Who Gets Damned and Why

Who Gets Damned and Why

Various centuries, consolidatedI have been paying attention to who gets damned across five centuries of institutional religion and the pattern is not complicated once you see it.The questioners. The ones who read outside the approved texts and ask why the approved...
Well Trained: The First Track

Well Trained: The First Track

Present Day, June 15, 2026The first track on Sanctified Hunger is called Well Trained. I chose it as the opening because it describes the precondition for everything that follows: the systematic training of human beings to surrender their own judgment in increments so...
The Bishop Called Me Damned

The Bishop Called Me Damned

Florence, 1473His name was Rinaldo Orsini. A bishop. My cousin by blood, which made the verdict more precise in its particular cruelty.I was fifteen years old. I had been in his household since infancy, sent north from Umbria after the deaths of both my parents. He...
Black Sun Rising: What the Song Is

Black Sun Rising: What the Song Is

Present Day, April 24, 2026The song is out now. I want to say something about what it is, because I think the title requires explanation rather than allowing the usual mysterious ambiguity that single titles sometimes perform.The black sun is a specific thing. It is...
Why April 24

Why April 24

Present Day, April 2026Black Sun Rising arrives April 24. I have been asked why this song, and why before the album, and I want to answer the question directly.The album, which comes May 22, is a complete thing: twelve movements through the geometry from the...