Pit Fiend

Dylan Williamson

Music discussed in terms of life, death, community, and why we engage with music in the first place. Mostly focused on new heavy and alternative music releases from Australia.

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    007 Antagonist A.D and the Cool Group

    PIT FIEND DISCORD discord.link/pitfiend COME ARGUE WITH ME -- The System is Racist and Oppressive is probably best thought of as a song in the same vein as The Opener. I think Antagonist A.D. would have to be pretty game to introduce a conversation like racism into a mostly white audience if they didn’t really mean it. The song is obviously inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the associated activity here in Australia and in their home country of New Zealand looking to highlight the disadvantage of and, in many cases, open racism against, Aboriginal and Maori people today. The Australian story is even more damning than the Kiwi story, but it’s not great over there. Maoris only make up 16% of the population but represent 50% of all deaths in custody. Antagonist A.D. are definitely not writing a protest song intended to be heard by a country on the other side of the world. -- I’ve been seeing some commentary across the great wide Internet about people feeling like they don’t belong when they go to shows. Maybe more people are going to shows for the first time since not much else is on, or maybe there’s more people returning to it, or maybe we’re less willing to accept what’s always been as what always should be after a year away from it. I don’t think these feelings are something we should ignore. This is an issue that we’ve always had, and it’s something the genre and the subculture do by design. Sometimes it can feel very much like everyone else is different from you and so aren’t going to accept you, and that you’re more like an outsider than a participant. It’s especially true if you don’t like the idea of throwing down in the mosh pit, and if you ended up going alone for whatever reason.

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    004 Slowly Slowly & Why Heavy Music Is Best Music

    One of the hardest things to explain to normies is why anyone would want to listen to someone screaming. This is especially true with the more abrasive subgenres of our wonderful scene; it’s easy to get someone to understand how you can get into Stand Atlantic or even Hands Like Houses, but how do you explain to Nanna that the new single by Thy Art Is Murder is a proper banger? At the very least, I think our collective Nannas have a reasonable point, so I’d like to talk a little bit about what we love about this bizarre subculture and what makes it important. I’m not going to give a history lesson on punk and metal, because I think there are better sources than me for that. I’m just going to be using a lens that covers our lived experience as adults who never outgrew our emo phase. -- Slowly Slowly have been a part of my life for longer than some of my friends. They’re a key way that I can communicate with my partner through music as she slowly grows out of her emo phase and I grow into mine. Our record collections are entirely different and only a few albums sit in the “us” category. Slowly Slowly take up a large proportion of that esteemed position, in no small part because we physically own their entire discography with the exception of their 7” split with Luca Brasi. We’re also fans of vocalist Ben Stewart’s pop side project, Congrats. In fact when he supported Trophy Eyes, we were - and remain - convinced that as a one-man-band he put on the better live show. It was not at all out of character for us to snap up a copy of the new Race Car Blues Extended Edition as soon as it went on sale, certain that Slowly Slowly could do no wrong.

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Music discussed in terms of life, death, community, and why we engage with music in the first place. Mostly focused on new heavy and alternative music releases from Australia.