‘Faust’: This first song is broken into five parts comprising the first 15-and-a-half minutes of the record. I put the lyrics together surrounding Marshall Berman’s explication of Faust in his book ‘All That Is Solid Melts into Air.’ Jason had presented this concept, and I kind of ran with it. Berman takes sort of a literary approach to the consequences of modernity versus a nineteenth century Enlightenment drive for progress and the growth of capitalism. He talks about it through Faust and how Faust is sort of this tragic figure in his drive to progress, he sort of destroys it at t… read more
‘Faust’: This first song is broken into five parts comprising the first 15-and-a-half minutes of the record. I put the lyrics together surrounding Ma… read more
‘Faust’: This first song is broken into five parts comprising the first 15-and-a-half minutes of the record. I put the lyrics together surrounding Marshall Berman’s explication of Faust … read more
Misery Index is an American death metal band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland by Jason Netherton (bass, vocals), Mike Harrison (guitar, vocals) and Kevin Talley (drums). Some say the band is named after Assück's last album of the same name (1996), however the socio-political theme featured in many of the lyrics also point towards the economic term (both increasing inflation and unemployment result in the rise of the misery index). As of 2010, its line-up consists of Jason Netherton (bass, vocals), Darin Morris (guitar), Mark Klöppel (guitar) and Adam Jarvis (drums). The ba… read more