Would the non-skateboarding public misunderstand the pure intentions of a masked man doing a backside smithgrind on a parking lot barrier? probably. Would a woeful bank teller feel threatened when Deer Man heads in to cash his photo incentive cheque after the session? Most likely.
The recent Skull Skates/BA.KU “Diehard Barrier Kult” deck represents the pinnacle for pure BA.KU deck worship as Skull let us have the shape of the original Diehard (10 x 30) with Tub Tech1 concave – Diehard right down to the original “Canadian hard rock maple” graphic that adorns the nose. To us, Skull Skates represents the epitome of black and white cult darkness from the ‘80s, and beyond. This Diehard pig shape is the deck to end all decks – a very powerful, fearful, and liberating knife into the ground of the transition entity.
hEsh Law For Spring 2009, Creature will release a video called Hesh Law. A Barrier Kult section will be featured within it that will represent the Kult plague much like the original video released in 2004. The new part will include barrier destruction from the “Depth Leviathan Dweller”; two guest parts from “Muskellunge of the Dark Island” (one of the most ritual contemporary practitioners) and “Hammerer of Roots” (the builder of concrete altars), as well as a complete part from myself. For the video, I was interested in pushing my chaptered abilities on barriers further, but mostly I was interested in merely representing 34
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the Barrier Kult in its truest form. Freestyle progression and staying current is not a priority for me, or the BA.KU. True power comes from militance, not acceptance. More focus that came from the filming strategies was a coarse action to include only a few spots repeated again and again – designed to hammer the truth and raw power of the singular altars into cultists’ thought patterns. These single altar spots are respected and worshipped.
Plague Spreading Over the past few years, the Barrier Kult has managed to infiltrate its way into small circles worldwide. With the popularity of the 2004 video, as well as Heroin’s Magic Sticky Hand video and other short propaganda productions, the plague of the Kult has found its way into the dwellings of many new followers. The first groups to contact us were from California, and then the veined roots extended into England where the mighty war metal atrocity, Heroin skateboards, made blood rituals with us. Australia is another spot of worship and plague as there are followers there. Japan also has factions of “Wallride Kult” followers that are guided by the tight transition entities and darkness of the Barrier Kult plague.