I've been wanting to talk about this for a while now, Dead End Follies might just be the place where to do it. Some of you might know, I'm passionate about extremes. Extreme sports, extreme cinema, extreme music. Therefore I like metal a lot, but in the latest years, the highly conceptual music that is grindcore captivated me like no other.
Grindcore and his post-genre babies (Goregrind, Cybergrind, Pornogrind, etc.) is a whole musical style dedicated to non musical experiments. Anal Cunt, one of the pioneers of a movement called noisegrind was the first to say it out loud. They wanted to do the least musical music they could. Today, they are still the kings of unlistenability, but the real kings of the extreme that went for the most unhuman music experiments possible were Last Days Of Humanity.
Listening to LDOH on CD is quite an experiment in itself. In their glory days (1999-2003), this band was formed by unsettling characters such as Erwin de Groot. When I found the video about, dated from 1997, I didn't know what to think.
Just look at these guys, they look like students from the History department at Admsterdam University. Hans Smits is pulling his pants up at the start of the song to make sure he won't lose them from all the calories she's shedding from that charismatic performance. His signing technique is so strange he looks like he's doing a blow job to the microphone.OK I'm not fair, this is typical grindcore signing technique, but if good Hans didn't bend over the mic like this, he wouldn't have looked like he was swallowing a weiner.
There is also a girl in that band? A good looking one on top of it. I'm confused here, did Erwin De Groot, Bart Bouwmans and Marc Palmen killed these people to steal their band? Consumed In Gore isn't the greatest success of the band, but this version is sludgy and...unthreatening! Enjoy the bewilderment of the prehistoric LDOH nerds
