It has slowly dawned upon me that I really, REALLY enjoy fictionalized depictions of the end of the world. About once or twice a year, my subconscious treats me to an epic dream session involving the sky catching on fire or aliens cleaning house on our ill-fated planet. I have an inexplicable obsession with the movies The Day After Tomorrow (and hell, The Day After, for that matter) as well as Cloverfield. Perhaps it was exposure to all those post-apocalyptic heavy metal videos during my formative years, or maybe I’m just one sick chick, but when delivered in a pop culture context, I just can’t get enough of the end of it all. Apparently there’s some movie called District 9 that I need to run out and see immediately.It wasn’t until my wise and verbose friend Andrew pointed out to me that there’s actually a term for this that I realized my favorite local song of the moment ties neatly into this whole, strange picture. Mobile Slaughter Unit, a band I’ve waxed poetic about in my column already (and will again this week) recently came out of Egg Studios with a 2-song demo recorded with Conrad Uno. It blew my mind almost immediately. Track two in particular was so delicious that I had to listen to it four times in a row in one sitting. The song is called “Eschaton”, which vocabulary Jedi Andrew noted is a noun of Greek origin referring to the end of the world. “This is the end of days/Or so my girlfriend says” is the refrain singer/guitarist Roddy Chops introduces at the song’s midpoint. MSU is pretty much a guaranteed sugar-rush for any fan of Karp or Fugazi (listen for yourself over here), and apparently for late-blooming eschatologists as well. Who knew?