Yesterday, I saw the flying cables irradiate modern LED lightnings and I’m going to dissect these phenomena as calmly as I can.
Vieras Barhen would use commotion as their only propaganda tool. They would get to the news with antics so alien, then why does the wind goes west? In these calamitous acts, forbidden by law and exasperated in death rays, there was a pervasive familiarity invisible to many but felt by everyone. Comfort had been rebranded in punk rituals. I would come to learn that Vieras Barhen’s anti-total stand had been inspired by mainstream acts.
This is another example in which both the bad and the ugly follow the good blueprints. It ain’t obvious to sight, but the most ludicrous exhibitions all share mainstream genes.
What, then, is going on when a popular act reportedly seeks to annoy everyone? This was asked to me by a surrogate reporter and I couldn’t give my mind a break on it. Eventually I visited the archives: C-377, Universal Dread Or Not, Vieras Barhen, Vieras Barhen 2 (what was left of their shocking split), and so on. Class acts of a distant quality.
The difference between cults and popular things is that the latter make secret deals with the devil. All popular things start as healthy cults, then they want more. Devil gives a hand and then they become mainstream holy grails to the eyes of planet, or a big chunk of it (certainly wouldn’t fit in a church). Popular things then go to corrupt themselves completely and then they corrupt the others completely. This, probably because “closed systems are autocratic” hence lets just ruin everyone’s life, hail democracy hail America.
Well, Vieras Barhen (and to an extent Universal Dread Or Not) never got mainstream. But it got heavy. Like heavy dots of black floating around in statics: sucking, from time to time, external flighters into them. This was Vieras and this was Barhen, the subsonic species of silent menace.
Alondra Stewart came to learn, much later and to my public image’s disgrace, that VB had american drives. At least, I thought to myself, at least theirs was an alternative take. I sipped into the cup of empty state, and wondered.
To answer to my fellow surrogate reporter, VB did make secret deals. Theirs were smaller but effective in keeping their mass steady. Maybe theirs were darker, because I could barely find info on them. Maybe they were more beelzebub than behemoth.
They promised to bother those who bothered. Honesty is indeed the ultimate form of carnage.
Comments from the author
The annoying aspects of VB were not tools to fish new fans but rather bonding times for the already involved. With enough unstopping, with the priviledge of it, one can profess anything: it will eventually catch on. A broken clock is right twice a day. You just need enough time.
