A.K.A. MABUS

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EGO SPENGLER

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Released: Jan 1, 2006

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EGO SPENGLER
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RANSOMING YUPPIES FOR THEIR SHOWDOGS
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BULLETBELTS OF Oi
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OPERATION TEXACO
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NO UTERUS LEFT BEHIND
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Location DETROIT, Michigan, US
Profile Views: 7336
Last Login: 4/3/2011
Member Since 11/11/2009
Type of Label Unsigned
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.. ...... .. .. ...... .. c/o Benedict Badoglio; ex-ambassador of "THE ALUS REPUBLIC"... .. …Perhaps, Bartek thought, he could still re-conquer the confidence of the people. He had a key, “a secret key,” as he said, that someday he was going to use and things would thoroughly change. In light of June 6th, 2006 (6.6.06), we know what his secret weapon was. He would wave again, as in the days of his youth, The Black Flag of Pan-Tribal Socialism. He would appear once more as “The Revolution” and by going radical, he could outflank his rivals. In this void “THE ALUS REPUBLIC” was born. .. THE ALUS REPUBLIC was a direct reference to the Nostradamus prophecies. The “Fourth And Final Beast” was said to be a conglomerate of all the factors embodying the end of times, all backed by what seemed an ideology vastly more disastrous to human kind then Marxism, National Socialism, or NSK. First, Nostradamus stated, would come “MABUS;” Second “ALUS.” .. Recruiting a lineup of degenerate mercenaries to spread their filth-ridden musical wings (General Robert Lee Simpson, Gustuv Von Krueger, & Galactus Honeyglaze), Ryan Bartek changed his band name from FILTHPIMP to A.K.A. MABUS, and abruptly declared all that was left of his empire in Detroit as “THE ALUS REPUBLIC.” .. A.K.A. MABUS’ beginnings were messy, and nearly all shows terrified the audience with half gazing hypnotically at the bestial madness on stage, the remainders pressed against the wall, if not walking out the venue in sonic protest. Too punk for the metal crowd, too metal for the punks, too soft for the hardcore, too aggressive for the indie, too zany for the hardboiled, too experimental for the rockers... .. A.K.A. MABUS was like Frank Zappa with a bullet belt and corpse-paint, the Marx Brothers gone grind with a Discharge flair. A mountain of televisions onstage emitted hundreds of clips from horror films, pornography, propaganda newsreels. .. Small Jehovah’s witness-styled pamphlets were distributed before their performance declaring the coming of MABUS with the group members themselves as prophets of this coming era. They dressed wildly different on every occasion, playing different characters, lyrics making a complete mockery of rancid music scenes worldwide. It was a last-ditch attempt to deliver one final savage and fatal blow to the Detroit music scene. .. Unleashed on 6.6.06, “The Mabusvanian Conspiracy” was both the heralded ideology that Nostradamus forewarned and simultaneously Bartek’s attempt to build himself on the international level. It was the sum equation of all he’d fought for, this self-styled revolution he dubbed “Pan-Tribal Socialism.” Here Bartek presented the world with his dark vision of the future. The career suicide of The Silent Burning was then turned into Millennium Falcon warp speed overdrive. .. Under the alias of “The Propagandist,” Bartek aggressively transmitted this manifesto to all corners of the globe; a transformational propaganda manual of sorts advocating multi-spectrum radicalism. The glue “The Mabusvanian Conspiracy” uses to weld his disparate ideas together runs the gamut from guerilla media infiltration, to mind control, to belligerent empirical designs on international subculture. Its theories are extremist, immoral, absurd, even comical in places – at times an absolute caricature of itself -- and seem to promise catastrophe if taken seriously. .. Despite the attempts of many fringe notables to champion him a gutter philosopher of exceptional caliber, his contribution to the history of ideas can rather be found in his clear and forceful articulation of numerous shtick already in circulation rather than any thoughts of his own. His influences were more than likely the high-brow satire of LAIBACH and the CHURCH OF SUBGENIUS. But somehow The Conspiracy has been embraced by a growing cult fan-base and its lunatic plan has actually been put into effect. .. This was the last dream of his downfall. For