Assacre - "Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For" [2005]

Artist: Assacre

Title: Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For

Genre: Avant-garde Death Metal / Noise

Country: USA
Year: 2005

Track List:

1. Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For
2. Satyriasis De Minimis
3. Gayer Than God
4. Kalos K'agathos Gorgos
5. Cyclops Genesis
6. I Have Fifteen Legs
7. Thy Crystal Obelisk Shall Ascend Into Stormclouds of Mechanical Mystery
8. The Ultimate Value of Human Life

One of the things I find the most annoying about the (English-speaking) metal fans is their constant use of the word "gay" as an insult against everything they deem not cool enough for them. "Listening to deathcore is so gay", "Cradle of Filth is gay shit for faggots", etc., etc. Not even trying to be politically correct here, just saying that Seth Putnam wasn't even exaggerating that much in his parodies. Moreover, the aesthetics of heavy metal were extremely homoerotic from the very beginning, thanks to Rob Halford who was very much into half-naked men in spiked leather. However, he didn't came out as gay until 1998, and I don't think there were any openly gay metal bands until 2003, when Ben Aqua started Assacre. Since I already have posted on here about a band that's literally named The Homosexuals, the one and only full-length album by Assacre won't seem out of place here either.

In terms of sound, "Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For" is... well, quite queer. While it definitely can be categorized as "melodic death/thrash metal" (per Metal-Archives), the riffs sound very mechanical, more resembling of industrial metal, and the extensive use of samples adds more to that feeling. Some of the tracks are quite noisy, i.e. "Kalos K'agathos Gorgos" which doesn't sound like metal at all and even borders on breakcore at times. Overall, the whole thing sounds as if God Is My Co-Pilot started playing death metal, and does manage to be really original, even leaving aside the sexual orientation of the man behind the project. By the way, he actively performed live around the time when this album was recorded, and some of his performances were quite wild:

By now, that man in a dinosaur mask doesn't release any new music, yet, he's still active on Facebook where he posts lots of weird stuff in ALL CAPS:

"NOTHING IS REAL" SAID THE COLD GENTLE CYBORG TO THE WARM WEAK HUMAN WHO CONTINUOUSLY OBSESSED OVER VILE POINTLESS PRE-CONCEIVED FOCUS GROUP-CRAFTED EMPTY FANTASTICAL NOTIONS OF "REALITY"

WHAT IS "GAYER" THAN "LIFE" ITSELF?? "GODS" ARE CREATED CONCEPTS AND CAN BE DESTROYED BY THY SAME HANDS THAT FEEEEEED

 As for "Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For", now you can chack out that atrocity on Bandcamp: