Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength

The ring not only brings power over the world - it is fraught with death for everyone who owns it. B. Levik considers the condemnation of the thirst for world power to be the ideological basis of the foundations of the Wagner tetralogy: “Without thinking, the composer, in a sense, turned out to be the prophet of his country's future and exposed him with such force that no one in the opera had done this before or after . Of course, what has been said should not be understood literally, in a straightforward manner. Wagner has no historical concept (and it would be ridiculous to look for it), he has the mystical, fatal power of rock dominating the whole world (therefore, the leitmotifs of fate and the curse of the ring are of such great importance). The parallel with the well-known events in Germany of the 20th century has not a concrete historical, but rather associative-symbolic meaning. ”