The Bible is just one expression of people’s religious and spiritual identity, of course. Sometimes it gets a bit more intrusive, like a manic street preacher with a megaphone or, more annoying still, a brainwashed politician determined to fence you into their highly selective idea of “God’s Will.”Īll culture warring aside, it might surprise you to learn that I hold a great deal of respect for the Bible and believe it has an important role in developing our understanding of what makes human beings so fundamentally religious.
Usually, this evangelism has all the clumsy subtlety of a Jack Chick tract left on the Gas Station john. You gotta get you on board with the whole worldview, the Last Days manifesto, the 3 steps to this place, the 5 steps to somewhere else, and however many more steps to the sanctuary doors.
No, a Bible Basher is someone single-mindedly determined to bash you with their beliefs, clean across the head. In the States, we tend to use the more politically acceptable (though still insulting) “Bible Thumper.” Getting to the point: a Bible Basher is not someone who subjects the big black book and the pages there to beating, maiming, or otherwise spilling syrup on its Holy Writ nor turning its sacred pages into roll paper for a cheap high.
The debut recording before us is ‘Loud Wailing’ (2020), just released last month on the Sludgelord Records Label and it’s good stuff.Ĭhances are good that if you’re unfamiliar with the band, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop: what’s the agenda here? It bears mentioning that “Bible Basher” is an almost uniquely UK term. This is BIBLE BASHER, a lumbering, sludgey beast of a death-doom band, drawing its fellows from Kurokuma, Archelon, Spaztik Munkey, and a band whose name alone intrigues me enough to spirit them out: Temple of Coke.
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