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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
This week had some particularly ugly news (as if the past year and a half didn't have enough) regarding the firing of a film creator who has had a powerfully positive and beneficial impact on our lives over the past several years and is very vocal in his opposition to the current U.S. administration. He was fired not so much because of what he had done (and had acknowledged previously was wrong before even being hired) but because a tool we use to call out injustices was weaponized against him by someone of truly sinister and criminal character. Now we see the powers-that-be emboldening more of such behavior by legitimizing the hate-mobs whose organized efforts are aimed largely at silencing those who speak loudly against the feckless ruling party in government, a party held to no account for actions far worse than those that got this creator fired.
The last time this party had control of the executive branch, policies were enacted that reportedly led to the use of a specific and quintessential industrial band's music as a means of punitive torture. One of the songs from the album the band wrote in response to that is today's featured cover.:
Acidrodent - illisiT (Skinny Puppy)
Canadian electro-industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy released their twelfth album, Weapon, in 2013. The album was largely inspired by the revelation to them that their music had been played in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp at unbearable volumes for hours at a time to torture or punish inmates. The news was reported to them by a former Army serviceman who had recognized their music (from the album Heavens Trash) while deployed as a guard in the prison. The band intended the album to include a "manual" that would instruct on how to use it for torture but they backed off that idea. Frontman Ogre remarked in one interview that he, "stumbled on the more abstract idea about all the things around us that are weapons that are dormant, that are built to be safe." The broadness of that concept allowed them to speak on additional matters like American gun culture and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident. A choral lyric in illisiT states "this is a criminal age." When asked about how this age is any different from others, Ogre explained "we’ve actually adopted rules and laws by which we give the same rights to corporations that we give to people. Those corporations can have dummy corporations or dummy people attached to them, so it’s like hiring doppelgangers who can take the fall for any one of the foibles or the crimes we commit. We have now ventured into an age where criminality reigns and people are almost accepting of it."
VERIN frontman Chris Shorrt operates a compilations project under the banner "Tribulations," giving modern generations of industrial bands a chance to offer tribute to the inspiration of the forerunners in their genre. The first of these compilations released in December 2016 was a 34-track collection of Skinny Puppy covers titled, It Ain't Dead Yet. It features Leæther Strip, Dead When I Found Her, Volt 9000, Necrotek, IIOIOIOII, mindFluxFuneral, et al. The latter's Chicago-based frontman, Tony Smith, provides an additional cover to the collection with his industrial metal project, Acidrodent. While there's little to indicate why Acidrodent chose illiciT as their contribution to the album, Smith seems to want to make it clear that the music of his project is devoid of any deep meaning. The band's bio/descriptor insists, "Acidrodent contains no wisdom or ideas worth spreading. Acidrodent has no worldview, ideology or human interest." And yet they give tribute to a track both remarkably relevant in today's culture and explicitly foreboding in its message.
The original version of illisiT is a smoothly rendered electronic floor-stomper reminiscent of Skinny Puppy's early club favorites. Acidrodent's approach to the song is a more sauntering guitar-heavy rock style, with less electronic processing of the vocals. It also omits a series of seemingly random numbers spoken during the bridge (the meaning of which is not revealed but has been speculated to be relevant to the a mention of microchip IDs at the song's end.) Their version nonetheless has as kinetic an energy level despite its altered pacing. Having been released shortly after the 2016 election, Acidrodent may not have intended "wisdom" but they certainly mirror a harshly realized "truth" with the timing of this track... this IS a criminal age!:
The Cover:
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The Original:
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Next week:
Five Sundays in this month mean we'll do another Fifth Sunday A La Mode! This cover of a Depeche Mode album track comes to us from southern Germany, imparted with human energy to comment on the responsibility of journalists and the power of your vote! (Trust the Germans to have something of value to say on that!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
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#WeAreGroot,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 15 - Laura Branigan - Self Control (Raf)
Jul 08 - Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
Jun 24 - Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)(Cher)
Jun 17 - Die Warzau - S & M (Thin Lizzy)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
This week had some particularly ugly news (as if the past year and a half didn't have enough) regarding the firing of a film creator who has had a powerfully positive and beneficial impact on our lives over the past several years and is very vocal in his opposition to the current U.S. administration. He was fired not so much because of what he had done (and had acknowledged previously was wrong before even being hired) but because a tool we use to call out injustices was weaponized against him by someone of truly sinister and criminal character. Now we see the powers-that-be emboldening more of such behavior by legitimizing the hate-mobs whose organized efforts are aimed largely at silencing those who speak loudly against the feckless ruling party in government, a party held to no account for actions far worse than those that got this creator fired.
