Apopthelema Entry 6 Part 4 by Kyle Nonneman
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are
notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can
contact Kyle through the link listed at the end of this entry.]
"HAVE YOU NEVER NOTICED THAT MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST WHEN THEY HAVE ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF FREEDOM? THEN THEY FIGHT AND STRUGGLE FOR MORE. WHEN DO YOU MAKE YOUR GREATEST EFFORTS--WHEN YOU HAVE TO STRUGGLE FOR WHAT YOU WANT, OR WHEN YOU ARE FREE TO DO EXACTLY AS YOU LIKE? IF MEN ARE SUDDENLY PRESENTED WITH TOO MUCH FREEDOM THEY FEEL CONFUSED AND LOSE THEIR SENSE OF PURPOSE"
-COLIN WILSON
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"I'M A SHOCK TROOPER IN A STUPOR/YES I AM/I'M A NAZI SCHATZE YOU KNOW/I FIGHT FOR FATHERLAND"-RAMONES (TODAY YOUR LOVE,TOMORROW THE WORLD (ORIGINAL UNCENSORED VERSION))
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"GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH&GOD BLESS AMERICA"-RAMONES (ROCK&ROLL HALL OF FAME ACCEPTANCE SPEECH)
Its funny I'm accused of being a nazi, yet there are distros in Israel selling my releases on discogs.com.. In Israel, the Kiss logo is censored because it allegedly promotes anti-semitism. That's
almost as funny as when Prurient got stopped at the border on tour and had his merch and equipment confiscated because customs thought he was promoting hate crimes.
It's a sad anecdote cited in zines when government officials do it, but it's a celebrated act when the scene police do it...Recently the P.M.R.R.C scene police in another act of blatant Mcarthyism attempted to bring back the Hollywood black listing of the dark ages....The witch hunting that resulted in a lot of great writers being unable to get their work out, due to censorship and government fascism, has now been reinvented in a campaign to censor discogs.com .
Discogs.com was a way for independent distros and labels to sell releases outside the corporate controlled infrastructure of Amazon and Ebay . Now it's being screened for content by Crimethinc Mccarthyists.... Discogs has removed a lot of releases by Tesco, including a lot of Genocide Organ releases. You study Genocide Organ their clearly fucking nihilistic anarchists satirizing fascism. Why else would a European act do songs about white power racism in the United States? If you look up the names of the members of Genocide Organ you'll see clear references to German anarchists. You can subvert control systems by taking the symbols and methods of control as your own and disseminating them ...Hence the military surplus aspect of subculture fashion.This is part of why pop punk,Kiss and hip hop are so mainstream.When you popularize a cartoon version of something, it disarms the real thing as a whole because the two become indistinguishable in the eyes of the masses.
Gangsta rap was a threat to white America and struck fear in the hearts of the caucasian establishment.The government knew that banning it and talking about how dangerous it was would just serve to promote it and make it more of a threat, likeKent State made the draft resistance movement more militant.
So major labels started releasing it en mass and distributing rap music worldwide. So now rap music is so fucking mainstream and assimilated into pop culture it doesn't mean shit anymore. It's just cartoon bubblegum radio friendly shit .
The same thing was done with punk rock. And before that Kiss. Why do you think Kiss was so heavily promoted and merchandised?
But in the case of Power Electronics, Neofolk, Black Metal and other 'sketchy' strains of music you can't make that type of material mainstream. So they try to suppress it by getting it blacklisted from discogs.com . Which just makes it more underground and forbidden .By driving it further underground and forbidden, you're just adding value to it. Now its more subversive and outside of the mainstream.
Bataille wrote a lot on how when the church tries to ban and suppress something it inadvertently gives it a value it didn't have previously. Not to mention in terms of record prices, This type of material is now harder to obtain and locate .So it will in all likelihood jump in price.Since you can't simply do a convenient paypal transaction. You in some cases have to go back to obtaining it through mailorder distros and zines like you did before the internet.This also means a lot of acts aren't going to casually latch onto this trend and attempt to use this type of imagery and sound unless they're really fucking serious about it. Because now if you transgress beyond the confines of what's accepted by the Scene Police your releases end up blacklisted. But historically that didn't stop anybody.
