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The Cleaner posted:Don't get me wrong I'm not a Lucia hater I think she fits in fantastic, better than Skold but I mean Skold's a whole other debate. This may come off as dickish, but has Skold created anything interesting at all? Everything I've heard that he was involved in the creation of has just inspired overwhelming 'meh' upon listening. On another topic, what are people's attitudes towards Razed in Black these days? I haven't gone much further than Damaged, but that was a nice album to sink high-school teeth into, despite how derivative/poppy it was.
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Seeing uncertainty about The Downward Spiral, I have to ask if there would be any opposition to including Negativland's Escape From Noise in classic industrial albums, particularly since it has this track. Then again, you could have Velvet Acid Christ! 
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Some of the earlier My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult stuff, perhaps? And some of the later stuff; 'Diamonds & Daggerz' is a full album of TKK taking samples, beats, and loops from across their discography, and reworking it into a crazy crescendo. It's almost like an audio demonstration of how memes work.
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Got to see Thrill Kill Kult a week ago, which was a serious  moment for me. Talked some friends into going, including a couple who'd never listened to TKK, and everybody had a mostly-great time.The opening band was the Ginsu Wives, a local band who are kind of shoegaze synth-rock with noise solos and a willingness to take off their shirts and let the feedback take over. Enthusiastic guys making some enjoyable noise to prepare people for TKK. Then there was Left Spine Down. I don't usually expect much from bands signed to Metropolis, and they basically met my expectations. The song they played before the vocalist showed up was more interesting than everything that followed. The synth player was definitely the highlight (hoping he gets to move on to a better band) but despite the lame lyrics, the vocalist was at least being energetic and trying to engage the audience, doing things ranging from running through the crowd with a flashlight, standing on people's table while singing, popping out through the front door to sing to the smokers, and snuggling up next to girls in the audience. Sadly, it was just kind of bland overall; if you're going to have a dumb name just for the initials LSD, why not sound like something inspired by LSD? Quote from the vocalist: "Who here is ready for Thrill Kill Kult? *audience cheers * Too bad, you'll have to put up with us for another half-hour." Then there was Thrill Kill Kult. Great video footage for the first few songs, then that faded out. They had a Sexplosion prop area set up off to the side, with a bartender in a devil mask serving one of the blonde Bomb Gang Girlz before she joined in with back-up vocals. After going through basically every hit I was hoping for (no 'Ride the Mindway', unsurprisingly) they came back onstage for an encore after the audience chanted their name for five minutes to play 'Kooler Than Jesus'. Groovie was very cool after the show, signing stuff and posing for photos. He seemed kind of tired, but I couldn't tell whether it was from drugs, the performance, or from still being in TKK after all these years. The rest of the band vanished almost immediately after the encore, though I snagged a signature from Mimi the amazingly bored-looking bassist. And in all the excitement, I loving forgot to ask Groovie if 13 Above The Night is ever coming out on vinyl. 
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Oct 2, 2012 01:59
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I honestly couldn't decipher any of the lyrics, even when the vocalist was singing through a megaphone into the microphone, but I think I would have recognized a Joy Division bassline if it had appeared. From the 'Caution Crime Scene Do Not Cross' guitar-strap and Caution-tape videos in the background, they really seemed to be plugging their new album, which Wikipedia identifies as 'Caution'. Checking their Wikipedia page also revealed that the singer goes by the name kAINE D3L4Y. Oh, and at one point Jeremy Inkel put on a Rocky mask. Just for the fun of it, I guess.
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Oct 2, 2012 19:57
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If only. They do have this  Flickr photostream, though.   I'm kind of curious why, out of all the icons they could have picked to plaster all over their instruments and props, they went with caution tape. I'd like to think it's because the guitarist thought his new strap was just too cool to keep to himself.
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Oct 3, 2012 07:00
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I got curious about what ever happened to Dope Stars Inc., and I went looking. It seems they were busy coming up with an album cover that really reflected where they were coming from, musically.  That was two years ago, though, so who knows what they've cooked up since then.
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