Sludge metal icons Eyehategod have come under fire from a US politician after a concert poster depicted him eating a baby.
When it comes to the metal scene, most fans would agree that if you haven’t offended someone, you haven’t done enough. However, it seems as though New Orleans’ Eyehategod have just achieved some of their goals, raising the ire of a US Senator.
As Metal Injection reports, Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert recently took to social media to dispute the concert poster for Eyehategod’s upcoming show in the state, which depicts him eating a baby.
In a Facebook post yesterday, Rapert shared a screenshot of the upcoming event, calling on the venue in the city of Little Rock to not only cancel the show, but to also apologise for using “such a disrespectful image”.
“I rarely share with you the hateful posts and pictures that extreme liberals make about me to torment my stand for better moral values,” Rapert wrote. “But this time I want you to see what they have done.”
“They use my image on an event without my permission and they depict me ‘biting a baby’ in my mouth. A wicked and evil depiction on an event entitled ‘Eyehategod’.”
Check out Senator Jason Rapert’s post:
“I call on Vinos in Little Rock to cancel this event and apologize for such a disrespectful image that shows the dehumanization of babies lives. It is disrespectful of all who value babies lives and people of faith. They also clearly welcome the Satanic Temple in another post I am sharing.”
“I urge you NOT to frequent Vinos and stand against their hateful rhetoric.”
Of course, in a shining example of the Streisand Effect, many people have begun showing great interest in the controversial poster, with one commenter taking to Rapert’s post to write, “Yeah like I’m gonna believe someone who eats babies.”
Check out the Eyehategod poster in question:
As Metal Injection points out, this isn’t the first time that Senator Jason Rapert has made headlines, coming to the attention of The Satanic Temple in the past after he had attempted to erect a statue of the ten commandments.
Likewise, this isn’t even the first time that controversial concert posters have come under fire either, with Pearl Jam being targeted for a 2018 poster that depicted the rotting corpse of US President Donald Trump.
At this stage, Eyehategod and the Vino’s venue in Little Rock, Arkansas have not responded to the criticism, but we sort of assume they’ll just laugh it off.
Check out Eyehategod’s ‘New Orleans Is The New Vietnam’:
