I have seen a shit-ton of insane videos in my time. I have also seen a lot of dull-as-fuck music videos. When I go into a Job For A Cowboy video, I really don’t expect much. Well, that’s what I thought anyway. When Job For A Cowboy released their damn-near ten minute video for “Tarnished Gluttony” which comes of the previously released Demonocracy, I thought I would end up not paying attention to it. I was dead fucking wrong. This video caught my attention and held the fuck on. I watched it all the way through twice and I have no fucking clue what I just watched.
According to JFAC‘s vocalist Jonny Davy, the video “is a spin on the old biblical tale of Abraham and Isaac, however, set in the world of Lovecraftian mythology.” Which I can get behind, being an H.P. Lovecraft fan. It’s just fucking weird, man. I won’t go into any more details, just watch the video below and tell us what you think in the comments section.
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Long story short. In the actual bible, Abraham is some old dude who hasn’t been able to conceive with his wife. God helps him out. The kid is Isaac. The story is that God wants to “test” Abraham’s faith in him and says “Go kill your kid for me”. Abraham carries him to some designated place and is about to kill his son but an angel appears and says “YO, God was just fucking with you. Please kill this goat instead.” So he does and becomes father to a motherload of nations. However, my philosophy professor made me aware that the bible has been rewritten multiple times and there are errors, something about the goat being sometimes an elk and so in the original, Abraham DOES sacrifice Isaac. The JFAC version seems to suggest that “God” is “Cthulu” and demands a sacrifice from Abraham, there is no scapegoat, he kills his son, fills him with squid and puts him out into the ocean as a sacrifice.
Anyhow, this could have been an incredibly brutal video and while it was not bad, I was kinda waiting for giant squid tentacles to pull the kid down to the depths of the ocean as bloated corpses of dead people arose ala the end of “Poltergeist”.
I was raised Catholic but strayed when I was pretty young. I know the story of Abraham and Isaac, that’s not what I was confused about. It was adding the Cthulhu mythos into the whole thing that threw me off, haha. Thanks though, dude. I was also waiting for the gigantic tentacles at the end!
I think the lack of tentacles at the end is the actual point of the video…that’s the absurdity that the comments from the band are referring to. You know, actually doing what god/cthulhu asks and then waiting for some revelation (tentacles or whatever) that doesn’t come.