{"id":4819,"date":"2014-12-02T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/02\/russian-court-bans-the-music-of-cannibal-corpse\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:38:47","slug":"russian-court-bans-the-music-of-cannibal-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/02\/russian-court-bans-the-music-of-cannibal-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court bans the music of Cannibal Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a7\/CannibalCorpse%40Innsbruck2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"164\" \/><br \/>A Russian court has issued a ban on Cannibal Corpse\u2019s music and  artwork, denouncing the death metal band\u2019s potential to \u201cdamage the  mental health of children\u201d. On 28 November, Ufa\u2019s Oktyabrsky district court approved prosecutors\u2019  requests that Cannibal Corpse\u2019s album artwork and any Russian  translations of their lyrics be banned from distribution across the  country, according to <span class=\" u-underline\">news agency RIA Novosti<\/span>.  To explain the ruling, officials cited the songs\u2019 \u201cdescriptions of  violence, the physical and mental abuse of people and animals, murder  and suicide\u201d.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Cannibal Corpse\u2019s music has been banned before: Germany and Australia  both had injunctions on their music, at least until 2006. Back in 1995,  Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole claimed the New York state  band \u201cundermined the character of the [American] nation\u201d. But despite  songs with titles such as Stripped, Raped, and Strangled, any ban on  Cannibal Corpse\u2019s recordings seems a little futile: as with most death  metal bands, their lyrics are often indecipherable.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the nature of Russia\u2019s ban: fans can apparently listen to the  music, they just can\u2019t translate its alleged lyrics or look at any  accompanying illustrations. According <span class=\" u-underline\">to Rapsi News<\/span>, prosecutors are still working out how they will implement and enforce their ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Cannibal Corpse had a previous encounter with Russia\u2019s renascent  Christian orthodoxy during a tour earlier this year. Despite booking  eight concerts in the country, only two were able to go ahead as  planned. The cancelled dates included shows in Moscow, St Petersburg and  Ufa. \u201cIn Ufa the power was turned off shortly before the show (we were  told because the venue was late on rent),\u201d Cannibal Corpse said in a  statement. \u201cIn Moscow and St Petersburg we were told that we did not  have the correct visas and that if we attempted to perform the concert  would be stopped by police and we would be detained and deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musicians including Lady Gaga and Madonna have also faced protest or  censorship during recent Russian concerts. There are multiple reports  that the government is using access to artist visas as a means of  enforcing conservative <span class=\" u-underline\">values<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court has issued a ban on Cannibal Corpse\u2019s music and artwork, denouncing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}