NEW YORK - RETURN OF THE BEAST?

By viceland

We were just talking the other day about how you don't see as much satanism around as you used to. You guys notice that? When we were little, it seemed like you couldn't take five steps into the woods without ending up in some rocky little alcove or abandoned shack covered in pentagrams and spent nitrous containers. Those were really great days for shitty graffiti. Everything had a sort of sinister, River's Edge quality to it, where even when you figured out it was just stoned high school kids and not a secret witch's coven, you still couldn't be entirely sure that they wouldn't kill you with some kind of decorative knife. I don't know who's more to blame for its disappearance—hip-hop for supplanting metal and infiltrating every aspect of suburban life, or goth for becoming so nerdy that it drove all the wastoids over into hip-hop and nu-metal—but we can only imagine how badly it fucked with this next generation's development to grow up without being scared of teenagers. Anyways, we're psyched to see at least some of the kids are getting back into the evil, if not so much that they decided to start in our hallway.