
The story The hero is summoned to a kingdom, where he encounters a monster—only to discover it is his old friend, now cursed. The philosophy The friend-turned-monster belongs to one of folklore’s most persistent problems: when the beloved has been transformed beyond recognition, at what point does he stop being the one you loved? Marie…

The News The letter was old when it reached him — carried by cart, then boat, then cart again through the spring mud, and delivered by a merchant’s boy who did not know what he carried. Poliphilos unrolled it by candlelight in the guest-room of the monastery where he was staying. It was not addressed…

Every Song Had to Belong From the moment I began composing “Eternal Echoes,” I knew the album needed variety. Every song had to stand on its own — complete, distinctive, with a strong identity of its own. At the same time, they all needed to belong to the same larger picture. The songs are individual…

Waves crash on these foreign shores,I push open the metal doorsTheir hall reeks of fear and blood in the air.Outside the petals fall like my yesterday.A thing with no name hungers in the gloom.They call him evil, king’s son, he is their doomHis steps shake the beams, cause the petals fall,and with them, their dreams…