Dalton Trumbo still won awards for his scripts. In addition to being just like the red scare, it's also similar to how skinhead prison gangs check paperwork and charge pedophiles extortion money for having bad charges. What's allegedly a lofty act of justified vigilantism ends up just being an excuse for jockish meatheads that can't function outside of a cage to exercise power over weaker individuals. In most cases, they manufacture rumors about what an individual's charges are. Just like punks are doing now. Fuckin base hypocrisy at its finest.
So fuck censorship and fuck discogs.com and fuck your politics.. and fuck the Kiss army.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Friday, February 3, 2017
Apopthelema Entry 6 Part 3 by Kyle Nonneman
Apopthelema Entry 6 Part 3 by Kyle Nonneman
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the link listed at the end of this entry.]
Lovecraft distilled the gothic elements from gothic romance and discarded the rest of it. Just like he took all the bleakest and most horrifying elements of supernatural literature and isolated those core images and filtered it through his misanthropic anti natalist nihilism known as cosmicism. Lovecraft's work had almost no characterization. Let alone anything remotely human for readers to relate to. It transgressed all that and spitefully refused to pander to simple minded readers who needed a linear narrative and character development to sugarcoat the horror of his work. In his refusal to pander to accepted standards of what proper writing is supposed to be his work was all the more powerful and disturbing as a result.
Lovecraft's imagery was also at times vague and subjective. Prompting the readers to fill in the blanks with images from their own psyche. As a result Lovecraft was able to coerce readers through understated details to imagine personalized visions of hellish nightmares from their own minds and this as a result made Lovecraft's work more powerful then overly descriptive formulaic writers who gave readers clean precise descriptions. Like Lovecraft removed the romance from Gothic Romance, alot of extreme metal took all the pop and rock elements out of thrash and heavy metal and even stripped out most of the blues influences. Leaving by a cold monstrous sound of pure evil. This was taken to an even further extreme by power electronics and noise artists carrying on what true industrial stood for before it became associated with raver trash dance music and false mall metal with keyboards.
In what is in effect the auditory equivalent of Lovecraft's prose.
As a result weak minded sheeple can't handle it. They try to disarm their revulsion and claim to appreciate some metal , but they can't handle true metal, metal refined and distilled down to its brutal core of pure evil. Remorselessly and unrelentingly dissociated from anything remotely relatable to the common mass of mankind.
Something the common cattle can't even decipher. They will claim that its too loud,too distorted, the lyrics are just screaming, or cry about the unintelligible lyrics that they simply can't understand.
It;s interesting cattle accustomed to pop music will typically say similar things about jazz. You play jazz for a lot of sheep they will complain about the lack of vocals and the timings they can't follow.
But these aren't valid criticisms .It's like an illiterate crackhead giving a book a bad review because the words were too advanced for his reading level. Or a child criticizing a gourmet dinner because theirs no sugar in it and he just wants to eat candy... Or a toothless senile old man complaining about food being too hard to chew. Their suggestions to make the music they disapprove of more acceptable to their palettes are all centered around debasing down to the level they can understand. Making things safe for everyone. Weakening it and sugarcoating it for civilians.
This is the tyranny of the masses in action and the type of forced equality that destroys individualism like what Vonnegut was satirizing in Welcome To The Monkeyhouse. They're also completely blind and ignorant to the passion and the energy behind the music.
John Shirley wrote a great description of live Punk Rock in his cult cyberpunk science fiction classic 'City Come-A-walking'. He said the fact that the lyrics were indecipherable and unintelligible didn't matter because the sheer passion and energy behind the performance overcompensated for all of that.
But they dont get that. They're actually, in a lot of cases, frightened of music with actual emotion and feeling behind it. Buying instead releases from shock acts whose extreme lyrics are actually just a misunderstood metaphor for something acceptable and politically correct. Preferring dead clean sterile remastered studio versions of radio hits over live bootleg deep cuts where the band is actually taking their mask off.
You listen to the live Joy Division material, is raw,violent, and distorted. Ian Curtis' voice cracks and becomes frantic . The fluctuations in volume heighten the delivery. It's the sound of Curtis bearing his soul to the crowd and letting his emotions bleed through the microphone. In the last years of his life before he committed suicide The Martin Hannet production material is cold and definitive but it also tones down and censors a lot of what Curtis was trying to convey.
On album Black Sabbath's heaviness doesn't reach the level of modern acts like Electric Wizard.
