
Fiendish |
and yet we do, |
2018-11-02 |
52 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Notorious" |
single |
We can be heroes |
2018-10-05 |
20 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Hellfire" |
single |
The Republicans who threatened to use a 51-vote loophole |
2018-09-21 |
40 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Primus" |
Wild War |
Things will hit you, impacts that may seem horrific in their mundanity, |
2018-09-14 |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Reckless Monsters" |
single |
and I do believe in music, |
2018-09-07 |
36 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Black Core" |
single |
dreaming of clockwork universes engineered to such internal coherence, |
2018-08-10 |
23 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Starscape" |
single |
After this you are triumph |
2018-08-03 |
28 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Invader" |
Thunder |
and it's too soon to say for sure whether "Missing U" really makes it four, in my head or heart, |
2018-07-27 |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Desolation" |
Thunder |
so why should we care what I think I thought? |
2018-07-20 |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Rising Titans" |
single |
If you measure musical love by the constancy of presence, Erik Ekholm is my favorite artist. There's something viscerally not exactly right about this, since I couldn't hum a single one of his songs and basically never listen to any individual one after the week it comes out. But he puts out new songs at a relentless rate, and he's a legitimate master of the bombastic faux-movie-trailer style I've taken to calling "epicore", and I like having a little epicore mixed into my listening weeks. When somebody asks you what your favorite restaurant is, do you say the one you ate in once in Paris in 2003, or the one you have to stop yourself from suggesting to your family because it's the one you always say? |
2018-07-13 |
21 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Venator" |
single |
The valkyries will not come and release us from this, |
2018-07-06 |
21 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Desolation" |
Invader 3 |
more superhero movies requiring international logistics. |
2018-04-13 |
29 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ultraverse" |
Rampage |
We are scanned, |
2018-04-06 |
20 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Subcreation" |
Zeropoint |
cameras spinning, |
2018-02-16 |
1 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Furia" |
Rebellion |
My math at work claims Erik Ekholm is my most-played artist since I started streaming, and the intro track on his new album is called the same thing as my website, but sure, the universe is just dust and tiny meaingless explosions. |
2018-02-16 |
31 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Rebellion" |
Rebellion |
in frozen dissidence. |
2018-02-02 |
27 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Arise" |
Arise +2 |
before we gird ourselves |
2017-12-15 |
33 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Centuria" |
Battlestation |
you are curious what other people know, |
2017-11-17 |
20 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Centuria" |
single |
This is the curse of resisting progress: |
2017-11-03 |
28 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Scanner" |
single |
but now we have cyborgs |
2017-10-13 |
33 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Corruptor" |
Corruptor +2 |
Tomorrow the whole world will be made of this dust, |
2017-10-06 |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Edge of the Blade" |
Nephalem |
either, |
2017-09-15 |
39 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Soul Reaper" |
single |
but are more often just mordant celebrations of scale, |
2017-08-04 |
22 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Burn the Sky" |
Trinity |
or this inevitability, |
2017-07-21 |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ashes" |
Inferno |
Maybe their avenging robots will dance with you. |
2017-06-02 |
37 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Skull Hammer" |
Uprising |
Which is also how we got a lot of worse things, too, |
2017-05-12 |
22 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Dark Earth" |
Dreadnought |
Sometimes, at work, people say "The perfect song for every moment." |
2017-05-05 |
38 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Hellbound" |
Locked and Loaded |
It will give some of them jobs for which they are unmistakably unqualified. |
2017-04-14 |
9 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Kingdom Fall" |
single |
Weekly epicore. |
2017-04-07 |
61 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Renegade" |
single |
The future hasn't ever happened yet. |
2017-03-10 |
24 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Beast Mode" |
Revenge |
What would you do if you could start over a trillion times a second? |
2017-03-03 |
35 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Bleeding Edge" |
Black Heart |
If your character looks confused in a wind-machine, you're not reading the story in a competent translation. |
2017-01-13 |
32 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Master of the Universe" |
Empire |
about how you will buy an invisible pedestal to hold you up above us, |
2016-11-18 |
58 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Arius" |
Illumine |
We live in a supposedly-free, supposedly-enlightened country where cowards still draw swastikas in darkness. |
2016-09-30 |
22 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Quantum" |
Quantum |
and re-rendered in desaturated slow motion. |
2016-09-02 |
28 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Radiate" |
Ultimate Epic Music |
that transforms us into demigods. |
2016-08-05 |
37 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Parallax of Reality" |
Breaking Reality 5 |
until the complexity of artificial processes becomes indistinguishable, both practically and conceptually, from that of natural ones. |
2016-07-15 |
29 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Dissolve" |
Generator |
We're starring in nonexistent epics |
2016-07-01 |
36 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Source of Creation" |
Vanguards 4 |
There is no epic atmospheric football. |
2016-06-17 |
38 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Worlds Collide" |
single |
But that geometry and poetry are just different ways to say "Now here is the amazing part." |
2016-05-20 |
36 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Expanding Reality" |
Structures 2 |
Or on how we would feel if these were the last few minutes before the end. |
2016-05-06 |
32 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Fields of Light" |
Atlas |
Or maybe we need to half-believe that to imagine what we'd do differently if we started over. |
2016-04-08 |
26 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Reflections" |
Reflections |
In the movie of this, we will be so much taller. |
2016-04-01 |
39 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Aurora" |
single |
Tense epicore for dramatically doing your taxes or cleaning something with annoyingly small parts. |
2016-03-11 |
40 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Furia" |
Dreadnought |
Ekholm has 20k monthly listeners, so presumably this isn't a custom-written epicore anthem for my internet domain. And yet. |
2016-02-05 |
8 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ascending" |
Halos 5 |
Spectral metal-edged epicore. |
2015-10-16 |
21 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Wings of Fire" |
Legendary |
Portentious, shredding epicore by Erik Ekholm. |
2015-10-09 |
55 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Heaven" |
single |
Epicore massivity by Erik Ekholm. |
2015-09-04 |
47 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Reaching the Sky" |
single |
Epicore + vocals + a LOT of reverb from Erik Ekholm. |
2015-08-14 |
48 |
Erik Ekholm |
"We Are One" |
single |
Three albums of master-quality epicore-metal by Erik Ekholm. |
2015-08-07 |
47 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Bright Light" |
single |
Ambient epicore by Erik Ekholm. |