The Dangers of Death Metal
DvSalazar
the newspapers in New Mexico today. I took these from the Journal in
Albuquerque. There is alot of stuff here, and this is only the first of two
parts, but I thought some people here might find this rather interesting and/or
amusing.
SAVAGE SOUND
Publisher's Note: We want to warn you that this two-day series on death metal
contains lyrics that are graphic, violent, obscene and disturbing. These
stories are not appropriate for all age groups. The lyrics exceed the bounds
of good taste, and some will be offended that we have chosen to publish them.
But we have done so because of the impact this music could have on young people
and the fact that it is readily availabe to any teen-ager with enough money to
buy it. We want parents and teachers to be informed and alert to this music
and videos. We apologize to those who might be offended.
The music is hard and the lyrics brutal. Some of the graphic violence is
directed at women. Rape and torture are not uncommon themes. The genre is known
as "death metal," and it is readily available to kids in music stores and over
the Internet. Clerks will sell it to children without batting an eye. The
Journal investigative explores this macabre music and culture in a two-part
series
Savage Sound
Death Metal's Violent Tone Pushes Boundaries
That Are Extreme For Even Rebellious Rock 'n' Roll
By Thomas J. Cole
Journal Investigative Reporter
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Chris Barnes, rock singer and lyricist for such songs as
"Mass Murder Rampage" and "Torture Killer," seemed puzzled when asked whether
there is some invisible line of bad taste that even he won't cross.
"I've said just about everything you're not supposed to say," Barnes said.
Indeed.
"Torture Killer" is one of the tracks that Barnes wrote and sang for the
most recent album of the band called Six Feet Under. It goes:
"Carving up your flesh/until I get to the bone/murder all I can. ...
murderer -- I rape the dead/torture killer."
Rock 'n' roll has always been about crossing lines, establishing new
boundaries as one rebellious generation after another has sought to set itself
apart.
And nowhere today are the bounds being pushed harder than in death-metal
music, the type of rock performed by Six Feet Under and hundreds of other bands
worldwide.
The music is widely available to young people in record stores and on the
Internet and radio.
Some are concerned.
Children "are being told to do things that are not only immoral, but
illegal. Violence is not legal," said Barbara Wyatt of the Parents Music
Resource Center.
Loyal following:
"Dying slow and painfully -- a gasping breath escapes from you/
I rip the flesh and cut through bone/you are bleeding."
FROM "BONESAW" BY SIX FEET UNDER, LYRICS BY CHRIS BARNES
The instrumental sound of death metal is heavy metal -- that brand of
guitar-driven rock made popular some 30 years ago by such groups as Led
Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.
The vocal sound of death metal is guttural, something akin to groaning or
moaning.
It is an aggressive sound, with the lyrics to match. They are often about
sex, violence and Satan. Women are sometimes targets.
Death metal isn't new -- it's been around since the mid-1980s -- and it
isn't wildly popular. But it continues to attract a loyal following of mostly
teens and young adults known as "Deathsters" or "Deathers".
A couple of hundred people jammed a Tempe, Ariz., nightclub on a Monday
night in January for a stop by Six Feet Under, which was on a 13-state tour to
promote its latest album, "Maximum Violence."
Many of the fans wore the black T-shirts that have become popular among
heavy-metal crowds.
"First in Hell," read one T-shirt. "Death to Jesus," said another.
Fans were searched for weapons before entering the club across the street
from Arizona State University. The crowd ranged from skinheads to high-school
girls.
Some Deathsters thrashed in the mosh pit in front of the stage, roughly
banging into one another. The music was loud -- very loud. Fans cheered and
flashed a hand sign of the devil.
"This is what death metal is all about," Barnes screamed to the crowd.
Inspired by horror:
"Just another life that you thought you could control/just another pig -- dead
-- with some extra holes."
FROM "NO WARNING SHOT" BY SIX FEET UNDER, LYRICS BY CHRIS BARNES
Barnes is a cult figure among death-metal fans. Before joining Six Feet
Under five years ago, he sang and wrote songs for Cannibal Corpse, possibly the
best-known death-metal band in the United States.
He is 32, married and lives in the Tampa, Fla., area. No children, a couple
of dogs. He owns a house and drives a Volkswagen bus. He is soft-spoken and
admits to smoking as much pot as possible.
He wears his hair long, in dreadlocks. His ear lobes have been stretched
with rings. He has been described as looking like a New Age serial killer.
Barnes, in an interview before taking the stage in Tempe, said the lyrics
he writes are fictional horror stories and nothing more. He compares his work
to that of novelist Stephen King and film director Wes Craven.
"In this life I crave to kill/my love of death will never end," goes the
song "Mass Murder Rampage," which Barnes wrote and sings for Six Feet Under.
Barnes said he is just trying to entertain people.
"Everybody kind of likes shocking things," he said. "It's not meant to
cause anyone to go out and hurt anyone. I would never want that to happen."
Barnes said the music has its roots in his aggression toward those in
society who have a distaste for his lifestyle. (He said he does get along well
with his in-laws.)
"It's kind of a shove in the face of people who don't really care about
people at all," he said. "That's what this is all about: just basically
shouting at the world, saying, 'We're all real. We're real people. This
subculture that we're in is a real thing.' ''
So what about that song "Torture Killer," with its talk of stabbing and
rape?
"It's just a sick story" about a serial killer, Barnes said. "I'm not
celebrating it. I'm just telling a story. It's more like a shortened horror
film. I just put it to music. It's fiction."
Banned in two countries:
"Tied her up/and taped her mouth shut/couldn't scream/raped violently/rope
tight, around her throat/her body twitches/as she chokes."
While with the band Cannibal Corpse, Barnes wrote several songs about
killing women. And the lyrics created some heat and some notoriety for the
group.
Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and Republican nominee for president in
1996, attacked Cannibal Corpse for what he described as its messages of
"mindless violence and loveless sex."
Dole cited Cannibal Corpse and some rap groups and Hollywood films as
examples of entertainment gone awry.
At a Senate hearing on violent music lyrics in 1997, Sen. Joseph Lieberman,
D-Conn., called the work of Cannibal Corpse "vile" and "disgusting."
Lieberman cited one song that described the rape of a woman with a knife
and another that described the act of masturbating with a dead woman's head.
Metal Blade Records, the label for both Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under,
says Cannibal Corpse has been censored in some countries.
