No, the Apocalypse is not the end of things; its a part of creation and an immanent process in the eternal cycle of becoming and ceasing to be. There is no evolutionary thread that leads us to believe in redemption. Even though on Hall of Thatch, Jrôme Reuter - alias ROME - initially only confronts us with voice and acoustic guitar, one thing is clear from the first note: This is the beginning of something new. Like some dark, powerful storm, the albums sound draws over the threshold of our perception. Rome much like Vergil, who as with Dante, takes the listener by the hand and leads him through the spheres of our base existence. Terms such as paradise, hell and purgatory, however, would be much too banal to describe the abysses of the present day. Hall of Thatch has an enormous impact.