Bastard Noise
When punk rock first became politicized, it was a bit of a conceptual jolt. Here was a genre that proudly wallowed in pessimism, narcissism, nihilism; subtraction, negation, deletion. Where did it get the nerve to have… convictions? When groups like Crass declared that they were going to live communally and fight politically, a lot of Monday-morning punkers simply sniffed. It smacked of hippiedom. The pain mongers Bastard Noise presented a similar dilemma. Their offshoot, Man Is the Bastard, collaborated in 1997 with imprisioned death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and while the group maintains itself as standard-bearers of the “powerviolence” sub- sub-genre, awash in savage nihilism, a certain social conscience consistently peeks through in... Read More
- Genre:
- Experimental, Noise
- City Of Origin:
- Claremont, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1991
