Boring Music Covered By A Shtick Too Boring To Be Offensive On A Cracker

Missed this little item about a metal-rock themed burger joint trying on PZ Meyer's shtick of "communion desecration".   The joint is called "Kuma's Corner" and its slogan is Eat beef. Bang your head.   After making the huge sacrifice of listening to some of the Swedish metal band "Ghost" which it is honoring with its stupid allegedly edgy "communion burger" publicity stunt, I think what's left from all that head banging has a lot in common with the meat on the buns.   Of course the "communion host" is unconsecrated so it's not a "communion host", like the "host" used in PZ Myers' own publicity stunt, it's just a cracker.  

I would be interested to see the patrons that this place attracts because I suspect they might make the average crowd at iHop look merely plump.  There must be a jillion fat calories in one of those things.

And the music?  Fourth generation Black Sabbath as imagined by the products of a cradle to grave welfare state.  Not that I'm at all opposed to cradle to grave welfare states, just that it's disappointing one would produce the kind of crap pop culture that comes out of Sweden.  They so want to be daring and edgy but they lack the experience that requires, something they've got in common with lots of American schlock pop culture.   I won't link the the music which is crap but here's an, uh, interview I tried out of sheer boredom.  It supports my contention that all that head banging has made them meat heads.

When Robert Johnson sang about selling his soul to the devil he was convincing, these boys are just idiots playing dress up and thrilling an audience stupid enough to buy them.  Johnson was alleged to have gotten his brilliant technique and music in the bargain.  If these kids got theirs in the bargain it is clear Johnson's soul was worth more.   Or maybe he was just too smart to settle for so little, something that rock fans have been doing for the past sixty years.  Rock is what is left when you take everything interesting out of the blues.   It's a rare rocker who can put something interesting back into it,  metal substitutes volume and play-time, would be outrageousness for what is real.  As can be seen in this publicity stunt.