In New Zealand, the Office of Film & Literature Classification, a
government censor agency, has banned sales of two Cannibal Corpse recordings:
"The Bleeding" and "Hammer Smashed Face."
The songs on "Hammer Smashed Face" include "I Cum Blood" and
"Necropedophile."
In its decision to ban "Hammer Smashed Face," the Office of Film and
Literature Classification said:
"The publication both promotes and supports the exploitation of children
for sexual purposes, sexual conduct upon the body of a dead person and extreme
acts of violence, by describing them in a gratuitous and sexually prurient
manner."
Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification also has
prohibited the importation and sales of lyric sheets for some Cannibal Corpse
recordings.
Barnes eventually was booted out of Cannibal Corpse. He has said the band
wanted to change its vocal style and lyrical content.
Cannibal Corpse is still singing about blood and gore, but the lyrics on
its most recent album, "Bloodthirst," aren't nearly as extreme as those written
by Barnes.
"Well, we got a lot less songs about women being killed," Alex Webster, the
bass player for Cannibal Corpse, said in an interview published in October.
Webster added:
"I think he (Barnes) played himself up a bit for the press. Chris was
trying to push this whole thing that he was a psycho. Now he's pretty much a
normal stoner dude like anyone else. I think that now a woman will not be
offended like she might have been."
Parents' role:
The Parents Music Resource Center in Arlington, Va., is the group that was
co-founded in 1985 by Tipper Gore, the wife of Vice President Al Gore. The
center serves as a resource for parents and works to heighten public awareness
of some music lyrics.
Wyatt, the center's president, said the group doesn't favor government
censorship of lyrics.
Instead, she said, parents need to voice their disapproval of extreme
lyrics to the recording industry. The industry, in turn, needs to tone down
what it puts on the market, Wyatt said.
"It should be parents and the industry working together to care about this
generation and the generations to come," she said.
"We need to reverse the trend" in music lyrics, Wyatt said. "If you really
look at it, how much farther can they push the line?
"Anything goes, and I think that's wrong. I think you have to have
standards."
Kids Easily Purchase Graphic Material
Just because an album has a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" label
doesn't mean your child can't buy it.
And don't assume that every album without a Parental Advisory label is free
of explicit lyrics.
No state or federal law expressly prohibits sales of Parental Advisory
albums and music videos to minors.
And retailers aren't reluctant to sell the material to your children.
The Journal sent a 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy shopping for
death-metal music with Parental Advisory labels at seven stores in Albuquerque.
No store asked the buyers their ages or refused to make a sale to them.
The lyrics of death-metal music, which often include graphic descriptions
of sex and violence, are among the most extreme in the recording industry.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, retailers'
policies on sales of Parental Advisory albums and music videos "are as varied
as their customer base and the communities in which they do business."
But, in a limited experiment, the Journal found no variation.
The Journal took four buyers -- ranging in age from 14 to 16 -- to Salt
Lake City, arguably one of the most conservative big cities in the country.
The buyers went to six stores and none asked the teens their ages or
refused to sell Parental Advisory material to them.
Readily available:
In Albuquerque, at the Hastings Entertainment store on Lomas NE, a
15-year-old girl bought the album "Eaten Back to Life" by the death-metal band
Cannibal Corpse. The album features such songs as "Put Them to Death."
Also at Hastings, a 16-year-old boy purchased a music video by Cannibal
Corpse. The songs on the video include "Stripped, Raped and Strangled" and
"Orgasm through Torture."
The teens made the purchases despite Hastings' policy that it doesn't sell
Parental Advisory materials to minors.
Parental Advisory music also can be found at times on Hastings' listening
stations, where minors and others can listen to store-selected artists.
Hastings officials, both locally and at the company's corporate office in
Amarillo, declined comment.
Of the Albuquerque stores where the Journal's buyers made purchases,
Hastings was the only retailer with an advertised policy against sales of
Parental Advisory materials to minors.
One of the largest music retailers in Albuquerque and Salt Lake City is
Musicland Stores Corp. of Minneapolis, which operates Musicland, Sam Goody,
Suncoast and Media Play stores.
At Musicland and Sam Goody stores in Albuquerque and Salt Lake City, the
Journal's teen-age buyers purchased albums by Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet
Under, another death-metal group.
A 14-year-old girl also purchased a music video by the band Cradle of
Filth, whose heavy-metal music is similar to that performed by death-metal
groups.
The Cradle of Filth video, which has a Parental Advisory label, features
naked women and graphic violence against women.
Dawn Walberg, a spokeswoman for Musicland, said the company doesn't have a
policy against selling Parental Advisory materials to minors because such sales
aren't illegal.
Parental Advisory labels are meant to alert parents to the materials, and
parents can return any items purchased by their children and found to be
objectionable, Walberg said.
Musicland doesn't censor what it stocks, she said. "We can't go through
each particular CD," she said.
Another large retailer in Albuquerque and Salt Lake City is Wherehouse
Entertainment of Torrance, Calif. It operates stores under the names of
Wherehouse, Wherehouse Entertainment and Blockbuster Music.
At Wherehouse stores in Albuquerque and Salt Lake City, 16-year-old boys
bought recordings by Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under.
The albums feature such songs as "Meat Hook Sodomy," "Human Target" and
"She Was Asking for It."
Wherehouse didn't respond to telephone calls seeking comment.
At a Borders Books and Music store in Salt Lake City, a 15-year-old girl
bought the album "Bloodthirst" by Cannibal Corpse and a 14-year-old girl
purchased the album "Gallery of Suicide" by the same group.
The cover of the album "Gallery of Suicide" features an illustration of a
bare-breasted woman with a knife in her stomach. The songs include "I Will Kill
You" and "Stabbed in the Throat."
Ann Binkley, a spokeswoman at Borders' corporate office in Ann Arbor,
Mich., said store clerks are trained to use their best judgment and not to sell
Parental Advisory materials to children in their early teens or younger.
Asked whether the clerks who sold the albums to the Journal's buyers had
used their best judgment, Binkley responded, "I can't say."
She said the store's manager would be advised that the minors purchased the
albums.
Borders doesn't feature any music with Parental Advisory labels on its
listening stations and allows parents to return material they find
objectionable, Binkley said.
At Bow Wow Records on Central NE in Albuquerque, a 15-year-old girl also
was able to purchase the album "Gallery of Suicide" by Cannibal Corpse.
Andrew Horwitz, the owner of the store, said his store censors what it
stocks.
