Canadian artist Steven Shearer has used well-known fragments from songlyrics and titles by SATYRICON ("Filthgrinder"), CARCASS ("Exhume to Consume"), CADAVER ("Goat Father"), FEAR OF GOD ("Pneumatic Slaughter"), CRYPTOPSY ("Blasphemy Made Flesh") and many more to create a huge (9,253 square feet) poster that is currently being displayed in the center of Berlin, Germany.
According to the Diesel Wall 2006 web site, Shearer has been developing a series of "Poems" (2005) in which the artist "creates a textual mélange out of the lyrics of obscure rock bands and the titles of death metal classics and presents them as white-on-black posters. The austere layout of the Poems contrasts with the logorrhea of their lyrics, which read like a derailed train of thought, a descent into the maelstrom of paranoia. Through accumulation and reiteration Shearer both embraces and distances himself from the culture he depicts, thus turning the Poems into an uncanny, clinical study of collective hysteria."
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