ACXDC at El Corazon, Seattle

9/25/2022

I got kicked in the face by a stage diver near the end of their set!

i love demons because sometimes we're terrifying hell beasts and other times there is literally just An Animal with a cool hat and he can boil blood on command.

IN THE DEEP (horror and the sea for @antichrist-demoncore 🌊)

hermann melville / triangle (2009) / julia armfield / the deep house (2021) / h.p. lovecraft / underwater (2020) / mira grant / 47 meters down: uncaged (2019) / werner herzog / the deep ones

tagged by @are-we-really-doing-this

I don’t have spotify, so I’m just shuffling my music library.

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks

1. Abigail Williams - Sun and Moon

2. Wednesday 13 - From Here to the Hearse

3. Motionless In White - Sinematic (Acoustic Version)

4. System of a Down - Attack

5. Behemoth - Pan Satyros

6. Misfits - Where Eagles Dare (CERTIFIED BANGER)

7. Antichrist Demoncore (ACxDC) - Heretics (ALSO CERTIFIED BANGER)

8. And End... - Paeonia

9. Nine Inch Nails - Last

10. Avatar - Black Waters

tagging whoever sees and wants to do this, i’m lazy

My bum flap

Nothing I do

Nothing I say

Nothing I try

Seem to ever go my way

No motivation

Too weak to be strong

I don't know why

I cant seem to go on

I feel that everything I do is fucking wrong

Like no matter what I try its just seems to prolong

A string of deterioration thats been lifelong

I just want to disappear and be more withdrawn

Misadventure filled with strife

How I linger I don't know why

Endless failure thats my life

Boundless anger is always rife

Why do I keep trying

ACXDC-G.O.A.T.

ACxDC: The Second Coming (2011).

i like old ghost and new ghost in the way that i like different bands. they’re not the same, but that’s not a bad thing.

I like antichrist demoncore and i like glass animals. very different, both good.

i wanna be someone's golden calf ❤️

ACxDC — Satan Is King (Prosthetic Records)

Satan Is King by ACxDC

ACxDC has built nigh-legendary cred in L.A.’s powerviolence scene over the past 15 years, so it’s surprising that the band has released so few records. Then again, if you make songs that are this ridiculously intense, it may be wise to present them to the world in small, widely separated doses. Satan Is King is the band’s first new music in four years, and at 15 tracks and just under 24 total minutes, it’s a relentless, blistering experience. Politically righteous, aesthetically austere, culturally uncompromising — it’s exactly the sort of music we need now.

Given the record’s title — and the fact that ACxDC stands for “Antichrist Demoncore” — you may have done a bit of a double-take at the “politically righteous” bit. A lot of heavy music that deploys Satanic symbols is cynically superficial; or a watered-down, ultimately hedonistic version of Crowley’s “Do what thou wilt…”; or a nihilistic iteration of devil worship that really means it, and is thus thoroughly devoid of socially productive intent. But only one song on Satan Is King has anything to do with the Lightbringer, and lyricist and singer Serge Amaltifano has a very specific Lucifer in mind: “First to betray / First to disobey / First to stand up / Against tyranny.” It’s a radically compressed Paradise Lost that, like Milton’s epic, figures a pretty sexy Satan: a rebellious, brilliant and ambitious being, leading a war in heaven. Amaltifano’s devil is an anarchist.  

Appropriately, the band directs most of its venom and vituperation at dominant forms of Western government and capital’s social order. “Mouthbreather” is indicative of the extent of the anger and contempt: “Neo-con / Neo-lib / Left or right / You’re all glib / Same old lies / Same old shit.” The music is a crunching, blasting mechanism, all speed and percussive punishment. Possibly the most sonically unhinged song on the record is “Matapacos,” which Amaltifano sings in Spanish. His voice is harsh, throaty and pitched in higher registers: “Latino America arde y quema / Es la hora revolucionaria / Vamos a matar, todos de derecho / Neoliberales y milicos de mierda.” There’s nothing subtle in the lyrics, or the music. It’s anti-colonial and anti-establishment. And it’s seriously pissed.  

But while the songs have earnest socio-poltical sentiments, ACxDC don’t take themselves all that seriously (see the band’s official promo photo, above), nodding to the goofball antics of significant powerviolence forebears like Charles Bronson and Spazz. The band’s name alludes to the Australian hard rock institution — but Amaltifano and his bandmates have messed around with its meaning. Amaltifano is vegan, and All Cows Die Cruelly was an alternate version of the acronym; delightfully, so was All Children Deserve Cookies. Early records included songs like “Wookies Have Feelings, Too” and “Fuck It, Dood, Let’s Go Bowling” (a shout-out to The Big Lebowski). And who knows, maybe this record’s title is a parodic rejoinder to Kanye West’s most recent musical idiocies. Still, the tone of Satan Is King is dark and dour. That feels right. It can be tough to find the comedy in contemporary life: COVID-19, working class immiseration, Kanye making millions on Christian operas. Maybe Satan gets the last laugh, after all.  

Jonathan Shaw

i feel like a big nerd

i fell from god when i was a little girl .

a harmless , pure , sweet angel baby full of nothing but happiness and ignorance .

but that's never good enough, is it ? is it ?

was i not angelic enough ? too clumsy ? overbearing ?

answer me you fucking coward ! for once answer me !

nothing is good enough to be godly, never when it's from me ! it took me so long to understand but now i do !

you made me angry , designed to be haunted by my past mistakes like a cruel experiment and decided i wasn't good enough .

you make me want to burn this planet to ashes .