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Cinemetal

GODFLESH KNOW HOW TO CRUSH MY SOUL… WITH COCK-FIGHTING

 Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 11:12am by

Perhaps the only metal video (or any music video?) ever to be made about cock-fighting, Godflesh’s “Crush My Soul” just seems to fit so well with this shunned past-time. Conceptually and lyrically, you’re asking the wrong dude about the connection. Is Justin Broadrick insinuating that chickens’ souls are crushed? Does his soul feel crushed by a chicken? Does cock-fighting crush his soul? Does he just LOVE cock-fighting?

We may never know.

-VN

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  • http://www.conorschaefer.com/blog/ Conor

    Could have been worse. Could have been a hell of a lot better, too. I was ready to blast this vid for glorification of cock-fighting as a rather suitable attempt by this nadir of staid slam metal to eke out some kind of shock value by making a MC Hammer-quality video of animal violence, but the commentary on human cruelty was still the main focus.

    Metal is characterized by horrific brutality to other human beings, and they stayed consistent for that. Even in jail, the animal cruelty inmates will get fucking trashed every day by the murders and rapists. There’s a reason they’re on the bottom of the totem pole.