Sermons of Ferocity: A Look at the New EP by Buffalo Powerviolence Project ‘Kill Your Gods’

Kill Your Gods

“Nice people do not become cops.”

So starts the new EP, ‘The First Sermon, The First Nail,’ a frenzied and full-throttled cult powerviolence work by the Buffalo solo project Kill Your Gods.

While the three-song release clocking in at just over two minutes — (126 seconds to be exact) — might be the shortest EP we’ve come across here, it is also easily one of the more interesting, furious, and unique.

Influenced by bands such as Squid Pisser, Retox, Ed Gein, and Mental Waste, ‘The First Sermon, The First Nail,’  sets out to deliver each track as an emphatic truth emanating from Kill Your Gods very own palimpsest.

“This aim of Kill Your Gods, ‘The First Sermon, The First Nail’ EP, as well as ‘The PALIMPSET,’ is a simple one: ensuring that the chasm of poison is halted and to bring Courage, Truth, and Honesty to each song, performance, and moments of people’s lives,” said Kill Your Gods’ Mitch Elint. “There is an ever-widening chasm in our society – our lives – filled with certain people. From this chasm, these certain people have bid their time and have now slithered their way into society and are poisoning all aspects of our lives.”

For Kill Your Gods, flushing such poison comes in the form of songs such

as ‘Save a Life,’ ‘Carrie Can’t Drive,’ and ‘Piece of Shit.’

"I wouldn't ask a worm how to swim/ I wouldn't ask a frog how to fly/ I wouldn't ask a bird how to pray/ So why would I ... Let Jesus take the fucking wheel...” Elint belts on ‘Carrie Can’t Drive’

“Every day there is more music released than there was in the entirety of 1989. Currently, there are more words written per hour, every day, than ever before,” Elint said. “In those notes and words there is a lack of courage. There is a lack of honesty in each chord and chorus. But Kill Your Gods fights against that rising tide. ‘The First Sermon, The First Nail’ is exactly that: The first sermon, with each track being a nail to the world, that will push back this poison and seal it away.”

Calling Kill Your Gods “a movement” and each track on the EP “a call to action,” Elint said there’s a need for a “new axiom,” one that “delivers Courage, Truth, and Honesty to people's mind and body, freeing them from the bondage of certain societal demands, beliefs, and systems.”

“My biggest hope and goal that people take away from Kill Your Gods,” said Elint, “is that they finally feel like they have found a place where they can freely exist based in Courage, Truth, and Honesty.”