his position, his role in Detroit history was now the stake of all games. But actually it was late, far too late. He could only watch around him people play games in which he had been the supreme master. Starting from his dismissal at Real Detroit Weekly, these last 393 days gave to the underground a repeat performance in which the played out old mimic offered the public a gruesome, demonic imitation of his former self. .. For Bartek at the end of his career rendered the service of presenting all of Detroit with the most sordid, undiluted form of psychological warfare that was such as to ruin the memory of all his past performances even in the most uncritical minds. .. The entire underground community resisted. They mocked his Pan-Tribal manifesto, ignored his journalism, refused to attend his shows, deleted him from MySpace, declined to play alongside A.K.A. MABUS. They acted to his face as if he were invisible, and when cornered, abruptly blew him off or looked the other way. .. Bartek and his few remaining acolytes were made to feel they had no power, that A.K.A. MABUS was not punk rock, that they were not “true” metal. But the most important thing was to make them realize they were a joke – just a freakish assemblage of doomed men who for some reason were enjoying a too-prolonged stay of execution. .. The writing was now blazing on the wall. By September 2006 all rational hope for victory was long extinguished. His last months were blackened by terrible shows, personal apocalypse, substance abuse, financial stress, automobile difficulties, barren weather, and a thousand jaw-dropping betrayals… .. By early winter he’d suffered attacks described as “nervous collapse” and “an absolute loss of energy and intelligence.” He was perpetually sleeping 12 hours a day or more, staring at the ceiling from his broken mattress, lost in torrents of the slowest, most punishing doom metal in existence. .. Bartek, whom many of his inner circle now believed frankly mad, declared he’d wage the Detroit war to its apocalyptic Gotterdammerung. While he paced around frothing at the mouth in a tirade of such rhetoric, he inwardly obsessed over escape. Most appealing was the idea of seeking asylum in California. So amidst the completion of their debut record Lord of The Black Sheep, the tarnished Golden Boy swallowed his pride, murdered his legacy, and lethargically faced the A.K.A. MABUS firing squad. .. There was no Clausewitz in this Propagandist’s end -- just the banal last moments that failed tyrants have endured and have deserved to endure down the ages. Bartek had long outlived an aspiration to greatness, and a friable Pan-Tribal Socialism – exhausted of credible meaning or social purpose – had long since crumpled into nothingness. .. At the end, cornered as he is by history, his view of things is consistent, and in a strange, inverted way, correct -- invariably, what is right for him is wrong for Detroit. .. Ignominiously forced in his professional career to work as a microwave cook for Applebee’s, he writes that Detroit’s rebirth will come only after total defeat, anticipating a new era well into the future. The divorce between Bartek and his beloved underground had truly been complete… .. the depraved saga continues: www.myspace.com/bigshinyprison .. p.s. don’t shoot me bobby, you know it’s too damned funny to resist.
Members
General Robert Lee Simpson (vox/fx) .. Gustuv Von Krueger (skins) .. Galactus Honeyglaze (bass) .. Ze Fuehrduce Von Bartek aka Il Propagandist (guitar)
Influences
audio terrror, grind warfare & zappa 'stashes
Sounds Like
A.K.A. MABUS was a multi-fusion Detroit GRINDPUNK band, originally birthed as FILTHPIMP. Recorded in 2006, the unreleased album “LORD OF THE BLACK SHEEP” has finally been posted. A.K.A. MABUS featured current day members of FLESH EATING FLESH, SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC, CONFESSED ARSONIST & COLUMBIAN NECKTIE. And yes, since its so screamingly obvious, A.K.A. MABUS (and Mr. Bartek in particular) were so ridiculously dead serious they rivaled Vlad Lenin, Vlad Tepes & Vladimir Putin in one Mongolian whallop. They did so via their secret weapon, unspoken of until this point -- a Necronomicon-infused Ouija board carved from bone and layered with taut human skin. They enacted O.T.O. rites in the name of Auebothiabathabaithhobeuee and thus channeled the warrior spirit of Sun Tzu. THE MABUS KOLLEKTIVE, having enslaved his soul like Shao Kahn, expected much workhorse aesthetic. Unfortunately Sunny T. couldn't read a lick of English, and did a horrible job at booking, management, and promotion in general. As always, the panoramic plan is a consistent karmic nut-kicker...