Music: Tau Cross: "Fire in the Sky"

Tau Cross have released a new song. It's called "Fire in the Sky." The album is out late May via Relapse Records. You can hear the new tune below and read a quote from frontman Rob Miller about the track.

Frontman Rob Miller stated:

"The song came about after some investigation into the life of Jack Parsons, one of the founders of JPL or Jet Propulsion Laboratories in L.A. As well as being directly responsible for the propulsion that put man (allegedly) on the moon, Parsons was also a practicing occultist, working alongside his sidekick, one L. Ron Hubbard (later the founder of Scientology), in performing Magikal rituals.
One of these rituals was concerned with the generation of Babalon, a continuation of the Alamantra works practiced by Crowley back in 1918, to open portals between this world and those parallel. Crowley and Parsons were correspondents, although Crowley was firmly set against Hubbard and Jack Parsons meddling in this territory, and voiced his concerns.

The outcome of the working has been linked with the first "wave" of UFO sightings in 1947, the same year Crowley died. The song is a brief examination of the links between these two 20th-century practitioners and Dr. John Dee, court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, who also performed ritual magic as the channel for the Enochian language via his medium Edward Kelly (whom Crowley claimed as one of his own previous incarnations). Their work together produced visitations from beings that appeared within "a fiery cloude." This, in turn, leads back to the well-known references to UFO phenomena in the Bible, particularly the vision of Ezekiel.

There has been an emphasis on the extraterrestrial nature of the phenomena since the Mount Rainier sightings of 1947, despite a complete lack of any tangible evidence to support the theory. My own inclination leans far more toward the views of people like Jacques Vallee and John Keel, with the introduction of the idea of an "Ultra Terrestrial Hypothesis," which has been the working ground of occultists throughout the ages. The visitors are neither benign nor that distant."