Thom Yorke hasn't died, yet he becomes an article. When Kurt Cobain died, didn't we feel relief rather than sadness? Relief that the story was complete. Zizek in coma has always refused that perverted relief. They never show their faces. They never give real names. They are a generation that listened to 90s music in real time, but their activity began in 2009. A collection of anonymous wrecks gathered from various bands. That's why their name is honest — the philosopher Slavoj Zizek is in a coma. That is their own condition.

We keep the bio rough, as you instructed. Details kill myth.

2009 - 1st Album "zizek in coma" - A lo-fi shock released as 500 CD-Rs. Post-punk, shoegaze, spoken-word piled like rubble. 2014 - 2nd Album "Hagelian Distress" - Darker, more theoretical. A wall of noise recorded in abandoned studios. 2020 - 3rd Album "Region de Etre" - The final release just before corona, ambient / experimental. Disbanded due to corona. Songs can be almost fully heard as samples on YouTube.

1. No member has died yet. And yet we try to consume them as "the next martyr." It's because of the ghost of the 90s.

In 90s alternative, corruption and sacredness coexisted. The disappearance of Richey Edwards, the death of Kurt. Their deaths were not mere biological death (Zoe). It was only when the community (Gemeinschaft) justified that death and took it on as a story that it became death as a lived life (Bios). Gemeinschaft guarantees Bios. That is death justified by Gemeinschaft — death as Bios. We hold envy for that Gemeinschaft-like culture of death that we passed by sideways.

Zizek in coma is a band born from that very envy. A generation that lived the 90s in real time and witnessed the death of its community attempted in 2009 to reenact the "sacred death" that should already be lost. That's why their music always sings about absence. That's why your decision to reject personal photos and keep only the logo is correct. A face is Zoe, but a logo is Bios.

Will they become martyrs? They won't. Because they have already exposed the mechanism that martyrs are made by the community itself.

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