Death Metal article in the Guardian

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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1800784,00.html

let the destruction of this article commence..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

This is extreme metal, this is death metal - a son of thrash metal and brother of black metal. This is as brutal and bloody as it gets. And having the baddest name is part of it. They are competing with names such as Anal Vomit of Peru, or Dying Fetus from Maryland, or Melbourne's finest, Disembowelment.

Oh, if ONLY their name was Anal Vomit of Peru!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thats Dans new ILX death metal supergroup name sorted then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

In New York a minimal metal band called Sunn0))) involves six guitarists in front of a bank of amps producing music which is like standing in front of a jet engine. Their sound is so low in its frequency it has the effect of loosening the bowels of some members of the audience.

It was so noisy it made the writer see treble?

Or he's never seen Sunn o))) before? hmmm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Disembowelment have been out of service for over a decade now. Or did they reunite and stage a comeback I wasn't aware of?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

today: The Guardian does metal

yesterday: The Observer reviews Gorgoroth
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/10bestcds/story/0,,1797278,00.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

...but the general public don't give a shit because theres not been a ballad yet.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was remarkably balanced coverage for a mainstream paper actually - I mean, he actually said the music was good.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Let's hear a warm welcome for... The Bowel Looseners!

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Monday, 19 June 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

If he went in with the intention to flat out trash the music it wouldn't leave much point to writing about it, would it? Although it wasn't exactly the writer's fault, there wasn't anything in there to inspire a flicker of interest in a non-metalhead beyond "lol band names funney".

Lisa Macey has been editing Zero Tolerance magazine for two years. Before that she was publisher of Terroriser (sic) until there were differences over direction.

I didn't know this, and find it slightly surprising given the last two or more years of Terrorizer, and the mag she edits now, which still comes off as a bit of a bargain basement version of her old workplace to me. She must be very precious, for better or worse

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 June 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Never read Zero Tolerance. Is it more experimental than terrorizer or just more extreme metal?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

The latter if anything, although the pieces I've glanced at on Merzbow, Skullflower (I think - might be thinking of Decibel) etc have seemed sincere and un-tokenistic

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 June 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen decibel. WH Smiths don't stock it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

it ends very abruptly but i don't think it's a bad article, really.

very odd headline.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

er, xpost. sorry.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

The headline made me think of The Good Life.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I've only just noticed the strangeness of the headline (read the article before going to work this morning; don't really have an eye for detail at 8 AM). the copywiter responsible is obviously a total pop cultural ignoramous.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

there's a very good chance it's my former boss. either way, it's kinda pretty much his responsibility. HEHEH, i must wind him up about this.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Shouldn't every country have an Anal Vomit? I'd love to hear what Anal Vomit of Bhutan sounds like.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Simon, can we please have your former boss's initials?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

none of the bands listed as playing at this festival are particularly distinguished within death metal

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

with the possible exception of Disembowelment and, if you're being generous, Dying Fetus

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

They weren't playing the festival (which I think was just a load of bands from the UK underground), he just mentioned those names for the lolz

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I just wish one of these mainstream media things would do a similarly abstracted take on, say, classical music:

only old people like it;
all the auters are dead;
highly skilled young musicians channel their dead spirits;
children are forced to practice 6 hours a day from the age of four;
everyone dresses in silly black clothes that makes it look like they're attending a funeral;
'songs' called "The Flying Mouse" and "O Magnum Mysterium" and overblown prog-concept albums based on the planets or springtime.

Yeah, really funny isn't it?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Classical music is totally hilarious, ESPECIALLY contemporary stuff! Unless you're trying to sing it, in which case it sucks ass.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Their sound is intense and animalistic. If scientists at Cern's particle accelerator were to shoot a pig rather than protons round their 27km facility it might sound like the Bristol band's lead singer.

Awkwardly worded, but I found that image quite amusing.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

where OMM leads Terrorizer follows !

http://www.terrorizer.com/tIss/ter146f/bigt146.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I wish Terrorizer would cover some of the more experimental stuff regularly so its worth me buying it, because the straight ahead DM & BM and that goth metal stuff just doesnt interest me.
I tend to only buy it if theres drone/doom/stoner or an interview with a band I know i do like.
In saying that i've bought it 3 times this year so maybe im mellowing towards more of it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Simon, can we please have your former boss's initials?

no, you can have a clip round the lug'ole, yew cheeky sod ;p

re: terrorizer ... i find it almost unreadable, like it's written by an illiterate and stoned 12-year-old whose eighth language is english, but my metal-lovin' friend devours it and passes some good tips on to me. actually, i have their "fear candy" vol 26 sitting here on my desk: the amenra track ("am kreuz") is absolutely fucking stupendous.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Kerrang Vs Terrorizer, grimly?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

umm. neither. my aforementioned mate phil telling me about the stuff he's read about in either one :)

i dunno. as a latecomer to the whole metal thing - seriously, two or three years ago i pretty much completely ignored it - i've never quite got into the associated literature.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Apart from my grunge days when i bought Raw, Kerrang, Melody Maker every week in the early 90s, i moved away from heavier stuff for a good few years before getting into stoner rock in late 90s(despite being a non smoker) and in the last 3 or 4 years i've started to like heavier stuff i wouldnt have gave the time of day in previous years.
I used to only buy terrorizer once a year for the albums of year list as it always featured some good stuff but now i actually find myself if not buying it. at least reading it in shops. Something I dont even do much with Kerrang or NME these days.

A magazine like Terrorizer crossed with The Wire would be perfect. Esp if it covered some indie and electronic music too.

But that would be like hell for most people I suppose.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Did you ever get that 1st Pelican ep, grimly?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes! and it is MIGHTY. but i have to say, "there is a fire in my arse that will waken the dead" or whatever it was called has begun to really, really grow on me and take on whole new hues and shades, and i've been listening to that more.

actually, i might listen to it this morning. although first i have to write a review of the divine comedy. (which i also like.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

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― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 03:17 (fourteen years ago)

yeugh 'music season' where all these nudniks decamp to watch hot chip in a rural latrine

― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

time was, music was all year

― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

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