The last time this party had control of the executive branch, policies were enacted that reportedly led to the use of a specific and quintessential industrial band's music as a means of punitive torture. One of the songs from the album the band wrote in response to that is today's featured cover.:
Acidrodent - illisiT (Skinny Puppy)
Canadian electro-industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy released their twelfth album, Weapon, in 2013. The album was largely inspired by the revelation to them that their music had been played in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp at unbearable volumes for hours at a time to torture or punish inmates. The news was reported to them by a former Army serviceman who had recognized their music (from the album Heavens Trash) while deployed as a guard in the prison. The band intended the album to include a "manual" that would instruct on how to use it for torture but they backed off that idea. Frontman Ogre remarked in one interview that he, "stumbled on the more abstract idea about all the things around us that are weapons that are dormant, that are built to be safe." The broadness of that concept allowed them to speak on additional matters like American gun culture and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident. A choral lyric in illisiT states "this is a criminal age." When asked about how this age is any different from others, Ogre explained "we’ve actually adopted rules and laws by which we give the same rights to corporations that we give to people. Those corporations can have dummy corporations or dummy people attached to them, so it’s like hiring doppelgangers who can take the fall for any one of the foibles or the crimes we commit. We have now ventured into an age where criminality reigns and people are almost accepting of it."
VERIN frontman Chris Shorrt operates a compilations project under the banner "Tribulations," giving modern generations of industrial bands a chance to offer tribute to the inspiration of the forerunners in their genre. The first of these compilations released in December 2016 was a 34-track collection of Skinny Puppy covers titled, It Ain't Dead Yet. It features Leæther Strip, Dead When I Found Her, Volt 9000, Necrotek, IIOIOIOII, mindFluxFuneral, et al. The latter's Chicago-based frontman, Tony Smith, provides an additional cover to the collection with his industrial metal project, Acidrodent. While there's little to indicate why Acidrodent chose illiciT as their contribution to the album, Smith seems to want to make it clear that the music of his project is devoid of any deep meaning. The band's bio/descriptor insists, "Acidrodent contains no wisdom or ideas worth spreading. Acidrodent has no worldview, ideology or human interest." And yet they give tribute to a track both remarkably relevant in today's culture and explicitly foreboding in its message.
The original version of illisiT is a smoothly rendered electronic floor-stomper reminiscent of Skinny Puppy's early club favorites. Acidrodent's approach to the song is a more sauntering guitar-heavy rock style, with less electronic processing of the vocals. It also omits a series of seemingly random numbers spoken during the bridge (the meaning of which is not revealed but has been speculated to be relevant to the a mention of microchip IDs at the song's end.) Their version nonetheless has as kinetic an energy level despite its altered pacing. Having been released shortly after the 2016 election, Acidrodent may not have intended "wisdom" but they certainly mirror a harshly realized "truth" with the timing of this track... this IS a criminal age!:
The Cover:
Find on Bandcamp
The Original:
Find on Bandcamp
Next week:
Five Sundays in this month mean we'll do another Fifth Sunday A La Mode! This cover of a Depeche Mode album track comes to us from southern Germany, imparted with human energy to comment on the responsibility of journalists and the power of your vote! (Trust the Germans to have something of value to say on that!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
#WeAreGroot,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 15 - Laura Branigan - Self Control (Raf)
Jul 08 - Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
Jun 24 - Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)(Cher)
Jun 17 - Die Warzau - S & M (Thin Lizzy)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
awesome!!
Date: 2018-07-24 11:06 am (UTC)ohgr is such an amazing musician :)
great song, too.