Monday, June 26, 2006

Kurt Cobain: The Prophet of Destruction



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It is doubtful there has ever existed an anti-establishment figure who ironically became the establishment as Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), the scraggly haired, alternative rock guitarist and frontman of the Seattle area grunge band Nirvana who played in my hometown Ann Arbor Michigan on April 10, 1990.

A generation of young people were heavily influenced by the sound and self-destructive ethos of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, so much, that the entire music scene was changed forever after hearing Cobain and his grunge mates alternate between punk rock, heavy metal and Beatlesque pop ballads all in the same song.

In 1991 Nirvana's Nevermind Album caused an international sensation, thrusting the sensitive and drug addicted Cobain to the forefront of popular western culture, something his music ironically decried and loathed with their very being...

The essential ideological ethos of all of Cobain and Nirvana's music was nihilism, angst, disillusionment and total disenfranchisement from the mainstream society that ultimately christened Cobain as a sort of anti-Elvis pop icon.

In the end Kurt Cobain was a rebel, instead of turning to God in order to be healed from the intense pain and sense of alienation he felt, Cobain became a blasphemer, whose hatred of God and absolute truth is an essential motive throughout his music. Now more than likely Cobain, who sang of his alienation from society will now spend eternity in the lake of fire, forever separated and alienated from Almighty God.

Ironically, Cobain fulfilled the destiny of the following Nirvana Song entitled, Lake of Fire,

Where do bad folks go when they die?

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly

They go to the lake of fire and fry...