An Idol of Our Fear

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An Idol of Our Fear came together in the summer of 2007 for a short-lived, fun project. The goals were to record a demo, play a show, and above all, have fun. The demo was recorded at Philadelphia's Permanent Hearing Damage studio in early August. The show will be at Plane Mollie on August 17, 2007. Derik-Drums and Vocals JD-Bass and Vocals Matt-Guitar and Pickslides Allen-Guitar and Vocals" "... and what of those who neither will nor can believe?" Ingmar Bergman's Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), based on his play Painting on Wood, follows the journey home [from the crusades] of a knight named Antonius Block. His homeland is ravaged by the plague and he witnesses the fear of death in all its manifestations: "penitence" by flagellantion, bubonic "cleansing" through a "witch" burning and opportunistic clergymen who feed off of medieval society's terror. The weathered knight's faith is shaken to the core and is only staying his own execution by way of an ongoing game of chess with death. He is looking for answers, and moreso, looking for one final "significant act," believing that he will find real meaning and some form of closure in it. Frightened to the core by his inability to fully admit how close he is to acknowledging the silence; the void, he offers his agnostic confession [with anger and cynicism] to a priest... who is, in fact, death, consciously obscured by robe and hood. Antonius: I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise- but knowledge. I want god to

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