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Dante's Inferno EP

by Zach Winters

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    The Inferno narrates Dante Alighieri's journey through the 9 circles of hell towards heaven, God and Beatrice, his deceased wife. ~~ Written in "cantos", or songs, Inferno is Dante's most memorable portrayal of the afterlife from his epic poem la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).
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Canto 1 Dante Alighieri was walking through the woods and then he saw a mountain and he thought that he should ascend but he was greeted by Leopard, Lion and Wolf he turned for fear and ran into the ghost-poet Virgil now human reason is what he represents he is a guide he'll lead our Dante clear to the other side Paradiso that is Canto 2 And Dante cries out he isn't fit to see such things he is a man but Virgil reassures him that his Beatrice has sent for him from Paradise and so he goes Canto 3 pass through the doorways of Hell these are Opportunists each punishment is worthy of their crime mixed in are the unclassified they chase meaningless banners while the stinging wasps pursue their filthy hides take me to the Acheron the first of the rivers of Hell Canto 4 once across the river a cave opens up with circles beneath each circle goes a bit deeper than the one that's before and Hell's looking bleak and who's in the First Circle it's the pagans that never knew God and the resting place of reason is a nice place where all hope is lost Canto 5 in the Second stage of Hell the souls are spinning in a whirlwind that reflects the Carnal lives that they once lived their sin was to give themselves to all their fleshly passions so they're swept away like water through a sive but what about the lovers here within did Paolo and Francesca really sin? and Dante faints for his sadness Canto 6 Dante awakes in the Third Circle it's snowing incessant rain falls in putrid sheets this the pain of the wallowing gluttons to be ripped apart by beasts they lie each day beneath the jowls of Cerberus their fat and swollen icy bodies are obscene they're strewn about as if they were garbage damned indecency Canto 7 (pt. 1) two raging mobs each soul among them used to hoard and waste fight a great war harnessed and tethered to boulder-like weights lacking moderation they were full of dedication to their expensive tastes the Fourth Circle of Hell and Dante can't seem to make out a face Canto 7 (pt. 2) now Virgil takes him to the edge of a cliff and if he wanted he could spit into the marshes of the Styx where bubbles rise to the surface where the sullen find their purpose in the end now isn't this a pretty picture here the gargling of words in the murky Fifth Circle and it's a mockery of singing a grotesque charade, a feigning of a hymn Canto 8 (pt. 1) Here comes the river-boat man shooting across the polluted channel He hails himself with curses as he comes With signal flames looming in the distance he can’t tell how deep the River Styx is And Filippo Argenti rises out of the mud “Phlegyas! Phlegyas! I have a wish I want to see him brought down - in judgment I want to see him brought down” And then the wraiths swarmed about his ankles and he fell screaming into the mud Dante was annoyed but he kept keeping his eyes straining for the shore Canto 8 (pt. 2) strolling up to the capitol of Hell the towers themselves are not as dark as the one's who've rebelled demon-angels are the guards of the gate and the city of Dis doesn't welcome the poet Dante and then angel comes by with a thrust of his hand they descend with the gates open wide Canto 9 in the gates they come upon the Sixth Circle a cemetery full of tombs that stretch before them every size and in them buried Heretics of every cult that said the soul dies with the body the coffin's lid's beside the grave Heretics cause they chose to believe in the mortality of man when it's apparent from their punishment God disagrees fire causing anguish to the to the skeletons that never perish prisoners of endless flames Canto 10-17 I won't go into detail about the Seventh Circle of Hell mostly because it's too long to explain I will mention briefly the different rounds contained therein and the judgments held against these slain the First Round is for the Violent Against their Neighbors there are mentions of blood and arrows and Tyrants the Second is called the Woods of the Suicides and it's against themselves that they use violence the Third Round is for the violent against trees and God and Art the Usurers and Sodomites and Blasphemers but I'll say this for Alighieri, he sure makes Hell seem scary even with his non-traditional view of symbolic retribution Canto 18-34 Phlegethon, River of Blood Carves its way through the 7th Circle and down off a cliff into the 8th It boils the guilty head to toe in the deepest parts Their guilt was their bloodshed - Alexander, Attila and Crete’s Minotaur They cross the ford where it’s shallow Down the waterfall Dante throws a rope And the mythical beast-king of Spain, named Geryon bids them to ride on his back Dante mounts the great shoulders of the freak They spiral around at a sickening pace through a black, empty space look how pale Dante’s face is until the hit bottom Who is in the 8th Circle? Who is in the 8th Circle? Who is in the 8th Circle? Who is in the 8th Circle? Looking across and down, Dante sees - like an amphitheatre - a series of concentric pits Each of the ten is like a pouch, called a Bolgia, filled with sinners not eager to display their countenances - The Fraudulent and Malicious In the first ring, Seducers are driven in a line by horned demons In the second ring, Flatterers are up to their necks in excrement The third has mock-baptismals burning the soles of the feet of the Simoniacs who tried to buy the gifts of God with money And in the fourth there are the Fortune-tellers and Diviners whose heads are on backwards and now foresee nothing In the fifth there are the Grafters lain in boiling pitch unless they surface to be hooked, clawed and ripped Virgil negotiates and they make their way past a fallen bridge and into ring six - The Hypocrites, wearing robes of lead, scintillating in judgment And Caiaphas, crucified to the ground and bearing the weight of all the earth Thieves are in ring seven being wrapped up by monster reptiles Their hands are bound behind there backs and a reptile flies by slicing his jugular vein and he falls into an ash heap and regenerates for another go In ring eight are Evil Counselors They burn in the dark - gift perverters In ring nine are Sowers of Discord From the crotch to the chin they are hewn with a sword And the Falsifiers - including Alchemists and (Evil) Impersonators, Counterfeiters, False Witnesses - are all together in ring ten In the Ninth and final Circle of Hell there is a vast frozen lake with an icy wind that tears across it and the sinners that are buried in it are… the Treacherous!!! There are those, who like Cain, were Treacherous to Kin There are those whose Treachery to Country was their sin There are those Treacherous to Guests and Hosts but in their end their bodies are left upon the earth to be made into many a demons’ den Chomp Chomp! And at last Dante looks upon the most hellish place of Hell Chomp Chomp! Named for Judas Iscariot, Juddeca, Treachery to Masters ring a bell? Chomp Chomp! Mute grotesque contortions are the bodies in this ice Chomp Chomp! Sealed in firmer by the beat of Satan’s wings whose mouths gape thrice! Chomp Chomp! In the middle one is Judas Chomp! In the outer, Cassius and Brutus Chomp! And at the end of Hell Dante must descend by Satan’s glutus ------------------------------ They emerge on the other side of the world They made it to the center and as Dante thinks to unfurl all of his questions he quickly forgets them As they climb Purgatory’s stairs in the stars
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all songs are based on Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the La Divina Commedia.

all songs were recorded on October 24th, 2010, with no overdubs.

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DISCLAIMER: These songs ARE about hell, as described in the poem. The "d-word" occurs once in reference to the condemned states of the souls in Canto 6, and is not intended as a vulgarity. Also, Zach does not just sit around singing about hell all the time.

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released October 24, 2010

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