"As a rule, our policy is not to bring in garbage. It (the Cannibal Corpse
album) sounds like garbage to me," Horwitz said.
He said, however, it is difficult to tell the content of albums when
placing orders. "Stuff will sneak in," he said.
Explicit, unmarked:
The Journal, in examining albums in record stores, found several copies of
the album "Maximum Violence" by the death-metal band Six Feet Under that didn't
have Parental Advisory labels.
The songs on the album include "No Warning Shot," "Mass Murder Rampage" and
"Torture Killer."
The album was produced by Metal Blade Records and is distributed by RED
Distribution, which is owned in part by Sony Music.
Brian Slagel, chairman and chief executive officer of Metal Blade Records,
said he couldn't explain why copies of "Maximum Violence" didn't have Parental
Advisory Labels.
Metal Blade Records also is the label for the band Cannibal Corpse, and it
sells censored versions of some Cannibal Corpse recordings. Those albums don't
carry Parental Advisory labels.
Local Youths Appreciate Alternative to Mainstream Music
By Thomas J. Cole
Journal Investigative Reporter
Cassandra Locke is a high-school honors student in Truth or Consequences
and does some computer work for businesses.
Locke also sings and plays in a rock band. And she is a fan of death-metal
music.
"I don't feel like death metal's going to make me a bad person," she said.
To celebrate her 18th birthday, Locke and three friends drove to Albuquerque
in February to catch a stop on the Death Metal Massacre 2000 tour.
About 300 people, many of them teen-agers, attended the concert at The
Launchpad nightclub by the bands Cannibal Corpse, Diabolic, God Dethroned and
Hate Eternal.
Locke said she likes death metal in part because it is alternative music.
She has a distaste for performers whose only goal is to be popular and design
their music for the mainstream.
"It's not elementary candy pop," Locke said of death metal. "These people
are real. Nobody is changing their looks and style."
She added, "I feel that with a lot of pop (they) dress how they are told
and sing songs that they have no idea what they are singing about."
Other teens at the concerts said they are attracted to death metal because
it's different, rebellious; it's not what the popular high school students
listen to. Some said it serves as a relief valve for daily troubles, stresses.
"It makes you move. All music is about release," said Joe Mitchell, 19, one
of Locke's friends.
"Nobody wants to kill anybody or hurt anybody," added David Christy, 18,
another of Locke's friends.
Chris Conland, 17, a junior at Eldorado High School, and Josh Buck, 18, a
senior at Sandia High School, said death metal is popular among only a handful
of students at the Albuquerque schools.
Conland said the lyrics are just horror stories. He said he likes death
metal primarily because of the heavy-metal sound.
"This is our way of (feeling) adrenalin," he said.
Buck's left arm and his denim pants were covered by autographs he had
collected from members of the bands. He was saving his right arm for Cannibal
Corpse.
"I like darker stuff," Buck said. "I've always been interested in death."
He said his passion for death metal has sometimes been a hassle at school
when people have feared he might commit the type of violence that some groups
sing about.
"People are so close-minded," Buck said.
The concert crowd also included college students and working people.
Gabe Garcia, 31, a student at the University of New Mexico, said he has
been listening to death metal since he was a teen.
"I live for it," Garcia said. "This music lets out my aggression."
He said all people have good and evil sides. And, Garcia said, "sometimes
that evil side needs to be released to feel good."
Garcia said he is active in a Roman Catholic student group at UNM.
The lyrics of death-metal music are a bit distasteful at times, Garcia
said. But he said the music, with its lyrics about what is bad in the world,
actually makes him feel closer to God.
Todd Humelsine, 25, who is studying to be an electrical engineer and also
works on a factory line, said death metal provides "a relief from pressure,
stress. It makes you feel better.
"The lyrics are there, but half the time you can't understand them,"
Humelsine said.
Added John Trujillo, 26, who builds transmissions, "Nobody here sacrifices
goats on the weekend. It's all about the music."
B. Jay Smith, 21, a heavy-equipment operator, called death metal an
alternative to violence. He takes part in the mosh pit, where fans thrash and
bang into each other.
"It's aggressive music for aggressive people," Smith said. "We come
together and beat the shit out of each other. Then we shake hands and go home."
There are a handful of death-metal bands in Albuquerque, and a nightclub
will feature the music about every month or so.
J.J. Michelitch, 27, of Rio Rancho, plays guitar in the local band
Deceiver.
The band's songs include "Victims Plea for Life" and "Destined for Death."
Michelitch said the extreme lyrics of death-metal music and its heavy sound
are a good match.
"I just don't see love lyrics being done with this," he said. "We like
extreme, brutal music. That's what it's about."
States' Efforts To Limit Access Fail
New Mexico has a law that makes it a crime to supply sexually oriented
material, including music and music videos, to minors.
But the law is cumbersome and apparently is rarely, if ever, used.
A district attorney cannot bring a prosecution unless he has found that a
specific item is harmful to minors and has given notice of that -- before the
material is supplied to the child.
Lisa Trabaudo, chief of the Crimes Against Children Bureau for the state
District Attorney's Office in Albuquerque, said she couldn't recall the law
being used in her 10 years with the office.
Several other states have considered legislation in recent years to
discourage the recording industry from producing music with extreme lyrics or
to prevent minors from getting access to such music.
Texas, however, has been the only state in recent years to enact a law,
according to the Recording Industry Association of America. And the Texas law
was later found to be unconstitutional on technical grounds.
Texas in 1997 enacted a law that prohibited state investments in companies
with artists whose songs promoted violence, denigration of women, illegal drug
use, criminal street-gang activity and other acts including pedophilia.
A state judge, however, ruled the law was unconstitutional because of the
procedure that legislators used to pass the statute. They had tagged the law
onto an appropriations bill.
The investment prohibition was challenged by the Recording Industry
Association of America and beneficiaries of state pension funds, including
law-enforcement officers and teachers.
The Recording Industry Association of America said it also has been
successful in preventing similar divestiture laws from being passed in
California, Maryland and Wisconsin.
Michigan legislators rejected legislation that would have prohibited minors
from attending concerts determined to be harmful to minors, according to the
industry group.
Bills that would have prohibited stores from selling recordings with
Parental Advisory labels to minors failed in the legislatures of Tennessee and
Georgia, according to the Recording Industry Association.
In the state of Washington, lawmakers let die a bill that would have added
recordings to a law aimed at preventing sales of X-rated videos to minors, the
association said.
