aesthetics of hate

Aesthetics of Hate is a track from Machine Head's The Blackening Album written by vocalist and guitarist Rob Flynn. The song was written as a response to an article by William Grim for the web site Iconoclast, which praised Dimebag Darrell's murder by Nathan Gale while Darrell was performing with the band Damageplan on 8th December 2004. Titled "Aesthetics of Hate: R.I.P. Dimebag Abbott, & Good Riddance", Grim wrote the article stating Darrell was "part of a generation that has confused sputum with art and involuntary reflex actions with emotion", "an ignorant, barbaric, untalented possessor of a guitar" who looks "more simian than human".

Here is Machine Head's performance of Aesthetics of Hate, taken from the live stream during Download Festival 2007.