![]() ![]() If you fail to play it EXTREMELY LOUD, you may miss the Refused-esque epileptic hand-job rhythms the organ drama of Song of Zarathustra will not have the required insanity and the eye-of-the-storm melodic breakdowns, so very mid-90s Yaphet Kotto, will not build up to the correct spazz-out-demanding dancefloor madness that it really deserves. 'Boa Versus Python', like the best hardcore, will only work if it is played EXTREMELY LOUD. Test-Icicles play the game pretty well, for the most part, (though let's ignore any genre-threesomes we're being buzz-fed about them: hip-hop/hardcore-metal crossovers.like, wudeva) they've just Shoreditched it, that's all. ![]() It's brutal, it's anarchic, it's confrontational and it can be, at its best, life affirming and revolutionary. ![]() Some of the most visceral, immediate and f**king terrifying moments of my life occurred in relation to hardcore: I remember an NYHC show where I, at a tender 16, found myself in the kick-boxing mosh-pit, the crap subsequently thoroughly kicked out of me - I had a Vans sole imprinted on my face for like a week, I swear. Hardcore, Hoxton-style, eh? It's been a while since I was an h/c boy, but I still, even in my wizened age, remember the lessons imparted by the scene. ![]()
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