Industry's Advisory Labels Voluntary
Record companies have been placing Parental Advisory labels on some albums
since the mid-1980s.
The nonremovable labels are placed on the permanent packaging of
recordings, not the throwaway wrappings. They are designed to serve notice to
parents that the recordings contain strong language or depictions of violence,
sex or substance abuse.
The labels are the result of an agreement between the Recording Industry
Association of America and the National Parent Teacher Association and the
Parents Music Resource Center.
"The record industry's Parental Advisory label lets parents take ...
responsibility for their families and respects the core American value of
freedom of expression," according to the Recording Industry Association of
American.
The association administers the labeling program and has taken part in
national campaigns to make parents aware of the program.
The program is voluntary, meaning record companies aren't required to use
the labels. Those companies that do take part make the decisions on what
recordings to label.
"The RIAA and its member companies take the Parental Advisory program very
seriously," the recording-industry group said. "Indeed, virtually every
recording which has generated controversy in the media carries the Parental
Advisory label."
The industry in 1996 expanded the Parental Advisory program to include
labeling of music videos.
The association said the labels are widely used by its members as well as
by recording companies that don't belong to the association.
The group said its members create, manufacture and distribute more than 90
percent of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in this country.
Disturbing titles, lyrics
Compact discs and videos of music by death-metal bands are readily available in
almost any music store. The music and lyrics can also be found on the Internet.
Even though it is labeled as "Parental Advisory" material, kids ranging from 14
to 16 had no problem purchasing the material for the Journal in Albuquerque and
Salt Lake City.
In fact, none of the buyers was questioned about age or asked for
identification.
This language is graphic, obscene and disturbing. We have chosen to publish it
because we believe parents and teachers need to know what kind of music and
videos that children have easy access to.
From the Six Feet Under CD,
"Maximum Violence":
Song titles
"FEASTING ON THE BLOOD OF THE INSANE"
"BONESAW"
"VICTIM OF THE PARANOID"
"SHORT CUT TO HELL"
"NO WARNING SHOT"
"MASS MURDER RAMPAGE"
"BRAINWASHED"
"TORTURE KILLER"
"THIS GRAVEYARD EARTH"
"HACKED TO PIECES"
All songs copyright 1994 Maggot Music
Lyrics to one of the songs
"TORTURE KILLER"
Carving up your flesh
Until I get to the bone
Murder all I can -- true death still lives on
Open wounds in sickly skin
Gangrenous infected dead
I'll tear you up -- and f _ _ _ the holes I cut into you
Murderer -- I rape the dead
Torture killer
Crushing bone and skin
As I break a hole through your
cranium
Mutilated dead. Piles of decayed victims. Brutalized
Torturing the human flesh
Sadistically perverse -- necrophile
Terrified you live to die to rot -- dead
In a shallow grave
Murderer -- I rape the dead
Torture killer
Murderer -- I rape the dead
Torture killer
Carving up your flesh
Until I get to the bone
Murder all I can -- true death still lives on
Open wounds in sickly skin
Gangrenous infected dead
I'll tear you up -- and f _ _ _ the holes I cut into you
Cut into you
Murderer -- I rape the dead
One sick f _ _ _
Torture killer
Lyrics by Chris Barnes
David
Deadmetal
is starting to realize it? Pretty funny how they make it seem like Led
Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are "good" bands, when in fact it was rumored that
Jimmy Page practiced black magic. I guess it'll be another ten years before
there's similar articles on black metal, and how things are even more extreme
in that scene.
James NecroFiend
Spin magazine did an article on Norwegian Black Metal in April '95, and an
article on Black Metal in summer of '98 (I think). Oh yeah, plus I remember
them doing an article on "Grindcore" in like 1991 or so. There was this really
cool picture of Trey Azagthoth spitting blood!
TotalDesaster - www.angelfire.com/ma2/totaldesaster
Left hand power of the pure
The world will tremble at our command
-Glenn Danzig
Der Krieg und die Krankheit
Under and Cradle of Filth. Oh dear... think of the media storm when they
discover Cryptopsy ('eat me with your saw-toothed cunt', haha, feminism
in death metal), or 'politically ambiguous' (heh) stuff like black
metal.
And what would they think of someone like me, an easy-going 4th year
student at day yet at night a horrid jew-eater who paints swastikas on
synagogues with the blood of his roommates! And I cum blood as well.
No, we've got a long way to go...
Maarten
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Deadmetal
>Spin magazine did an article on Norwegian Black Metal in April '95, and an
>article on Black Metal in summer of '98 (I think). Oh yeah, plus I remember
>them doing an article on "Grindcore" in like 1991 or so. There was this
>really
>cool picture of Trey Azagthoth spitting blood!
I recall the Spin article, and I think Rolling Stone did one on Polish death
metal. They talked to Vader and one other band... Violent Force or something.
They were supposed to be really good, but never got off the ground.
Deadmetal
>I find it amazing that the media stop with Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet
>Under and Cradle of Filth.
That's because those are the best known bands, and two of them have really
"shocking" names. Wonder what they'd say about Rotting Christ? I did find it
humorous that Brian Slagel did not have a good response when he was asked why
SFU's albums aren't stickered. The answer is simply because labels don't have
to sticker anything if they don't want to. None of that is enforced. And even
the stuff that is stickered... anyone can go to a store and buy it, the stores
don't care or pay attention. It's not like tobacco and alcohol where the law
clearly states you have to be this or that age. The best part is, none of this
music can be banned in the US, else it would violate the First Amendment. What
the founding fathers of this country meant by free speech was something else
entirely, but you have to love how the term has been interpreted by the liberal
courts in such a way that pretty much anything can be called a form of speech.
Music, performance art, flag burning, etc.. all have been deemed to be forms of
speech, and hence are protected by the First Amendment.
N. Evermind
Deadmetal wrote:
I thought that's a GOOD thing.
Brad Symic
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> No, this isn't a sermon, this is the topic of the articles that are headlining
> the newspapers in New Mexico today. I took these from the Journal in
> Albuquerque. There is alot of stuff here, and this is only the first of two
> parts, but I thought some people here might find this rather interesting and/or
> amusing.
An Australian rag published this expose on death metal last year.
