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Cirice live @ L'Album de la Semaine, 2015

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rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy

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The full fan zine is done! If you’d like to see a full high resolution version it’s on my linktree for anyone to download which I’ll add the link for down here! And as always I’m more than happy for anyone to share or use my work as pleased with credit!

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Terzo messing with monitor engineer Simon Hutchby 😜

before Monstrance Clock, Simon would come to the stage to take Terzo's microphone stand away, and Terzo loved to embarrass him in front of the audience.

PAPA EMERITUS III: Yes, I almost forgot about that. Someone needs to take a stand, right? Oh, by the way! Please, Oslo, meet Simon Hutchby! Listen, unfortunately, this will be his last night with us because he's joining the Chippendales in Drammen. So- but you will be missed! Unh! [SLAPS SIMON'S ASS] Give it up for Hutchby! Hip-hip! Oslo, Norway (November 12, 2015)

PAPA EMERITUS III: Are you ready for another song? Yeah. You don't have anything better to do on a Friday night, right? Oh, but speaking of someone who has something better to do- Give it up for Simon Hutchby, our monitor tech– monitor engineer. And he's looking to– he's following his calling, so he's joining a male strip bar in, what is it, Södertälje? Something like that. So this is gonna be his last night with us, regrettably. But to sort of kicking him in the right way, give it up for Simon Hutchby! Hip-hip! Stockholm, Sweden (November 13, 2015)

PAPA EMERITUS III: Oh! Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames and messieurs, this is Simon Hutchby! He's our monitor engineer, and a really good thing is that his divorce papers finally got through today, so he's finally a free man! Give it up for Simon Hutchby! Hip-hip! [AUDIENCE: HOORAY!] Yeah! You're ours now, forever! Geneva, Switzerland (November 19, 2015)

PAPA EMERITUS III: Ladies and genitals of Madrid, please meet Simon Hutchby! This is our monitor engineer. Yes. He finally got his divorce through today, and we're all very happy about that. So give it up for Simon Hutchby and his divorced wife! Hip-hip! [AUDIENCE: HOORAY!] Freedom! He's ours forever now! Madrid, Spain, (November 25, 2015)

PAPA EMERITUS III: Children of Netherlands, please give it up for Simon Hutchby! Yes, yes. Unfortunately, this is gonna be his last night with us because taking on a job at –what was it– you're making a butt plug factory at Hilversum or something like that? Yes. I'm sad to see you go, man. But you– you'll find something valuable to do there and you will– yes. But, please, Simon Hutchby! Hip-hip! [AUDIENCE: HOORAY!] Hooray for Hilversum. Utrecht, Netherlands (December 5, 2015)

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So… no illustration per song this time? No art booklet?

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WIP Wednesday - The Late Terzo Emeritus (temporary)

[…]

But for a whole infinite minute, it looked like nothing happened. 

When the feeling of failure started to slowly spread, Primo squeezed Secondo’s hand, finally flinching at the sight of Terzo’s little finger twitch. Immediately after, the next thing they saw was Terzo turning on himself, violently coughing, convulsing so much that he fell off the altar with a noisy thud.

“Shit-“ the two brothers rushed to the younger one, checking if he was ok after the fall, despite the fact he had just come alive again after years of death. “Terzo…” Secondo tried to call him, echoed by Primo, “How do you feel?”

“What happened?” Terzo tried to look around, visibly in shock, still coughing every now and then. He crawled backwards till his back touched the stone of the altar.  “I’m not dead…” he seemed to tell himself, relieved, touching his neck with curiosity “I’m not dead!” And he bursted into a noisy, nervous laugh “I’m not dead! Wait-“ and only at that moment he seemed to realize his brothers were there. “What are you doing here?”

“Terzo, we-“

“Where is Copia?!” He looked around, now suspicious, “Why am I not dead?” and he looked at his brothers again but didn’t wait for their answers “He had just cut my hea…”

“Terzo.” Primo repeated, trying to calm him down “You were dead. We brought you back.”

“I was dead…?” Now his expression was something between incredule and scared “For how long…?”

[…]

“Do you think he can make it?”

Primo kept his eyes on the car fading away in the distance. “I’m starting to think we really fucked up this time.”

