In one of the most hysterical but also poignant eviscerations of Joe Leiberman I've yet to see in the blogosphere, The Austerity Program's Justin Foley makes the case that Extreme Metal with its history of Pagan/Satanic/Elf worship and especially Black Metal's misanthropic indulgences, have run their course. Over at Metal Sucks he claims the Metal dominion must worship their new muse:
JOE LEIBERMAN!
The image of Leiberman as a Black Metal frontman is worth the visit alone.
But here we are in 2010. Churches have been burned, dead religions exhumed, forearms branded and medical pathology textbooks scoured. If you and your bandmates are skipping homeroom to do this meth-ed out hatecore thing you’ve been G-chatting about and you really want to blow minds, what’s left? You think anyone gets unnerved at the sight of a pentagram? (Answer: no.) Do you really think that wearing black nail polish is making some statement about anything other that your ability to source black nail polish? (Answer: same answer as before – no.) I am telling you that it’s all been done, it’s not scary and it’s about time that folks did a damn sight better.
And better is what I’ve got: To take your band’s nightmare vision of moral obliteration farther than it’s ever been taken, there is only one ideology left to use.
I’m talking, of course, about Joe Lieberman.
Joe Lieberman is an undead disease-terror that someone needs to start writing records about right now. Fonts must be upended, guttural utterances (gutterances? ding!) growled, drum heads lacerated and speaker cones set a-vibrating. Metal can get right back in the drivers seat of freaking the world the hell out by doing this Joe Lieberman thing P-R-O-N-T-O.</bold>
The mixing of Metal and politics is nothing new, from Black Sabbath's anti-war stances to Death Metal's skewering of societal norms and ultimately to Black Metal's continuing exposing of religion and its shortcomings. But Foley here has touched a nerve with his humour better than many on the left have done in thousands of words of socio-political machinations.
What truly is more terrifying than Joe Leiberman? Foley's easy answer is nothing!
He even goes into detail, sharply and with thrift, in proving why the days of worshiping Ba'al or Djinn have now been surpassed:
I don’t share his politics (if there are any real politics in there, somewhere) but I think that’s separate issue. Lieberman is an anti-life-force walking-black-hole on the face of the Earth because he exists only to serve the interest of his one dark master – Joe Lieberman. Examples? Oh, if it’s examples you want then I’ve got plenty.
In 2000, a whole bunch of people spent a whole bunch of time and whole big bunch of money trying to get him to be the second most powerful person in their clan. Eight short years later, he’s in front of the opposite clan, at their big shindig, saying that all those other folks are fools.
In 1995, Joe Lieberman made a big deal against the filibuster in the Senate, saying that it could be the end of the world. Guess what he was threatening to do a few weeks back? (Maybe he did this to try to end the world.)
He's right. Bands like Mayhem, Marduk and Gorgoroth have all had their day. It is time a new Overlord is the inspiration for Metal's misanthropic excursions.
Hail Satan Joe Leiberman!