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Robert Inhuman, ABOUT STAGES...

Whenever it is possible we prefer to play our shows not on any kind of elevated stage. We've always felt like elevated stages send the implication of the band being higher than its observers in more ways than one. Anything to promote the scenario in which an audience and band are equal elements in what the "show" is, be it literally or symbolically, we'd like to aim towards. We want to be in a position in which we can physically reach out and touch a person in the audience, or vice versa. It is just a better implication in the context of punk and hardcore.

I guess when you become very popular and the audience becomes hundreds or thousands of people, the stage is used so that more people can see the performance than only a couple dozen in front. But at that level of popularity I think the entire nature of the show would have to change, if integrity is gonna be preserved. It would no longer be possible to adhere to the traditional punk rock format in that case; new aims and ways of interaction would be necessary. It is confusing how people build up massive cultural platforms of influence like that, but then don't utilize the opportunity in more effective and plausible ways. Maybe I just don't understand because I don't play to thousands of people every night. That's alright, I am fine with warehouses and basements for now.

Most things can be construed as a "stage" in one way or another. "Life is a stage" - shit like that. We are just interest in a figurative stage, not a physical one that keeps some people in and others out.

lyrics

"What happens to music within a consumerist system? What happens to LISTENING within a consumerist system? How it's reduced; how you are incapable of appreciating anymore. You just look for what's familiar; kind of almost an animal pleasure. The system requires of you to shut off that judgment about what is actual quality. They want to decide for you what it is so that you'll buy it. So those decisions are not based on intrinsic information in the music they're based on what kind of clothes the person is wearing, what do they look like, and do they have celebrity. You no longer listen to the music to decide if it's any good; it MUST be good because it sold so many copies..." (Mark Sarich from an interview in 2006)

"You have to know that modern man often tries to work off his frustrations by spending on self-gratification"

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from Resisting The Viral Self LP​/​CD (2007​-​2009), released March 29, 2009
Robert Inhuman: edits.

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