Being

There are at least four artists/groups who use the name Being: 1) Being is a progressive metal/rock band from Orlando, Florida. They were formerly known as 'The Mind of Solaris'. Their debut seven track EP titled 'Arrival' was released online on June 1, 2011. Current Line-up: Casprin Haruna - Vocals David Furrevig - Guitar Clint Fowler (Automatic Loveletter) - Bass Jason Novalis (ex-Friend For a Foe) - Drums www.facebook.com/beingmusic www.myspace.com/musicforbeing "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan 2) Being (real name Dave Paton) was an electronic downtempo artist in the mid to late 1990s. Initial recordings were through limited edition releases for Special Emissions (a sub-label of Andy Weatherall’s Emissions label). Being released an album “Tides” on the German label Spacefrogs plus a subsequent album of re-mixes. 3) A harsh noise walls project from Dayton, Ohio (formerly Muncie, Indiana). Done by Luke Tandy, also of Heart of the Whore and the owner of Skeleton Dust Recordings. Influenced by Richard Ramirez, Macronympha, Incapacitants, Pain Jerk, The Rita, Sewer Election, and The Cherry Point. 4) A post-black metal band from the UK with influences from doom metal, progressive rock and ambient music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.