Ultimately though, like the similar device employed in House of Leaves (which I'm assuming the author read and was inspired by), this booklet can't help but betray that it's more in love with its own darkness and edginess than it is interested in exercising the restraint necessary to credibly impersonate its chosen genre.Īnyway, now back to listening to "Bloodhail" on repeat while looking blankly out the window at moonlight refracting through heavy rain. The text is at its best when it serves as a framing device for a style of poetry more literary than Dan (sorry, not gonna pretend anyone actually thinks this is an anonymous Amherst professor) allows himself on record, showing he has the rare talent to render the bleak, pseudo-academic dialect of black metal-ese in a way that's actually affecting rather than just pompous.
DEATHCONSCIOUSNESS HAVE A NICE LIFE PROFESSIONAL
moreĮvery incorrect usage of "it's" here - and there are 39 of them, by the way, with zero *correct* usages - was like a papercut directly into my eyeballs, but this is the flagellating initiation rite demanded of all true Have a Nice Life acolytes, and who am I to question the ancient wisdom? Clearly, this is an unabashed troll move on the author's part, since it's otherwise a fairly impressive pastiche of academic historical writing for being written by A Dude In A Band and not a professor or profe Every incorrect usage of "it's" here - and there are 39 of them, by the way, with zero *correct* usages - was like a papercut directly into my eyeballs, but this is the flagellating initiation rite demanded of all true Have a Nice Life acolytes, and who am I to question the ancient wisdom?Ĭlearly, this is an unabashed troll move on the author's part, since it's otherwise a fairly impressive pastiche of academic historical writing for being written by A Dude In A Band and not a professor or professional fiction writer. Blurring the lines between novella, liner notes, and academic text, the zine itself presents an engrossing narrative.Īnd it begs the question - "What is the point?". Have a Nice Life's album Deathconsciousness is accompanied by a 75-page booklet detailing the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult. Whosoever lives, so shall they die and may they die a drowning death, with all of Life inside their mouths, and naught but stones inside their lungs, like David with the skull, dwelling upon it in every second, the impossible trials of ceasing, stopping, ending." Whosoever lives, so shall they die and may they die a drowning death, with all of Life inside their mouths, and naught but stones inside their lungs, like David with the skull, dwelling upon it in every second, the impossible trials of ceasing, stopping, ending." Have a Nice Life's album Deathconsciousness is a "I am base, and I am lever I push the Earth into the water. "I am base, and I am lever I push the Earth into the water.
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