Money follows money like coochie follows hoochie in the eternal dance of the entertainment industry. So with a certain movie about the religious aspects of repressed homoeroticism slouching toward a 400 million gross including tie-ins (I haven’t really been keeping up with Catholicism since Vatican II: The Encyclicaling, but isn’t it still somehow wrong to vend fake martyrdom doodads? Isn’t it, perhaps, some sort of heresy?), you can bet the marketing gurus are going to get their ass in the conga line and start churning out trendriding product to capitalize on exactly what brought all these dollars to market. That’s right, ready yourself for lots and lots of Rock en Aramaic. It is Aramaic’s time to shine. Serious beatheads have been bobbing to “Technnomaic” and “Drum’n’Bassyrian” (as well as its more intellectual comrade, “deepsand”) since the late Nineties, and one Aramaic death metal band (Mount Terrorat) has developed a loyal following online. But the combination of scenester trickledown, an ongoing interest in exotic sounds, and the sudden flood of “flow-follow” capital should lift numerous boats from passionate subculture to the pop charts. One report has leading Aramaic alternarockers The Dead See preparing not one but two new discs: one is a rerelease of their failed English-language release Down Comes The Bliss Bower, restored to its original tongue. The other is apparently a soundtrack for The Passion’s sequel, The Harrowing: Three Days in the Valley of Death. Joel Silver, who will produce the film, suggested that the band (whom he befriended while shooting parts of The Matrix: Resurrections “in Aramaica”) had the same relation to System of a Down that The Pixies had to Nirvana, and that they were, in a word, “Gethseminal.” Said the lead singer, “I’m not sure language matters so much. Rock has always been about nailing the passion.”
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