Birds Before The Storm

this is funny.

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Yes, yes, Wolves In The Throne Room is technically black metal and therefore, for some bizarre reason, outside the realm of “goth,” but that’s bullshit. This song is hell of goth. And you can’t get better than a black metal band that got its start at an Earth First! Rendezvous and is called something so blatant as Wolves In The Throne Room. I’m glad to hear a band with eco themes that never strays the slightest towards eco-fascism. And I’m glad to see cascadian culture so beautifully represented.

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Black flag in the background? Check. Collectivist rather than individual approach to making industrial music? Check. I discovered Militia from a forum discussion about anti-fascist neofolk on last.fm. They’ve got an album called The Black Flag Hoisted and a book about eco-anarchism. From an interview:

In connection with your past and present albums I’ve found links to legendary Russian anarcho-theoretics Bakunin and Kropotkin. Can I ask you about your interest to Russia and Russian revolution movements? What was the general idea/concept for the release? Why is it so actual for you to talk today about the past, about revolution – today, in a time of total de-humanisation, mechanical rhythm of daily life, inner destruction of human individuality in modern megapolises? Can we talk about it?

FG: I think you’ve already made the right conclusions by reading about our works and listening to them. Indeed, we’re using MILITIA as a tool for spreading our eco-anarchic ideas about our society. They will all be explained in our forthcoming manifesto. We founded MILITIA to be a tool for the spreading of our eco-environmental views and our social ideas, which are based upon the anarchic philosophies of the Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin and the French ‘father’ of anarchism Proudhon. We combined certain elements of their social views with our own ideas regarding environmental problems, so we designed an alternative social form in which people can live in harmony with their natural environment, based upon anarchic principles. This means that we distinguish ourselves from the conventional left wing ideas – which believe in a society lead by a government – and form a strong opposition against the appearance of right wing ideas that seem to infiltrate the industrial music scene more and more.

From The Onion:

“I already belong to a health club, a church, and the Kiwanis Club,” Tammy Golden of Los Angeles wrote. “I’m a member of the Von’s Grocery Super Savers, which gets me a discount on certain groceries. These are all well-managed organizations with real benefits. None of them send me a confusing bill once a year and make me work it out myself, then throw me in jail if I get it wrong.”

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In high school, someone dubbed me a copy of the ministry album New World Order. While reading a Vampire Freaks thread on environmental industrial, I found the guy from Velvet Acid Christ posting this song and pointing out that, yes, industrial has always been of an anti-industrialization critique.

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Winterkälte doesn’t have any lyrics, but their song names say it all: “ban depleted uranium weapons”, “riot green elves”, “erosion”… they’re not actually very subtle. It’s good noisy stuff, too.

That was the video that the RNC Welcoming Committee made before the RNC protests in Minneapolis / St. Paul in 2008. I think it’s hilarious and quite obviously satire. Now, a few years later, the RNC 8 are about to go to court (on October 25th), accused of conspiracy. Originally, they were being charged as terrorists. Now, just “conspiracy.” For helping organize a counter-summit protest.

Apparently, the above video is being used as evidence against them, because the prosecution doesn’t think that it’s satire. For christ’s sake, they use a molotov to light a barbeque grill, and they wear black bloc while showering in the morning. How could it not be satire?

So they released a second video:

I’ve just started a Tumblr for Nurr Goth Isn’t Political, though I’ll continue to post some to this site as well until the end of the month since I’ve already got them scheduled.

A friend of mine just gave me a ridiculous number of recommendations for NGIP. I told him I’d never heard Snog, and he told me that that was criminal. I now understand why.

Snog: Empires

From the cadillac soup-kitchens
To the impoverished boardrooms
This orwellian nightmare
Is now everyman’s dream

Burn the empires down

There is no heaven

As we stand in line in your efficiency drive
A voice from the checkout screams
That this orwellian nightmare
Is now an everyday scene

Oh how I love Swans. Ten years ago, when I was a teenager, my art teacher (taking lessons outside of school) Steven Archer told me one week that my homework was to go out and buy the Swans album Various Failures. “Put in the second CD, put it on track 10, put the volume all the way up, and press play.” That was my homework. I didn’t have to paint something about the song, I just had to listen to it (the song was called Eyes Of Nature). It changed my life. Swans is what I listen to when people that I care about die.

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Save Samizdat is a website that has videos of a(n) (art? direct action?) group that interferes with daily life, particularly that of the art elite an their museums and galleries, by bring animals into the mix. The most striking of these videos, in my opinion, is that of a roadkill deer left on the steps of the New Museum. All hail anti-art!