Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 4 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 4 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 3 by Kyle Nonneman
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 address listed at the end of this entry.]

WHEN WE HAVE EACH OTHER, WE HAVE EVERYTHING
(A TRIBUTE TO DEATH IN JUNE)-VARIOUS ARTISTS

If readers are in interested in hearing a good tribute to Death In June, seek out DoctorShopper. DoctorShopper is a a powerful fucked up black metal sludge noise/grind act that puts out intelligent atrocity exhibitions of nihilistic and unrelentingly misanthropic sonic chaos.They did an excellent cover of the old Death In June song first from the Crisis days "All Alone In Her Nirvana" . DoctorShopper has a sincere understanding and respect for what Death In June stands for. Which is rare.

This Tribute comp is obviously a publicity stunt. Like dressing up as a Sharp so you can get mistaken for a nazi skinhead and then lecture someone on your shoe strings being the wrong color for you to be a nazi. They choose Death in June as the subject of this tribute because Death In June is a convenient target. ( Its funny on old Crisis live tapes fascists in the crowd call them "Fucking Communists" and now wannabe communists call them fucking fascists.)

To punks the "Fuck Censorship" party line only applies to people saying things they agree with. Black Vase is on this compilation. I suspect Black Vase to be Dominick Fernow. Nice joke , "I PLAYED IN BLACK VASE ON A DEATH IN JUNE TRIBUTE ALBUM"

There isn't shit about Black Vase on Discogs.com. All they appear to have done is a couple comps. But Black Vase is also the name of of an old marginally decent classic Prurient album. On the tracklisting I have, Black Vase censors the title from Fields of Rape to Fields. The only well known and established band on this compilation is Digital Leather's cover of She Said Destroy. DIgital Leather takes a cue from Earth Crisis.... by changing the word Gas to Glass. "Bodies Collapse swollen with Glass" Instead of Gas as it was in the original.

Earth Crisis covered "Holiday In Cambodia" and changed the lyrics to "reckon that you know how the brothers feel so cold". That's just fucking cowardice. Spazz snuck on a Fat Wreck comp with a power violence jam called something like "Prayer for the Utter Annihilation of Pop Punk" that's righteous. But censoring words to a song your allegedly paying tribute to so you can passive aggressively talk shit on a band is pathetic. I'm sure the unknown bands on this comp will love it when Digital Leather and Prurient completists pick it up and then they can explain themselves in interviews and prattle about the Situationist Methods of Detournment they used in their Death In June parody track to drum up some record sales.

Same with the label that put this shit out. They got the last laugh by turning the P.c. Scene police drama club into a business opportunity. Digital Leather was a quality synth punk band that respected and tastefully drew upon the work of Suicide, Metal Urbain, Hardcore era Devo and Screamers. I think they did a Screamers cover also and they rarely crossed over into Casio core/sleazy cheesy 101/Faint/Electroclash bullshit.. The harsher work the keyboardist does as Destruction Unit is also great work. The Bassist for Digital Leather used to play in The Lost Sounds, another great synth punk act that ended in self destructive trauma, death. Lost Sounds tried to play a upbeat 60s garage psych/late 70s/80s synth punk fusion . But all the drama and bad blood between band members turned this band rabid. All the hate between members turned their live shows violent. People started labeling em Black Wave, claiming it was like a combination of New Wave and Black Metal. ALicija trout won't record anything but pop music now because of the bad ptsd issues she developed from being in Lost Sounds and her ex Jay Reatard did the solo album Blood Visions i think on a tascam, to show he didnt' need the band and Jay Reatard was a talented enough musician to cross over into the mainstream if he wasn't so fucked up in the head.

Blood Visions intelligently vented all his homicidal ideations towards his former bandmates, Including a catchy song about stalking his ex. Blood Visions sounds like Devo if they sold all their all their synths for meth and got spun out and suicidal. Before his death , Jay Reatard recorded Terror Visions World of Shit .One of my favorite Synth punk records ever. Jay Reatard died in his mid twenties but he went out on a high note with Blood Visions &Terror Visions World of Shit. His death was epic revenge because his former bandmates and everyone in that scene will forever be in his shadow. He made a powerful impact. Like a fucking car crash.

GO GET LOST SOUNDS TWO BEST ALBUMS BLAC STATIC & LOST LOST DEMOS OFF SLSK AND BLOOD VISIONS & TERROR VISIONS. CRUCIAL SHIT YOU NEED. AND GET SOME MOTHERFUCKING DOCTORSHOPPER!

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