Music Is My Weapon

A couple of years ago, Ama came to me and told me about a genre of music that i ahd never heard of called Noise Bands. It's naming was appropriate: it sound like a bunch of noise. But some how if you have a good ear for music you will really enjoy what is called an assualt on the ears and mind. Ama went to see some of the bands in the genre and told me about them so I figured I would pass on the information to you.

"There is horrible noise, and then there is horrible noise you can legitimately say you enjoy. To understand the distinction, see Lightning Bolt play live."

If there was ever any question as to whether punk is dead, this is your answer. It's dead as a door nail and as alive and kicking as you ever wanted. Or never wanted.

These are just two guys. One with a bass guitar, one with a drum kit. I can confirm this with first hand experience, I've seen them twice. I don't even begin to understand how they manage to get the sounds that they do, simultaneous driving/driven bass lines and feed back and some effect that sounds like a heavily distorted violin, not to mention drummer Brian Chippendale's inaudibly screamed vocals that at times sound like a screeching monkey from hell and at others are almost intelligible, nor to mention the most lightning paced drumming I've ever heard that can still be considered playing (I don't think he misses a beat. Literally), nor the way that together they can instantaneously erupt into blasts and bolts of sheer noise and then back again into complex rhythms, some of which border on being loops.

I've never been a fan of "noise rock," and really it would be unfair to try to squeeze these guys into that category. The drumming is truly some of the best I've heard, the bass is at times hypnotizing, at others like a sonic car crash. It would also be unfair to call them metal; beyond being heavy and harsh, the sound here is about as close to "metal" as it is close to jazz.