The Chaos in Tejas 2010 fest is coming, and it brings us a whole lot of punk bands and a few black metal acts.
Wait, what?
Well, you know how black metal sort of lost confidence around anno 2001 A.Y.P.S., and started looking around for buddies. First the Xasthur and Wolves in the Throne Room types found indie rock, and started dressing indie rock up like black metal... then they found punk, and started making black metal flavored punk rock. Too many bands there to mention.
So now a lot of people are thinking: if these bands making indie and punk just added a little black metal flavor, and got accepted, there's obviously nothing all that distinctive about black metal anymore. So let's invite them into the big tent rock 'n roll family, along with funk, fusion, hard rock, alternative, disco and many other aberrations of human taste.
Now, don't get me wrong -- the punk part of Chaos in Texas is worth the price of admission alone. Bastard Noise? Iron Age? Sign me up! But then you've got Bone Awl and Inquisition, both of whom have flirted with right-wing beliefs. How does that fit in with this hippie punkness? Others have asked the same thing.
My guess is that it's just easiest for everyone to get along, which makes it really easy for black metal to get absorbed by punk rock. Pretty soon, it'll be another flavor of punk. And after that, it may live on as a riff style or two, but definitely not as a genre. It's interesting to watch this happening, with Texas the forefront.
Here's the lineup for Chaos in Tejas 2010:
- Acephalix
- A-Frames
- Arctic Flowers
- Axeman
- Bastard (Japan..one time reunion)
- Bastard Noise (Wood, Connell and Nelson)
- Bone Awl
- Brilliant Colors
- Crow (Japan)
- Dead to Me
- Deskonocidos
- Fungi Girls
- Gehenna
- Grass Widow
- the Hex Dispensers
- Inquisition (columbia)
- Iron Age
- Iron Lung
- Jeff the Brotherhood
- Kim Phuc
- Kyklooppein Sukupuutto (Finland)
- La Urss (Spain)
- Leatherface (England)
- Mammoth Grinder
- Masshysteri (sweden)
- The Marked Men (only show of 2010)
- Mind Eraser
- Morne
- Mother of Mercy
- Nerveskade
- Ninja Gun
- The Pist
- Poison Idea
- the Ponys
- Psychedelic Horseshit
- Rival Mob
- Rorschach
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat
- Ratas Del Vaticano (Mexico)
- Shanghai River
- the Spits
- Slang (Japan)
- Subhumans (England)
- Tim Kerr and Friends
- Toxic Holocaust
- Ty Segall
- Underground Railroad to Candyland
- Vaaska
- Volahn
- Walls
- Wasted Time
- Waste Management
- Wild Thing
- World Burns to Death
- Woven Bones
- X (Australia)
- Yellow Tears
- Young Offenders
Should be at the very least a interesting show, especially since it's taking over the major venues for loud music in Austin.
Chaos in Tejas 2010
May 27-30, 2010
Emos, Red 7, Mohawk and Beerland
Austin, TX
$80 four-day pass
Comments
This is only vaguely related, but it's something that you are probably probably well equipped to explain, having experienced both punk/hardcore and metal:
After reading that linked thread, what's the deal with punks vs any band that looks like they may be rightist in the least? In general, hessians don't get terribly upset about bands like Carcass or Master who have left-leaning sympathies, or bands like Morbid Angel, Order From Chaos, or Impaled Nazarene that lean towards the right. But, with punk, it seems as soon as a band so much as flirts with fascist, NS, or even less extreme right-wing imagery in the smallest degree, there's wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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