Luckily this journalist isn't so
sensationalist/retarded/conservative/American:
Full Metal Racket
Death metal is the music your parents warned you about. Its followers are
obsessed with blood and gore and demons - some even say they follow
Satan. But is it something to fear? Only if you haven't got a sense of
humour, says Chris Johnston
The fans wait months for this. Shows don't happen much for them. The
subculture stays invisible, inaudible, deep underground. But when the
nights come, when there's a public arena willing, it's an ovation. An
exorcism, even. There are scenes of wild rapture and musical terror with
subversive antiheroes and legions of willing disciples of the doom.
Destroyer 666 - a death metal band, players in the most extreme and
marginalised music scene ever - are about to take the stage. In the
public bar of Melbourne's Greyhound Hotel, in St Kilda, Friday night
drinkers watch the footy on TVs and play pool. They shout to be heard.
Between acts in the dark band-room out the back of the pub, death CDs
play; the sound pierces through to the unwilling ears of the uninitiated
for whom it is surely an ungodly noise. Which is the whole point. It is
ungodly. It is noise. That's why death metallers in Melbourne and Sydney
and around the world like it. The music is anti-social and anti-society
and so is the culture. There's no more "anti" than celebrating death
itself.
And here he is! Lucifer! The devil in person, in the flesh - topless, at
least. With stained black jeans and combat boots and a green tattoo over
the whole of his ample chest depicting pentagrams, snakes and the scales
of justice. He's got sharp metal studs and leather strapped to an arm,
all the way to the elbow. The way the stage lights glimmer off the silver
studs and his awesome bass guitar make him a real nasty superhero, a
cartoon demon. On his microphone stand is the skeleton of a ram's head,
the horns curling in twirls, a feral image straight out of Pan mythology.
The skull is stuck on with industrial tape - this is rock 'n' roll after
all, even if it is death metal. Rock guys use that heavy gaffer tape for
everything. Lucifer roars. He twangs his overloaded instrument. The crowd
hushes then roars in response while guitarist Shrapnel A and drummer
Deceiver join their overlord on stage.
The show may now commence, the wait is over. For Lucifer is actually KK
Warslut, frontman of Destroyer 666, Melbourne death metal band. And KK
Warslut is actually Keith from Port Melbourne. He used to be in Bestial
Warlust but now he has Destroyer 666. Many guises, many disguises.
When the music finally comes, it comes as assault and battery; the
pounding drums are hyper fast and relentless, the guitars a sonic
blitzkrieg of intricate speed and volume, the bass a rumbling bottom end,
a dirty hole. And then there's the voice - the patented "death growl" - a
guttural sob, almost, where the actual words take second place to the
sound, a morbid war cry, an inaudible amplified rasp from the pit, from
the bile. Destroyer 666 perform Genesis To Genocide from their Unchain
The Wolves album - you can make out KK Warslut bellowing "... you join
us! you join us! ..."
The crowd of 200 are immediately recharged; they're signalling their
collective approval by pointing with the index finger and little finger
of the same hand. It's the universal sign of metaldom, like a Mason's
secret handshake, a loaded gesture for those that know. No one's totally
sure what it signifies except Satan and possibly goats.
But almost everyone in the crowd at The Greyhound - 99 per cent men in
black with long hair and rotting corpses painted on their clothes -
throws the Satan/goat fingers at Destroyer 666. There's a lot of bear-
hugging, too, and backslapping and playfighting and handshakes. More like
a dance party than the depths of Hades, really. When Destroyer finish and
disappear offstage, the crowd haven't had enough and bay for more. A few
actually get up on the stage to up the ante and everyone keeps screaming
out "more" and throwing their fingers in the air and roaring and growling
and pretending to be the Devil until Destroyer 666 come back out.
After the show, KK Warslut - Keith - says one of the reasons his band
only plays a few times a year is that a lot of pubs won't let Satanists
in. He says if you have a "666" in your band name then you're practically
no-go. He also says death metal goes in and out of style with the fickle
metal crowd who have so many styles of heavy metal - including "death" -
to choose from that even a musicologist would be baffled. But he says
he's a true believer. And Warslut's the kind of guy you tend to believe.
"We are Satanic metal, death metal," he says. "We preach the gospel of
Satan. We're not here for the sake of being here, to get on stage and
look at a whole sea of heads. We have a purpose. The power of evil, war
as a solution. You've gotta destroy to create."
But Mr Warslut is an anomaly in death metal. He really does seem to
believe in Satan. Most in the scene, while readily admitting enthusiasm
for horror movies, extreme gore, fantasy, true crime, porn and non-
conformism won't actually take the idea of Satan literally. They use it
more as a way of expressing their distaste for society, using sentiments
that are the opposite of virtues such as mercy, kindness, virginity, love
and fidelity.
Many find the demonic incantations funny, a ludicrous shock tactic, just
a blatant bit of bad taste. When a death metal band sings of Satan, you
can't hear the words, anyway. The death growl renders any words impotent.
Like opera, it's all in the delivery, not the meaning.
"Let me explain," says Rod Holder of the Canberra band Alchemist,
veterans of the Australian scene. "A lot of the lyrics and the image may
be seen as controversial and evil and to do with the devil but it's more
often than not just a horror story with a soundtrack. That's death metal
- a horror story with a soundtrack. Like a Clive Barker novel set to
music. Simple as that. We're dealing with the sadder, darker side of
humanity. The music has to be real heavy because the themes are real
heavy. The music becomes an outlet for aggression but outsiders don't
understand. They see the piercings and the tats and the long hair and
they make assumptions. But metal gigs are the best behaved. There's no
trouble. Ask any bouncer. We've got no energy left after listening to the
music."
Holder helps organise an event called Metal for the Brain, the largest
annual metal festival in the Southern Hemisphere, held every November at
the Australian National University in Canberra. Featuring 20 bands, all
the money from tickets goes to the National Brain Injury Foundation and
the family of Canberra metal fan Alec Hurley, who was left brain damaged
after being bashed outside a pub on his 19th birthday, nine years ago.
The annual charity concert raises about $10,000 and the bands play for
free. "I look after Alec myself," says his mother, Liz. "He's brain-
damaged - he can't do anything, he can't shave, he can't shower, so the
money obviously helps us a lot. The metal scene isn't half as bad as it
appears. Just because they're weird-looking with their hairdos and gross
T-shirts ... they're all really nice guys."
Every November, Liz takes her son, in his wheelchair, to Metal for the
Brain, where he is guest of honour. But they can't stay until the end.
