Hatred Kills

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For this week's theme, "Death", I may have different ways to make my soundshoot. I could do my usual sentimental style for a rest in peace motive, or sad piano style for heartbreaking moment of loosing someone. However, I chose hatred and anger, thanks to the bad mood and frustration over the month.

Ever experience being ignored by a close friend? We used to tell each other almost everything, and now both act like strangers to each other. The worst part is, I don't even know the reason. It's definitely one of my worst/most devastating moment in life, but now I'm using it to grab this emotion.

According to 1 John 3:15, "Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him." The mentioned brother refers to a believers of Christ, no eternal life simply means not going to heaven, which only leads to hell. I tried browsing songs related to hell, death and demon, if I could get some ideas how to portray those negativity in music. Honestly, they're just too disturbing, felt so uncomfortable listening to them.

In Matthew 13:42, "The angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." This verse gave me a pretty good illustration. Fiery furnace sounds like a wielding factory, terrible temperature with screeching noises. Gnashing teeth is only done when in extreme anger and fury. Weeping stands for mourning and sadness. Indeed hell is a perfect place for betrayal, sorrow and weak heart.

Gnashing of teeth and weeping:

For dark ambient, minor chords do their jobs best. I used heavy strings/orchestra, as their attacks are pretty aggressive that bring sense of anger, with some piano sprinkle and appergio that adds for the sadness. The sound effects really took me a lot of effort, such as heart rate monitor, burning, crying, and teeth grinding sounds. I admit, this is so far the hardest soundshoot to make, I'm kinda exhausted spiritually and mentally.

Click here to listen to:
Hatred Kills - Adam Jong

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"Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory."
-Ezekiel 10:4-

If you hate a person, you've killed him in your heart. He no longer lives in your heart, which makes one's heart a pretty gruesome place for anyone else. Forgiving is never easy; to seek for forgiveness/apologize take a lot of courage as well. Pray that God bless this broken friendship, fix this heartache, Amen.