Publicist UK is good tho. What are you talking about, Satan?
Neill from Krieg and a professor from Marshall posted separate op-eds on Decibel about the threat to extreme music posed by these pansy PC Social Justice Warrior twats. Most of it revolved around someone from Antifa pepper spraying a bunch of people at a Taake show recently because Antifa was mad about Taake's Hoest wearing swastikas. Neill's point was that if they had a problem with Hoest, they should have pepper sprayed him and not the crowd. Nothing wrong there. The professor's point was that musics like Black Metal and Grindcore are supposed to be offensive and that these scene tourists just didn't understand the genre. So the singer from Publicist UK piped in with his own rambling op-ed about how there's no such thing as a scene tourist and that all these people understand the music, but that metalheads are a bunch of assholes...and that's not ok with him. I'm always of the opinion that if you don't like something, leave it alone. Go pay attention to something you can handle. Metal in general caters to misanthropes. It's not a music suited for playing nice. If you want to listen to music not made by "assholes", go buck wild with some Indie Rock or something. Trying to fix metalheads and make them more socially thoughtful kinda misses the point. If you want to get down to it, stuff like Grindcore specifically targets basement dwellers that hate women. Expecting them to suddenly give a shit what some Feminist thinks would pretty much nullify the genre. The comments section was especially entertaining because the people against Neill were resorting to Ad Hominem remarks about how fat he is. Great job dipshits! We're PC and hate assholes, but we'll make fun of how fat someone is. Some of them posted old pics of punks like Sid Vicious wearing swastikas for shock value. I'm sure the Publicist UK guy is a Bowie fan, but even Bowie toyed with Nazi imagery in the late 70's. Some artists intention is to get under people's skin, but this homo thinks everyone should play nice and be kosher and sing kumbaya together. The cherry on top (and bitter irony) is that the drummer from Publicist UK is David Witte, a guy I've been a huge fan of for close to 20 years. I friended him on Myspace many moons ago and his profile music was Leviathan, an artist known for being a misanthropic tool that violated his ex-girlfriend with tattoo equipment. Punk rock was ruined by people like this Publicist asshole. It went from being miscreants that bragged about shooting cops and selling their ass for some smack to a bunch of pussies that whine about some high school crush that didn't like their facebook status. The genre is dead now because of it. The only thing Punk represents to kids under 20 is a useful place for hot retro fashion. By neutering the genre, it was rendered void. I'm all for things evolving and for people being more thoughtful about what and who they're offending, but I understand that there is a place for being an ignorant jackass.
Okay I feel that. I've been hearing reference to some Taake incident but didn't know what it was. That's shitty.
Yeah. It happened in Sacramento
What sticks out to me is that I saw Taake a couple of months ago. I was just bored and it was cheap. I'm sure there were people like me in that crowd, not to mention security guys and other club employees. What sense does it make to pepper spray those people?
Damn how did I not hear about that shit? I wanted to go to the Taake show in Oakland, mainly because Ails is opening tho. New band with the vocalist and guitarist from Ludicra and I haven't seen em yet
Portugal the man just giving away tickets to the show in AZ to the first people that snap them. Cool shit like that never happens around here. Then again I'd have had tickets for weeks anyway.
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Next Saturday is going to suck major dick. I close on 4th of July weekend. I can already feel the stress.
What sticks out to me is that I saw Taake a couple of months ago. I was just bored and it was cheap. I'm sure there were people like me in that crowd, not to mention security guys and other club employees. What sense does it make to pepper spray those people?
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