Come, Morgoroth

So this was the first song to record with Sascha Lecher, who would become the guitar player for me, and - for a long time - a dear friend. With "The Crimson Dance E.P." getting recognition in "the scene" and "Easy" Ettler, publisher of the influential Zillo magazine taking notice of CREAM8, I got the opportunity to record demo-tracks with The House of Usher. More on that later. It might not look like it today, but "The Crimon Dance E.P." was the brick wall at the end of a dead-end street. I had decided to quit making music as an artist alltogether as it carved too many ressources out of my life that I dearly needed: money and time. The idea was to become part of a band and shed the responsibilites. But I did want to go out in style and so I manifested the 7", basically with the last money I had. "Come Morgoroth" was the song to describe this feeling. The bitter end looming over one's artistic life, recognizing that I had so...