Finding God in Punk Anarchism: Life in a gnostic underground

From Commonweal (February 2024 issue)
By Aaron Lake Smith
January 30, 2024

I sought and found the Holy Spirit elsewhere, in punk music, which quickly led to anarchist hardcore music, radical politics, rioting, rallies, and trips across the world to disrupt World Economic Forum meetings. The anti-globalization movement was in full swing at the time. I embraced this world based on gut emotions, rather than sustained study of all the Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn books we shoplifted from Barnes & Noble.

Trespasser Stoke the Revolutionary Fires of Black Metal on “ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ”

From Invisible Oranges

In February, Sweden’s Trespasser released a scathing statement on debt by flipping Biblical themes and reviving thousand-year-old poetry to mirror modern political ailments. ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ is the duo’s second album, and though its ambitions are lofty, its sound is anything but. Trespasser, comprised of composer/instrumentalist XVI and vocalist Dräparn, prefer clear production quality and blunt force, the latter of which reflects their anarchist ideals. They repurpose the urgency often found in hardcore punk into a meaty yet triumphant barrage that’s outgrown their former black metal distinction.

Bonjour Tristesse’s "Against Leviathan!"

From DIY Conspiracy

Trespasser’s Ἀποκάλυψις, and the Leftist Rejection of Modernity in Black Metal

Punishing new albums by Bonjour Tristesse and Trespasser exemplify black metal's tradition of rejecting modernity, while envisioning a more sustainable and equitable future.

Carlos Saura: An Intrepid, Curious, & Music-loving Filmmaker

From Le Monde Libertarie
by Daniel Pinos
February 19, 2023

On Friday February 10, Carlos Saura, the Aragonese director, died at the age of 91.

Carlos Saura joined Buñuel, Berlanga and Bardem, the greatest Spanish filmmakers of our time. Together with his illustrious friends, he created the essence of Spanish cinema during the most difficult period of its recent history, the Franco dictatorship and the transition.

Sugako – Advance 2021

The lyrics are concerned with the name sake of the group, Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist journalist interested in the liberation of women and humanity as a whole. She was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911 by the Japanese government due to her connections to the High Treason Incident, a plot by a group of socialists and anarchist to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. 26 people were arrested of which twelve were hanged to death despite the lack of direct evidence. Two more were sentenced to eight and eleven years of prison respectively and the remaining twelve were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sugako was the last person to be killed.

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