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I feed my anger with the fucking bullshit that you preachI...

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I feed my anger with the fucking bullshit that you preach
I bleed forever and not a thing you do can comfort me

swear-on-satan: In the end of 1996, multi-instrumentalist Tim...

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In the end of 1996, multi-instrumentalist Tim Skold got together with the German musician, Sascha Konietzko, and became a part of his band KMFDM. The band soon released the album [Symbols], on which Tim contributed by writing and singing some of the songs. About two years after, the school massacre in Columbine High in Colorado occurred, April 20 1999, on the same day as the release of the band’s second album with Skold. This album was entitled Adios and the killers saw this as a sign for them to go on. The two male students in the school shot 12 schoolmates and one teacher to death, and then took their own lifes. Tim had written the lyrics for the song Anarchy on the record the two teens adored, and as Eric Harris had quoted this song in his signature in Nate Dykeman’s yearbook, with the phrase “wake me up in anarchy”, Skold was immediately linked together to the murders.

Tim Skold said in an interview in 2011 about the incident: “It’s completely insane to see your own text in a manifesto from murderers. It’s a bit… bewildering.” When asked how this affected him, he continued; “When you see murderers find a meaning in your lyrics, a text you’ve written… Yeah, that can be bewildering. But I can’t even feel guilty for what people do. I write what I write, but how you perceive it, that’s completely up to you. And I write things with a meaning, things that’s supposed to be strong. And tickle your imagination. But it is still up for the listener, who is responsible for what they create out of the material.” […] “It became clear for me that it was time to shut the phones down, turn the lights off, lock the door and hide ourselves, because there’s no way we can win this. They’re just looking for a scapegoat! The media wants someone to blame and then it was the rock music here.”

And, said and done, media was only hungry for super news and this was exactly what they had been waiting for. Not looking for facts, they only wanted someone to put the blame on, not listening to anybody else who had anything to say about it. “But we can’t fight on that level. So then they went after Marilyn Manson, which had more of a name, and recognition.”

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vonrichten: I was there ^^ What a lovely day. Buenos Aires,...

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vonrichten:

I was there ^^ What a lovely day.

Buenos Aires, September 29th 2007.

(Sorry for the tags. They’re video captures.)

7/1/07 - B’estival in Bucharest, Romania

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7/1/07 - B’estival in Bucharest, Romania

"Music is strange like that because it always has two sides to it. It’s a double edged sword. To reap..."

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“Music is strange like that because it always has two sides to it. It’s a double edged sword. To reap the benefits you have to put in the work and it becomes a lot of work. I start second guessing myself because I’m not really a guitar player and I’m not really a drummer. I can pull it off with technology and make it different or strange or new. It’s like that with singing too. I’m not really a singer either. I was debating this very question when RCA signed me from the demo only. I thought about putting together a band then and that would take a long time. I just wouldn’t just hire people it would’ve taken some time to find the right people. I decided to do it myself and I had a couple of false starts. I lost my direction a couple of times, but I’m really happy with the way it turned out. It’s not a run-of-the-mill prime example of industrial today. If you dig deeply into this album, it’s quite different.”

- Tim Skold about “Skold” (via tim-skold)

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I only just realized there's a link to this from Tim's site. That's so amazing. I love your blog by the way! First Tim blog I followed here!

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:00:11 -0400

Thank you so much! It means a lot. I apologize for not posting lately, life has seem to have gotten in the way.

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