The DVD is on Prank records, and as soon as you see it available on a website probably Prank s or on Hardcore Holocaust you should snatch it up. First of all, the DVD case itself is really nice. Like a slim, black hardback book, this is packaging that even Criterion s DVD series could take a few lessons from.
The silver foil-stamped logo and design on the cover, on the spine, and on the back of the casebook are austere, severe, and elegant in their understatement. One immediately thinks that, were this some dark tome and really the whole DVD is, in a sense it might well serve as the for the 21st Century. By its looks, in other words, one could imagine it shelved next to the works of Anton Szandor LaVey.
Opening up the DVD case, one immediately finds a black DVD disc emblazoned with a gray enneagram. Below this and on the inside of the front cover is a jarring black and white collage assembled by World Burns to Death singer Jack Control himself. Don t eat lunch before you look at it.
Now, onto the DVD s content: Produced by Austinites Jack Control (again, singer, lyricist, and frontman of WB2D), and Max Wynn, the menu is a static-y flickering of fields of bones. Click on the main title of the DVD, Cease to Exist, and you see the band members and producers introduced as an eerie, industrial ambient soundtrack plays. Finally the viewer is treated to Back to Zero, track 1 off 2006 s LP an LP Cultpunk.
com named as one of the Top 20 LPs of 2006 and the game is on. In fact, the playlist/track-list of the DVD is the same as ; in that sense, the DVD serves as a video complement to the album it s based upon. However, the DVD is both an audio and a visual release in a way that supersedes completely; the vinyl LPis subsumed and herein transliterated into its final, triumphant form as audiovisual spectacle.
If the audio-only was the seedling, in other words, this DVD package is that seedling s full, and, yes, even darker, fruition. Most simply put, the Cease to Exist DVD contains a music video for every song on The DVD is on Prank records, and as soon as you see it available on a website probably Prank s or on Hardcore Holocaust you should snatch it up.
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