Anti-Hero...

I am not a very big fan of God Forbid, but the video above depicts perfectly how dirty humanity has become. The dollar note in the video is a testament to everything that it has witnessed as it was being passed around.
Atrocities that birthed abominations indeed...


Anyway, with regards to today's case-study on the Columbine schooting incident, I'd just like to point out a few things.


When something like this happens, people only know how to point fingers at the "evildoers". They only know how to blame, that is all they know how to do. Who actually thought of the real underlying cause? How many people really think? I'm telling you, if guns are readily available in Singapore, WE WILL WITNESS A SHOOTING LIKE THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY!! Those two kids are victims of school violence, something that many of you can never understand because you probably never got to experience it yourselves. But those who did, those who have gone through it, will totally understand what it is all about. I'm not justifying the use of violence in solving problem. But a problem is not solved until the root of it has been removed. What we need to do is not to point our fingers at them nor the media but instead, stop racial prejudice and bullying in schools!! This is a highly persistent problem even in Singapore, a problem that the government has turned a blind eye on almost totally. We need to do something about this.

Remember sometime last year there were quite a couple of cases right here in Singapore, whereby murder victims' bodies were brutally mutilated by the respective killers and the different body parts were dumped at different locations. Remember those cases? None of the killers are listeners of heavy music of any sort. Now on the other hand, I am someone who listens to what I listen to like how living things need air. Even when I go to sleep I listen to bands like Dark Funeral, Marduk, Darkened Northern Slaughtercult, Cannibal Corpse, Aborted, Carcass, Decapitated, Prostitute Disfigurement, and many many more bands of such nature (note that I'm not only a listener. I even play in these type of bands!). These are bands that are much "deadlier" than any of those nonsense that the two kids at Columbine listen to, stuff like Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, etc. Screw that! Those are what I call "pussy pseudo-metal for kids". Now with that said, shouldn't I be the one committing such horrendous crimes? Not only that I did not do any of these nonsense, I'm always the one, and truly the only one (screw you all uncompassionate corporate pest!!!), who always give up my seat in MRT and buses to those who need it more than I do while others pretend to sleep or simply ignore the existence of these people. So who's more human now? That lucky guy who almost died of epileptic seizure in front of Plaza Singapura was saved by Mike (my guitarist), a metalhead, not all these so-called "normal civilians" who not only did nothing but also tried to discourage him from saving the guy, asking him to leave that fella alone. Mike had to shout at all those bystanders before any of them actually called the ambulance. Again who's got more sense of public awareness?

My point here is that if you are screwed up in your head, regardless of whether or not you're exposed to all these media violence, you're still gonna be a psycho anyway. But if you're not, no matter how much media violence you've been exposed to, you will know better what is right and wrong. In fact, it will only give you a greater sense of awareness and might even serve as a form of deterrence to some. Media violence is NOT the cause of violence in reality but INSTEAD, the CURE to it!! It is people like us who've been constantly exposed to all these that would never do such things in real life, because we all have a channel through which we can divert our aggression and stress onto. We get to vent it out while people like those murderers did not. In every man there is that diabolical side in him that will surface if not supressed. I remember my late grand-teacher once said, "It is people who know how to kill that will not kill, because these people have come to realise how easy it is to remove one's life, how fragile life really is. And that's when you will treasure things around you even more than you ever did." He was right. Trust me, nobody knows this better than I do. If you've been through what I had in the past, you'll know what I'm talking about.


There's something that the public has failed to understand. For people like us, listening to aggressive music with gory lyrics are exactly the same as how avid horror/gore flick fans love their movies. The only difference is that for us, it comes in audial form. It's all fantasy and entertainment, nothing harmful. The music is what matters to us, and it shall only remain that way. Now get that in your head, morons!!


Oh, another thing. There's no such thing as Goth culture. It's been dead long and gone forever. The only remnants of it now are but poseurs who've been trying too hard to be one without understanding what it really is all about, much less about what it takes for one to be one. Nothing but a skin-deep fashion trend.



Revive not the human race...