John Maus unveils first release in almost a decade, "I Hate Antichrist"

Speaking about the track Maus says: “The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time a claim is made to realize, within history, that messianic hope which can only be fulfilled beyond history through the eschatological judgment.”

The animated music video, directed by Andrew Norman Wilson, is a surreal and haunting visual depiction of the loop of self-devouring destruction caused by contemporary antichrists. In the video a group of false saviors - tech moguls, corrupt bishops, politicians, war-mongering-military and media influencers - succumb to the relentless churn of vanity and brutality. The characters are not just villains but also symbols of a world trapped in its own sickness on the verge of collapse.

In contrast, the song is an act of rejection and resistance, a call for meaningful transcendence. A throwback to Maus’s essay Theses on Punk and the 2011 track "Cop Killer", off Pitiless, a metaphorical call to arms, a challenge to both fight the powers that be and kill the cop in our own heads.