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everybody leaves one day, I know it hurts. everybody goes away, you will too, I will too…

noooo, terzito…

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The third rider looks cool

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Terzo was a socialist

Maybe even a communist. There are too many hints to ignore. He seems to have been so preoccupied with the theme of class inequality that it ran as a leitmotif throughout his era.

1. The Popestar cover shows him as Lenin on the Palace of Soviets (an unbuilt monumental Soviet project). Lenin was a revolutor, the creator of the first socialist state in world history (USSR) and a Marxist theorist.

2. Papa is associated with Maschinenmensch from the movie "Metropolis" in many official artworks.

"Metropolis" was the main inspiration for the creation of Meliora. The world of Metropolis is stratified in the same way as Meliora's world. It highlights the problem of the gap between the workers and the ruling class. While the rich enjoy life, the working class is exhausted from maintaining the industrial machine. The top and bottom do not understand each other, they speak a different language, as in the myth of the Tower of Babel. "The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart," says the preacher Maria, suggesting a peaceful way of settlement. At one point the peaceful preacher is replaced by the satanic Maschinenmensch, who excites the crowd and raises the working class to fight the ruling class by staging a revolution. The movie condemns this path, but Terzo may have a different opinion. After all, in this whole story it is with Maschinenmensch and not with Maria that he is identified.

3. Terzo's character in Meliora world, Mysterious Spectre, is essentially a revolutionary as well. When in the FTPTTP music video Madam Satan hands him a cup with a magical drink, he gets a vision of a world order in which oligarchs have enslaved the people with the power of electricity. Spectre refuses to participate in this scheme, becomes Papa and begins to fight for the redistribution of power.

4. Before performing Mummy Dust, Terzo said that Mammon (the demon of wealth and opulence) is the one deity we humans worship every day.

PAPA III: Basically we're gonna do one heavy motherfucker about one evil motherfucker. This motherfucker is so evil that he starts all wars, controls all poverty and make us hate each other and kill each other. And we all bow for him every day. So, we've written a song about him and his name is Mammon.

Splendid Lille, 2016/02/01

Although as a Satanist he is supposed to sympathize with demons, I think he was speaking in a negative way because—

5. —Also before Mummy Dust he mocked Trump saying "he's not president" and demeaning him in all sorts of ways.

PAPA III: This song is about greed, money, power... Trump!

September 17th at revolution rock festival in Mashantucket

I think Mammon and Trump embody the same principle for Terzo (since Trump is a businessman and billionaire who came to power), and that principle he hates.

So we know what he sees as the root of social evil (or one of the roots), and in the videos he seems to offer a quite concrete political program. It's also interesting in this sense to parse The Prologue, which I think is a manifesto for the third era. Here are a few quotes:

The devil’s fall came only after his great rebellion, a single and simple act of looking into the face of authority and saying, “I am glorious.”

Above the shining city of Meloria, dirigibles float like angels, ever watchful. Under the streets, Papa Emeritus III is gathering his new flock. He is a shepherd of black sheep, the sewers are his cathedral.

Going from “The Pinnacle to the Pit” is not the punishment it was meant to be. It is freedom to struggle against injustice, to march with crowns and sceptres. Here in the pit, we are all royalty now.

Papa Emeritus III. A prologue and introduction

[Part 9] [Encyclopedia of Terzo]

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bare faced & just ready for the show!! 

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When the crypt goes creak, And the tombstones quake. Spooks come out for a swinging wake. Happy haunts materialize, And begin to vocalize.

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I want Terzo infiltrated in the Vatican conclave. He didn’t make it back into Ghost and now he’s trying with the other side.

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HELP

Vatican conclave starts May 7.

On May 4, V will technically be the only Papa around in Italy.

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Guys what the hell-

Vatican conclave starts May 7.

On May 4, V will technically be the only Papa around in Italy.

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What if…

As Excelsis is, at the moment, the Skeletá song that truly stood out to me, I started reflecting on it and thinking: what if we really had Terzo back instead of V, and he was the one producing Skeletá? What would my perception be then?

At that point… Excelsis took on a whole new meaning.

What if it were Terzo singing it?

A Terzo who knows what it’s like to die. A Terzo who gave up the fight with himself and accepted rest. A Terzo who is no longer scared of the end. A Terzo who is scared of the opposite… eternity.

And now I’ve made a mess, because I can’t get this out of my mind, and I only hear him when I listen to that song.