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Anabaptists

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Sermon To The Princes 01:03
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True Levellers 01:36
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Holy Self Castration 01:21
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Glossolalia 01:07
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The Ballad of Hille Feicken 03:15
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In the 2010s, fresh off the release of Domestikwom’s A Peace That Destroys, a brilliant sophomore album journeying through his own Anabaptist ancestors' struggles with violence in the Russian Civil War, Jon Michael wanted to expand the scope of his inquiries. Christianity is correctly accused of often participating and enabling imperialist and colonialist projects, but a closer read of history reveals the complicating stories of people like Thomas Müntzer and The Diggers, whose faith was not driven by the promise of an afterlife, but by the material concerns of this world. Even the Anabaptist commitment to pacifism was not always a constant. This brings us to our second John.

In the 1530s, a Dutch Anabaptist minister, John of Leiden, moved to Münster, Germany, intent on starting a new religious community. Viewed as a prophet, John ran the religious and political powers out of town and outlawed both money and property. This didn’t sit well with neither Catholics nor Lutherans, so they put aside their own fighting to lay siege to the city. Ultimately, the Münster Rebellion was defeated, and the Anabaptist leaders were tortured with hot tongs ripping at their bodies, their tongues pulled out, and murdered with a knife to their hearts. Their remains were placed in iron cages that were hung off the steeple of St. Lambert’s Church.

Armed with these hopeful, yet grotesque and often absurdly violent stories Jon Michael set out to make his next musical excursion a fitting aural companion; a frenetic (and somewhat tongue in cheek) burst into grindcore and noise.

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released December 1, 2023

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