The Story
Inspired by a true old story back in the twelfth century specifically in 1278 in the city of Sedlec – Chez republic, when the abbot of a monastery in Sedlec was sent to the Holy land by the king of Bohemia, to return with an amount of earth that he removed from Golgotha and sprinkled over the abbey cemetery. Since then this cemetery became an iconic desirable burial site. Later in the 14th century during the Black Death after the Hussite wars, thousands of people were buried in this site, which lead to the expansion of the cemetery. Parallel to that, to immortalize it, a church was built right at the center of the cemetery, while the lower chapel was used to collect the older skeletons of the past burials in an ossuary. The process of exhuming the bones and skeletons was led by a half-blind monk around the year 1700. As a result, the skeletons were used to create and decorate the entrance of the church. And later to decorate the interiors in Baroque architecture.
Album prospective
We were inspired by the story and had a different look into it, building on the prospective of one of the soldiers who were buried and got his skeleton exhumed. Telling his spiritual journey starting from the Hussite war up until he was used as a part of decoration. This man had a name, had a family, he had a life; he started a journey figuratively going down (downfall), he had a long road to the oblivion, he wandered in the wasteland in despair and unanswered quests; and when he gives it a bit of thought of why all the wars began at the first place, it was the blessed memory that ignited his decision to rebel and rise above along with all the soldiers.