KUSARI GAMA KILL
2008 Edition CDr
PRESS / REVIEWS
Reviewed on CRUCIAL BLAST
http://www.crucialblast.net/
Following their recent split CD-R with Jesus Of Nazareth that also came out on RONF, the Danish Egrind duo Kusari Gama Kill return with their own full length disc of insane digital grindcore/noise. Actually, it looks like this was originally released back in 2006 but has been re-released here with additional material, with 99 tracks in all clocking in at 48 minutes. Kusari Gama Kill are one of the cooler noisecore bands on the RONF label, playing a ferocious style of synthetic grind that uses blasts of raging noise along the lines of Merzbow, Masonna, or Incapacitants, deep, heavily processed death metal vocals mutated by tons of FX and pitch shifting, evil robot chanting and vocoder abuse, harsh electronic textures and bizarre samples, and over-the-top drum machine programming that drills through your skull at 800 bpm. The lack of guitars or bass sets this apart from alot of other digital-grinders and makes these short, twenty second spasms sound totally alien and inorganic; this is severely fucked extreme music that makes me think of old noisecore stuff like Sore Throat or Fear Of God being hurtled through the trippy spaceship noise chaos of K.K. Null's solo electronics and the chopped-up, spastic electronica of Venetian Snares. The tracks are also augmented by impossibly deep, subsonic rumblings, grim atmospheric ambience, segments of bizarre cyborg punk, blazing feedback that spikes through the torrents of hyperspeed drum blasts, and damaged, distorted quasi-jungle rhythms that keep things varied and throw in unexpected twists and turns throughout the discs massive run time. Definitely one of the weirdest discs that RONF has turned me on to, and highly recommended to fans of extreme, experimental digital grindcore and splatter-electronica. The disc comes in a clear plastic case with full color cover artwork and an eight page full color booklet that has a bunch of whacked-out cartoon artwork from the band. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.
Reviewed on DANISH METAL
http://www.danishmetal.dk/
By Michael Birch
Kusari Gama Kill plays industrial grind / noise core, and is probably a little different acquaintance than we are used to here at the Danish Metal. It is a duo consisting of Janus Blomfrø (drums, programming and vocals) and Martin Weile (noise), both of which have long swarms around this variety of metal, and may very well qualify as old into farms. The target I sit with a 2008 "Special Edition" printed in only 50 copies. It contains 99 tracks spread over 48 minutes - pure, crazy noise-core torture. Noise Core is basically based on electronic music, and it is only vocal, which is' acoustic '. In Kusari Gama Kill represents funds pitch shifter vocal, drum machine and noise. Now you can well imagine what this has to do with metal, and yes, at first gennemlytning you become stressed and thinking "whatever the hell is that crap?" But we still are still curious and would like to find the point of madness. For it is perhaps not so simple as it sounds. There must assume probably be some crazy ideas behind, and a commitment unprecedented. However, it would not hold very many from ever calling it outright uproar, but simplified said, it is also meant to noise core, so totally wrong, they are not on it. Ultimately, it is a smagssag, the production is in top, cover just the nature, so there's not really something to put your finger on in this regard. I myself am old noise-core man, and seems to Kusari Gama Kill is pretty cool. So, dear readers, give them a chance, and sensed what happens in the minds of these 2 extreme guys. It is extremely difficult to go into the details of their numbers, so it's much easier just to slip past www.myspace.com / kusarigamakill, and form his own impression.
