Attempted Ban On Cannibal Corpse in Australia

Over at blabbermouth.net they have excerpts from interviews from officials in Australia who either think that Cannibal Corpse should be banned from playing in Australia, or are trying to get them banned from playing a club in Perth Australia.

Some people over there are upset that Cannibal Corpse is playing, especially since two women were murdered in Australia recently. A few details on the murders are at blabbermouth.net.

Two important things that were said in the blabbermouth.net message board were that Cannibal Corpse has no relation to those murders, and that the fans attending the live show most likely already own some Cannibal Corpse albums, and have already read they lyrics.

One of the quotes I read was “There is enough violence and youth suicide in WA [West Australia] already without any encouragement from awful groups like this.” was said by police minister Rob Johnson.

I guess we really haven’t learned much from the court cases against Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest. How about the announcements made by Frank Zappa, Dee Snider and John Denver against the PMRC in the 80's?

Lets be honest with ourselves, censorship is a veil to essentially push right-wing and christian values on the rest of us. Artists don’t just get censored for album covers and lyrics, they get harassed for rumours that have been perpetuated as well.

I remember reading one of the lists of artists to boycott from the PMRC, and the reasons why. One of the reasons to boycott artists is for said “Occult” references. If the PMRC wasn’t interested in pushing religious views, “Occult” references wouldn’t be an issue. Lamb Of God, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie have all been harassed by religious groups attempting to prevent them from playing in certain venues, and in some cases have succeeded.

To trivialize a persons murder or suicide by associating such events with music is an insult to those victims and their families. The attempted banning of Cannibal Corpse playing a concert is nothing but a veiled attempt to push right-wing and christian values on the people of Austalia, which may effect other countries as well using Australia as an example.

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