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Robert Inhuman, ABOUT THE REALICIDE "HARDCORE FIST"...

The Realicide Youth Records "logo", the fist pointed at the viewer, has a very specific origin. It is taken from a photo after our show in Cincinnati, 19 July 2003, which was basically the first Realicide hardcore show realized. This summer followed a year of gradually deciding to focus on influences of very harsh gabber, grindcore, and noise instead of just early industrial and synth punk, which were our primary influences when we formed the band in 2002. On this record's cover we've got a rare element for Realicide imagery: color. This time you can see that the fist is in fact covered in blood, not just an effect of a crappy black & white xerox. It's my fist after the dawn of Realicide as a contemporary hardcore band, complete with lacerations between early knuckle and a severed tendon on my left middle finger. The story about the punching glass is old news, and if you're unfamiliar with what I'm talking about just write to me and I'll show you my thesis essay from 2004 which goes into detail about that experience. This can also make slightly more clear some of the motifs lyrically and otherwise, within Realicide during certain periods of time.

When I punched through that first piece a few years ago, it changed the course of my art and music and overall attitude about daily life and my own existence. It was something I obsessed over for quite a while afterwards; years in fact. I think for me personally at least, that one action was so profound and the embodiment of everything my life had led me to up to that point, it was simultaneously beautiful and frightening, all my loves and agonies and everything in between summoned in an overwhelming array of memories compiled to equal "my life".

So I decided to design the cover art for this record as the fist in its center, surrounded by smashed panels of glass. Like a ritual tribute to the violent baptism of Realicide (just without the trip to the Emergency Room this time around) into contemporary hardcore, the sharp splinters and panels are filled photos representing memories from through the time "Resisting The Viral Self" was created, starting around November 2007. The small images of blood each have graff arrows going upward, another tribute as the summer of 2003 was the advent of my interest in bombing and tagging, which saved my ability to draw after it was stolen away by going to an art college. The arrows also are in remembrance of the high I felt when I confronted my body as a fragile shell, or cage even, of the real "me".

The Realicide hardcore fist is meant to be a symbol of power and of challenge. Sometimes people seem to think that since our music is abrasive and we use words like "fight" or use cartoon images of violence, that we must want to start fights with people. But the only fighting we have any interest in is of a spiritual and cultural nature. Physical violence and abuse is of no appeal and is not meant to be endorsed by this band. A fist is a metaphor and a threat to something besides a person's body, which we think of as essentially just a fleeting shell of what is the real person inside it.

lyrics

(imagine the cuts every night)
"I wanted to live a different life..."

want runs so thin - finite in every way
I feel drained - I feel close to dead - whatever that means

"A different life that wasn't available to me in the image I was born."

credits

from Resisting The Viral Self LP​/​CD (2007​-​2009), released March 29, 2009
Ryan Faris: hardware electronics.
Robert Inhuman: words, voice, edits.

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