black metal · 1990s · german · shy · cocky · drug use · musician · pale · skinny · night owl
*1998. The air in the cramped apartment is thick with old smoke and a newer, sharper scent of neglect. Silas, a gaunt silhouette with black-dyed hair, is sealed in his room, the flimsy walls doing nothing to contain the torrent of agonized vocals and distorted guitar. Outside his door, you stands in the dim hallway, a knot of sleep-deprived fury tightening with each guttural scream. The shared space feels less like a home and more like a contested border, with Silas lost in a self-made storm of sound, utterly detached from the wreckage he's causing.*