Wow, so edgy. Women are evil and it's cool when they're dead. So original too. Let's go stab skinny bitches with big tits in the heart with knives and strip them except for high heels and some kind of lacy thing and wrap them in barbed wire and wait until they rot. It will be cool.
Here's their self-important description from Deathwish Magic Bullet:
JESUIT were an unrelenting, noisy hardcore band from Virginia Beach, VA. They existed from the mid-90′s up until the changing of the century. In their wake, they left a rather nice-sized dent in the intensely-PC witch-hunt/”safe space” era of DIY hardcore. Whereas events attributed to Charles Manson are often credited with bringing a savage and brutal end to the peace, love, and drug culture of the 60′s, events surrounding bands like JESUIT and GEHENNA not only elicited controversy at every tour stop, but pushed a movement toward hardcore finding its more violent, unpredictable, and entirely irreverent roots as the “Portlandia” cult of 90′s hardcore crashed to a halt.
Taking the old "controversy" route in an attempt to substitute for lack of substance. Style over substance, except I don't think Jesuit had that either. Zzzzzz....I like the part where they swipe at safe spaces (it's easy for men to not have to ever consider such a concept - what are those bitches crying about?) and refer to people trying to make their scene a better place, eradicating hateful manly shit as a "PC witch-hunt." Did Rush Limbaugh write this? Thanks to people like the men of Jesuit and their mentalities, hardcore is about as dumb as it ever was. Jacob Bannon, you should be ashamed.
In reality, this band was bad. I don't know anyone who ever liked them. They recently played a pointless reunion show and no one gave a FUCK that they were playing. For the whole time. People left when they played, I'm assuming cause the band was just that breathtakingly original. People went off for the band before them and the bands after them, but the room stood still when the mighty Jesuit played. I guess they were just awestruck.
I'm not one to talk about what hardcore is "really about." However, at the very least, hardcore has historically been a rejection of "them" and "out there." It's a counterculture, or was. Shit like this is just aping the mainstream to the fullest. It's just one more round in the never-ending hail of bullets coming at women the world over. It's not that I hold out any hope, in the least, for hardcore or punk to become some revolutionary, redemptive or even benevolent force (more to come on that in a later post), but I do want to take the time to point out how fucking shitty this record cover and the concomitant (lack of) thought process are. This is worse than a Motley Crue record. At least those guys liked women (as well as looked like them). This is the kind of thing one should expect from Avenged Sevenfold or Buck Cherry. This has everything to do with the mainstream. This challenges nothing. Women are put down at every turn. Women are sexualized constantly. They are told they are not good enough. Let me help you with that. Their efforts are "cute." Their bodies are routinely violated with impunity. I'll kill you if you fight back. Daily media blitzkrieg sensory overload says you are fat. Don't try, because you will likely fail. Give it up. Just take it. Know your place. Slut. If that's what you're into, stay in the fucking bar where you and your numbingly mediocre band belong. Offending people is not hard. In this case, it was a replacement for having anything worthwhile or creative to say.
I guess this record cover is their last hurrah, their final go at those PC Police. WE'LL SHOW THEM. YOU CAN'T SILENCE JESUIT. Sorry I'm such a faggot guys. I bet you'd never call me a nigger though. Cause that's just not cool, right?
Aside from the thoroughly anti-woman, misogynistic theme and aesthetic, the "art" just sucks. It's fucking stupid. Super trashy. Who likes this shit? It's about as cool as this:
Edit: Oops on the Jacob Bannon tip. I saw this listed in the Deathwish store and assumed it was from them. Made sense, with Nate Newton and all. However, as a commenter pointed out, it's on Magic Bullet. In that case, Brent Eyestone should be ashamed.
10 comments:
n*gger f@ggot
dont like it? go listen to some stupid shit like bikini kill or antiflag and cry some more over a bottle of rolling rock about the plight of "womyn" (cause i just know you spell it that way) in hardcore. what does jacob bannon have to do with this release? it came out on magic bullet?
wow,worst review ever.you sir,are a giant pc douche.
Ha! U mad.
nigger faggot
Nigger faggot. You think women respect you for taking a feminist stance, but really they are laughing at you behind your back while you use your snot 'n' cum encrusted flannel shirt sleeve to wipe the crocodile tears of loneliness from your horn-rimmed glasses. And after they're done laughing, they go off to get a train run on them by the local college basketball team. But only the nigger players. By all means, though, continue down the path of the hipster feminist prick.
unfortunately, the trolls who left insults above have tended to obscure the fact that this truly is a dreadful "review". you were making no attempt whatsoever to meet the music on its own terms, merely articulating your own prejudices. so the artwork offends you? says a lot more about you than about anything else... and i doubt that it was even cathartic for you, since this sort of "venting" actually just becomes a self-sustaining habit. it's been a while now, so hopefully you were able to grow out of it...
Hi Centrifuge. Well, you are right. This is a terrible review, if you expect a review. However, it is not a review, nor does it claim to be one. It is, after all, entitled, "Stupid bands have stupid cover art." I don't even mention a song title. Assailing this as a poor review is like reading an article about a suicide bombing in Iraq and criticizing it as providing a poor overview of the war.
I was writing about how much this artwork sucks. It still does. And about how much the band (of decidedly adult men) that would use such artwork to represent its legacy also sucks. Jesuit still sucks. I don't know why you put venting in quotes, but I wasn't venting, nor was it intended to be cathartic (not that there is anything wrong with either of those). It was, and is, a representation of how I feel, an expression of something that I felt needed to be said. It's not a matter of anything being offensive, it's just fucked up and stupid.
I mean, is it not ok to dislike things? Is it not ok to find things horrid and awful? Is it not cool to comment on them? Should I just take it all in with no remark and keep walking my cool walk, where nothing perturbs me, nothing moves me and I always maintain my cool, cynical detachment?
It's okay to dislike things. I thing what people find objectionable is the fact that you dislike Jesuit due to your own insufferable ideology and its accompanying prejudices. Sanctimonious male feminists are right up there with born again christians, straight edge militants, and cops as the most pathetic, despicable human beings on the face of the earth. You should be ashamed of yourself. I wish there were more bands like Jesuit in today's scene.
It's true, I am prejudiced against assholes.
Look at you people, running around the comments section like a bunch of fifty year old white men calling into talk radio to complain about your privileged lives. You sound like dumbed down Fox News commentators. And you're supposed to be punk or whatever the fuck you call yourselves. Pathetic/hilarious.
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