"Fuck grindcore, we're down with Slaaayerrr!!!"*
*Actually said, just not at this show
Explosives: Mastrobuono > Hogan > Damaging Noise > Bootleggers > Vloggers > And the circle of life, uh, circles again.
Abortion, Apoplexy, Cad, Dark Mordor, Decay, Dehydrated, Dementor, Embalmed, Gladiator, Insepultus, Mentally Parasites, Nailed Nazarene, Obliterate, Pyopoesy, Suffocate, Typhoid (mostly with scans)...
"Test Dept is an English industrial music group that was one of the most important and influential of that scene's earliest acts. Particularly notable for their complex and powerful percussion, the band used unconventional instruments such as scrap metal and factory machinery for '...sophisticated sound-collages and helter-skelter momentum of cyclical rhythms...'"
"Voice of Eye is a New Mexico based ambient experimental duo whose members are Bonnie McNaim and Jim Wilson. Their sound is one that blends electronics, drones, and world music, particularly with a Middle Eastern overtone, and tends to evoke a shamanistic quality. Many of their instruments are home-made or heavily modified, with a style that has been described as 'largely indescribable, but totally inviting'."
I don't miss the torture of recording dial-up streams to cassette (easy to rig, hard on the rage when they buffered...which was all the time). This one was an especially grueling session, but well worth the obliterated patience to capture it: O.G. Gangsta-speedcore and Amiga-breaks from the greatest provocateurs of the style, interspersed with live-at-the-rave commentary from THE boss asshole himself, Mark N...