Bloodbath - T-Shirt Controversy
Bloodbath have posted the following message on their website already a few days ago:
"We have just learned that our latest shirt design [Front, Back] has run into some controversy. Actually, It's been a bit of a rocky road from the start with this one. Back at the sketch board, some of our art direction ideas were met by hesitation and according to the designer would feel "uncomfortable to do". However, the design went through and obviously with such a fantastic piece of artwork and beautiful symbolism the t-shirt has hit home with Bloodbath's audience all over the world, but apparently a demon vomiting on Jesus on a cross, surrounded by snakes, vultures and skulls was over the line for some confused " death metal" fans. Perhaps they should ask themselves if it was really death metal they were searching for in the first place.
Here are examples of some Dr Phil approved quotes we recieved:
"Recently saw your t-shirt "Mock The Cross." It seems rather childish and immature not to mention very dangerous, to ridicule Christ. Why such disdainment for the incarnate God who died to save all mankind, even your sorry asses! If you have a problem with organized religion that's one thing. It has little to do with Christ and His life and teachings. Of course if you curse Him in apparent ignorance, then you wouldn't know the difference. Hell won't be a cool place to be. The power of the cross is foolishness to those perishing."
"I Don't care about all the satan woreshippers that are gonna flame me. But, BloodBath YOU JUST LOST A FAN. On that degrading shirt. I believe what I believe. I rather not have bands mock it. This band is done. Never again. See you on judgment day."
To top it off, we also just recieved the following message from Raw Talent, the printer of the merchandise: "I have just been informed by the owner of the company that unfortunately we will not be able to print the "mock the cross" design again for you guys. It is against the owner's moral and ethical standard for himself and also for the company. He wanted me to let you know and to send his apologies."
With that said, let's get the weak aside and the Bloodbath choir ready to mock the fucking cross again as we moved on to a new printer for our latest over the top "Iesous" shirt design. Original artwork by Alex Norman features a detailed drawing of a dead Jesus with a crown of thorns and blind eyes, bleeding crosses in the background on both sides, and his hair engulfing skulls and the Bloodbath logo. The back features a cross dripping in blood with the lyrics: "Eeso Yeshua Iesous Die By Our Rage". The design was also printed using a technique which results in the ink becoming one with the fabric, creating a soft vintage look and feel. Not a shirt to miss, grab one now!"
"We have just learned that our latest shirt design [Front, Back] has run into some controversy. Actually, It's been a bit of a rocky road from the start with this one. Back at the sketch board, some of our art direction ideas were met by hesitation and according to the designer would feel "uncomfortable to do". However, the design went through and obviously with such a fantastic piece of artwork and beautiful symbolism the t-shirt has hit home with Bloodbath's audience all over the world, but apparently a demon vomiting on Jesus on a cross, surrounded by snakes, vultures and skulls was over the line for some confused " death metal" fans. Perhaps they should ask themselves if it was really death metal they were searching for in the first place.
Here are examples of some Dr Phil approved quotes we recieved:
"Recently saw your t-shirt "Mock The Cross." It seems rather childish and immature not to mention very dangerous, to ridicule Christ. Why such disdainment for the incarnate God who died to save all mankind, even your sorry asses! If you have a problem with organized religion that's one thing. It has little to do with Christ and His life and teachings. Of course if you curse Him in apparent ignorance, then you wouldn't know the difference. Hell won't be a cool place to be. The power of the cross is foolishness to those perishing."
"I Don't care about all the satan woreshippers that are gonna flame me. But, BloodBath YOU JUST LOST A FAN. On that degrading shirt. I believe what I believe. I rather not have bands mock it. This band is done. Never again. See you on judgment day."
To top it off, we also just recieved the following message from Raw Talent, the printer of the merchandise: "I have just been informed by the owner of the company that unfortunately we will not be able to print the "mock the cross" design again for you guys. It is against the owner's moral and ethical standard for himself and also for the company. He wanted me to let you know and to send his apologies."
With that said, let's get the weak aside and the Bloodbath choir ready to mock the fucking cross again as we moved on to a new printer for our latest over the top "Iesous" shirt design. Original artwork by Alex Norman features a detailed drawing of a dead Jesus with a crown of thorns and blind eyes, bleeding crosses in the background on both sides, and his hair engulfing skulls and the Bloodbath logo. The back features a cross dripping in blood with the lyrics: "Eeso Yeshua Iesous Die By Our Rage". The design was also printed using a technique which results in the ink becoming one with the fabric, creating a soft vintage look and feel. Not a shirt to miss, grab one now!"
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| Andreas666 Posts: 39  |
Written by the napalm rain on 10.12.2008 at 23:30 
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| Visioneerie Urban Monster Posts: 810  |
I like the Iesous shirt even better than the Mock the Cross one. Both are pretty badass and it's a shame that they had to stop selling it.
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| Arcesse Eum Posts: 268  |
You know, i dont mind so much that the shirt has demons vomiting on Christ, but the fact that they think the shirt is "a fantastic piece of artwork and beautiful symbolism" is beyond me.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 11.12.2008 at 01:05 Yeah I didn't think there was any mistake over Bloodbaths image or lyrical theme from the start so its not like this is surprising. The people making it seem like they became like this suddenly are either morons or people who never listened to the band in the first place. Besides, thats not nearly the most offensive shirt I've ever seen.
