By Kurt Parker
Updated
It appears Films Crew’s Aaron has made some major revisions and updates to his latest post, worth the read. Flying under our radar was the return post of Nathan on his part of the Films Crew website, chilling.
Films Crew’s Aaron never at a loss for words appears to be out for blood after some unnamed individuals who threw sexy blonde guitar god ShawnZone into an emotionally tortuous turmoil. In a post last week that seemed like emergency damage control called Rollcall, the collab post between Aaron, Levi and newbie Andrew detail stresses outside of the band day to day dynamic of tensions, detailing further ShawnZone having been devastated by the interference of a woman’s interference in a relationship pointing to new FilmsCrew contributor Cameron Reyher. Pointing out that ShawnZone had indeed cut the cord between himself and the FilmsCrew part of the franchise for the time being. The moderator for the post was (verify) FilmsCrew’s webmaster Jay. Where it ventured into the weeds involved the band members involvement on Twitter and the ultra far right wing extremist video streaming service Periscope. The post pointed out a limited edition vinyl release has been almost completed of new material which had been presumably been streaming on the site which will see brand release in another form within the next year, how this might conflict with the re-recording of their debut Narcissus Echoes is unknown. Not mentioned in Rollcall is the band line up for the new album tentatively titled Stigmatized, according to a Warner label rep Films Crew will feature
ShawnZone – guitars, bass, synths, percussion, vocals
Aaron – drums, guitar, vocal
Levi – bass, visuals
Andrew – vocals, guitar, synth
Kurt – percussion, vocals, guitar
The album titled Stigmatized will have been written completely be ShawnZone and ShawnZone and Aaron from what we have been told with a first limited run of 5,000 which will have collectors chomping at the bit. The ever enigmatic and mysterious band get more enigmatic and mysterious when they post to their own site. There is little explanation of ShawnZone’s absence and the blond heartthrob guitarist becomes more of an enigma wrapped inside a riddle in a Zen poem. Known for his high moral stances, approaches to ethics and decency, we are only left with the triplet master and scantily clad Aaron as spokesperson, enigmatic in his own way provides a clear cut picture of what’s going on in the band’s dynamic. In his latest post he speaks openly about ShawnZone, his relationship to ShawnZone, hard to do with their lives being mostly lived publicly from the beginning, not much to go on there in the way of finding character flaws. Matters take a serious turn when Aaron mentions his fascination with the far ultra right wing extremist Alt-Right niche, who he has called out on occasion, he himself is an avowed socialist, involved with the band in the broader worldwide movement Occupy Wall Street, instrumental in the broader protest movement. Aaron calls himself out on his self-destructive tendencies and his repentance calling on others to do the same. Most of his most recent post involves Aaron speaking directly to someone cloaked in a clever broader meaning about how we should atone for the damage we cause each other, regardless that the subject matter if one looks closely deals with ShawnZone’s recent torture, we need not look far for the cause.
In the closing Aaron mentions a name, which had appeared in ShawnZone’s part of the site earlier in the year with pics, Aaron mentions that he put his foot down on this individual getting into ShawnZone’s inner circle, The individual better known as young black metal guitarist Daniel Lukas was easy to track down due to his questionable exploits in the smaller music community, getting attention from claiming to be French, then Norwegian, with his own blackened crust progressive band as well as failed social media attempts to promote it, Daniel Lukas had sparked outrage over some of his outrageous posts, internet feuds. Lukas, from an unfortunate background, made news by trying to fund releases of his then band under an assumed name Corin Barrett, by taking aim at industry label heads. How the 21 year old found himself on to FilmsCrew Band’s website is murky, all of this probably unknown to Films Crew. A Warner rep said that Lukas had nothing to do with Films Crew, not knowing who he was, nonetheless this is a further mystery, if we can easily track Lukas down. Being with the Village Voice has it’s advantages when trying to track someone down, anyone.
A Warner rep mentioned Films Crew Band’s album Socratic had been removed from European streaming services at the request of the band for lack of revenue and royalties due from all streaming services. Deezer, which the label is renegotiating with the French and German streaming dynamo had been the sole source of revenue with other streaming services cutting non-mainstream bands out of play royalties, several bands are removing themselves from streaming services due to lack of payment or royalties. Films Crew had been very critical over their output on the Socratic which they said was the label’s album not their own, Predator remains on their site available for streaming, with the still frightening but edited due to pornographic concerns video. Films Crew has always blurred the line between the erotic and the mystical, ShawnZone appearing in hot pic in the buff on the site a couple of months ago. They are the only band in progressive music that can get away with it and so they should.
We were not going to give Daniel Corin Lukas publicity by linking to him at this time, this is under review.
Upon review and his recent post which we can’t decipher
Link to Daniel Corin Lukas website, warning it’s not coherent
Pic of Daniel Corin Lukas below.
Courtesy Village Voice
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