sadly...the problem with punk has never been punk music, but rather the punks themselves. who are conservative, unsupportive, dogmatic, and weary. and often some of the few people to make it into old age as alcoholics.
punk has always been extremely progressive, emotional, politically relevant...and one of the only genres that was born, partly, out of the struggle of white people...a race so oppressive to its own children that we have had to look to other races for inspiration from tribal to blues to jazz to rock to soul to funk to hiphop and beyond. and metal...is essentially the same genre as punk with roots in classical music. classical started dying out a couple hundred years ago, at the very least in terms of cultural impact. and to be honest "classical" really only means "old" or "traditional" or "folk" or "tribal" (see also: *classism*). this is only important to establish a history of punk, not to divide races among this and that accomplishment. music is the people, and like earth's people, has a long history of backstabbing, theft, betrayal, life, death, beauty, truth, lies, destruction, and above all creation.
anyways, there are tons of lovely people within punk...most of them are artists themselves. and most of them move on to other movements as soon as they realize that the liberation of punk becomes enslavement after a few years.
i often get annoyed at music critics, could u tell? + boi o boi am i about to get called arrogant, pretentious, egotistical, elitist, umm...umm...and all those other terms whose users contradict themselves.
altho, i disagree with wago's comments about this record being "awfully recorded" (by what standard?) and clumsy and unmemorable, she/he did a decent job describing the sound. freeing me to go on a "meaningless" rant. i will say however... "urragan" happens to be one of my favorite songs of 'all time' + upon moving to chicago recently it came on while riding a greyhound up thru the illinois industrial wasteland. picture that if u need to understand how relevant this record is. i love this record as a matter of fact, it has been with me for many years now...altho i lost my physical copy i still feel it is with me. when i was younger i used to lay on the floor in the dark with it blasting to heal my mind. u will have to love it too like me in order to give it 5 stars, but i would give it 4 even on the most traditional scale of music criticism (*vomit*).
and before u criticize me...look at these other jokers. i'm allowed to do what i want. in the midst of review-by-numbers, academic bull$hit, + straight up lazy h8tread, there is a place for my rants as well. + to further disclaim, i have no affiliation with contropotere or anybody else...these opinions r strictly my own. peace
contropotere "il seme della devianza"
skuld releases #002, 1991
download from rockin noiz
review quoted above from wago:
"A grim, filthy, monster-heavy post-hardcore maelstrom, often on the brink of thrash metal (even doom metal at times). The songs are long, tortuous and convulsive: an everchanging flow of guitar stabs, upsetting vocal howls which reminds more of a black magic rite than of an ordinary hardcore punk record. A constant hail of blast beats, broken by apocalyptic sludge riffs and chainsaw intrusions (or offhand King Crimson quotes) even seem to mark the entrance to the chaotic realm of Today Is the Day, Neurosis or Flying Luttembachers. The frightening frame is completed by an aggressive anti-capitalist stance, a devious, cyberpunk version of the anarcho-punk attitude of Franti or The Ex.
"Il seme della devianza" isn't really an accomplished record: it's awfully recorded and the unravelling of the tracks is clumsy and unmemorable. But it's daring, utterly original, and it almost gives the shivers.
Contropotere were a band from Naples, founded in 1985 and disbanded ten years later. "Il seme della devianza" is their second LP, and it was followed just by two other EPs."
