:Golgatha:

dark ambient

:Golgatha: are a diverse group of musicans creating music within the dark ambient, ritual, neo folk, and neo classical genres of music. The bands core members are: Christoph D. (vocals, lyrics, several drums, sounds, flute), S. Marleni (guitar, keyboards, vocals, lyrics), Sorakey (vocals, Lyrics, artwork). Regarding the [:] before an after the name Christoph D. explains in an interview from January of 2006: When I came up with the name I had no idea that there were other bands using it. When I realized that there was at least one German metal-band I came across I decided to include the [:]-element to the name to show the originality of this project. [:] were kind of Germanic grammatical elements to signify the beginning and the end of a phrase. Therefore :Golgatha: has to be written with [:]. Golgatha is the common name of the spot where the Christian prophet Jesus was crucified. It is interpreted by the evangelists as meaning the place of a skull (Mt 27:33, Mr 15:22, Joh 19:17). Its name represents in Greek letters the Aramaic word Gulgaltha, which is the Hebrew Gulgoleth meaning a skull. Therefore the name Golgatha represents the skull-mountain, looking like a skull and bearing the bones of the crucified… According to Origenes the skull of Adam is buried there. Golgatha-mountain is located at the northern side of Jerusalem and became a kind of symbolic place for the ongoing conflict between the source of western religion on the one hand and oriental belief on the oth...