"Alec gets frightened," she says. "He gets a bit scared of the noise. He
does recognise all his old mates though. He gives them a smile."
But the event gets little or no exposure. No one realises the concert is
essentially a philanthropic exercise. As Liz Hurley observes, most
parents fear death metal but for her it has been a kind of saviour.
DEATH METAL'S BAD PRESS didn't get any badder than during 1992 and 1993.
A Norwegian death metal guitarist, Christian Vikernes, was charged with
murder, robbery, possession of explosives, arson and grave desecration
after he pledged an oath to Satan, stabbed a former friend 23 times and
set fire to 13 churches.
Around this time, Glen Benton of American death metal figureheads Deicide
(meaning "to kill God") burnt an upside-down cross on his forehead and
ordered, on tour, that all bibles be removed from his hotel rooms. The
band Dismember had their recordings banned in Britain for being
offensive. Then, in Australia, the Customs department seized their CDs
(among others) from Melbourne record stores after a consignment of
imports were detected at the airport. And in November 1992, Sydney 20-
year-old Naomi Turner was jailed for murder after stabbing a Blacktown
man through the heart. She said in court she believed in Satan and
listened to death metal.
Since then, it's all gone quiet. Australian law has changed - the
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) and the Office of Film and
Literature Classification (OFLC) now regulate potentially offensive
recordings through a two-level sticker system for those above and below
18. They deem music with lyrics gratuitously dealing with "matters of
hard drug abuse, criminal violence, sexual violence, bestiality, incest,
child abuse, abhorrent activity or activity that specifically instructs
to commit suicide" illegal for all and should not be sold.
The law applies less strictly to cover artwork, some of which is in
dubious taste to say the least. Common motifs are the dismembered corpse,
the desecrated religious icon, the apocalyptic landscape, the slave woman
and the demonic zombie. One particularly horrific current death metal CD
cover is for Stabwound Intercourse by the American band Gorgazm,
available in any metal shop in Australia. The details are too nasty to
explain but a big clue comes in the title of the record. The music within
doesn't match up, however. It's a weak distorted thrash with no apparent
message. The hateful cover is merely another shock tactic. The
unapproachability - the disgust - is the point. Sometimes it's clever and
artful but sometimes it's puerile and pointless.
The morbid tirade of death metal - where there's no higher praise for a
song than "brutal" - doesn't match the personalities either. There are
few real Satanists - KK Warslut of Destroyer 666 excluded - few
criminals, few nasty types. The scene, in fact, prides itself on its
friendliness. There are barely any drugs either, except cigarettes and
alcohol. Most people hold down a job and pay the rent or go to uni - they
do death metal after dark and they don't torch churches. Maybe in their
dreams and in their songs, but not in reality.
CHRIS NEWELL, 24, IS THE SINGER (read: growler) of death metallers
Excarnated. They have a cassette doing the rounds called Let the Hatred
Manifest but Chris is happy in his work as a painter/decorator and he
lives happily alone in a nicely decorated rented flat in Mordialloc,
bayside Melbourne. He's got Keith Haring prints on the wall, not skulls
and knives or foetuses in a jar. He's got fresh flowers in vases, too,
and nice rugs and clean dishes in the rack by the kitchen sink.
The band name, he explains, comes from his obsession with true crime and
ancient mythology. He read about a serial killer who cut strips of flesh
off his victims, then he read about native American Indian tribes who did
the same thing to their dead, as an offering to the Gods. To "excarnate".
"The average Joe would think we are devil worshippers," he says, smiling.
"But we're not, of course. Everyone I know in the scene is placid. Our
guitar player, Gary, works with computers - he wears a suit in the day.
All my friends are mellow. But we've got to sing about something. I'm not
into politics so I can't sing about that. The music is so aggressive so
the lyrics have to back it up. We can't sing about flowers or love. Death
metal is saying the things people don't want to hear, anyway. People want
to shut the door and say, 'there is no evil in the world'."
Also playing around Melbourne and recording material are the bands
Repugnance and Dezakrate. Daniel, the singer from Repugnance, works in a
suburban cake shop. He produces his own death metal fanzine and hustles
business for the band, who have a song called Terra Nullis, dedicated to
Aborigines. "It's my way of saying sorry," he says. "We play it as our
last song. A few times, I've had tears in my eyes." Dezakrate's bass
player, Andrew Lean, 19, an aviation technology student of Tullamarine,
says the band's songs are purely about, or metaphors for, emotions.
"Anger, sorrow, rejection, disappointment," he says. "Everyone feels
those. It's like we're exorcising demons, getting rid of our problems.
It's a creative way of seeing a psychiatrist."
He says Dezekrate's music is their natural sound, however dark. "It's not
contrived in any way. We're pulling this music out of our souls."
The young bass player's passion is how it is. Everyone's committed,
everyone's an expert and most play an instrument. This is why such a
"secret" music can survive for so long - and thrive - despite total
marginalisation from the mainstream, against the odds.
There are only one or two venues in capital cities where the bands can
play and similarly few specialist record shops. The music media pay no
attention; there's no radio play at all on the big stations, no videos on
television. And there are hardly any extreme metal bands subsidised by
major record labels despite sustained evidence that it won't go away.
They will, however, sign the watered-down clones like Marilyn Manson or
metal-crossover acts like Korn, much to the amusement and disdain of the
true subculture. Previously underground music scenes like punk and techno
have been assimilated into the mainstream within the past five years,
courtesy of the multinationals who treat new musical trends as marketing
exercises. But nothing of the sort has happened with true death metal -
it's unmarketable. So the scene runs itself.
There are the fanzines, often photocopied, for sale for a few dollars in
key shops. Most bands have an Internet site full of detailed information,
linked in Australia from one of two massive websites, Loud! and Ausmetal,
both posted from Sydney. Bands operate a unique system of music exchange,
where you make contact with a like-minded band from overseas on the
Internet or in a fanzine and swap a load of tapes or CDs for a similar
bundle of theirs. The music is then distributed by hand.
Recording is mostly done on a very low budget in cheap studios. Band
members or devotees form their own home-made record companies to
distribute the music. They, too, swap music with overseas labels. They
can also cobble together compilations for limited distribution by
downloading MP3 soundfiles from the Internet and burning them on to disc.
