:Golgatha:

:Golgatha: are a diverse group of musicans creating music within the dark ambient, ritual, neo folk, and neo classical genres of music. The bands core members are: Christoph D. (vocals, lyrics, several drums, sounds, flute), S. Marleni (guitar, keyboards, vocals, lyrics), Sorakey (vocals, Lyrics, artwork). Regarding the [:] before an after the name Christoph D. explains in an interview from January of 2006: "When I came up with the name I had no idea that there were other bands using it. When I realized that there was at least one German metal-band I came across I decided to include the [:]-element to the name to show the originality of this project. [:] were kind of Germanic grammatical elements to signify the beginning and the end of a phrase. Therefore :Golgatha: has to be written with [:]. " Golgatha is the common name of the spot where the Christian prophet Jesus was crucified. It is interpreted by the evangelists as meaning "the place of a skull" (Mt 27:33, Mr 15:22, Joh 19:17). Its name represents in Greek letters the Aramaic word Gulgaltha, which is the Hebrew Gulgoleth meaning "a skull." Therefore the name Golgatha represents the skull-mountain, looking like a skull and bearing the bones of the crucified… According to Origenes the skull of Adam is buried there. Golgatha-mountain is located at the northern side of Jerusalem and became a kind of symbolic place for the ongoing conflict between the source of western religion on the one hand and oriental belief on the other. It can be seen as a representative for the current ideological and religious conflict happening between east and west. The music of :Golgatha: appears to be a careful reflection of this seemingly eternal conflict on a mythical as well as concrete level – yet without taking one of these sides. There has to be another way of dealing with humanities darkest aspects… http://www.ikonenmagazin.de/golgatha http://profile.myspace.com/schaedelstaette Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.