Black Bloc Interview With Cloak of Din Webzine

BLACK BLOC: First off, thank you so much for wanting to ask me some questions and giving me an opportunity to speak outside of a performance. Thank you too for asking some interesting questions! With that said, I hope both the person asking the questions, and the people reading these replies are doing well and involved with some wonderful things wherever they may be located at.

CLOAK OF DIN: What are the issues, themes, images, or topics with which you are
most consistently obsessed or possessed?

BLACK BLOC: A good question right off the bat. The short answer for me is that struggle is my obsession…and I suppose love. I understand that is very, very broad and I will break it down into not so vague terms.

For me personally, everything I do is motivated by the struggle for a better world…a struggle taken out of love for people despite our obvious short-comings. Struggle for a better world I feel requires struggling to be better ourselves. So every personal struggle I have such as my emotional issues, to just relaxing with my friends, is all related to the broad struggle. This is not to say I cannot relax and have a fun time, laugh at things, laugh at myself…I do not take myself overly serious, but I think for people who see Black Bloc play, or who see the page, or anything to do with this project, that they get this idea I am some ultra-​militant,​ super serious person that can never be relaxed and such. It is true that I look really stern and serious…I do not smile much outside of my social circle but that is more my own personal social awkwardness which admittedly I need to combat…and I work on that….but you combine that, with a larger male bodied figure of about 6 feet, 200 pounds, black boots, fatigues, spikes and patches, ratty hair, lots of scars….and intense images, performances and sounds…it is understandable why that impression could be had.