Sabbath's Live at Asbury Park New Jersey bootleg from the seventies is as essential as Paranoid. Its Sabbath live in the flesh with all the proto-metal doom conveyed in a more heavy context due to the mafia produced boardmix that isn't cleaned up and post processed by major label hired gun studio exec engineers for proper radio airplay.
(contact Kyle at: http://www.writeaprisoner.com/template.aspx?i=z-16534211 )
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the link listed at the end of this entry.]
Lovecraft distilled the gothic elements from gothic romance and discarded the rest of it. Just like he took all the bleakest and most horrifying elements of supernatural literature and isolated those core images and filtered it through his misanthropic anti natalist nihilism known as cosmicism. Lovecraft's work had almost no characterization. Let alone anything remotely human for readers to relate to. It transgressed all that and spitefully refused to pander to simple minded readers who needed a linear narrative and character development to sugarcoat the horror of his work. In his refusal to pander to accepted standards of what proper writing is supposed to be his work was all the more powerful and disturbing as a result.
Lovecraft's imagery was also at times vague and subjective. Prompting the readers to fill in the blanks with images from their own psyche. As a result Lovecraft was able to coerce readers through understated details to imagine personalized visions of hellish nightmares from their own minds and this as a result made Lovecraft's work more powerful then overly descriptive formulaic writers who gave readers clean precise descriptions. Like Lovecraft removed the romance from Gothic Romance, alot of extreme metal took all the pop and rock elements out of thrash and heavy metal and even stripped out most of the blues influences. Leaving by a cold monstrous sound of pure evil. This was taken to an even further extreme by power electronics and noise artists carrying on what true industrial stood for before it became associated with raver trash dance music and false mall metal with keyboards.
In what is in effect the auditory equivalent of Lovecraft's prose.
As a result weak minded sheeple can't handle it. They try to disarm their revulsion and claim to appreciate some metal , but they can't handle true metal, metal refined and distilled down to its brutal core of pure evil. Remorselessly and unrelentingly dissociated from anything remotely relatable to the common mass of mankind.
Something the common cattle can't even decipher. They will claim that its too loud,too distorted, the lyrics are just screaming, or cry about the unintelligible lyrics that they simply can't understand.
It;s interesting cattle accustomed to pop music will typically say similar things about jazz. You play jazz for a lot of sheep they will complain about the lack of vocals and the timings they can't follow.
But these aren't valid criticisms .It's like an illiterate crackhead giving a book a bad review because the words were too advanced for his reading level. Or a child criticizing a gourmet dinner because theirs no sugar in it and he just wants to eat candy... Or a toothless senile old man complaining about food being too hard to chew. Their suggestions to make the music they disapprove of more acceptable to their palettes are all centered around debasing down to the level they can understand. Making things safe for everyone. Weakening it and sugarcoating it for civilians.
This is the tyranny of the masses in action and the type of forced equality that destroys individualism like what Vonnegut was satirizing in Welcome To The Monkeyhouse. They're also completely blind and ignorant to the passion and the energy behind the music.
John Shirley wrote a great description of live Punk Rock in his cult cyberpunk science fiction classic 'City Come-A-walking'. He said the fact that the lyrics were indecipherable and unintelligible didn't matter because the sheer passion and energy behind the performance overcompensated for all of that.
But they dont get that. They're actually, in a lot of cases, frightened of music with actual emotion and feeling behind it. Buying instead releases from shock acts whose extreme lyrics are actually just a misunderstood metaphor for something acceptable and politically correct. Preferring dead clean sterile remastered studio versions of radio hits over live bootleg deep cuts where the band is actually taking their mask off.
You listen to the live Joy Division material, is raw,violent, and distorted. Ian Curtis' voice cracks and becomes frantic . The fluctuations in volume heighten the delivery. It's the sound of Curtis bearing his soul to the crowd and letting his emotions bleed through the microphone. In the last years of his life before he committed suicide The Martin Hannet production material is cold and definitive but it also tones down and censors a lot of what Curtis was trying to convey.
On album Black Sabbath's heaviness doesn't reach the level of modern acts like Electric Wizard.
Sabbath's Live at Asbury Park New Jersey bootleg from the seventies is as essential as Paranoid. Its Sabbath live in the flesh with all the proto-metal doom conveyed in a more heavy context due to the mafia produced boardmix that isn't cleaned up and post processed by major label hired gun studio exec engineers for proper radio airplay.
(contact Kyle at: http://www.writeaprisoner.com/template.aspx?i=z-16534211 )
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