Death: The Antidote To Misery (hardcover book by Mats E Eriksson)
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Title: Death: The Antidote To Misery
Author: Mats E. Eriksson
Hardcover book, 419 pages, full color with unique new art by Joe Petagno, Pär Olofsson, Dan Seagrave, Mark Riddick, and Dan Lerner.
The book contains weird tales of metal, science, horror, mystery, and dark comedy.
The foreword by prolific British author Joel McIver says it all:
“I’ve been down some literary rabbit-holes in my time, from Alan Moore’s Jerusalem via Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast to William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, but I’ve yet to enter a realm of the psyche as convoluted and downright surreal as Death: The Antidote To Misery. Its author, the renowned Swedish palaeontologist Dr Mats E. Eriksson, is a good friend and a respected scientist, but neither I nor any of his colleagues will have had any idea of the lysergic ideas that lie beneath his polite, scholarly exterior.
In this collection of otherworldly encounters, Dr Eriksson takes us to meet a host of musical stars, few of whom behave as you would expect. In this labyrinthine cavern of the mind, you’ll meet Madonna before she morphs into a monstrous arachnid; Lady Gaga, shepherding a flock of ‘Trojan pigs’; Mark Knopfler, with whom a frank discussion of fossil anuses leads to some unexpected places; and of course, the renowned record label executive Cuntess Bathory (yes, you read that right). I even recognised myself, trapped in this mental vortex alongside my hero Lemmy of Motörhead. Are these encounters fictional, or did they really happen? I’d say that depends on your definition of reality.
Readers who are familiar with Dr Eriksson’s previous work, Another Primordial Day: The Paleo Metal Diaries (2019), will recognise in these pages the foundation in hard science and research that underpinned that earlier, much-acclaimed and less psychedelically hyperactive work. Many of the stars in Death: The Antidote To Misery have been honoured on the fossil record by Eriksson, and indeed he makes reference to the process and consequence of these honours throughout. Along the way he digs into the many flaws of the world of academia and science, and plays cunning tricks on the reader – typographically and otherwise.
Don’t expect humdrum everyday life here: in this book, the author takes a step away from the real world, becoming a multi-dimensional traveller in and out of our physical plane, having the time of his life while doing so. Whatever inspirational substances our good palaeontologist has been taking, we want some.
Dive into this book with my full recommendation – but let’s hope you emerge on the other side with your sanity intact.”
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Title: Death: The Antidote To Misery
Author: Mats E. Eriksson
Hardcover book, 419 pages, full color with unique new art by Joe Petagno, Pär Olofsson, Dan Seagrave, Mark Riddick, and Dan Lerner.
The book contains weird tales of metal, science, horror, mystery, and dark comedy.
The foreword by prolific British author Joel McIver says it all:
“I’ve been down some literary rabbit-holes in my time, from Alan Moore’s Jerusalem via Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast to William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, but I’ve yet to enter a realm of the psyche as convoluted and downright surreal as Death: The Antidote To Misery. Its author, the renowned Swedish palaeontologist Dr Mats E. Eriksson, is a good friend and a respected scientist, but neither I nor any of his colleagues will have had any idea of the lysergic ideas that lie beneath his polite, scholarly exterior.
In this collection of otherworldly encounters, Dr Eriksson takes us to meet a host of musical stars, few of whom behave as you would expect. In this labyrinthine cavern of the mind, you’ll meet Madonna before she morphs into a monstrous arachnid; Lady Gaga, shepherding a flock of ‘Trojan pigs’; Mark Knopfler, with whom a frank discussion of fossil anuses leads to some unexpected places; and of course, the renowned record label executive Cuntess Bathory (yes, you read that right). I even recognised myself, trapped in this mental vortex alongside my hero Lemmy of Motörhead. Are these encounters fictional, or did they really happen? I’d say that depends on your definition of reality.
Readers who are familiar with Dr Eriksson’s previous work, Another Primordial Day: The Paleo Metal Diaries (2019), will recognise in these pages the foundation in hard science and research that underpinned that earlier, much-acclaimed and less psychedelically hyperactive work. Many of the stars in Death: The Antidote To Misery have been honoured on the fossil record by Eriksson, and indeed he makes reference to the process and consequence of these honours throughout. Along the way he digs into the many flaws of the world of academia and science, and plays cunning tricks on the reader – typographically and otherwise.
Don’t expect humdrum everyday life here: in this book, the author takes a step away from the real world, becoming a multi-dimensional traveller in and out of our physical plane, having the time of his life while doing so. Whatever inspirational substances our good palaeontologist has been taking, we want some.
Dive into this book with my full recommendation – but let’s hope you emerge on the other side with your sanity intact.”
