enjyokousai

this project was a short lived celebration of the consumer driven cultural wasteland that we are drowning in. this project started from the ashes of armed & hammered (our satirical/sarcastic/parody of socialist revolutionary bands; all about drunken socialist revolution, the oppression of the drinking class, etc, etc, etc.) formed by members of smeat and face down. our accomplishments included: one live performance (the smeat cd release party, that smeat didn't play at), and an unfinished 7" (4 finished instrumental tracks that we never got around to recording the vocals on seeing as how it was recorded the day before i left chico for japan).

from the ashes of enjyokousai came the makai. this is what happens when i leave a project, they get clean and epic sounding. what happened to the noise and feedback?

enjyokousai, literally translated from japanese meaning "pleasuring old men". culturally this means underage prostitutes. enjyokousai is basically a social problem in japan that they are trying to keep secret due to how embarrassing this is culturally. junior high and high school aged girls are resorting to prostitution so that they can buy all the latest fashions and trends. this is only the logical end of consumerism and the media brain washing experiment we're all being subjected to. if you own the right apparel, live the right consumption based lifestyle, you will be loved by members of the opposite sex and peers. you will finally be just as cool as the people who are whoring themselves out to corporations and media interests who you are modeling your life after.

not that anyone cares, but here's the japanese version of the logo.