Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2007-11-10 10:43:00 |
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Extreme Noise Terror - Murder
Benefit gigs rule. Seriously. They are absolutely fantastic. You get a really disparate band list, so that when the audience show up, chances are they'll dislike at least half of the acts. That's a dynamic that promoters should do more to foster. When I think back over the years of all the chances that have been missed to really annoy people with music they dislike, it leaves me feeling just a little melancholy. A prime example would be back in the late '80s. Not getting both Morrissey and Extreme Noise Terror to play a pro-vegetarian benefit gig was, frankly, a criminal oversight.
ENT, as their small but dedicated fanbase call them, were one of the first hardcore punk bands to rip the genre to shreds, and lay the seeds for the grindcore metal scene. You know the drill: atonal instruments, a wall of drum noise, and vocals that sound like bull elephant seals rutting. From a modern perspective it's probably odd that this music all came from an anarcho-pacifist subculture, almost stringent in its political correctness. Nowadays these sorts of sounds are perhaps more associated with Scandinavian fascists in bad make-up. But I think that crust punk was the British manifestation of the same thing that in the States was to become the straight edge scene. Both arose as reactions against the complacent, arrogant and boorish images of masculinity that were prevalent in the cultures during the '70s. Looked at this way, maybe Morrissey did fit right in.
Anyway, here's ENT with their pro-veggie Murder. I wanted to call this an anthem, but I think you really need to be able to sing along for it to qualify for that description, and few people can make the appropriate walrus tones necessary to do that. It's from their debut album, the 1989 release A Holocaust in Your Head, probably in reference to the Buzzcocks song Harmony in Your Head. Fellow fans of noise and shouting will love this.
Extreme Noise Terror - Murder
Benefit gigs rule. Seriously. They are absolutely fantastic. You get a really disparate band list, so that when the audience show up, chances are they'll dislike at least half of the acts. That's a dynamic that promoters should do more to foster. When I think back over the years of all the chances that have been missed to really annoy people with music they dislike, it leaves me feeling just a little melancholy. A prime example would be back in the late '80s. Not getting both Morrissey and Extreme Noise Terror to play a pro-vegetarian benefit gig was, frankly, a criminal oversight.
ENT, as their small but dedicated fanbase call them, were one of the first hardcore punk bands to rip the genre to shreds, and lay the seeds for the grindcore metal scene. You know the drill: atonal instruments, a wall of drum noise, and vocals that sound like bull elephant seals rutting. From a modern perspective it's probably odd that this music all came from an anarcho-pacifist subculture, almost stringent in its political correctness. Nowadays these sorts of sounds are perhaps more associated with Scandinavian fascists in bad make-up. But I think that crust punk was the British manifestation of the same thing that in the States was to become the straight edge scene. Both arose as reactions against the complacent, arrogant and boorish images of masculinity that were prevalent in the cultures during the '70s. Looked at this way, maybe Morrissey did fit right in.
Anyway, here's ENT with their pro-veggie Murder. I wanted to call this an anthem, but I think you really need to be able to sing along for it to qualify for that description, and few people can make the appropriate walrus tones necessary to do that. It's from their debut album, the 1989 release A Holocaust in Your Head, probably in reference to the Buzzcocks song Harmony in Your Head. Fellow fans of noise and shouting will love this.
Extreme Noise Terror - Murder
