"We do what we want and we're culling the weak / In diagonal castles, Bay Area streets / Beatified carny, the blackest of priests / Is this humor, your tongue in your cheek?"
The cliché about emo punk is that the themes are 'generally' about youthful angst, personal pain, suffering and different fodder that fuels existential dread but the urgent, acerbic punches of "Anton Lavey" by Brooklyn's Awful Din, and from their newly released "Sunday Gentleman" EP, is about the founder of the Church of Satan (ok I am already hooked). The progressively drawn, track with the ebullient shouty vox breaks, has bits of what feels like 80's power pop thrusts, 90's jangle pop on copious amounts of Red Bull, that crazily potent bass run and super thoughtful lyrics (great fucking lyrics).
"We do what we want and we're culling the weak
In diagonal castles, Bay Area streets.
Beatified carny, the blackest of priests,
Is this humor, your tongue in your cheek?
Prophet or just unremarkable man?
Infallible human, all part of the plan.
Are you worshipping power or worshipping Pan?
Can you innovate or just regurgitate Rand?
There's no transparency around your beliefs,
You're whatever we want you to be.
In diagonal castles, Bay Area streets.
Beatified carny, the blackest of priests,
Is this humor, your tongue in your cheek?
Prophet or just unremarkable man?
Infallible human, all part of the plan.
Are you worshipping power or worshipping Pan?
Can you innovate or just regurgitate Rand?
There's no transparency around your beliefs,
You're whatever we want you to be.
Taming lions and Marilyn Monroe
You're so apocryphal
Takes one to know one through a hypocrite's eyes
Takes one to know one through a hypocrite's eyes
Sunday gentlemen on Saturday night (X3)"
The band adds:
"Anton Lavey was the morally ambiguous founder of the Church of Satan. He was a professional showman clearly looking to make a quick buck. What's not clear is if he intended his followers to be his victims, or if they were always meant to be in on the joke."
AND with the ever growing influencers from Adrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand (just to name a few) and their legions of incels, psycho babble swallowing, victim injecting audiences eager to swallow their digested pap, I wonder if they are just overblown beautified carnies looking for a quick buck as well.
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-Robb Donker Curtius
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"With vocal twinges akin to those found in folk-punk, pop-punk riffs, and emo ambience, the band brings all these elements together in an addictive package." - Dying Scene
Combining the introspection of late 90’s/early 00’s emo with the energy of pop-punk, and a unique vocal quality, you get "Gritty Emo-Punk."Aaron, Kat, Rob, Zach.
Combining the introspection of late 90’s/early 00’s emo with the energy of pop-punk, and a unique vocal quality, you get "Gritty Emo-Punk."Aaron, Kat, Rob, Zach.
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