In case you haven't noticed -- and I wouldn't put it past you, you're dumb as hell -- it's Halloween season. And we at OPIUM HUM HQ couldn't be more full of grim, skull-fucking, spine-stabbing excitement. So please enjoy this and the rest of this month's selections the way they're intended to be enjoyed: extremely loudly, in the dark, while gurgling your last breaths through a slit throat.
With that said, here's one of the more bizarre, disturbing records I've heard. It's Rozz Williams (Christian Death, Premature Ejaculation) reciting cryptic and violent poetry over noisescapes of detuned guitars, warped piano and organ, samples, loops, and electronics. The other night, for reasons I still can't comprehend, I tried to go to sleep to this shit. It didn't work.
P.S. Please understand, those of you that have knee-jerk reactions about this kind of thing, that swastika up there does not indicate that this is a pro-Nazi album, any more than the crucifix indicates that it's a Christian record. It's there to make you feel uncomfortable.
Track listing:
1. Whorse
2. Mind Fuck (Soundtrack to a Murder)
3. The Beast (Invocation)
4. Currents
5. To He Who Shall Come After (Mystic Fragments)
6. The Evil Ones
7. No Soldier (Cloak of Shit)
8. Walls/Voices
Once it has your attention, it exploits you
Amen
Any chance you could re-up this?
ReplyDeleteYou got any Bound for Glory, Fortress or Skrewdriver records you can post, white brother?
ReplyDeleteThis is such a dumb, piss-poor take that I can't help but wonder if it's intentionally shallow. If you want to talk about whether or not it's acceptable to use a swastika/other nazi imagery in any capacity -- including in service of an artistic viewpoint -- we could have that conversation. I'm probably closer to the "it's never acceptable" side than I was 10 years ago when I posted this. But acting like this is on par with explicitly political, white nationalist music is fucking brainless.
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