POETICAL ASPECT OF DEATH At the last hours of the premiere of my book called Buyulu Sozluk (Dictionary the Enchanted), when the Prozac level in the blood began to decrease, I was saying to my editor, Altay Öktem that we should have taken a step to darker project yet, it just so happens that Shining video «Tillsammans Är Vi Allt» was playing on the screen. May be it was not a coincidence at all, just as a result of that gloomy vim and vigor striking to the people by reflecting from Niklas, who knows. Metal music has always become a deep and intellectual field owing to its philosophy, defended ideologies, artistry and literary side. The attitudes, images, lyrics and thoughts of the metal bands all the time have caused a sensation because of their extremism that they keep talking about wild, dark, bloody but in fact the reality within the earshot of mankind without hesitation when nobody can dare to put into words. Pain, sorrow, death, suicide, melancholy, misanthropy, rage, rough criticism, swear, sexuality are discussed finely in the music is just like taking a trip under your skin to discover the whole capillary of you. At this point, Shining is the one that can touch the capillary more closely by injecting the pain to our ears in the name of destruction. Shining has been enchanted us in Swedish since 1996. The lyrics of this breathtaking, dark music feel like philosophizing with a hammer in Swedish language but our curiosity for the meaning of the lyrics has been at the highest level also. By the liturgical effect of the Shining music and suicidal and self-destructive propaganda of Niklas, people started to think that the lyrics are all about suicide and Shining has known with the label called Suicidal Black Metal. When I met with Niklas, the first subject I mentioned had been the translation of his lyrics into English. However, I have never known that we would decide to make a move with Altay Öktem at my premiere night and right after; Niklas wide opened the doors to fulfill our Prozac deficiency. I am incredibly grateful to him. In the end, Marjinal Kitaplar Publishing House presents “Prozac Artık Yetmediğinde (When Prozac No Longer Helps)” by the words of Altay Öktem who is the poet of the darkest poems creating self-destructive feeling to the readers while hurting, injuring, dragging to the melancholic shores far far away by using the words like the sharpest knives in full artistry. The poems of Niklas that are also Shining lyrics adapted to Turkish language devastatingly as we have never forecasted. The Turkish screams rising from the poems are so high-pitched and sharp as we had learnt during the translation process gorily. Those dark energies canalizing by Shining have reached here by intertwining with night, nightmares within a new cloak in another language, it seems. Prozac Artık Yetmediğinde is a poetical aspect of death according to me. That is why its influence becomes deadly when it combines with astonishing Shining music. I should say that, me as a person dedicating oneself to the meeting points of music with literature, this book is just a point-shot. It is one of the countless intersections between these two influential arts hence, passed into history of Dark Arts as a controversial, fascinated masterpiece that influence thousands by creating malicious storms, mesmerizing with malevolent words. Mankind experiences the decadence of hope entirely when their life projects obstruct ruthlessly just as they witness what the reality will bring to them desperately. Here, destructive poems of Niklas giving the reality confessedly have turned to a devastative drive for humanity by Altay Öktem’s words in this book. Indeed, if our esthetic movement is a supreme and indirect way to satisfy our sensual needs originated from suffers inside us revealing itself in the poetical state of darkness, so isn’t it also a trigger directing of our physical aggression to a noble channel? And I am looking into your eyes, all in flames! You desire to reveal the wild animals inside of you, prove that you are the threat by your extremism in this hysteria and finally want to get relief by feeling different. For this reason, Prozac Artık Yetmediğinde will be your guide… Shall the darkness, blood and self-destruction be materialized! Zeynep Çolakoğlu İzmir, February 2014
