Holy Death Temple unmasks the “erotic evil” of ICE agents — and the role S&M plays when fascism does the roleplaying. There’s a dirty little charge running through Someone To Blame, the kind that starts in the nerves, moves through the bloodstream, and winds up somewhere shameful. Holy Death Temple have made a track about power, appetite, coercion, performance, submission, and the awful old human habit of dressing domination up as comfort, then selling it back to the willing and the weary as a form of pleasure. “It started off as anger,” says Bryan Edward of Holy Death Temple about their new single, Someone To Blame.
