Singer/songwriter Belinda Carlisle officially retracted the eponymous claim of her 1987 hit “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” due to the myriad of current events that show the horrors of the world, sources report.
“I was young and naive when I wrote that song almost four decades ago,” Carlisle admitted. “Now that I’ve grown older and wiser, I of course have come to the conclusion that humanity has turned this planet into a completely irredeemable shithole. I mean, how could I not? Just this morning I walked past a man masturbating on the subway shortly after watching members of ICE tackle an 80-year-old woman as she was trying to enter a church, then I got home and saw a news report about how the world was on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. How fucking stupid would I have to be to think heaven exists on this worthless rock?” […]
Fair enough.
Shot in the dark: do you happen to know an album cover with a baby inside a crystal egg?
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Worth trying. Every few months I picture it and go “Testament? Exodus? Who the fuck was that?!”
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Definitely not, but thanks for trying.
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What are you into, then? The stuff played at half-speed or the stuff where the vocalist gargles?
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In that case I’d recommend High On Fire, circa Snakes For The Divine.
Or based on “Ghost Psalm,” early System Of A Down. Or Meshuggah, like “Straws Pulled At Random.”
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And yet you got them! Isn’t the internet wonderful?
Like how I’m now queuing the discography of Zao (American metalcore band) and Zao (French prog-jazz band).