The frequent result is that a band from Melbourne or Sydney that only 50
people have ever heard of can attain a kind of fame (or infamy) in far-
flung countries where there's a far bigger death metal scene. Like in
Scandinavia, the (un)spiritual home of this music. It wouldn't be unusual
for an obscure act from Adelaide who've been banned from the local pub to
be feted as new death superstars in Oslo, for example. Not unusual at
all.
"I hear so many stories like that," says Mark Lackey, the manager of
Melbourne band Black Seed. "A band can sell 15 CDs in Melbourne and
exchange 10,000 in Germany. We know the limitations. We know rock bands
and indie bands can make loads of money these days and we can't."
The divisions between all the different kinds of metal also hinders the
scene by providing a strict set of self-imposed hurdles. The music is
segregated into a series of splinter groups, each obsessing on their own
particular style and rarely straying into another arena, no matter how
closely linked. To the outsider, it's another language, an impenetrable
code.
"It's getting out of hand, I must admit," says Andrew Haug, the
Australian rep for Century Media, America's biggest independent metal
record label. "There's powermetal - which is close to traditional heavy
metal - songs as opposed to noise with standard guitars, bass and drums
and wailing vocals. It's a European sound influenced mainly by Judas
Priest, I'd say. There's hardcore which crosses over with punk, the short
hair and the baseball hats like Mindsnare or No Grace.
"Then there's death metal, more Satanic, more noisy, two kick drums. Non-
stop noise, a wall of noise. Black metal's a bit different again. It's
more about image with the white make-up and the fake blood and the studs.
It's like a uniform. A black metal crowd won't be interested in power
metal or hardcore. And vice versa. The big new thing now seems to be that
Machinehead sound or the Skinlab sound - big, fat heavy grooves. It's a
Bay area sound from San Francisco."
OK. Can you run that by me again?
SYDNEY, EARLY SEPTEMBER. Battle Iron IV, the biggest underground hardcore
metal gig in months, at the dingy Iron Duke Hotel in Alexandria.
The show features 12 bands spanning the death and black metal thing over
two nights at $18 for both. The windows are blacked out with sheets; a
small gaming room cluttered with pokies is the makeshift band room, where
they tune up and drink. The band Automation don't show - their van breaks
down somewhere near Chatswood. And closing time mysteriously shifts from
1am until midnight so it's an early start with no time for soundchecks -
the bands warm up and check their monotonous drum tones on stage before
an audience.
At the back, beside the bar, is the death-metal ethic in a nutshell. It's
an unofficial CD and merchandise stall, with T-shirts taped to the wall
like horrific art and discs lying face up in a long row on a counter.
Every band has recordings on sale as well - unloaded in boxes from the
backs of cars - for as little as $5. The crowd, all in black to a man,
queue up at the unofficial stall between bands, gazing at the gory
artwork, checking the CD sleeves for the minutest details, and asking
merchant Mark "Deathbringer" Whelan what's what. He runs his own label,
Venomous, and has swapped all the sale CDs with insider penpals from
around the world.
"We've got stuff here from South America, the UK, the USA, Asia and even
South Africa," he says. "I send stuff to them and they send stuff to me
and we recoup by selling each other's music."
The bands pass in a blur; they've got only 40 minutes each. As well as
Sydney, there are acts from Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Melbourne and
Brisbane. The crowd is fired up and drinking heavily. The body count from
all the dead and decomposing bodies on T-shirts is extremely high.
Everyone's wearing either a pentagram or an upside-down cross. There are
even "666"-type doom slogans hastily daubed in the toilet cubicles with
black felt pen.
But the pub doesn't smell of death and decay. It smells of shampoo. Pack
150 long hairs into a small room and the pervading odour is Wella Balsam.
Who's that freak, though, that androgynous waif in tight shiny leather
pants with splits up the side and a microscopic leather corset? Her face
is painted bright white with big black circles around both eyes and a sad
black mouth curling down at the edges in a painted-on frown, like a
grieving clown. She's leaning on the Addams Family pinball machine
sucking on a VB stubby looking wasted and bizarre.
She's Skadi, the singer from black metal band Niflheim, who take their
name after a "land of frost and fire", a purgatory from Norse mythology.
At 10pm, she's on stage with her band - Aegir on drums and Enk, ex-
Crucible of Agony, on guitar. All the band wear the ghoulish "corpse
paint", mirroring the Scandinavian death/black metal formula. The look is
part-pagan warrior, part-Goth and part-dead - the walking dead who will
chase you and stab you and eat you in a dark forest ... or something.
"Come on, you metal maniacs!" Skadi announces, her female voice
struggling with the trademark death growl. "Let's cause some havoc!"
She even does some fire-eating to heighten the theatrics. The Norse vixen
of the dark side - from Blacktown, actually - breathing flames in a grim
Alexandria pub, dressed as a sex corpse. Surrounding Niflheim on the
giant two-night bill are Deadspawn, Sakkuth, Order of Chaos, Grenade,
crowd favourites Misery, Encabulos, Decayed Divinity, Miscreation, Haar
and Seraphic Behest. No one makes any money but it's a success,
nonetheless. The bands get paid but spend it all on beer.
The next day in a Newtown side street, the Fringe Art record store -
specialising in underground metal of all styles - is doing brisk
business. The shop imports about 13,000 bands from hundreds of labels and
sells a lot of extreme local metal. Accessories like candles and
jewellery and posters and magazines go well, although they've sold out of
bullet belts, supplied as cast-offs by the Australian Army.
The shop sits at the core of the scene's underground network, operating
on basic supply and demand, making valuable contacts by e-mail in other
corners of the globe and only just breaking even with every transaction.
When Doug Dalton and Michelle Madden, a soon-to-be-married metal couple,
opened the shop in 1993, they placed a small ad in Sydney street press to
announce themselves. The next day, a Catholic priest visited, Michelle
says, to condemn their Satanic actions and urge them to close the shop.
"I thought 'what?'," says Madden. "I said to him 'aren't you supposed to
be feeding homeless children?' We still get phone calls from church
groups complaining about us. People telling us what we are and what we
stand for. I mean, I'm such a lost sheep that I can't work out the world
for myself ...
"I say, 'look in your own backyard before you come into my shop telling
me what's right and what's wrong'."
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> This shit's been around for over a decade, and just now the
mainstream media
> is starting to realize it?
There's probably a need for further speech restrictions.
> Pretty funny how they make it seem like
Led
> Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are "good" bands, when in fact it was
rumored that
> Jimmy Page practiced black magic.
