18th
June
2010
Ritual and Reverence
Pagan war drums at some Midwestern call to prayer. Battered metal PA’s affixed to crumbling desert buildings blaring out heartfelt pain and anguish. Crows perched atop the adobe walls, watching the deserted streets below. The first moments of Irma Vep‘s Executioner Blues is all these things. Rusty guns fusing with their rotting holsters. Lightning rolling…