I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE THIS...Ethel Cain "PtoleMaea"

[@Fckinjez]

This whole album plays like a film and you NEED to experience it as a whole. This is one of those projects that just swallows a person whole.

[@brunocadinha8638]

EVEN THE IRON STILL FEARS THE ROT 🖤

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Such a brilliant line

[@KateCroft]

what does it mean

[@mangaflipnoteanimations6159]

@@KateCroftwe all fear what will destroy us

[@KateCroft]

@@mangaflipnoteanimations6159 thanks

[@sweetsickheart]

@@KateCrofteven the strongest among humans still fears the inevitable (death)

[@hannahdorph]

A lot of us girls who listen to Ethel, we say that this song is what it feels like to be a woman

[@agwarddd]

I’ve told a few men around me that this song is more than just female rage; it’s far more so, female fear.

[@baileymoran8585]

Also, it’s part of a concept album about a woman who grew up in an abusive and religious household. She runs away and ends up in a series of toxic and abusive relationships and here, her abuser tries to unalive her. She is drugged and sees/imagines that he is possessed by a demon who has been hunting her.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I'm actually planning a whole album listen and review on here. This was so haunting and I want to know more.

[@VILESHITFETISH]

what happens is that he does drug up and unalive her, the next track August Underground is her final moments. and he ends up cannibalizing her hence the lyrics "you love blood too much but not like i do"

[@frankiesayspanic]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelodydid you do an album reaction? i can’t find it and would love that!! and ethel has a new album coming out in january

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

@frankiesayspanic Not yet, Im trying to figure out a format where im not just sitting in front of a computer listening to a whole album. It can be tough for me sitting that long. I got a fun idea though.

[@frankiesayspanic]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody totally understandable, i’m looking forward to it!

[@baileymoran8585]

This song captures how it feels to hear a noise outside, hope it’s just an animal, but you look out there and it’s the man who’s been stalking you for years. The scream is the most cathartic thing ever. I love it! Oddly enough it becomes very easy to hear the lyrics when you watch a lyric video.

[@NOXINOCTURA]

Female rage and fear all in one

[@headinthewall]

⚠️Warning: Unneccesarily long comment incoming⚠️ So happy you gave this artist a chance!! So for a little background on the artist, Ethel Cain is the art project/stage name of Hayden Anhedönia, she’s a solo artist from Perry, Florida who writes, produces and performs all her own music. Her debut album “Preacher’s Daughter” is a concept album that introduces “Ethel Cain” as a character and follows her as she grapples with religious and intergenerational trauma, and her abusive upbringing. This album is the first in a planned trilogy that will tell the stories of Ethel, her mother, and her paternal grandmother, to depict how trauma can be passed down through generations and what happens when these cycles aren’t broken. At this point in the plot of the album she has run away from home and been kidnapped, this song depicts her murder in a state of drug-induced confusion, (“Daddy’s left and Mama won’t come home”, her father died 10 years before the events of the album, and she could not be further from home). The male voice in the song is actually her own voice pitched down. The way I interpret it is that the voice in the outro is meant to be Death itself “I am no good nor evil, simply I am, and I have come to take what is mine”. Hayden is notorious for genre-bending, and this is her first song to enter any sort of metal territory, she has stated that there will be more like this on the upcoming albums, so I’m super excited for that!! To get the storyline it should probably be listened to in order, but if you just wanted to give any of her other songs a go “Family Tree”, “Thoroughfare”, and “Strangers” are some of my favourites! The album actually gets even more disturbing after this, believe it or not!!

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I wish I would of started with the first song. This was alot for not understanding it. But yea, I'm gonna listen to the album.

[@mostfamouspersononyoutube]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody Preacher’s Daughter series confirmed???🧐

[@Mossy-Rock]

It sounded and looked like a disjointed nightmare full of random, disconnected thoughts, sounds and images, or like someone going through a psychotic episode. It gave me the creeps.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya, as I did some research. This wasnt the song we should of started with.