As you note, it's a generational thing - back then, those bands were as
"scary" as death metal is today. It was a different time. A long
fucking time!
I guess it'll be another ten years
before
> there's similar articles on black metal, and how things are even more
extreme
> in that scene.
Or technical ambient Morsecore, or atmospheric ritual doom metal, or
homosexual gutteral "deep throat" grindcore, whatever the trend may be.
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Brad Symic wrote:
> fuck off, homo
>
The guy prints an interesting article and that is all you can come up with?
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Enki
Flagellum Dei <perver...@nuns.net> wrote in article
<MPG.13777cc11...@news.uq.net.au>...
> dvsa...@aol.com wrote:
> > No, this isn't a sermon, this is the topic of the articles that are
headlining
> > the newspapers in New Mexico today. I took these from the Journal in
> > Albuquerque. There is alot of stuff here, and this is only the first
of two
> > parts, but I thought some people here might find this rather
interesting and/or
> > amusing.
>
> An Australian rag published this expose on death metal last year.
> Chris is happy in his work as a painter/decorator and he
> lives happily alone in a nicely decorated rented flat in Mordialloc,
> bayside Melbourne. He's got Keith Haring prints on the wall, not skulls
> and knives or foetuses in a jar. He's got fresh flowers in vases, too,
> and nice rugs and clean dishes in the rack by the kitchen sink.
Nicely decorated flat, fine. Nice rugs, clean dishes, even fresh flowers -
maybe. But Keith Haring prints? That's not metal!
Lord Vic
dead...@aol.com (Deadmetal) wrote:
>
> The best part is, none of this
> music can be banned in the US, else it would violate the First
Amendment. What
> the founding fathers of this country meant by free speech was
something else
> entirely, but you have to love how the term has been interpreted by
the liberal
> courts in such a way that pretty much anything can be called a form of
speech.
> Music, performance art, flag burning, etc.. all have been deemed to be
forms of
> speech, and hence are protected by the First Amendment.
>
Unfortunately maybe not for too much longer.... the ultra-right morons
keep throwing up that flag-burning amendment every year and every year
it fails by a smaller and smaller margin. And if THAT ever passes,
what's next? "Amendment XXXIX - there shall be no musical artists who
write songs about copulation with corpses...."?
On an almost completely unrelated note, I swore that I would press
onward musically until my band was mentioned in one of these silly
articles bashing the genre. And now it has been, but only as part of
some other band's song title ("Mass Murder Rampage"). Oh well; there's
always Festering Sore (who make those other guys look like amateurs, IMO
- everyone in New Mexico would have a shitfit if they could read the
lyrics to Fuck a Dead Body).
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DvSalazar
Why? Are you the author of this article or something?
DvSalazar
>onward musically until my band was mentioned in one of these silly
>articles bashing the genre. And now it has been, but only as part of
>some other band's song title ("Mass Murder Rampage"). Oh well; there's
>always Festering Sore (who make those other guys look like amateurs, IMO
>- everyone in New Mexico would have a shitfit if they could read the
>lyrics to Fuck a Dead Body).
>
You know, to be honest, I have no idea why the hell they're concerned with this
at all in New Mexico. There's hardly anyone here to begin with, and though the
crime-rate here is rather phenomenal, it has little or no correlation with
death metal. You'd think they'd be posting an article on the dangers of Rap
instead, since the lyrics are not much milder in that genre as far as crimes
against women/etc., and since it is far more widespread and readily available
here....
Lord Vic
for legalization of Heroin and Pot, etc.? Nation's top state for Heroin
overdosing? Or am I confusing NM with Arizona or one of those other
desert states?
In article <20000501135554...@ng-ff1.aol.com>,
--
DvSalazar
>for legalization of Heroin and Pot, etc.? Nation's top state for Heroin
>overdosing? Or am I confusing NM with Arizona or one of those other
>desert states?
No, you're absolutely right, it is New Mexico. Governor Gary Johnson is the
man in question. Originally, his thoughts on legalization included pot and pot
alone--and although the idea isn't new it was still rather controversial, but
surprisingly it was pretty warmly-received. But when he started discussing the
potential for legalizing OTHER drugs, all hell pretty much broke loose. New
Mexico has a pretty nasty record when it comes to drugs (like you pointed out,
with the nation's highest rate of heroin overdoses, and some of the highest
rates of drug abuse per capita--undoubtedly linked with the fact that it's the
poorest State in the nation). I think Governor Johnson was on the news-show 60
Minutes about a week ago, sharing his ideas; there's even talk (most of it
local) of trying to get him to run for the office of president. Not very
likely, methinks...
David
Popess Lilith von Fraumench
<lord...@altavista.com> wrote:
> Flagellum Dei <perver...@nuns.net> wrote in article
> <MPG.13777cc11...@news.uq.net.au>...
> > dvsa...@aol.com wrote:
> > > No, this isn't a sermon, this is the topic of the articles that are
> headlining
> > > the newspapers in New Mexico today. I took these from the Journal in
> > > Albuquerque. There is alot of stuff here, and this is only the first
> of two
> > > parts, but I thought some people here might find this rather
> interesting and/or
> > > amusing.
> >
> > An Australian rag published this expose on death metal last year.
>
> > Chris is happy in his work as a painter/decorator and he
> > lives happily alone in a nicely decorated rented flat in Mordialloc,
> > bayside Melbourne. He's got Keith Haring prints on the wall, not skulls
> > and knives or foetuses in a jar. He's got fresh flowers in vases, too,
> > and nice rugs and clean dishes in the rack by the kitchen sink.
>
> Nicely decorated flat, fine. Nice rugs, clean dishes, even fresh flowers -
> maybe. But Keith Haring prints? That's not metal!
What, don't you know about the Cannibal Corpse cover Keith Haring
painted, before Vincent Locke? Man, that has to be THE sickest shit
I've ever seen.
The Prophet Lilith
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>
> >
> >This shit's been around for over a decade, and just now the mainstream media
> >Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are "good" bands, when in fact it was rumored that
> >there's similar articles on black metal, and how things are even more extreme
> >in that scene.
>
> article on Black Metal in summer of '98 (I think). Oh yeah, plus I remember
> them doing an article on "Grindcore" in like 1991 or so. There was this really
> cool picture of Trey Azagthoth spitting blood!
If I remember correctly, back in, ummm, '94 I think, Spin also did
an article on Polish death metal, as a reaction to the fall of
socialism...
Chris
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