{"id":14284,"date":"2014-11-21T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=14284"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:10:57","slug":"fck-it-friday-the-weird-death-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/fck-it-friday-the-weird-death-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"F*ck It Friday – The Weird Death Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday morning, dissonant death metal titans Artificial Brain\u00a0<\/strong>posted this perplexing update to Facebook.<\/p>\n

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This news was both puzzling and a bit exciting for me. On the one hand, I was fascinated to see how one of the best songs from my favorite album of 2014 would be utilized in a police procedural show. On the other hand, I was reticent to actually have my weird interests essentially exposed to what would likely prove to be unreceptive and unappreciative masses. Add in the fact that I do not watch television aside from the X-files<\/em> and that most depictions of heavy metal on mainstream media is as a deviant and brutish distraction for delinquents and the mentally unsound, I was reasonably hesitant and interested to see how it all played out. Therefore, both my bad news and my good news for this edition of Freaky\u00a0Friday <\/em><\/a>are that Artificial Brain\u2019s monstrous anthem \u201cAbsorbing Black Ignition\u201d appeared last night on Elementary<\/em>, the modern procedural adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s classic Sherlock Holmes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So after finally figuring out what channel CBS\u00a0is on my borrowed digital converter (seriously, I don\u2019t watch TV), I opened a word document and prepared myself for the worst. The positive: Artificial Brain got played on TV. The negative: Artificial Brain got played on TV.<\/p>\n

The song actually didn\u2019t make an appearance until about 0:39 into the episode. I\u2019m not going to waste your time recounting the plot of the show. It\u2019s the same boring network television drivel that is safe and easily-consumable and that mildly stimulates the minds of the masses. It isn\u2019t especially captivating but presents just enough intrigue to hook your standard viewer. Interestingly enough, at about 30 minutes into the show, Sherlock (played by an actor I don\u2019t recognize) is interrogated by Ms. Watson (played by Lucy Liu) while he listens to a mixtape of \u201cdeath metal\u201d. I believe the band in question is in fact Carcass <\/strong>(as pointed out by my esteemed colleague Christian). Watson is predictably\u00a0derisive, and Sherlock describes the music as someone going over your brain with a sander. The showrunners do offer a bit of a backhanded compliment to the genre by creating a scenario where an expert programmer is a fan of extreme metal, but our preferred form of art is once again associated with deviance because the mixtape with metal tracks (including Goatwhore<\/strong>) is used to implant a virus that triggers an epileptic seizure that kills the\u00a0programmer.<\/p>\n

Artificial Brain finally rear their ugly heads as Sherlock is describing an apocalyptic think tank. Once again, the show offers metal a backhanded compliment as Sherlock describes the band as \u201cstimulating\u201d, but Watson, clearly flummoxed by the bizarre sound, brusquely asks \u201cArtificial Brain?\u201d in a plainly dismissive manner. Quite the interesting dichotomy. Here’s the clip if you have absolutely no interest in actually watching the show.<\/p>\n