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Enemy Glory Darkly Blessed was featured as "CD of the Month" for August 2001 by Indie Productions
Enemy Glory Darkly Blessed is a new version of Point Of Ares's critically acclaimed debut release, Enemy Glory. It contains rewritten and rearranged songs from the original album, along with several completely new tracks, darkly blessed with magic and rock n' roll in support of Tor Books's publication of bassist-vocalist Karen Michalson's epic fantasy series, Enemy Glory. Enemy Glory Darkly Blessed is an art rock / adventure rock concept album based on Karen's fantasy series. Intelligent, dark, mystical, hallucinatory and hypnotic. The songs represent selected emotional experiences from the point of view of the characters in Karen's fictional world. Come, lose yourself in a world of hard, progressive-edged rock, strange tales, and bardic magic. Contains 14 songs and two spoken word pieces. Total length: (50:03).
Song titles: North Country / Ghost in the Flesh / Sunnashiven / Threle / The Practice of Magic / Mock's / Kursen / Games / Track / Second Epilogue / Slouching Toward Chaos / Last Day / Dark or Light? / Battle's One / And Back / Pourra's Jig
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The Sorrows Of Young Apollo
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"Asphodel" won a Collegemusic.com Top Ten Song Award on November 5, 1999
"Apollo in Picardy" charted #6 in Progressive Rock on MP3.COM in May 1999
A virulent, hard, progressive-edged rock odyssey through the myth cycles of Apollo and Dionysus. Shattered gods, fallen heroes, and music that rocks with the tension between reason and passion. This hard, beautiful, and uncompromising album contains rock paeans to the sun god who watched his lover buried alive because he couldn't bear loving a woman more beautiful than himself, to Dionysus the eternally unrecognized dark in the spaces of Carnival, to Hypatia the last Pagan philosopher who was violently destroyed for her great learning, and to many other figures out of Greek myth and legend. An extended Homeric rock meditation on the loss of heroes and the meaning of the ancient myths to an age of disbelief. Contains 10 songs. Total length: 56:16.
Song titles:
The Sorrows Of Young Apollo / Hypatia / Dionysus / Pygmalion / Apollo in Picardy /
Leucothoe / Miranda / Cassandra / Cyparissus / Asphodel
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Enemy Glory
"Second Epilogue" charted #1 in Adventure Rock and was the featured Adventure Rock song on MP3.COM in May 1999
"Threle" charted #3 for six weeks in summer 1997 on CKLU 96.7 FM, Sudbury, Ontario Canada in summer 1997
"Slouching Towards Chaos" was
nominated by The Worcester Phoenix as one of the ten best indie singles of 1996
Demo version of "Slouching Towards Chaos" charted #1 for five weeks on WDOA 89.3 FM, Worcester MA in spring 1996
Enemy Glory is an art rock / adventure rock concept album based on Karen's epic fantasy series of the same title, published by Tor Books. Intelligent, dark, mystical, hallucinatory and hypnotic. The songs represent selected emotional experiences from the point of view of the characters in her novel. Come, lose yourself in a world of hard, progressive-edged rock, strange tales, and bardic magic. Contains 13 songs and two spoken word pieces. Total length: 49:46.
Song titles:
North Country / Ghost in the Flesh / Sunnashiven / Threle / Mock's / Track / Games /
Windlass / What Gryphon? / Second Epilogue / Slouching Towards Chaos /
Trackless / Last Day / Battle's One / And Back
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Of No Importance
Of No Importance is a colorful, charming reading of a fairy tale in the style of the tales of Oscar Wilde. In this tale-within-a-tale, Karen's fictionalized Oscar Wilde relates a strange story over tea to both Karen's unhappy fictional narrator and to Oscar's well-known character, the Happy Prince. It is a tale of magic and intrigue and concerns a young princess who danced so well and beautifully that envy and ignorance destroyed her. Or did the princess choose to dance to destroy herself? This story was originally published in Liberty. Contains 1 story. Playing time: 40:55
Opening lines:
And so Oscar Wilde is sitting on one side of me and the eyeless Happy Prince with his broken heart is sitting on the other. Our little table is fierce with roses -- the kind of roses the nightingale pierced her heart and sang for as she died into dawn and her life's blood colored them red. We are drinking arsenic and lead and discussing the nature of want. There is a dead swallow on the Happy Prince's plate with a sapphire in its bony beak pointed towards Oscar. It is that kind of day.
Opening lines - (Opening lines of the story in RealAudio format)
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