[@elliotwright8583]

as someone who goes through occasional psychotic episodes, you’re right. the unclear eerie talking is what i hear sometimes

[@vee_fee]

This was the first song by Ethel I listened as well! She immediately stole my heart. I love disturbing songs, kind of like how we love horror movies. What you said about pain is very real, songs like this are great to process feelings I can’t bring myself to do it outside of art. When “what fear a man like you” part started, I was in tears without realizing. But this song is cathartic to me (especially as someone who has gone thru SA). Ethel is master in storytelling. Thank you for such a genuine reaction and for reading the lyrics!!!

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Appreciate you so much being here. I plan on doing a whole album listen. I gotta see what this is all about.

[@Chris-gx2xq]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody so glad that you want to do an full album reaction. ps pls dont look up the lyrics on genius. ethel cain herself said that its not what the album is about “what genius said abt her album”

[@Sigismund74]

Music is emotion. This feels like trauma put in music. If you can do that as a musician, you are very capable. Started reading up on the artist, given the fact that she is a young artist with a interesting life story (to put it mildly) I think we might see a lot of thought-provoking stuff from her.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya I did enjoh this...I think lol. I love that it provoked such a emotion. Im gonna listen to the whole album.

[@bafumat]

Whole album reaction. You won't regret it. This song is kind of the climax. Forget expectations. They will not serve you in Ethel's world.

[@mostfamouspersononyoutube]

5:45 was the exact face I made when I first heard the scream in this song😭😭 Ever since I discovered her, Ethel’s music has honestly been so important to my own healing. Hope to see more of her on the channel!❤

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Im gonna just hide away and listen to the album

[@Underournorthernstar]

Has a very strong Chelsea Wolfe vibe. Her voice reminds me of the singer from Pencey Sloe. Really disturbing atmosphere. May not be for everyone but I love this sort of creativity and absolute feeling of hopelessness. Something about depressing music that feels authentic for me, maybe i'm just a miserable fuck.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Indeed, her voice was amazing.

[@eleonoragiacomazzi5775]

This was disturbing. Very difficult to listen to..the darkness was like a choke strangled in the heart and throat. My pulse is going ten to the dozen with apprehension! A vacuum of dread... Unsettling! Wasn't ready for this...whew!!!

[@elvwood]

That describes exactly how it hit me too.

[@jamesnelson1968]

Music to trigger a deep depressive break by.

[@Haydentrudyjones]

this song makes all the hair on my body stand on end - chills. I posted a clip of her performing this live @ the Fonda a couple of years ago. It’s haunting

[@Haydentrudyjones]

This song is the equivalent of listening to an extremely well done psychological indie horror

[@berrrry_]

Girl fr

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I plan on doing a whole album review. I'm excited for it.

[@usalax76]

This song was the first song i heard from Ethel Cain & that scream through me to another dimension😨🖤 I also loved the creepy horror liminal feeling it gives The way she expresses pains/traumas musically is amazing art

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Yea I plan on doing a whole album review.

[@draug7966]

I didnt understand it either but i really liked it, it was so eerie and disturbing but strangely beautiful at the same time. Reminds me a bit of Chelsea Wolf and stuff like that. Curious for more from this artist.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya, maybe I will do a whole album listen and upload it.

[@howmuchwouldcoodawouldchuck]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody Please do you won’t regret it!!🙏🙏

[@trash9061]

this song always gives me the creeps.. really really love it tho… to get the song completely you have to listen to the ‘preacher’s daughter’ album and read some song annotations on genius (there’s also fan made pdf file somewhere on the internet that fans of ethel made to collect all the information about the lore of the album, since it’s conceptual) and speaking of the creeps, i get the same feeling from diamanda galás’ and lingua ignota’s music.. their voices and instrumentals are just INSANE…

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya Im gonna listen to the album

[@ZerilathImmortal]

Hmm that song I get it. The woman who gave Cain children. Lilith. It's the story of the rejected woman of God.