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| BurbotsRevenge Foetal Butchery Posts: 1602  |
"I Don't care about all the satan woreshippers that are gonna flame me. But, BloodBath YOU JUST LOST A FAN" im a christian myself, but i wouldnt go as far as stop being a fan... i wouldn't buy the shirt obviously, but i'll still keep rocking out with bloodbath 
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| benvolent Posts: 189  |
Anyways the shirt is more funny than offending! Wicked demon, uuuuaaaah 
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| Tony Harrison I have no arms.. Posts: 3044  |
Written by Metal Maiden on 10.12.2008 at 23:31 Here's a bit of a shot, can't see too much though... http://bloodbath.biz/merchandise.php http://bloodbath.biz/images/merchandise/detail.jpg
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| Shankao Posts: 29  |
Written by SlaytallicA on 11.12.2008 at 01:34 This is my thought too.
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| Thought. A Dying God Posts: 90  |
That "One lost fan" bullshit is probably fake, in the sense that it's probably some Tipper Gore FCC own-fist-up-their-ass jerks who want the band to feel guilty. ...or, it really is just some dumb fuck. In either case, I'd like to follow Jay & Silent Bob's suit and beat some heads in
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| AiwiAstwihad AiryanaKhvarenah Posts: 1421  |
"But, BloodBath YOU JUST LOST A FAN. On that degrading shirt." Hey, No problem, I'll take your place as a new fan! Awesome artwork.... 
---- You who will come to the surface
From the flood that's overwhelmed us and drowned us all Must think, when you speak of our weakness in times of darkness That you've not had to face
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| Hamird Lieutenant Posts: 2564  |
Bloodbath always bring all beautiful t-shirts.. I like them all. Watch them on the website merchandise.. Wish I had
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| VPeter Posts: 1450  |
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| Lord TJ Posts: 1522  |
Written by VPeter on 11.12.2008 at 15:45 I know right. Ok people deciding not to print it because of their own religion, I can understand. I think Dr. Phill's response was hilarious! "Why such disdainment for the incarnate God who died to save all mankind, even your sorry asses!" Quote: They make it seem like they are saying that all death metal is satanic, which we all know isn't true, by far. Damn do they throw a bitch fit, they're fucking T Shirts! If one place wont make them, another one will somewhere!
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| Dane Train Beers & Kilts elite Posts: 8902  |
Would anyone here be upset if I wore my Demon Hunter shirt? I mean it has a picture of a demon with a bullet hole in its head.
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| Sunioj Posts: 3894  |
Written by Lord TJ on 11.12.2008 at 17:11 While that is true to some extent and there is no hard rule for DM bands to be satanic, I think most of the aesthetics and symbolism entailed by Death metal bands has some proportion of anti something. Just look at the classics... Morbid Angel, Possessed, etc. No one is surprised when a death metal band uses that kind of imagrey and anyone that is clearly has not explored the death metal genre beyond 'Opeth' (sarcasm).
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| VPeter Posts: 1450 |
Written by Irritable Ted on 11.12.2008 at 20:18 now that would be awesome  I would gladly buy one
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| GT Coffee!! staff Posts: 5101  |
Written by Irritable Ted on 11.12.2008 at 20:18 I don't think that burnings and roits would do...that happened because of some normal drawings so something like that would cause war
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| necrovamp Posts: 424  |
Written by GT on 11.12.2008 at 21:20 thing is they practilly do make war on you if you mock them. They held a PEACEFUL MARCH through Nottingham recently to SHOW HOE PEACEFUL AND UNVIOLENT THEY ARE yet all the males were CARRYING SWORDS even if thye were just ceremonial they shouldn't ahve been carrying them. I do find the wording funny though, Such artwork and symbolism, but apparently a demon vomiting on Jesus on a cross, surrounded by snakes, vultures and skulls was over the line. As if a demon vomiting on a cross with jesus on is just harmless fun lol
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| AiwiAstwihad AiryanaKhvarenah Posts: 1421 |
Written by VPeter on 11.12.2008 at 20:34 Hell yeahhhhhhh, I would give my life for that shirt! And no, there won't be riots, There will be WWIII....
---- You who will come to the surface
From the flood that's overwhelmed us and drowned us all Must think, when you speak of our weakness in times of darkness That you've not had to face
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
It is just a shirt, come on! Did those fans even read the lyrics? "Bastard Son Of God", "Mock The (Fucking) Cross"?!? So, don't come with "Oh you lost a fan" jajaja.
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| a MasT Posts: 346  |
I'm a fan on Bloodbath, but way to steal a page out of the deicide/cannibal corpse handbook. Over-the-top art and media doesn't necessarily mean the music is good, come on guys you're way too talented for that.
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| yourmomiskvlt Posts: 16  |
Religion is stupid. Stupid things deserve to be mocked. Censorship is not metal.
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| KryptoN imperceptible Posts: 634  |
Written by Lucas on 11.12.2008 at 00:07 The bloodbath.biz site blocks third party referrers for the pictures. Meaning, the site "knows" that you clicked a link on some other site to get to the picture and then denies you access to it / redirects you somewhere else. This is quite a common practice to stop "hotlinking" and other sorts of content theft. And yeah, when you visit it through the host site it's saved in cache and in a way that also circumvents the block temporarily so you can see it through other sites as well. About the shirt stuff, I lol'd. It gives me some weird pleasure knowing there are these incredibly stupid asses getting upset over some shirts.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino staff Posts: 18274  |
This is just gay... specially the guy who said "You lost a fan" Like Bloodbath would give a shit... Like the rest of the world would give a shit. And it's funny that the guy didn't want to be a fan just for the t-shirt but the lyrics were already talking shit about christianity so that's even worse... That people just cares when something turns graffic. It's just a t-shirt. It's not good lookinf actually. I just don't think it's well done but I mean it in an astirtic way.
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