[@CensingMarker51]

If you like this, I recommend reacting to Family Tree(Intro) by Ethel Cain(make sure it is the intro, not the actual song also named Family Tree on the same album), Strangers by Ethel Cain, and Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain. It would mean the world to me to see you react to any of these :D The whole album(with the song you listened to), Preacher's Daughter, is the chronological tale of an average American woman who was raped, murdered, and canabalized. Family Tree(Intro) sets the scene and background and is the first song. The song you listened to, Ptolemaea, is when Ethel gets drugged and killed by her 'lover', Isaiah. Strangers is near the end; it is when she is being canabalized(with this context, the song will make a lot more sense). Sun bleached Flies is reminiscing on before all of this took place. The whole album is great but these are the 3 that really stand out to me... House in Nebraska is also very good as well. Nonetheless, the album is a beautiful and poetic ballad navigating religion, sexual abuse, and corruption in religious churches. I really recommend an album reaction but you can do whatever you'd like.

[@shiiraniii]

By the intro alone I already know I'll love your content. Fastest sub given

[@soleywolfgangsdottir]

that was really awesome. in it's structure and intensity it gave me a strong anna von hausswolff vibe. straight onto my playlist

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Yesss very Anna

[@ZerilathImmortal]

I emotionally get this song. Before I understood it

[@jkopacetick]

Pain.. desperation. I felt in my chest. I could not make all the words out but the ones that did come thru were important. As you I held by breath in parts. I'm trying to comment before I hear yours. I had tears welling and I didn't know why, the music was so.. desperate is the only word I can come up with, or dread.. pain.. generational pain. It will be interesting to see what you thought. Be cautious with this song is all I can say, and certainly it needs ♥ and

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

So do some research. Its a concept album. Im going to dive into it.

[@DanTheSqueegeeMan]

I was immediately reminded of Chelsea Wolfe, but a lot darker and quite disturbing. In general it’s something I like, but this one made me also feel very uncomfortable. Nonetheless, kudos to her to be able to invoke these emotions thru her music. Much love!

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

well said

[@darrinstokke3839]

This is incredible! It took me back to the days when I listened to Lycia and bands like that. They would make soul crushing music that sounded good. As for poetic lyrics, I haven't really figured it out, but it does seem to imply some rape maybe, and the phrase "blessed be" is a greeting that wiccans use.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Yea it was interesting.

[@TheRayokeydokey]

Not a song for the faint of heart. Love the entire album!

[@lisbethyoung3047]

This is the only metal song to exist ever

[@lucqxr]

please react to the whole album!

[@evansmith4934]

You should definitely react to her other songs

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I'm planning a whole album play through.

[@hellopeople6138]

PLEASE react to the full album!

[@Damiana_Dimock]

TBH, it’s like ONLY listening to “Empty Spaces” from Pink Floyd’s The Wall 🤷🏻‍♀️ listening to the whole album helps, (but, you also should probably have the lyrics handy, like so many concept albums the story isn’t always super clear-Though in the case of this album I think the themes are usually crystal clear.) You could also listen to this song along with the next two [instrumental] tracks, “August Underground” & “Televangelism,” because they flow from one to the next to the next and serve as a sort of act in the story. “Sun Bleached Flies” & “Strangers” are a bit of a denouement. Nonetheless, 🙏🏼☺️ Godspeed.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

thanks for the guidance friend! Yea I wanna dive into the album and just take it all in.

[@leftjuice]

See, this is why I can't listen to songs with lyrics! I don't understand a single thing. But the music is so good, I really liked to listen to it

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya this was like no other experiece I heard with music.

[@InezKennedy-i3g]

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[@gabrielkain1]

Took forever to get going, but the vocalist can sing, and i appreciate the unique style they are using. The video left a bit to be desired, but the music itself was cool,i like the industrial NIN style of music shown here.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

ya her voice was really great

[@DEKORAMU]

Will you react to my secret friend by Iamx?

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I will look into it.

[@KennedyDeborah-e4l]

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[@ineedacigarette1688]

Can u react Bianca by Rivi Palomino

[@howmuchwouldcoodawouldchuck]

This is quite the introduction to her music😭

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ya, gonna listen to the whole album.

[@howmuchwouldcoodawouldchuck]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody Can’t wait! Looking at your other reactions I can tell you’re gonna love it.

[@sagebooker]

strange, perhaps a little bit too strange for me ^^

[@WNYretiree]

Disturbin and upsetting and I don't even know why. Not a song for my tastes.